Famous Grassroots Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Grassroots poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous grassroots poems. These examples illustrate what a famous grassroots poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Sandburg, Carl
...AMONG the grassroots
In the moonlight, who comes circling,
red tongues and high noses?
Is one of ’em Buck and one of ’em
White Fang?
In the moonlight, who are they, cross-legged,
telling their stories over and over?
Is one of ’em Martin Eden and one of ’em Larsen the Wolf?
Let an epitaph read:
He loved the straight eyes of dogs and the strong heads of men....Read more of this...
by
Sandburg, Carl
...ositories of gravel and diamonds, dung and permanganese, and all clover and bumblebees, all bluegrass, johnny-jump-ups, grassroots, springs of running water or rivers or lakes or high spreading trees or hazel bushes or sumach or thorn-apple branches or high in the air the bird nest with spotted blue eggs shaken in the roaming wind of the treetops—
So it is scrawled here,
“I direct and devise
So and so and such and such,”
And this is the last word.
There is nothing more t...Read more of this...
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