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Famous Gyrate Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Gyrate poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous gyrate poems. These examples illustrate what a famous gyrate poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...the hard pavement ring the hoofs, 
The light wheels softly run. 
Bright particles of sunlight fall, 
Quiver and flash, gyrate and burn, 
Honey-like heat flows down the wall, 
The white spokes dazzle and turn.

Senlin, walking before us in the sunlight, 
Regards the hearse with an introspective eye. 
'Is it my childhood there,' he asks, 
'Sealed in a hearse and hurrying by?' 
He taps his trowel against a stone; 
The trowel sings with a silver tone.

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by Aiken, Conrad



...uins dazzle

And dance on clubbers bare to the midriff

Young men in crisp shirts and pressed pants

‘Dress code smart’ gyrate to ‘Sex Bomb, Sex Bomb’

And sing along its lyrics to the throng of which I’m one

My shorts, shoulder bag and white beard

Making me stand out in the teeming swarm

Of teens and twenties this foetid Friday night

On my way from the ward where our son paces

And fulminates I throw myself into the drowning

Tide of Friday to be rescued by sheer normali...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

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