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Famous Happenstance Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...etween blackouts and blasts, when each word was
flensed by new censure, books exchanged for bread, 
both hostage to the happenstance of war?
Sometimes the only schoolroom is a kitchen.
Outside the window, black strokes on a graph
of broken glass, birds line up on bare branches.

"This letter curves, this one spreads its branches
like friends holding hands outside their houses."
Was the lesson stopped by gunfire? Was
there panic, silence? Does a torn photograph
still gather ch...Read more of this...
by Hacker, Marilyn



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