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Famous Head In The Clouds Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...I want to understand the steep thing
that climbs ladders in your throat.
I can't make sense of you.
Everywhere I look you're there--
a vast landmark, a volcano
poking its head through the clouds,
Gulliver sprawled across Lilliput.

I climb into your eyes, looking.
The pupils are black painted stage flats.
They can be pulled down like window shades.
I switc...Read more of this...
by Jong, Erica



...to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U,
 whose head was cut off in Shanghai

A CLAIM

Renowned Leonardo's
world-famous
"La Gioconda"
has disappeared.
And in the space
vacated by the fugitive
a copy has been placed.

The poet inscribing
the present treatise
knows more than a little
about the fate
of the real Gioconda.
She fell in love
with a seductive
graceful ...Read more of this...
by Hikmet, Nazim
...re I am, you know,
I don't have a pearl-handled jackknife
(they won't give me anything sharp)
 or a plane tree with its head in the clouds.
Trees may grow in the yard,
but I'm not allowed
 to see the sky overhead...
How many others are in this place?
I don't know.
I'm alone far from them,
they're all together far from me.
To talk anyone besides myself 
 is forbidden.
So I talk to myself.
But I find my conversation so boring,
 my dear wife, that I sing songs.
And what do you k...Read more of this...
by Hikmet, Nazim

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry