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Famous Hokku Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Put Off the Wedding Five Times and Nobody Comes to It

by Sandburg, Carl

...e too good a horse you will not take the straight road to town.

It will always come back to me in the blur of that hokku: The heart of a woman of thirty is like the red ball of the sun seen through a mist.
Or I will remember the witchery in the eyes of a girl at a barn dance one winter night in Illinois saying: Put off the wedding five times and nobody comes to it....Read more of this...

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