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Famous Incisions Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...d by horses—the clearing, curing, and packing-houses; 
Deep in the forest, in piney woods, turpentine dropping from the incisions in the
 trees—There
 are the turpentine works,
There are the ******* at work, in good health—the ground in all directions is
 cover’d
 with
 pine straw: 
—In Tennessee and Kentucky, slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the
 furnace-blaze, or
 at the corn-shucking; 
In Virginia, the planter’s son returning after a long absence, joyfully wel...Read more of this...



by Hacker, Marilyn
...e aging woman hopes she will grow old.
A younger woman has a dazzling vision
of bleeding wrists, her own, the clean incisions
suddenly there, two open mouths. They told
their speechless secrets, witnesses not called
to what occurred with as little volition
of hers as these phantom wounds.
Intense precision
of scars, in flesh, in spirit. I'm enrolled
by mine in ranks where now I'm "being brave"
if I take off my shirt in a hot crowd
sunbathing, or demonstrating ...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit -- Life!...Read more of this...

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