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Famous Initiation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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In forty years I have

Never encountered

The purity of

Margaret’s girlhood

I have often wondered

What my sexual initiation

With her would have

Been like.



Love that moves mountains

Moves away the veil

Of the years and I see her

At sixteen, elf-like still,

Her breasts open to my caress,

Her vagina to my tongue, her eyes

Stars in the continuing green,

Her delicate hands holding me

And guiding me inside her,

Freeing me, O freeing me from

The perpetual cold ...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry



...once my head rolled in the streets
motors crashing by
inches from my intoxication
a fleshful laugh echoed in time
a mad initiation as part of the door
to the unrepentant lyric
heathen apprentices
i cracked the demon-s egg
tattooed pandora-s eye
with rage, blissillusion
madness conceived
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by Hope, Billy Jno

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