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
a life, my methadone(placebo)...Read more of this...
by
Hope, Billy Jno
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