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Famous Inky Black Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Jobe, James Lee
...ng, green river valley

deep between pine covered ridges;

what can you make of that?


Night is a secret plant growing inky black against the sky.

When this plant's life is over, then day returns 

like a drunken husband who stayed out until breakfast.


A smile is a quick glimpse at the pretty face of hope.

Hope's face is framed by the beautiful night sky.

Hope's face is framed by the gray-blue dawn.


This is your life, these seconds and years

are t...Read more of this...



by Lawson, Henry
...noon,
While hobble-chains and camp-ware
Are jingling to a tune. 

An hour has filled the heavens
With storm-clouds inky black;
At times the lightning trickles
Around the drover's track;
But Harry pushes onward,
His horses' strength he tries,
In hope to reach the river
Before the flood shall rise. 

The thunder from above him
Goes rolling o'er the plain;
And down on thirsty pastures
In torrents falls the rain.
And every creek and gully
Sends forth its little flood...Read more of this...

by Lawson, Henry
...It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, 
For you sought the greener patches and you travelled like a gent; 
And you curse the trams and buses and the turmoil and the push, 
Though you know the squalid city needn't keep you from the bush; 
But we lately heard you singing of the `plains where shade is not', 
And you mentioned it was dus...Read more of this...

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