Famous Ivory Coast Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Ivory Coast poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous ivory coast poems. These examples illustrate what a famous ivory coast poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Graves, Robert
...he nursery.
The horny boatman, who has seen whales
And flying fishes, who has sailed as far
As Demerara and the Ivory Coast,
Will warn them, when they crowd to hear his tales,
That every ocean smells of tar....Read more of this...
by
Levis, Larry
...small, fenced-off backwater
Of a canal. I'd never seen them alive. They
Were in still photographs taken on the Ivory Coast.
I saw them only once in a studio when
I was a child in a city I once loved.
I was afraid until our neighbor, a photographer,
Explained it all to me, explained how far
Away they were, how harmless; how they were praised
In rituals as "powers." But they had no "powers,"
He said. The next week he vanished. I thought
Someone had ...Read more of this...
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