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Famous Josef Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Berryman, John
...s—where? why,
in Arkhanghelsky, on the Baptist's side,
lies Brother Jonas (fomrerly Ivan the Terrible),
where Brother Josef came with his friend's heart
out of such guilt it proved all bearable,
and Brother Nikita will come and lie....Read more of this...



by Sandburg, Carl
...France,
 a slug of lead in the red valves.
Kitchener of Khartoum, tall, cold, proud,
 a shark’s mouthful.
Franz Josef, the old man of forty haunted
 kingdoms, in a tomb with the Hapsburg
 fathers, moths eating a green uniform
 to tatters, worms taking all and leaving
 only bones and gold buttons, bones and
 iron crosses.
Jack London, Jim Riley, Verhaeren, riders to the republic of dreams.

Days of the dead, Danny.
Drum on your remembering heart....Read more of this...

by Levine, Philip
...d into the streets from the dark doorways
to demand in Polish or Armenian

the ripened offerings of this new world.
Josef Prisckulnick out of Dubrovitsa
to Detroit by way of Ellis Island

raised himself regally to his full height
of five feet two and transacted until
the fruit was gone into those eager hands.

Thus would there be a letter sent across
an ocean and a continent, and thus
would Sadie waken to the news of wealth

without limit in the bright and distant lan...Read more of this...

by Tebb, Barry
...TV, Seroxat and Diazepan fazed me:

I was beyond unravelling Meltzer on differentiation 

Of self and object or Rosine Josef Perelberg on ‘Dreaming and Thinking’

Or even the simpler ‘Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States’ 

So I went out with West Yorkshire on a Friday night.

Nothing dramatic happened; perhaps I’m a little too used

To acute wards or worse where chairs fly across rooms,

Windows disintegrate and double doors are triple locked

And ever...Read more of this...

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