Famous Knifing Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Knifing poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous knifing poems. These examples illustrate what a famous knifing poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...e walks with the man
along the river bank
until they come to know
the sore places
in the soles of their feet,
the fish knifing away.
Under the currents
every death moves in time
towards them,
each cliché is soothed
into language
as if there were
no way to limit
Paradise, other than
this that has already happened....Read more of this...
by
Skillman, Judith
...Disengaged, bloody, Henry rose from the shell
where in theior racing start his seat got wedged
under his knifing knees,
he did it on the runners, feathering,
being bow, catching no crab. The ridges were sore
& tore chamois. It was not done with ease.
So Henry was a hero, malgré lui,
that day, for blundering; until & after the coach
said this & which to him.
That happy day, whenas the pregnant back
of Number Two returned, and he'd no choice
but to make for it ...Read more of this...
by
Berryman, John
...e behind the grass,
When blank and bone-white, like a maniac's thought,
The naphtha-flash of lightning slit the sky,
Knifing the dark with deathly photographs.
There's not so many with so poor a purse
Or fierce a need, must fare by night like that,
Five miles in darkness on a country track,
But when you do, that's what you think.
Five bells.
In Melbourne, your appetite had gone,
Your angers too; they had been leeched away
By the soft archery of summer rains
And t...Read more of this...
by
Slessor, Kenneth
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