Famous Kok Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Gawain and the Green Knight

...grete.
The leude lystened ful wel that leygh in his bedde,
Thaygh he lowkez his liddez, ful lyttel he slepes;
Bi vch kok that crue he knwe wel the steuen.
Deliuerly he dressed vp, er the day sprenged,
For there watz lyyght of a laumpe that lemed in his chambre;
He called to his chamberlayn, that cofly hym swared,
And bede hym bryng hym his bruny and his blonk sadel;

That other ferkez hym vp and fechez hym his wedez,
And graythez me Sir Gawayn vpon a grett wyse.
Fy...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)


Nevertheless

...
within the fruit - locked in
like counter-curved twin

hazelnuts? Frost that kills
the little rubber-plant -
leaves of kok-sagyyz-stalks, can't

harm the roots; they still grow 
in frozen ground. Once where
there was a prickley-pear - 

leaf clinging to a barbed wire,
a root shot down to grow
in earth two feet below;

as carrots from mandrakes
or a ram's-horn root some-
times. Victory won't come

to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till

knotted thi...Read more of this...
by Moore, Marianne

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