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Famous Ku Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Plath, Sylvia
...ill.
I have taken a pill to kill

The thin
Papery feeling.
Saboteur,
Kamikaze man ----

The stain on your
Gauze Ku Klux Klan
Babushka
Darkens and tarnishes and when
The balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence

How you jump ----
Trepanned veteran,
Dirty girl,
Thumb stump....Read more of this...



by Pound, Ezra
...yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the lookout?

At sixteen you departed,
You went into far Ku-to-en, by the river
 of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise 
 overhead.

You dragged your feet when you went 
 out,
By the gate now, the moss is grown, 
 the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in 
 wind.
The paired butterflies are already 
 yellow ...Read more of this...

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