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Famous Lift Off Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Jong, Erica
...the sky sinks its blue teeth
into the mountains.

Rising on pure will

(the lurch & lift-off,
the sudden swing
into wide, white snow),

I encourage the cable.

Past the wind
& crossed tips of my skis
& the mauve shadows of pines
& the spoor of bears
& deer,

I speak to my fear,

rising, riding,
finding myself

the only thing
between snow & sky,

th...Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...
You have not seen that only such as they are for These States, 
And that what is less than they, must sooner or later lift off from These States....Read more of this...

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