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Famous Nah Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sandburg, Carl
...ll in a mouthpiece.
Fix it, you gazump, you slant-head, fix it.
 Feed ’em …

Nothin’ ever sticks to my fingers, nah, nah, nothin’ like that,
But there ain’t no law we got to wear mittens—huh—is there?
Mittens, that’s a good one—mittens!
There oughta be a law everybody wear mittens....Read more of this...



by Ginsberg, Allen
...ished marble, Inca Artwork
of the mind -- but where's it come from?
Inspiration? The muses drawing breath for you? God?
Nah, don't believe it, you'll get entangled in Heaven or Hell --
Guilt power, that makes the heart beat wake all night
flooding mind with space, echoing through future cities, Megalopolis or
Cretan village, Zeus' birth cave Lassithi Plains -- Otsego County
 farmhouse, Kansas front porch?
Buddha's a help, promises ordinary mind no nirvana --
coffee, alcohol, ...Read more of this...

by Watts, Isaac
...Divine wrath and mercy.

Nah. 1:1-3; Heb. 12:29. 

Adore and tremble, for our God
Is a consuming fire!
His jealous eyes his wrath inflame,
And raise his vengeance higher.

Almighty vengeance, how it burns!
How bright his fury glows!
Vast magazines of plagues and storms
Lie treasured for his foes.

Those heaps of wrath, by slow degrees,
Are forced into a flame;
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