Famous Natural Selection Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews

by Amy Clampitt
 An ingenuity too astonishing
to be quite fortuitous is
this bog full of sundews, sphagnum-
lined and shaped like a teacup.
 A step
down and you're into it; a
wilderness swallows you up:
ankle-, then knee-, then midriff-
to-shoulder-deep in wetfooted
understory, an overhead
spruce-tamarack horizon hinting
you'll never get out of here.
 But the sun
among the sundews, down there,
is so bright, an underfoot
webwork of carnivorous rubies,
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