Famous Not A Poem Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Not A Poem poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous not a poem poems. These examples illustrate what a famous not a poem poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Spelling

by Margaret Atwood
 My daughter plays on the floor
with plastic letters,
red, blue & hard yellow,
learning how to spell,
spelling,
how to make spells.

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I wonder how many women
denied themselves daughters,
closed themselves in rooms,
drew the curtains
so they could mainline words.

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A child is not a poem,
a poem is not a child.
There is no either / or.
However.

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I return to the story
of the woman caught in...Read more of this...

from the Ansty Experience

by Rg Gregory
 (a)
they seek to celebrate the word
not to bring their knives out on a poem
dissecting it to find a heart
whose beat lies naked on a table
not to score in triumph on a line
no sensitive would put a nostril to
but simply to receive it as an
offering glimpsing the sacred there

poem probes the poet's once-intention
but each time said budges its truth
afresh (leaving...Read more of this...

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