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Famous Nothing To It Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Nothing To It poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous nothing to it poems. These examples illustrate what a famous nothing to it poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...y in the dewy hours; within its moist petals my lips have rested.
The flower, I gathered it with fingers of flame; say nothing to it: for all words are perilous; it is through the eyes that soul listens to soul.
The flower that is my heart and my avowal confides in all simplicity to your lips that it is loyal, bright and good, and that we trust in virgin love as a child trusts in God.
Leave wit to flower on the hills in freakish paths of vanity; and let us give a simple we...Read more of this...
by Verhaeren, Emile



...you burn, and I know it;
as I throw back my head to take you in
and old transfusion happens again:
divine astronomy is nothing to it.

Indoors I bruise and blunder
break faith, leave ill enough
alone, a dead child born in the dark.
Night cracks up over the chimney,
pieces of time, frozen geodes
come showering down in the grate.

A man reaches behind my eyes
and finds them empty
a woman's head turns away
from my head in the mirror
children are dying my death
and e...Read more of this...
by Rich, Adrienne
...is mouth,
A smear of red on his strong raw lips,
How could he sit there
And only two or three of us see him?
 There was nothing to it.
He wasn’t there at all, of course.

 The roses leaned from the pots.
The sprays snot roses gold and red
And the roses slanted crimson sobs
 In the night sky hair
And the voices chattered on the way
To the frappe, speaking of pictures,
Speaking of a strip of black velvet
Crossing a girlish woman’s throat,
Speaking of the mystic musi...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl
...d isn't a full verb. Can's what our owns
in "Our can of beets is filled with purple fuzz."

See? There's almost nothing to it. Just
memorize these rules...or write them down!
A noun's a thing, a verb's the thing it does.
The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz....Read more of this...
by Kowit, Steve

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