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Famous Oversight Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brautigan, Richard
...rds, skirted the subject, though you did deal brief-

ly with rural micturition procedure. I consider this a gross

oversight on your part, as I'm certain you're well aware of

my unending fascination with camp-out crapping. Please

rush details in your next effort. Slit-trench, pith helmet,

slingshot, biffy and if so number of holes and proximity of

keester to vermin and deposits of prior users."



 --From a Letter by a Friend



 Sheep. Everything sme...Read more of this...



by Rilke, Rainer Maria
...f us then? Do the angels really
reabsorb only the radiance that streamed out from themselves or
sometimes as if by an oversight is there a trace
of our essence in it as well? Are we mixed in with their
features even as slightly as that vague look
in the faces of pregnant women? They do not notice it
(how could they notice) in their swirling return to themselves.

Lovers if they knew how might utter strange marvelous
Words in the night air. For it seems that e...Read more of this...

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