Famous Pinpoints Poems by Famous Poets

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

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girl (three) and the black horse

...pire

when i'm a grown-up - then i'll come
was the last the adults heard as the horse
and the girl (three) changed into pinpoints
and the world collapsed to its dull old self...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg


In The New Sun

...chemical light, I stop 
to squeeze one out and the asbestos 
glows like a hand in moonlight 
or a face in dreams. 

* 

Pinpoints of blue 
along the arms, light rushing 
down across the breasts 
missing the dry shadows 
under them. 
 She stretches 
and rises on her knees 
and smiles and far down 
to the sudden embroidery of curls 
the belly smiles 
that three times stretched slowly moonward 
in a hill of child. 

* 

Sun through the cracked glass, 
bartender at the cave end 
...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

Salesmanship With Half A Dram Of Tears

...s,
I could be selling men's clothes. I could be
kneeling, complimenting someone at the bay
of mirrors, mumblingly, with pinpoints pressed
between my lips. That was the life I held
in scorn while young, because I thought to live
without distraction, using words. Yet, looking
now into the room of strangers' eyes, I wanted
them to feel what I said touch, as palpably
as when a men in double worsted felt
the cuff drop to his wrist. There was a rush
in the applause of gratitude and...Read more of this...
by Haxton, Brooks

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