Famous Postponing Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Postponing poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous postponing poems. These examples illustrate what a famous postponing poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Jong, Erica
...now and seeing
a lazy, sunburned, sandaled girl
in a bare room, full of promise
and feeling envious.
Now we plan, postponing, pushing our lives forward
into the future--as if, when the room
contains us and all our treasured junk
we will have filled whatever gap it is
that makes us wander, discontented
from ourselves.
The room will not change:
a rug, or armchair, or new coat of paint
won't make much difference;
our eyes are fickle
but we remain the same beneath our ...Read more of this...
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