Famous Predators Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ai

by Denise Duhamel
 There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five.
There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice
just won the National Book Award.
The name "Ai" is pronounced "I"
so that whenever I talk about the poet Ai
such as I'm teaching Ai's poems again this semester
it sounds like I'm teaching my own poems
or when I say I love Ai's work
it...Read more of this...

Stroke

by Heather McHugh
 The literate are ill-prepared for this
snap in the line of life:
the day turns a trick 
of twisted tongues and is
untiable, the month by no mere root
moon-ridden, and the yearly eloquences yielding more
than summer's part of speech times four. We better learn

the buried meaning in the grave: here
all we see of its alphabet is tracks
of predators, all we know of...Read more of this...

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