Famous Protea Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Protea poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous protea poems. These examples illustrate what a famous protea poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...In memory of Father Flye, 1884-1985
The strange and wonderful are too much with us.
The protea of the antipodes—a great,
globed, blazing honeybee of a bloom—
for sale in the supermarket! We are in
our decadence, we are not entitled.
What have we done to deserve
all the produce of the tropics—
this fiery trove, the largesse of it
heaped up like cannonballs, these pineapples, bossed
and crested, standing like troops at attention,
these tiers, the...Read more of this...
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Clampitt, Amy
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