Famous Queerly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Sleep In The Mojave Desert

by Sylvia Plath
 Out here there are no hearthstones,
Hot grains, simply. It is dry, dry.
And the air dangerous. Noonday acts queerly
On the mind's eye erecting a line
Of poplars in the middle distance, the only
Object beside the mad, straight road
One can remember men and houses by.
A cool wind should inhabit these leaves
And a dew collect on them, dearer than money,
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The Break

by Anne Sexton
 It was also my violent heart that broke,
falling down the front hall stairs.
It was also a message I never spoke,
calling, riser after riser, who cares

about you, who cares, splintering up
the hip that was merely made of crystal,
the post of it and also the cup.
I exploded in the hallway like a pistol.

So I fell apart. So I came all undone.
Yes....Read more of this...

The Way That Lovers Use

by Rupert Brooke
 The Way that lovers use is this;
They bow, catch hands, with never a word, 
And their lips meet, and they do kiss, 
—So I have heard. 

They queerly find some healing so,
And strange attainment in the touch; 
There is a secret lovers know, 
—I have read as much. 

And theirs no longer joy nor smart, 
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