Famous Roiled Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Roiled poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous roiled poems. These examples illustrate what a famous roiled poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...a thane,
when it was revealed to all of the earls—
when they discovered Æschere’s head at the sea-cliff.
The waters roiled with blood as the men looked upon it,
heated with gore. Horns were blown at once,
a fierce war-song. The foot soldiers all sat down. (ll. 1408-24)
They saw there throughout the water, many kinds
of serpents, strange sea-dragons trying out their swimming.
Likewise, at the lake-cliffs, water-monsters were lying,
that often at morning-time slippe...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...e is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Before you became a cloud, you were an ocean, roiled and
murmuring like a mouth. You were the shadows of a cloud cross-
ing over a field of tulips. You were the tears of a man who cried
into a plaid handkerchief. You were the sky without a hat. Your
heart puffed and flowered like sheets drying on a line.
And when you were a tree, you listened to the trees and the tree
things trees told you. Yo...Read more of this...
by
Cisneros, Sandra
...ls of the world.
Then the flycatchers on the clothesline,
like seiners leaning from Flemish boats
when the seas were roiled with herring.
This long letter in my mind,
calligraphy, feathery asparagus. ...Read more of this...
by
Stone, Ruth
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