Famous Rotgut Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brooks Haxton
 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor 
 the moon by night. Psalm 121

On a hillside scattered with temples broken
under the dogday sun, my friend and I drank
local wine at nightfall and ate grapeleaves
in goat-yogurt glaze. The living grape vines
bore fruit overhead. Beyond our balcony,
beyond the Turkish rooftops, an old moon
touched Venus at one tip. This vintage,
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