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Famous Rythm Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...e crazy. These modern women
don't know what they're missing. The high heel shapes the calf, the thigh, the ass; it
puts rythm into the walk. It really turns me on!"
"You talk like a poet, George. Sometimes you talk like that. You are one hell of a
dishwasher."
"You know what I'd really like to do?" 
"What?" 
"I'd like to whip you with my belt on the legs, the ass, the thighs. I'd like to
make you quiver and cry and then when you're quivering and crying I'd slam it into you
pu...Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles



...in the limbs of Codia,
Swooning my soul out into her red throat,
So that the glimmer of our skins, the tune
Og our ripe rythm, seemed the hideous play
Of death-worms crawling on a corpse,afloat
With life that takes its thirst
Only from things accurst.

Closer than Clodia's clasp, Death had me down
To his black heart, and fed upon my breath,
So that we seemed a stilness -whiter than
The stars, more silent than the stars, a crown
Of Stars ! For in the icy kiss of death
I found ...Read more of this...
by Crowley, Aleister
...
disorder.
it will take me some months to get back to normal:
I can't even find a roach to commune with.
I have lost my rythm.
I can't sleep.
I can't eat.
I have been robbed of
my filth....Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles
...aves are tossed and tremble where he plunges among them, 
And I hear the sound of his breath, 
Sharp and whistling, the rythm of death.

It is evening: the lights on a long street balance and sway. 
In the purple ether they swing and silently sing, 
The street is a gossamer swung in space, 
And death himself in the wind comes dancing along it, 
And the lights, like raindrops, tremble and swing. 
Hurry, spider, and spread your glistening web, 
For death approaches! 
Hurry, ros...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad
...sky
are mine; it is still the same, my life.

No desire opens me: I am full,
I never close myself with refusal-
in the rythm of my daily soul
I do not desire-I am moved;

by being moved I exert my empire,
making the dreams of night real:
into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors......Read more of this...
by Rilke, Rainer Maria



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