Famous Seawater Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Seawater poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous seawater poems. These examples illustrate what a famous seawater poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...t would be
a lost gull flaring against
a deepening hillside, or an angel
who cries too easily, or a single
glass of seawater, no longer blue
or mysterious, and still salty....Read more of this...
by
Levine, Philip
...of air—For the first time!—
or a yawning depth: Big!
Swim around in it, through it—
all directions and find
vitreous seawater stuff—
God how I love you!—or, as I say,
a plunge into the ditch. The End. I sit
examining my red handful. Balancing
—this—in and out—agh.
Love you? It's
a fire in the blood, willy-nilly!
It's the sun coming up in the morning.
Ha, but it's the grey moon too, already up
in the morning. You are slow.
Men are not friends where it concerns
a wo...Read more of this...
by
Williams, William Carlos (WCW)
...ns from oblivion returns
to find a voice:
from the center of my life came
a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater....Read more of this...
by
Gluck, Louise
...I carve mockingbirds and quetzals,
my saliva sends the tones to its wings.
Seawater sprouts from my throat,
the orange sun, the green jade;
I hand them over
after chewing them for five centuries.
Once carved I let them free,
astray
in this errant world.
I leave my cry in every one of them,
and the animals that don’t walk
turn to muck
...Read more of this...
by
Lima, Rossy Evelin
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