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Famous Similarly Poems by Famous Poets

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...s
the underside of skin?
Not so bad, to die,

if we could be opened
into this--
if the smallest chambers

of ourselves,
similarly,
revealed some sky....Read more of this...
by Doty, Mark



...ward walls.
The big fish tubs are completely lined 
with layers of beautiful herring scales
and the wheelbarrows are similarly plastered 
with creamy iridescent coats of mail,
with small iridescent flies crawling on them.
Up on the little slope behind the houses,
set in the sparse bright sprinkle of grass,
is an ancient wooden capstan,
cracked, with two long bleached handles
and some melancholy stains, like dried blood,
where the ironwork has rusted.
The old man a...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth
....VI. 

similemente il mal seme d'Adamo 
gittansi di quel lito ad una ad una, 
per cenni come augel per suo richiamo . 

similarly, the evil seed of Adam 
descended from the shoreline one by one, 
when signaled, as a falcon-called-will come. 


Cos? sen vanno su per l'onda bruna, 
e avanti che sien di l? discese, 
anche di qua nuova schiera s'auna . 

So do they move across the darkened waters; 
even before they reach the farther shore, 
new ranks already gather on this bank. ...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...ldom hear.
 Armor seems extra. But for him,
 the closing ear-ridge--
 or bare ear lacking even this small
 eminence and similarly safe

contracting nose and eye apertures
 impenetrably closable, are not; a true ant-eater,
not cockroach eater, who endures
 exhausting solitary trips through unfamiliar ground at night,
 returning before sunrise, stepping in the moonlight,
 on the moonlight peculiarly, that the outside
 edges of his hands may bear the weight and save the claws
 f...Read more of this...
by Moore, Marianne
...a scarecrow and inaccessible on the moorland midnight,

Beyond the reach of all but death standing at the bed-head.



Similarly your own father blundering ‘into the Selby Road, high on morphine’

Could but end in the same way.



These griefs were only too normal, as was my mother’s death you wrote of

With such sad eloquence as you shared my vigil: nothing could be added

To your lines.



And of it all and of what I cannot speak?

The silence in Gethsemane

The breaking o...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry



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