Famous Solidity Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Riprap

...re your mind like rocks.
 placed solid, by hands
In coice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
 in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
 riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
 straying planets,
These poems, people,
 lost ponies with
Dragging saddles--
 and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
 four-dimensional
Game of Go.
 ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
 a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
 with torment of fire and weigh...Read more of this...
by Snyder, Gary


Shall the Harp Then Be Silent

...with thoughts that shone through 
As clear as the brook's "stone of lustre," and gave, 
With the flash of the gem, its solidity too. 

Who, what ever approach'd him, when free from the crowd, 
In a home full of love, he delighted to read 
'Mong the trees which a nation had given, and which bow'd, 
As if each brought a new civic crown for his head --

Is there one, who hath thus, through his orbit of life 
But at distance observed him -- through glory, through blame, 
In the ...Read more of this...
by Moore, Thomas

The Ever-Patient Woman

...ls
Sliding out of her skins

The ever-patient woman
Slowly
gives herself
life

In her volcanoes
In her orchards
Seeking solidity and measure 
Clasping her most tender flesh
Straining every fine-honed fiber

The ever-patient woman
Slowly
gives herself
light....Read more of this...
by Chedid, Andree

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