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Famous Specialty Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sexton, Anne
...ll basket
and under layers of petticoats
you show her the tiger-striped eyes
that you have lately plucked,
you show her specialty, the lips,
those two small bundles,
you show her the two hands
that grip her fiercely,
one being mine, one being yours.
Torn right off at the wrist bone
when you started in your
impossible going, gone.
Then you place the basket
in the old woman's hollow lap
and as a last act she fondles
these artifacts like a child's head
and murmurs, "Prec...Read more of this...



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