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Famous Tableland Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Murray, Les
...We're driving across tableland
somewhere in the world;
it is almost bare of trees.

Upland near void of features
always moves me, but not to thought;
it lets me rest from thinking.

I feel no need to interpret it
as if it were art. Too much
of poetry is criticism now.

That hawk, clinging to
the eaves of the wind, beating
its third wing, its tail

isn't mine to s...Read more of this...



by Wright, Judith
...South of my days' circle, part of my blood's country, 
rises that tableland, high delicate outline 
of bony slopes wincing under the winter, 
low trees, blue-leaved and olive, outcropping granite- 
clean, lean, hungry country. The creek's leaf-silenced, 
willow choked, the slope a tangle of medlar and crabapple 
branching over and under, blotched with a green lichen; 
and the old cottage lurches in for shelter. 

O...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...ames, 
And to give these stories flavour they threw in some local names, 
Then a man from the bleak Monaro, away on the tableland, 
He fixed his eyes on the ceiling, and he started to play his hand. 
He told them of Adjintoothbong, where the pine-clad mountains freeze, 
And the weight of the snow in summer breaks branches off the trees, 
And, as he warmed to the business, he let them have it strong -- 
Nimitybelle, Conargo, Wheeo, Bongongolong; 
He lingered over them fond...Read more of this...

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