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Famous Throwaway Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Harvest Bow

by Heaney, Seamus

...llowed silence in you
In wheat that does not rust
But brightens as it tightens twist by twist
Into a knowable corona,
A throwaway love-knot of straw.

Hands that aged round ashplants and cane sticks
And lapped the spurs on a lifetime of game cocks
Harked to their gift and worked with fine intent
Until your fingers moved somnambulant:
I tell and finger it like braille,
Gleaning the unsaid off the palpable,

And if I spy into its golden loops
I see us walk between the railw...Read more of this...

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