Famous Tobago Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Tobago poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous tobago poems. These examples illustrate what a famous tobago poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Walcott, Derek
..., the fallen column.
He lies like a copper palm
tree at three in the afternoon
by a hot sea
and a river, in Egypt, Tobago
Her salt marsh dries in the heat
where he foundered
without armor.
He exchanged an empire for her beads of sweat,
the uproar of arenas,
the changing surf
of senators, for
this silent ceiling over silent sand -
this grizzled bear, whose fur,
moulting, is silvered -
for this quick fox with her
sweet stench. By sleep dismembered,
his head
is ...Read more of this...
by
Walcott, Derek
...Broad sun-stoned beaches.
White heat.
A green river.
A bridge,
scorched yellow palms
from the summer-sleeping house
drowsing through August.
Days I have held,
days I have lost,
days that outgrow, like daughters,
my harbouring arms....Read more of this...
by
Goose, Mother
...There was an old man of TobagoWho lived on rice, gruel, and sago, Till much to his bliss, His physician said this:"To a leg, sir, of mutton, you may go." ...Read more of this...
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