Famous Trans Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Trans poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous trans poems. These examples illustrate what a famous trans poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...s its next objective.
Will posterity (if there
is any)pause to regret
such layerings of shade,
their cadenced crests' trans-
valuation of decay, the dust
and perfume of an all
too terminable process?...Read more of this...
by
Clampitt, Amy
...fair.
Such as He is, Our Lord, I Him declare,
And in this faith I choose to live and die.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, trans....Read more of this...
by
Villon, Francois
...e
Now. See your events as my events.
Everything will be as before: Abraham will again
Be Abram. Sarah will be Sarai.
trans. Benjamin & Barbara Harshav...Read more of this...
by
Amichai, Yehuda
...s hall.
Be not ye therefore of our fellowhead,
But pray to God that he forgive us all.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, trans....Read more of this...
by
Villon, Francois
...oon has fallen into our hands
And turned all gloomy
An open grave on the face of the earth
On your face on my face
Trans. by Anne Pennington...Read more of this...
by
Popa, Vasko
...Eternity
where the heart was left and farewell tears
began.
IV
A swarm of baggage sitting by the counter as the trans-
continental bus pulls in.
The clock registering 12:15 A.M., May 9, 1956, the
second hand moving forward, red.
Getting ready to load my last bus.-Farewell, Walnut
Creek Richmond Vallejo Portland Pacific
Highway
Fleet-footed Quicksilver, God of transience.
One last package sits lone at midnight sticking up out
of the Coast rack high as the...Read more of this...
by
Ginsberg, Allen
...the brown, the blind, the brave,
the undocumented and undeterred,
the woman, the man, the nonbinary,
the white, the trans,
the ally to all of the above
and more?
Tyrants fear the poet.
Now that we know it
we can’t blow it.
We owe it
to show it
not slow it
although it
hurts to sew it
when the world
skirts below it.
Hope—
we must bestow it
like a wick in the poet
so it can grow, lit,
bringing with it
stories to rewrite—
the story of a Texas cit...Read more of this...
by
Gorman, Amanda
...r a minute when I first stopped)
and not my usual day-dreams here too,
my memories, those images of sensual pleasure.
trans. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard...Read more of this...
by
Cavafy, Constantine P
...ou to the core of life. All your talk is worthless
When compared to one whisper
of the Beloved.
Ode 442 trans. by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise: The Mystical Poetry of Rumi
Links (Rumi Poetry) (Rumi) ...Read more of this...
by
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
...ght him up in sleep.
I sit and gaze like this for a long time,
recovering through art from the effort of creating it.
trans. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard...Read more of this...
by
Cavafy, Constantine P
...anly wantonness.
I sing of dews, of rains, and piece by piece
Of balm, of oil, of spice, and ambergris.
I sing of times trans-shifting, and I write
How roses first came red, and lilies white.
I write of groves, of twilights, and I sing
The Court of Mab, and of the Fairy King.
I write of hell; I sing (and ever shall)
Of heaven, and hope to have it after all....Read more of this...
by
Herrick, Robert
...re their lively eyes.
Their healthy sensual minds,
their shapely taut bodies
stir to his perception of the beautiful.
Trans. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard...Read more of this...
by
Cavafy, Constantine P
...I’m going to say.
I don’t plan it.
When I’m outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all. Trans. Coleman Barks. NEXT Poem Links Rumi Homepage Dont forget to view our wonderful member Trans poems.