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Famous Transistor Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...s from the center,
but the spot where they set us down
 becomes the center!"
I remember that noon,
 Pablo,
as I tune my transistor at night, ny the window,
now,
 when a wicked war with the people of Chile
brings back the smell of Spain.
Playing about at a new overthrow,
politutes in generals' uniforms
wanted, whichever way they could,
to hustle your poetry out of sight.
But today I see Neruda--
he's always right in the center
 and, not faltering,
he carries his poetry to the ...Read more of this...
by Yevtushenko, Yevgeny



...when the weight of bedclothes
Is harder to bear than a sharp incision of steel.
The endless anonymous croak of a cheap transistor
Intesifies the lonely terror I feel....Read more of this...
by Betjeman, John
...t of the death call,
would understand.

The insomniac
listening to his heart
thumping like a June bug,
listening on his transistor
to Long John Nebel arguing from New York,
lying on his bed like a stone table,
would understand.

The night nurse
with her eyes slit like Venetian blinds,
she of the tubes and the plasma,
listening to the heart monitor,
the death cricket bleeping,
she who calls you "we"
and keeps vigil like a ballistic missile,
would understand.

Once
this king ha...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry