Famous Unattached Poems by Famous Poets

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

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thread

by Rg Gregory
 the sky is shattered
its debris
clutters the world's streets

where the light came from
is a question
charred beyond recognition

heads hang out of walls
limbs unattached
rigid in their will to crawl away

but there's a bird (black
in the jagged sky)
with a twig still stuck in its beak

is it falling or flying
there's no witness
with the fullness to interpret

the intolerable direction
it must decide
is the thread the scene...Read more of this...

Chiarascuro: Rose

by Conrad Aiken
 He

Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have of crystal. 
Sit at the western window. Take the sun 
Between your hands like a ball of flaming crystal, 
Poise it to let it fall, but hold it still, 
And meditate on the beauty of your existence; 
The beauty of this, that you exist at all. 

 She

The sun goes...Read more of this...

Snowbanks North of the House

by Robert Bly
 Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six
feet from the house ...
Thoughts that go so far.
The boy gets out of high school and reads no more
books;
the son stops calling home.
The mother puts down her rolling pin and makes no
more bread.
And the wife looks at her husband one night at a
party, and loves him no more.
The energy leaves the...Read more of this...

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