Famous Uncountable Poems by Famous Poets

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A Display Of Mackeral

...ent 

of heaven's template,
mackerel essence. As if, 
after a lifetime arriving 

at this enameling, the jeweler's
made uncountable examples
each as intricate 

in its oily fabulation
as the one before;
a cosmos of champleve. 

Suppose we could iridesce,
like these, and lose ourselves
entirely in the universe 

of shimmer--would you want
to be yourself only,
unduplicatable, doomed 

to be lost? They'd prefer,
plainly, to be flashing participants,
multitudinous. Even on ice 

...Read more of this...
by Doty, Mark


As in the simple ages

...ystalline hands;
Nothing is so lovely as a confession of souls one to the other, in the evening, when the flame of the uncountable diamonds burns like so many silent eyes the silence of the firmaments....Read more of this...
by Verhaeren, Emile

Beowulf (Modern English)

...l. 2999-3010a)

“Nor must just some of this be melted away
with the mindful king, but there is a hoard of treasure,
uncountable gold, grimly purchased,
and now at the very end, he bought these rings
with his own life. At this moment, the torch
must devour it all, the flames enfold it—
and not at all must the nobleman wear these treasures
as remembrance, nor the radiant maiden bear them
about her neck, in ringed ornaments,
but miserable-minded, he must, bereaved by ...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Flee On Your Donkey

...in
because there was no other.

I stared at them,
concentrating on the abyss
the way one looks down into a rock quarry,
uncountable miles down,
my hands swinging down like hooks
to pull dreams up out of their cage.
O my hunger! My hunger!

Once, outside your office,
I collapsed in the old-fashioned swoon
between the illegally parked cars.
I threw myself down,
pretending dead for eight hours.
I thought I had died
into a snowstorm.
Above my head
chains cracked along like teeth
...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

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