Famous Uncurl Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Day Dream

by A S J Tessimond
 One day people will touch and talk perhaps 
easily, 
And loving be natural as breathing and warm as 
sunlight, 
And people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, 
Unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, 
Unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, 
And work will be simple and swift 
as a seagull flying, 
And play will...Read more of this...

The Last Chrysanthemum

by Thomas Hardy
 Why should this flower delay so long 
 To show its tremulous plumes? 
Now is the time of plaintive robin-song, 
 When flowers are in their tombs. 

Through the slow summer, when the sun 
 Called to each frond and whorl 
That all he could for flowers was being done, 
 Why did it not uncurl? 

It must have...Read more of this...

For Lucy Who Came First

by Marilyn L Taylor
 She simply settled down in one piece right where she was,
    in the sand of a long-vanished lake edge or stream--and died.
       —Donald C. Johanson, paleoanthropologist


When I put my hand up to my face
I can trace her heavy jawbone and the sockets
of her eyes under my skin. And in the...Read more of this...

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