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Famous Underbelly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Levine, Philip
...wriggling 
on a woman's palm. Halved, quartered, 
shredded to the wind, you were the life 
that thrilled along the underbelly 
of a stone. Stilled in the frozen pond 
you rinsed heaven with a sigh. 

How much earth is a man. 
A wall fies down and roses 
rush from its teeth; in the fists 
of the hungry, cucumbers sleep 
their lives away, under your nails 
the ocean moans in its bed. 

How much earth. 
The great ice fields slip 
and the broken veins of ...Read more of this...



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