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Famous Underside Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...with such lavish lining!
Imagine breathing

surrounded by
the brilliant rinse
of summer's firmament.

What color is
the underside of skin?
Not so bad, to die,

if we could be opened
into this--
if the smallest chambers

of ourselves,
similarly,
revealed some sky....Read more of this...
by Doty, Mark



...of this blond valley smoke 
like the thin pipes of the Chinese, 
and I go higher where the air 
is clean, thin, and the underside 
of light is clearer than the light. 
Above the tree line the pines 
crowd below like moments of the past 
and on above the snow line 
the cold underside of my arm, 
the half in shadow, sweats with fear 
as though it lay along the edge 
of revelation. 

And so my mind closes around 
a square oil can crushed on the road 
one morning, startled it was...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

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