Famous Unpredictable Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Historical Breakfast

...re. Oops, spilled it all 
over his lap. One of those historical accidents that will 
influence the next thousand years; unpredictable, and 
really rather uncomfortable . . . But history is never easy, 
he thinks . . ....Read more of this...
by Edson, Russell


Dancing of Sounds

...rt.
There is no competition of sounds
Between a nightingale and a violin.

Nature rewards and punishes
By offering unpredictable ways; 
Art is apotheosis; 
Often, the complaint of beauty.

Nature is an outcry, 
Unpolished truth; 
The art—a euphemism— 
Tamed wilderness. ...Read more of this...
by Stojanovic, Dejan

Grandad And A Pramload Of Clocks

...es
the tinkling shells to each ear,
select and apply unfailingly
the right tool to the right cog
and with movements 
as unpredictable as the pram’s
will wind and counter-wind
the scrap to metronomic life.

And at the pub, 
at the Grey Horse or Houldsworth,
furtive as unpaid tax,
Rolex and Timex 
and brands beneath naming
will change hands for the price of a bevy,
a fish supper
or a down payment 
on early retirement
on a horse called Clockwork
running in the three-thirty at Ai...Read more of this...
by Lindley, John

Love Poem

...ple:
The refugee uncertain at the door
You make at home; deftly you steady
The drunk clambering on his undulant floor.

Unpredictable dear, the taxi drivers' terror,
Shrinking from far headlights pale as a dime
Yet leaping before apopleptic streetcars—
Misfit in any space. And never on time.

A wrench in clocks and the solar system. Only
With words and people and love you move at ease;
In traffic of wit expertly maneuver
And keep us, all devotion, at your knees.

Forgetting y...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

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