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Famous Unreachable Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...ch as a sunset on the Norway coast, the sky, the islands, and the cliffs, 
Or midnight’s silent glowing northern lights unreachable. 

Haply God’s riddle it, so vague and yet so certain, 
The soul for it, and all the visible universe for it,
And heaven at last for it....Read more of this...



by Larkin, Philip
...ue random blend
Of families and fashions, there

At last begin to loosen. Far
From the exchange of love to lie
Unreachable insided a room
The trafic parts to let go by
Brings closer what is left to come,
And dulls to distance all we are.

1964...Read more of this...

by Finch, Annie
...
where night is reflected through decades of glass.
There is the nursery, there is the nanny,
there are my father’s unreachable eyes
turned towards the window. Is the child uneasy?
His is the death that is circling the stars.

In the deep room where candles burn soundlessly
and peace pours at last through the cells of our bodies,
three of us are watching, one of us is staring
with the wide gaze of a wild, wave-fed seal.
Incense and sage speak in smoke loud as ...Read more of this...

by Popa, Vasko
...not mention
Grows a chestnut tree
That stays mysterious behind us

From every hope
We cherish
Sprouts a star
That moves unreachable before us

Can you hear a bullet
Flying about our heads
Can you hear a bullet
Waiting to ambush our kiss...Read more of this...

by Tebb, Barry
...
At the vertigo of mystery

At the simplicity of childhood

And its melancholy

At the silence of the moors

Beckoning, unreachable, tormenting me

As I lie helpless at the border of infirmity

With my soul burning and brimming over

With adolescent passion.

Only analysis with its symmetries and asymmetries

Exactness and paradox, scientific as Heisenberg's

Principle of Uncertainty, yet various as the shades of Monet,

Eases me.

I think of those I have known and kn...Read more of this...



by Gibran, Kahlil
...ar unless he be far? 

And others among you called unto me, not in words, and they said, 

Stranger, stranger, lover of unreachable heights, why dwell you among the summits where eagles build their nests? 

Why seek you the unattainable? 

What storms would you trap in your net, 

And what vaporous birds do you hunt in the sky? 

Come and be one of us. 

Descend and appease your hunger with our bread and quench your thirst with our wine." 

In the solitude of their so...Read more of this...

by Skenderija, Sasha
...Deep and unreachable in their darknesses, 
capriciously childish and tender
when we write to each other,
while we talk about one of us
who is not around.

I grew up with some of them,
others, who I met as grown-up people,
I could unerringly pick out in their photo albums 
on group pictures of their school classes. 
They've always been like that....Read more of this...

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