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Famous Unstuck Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Service, Robert William
...y raw;
And I was blue and bruised all over,
 And this is what I saw:
All pale, but panting with elation,
 And very much unstuck,
There was the Army of Salvation
 Emerging from the muck.

And then I heard the Captain saying:
 ''Twas Heaven heard our pleas;
For there anight we all were praying
 Down on our bended knees.
'Twas little hope your comrades gave you,
 Though we had faith divine . . .
The blessed Lord stooped down to save you,
 But Gosh! He cut it ...Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...t it free.

Its pinions pitifully frail
I wrested from the muck;
I feared the feathers of its tail
Would never come unstuck.
. . . The jewel-bright it flashed in flight -
Oh how I wished it luck!

With happiness my heart was light,
To see how fair it flew;
To do my good deed I delight,
As grey-haired scouts should do;
Yet oh my bright reward's to write
This simple rhyme for you!...Read more of this...

by Cocteau, Jean
.....Preamble

A rough draft 
for an ars poetica

. . . . . . . 

Let's get our dreams unstuck

The grain of rye
free from the prattle of grass
et loin de arbres orateurs

I 

plant

it

It will sprout


But forget about 
the rustic festivities

For the explosive word 
falls harmlessly
eternal through
the compact generations 

and except for you

 nothing 
 denotates

its sweet-scented dynamite

Greetings
I discard eloquence
the empty sail
and...Read more of this...

by Gregory, Rg
...g iced drinks and talking casually
a silence green and golden threads our bones
and tapestries contain us - time's come unstuck
each gesture shall be / was - the present glows


(b) spanish day

all i hear at first are sparrows
i come to the window - they are foraging
across the grassless ground their chirps
are business voices grunts of satisfaction
a comment on the nature of their find

the morning's cool - some fifteen trees
in rows with broad-splayed leaves are caught
by ...Read more of this...

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