Famous Wastelands Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Wastelands poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous wastelands poems. These examples illustrate what a famous wastelands poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...vely,
To the gates of her lips,
Why her gaze sparkles and smiles ?
Leaping over islands of silence
And wastelands of sealed lip pining,
When the silhouettes of desire
Come waltzing in
To nestle in an intimate moment’s nest,
Why her gaze sparkles and smiles ?
Her soul, that Sprite-Princess,
Neither lifts her veil
Nor voices her song
And when her heart’s ballad
Passes through distant, unexplored worlds
As the faint, lingering ...Read more of this...
by
Amjad, Majeed
...
The anguish is great, there’s an ocean’s churn.
The world passed me by while I wandered
Over the personal deserts and wastelands of my life
To stories I wrote and the stories became me
Characters became me and I became them.
Crap me, scrap me, scratch me you will find
A man too deeply obsessed by observing the world
Who feels his words and sentence lay trapped
Inside him crying for want of pixels and time.
Out there he stands that man on a moonlit night
Shining like a tub...Read more of this...
by
Matthew, John
...d him as he slumbered.
Hot and rough-minded, he stirred about the barrow,
outside it all—but no one was there
in the wastelands—no one yet to fête in warfare
or fighting-work. At length he turned back
into the barrow, seeking his vesseled gold. (ll. 2287-2300a)
He discovered at once that some human
had tampered with the high-treasures, the gold.
The hoard-warden waited miserably
until the evening came—the barrow-watcher
was swollen at heart. The loathsome one wish...Read more of this...
by
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