Famous Windscreen Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Windscreen poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous windscreen poems. These examples illustrate what a famous windscreen poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Raine, Craig
...for a horse!
but only to myself,
ironically: the tube
is semi-stiff with stallion whangs,
the chairman's Mercedes
has windscreen wipers
like a bird's broken tongue,
and I am perfectly happy
to see your head, quick
round the door like a dryad,
as I pretend to be Ovid
in exile, composing Tristia
and sad for the shining,
the missed, the muscular beach....Read more of this...
by
Heaney, Seamus
...
past armor-plated vehicles, out between
the posted soldiers flowing and receding
like tree shadows into the polished windscreen....Read more of this...
by
Betjeman, John
...n.
Gales along the Commeragh Mountains,
Beating sleet on creaking signs,
Iron gutters turned to fountains,
And the windscreen laced with lines,
And the evening getting later,
And the ache - increased again,
As the distance grows the greater
From Dungarvan in the rain.
There is no one now to wonder
What eccentric sits in state
While the beech trees rock and thunder
Round his gate-lodge and his gate.
Gone - the ornamental plaster,
Gone - the overgrown demesne
And ...Read more of this...
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