Famous Wingspan Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Sea Gull (Leith Docks, 1995)

by Omer Tarin
Once before I've heard this
anguished cry

A long-drawn note of many-lettered woe,
The great open beak straining 
against the roar of raging surf;

Head, thrown back, taut
against the distant sails

Anger flickering in eyes flecked with amber,
rolling in lonely knowledge,
this bond servant of the sea,
tied by its giant wingspan 
to the torturous flight of sainthood

Martyred
in its terrible existence
murdered
by the yellow fog of banality

Victim 
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