Old Dead Poets
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I admire great poets old,
perusing the tragic ends.
Researching their writing styles and patterns
their layouts, rhyming, punctuation, moods,
in dark solitude they penned dreadful words...
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Categories:
berryman, old, poets,
Form: Blank verse
America
...America
I´m here to bring you
What you don´t need
Another heartfelt poem
Another heartsick plea
Worth less than
Chewed gum
America I’m tapping
At your window
At 3 am
With a bag full of
Sou...
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Categories:
berryman, spiritual,
Form: Blank verse
Utopia
...Our lives and our time
Fired useless
Into the air
Toy cap gun shots
Those winter palaces unstormed
No tax offices ransacked
Where is utopia I asked
And no-one knew
They looked at me with pity...
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Categories:
berryman, political,
Form: Blank verse
John Berryman
...Drunk and exhausted, he waved to the onlookers,
And threw himself from the bridge, tired of living through
The suicides of poets and writers,
Tired of cheating women, of religion,
Of marriage, of tal...
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Categories:
berryman, sad,
Form: Narrative