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Best Nobel Laureate Poems

Below are the all-time best Nobel Laureate poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nobel laureate poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his...

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Categories: nobel laureate, life, loss,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Two Birds - Translation From Tagore
This is a translation from the original poem "Dui Pakhi" (Two Birds) in Bengali  by India's Nobel-laureate Poet, Rabindranath Tagore.    ...

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Categories: nobel laureate, bird, friend,
Form: Verse
An Indian Boy
That Indian boy, unwashed, in rags, and black,
(India is, as in Art we say Nobel Laureate; in Might they call it ‘Nuclear State’)
Walked by the...

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© Fayaz Bhat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nobel laureate, political, boy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freed From My Shackles - Translation From Tagore
This is a poem (Original Title “Mukti” in Bengali, which means “Freedom”) by India's Nobel-laureate poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) - a poet, writer,...

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Categories: nobel laureate, freedom, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gabriel Marquez Garcia-- Artist
God must have spilled stars liquid
on His brooding Gabriel Marquez Garcia…
weaving, crushing and shaping words
lacquered with magical realism. But this
is not his only primal appeal;...

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Categories: nobel laureate, art, words,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Henry Dunant
Of John Henry Dunant, let's give mention.
He thought up the Geneva Convention;
The International Red Cross also,
In his Memory Of Solferino

20150601

From Wikipedia:
Jean Henri Dunant (8 May...

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Categories: nobel laureate, hero, peace,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member We Like Trees
We like trees.
Rocks. Crows.

Trees are good.
Shade. Food. Wood.

If they leave, 
we'll leave, too.

Snow. How come
some there, none here.

Sun can kill
or be fun.

God can't care
about you,...

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Categories: nobel laureate, care, food, fun, god,
Form: Verse
Escape To Struggle
Evils with machine Guns to kill,
Ghost of my imagination were there to kill 
Or to protect me from the evils.
Believing in myself was what left...

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Categories: nobel laureate, art, blessing, body, books,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Fear of God, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem, Miedo De Dios
Fear of God, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem, Miedo de Dios

(The second and fourth lines of these quatrains all end in the same rhyme, a...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nobel laureate, fear, god, universe,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Sing the Way Sky Is Singing - Translation
This is the translation of a song written by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-laureate Poet from India. The melody is composed by the poet himself. 


The way...

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Categories: nobel laureate, animal, love, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee   O’ Nobel Laureate 2011
Is a pride to her world
A gift to her country Liberia
And an eagle that is never tire soaring...

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Categories: nobel laureate, dedication,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Tree Fell
(This poem is dedicated to the late Nobel Laureate Chinua Achebe. 
Your works will always stir our thoughts with reason and entertainment. R.I.P)



A Tree Fell

A...

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Categories: nobel laureate, africa, art, dedication, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not Only Your Words - Translation
This is my translation of a song by Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel-laureate Poet from India. I have rendered the song on You Tube video. 


Not...

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Categories: nobel laureate, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deception Part 1 Translation From Tagore
This is a translation from Rabindranath Tagore's (Nobel-laureate Poet From India in 1913) narrative poem - Phanki. We need to remember that this story is...

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Categories: nobel laureate, life, women,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Camellia - Part 1 Translation From Tagore
This is a translation from the poem "Camellia", by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel laureate Poet from India (1861 -1941) Understandably the story took place in late...

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Categories: nobel laureate, life, love,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs