Short Melville Poems
Short Melville Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Melville by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Melville by length and keyword.
Clerihew Melville
Herman Melville once a cabin boy
his fiction/poetry gives such.joy
As a customs mn he spent his time
writing materpieces in rhyme...
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Categories:
melville, people, poetry,
Form:
Clerihew
Sperm Whale
Creature of deep seas
Battle scars from giant squid
A rare appearance
Stay well hidden from whalers
Inspiration of Melville.
A. Green...
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Categories:
melville, nature
Form:
Tanka
Until Silence Returns
Be it Melville or Tolstoy
or a Pen still to burn
Know the words are just borrowed
until silence returns
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)...
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Categories:
melville, silence,
Form:
Ballad
A Voice On Loan
Be it Melville or Tolstoy
or a Pen still to burn
Know the words are just borrowed
—until silence returns
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)...
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Categories:
melville, voice,
Form:
Rhyme
My Pen To Flow
I’ve forever written
as myself
Few influences will
show
Neither Hemingway nor
Faulkner
Not Melville or
Thoreau
But as one who saw through
all of that
With so much more
to know
I search the land
and stars above
For ink
—my pen to flow
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...
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Categories:
melville, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Unoriginal Sin
Did you flavor it with Hemingway,
or season it with Thoreau
Did you structure it like Eliot,
or was Melville more your go
The rocks you choose to stand upon,
supports to look beyond
As you add your face onto the mountain,
new words inscribed in song
Past voices serve to push you,
to that place you’ve never been
Where your breath may cleanse forever,
the stain
—of unoriginal sin
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...
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Categories:
melville, sin, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Unoriginal Sin
Did you flavor it with Hemingway,
or season it with Thoreau
Did you structure it like Eliot,
or was Melville more your go
The rocks you choose to stand upon,
—just supports to look beyond
As you add your face onto the mountain,
new words inscribed in song
Past voices serve to push you,
to that place you’ve never been
Where your breath may cleanse forever
the stain,
—of unoriginal sin
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...
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Categories:
melville, sin,
Form:
Rhyme