GARGANTUAN POEMS

Seal Yourself Away From Me

We were in a gargantuan cathedral
When it was time
To say Christ's Peace
You took my hand in yours
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Rose Marie Juan Austin

Death And The Fool

Here is a tale for any man or woman:
A fool sought Death; and braved him with his bauble
Among the graves. At last he heard a hobble,
And something passed him, monstrous, super-human.
.....

Madison Julius Cawein

He "digesteth Harde Yron"

Although the aepyornis
or roc that lived in Madagascar, and
the moa are extinct,
the camel-sparrow, linked
.....

Marianne Moore

Mutatis Mutandis

The Fool

Here is a tale for children and their grannies:
There was a fool, a man who'd had his chances
.....

Madison Julius Cawein

When The Journey Was Intended To The City

When that with meat and drink they had fulfilled
Not temperately but like him conceived
In monstrous jest at Meudon, whose regale
Stands for exemplar of Gargantuan greed,
.....

Rudyard Kipling

Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor

f the Cape light that scours
Sand grit to sided crystal
And buffs and sleeks the blunt hulls
Of the three fishing smacks beached
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Sylvia Plath

Louse Hunting

Nudes -- stark and glistening,
Yelling in lurid glee. Grinning faces
And raging limbs
Whirl over the floor one fire.
.....

Isaac Rosenberg

La Géante (the Giantess)

Du temps que la Nature en sa verve puissante
Concevait chaque jour des enfants monstrueux,
J'eusse aimé vivre auprès d'une jeune géante,
Comme aux pieds d'une reine un chat voluptueux.
.....

Charles Baudelaire

A Tumbled Star

I look up to skyward
In the blue of the night
There, silvery spangles I see;
Hovered and distant
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Alan S Jeeves

Leave Alone

I said leave me alone poetry
Leave me like how I hate mockery
Detach away from me
Indulge me to get free
.....

Abubakar Mohammed Musa