OCTOPUS POEMS

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An Octopus

of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,
it lies “in grandeur and in mass”
beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;
dots of cyclamen-red and maroon on its clearly defined
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Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore
Prothalamion

“little soul, little flirting,
little perverse one
where are you off to now?
little wan one, firm one
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Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz
The Octopus

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
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Ogden Nash
Men

Man is a creature of a thousand whims;
The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.
Through toil and martyrdom a million years
Struggling and groping upward from the brute,
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Hanford Lennox Gordon
The Bestiary: Or Orpheus-s Procession

(Le Bestiaire ou Cortège dâ??Orphée)

Orpheus

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Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire
The Oneness Of The Philosopher With Nature.

I love to see the little stars
All dancing to one tune;
I think quite highly of the Sun,
And kindly of the Moon.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Wonder Why

This morning am awake
I stretch, I yawn, I know am alive
I rubbed my eyes, I see a twin of my vision
I say thank you God, I know am alive
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Apollos Alpha

Apollos Alpha
Faust In Old Age

“Poet and veteran of childhood, look!
See in me the obscene, for you have love,

For you have hatred, you, you must be judge,
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Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz
Fragments - Lines 0213 - 0218

My heart, display toward all your friends a changeful character,
Adding into it the disposition that each one has.
Adopt the disposition of the octopus, crafty in its convolutions, which takes on
The appearance of whatever rock it has dealings with.
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Theognis
A Psalm Of Resignation

In spite of his imposing plea,
A freeman whom the truth makes free
Is often fairly up a tree,
And marvels why it should be thus.
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Joseph Furphy
The Air Plant

Grand Cayman

This tuft that thrives on saline nothingness,
Inverted octopus with heavenward arms
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Harold Hart Crane
Nightmare Number Three

We had expected everything but revolt
And I kind of wonder myself when they started thinking--
But thereâ??s no dice in that now.
Iâ??ve heard fellow say
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Stephen Vincent Benét
How Shall My Animal

How shall my animal
Whose wizard shape I trace in the cavernous skull,
Vessel of abscesses and exultation's shell,
Endure burial under the spelling wall,
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Dylan Thomas
Ballad Of The Long-legged Bait

The bows glided down, and the coast
Blackened with birds took a last look
At his thrashing hair and whale-blue eye;
The trodden town rang its cobbles for luck.
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Dylan Thomas
Australia's Peril

We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son,
For the wrong we have taken part in and the wrong that we have seen done.
Let the bride of frivolous fashion, and of ease, be ashamed and dumb,
For I tell you the nations shall rule us who have let their children come!
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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson
Australia's Peril (the Warning)

We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son,
For the wrong we have taken part in and the wrong that we have seen done.
Let the bride of frivolous fashion, and of ease, be ashamed and dumb,
For I tell you the nations shall rule us who have let their children come!
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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson
A Monster In Love

A monster in love
Droplets of rain pours from my eyes
They’ll soon be enough to call an ocean
But you’re too occupied to dry them off
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Victoria James

Victoria James
Shadow, Inequality, Empty Darkness White Dove

*SHADOW*

Under the shade of Hurly-burly,
Gush of tempest wind,
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Paciolo Pen Saint

Paciolo Pen Saint
The Tornado

God let me fall from His hand
One day at His forge when the elemental world
Was shaping. I am but a breath from His great bellows,
But here among the workshops of mankind
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Charles Hamilton Musgrove
The Gingham Dream Utterance

As I watch the clouds assemble, steam-ship fashion, with funnels to
alert passersby, I realize the Romanovs tore silk & riches from
every bazaar leaving the bright spot of this evening studded with emerald marks.
A dot in the ocean is a spark upon which minnows play, their silver
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Paul Cameron Brown