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Does anyone know who wrote the poem entitled POEM?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Probably the same person whose pet is called "Dog".


Still, you asked so I hope this helps...

One is a one-line poem called ??Poem?? by Bill Knott, written in the 60s:

"Your eyelashes are a narcotic."
Man that dude was high...!

But I imagine you're looking for...
Elizabeth Bishop (born in America in 1911) .

My favourite poem by Elizabeth Bishop is ??First Death in Nova Scotia??.
The complexity of childhood is effectively evoked in this simple poem about the death of her cousin. This is a poem we can all relate to as it captures a child??s first experience of death. This poem has quite a chilling quality which echoes the wrong sequence that death has taken in taking the life of a child. The vulnerability and fear created, as the child doubts the presence of an afterlife, is true of my experience of death and I??m sure many other??s.
Her poetry covers topics from death to family and from travel to morality.

I"ll leave you with a quote from Elizabeth Bishop??s poem called ??Poem??.

"Life and the memory of it cramped, dim, on a piece of Bristol board, dim, but how alive, how touching in detail--the little that we get for free, the little of our earthly trust?"