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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BIALOSKY, JILL Matches Found: 54 Bialosky, Jill Poet's Biography 54 poems available by this author ADOLESCENT SUICIDE First Line: The girl Last Line: A turkey sandwich. Pickle on the side. Diet coke AMERICAN LANDSCAPE First Line: The tern dives headfirst into the sea Last Line: Is about other people's houses ANOTHER LOSS TO STOP FOR Poem Text First Line: Against such cold and mercurial mornings Last Line: When none of us is spared? Variant Title(s): The Goddess Of Despair Subject(s): Cold; Morning ANOTHER LOSS TO STOP FOR First Line: Against such cold and mercurial mornings Last Line: When none of us is spared? Variant Title(s): The Goddess Of Despai Subject(s): Cold; Morning ARTIST MISJUDGES PERFECTION First Line: You would love to sit here Last Line: Refuse to take the knife AVIARY First Line: Out of nowhere came the ravenous sound and I knew she had returned Last Line: Acoustic, the leave-taking and the return. The horrible hatching BALLET LESSON First Line: In the center %of the dance floor Last Line: Over my cold chest, tied my laces in BALTIMORE, ON TURNING THIRTY-SEVEN First Line: From the third floor bay window Last Line: The train pulls me forward BLUEBERRIES First Line: Together we picked blueberries Last Line: Our bodies that ancient smell BOY BEHELD HIS MOTHER'S PAST First Line: The ivory wedding hat came tumbling down Last Line: The ivory wedding hat came tumbling down CARNIVAL First Line: After the rain quit the carnival began Last Line: And said we were going to paradise CAROUSEL First Line: She came home drunk and laughing Last Line: Her reckless heart was mine CHILDBIRTH, 1943 First Line: July. The darkness hints Last Line: Where the heart should be %and remembers her mother COLD HEART First Line: The slow drift of clouds Last Line: How safe he is from all reasoning CORNFIELDS First Line: Sometimes everything is clear Last Line: And everything is yellow DAWN OF THE END OF CIVILIZATION First Line: I carry the image like a treasured snapshot Last Line: I would never give birth to; the life I would never have. %I was afraid DAY THE WORLD STOPPED Last Line: If there is a sound the heart makes when it breaks %it wasn't heard DROWNING First Line: It isn't human not to struggle Last Line: Hurt me, I say, harder Variant Title(s): Love Elegies: Elegy 13. Love's Progres END OF DESIRE First Line: When I was a child Last Line: That one day, my desire would end FATHERS IN THE SNOW First Line: The game is called father Last Line: Even my hands forget you FATHERS IN THE SNOW: 2 Poem Text First Line: After father died Subject(s): Death - Fathers GRIEF First Line: Almost dawn, %the girl sits at the table Last Line: So much of what she feels %never leaves this room HISTORY LESSON First Line: This is the way we learn history Last Line: Dark wine, for all of us, even the unborn HOUSE CAT First Line: The heart of patience Last Line: Of branches from the window IRONING First Line: The girl is ironing in the small Last Line: Now she slides the iron down the back of the shirt and yawns. %she belongs to no one LOVER'S GIFT First Line: Sometimes I never heard a word Last Line: Slowly you lifted its red dress LOVER'S PLEA First Line: I am lost and already it is dusk Last Line: Is the one red leaf I have prayed for LOVER'S QUARREL First Line: Together we went rowing Last Line: The water holding us in such able arms MUSIC IS TIME Poem Text First Line: Music is time, said the violin master. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MY GROOM First Line: It was almost religious Last Line: In the arms of the cruel tamer, %the keeper of horses MY MOTHER WAS A LOVER OF FLOWERS First Line: I knew the kind that enchanted her Last Line: To stop her nature from murdering beauty OBJECT AND THE MALE GAZE First Line: I lingered in the garden staring at the creator Last Line: Of the sculptor around her. I saw her flee OH GIANT FLOWERS First Line: Everyday I walk past the house Last Line: In your huge petals, I wanted to lie down %in the grass beneath you PREMONITION First Line: I was wrapped in the darkest Last Line: The first fears %engraving your sleep RUINED SECRET First Line: My sister fell in love Last Line: The light like a bleeding heart RUNAWAY First Line: On a summer day full of promise Last Line: As if in shame and claimed her SEVEN SEEDS Poem Text First Line: I have been inside the third-floor walk-up SEVEN SEEDS First Line: I have been inside the third-floor walk-up Last Line: Took those seeds %and planted them in the garden SHADOW LIFE First Line: In that quick- %silver %of time Last Line: So the snow- %man %we've built %can see SILVER First Line: On the butcher block table Last Line: Rubbed out after a month, %a year, a decade of tarnish SISTER'S STORY First Line: My sister startles herself from sleep Last Line: Each morning the book %stretches back to the sky SISTERS First Line: Opening the door I expect to find you there Last Line: Answers I can't give you. Reasons for surviving the night SKATING POND First Line: The grey sky gives over Last Line: What you want, all of it matters SNOW FALLING UPSIDE DOWN First Line: The sound of the chamber organ Last Line: In the snow, eventually drifted away STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: My girlfriend and I snuck out Last Line: And the long dark dialogue would begin Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN First Line: My girlfriend and I snuck out Last Line: And the long dark dialogue would begin Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women STOLEN CRY First Line: I awoke at two a.M. Last Line: Had robbed us of what was promised SUICIDE'S GARDEN First Line: In her garden %tall and sleek roses grow decadently Last Line: As if he were the master of her execution THREE ON A MATCH First Line: Summer nights we played gin rummy Last Line: Its sorry imitation -- %were in the sky TORTURE First Line: It was very cold %the long walks %we took Last Line: Of light. %behind %our walls, %I felt life move WHAT YOU ARE LEFT WITH First Line: When the summer leaves Last Line: And the red tomatoes %weighing down the vine WITHOUT Poem Text First Line: Why does the woman lay her head so far Last Line: Is far away. Her face is the halves of a heart Subject(s): Love WITHOUT First Line: Why does the woman lay her head so far Last Line: Is far away. Her face is the halves of a heart Subject(s): Love WRATH OF THE GODS First Line: She walked to the back %of the hot bus, queasy from the smell Last Line: From the tree shading her driveway %shed on the windshield of their car |
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