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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: JORDAN, JUNE Matches Found: 263 Jordan, June Poet's Biography 263 poems available by this author 12:01 A.M. FOR HARUKO First Line: Rushing like white Last Line: The whole night sky denies me light %without you 1977: POEM FOR MRS. FANNIE LOU HAMER Poem Text First Line: You used to say, “june? Last Line: In a homemade field / of love Subject(s): Hamer, Fannie Lou (1917-1977); United States - Race Relations 1980: NOTE TO THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS First Line: Dear ladies 1981: ON CALL First Line: And even as you light 23-OCT-83 First Line: The way she played the piano Last Line: In that gathering %that water Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians 3 FOR KIMAKO First Line: Kimako baraka A POEM ABOUT INTELLIGENCE FOR MY BROTHERS & SISTERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A few years back and they told me black Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations A POEM ON MORAL LEADERSHIP AS A POLITICAL DILEMMA Recitation by Author Subject(s): Morality; Cherry Trees; Ethics A SONG FOR SOWETO Poem Text First Line: At the throat of soweto Last Line: With the song of soweto Subject(s): Soweto, South Africa; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ABOUT THE REUNION First Line: I am rarely vindictive but Last Line: And I do not move %and you leave ADDENDA TO THE PAPAL BULL First Line: The pope thinks ADRIENNE'S POEM: ON THE DIALECTICS OF THE DIATONIC SCALE First Line: Supposing everytime I hit this key AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE First Line: Maybe you thought I would forget Last Line: If %I could %I would ALL THE WORLD MOVED First Line: All the world moved next to me strange Last Line: I survived his innocence %without my own ALLA THA'S ALL RIGHT, BUT Poem Text First Line: Somebody come and carry me into a seven-day kiss Last Line: Somebody come on and c arry me / over there! Subject(s): Kisses ANOTHER POEM ABOUT THE MAN First Line: The man who brought you the garbage can APOLOGIES TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN LEBANON Poem Text First Line: I didn’t know and nobody told me and what Last Line: I really am sorry Subject(s): Lebanon; Palestine APOLOGIES TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN LEBANON First Line: I didn't know and nobody told me and what APRIL 12TH, 1999 Recitation by Author Subject(s): Ethnic Cleansing; Balkan Conflicts (kosovo) APRIL 7TH, 1999 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Nothing is more cruel Last Line: That she’s still alive Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (kosovo); Ethnic Cleansing ARGUMENT WITH THE BUDDHA First Line: We agree %about the suffering Last Line: Nothing %for sure ASSAILANT: ANTONIO MOORE First Line: You were hungry and she ATLANTIC COAST REGGAE First Line: See what the man have done BEIRUT JOKEBOOK First Line: 1. June 8, 1982: this is not an invasion BIG CITY HAPPENING FOR HARUKO First Line: Try exquisite in the new york concept Last Line: With the highway wonder %of your eyes BIRTHDAY IN PARIS First Line: Move the buffalo Last Line: Weight and wings one face BOMBING OF BAGHDAD First Line: Began and did not terminate for 42 days Last Line: Sing to join the living %with the dead BOSNIA BOSNIA First Line: Too bad %there is no oil Last Line: There is no oil %between her legs BOSNIA, BOSNIA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Too bad / there is no oil Last Line: Between her legs Subject(s): Serbo-bosnian Conflict BRIDGET SONG #1 First Line: Late in the day and near Last Line: The shadow of a shining %sound CAMPSITE #21 First Line: Next to so many stars Last Line: Of the sun %and glided by CASE IN POINT First Line: A friend of mine who raised six daughters and Last Line: He was being rhetorical. %my silence was peculiar %to the female CEDAR TREES OF LEBANON First Line: Bursting soft but kept by the structure of a spine CHRISTMAS POEM First Line: Clouds flying across the sky Last Line: Wherever it lands CLOCK ON HANCOCK STREET First Line: In the wintertime my father wears a hat Last Line: Where my mother used to walk %and talk to him DELIZA QUESTIONING PERPLEXITIES First Line: If dustin hoffman prove DELIZA SPEND THE DAY IN THE CITY First Line: Deliza drive the car to fetch alexis DES MOINES IOWA RAP First Line: So his wife and his daughters could quality DIRECTIONS FOR CARRYING EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR WASTES THROUGH ... Poem Text First Line: Enter the long island expressway at brookhaven Last Line: And look out for the crazies. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Nuclear Waste; Trucks & Trucking; Nuclear Freeze; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight DRAFT OF A RAP FOR WEN HO LEE Recitation by Author Subject(s): United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Asian Americans - Chinese; Racism; Chinese In The United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry EASTER COMES TO THE EAST COAST: 1981 First Line: Don't you worry about a thing ECLIPSE OF 1996 First Line: Everybody out of the house! Last Line: To miss that wouldya? EVIDENTLY LOOKING AT THE MOON REQUIRES A CLEAN PLACE First Line: The forest dwindling narrow and irregular Last Line: So sexy %chewing up the grass FACT SHEETS FOR B.B.L. First Line: No matter how I dawdle Last Line: For love %(to keep) FEMALE AND THE SILENCE OF A MAN First Line: And now she knows: the big fist shattering her face Last Line: A lovely girl protected by her cruel/incandescent energies FIRST POEM AFTER SERIOUS SURGERY Poem Text First Line: The breath continues but the breathing Last Line: But silent now / and slow Subject(s): Surgery FIRST POEM AFTER SERIOUS SURGERY First Line: The breath continues but the breathing Last Line: But silent now %and slow FIRST POEM FROM NICARAGUA LIBRE: TEOTECACINTE First Line: Can you say teotecacinte FOCUS IN REAL TIME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A bowl of rice Last Line: A bowl of rice Subject(s): Class Struggle; Rice FOCUS IN REAL TIME First Line: A bowl of rice %as food Last Line: Who will want to own the land %a bowl of rice FOR ALICE WALKER (A SUMMERTIME TANKA) Poem Text First Line: Redwood grove and war Last Line: "you say, ""these sweet trees: this tree" Subject(s): Walker, Alice (b. 1944); Congo (republic); Sequoia Trees; Belgian Congo; Redwoods FOR CHRISTOPHER First Line: Tonight the machinery of shadow Last Line: A man inside the boy %practically asleep FOR HARUKO First Line: Little moves on sight Last Line: Of dust and other death FOR MY MOTHER / I WOULD WRITE A LIST Last Line: Balloon eclipsed by seminal %and nubile %loving FOR OUR BELOVED BARBARA CHRISTIAN, JUNE 19, 2000 Poem Text First Line: Dear barbara / dear sister Subject(s): Christian, Barbara (1943-2000) FOR OUR BELOVED BARBARA CHRISTIAN, JUNE 19, 2000 First Line: Dear barbara %dear sister Last Line: And so I offer, here, this salute %with so much love Subject(s): Christian, Barbara (1943-2000) FOURTH POEM FROM NICARAGUA LIBRE: REPORT FROM THE FRONTIER First Line: Gone gone gone ghost FREE FLIGHT First Line: Nothing fills me up at night Last Line: Anyway %I'm working on it FROM AMERICA: A POEM IN PROCESS Poem Text First Line: I wish I was a horse Last Line: To change anything at all Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FROM AMERICA: A POEM IN PROCESS First Line: I wish I was a horse Last Line: To change anything at all? Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FROM NICARAGUA LIBRE: PHOTOGRAPH OF MANAGUA First Line: The man is not cute FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA Poem Text First Line: Natural order is being restored Last Line: Exploding like the seeds of a natural disorder Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA First Line: Natural order is being restored Last Line: Exploding like the seeds of a ntaural disorder Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights FROM THE TALKING BACK OF MISS VALENTINE JONES: POEM # ONE First Line: Well I wanted to braid my hair Last Line: Cause what I wanted was %your love FROM WAR AND MEMORY 1 Poem Text First Line: Daddy at the stove or sink. Large Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FROM WAR AND MEMORY 1 First Line: Daddy at the stove or sink. Large Last Line: My daddy chasing %after me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters GHAFLAH First Line: Grief scrapes at my skin Last Line: Wanted to touch %much GHAZAL AT FULL MOON First Line: I try to describe how this aching begins or how it Last Line: Indian indian indian indian indian indian indian GRACE First Line: To end my pestering my friend GRAND ARMY PLAZA First Line: The tall man and myself tonight Last Line: We survive our love %because we go on %loving GREENSBORO: NORTH CAROLINA First Line: We %studying the rule HAIKU FOR B.B.L. First Line: Lover help me love Last Line: Rain carry me home HAIKU FOR THE WOULD-BE KILLERS OF A TEACHER First Line: You cut down that tree Last Line: Roots to bless that dirt HERE First Line: The words sliding from the large glass table HOME: JANUARY 29, 1984 First Line: I can tell I AM NO MORE AND I AM NO LESS First Line: As the lebanese disqualify the lebanese I AM THE FALLEN / I AM THE CLIFF First Line: After the last building the black and green river I MUST BECOME A MENACE TO MY ENEMIES Poem Text First Line: I will no longer lightly walk behind Last Line: I must become a menace to my enemies Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry I MUST BECOME A MENACE TO MY ENEMIES First Line: I will no longer lightly walk behind Last Line: I must become a menace to my enemies ICHIBAN First Line: Good bye. I do not choose Last Line: Spirit riveted in fire %ichiban %good bye IF YOU SAW A NEGRO LADY Poem Text Last Line: Happy birthday Subject(s): African American - Women IF YOU SAW A NEGRO LADY Last Line: Into surprise observing %happy birthday Subject(s): African Americans - Women IN MEMORIAM POEM FOR MRS. FANNIE LOU HAMER First Line: You used to say, june Last Line: In a homemade field %of love IN MEMORIAM: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Poem Text First Line: Honey people murder mercy u.S.A. Last Line: More / and more Subject(s): King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968) IN MEMORIAM: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. First Line: Honey people murder mercy u.S.A Last Line: Bleach the blacklong lunging %ritual of fright insanity and more %deplorable abortion %more and %mor INAUGURAL ROSE First Line: Wanting to stomp down eighth avenue snow Last Line: Will not lie %to you INDEPENDENCE DAY IN THE U.S.A. First Line: I wanted to tell you about july 4th INTIFADA First Line: In detention Last Line: Allahu akbar: allah is the greatest INTIFADA INCANTATION: First Line: I said I loved you and I wanted Last Line: In the mouth of the sun IT'S ABOUT YOU: ON THE BEACH First Line: You have %two hands absolutely lean and clean Last Line: Your body is a long black wing IT'S HARD TO KEEP A CLEAN SHIRT CLEAN Poem Text First Line: It’s a sunlit morning Last Line: It’s hard to keep a clean shirt clean Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cleanliness JULY 4, 1984: FOR BUCK First Line: You would shrink back %jump up KISSING GOD GOODBYE First Line: You mean to tell me on the 12th day or the 13th Last Line: Becomes (at last) %our own KOSOVO EXCHANGE, APRIL 11TH, 1999 Recitation by Author Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (kosovo) LEAVES BLOW BACKWARD First Line: Leaves blow backward with the wind Last Line: Learns to kiss by speaking %among aliens LEBANON LEBANON: I First Line: Faces I have never seen before Last Line: Livid %how LEBANON LEBANON: II First Line: I would have loved Last Line: What he will never see %again LEBANON LEBANON: III First Line: As usual %I have to ask Last Line: Delivering a river %we can drink LEBANON LEBANON: IV First Line: Behold the woolly lamb Last Line: The miracle of suffering %without defeat LETTER TO HARUKO FROM DECORAH, IOWA, USA First Line: In this white space this american Last Line: Longing for the sky LETTER TO MRS. VIRGINIA THOMAS, WIFE OF WHATZHISNAME LAMENTABLY First Line: And here I thought I hated him! Last Line: Now isn't it: %you never know! LETTER TO THE LOCAL POLICE Poem Text First Line: I have been enjoying the law and order of our Last Line: Respectfully yours Subject(s): Police; Roses LULLABY First Line: As suddenly as love MARCH SONG First Line: Snow knuckles melted to pearls MENDOCINO MEMORY FOR HARUKO First Line: Half moon %cold and low above the poplar tree Last Line: Or the next %to hide MENU First Line: We got crispy chicken MERRY-GO-AROUND POETRY First Line: For one second there Last Line: Would not subside %or disappear MESSAGE FROM BELFAST FOR JUSTICE AND FOR GERRY ADAMS First Line: At 4 a.M. %I imagine you somewhere safe Last Line: I have lost and found myself %at home MESSAGE FROM BELFAST FOR JUSTICE AND GERRY ADAMS Recitation by Author Subject(s): Adams, Gerry (b. 1948); Belfast, Northern Ireland MID-YEAR REPORT: FOR HARUKO Poem Text First Line: By this time / 20,000 tusti had been slaughtered Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MID-YEAR REPORT: FOR HARUKO First Line: By this time %20,000 tusti had been slaughtered Last Line: Remember what %exactly Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MORNING ON THE MOUNTAINS First Line: The morning on the mountains where the mist Last Line: As sweet as the opening %of your mouth MOVING TOWARDS HOME First Line: I do not wish to speak about the bulldozer and the NEW PIETA: FOR THE MOTHERS AND CHILDREN OF DETROIT First Line: They wait like darkness not becoming stars Last Line: She and her knees lock slowly closed (a burning door) %not to continue as they bled before %he moves NEW YEAR FOR HARUKO First Line: Here comes the dragon Last Line: Here come the shoes NIGHTLINE: SEPTEMBER 20, 1982 First Line: I know it's an unfortunate way to say it, but NO POEM BECAUSE TIME IS NOT A NAME First Line: But beyond the Last Line: This is not %a poem NOBODY RIDING THE ROADS TODAY NOT LOOKING First Line: Not looking now and then I find you here Last Line: Covered my eyes dreaming about music NOTES ON THE PEANUT First Line: Hi there. My name is george NOTES TOWARDS HOME First Line: My born on 99th street uncle when he went to canada NOVEMBER First Line: Given those leaves why should I complain NOVEMBER POEM FOR ALGERIA: 1996 Recitation by Author First Line: I have seen concrete Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OCTOBER SNOWPEA POEM First Line: So as the sun declines below detroit Last Line: Of no pain/no pain %whatsoever OF NIGHTSONG AND FLIGHT First Line: There are things lovely and dangerous still Last Line: Of the world everywhere ON A NEW YEAR'S EVE First Line: Infinity doesn't interest me Last Line: All things are dear %that disappear ON LIFE AFTER LIFE First Line: If you take three or four tulips from a cold ON MY HAPPY/MATRIMONIAL CONDITION First Line: Last time I got married was Last Line: Last time I ever %get %married ON THE LOSS OF ENERGY (AND OTHER THINGS) Poem Text First Line: No more the chicken and the egg come Last Line: And so do I Subject(s): Class Struggle; Racism; Social Commentary; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ON THE REAL WORLD: MEDITATION #1 First Line: 5 shirts ON YOUR LOVE First Line: Beloved where I have been Last Line: A stranger %to myself ONE MINUS ONE MINUS ONE Poem Text First Line: This is a first map of territory Last Line: In this loneliness Subject(s): Family Life; Solitude; Relatives ONESIDED DIALOG First Line: Ok. So she got back the baby Last Line: The problem is nobody wants to steal me or my %house OUGHTA BE A WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Washing the floors to send you to college Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights; Feminism OUGHTA BE A WOMAN First Line: Washing the floors to send you to college Last Line: Too much of a task for any one woman Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights PHOENIX MYSTERY #1 First Line: The thing about fire Last Line: But irreducible among the burning ruins PHOENIX MYSTERY #2 FOR HARUKO First Line: The thing about fire Last Line: And serious (and imperious) %again POEM # 2 FOR INAUGURAL ROSE First Line: Calling you from my kitchen to the one where you cook Last Line: And to surprise %me POEM #1 FOR B.B.L. First Line: 5 months %eighteen days Last Line: So maybe %that's the plan? POEM #3 FOR B.B.L. First Line: Volcanic particles %between the moon and me Last Line: Like a true blue love POEM #4 FOR B.B.L. First Line: At this beach where the water Last Line: Light as the river %light POEM #6 FOR B.B.L. First Line: One room away you sleep or do not wake Last Line: With all my world %at stake POEM #7 FOR B.B.L. First Line: Baby %when you reach out Last Line: I do try to remember %to breathe POEM #9 FOR B.B.L. First Line: I could as soon forget Last Line: (apparently all) %about me POEM ABOUT A NIGHT OUT: MICHAEL: GOOD-BYE FOR AWHILE First Line: There ahd been death there had been fire Last Line: Will you be mi-ine %and %didn't you never %never %sit down! POEM ABOUT HEARTBREAK THAT GO ON AND ON First Line: Bad love last like a big Last Line: And never change itself %into a butterfly POEM ABOUT INTELLIGENCE FOR MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS First Line: A few years back and they told me black Last Line: I do guess %that's genius for you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations POEM ABOUT MY RIGHTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men POEM ABOUT MY RIGHTS First Line: Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear Last Line: My simple and daily and nightly self-determination %may very well cost you your life Subject(s): Homosexuality POEM ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE Poem Text First Line: Tell me something Last Line: You think the accident rate would lower subsequently Subject(s): United States - Race Relations; Racism; African Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Negroes; American Blacks POEM ABOUT PROCESS AND PROGRESS FOR HARUKO First Line: Hey baby you betta Last Line: All the time %real nice POEM ABOUT THE HEAD OF A NEGRO First Line: Up the shaken stairway Last Line: Down into the candle of the blood POEM AFTER RECEIVING VOICEMAIL FROM YOU AFTER (I DON'T EVEN KNOW First Line: Your voice and the weighted Last Line: Meanings %of your call POEM AGAINST THE STATE (OF THINGS): 1975 First Line: Wherever I go (these days Last Line: No more and never again! %amen. %amen POEM AGAINST THE TEMPTATIONS OF AMBIVALENCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Quit? / save? / sign off? / are you sure? Last Line: Are you sure? Subject(s): Ambivalence POEM AT THE END OF THE THIRD YEAR First Line: Free from an earlier debility Last Line: Keeps me %going POEM BECAUSE THE 1996 U.S. POET LAWREATE TOLD THE SAN FRANCISCO First Line: So the man said Last Line: Beautiful, also, are the souls %of my people. POEM FOR A YOUNG POET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Most people search all Last Line: Who talks to me Subject(s): Faces POEM FOR A YOUNG POET First Line: Most people search all Last Line: Standing %in your tears POEM FOR BOB Poem Text First Line: Protected by a .357 / magnum out of sight Last Line: Cheap / no tricks!! Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops POEM FOR DANA First Line: Back in minneapolis I became convinced POEM FOR DERRICK GILBERT First Line: How many indians? Last Line: How many indians left? POEM FOR ETEL ADNAM WHO WRITES: SO WE SHALL SAY First Line: I am alone POEM FOR GUATEMALA First Line: No matter how loudly I call you the sound of your name POEM FOR HARUKO Poem Text First Line: I never thought I’d keep a record of my pain Last Line: Now I do Subject(s): Desire POEM FOR HARUKO First Line: All day I did things fast Last Line: As I could ever hope %to be POEM FOR HARUKO First Line: I never thought I'd keep a record of my pain Last Line: Alone and longing for you %now I do POEM FOR HARUKO 10/29 First Line: Because %it's about my anger Last Line: Near to my eager ears %again POEM FOR JONATHAN First Line: Land cloven by the water POEM FOR JOY DEDICATED TO THE CREEK TRIBE OF NORTH AMERICA First Line: Dreaming colorado where the whole earth rises Last Line: Impossibility? She will POEM FOR MARK First Line: England, I thought, will look like africa Last Line: I knew that one of them %is you POEM FOR MY LOVE Poem Text First Line: How do we come to be here next to each other Last Line: And breathing in the quiet air Subject(s): Love POEM FOR MY LOVE First Line: How do we come to be here next to each other Last Line: And breathing in the quiet air POEM FOR MY PRETTY MAN First Line: The complexity is like your legs Last Line: Kissing %inch by inch POEM FOR NANA Poem Text First Line: What will we do / when there is nobody left / to kill? POEM FOR NANA First Line: What will we do Last Line: You and I %become the river POEM FOR NANA First Line: What will we do %when there is nobody left %to kill? Last Line: God knows I hope he's right Subject(s): African Americans - Women POEM FOR NICARAGUA First Line: So little I could hold the edges POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Last Line: We are the ones we have been waiting for Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM FOR THE POET SARA MILES First Line: Not quite enough starlight lets me write POEM IN MEMORY OF ALAN SCHINDLER, 22 YEARS OLD First Line: Except for the tattoo Last Line: Thank god! %except for the tattoo POEM NUMBER TWO ON BELL'S THEOREM OR THE NEW PHYSICALITY First Line: There is no chance that we will fall apart Last Line: There are no parts POEM OF COMMITMENT Recitation by Author Subject(s): Bilingual Education POEM ON THE DEATH OF PRINCESS DIANA Poem Text First Line: At least she was riding Last Line: About love Subject(s): Diana, Princess Of Wales (1961-1997); Love POEM ON THE QUANTUM MECHANICS OF BREAKFAST WITH HARUKO First Line: Sutter and stockton/one block north of union Last Line: Into the not quite neutral air %between us POEM ON THE ROAD, FOR ALICE WALKER First Line: Once in awhile POEM TO CONTINUE A CONVERSATION First Line: Changing through the day Last Line: Just %face it POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: What about moonlight Last Line: What about the moonlight Subject(s): Night; Moon; Bedtime POEM TOWARDS A FINAL SOLUTION First Line: In a press conference this afternoon the secretary POEM WRITTEN TO THE HEAVY RAIN THROUGH THE TREES First Line: Where are you POEMS FOR BUDDY Poem Text First Line: In that same beginning winter Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness POEMS FOR BUDDY First Line: In that same beginning winter Last Line: With our own %open eyes Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness POOR FORM First Line: That whole way to delphi POSTSCRIPT FOR HARUKO: ON WAR AND PEACE First Line: How still these oak and maple trees stand Last Line: It's like hurricane %in english PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION: PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE Poem Text First Line: I turn to my rand mcnally atlas Last Line: Por la mañanita Subject(s): Language; Social Commentary; Words; Vocabulary PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION: PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE First Line: I turn to my rand mcnally atlas QUEEN ANNE'S LACE First Line: Unseemly as a marvelous an astral renegade Last Line: Arouse alive %a suffering REAGAN ERA POEM IN MEMORY OF SCARLET O'HARA First Line: As god is my witness, so help me god RECEPTION First Line: Doretha wore the short blue lace last night Last Line: A true gut-funky blues to make her really dance RELATIVITY First Line: It's 5 after 4 a.M. And nothing but my own RESOLUTION # 1003 First Line: I will love who loves me Last Line: I will be nobody's fool RICHARD WRIGHT WAS WRONG ROMAN POEM NUMBER FIVE First Line: This is a trip that strangers make Last Line: Whoever you are %whoever I may become ROMAN POEM NUMBER FOURTEEN First Line: Believe it love Last Line: Believe %believe it ROMAN POEM NUMBER NINE First Line: Return is not a way of going forward Last Line: Heart will turn away ROMAN POEM NUMBER TEN First Line: Quarter past midnight and the sea Last Line: Loose and cold %let go ROMAN POEM NUMBER THIRTEEN FOR EDDIE First Line: Only our hearts will argue hard Last Line: Breaks very close to me my love ROMAN POEM NUMBER TWO First Line: Toward the end of twenty minutes ROMANCE IN IRONY First Line: I would risk ticks Last Line: And do not dream and do not sleep ROOTS FOR A.B.T. First Line: There is something wonderful about the limits of a tree RUNAWAY LIL BIT POEM First Line: Sometimes deliza get so crazy she omit SAFE First Line: The tio escondido at night SECOND POEM FROM NICARAGUA LIBRE: WAR ZONE First Line: On the night road from el rama the cows SHOOTING THE DOG Recitation by Author Subject(s): Dogs SHORT TAKES First Line: Somebody works up a sweat Last Line: This spiral spins slow SNOW Subject(s): Homosexuality SOMETHING LIKE A SONNET FOR PHILLIS MIRACLE WHEATLEY Poem Text First Line: Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet Subject(s): African Americans - History; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784); Black Heritage SOMETHING LIKE A SONNET FOR PHILLIS MIRACLE WHEATLEY First Line: Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet Last Line: Your early verse sweetens the fame of our race Subject(s): African Americans - History; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784) SOMETIMES CLARITY COMES IN THE DARK First Line: I turn my body to the side Last Line: Close %to me SONG FOR SOWETO First Line: At the throat of soweto SONG OF SOJOURNER TRUTH First Line: The trolley cars was rollin and the passengers all white Last Line: Talkin all that kinda truth SONG OF THE LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Recitation by Author Subject(s): Food Stamps; Social Commentary SONG OF THE LAW ABIDING CITIZEN First Line: So hot so hot so hot so what SONNET FOR A.B.T. First Line: But one of these wednesdays everything could work Last Line: My love: seen or unseen SPECULATIONS ON THE PRESENT THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE PAST First Line: At 29 %I climbed on a motorcycle Last Line: On my side %of the water STORY FOR TUESDAY First Line: Into the gnat infested twilight of the woods STUDY #1 First Line: Let me be %very Last Line: Lost above your lips (please baby please) STUDY #2 FOR B.B.L. Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: So you're gone Last Line: I need you back Subject(s): Farewell; Parting STUDY #2 FOR B.B.L. First Line: So you're gone Last Line: I need you back! SUNFLOWER SONNET NUMBER ONE First Line: But if I tell you how my heart swings wide Last Line: But don't you be the one to choose me: poor SUNFLOWER SONNET NUMBER TWO First Line: Supposing we could just go on and on as two Last Line: And there are stars, but none of you, to spare TAIKO DOJO MESSAGES FROM HARUKO First Line: No! No! Last Line: No! No! %no! TANKA METAPHORS OR NOT FOR B.B.L. First Line: Rose-tinged waters break Last Line: Love past ache alive at last TANKA TRIO: I First Line: Fallen on the street Last Line: Big change always pass her by TANKA TRIO: II First Line: El campesino Last Line: Darkness cover him with rain TANKA TRIO: III First Line: What I need right now Last Line: Body surf a new wave fast. TEST OF ATLANTA 1979 First Line: What kind of a person would kill black children THE BOMBING OF BAGDAD Poem Text First Line: Began and did not terminate for 42 days Last Line: With the dead Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Bagdad, Iraq; Air Raids; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Operation Desert Storm (1991) THE SNOW Poem Text THE TALKING BACK OF MISS VALENTINE JONES: POEM # ONE Poem Text First Line: Well I wanted to braid my hair Last Line: Your love Subject(s): Love THESE POEMS Poem Text Last Line: Whoever I may become Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THIS IS A POEM ABOUT VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO First Line: In vieques %'the ocean is closed on mondays' Last Line: The point of this movie %is %a pretty rough fuck TO SING A SONG OF PALESTINE First Line: All the natural wonders that don't grow there TORNADO WATCH Poem Text First Line: Thunder / more thunder Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH First Line: Thunder %more thunder Subject(s): Tornadoes TOWARD A CITY THAT SINGS First Line: Into the topaz the crystalline signals Last Line: For your possible %discovery UNCLE BULL-BOY First Line: His brother after dinner Last Line: Soon the bubbles from his glass %were the only bits of charm%which overcame his folded arms UPDATE FOR HARUKO First Line: More than two months since a carousel of misery Last Line: Still I am burning unconditional for you VERSE AFTER LISTENING TO BARTOK PLAY BARTOK A SECOND TIME First Line: Now %and then WAR VERSE Poem Text First Line: Something there is that sure must love a plane Subject(s): War WAR VERSE First Line: Something there is that sure must love a plane Subject(s): War WEDDING First Line: Tyrone married her this afternoon Last Line: Brave enough %but only two WEST COAST EPISODE First Line: Eddie hung a light globe with the best electric Last Line: The world was mostly %dry WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Because it was raining outside the palace Last Line: Because there was no rain in her vicinity Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE Poem Text First Line: Because it was raining outside the palace Subject(s): Loss WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE First Line: Because it was raining outside the palace Last Line: Because there was no rain in her vicinity Subject(s): Loss WHAT WOULD I DO WHITE Poem Text Last Line: That would be enough Subject(s): African American - Women WHAT WOULD I DO WHITE? Last Line: I would do nothing. %that would be enough Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHEN I OR ELSE First Line: When I or else when you Last Line: Yes directed by desire WHO WOULD BE FREE, THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW Poem Text First Line: The cow could not stand up. The deadly river Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHO WOULD BE FREE, THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW First Line: The cow could not stand up. The deadly river Subject(s): Nuclear War YOU CAME WITH SHELLS First Line: You came with shells. And left them Last Line: Will tell about the howling %and the loss |
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