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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: KIZER, CAROLYN Matches Found: 145 Kizer, Carolyn Poet's Biography 140 poems available by this author A LONG LINE OF DOCTORS Poem Text First Line: Mother, picked for jury duty, managed to get through Last Line: She knows him indispensable. Like voltaire. Subject(s): Dentists; Guilt; Mothers; Trials; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism A MONTH IN SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism A MUSE Poem Text First Line: The baby was wakened from her afternoon nap today by a fierce Last Line: I wrote the poems for her. I still do. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Discontent; Mothers & Daughters; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Dissatisfaction; Feminism A MUSE OF WATER Poem Text First Line: We who must act as handmaidens Last Line: Is water deep enough to drown. Subject(s): Literary Form; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Sea; Water; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Ocean; Feminism A POET'S HOUSEHOLD Poem Text Recitation First Line: The stout poet tiptoes Last Line: Is chanting words to himself. Subject(s): Family Life; Poetry & Poets; Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963); Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Feminism A SONG FOR MURIEL Poem Text First Line: No one explains me because Last Line: To see how they get it wrong. Subject(s): Death; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Feminism A WIDOW IN WINTERTIME Poem Text First Line: Last night a baby gargled in the throes Last Line: Or waken in a caterwaul of dying. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self-consciousness; Widows & Widowers; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism AFTER BASHO Poem Text First Line: Tentatively, you Last Line: Pallid, famous moon. Subject(s): Moon; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism AFTER BAUDELAIRE First Line: Sometimes I am bored in america Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Feminism AFTER BAUDELAIRE First Line: Sometimes I am bored in america Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights AFTERNOON HAPPINESS Poem Text First Line: At a party I spy a handsome psychiatrist Last Line: There is only this useless happiness as gift. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Poetry & Poets; Psychiatry; Women; Women's Rights; Joy; Delight; Psychiatrists; Feminism AFTERTHOUGHTS OF DONNA ELVIRA Poem Text First Line: You, after all, were good Last Line: Or else we have never been born. Subject(s): Love; Praise; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism AMUSING OUR DAUGHTERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: We don't lack people here on the northern coast Last Line: Sending our messages over the mountains and waters. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Daughters; Death; Guests; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Visiting; Feminism AN AMERICAN BEAUTY; FOR ANN LONDON Poem Text First Line: As you described your mastectomy in calm detail Last Line: Your last wedding day. Subject(s): Biography; Death; Friendship; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Dead, The; Feminism ANNIVERSARIES: CLAREMONT AVENUE, FROM 1945 Poem Text First Line: I'm sitting on a bench at one hundred and fifteenth Last Line: No place to go. Subject(s): Chinese Language; Death; Grief; Memory; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Educators; Professors; Feminism ANTIQUE FATHER First Line: There is something Last Line: If you ever knew Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Secrets; Silence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ARTHUR'S PARTY Poem Text First Line: I came with some trepidation to your vernissage Last Line: Fingered you young, as we played in our garage. Subject(s): Children; Poetry & Poets; Success; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism BIRTHDAY POEM FOR A CHILDLESS MAN Poem Text First Line: This is the birthday of your death Last Line: You make a birthday of my death. Subject(s): Birth; Childlessness; Death; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Feminism BITCH Poem Text First Line: Now, when he and I meet, after all these years Last Line: "saying, ""good-bye! Good-bye! Nice to have seen you again." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ill-tempered; Language; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism BY THE RIVERSIDE Poem Text First Line: Once I lived at a riverside Last Line: Only to me. The numbers have not changed. Subject(s): Native Americans; Telephone Directories; Women; Women's Rights; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Feminism CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: What good are children anyhow? Last Line: "the way they call him, ""baby." Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Cynicism; Discontent; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Dissatisfaction; Parenthood; Feminism COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE Poem Text First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision." Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 2. THE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: I am god's pillar, caught in raising Last Line: "I lift and I listen. I eat god's peace." Subject(s): God; Mothers; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 3. THE LOVER Poem Text First Line: I am your pillar that has fallen Last Line: And ache, and ache for that lost limb forever. Subject(s): Rape; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism COMPLEX AUTUMNAL Poem Text First Line: I let the smoke out of the windows Last Line: With the sound of the fall in the air. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Women; Women's Rights; Fall; Feminism CRIME AND PUNISHMENT First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights; Movies; Cinema; Feminism CRIME AND PUNISHMENT First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and Last Line: A lousy move, he remarked. Then, his arm gently guided by wife %nancy, he cut the cake Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights CULTURAL EVOLUTION; AFTER POPE Poem Text First Line: When from his cave, young mao in his youthful mind Last Line: Marx and confucius turned out much the same. Subject(s): China; Communism; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism CUPID AND VENUS Poem Text First Line: From bar to bar, from curb to curb I run Last Line: As the kid, her blind pimp, eggs me on. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women; Women's Rights; Eros; Feminism DANGEROUS GAMES Poem Text First Line: I fly a black kite on a long string Last Line: Trembling on an aphid-riddled leaf. Subject(s): Games; Kites; Women; Women's Rights; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism DAYS OF 1986 Poem Text First Line: He was believed by his peers to be an important poet Last Line: And rejoice at the inner voice, so lofty and pure. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism DIXIT INSIPIENS Poem Text First Line: At first, it was only a trickle Last Line: If only disbelief was more like faith. Subject(s): Atheism; Religion; Science; Spirituality; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Scientists; Feminism DREAM OF A LARGE LADY Poem Text First Line: The large lady laboriously climbs Last Line: Painted by the sun against the sky. Subject(s): Guns; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ELECTION DAY, 1984 Poem Text First Line: Did you ever see someone coldcock a blind nun? Last Line: If evil could be safer, on the whole. Subject(s): Elections; Evil; Ignorance; Politics & Government; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)); Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Dullness; Stupdity; Feminism ELEUTHERIA Poem Text First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism EPITHALAMION Poem Text First Line: You left me gasping on the shore Last Line: A milky flank, a drowned, reviving face. Subject(s): Marriage; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean; Feminism EXODUS Poem Text First Line: We are coming down the pike Last Line: As you come down the pike? Subject(s): Hiking; Walking; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FEARFUL WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Arms and the girl I sing -- o rare Last Line: It's not from you we learned to be magnanimous. Subject(s): History; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Feminism FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism FINAL MEETING; FOR JAMES WRIGHT First Line: Old friend, I dressed in my very best Last Line: Banked in the gutters with old snow. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Dead, The; Parting; Feminism FOOD OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: I'm going to murder you with love Last Line: And you'll begin to die again. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Gluttony; Love; Men; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOR JAN AS THE END DRAWS NEAR Poem Text First Line: We never believed in safety Last Line: The present is this poem, o my dear. Subject(s): Aging; California; Friendship; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOR JAN, IN BAR MARIA Poem Text First Line: Though it's true we were young girls when we met Last Line: They call us janna and carolina, those two mad straniere. Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Friendship; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOR MY DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: It was lingering summer Last Line: I thank your star, and you. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Feminism FOR SAPPHO / AFTER SAPPHO First Line: And you sang eloquently Last Line: For this moment only Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Feminism FROM AN ARTIST'S HOUSE Poem Text First Line: A bundle of twigs Last Line: On twenty sheets of paper. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Houses; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism GERDA Poem Text First Line: Down the long curving walk you trudge to the street Last Line: Gerda, come back, to nurse your desolate child. Subject(s): Abandonment; Caregivers; Children; Household Employees; Women; Women's Rights; Desertion; Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism HALATION Poem Text First Line: My dear, you moved so rapidly through my life Last Line: Scored by the years, focused last, and free. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Paintings & Painters; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism HEART'S LIMBO Poem Text First Line: I thrust my heart, in danger of decay Last Line: Give me your heart to hold. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism HERA, HUNG FROM THE SKY First Line: I hang by my heels from the sky Last Line: I dangle, drowned in fire. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Women's Rights; Convicts; Feminism HIDING OUR LOVE Poem Text First Line: Never believe I leave you Last Line: Hiding our aromatic, vulnerable love. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love; Secrets; Women; Women's Rights; Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.); Feminism HORSEBACK Poem Text First Line: Never afraid of those huge creatures Last Line: I just wanted to tell you about it, ray. Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Horseback Riding; Sports; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism HOW IT PASSES Poem Text First Line: Tomorrow I'll begin to cook like mother Last Line: It won't go away. Subject(s): Aging; Creative Ability; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Parenthood; Feminism HSUEH T'AO (768-831): SPRING-GAZING SONG First Line: Blossoms crowd the branches, too beautiful to endure Last Line: One morning soon, my tears will mist the mirror. %I see the future, and I will not see Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights HSUEH T'AO (768-831): SPRING-GAZING SONG, 2 First Line: We cannot glow as one when petals open Last Line: A secret time of opening and closing: %blossoms that separately bloom and die as one Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights HSUEH T'AO (768-831): WEAVING LOVE-KNOTS, 2 Poem Text First Line: Two hearts: two blades of grass I braid together Last Line: My fingers plait the same grasses, over and over Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Love – Absebce Of; Feminism HSUEH T'AO (768-831): WEAVING LOVE-KNOTS, 2 First Line: Two hearts: two blades of grass I braid together Last Line: But spring hums everywhere: the nesting birds %are stammering out their sympathy for me Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights HSUEH T'AO (768-831): WEAVING LOVE-KNOTS,1 Poem Text First Line: Daily the wind-flowers age, and so do I Last Line: My fingers plait the same grasses, over and over Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Aging; Feminism IN HELL WITH VIRG AND DAN: CANTO 17 Poem Text First Line: Yo, dan, just give a look at this repulsive creature Last Line: And, man, when it unloads, it's outta there, like gone. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Translating & Interpreting; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Vergil; Feminism IN THE FIRST STANZA Poem Text First Line: First, I tell you who I am Last Line: I tell you who I am. Subject(s): Identity; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism IN THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: There are spirit presences Last Line: And sense the mist rising. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism INDEX, A MOUNTAIN; PART OF THE CASCADE RANGE, WASHINGTON STATE First Line: Early one day a mountain uprose, all cased in silver Last Line: Serve as god's tombstone. Have no green mercy on us. Subject(s): Cascade Range; Fingers; Lumber & Lumbering; Travel; Washington (state); Women; Women's Rights; Woodsmen; Journeys; Trips; Feminism INGATHERING Poem Text First Line: The poets are going home now Last Line: The patient earth that is waiting to receive you. Subject(s): Homecoming; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); War; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism JILL'S TOES Poem Text First Line: When you were born / on each pink foot Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Feminism JILL'S TOES First Line: When you were born %on each pink foot Last Line: So much for uniformity %that cannot be imposed Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights LINES TO ACCOMPANY FLOWERS FOR EVE Poem Text First Line: The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea Last Line: Though once we lay and waited for a death. Subject(s): Cities; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Flowers; Hospitals; Women; Women's Rights; Urban Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Feminism LINKED VERSES Poem Text First Line: Read a thousand books! Last Line: "who will need us when we die?" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism LOVE SONG; FOR RUTHVEN TODD Poem Text First Line: Oh, to fall easily, easily, easily in love Last Line: And easily, love, easily to rest. Subject(s): Love; Promiscuity; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism LOVEMUSIC Poem Text First Line: Come, freighted heart, within this port Last Line: Will fructify a bleaker time. Subject(s): Love; Seduction; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism MARRIAGE SONG; WITH COMMENTARY Poem Text First Line: We begin with the osprey who cries, 'clang, clang!' Last Line: "snow-breasted, and transfixed in abstract love." Subject(s): Birds; China; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MEDICINE Poem Text First Line: The practice of medicine / is not what it was Last Line: You're going to live. Subject(s): Grandparents; Medicine; Past; Women; Women's Rights; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Drugs, Prescription; Feminism MEDICINE 2; FOR JOHN MURRAY Poem Text First Line: When the nurses, interns, doctors came running full tilt down the hall Last Line: But that was his job: to just stand there and watch her die. Subject(s): Duty; Euthanasia; Hospitals; Physicians; Women; Women's Rights; Doctors; Feminism MUD SOUP Poem Text Recitation First Line: Had the ham bone, had the lentils Last Line: Not like isle of innisfree. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Cookery; Feminism MY GOOD FATHER Poem Text First Line: Pierone's inc. / riverside and post - spokane, washington 99201 Last Line: Carolyn Subject(s): Biography; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Virtue; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism NIGHT SOUNDS Poem Text Recitation First Line: The moonlight on my bed keeps me awake Last Line: A child with the moon on his face, a dog's hollow cadence. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love - Complaints; Night; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Bedtime; Loneliness; Feminism NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things. Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism OCTOBER, 1973 Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamed I ran through the streets of new york Last Line: Brother? Brother? Subject(s): Chile; Dreams; Social Problems; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Nightmares; Feminism ON A LINE FROM JULIAN Poem Text First Line: I have a number and my name is dumb Last Line: Such a barbarian have I become! Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ON A LINE FROM SOPHOCLES Poem Text First Line: I see you cruel, you find me less than fair Last Line: Time, time, my friend, makes havoc everywhere. Subject(s): Enemies; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Time; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ON A LINE FROM VALERY Poem Text First Line: The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares Last Line: The gulf war Variant Title(s): Gulf War Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Literary Form; Valery, Paul (1871-1945); War; Women; Women's Rights; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Feminism ON RISING FROM THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Saturday noon: the morning of the mind Last Line: With dionysus, singing from the cross! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Morning; Religion; Resurrection, The; Waking; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Feminism ONE TO NOTHING Poem Text First Line: The bibulous eagle behind me at the ball game: Last Line: Shucks a'mighty. If you're an eagle, you just go. Subject(s): Baseball; Birds; Eagles; Sports; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism PARENTS' PANTOUM; FOR MAXINE KUMIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Where did these enormous children come from Last Line: We offspring of our enormous children. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism PEARL Poem Text First Line: Every thursday pearl arrived in her old model a Last Line: I was your murdered child. Subject(s): Household Employees; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism PERSEPHONE PAUSES Poem Text First Line: The lengthened shadow of my hand Last Line: But cast it. Summertime, good-night! Subject(s): Desire; Hades; Persephone; Pomegranates; Women; Women's Rights; Proserpine; Proserpina; Feminism PLAINT OF THE POET IN AN IGNORANT AGE Poem Text First Line: I would I had a flower-boy! Last Line: "the no-bird that sings in the no-name tree?" Subject(s): Household Employees; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism POEM FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY; FOR BARBARA THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: This year both our birthdays end in zero Last Line: The password at the boundary is friend. Subject(s): Birthdays; Friendship; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism POEM, SMALL AND DELIBLE Poem Text First Line: We have been picketing woolworth's Last Line: Picketing woolworth's. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India; Social Protest; Racism; Women; Women's Rights; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Feminism POSTCARDS FROM ROTTERDAM Poem Text First Line: Came such a long way Last Line: Carolyn. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism PRO FEMINA: FOUR. FANNY Poem Text First Line: At samoa, hardly unpacked, I commenced planting Last Line: Never again succumb to the fever of planting. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Mothers; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism PRO FEMINA: ONE Poem Text First Line: From sappho to myself, consider the fate of women Last Line: Flux, efflorescence -- whatever you care to call it! Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism; History; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Male-female Relations; Feminism PRO FEMINA: THREE Poem Text First Line: I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket Last Line: And the luck of our husbands and lovers, who keep free women. Subject(s): Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Progress; Women; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations; Feminism PRO FEMINA: TWO Poem Text First Line: I take as my theme 'the independent women' Last Line: Springing, full-grown, from your own head, athena? Subject(s): Independence; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism PROMISING AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: Driving on the road to stinson beach Last Line: Who wept for mercy as you died. Subject(s): Disappointment; Driving & Drivers; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism RACE RELATIONS Poem Text First Line: I sang in the sun Last Line: Of the breakers of stone Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Race Awareness; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism READING YOUR POEMS IN YOUR HOUSE WHILE YOU ARE AWAY First Line: This morning my first roadrunner Last Line: And give them back, like moonlight. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism REUNION Poem Text First Line: For more than thirty years we hadn't met Last Line: Grateful, my dear, that I escaped from you. Subject(s): Disappointment; Reunions; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Educators; Professors; Feminism RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME Poem Text First Line: Most people from idaho are crazed rednecks Last Line: Lives to curse your blessed plaster bleeding heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Discontent; Idaho; Insanity; Montana; Washington (state); West (u.s.); Women; Women's Rights; Dissatisfaction; Madness; Mental Illness; Southwest; Pacific States; Feminism SEASON OF LOVERS AND ASSASSINS Poem Text First Line: Safe from the wild storms off cape hatteras Last Line: The slow assassination of the years. Subject(s): Assassination; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SECOND TIME AROUND Poem Text First Line: You're entangled with someone more famous than you Last Line: Comes tiptoeing into your study with a nice cup of coffee. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism SEMELE RECYCLED Poem Text First Line: After you left me forever Last Line: Its birth and rebirth and decay. Subject(s): Bodies; Reunions; Semele (mythology); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SHALIMAR GARDENS Poem Text First Line: In the garden of earth a square of water Last Line: To die again, into the living stone. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism SINGING ALOUD First Line: We all have our faults. Mine is trying to write poems Last Line: Or they'll lock us up like the apes, and control us forever. Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD Poem Text First Line: Within, walls white as canvas stretched to stain Last Line: As I try to keep us, here upon this page. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; San Francisco; Villages; Wharves; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Piers; Feminism SUMMER NEAR THE RIVER Poem Text First Line: I have carried my pillow to the windowsill Last Line: It seems, for a moment, the river ceases flowing. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fidelity; Love - Complaints; Women; Women's Rights; Faithfulness; Constancy; Feminism SUPPRESSING THE EVIDENCE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Alaska oil spill, I edit you out Last Line: I must hold in my mind one small dead otter pup. Subject(s): Alaska; Escapes; Industrial Accidents; Petroleum; Women; Women's Rights; Fugitives; Oil; Feminism THE APOSTATE Poem Text First Line: I, hypocrite harry, that hamburg hand-kisser Last Line: Bless the poet, heinrich, as he blesses you. Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Hypocrisy; Jews; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Judaism; Feminism THE ASHES; FOR WILLIAM GASS Poem Text First Line: This elderly poet, unpublished for five decades Last Line: Her name known to everyone, safe in her fame. Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Honor; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE COPULATING GODS Poem Text First Line: Brushing back the curls from your famous brow Last Line: They will concoct a scripture explaining this. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE DEATH OF A PUBLIC SERVANT; IN MEMORIAM, HERBERT NORMAN Poem Text First Line: This is a day when good men die from windows Last Line: Take these to your shade: of rage, of grief, of love. Subject(s): Defamation; Mccarthyism; Suicide; Women; Women's Rights; Slander; Libel; Feminism THE GIFT Poem Text First Line: Gift of another day! Last Line: Let us rest, hold, stay. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE GLASS Poem Text First Line: Your body tolls the hour Last Line: By one touch you put out time. Subject(s): Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE GOOD AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: Contrary to the views Last Line: To any word you say. Subject(s): Games; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism THE GREAT BLUE HERON Poem Text First Line: As I wandered on the beach Last Line: My mother would drift away. Subject(s): Death; Herons; Mothers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism THE INTRUDER Poem Text First Line: My mother - preferring the strange to the tame Last Line: She washed and washed the pity from her hands. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Violence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE ORATION; AFTER CAVAFY Poem Text First Line: The boldest thing I ever did was to save a savior Last Line: It was the speech of my life. Subject(s): Life; Speech; Women; Women's Rights; Oratory; Orators; Feminism THE PATIENT LOVERS Poem Text First Line: Love is an illness still to be Last Line: That we are ill, of being well. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sickness; Women; Women's Rights; Illness; Feminism THE SILENT MAN Poem Text First Line: In your first book of poems, printed Last Line: But you are silent. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Silence; Tragedy; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE SKEIN Poem Text Recitation First Line: Moonlight through my gauze curtains Last Line: So I memorize these lines, without salutation, without close. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Moon; Poetry & Poets; Window Treatments; Women; Women's Rights; Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.); Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes; Feminism THE SUBURBANS Poem Text First Line: Forgetting sounds that we no longer hear Last Line: Our limited salvation is the word. Subject(s): Conformity; Poetry & Poets; Self-consciousness; Suburbs; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE UNGRATEFUL GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Midas watched the golden crust Last Line: "nature is evil,"" midas said." Subject(s): Environment; Gold; Midas; Women; Women's Rights; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Feminism THE VALLEY OF THE FALLEN Poem Text First Line: My new friend, maisie, who works where I work Last Line: Fodor's spain, 1984 Subject(s): Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE WARS IN SWEDEN First Line: The streets of stockholm are churning with guerrillas Last Line: Being the conscience of the white race isn't much fun. Subject(s): Social Protest; Sweden; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE WAY WE WRITE LETTERS Poem Text First Line: We must lie long in the weeds Last Line: From the meadow. Turn on the poem & the light. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips; Feminism THEY SHALL NOT PASS First Line: Above me, the sky is all atlantic Last Line: Into the motionless sea Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THRALL Poem Text First Line: The room is sparsely furnished Last Line: So you may write this poem. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THROUGH A GLASS EYE, LIGHTLY Poem Text First Line: In the laboratory waiting room Last Line: In the empty eye. Subject(s): Children; Eyes; Vanity; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism TO A VISITING POET IN A COLLEGE DORMITORY Poem Text First Line: Here tame boys fly down the long light of halls Last Line: To father men and poems in your mind. Subject(s): Men; Poetry & Poets; Universities & Colleges; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism TO AN UNKNOWN POET Poem Text First Line: I haven't the heart to say Last Line: In this bastion of culture. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Estrangement; Outcasts; Feminism TRIO Poem Text First Line: Some say sorrow fades Last Line: And a third, who had no song. Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Happiness; Women; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Feminism TWELVE O'CLOCK Poem Text First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second World War TWO POETS BY THE LAKE Poem Text First Line: Here lakeshore modulated to a cove Last Line: The balked need urgent in your words, and mine. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Writing & Writers; Pools; Ponds; Feminism TYING ONE ON IN VIENNA First Line: I have been, faithfully, to the thirty-nine birthplaces of beethoven Last Line: Hooray for purple and gold, for liquor and angels! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Christianity; Poetry & Poets; Vienna; Women; Women's Rights; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Feminism UNION OF WOMEN Poem Text First Line: At a literary gathering in santa monica Last Line: So here's to solidarity, cinquains, brave bearded ladies -- hooray! Subject(s): Beards; Hotels; Labor Unions; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Feminism VOYAGER Poem Text First Line: Digging my claws in sand, I crawled ashore Last Line: And know no more than he what victory was. Subject(s): Despair; Heroism; Homecoming; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Feminism WHAT THE BONES KNOW Poem Text First Line: Remembering the past Last Line: I do not waste my breath. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Self-consciousness; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Feminism WHAT WAS IN A NAME Poem Text First Line: Thomas love peacock! Thomas love peacock! Last Line: I hail the three-in-one, the one-in-three. Subject(s): Names; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE Poem Text First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam. Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism WINTER SONG Poem Text First Line: So I go on, tediously on and on... Last Line: Who made the days and years seem worth enduring. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Loss; Love; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism WOMAN POET First Line: It's not easy - washing out poems Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights Kizer. Carolyn Poet's Biography 5 poems available by this author A CHILD'S GUIDE TO CENTRAL OHIO Poem Text First Line: When you peer between the white bars of your pen Last Line: Its name is freedom. To reach it, there's no guide but you Subject(s): Children; Childhood AFTER HORACE Poem Text First Line: Spare me the roman wars, and those Last Line: She won't accept your kiss; she'll steal it! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Flirtation FANNY Poem Text First Line: At samoa, hardly unpacked, I commenced planting Last Line: Never again succumb to the fever of planting Subject(s): Social Commentary; Gardening And Gardens; Samoa THE EROTIC PHILOSOPHERS Poem Text First Line: It’s a spring morning; sun pours in the window Last Line: Let me enter my chamber and sing my songs of love Subject(s): Books & Reading; Women's Rights; Innocence; Love - Erotic; Feminism THWARTED First Line: Twarted, old friend! We have been baulked again Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation |
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