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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MERRIAM, EVE Matches Found: 135 Merriam, Eve Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva 135 poems available by this author A LAZY THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: There go the grownups Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A.W.O.L. Poem Text First Line: When justice, not sweet charity, confers on all Subject(s): Conduct Of Life ABOVE ALL GREAT AND PUBLIC GRIEF Poem Text First Line: You know how you will turn abruptly from the lilacs and cry? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ABSTRACTION Poem Text First Line: What rabbit leaps from that trick top-hat Subject(s): Rabbits; White (color); Hares ADVICE FROM A VISITING POET First Line: Always read a poem twice: %once for the words Last Line: Move down deeper %into the glowing dark ALLIGATOR ON THE ESCALATOR First Line: Through the revolving door Last Line: And not to wait up for me!' ASK YOUR GROCER TOMORROW FOR THIS GLAMOROUS PRODUCT Poem Text First Line: Up the successlip rail from zero Subject(s): Con Artists AWAY, YOUR TOUCH IS EVERYWHERE Last Line: To lie alone in our double home %a salesman in a rented room Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of BANANA, BANANA First Line: Banana, banana, banana, banana Last Line: Let's go climb a marshmallow tree BATH TIME First Line: Soap in the tub Last Line: Gurgle %urgle %gug BELLA HAD A NEW UMBRELLA Poem Text Subject(s): Umbrellas; Rain BERRIES ON THE BUSHES Poem Text Subject(s): Plants BERRIES ON THE BUSHES Last Line: It's blackberry ink Subject(s): Desserts BIRD, BIRD, BIRD First Line: Bird, bird, bird %in the sweet gum tree Last Line: La lee la, %or lee la lee BIRTHDAY COW First Line: Happy mooday to you Last Line: Happy mooday to you Subject(s): Animals BLACKOUT Poem Text First Line: Siren taps out the loud tattooing cane Subject(s): Blackouts BLOCK PARTY First Line: On the corner, right angular, facing the park Last Line: My neighborhood block unbossed, replanned %with doors, windows, and the whole world opening wide? BROTHER Poem Text First Line: First bike and doll Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers CAT'S TONGUE Poem Text Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S TONGUE Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATCH A LITTLE RHYME Poem Text First Line: Once upon a time Subject(s): Rhyme CATCH A LITTLE RHYME First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: Then it grew into a kite %and flew far out of sight Subject(s): Rhyme CITY TRAFFIC Poem Text First Line: Green as a seedling the one lane shines Last Line: Shift, settle, then gather and sow Subject(s): City Traffic CITY TRAFFIC First Line: Green as a seedling the one lane shines Last Line: Shift, settle, then gather and sow Subject(s): City Traffic COUNTING First Line: One for the rooster Last Line: I love the best CRICK! CRACK! First Line: Crick! Crack! %wind at my back Last Line: One mitten to lose Subject(s): Wind DANCE First Line: Dance out of bed Last Line: And don't forget to sing DEATH OF GEOGRAPHY First Line: In the beginning was the word geography DITTY FOR THE DEPARTING TROOPS Poem Text First Line: Keep you eye fixed normally on woe Subject(s): War; Soldiers DOWNPOUR First Line: In a spot -- in a spat Last Line: Drip drop drip drop ESTHER First Line: Jhad crashed the right part of town Last Line: Shining skin FANTASIA Poem Text First Line: I dream / of / giving birth Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood FANTASIA First Line: I dream %of %giving birth Last Line: Who will ask %'mother, %what was war?' Subject(s): Children; Mothers FERTILE VALLEY OF THE NILE First Line: In ancient egypt Last Line: Upon the bony scruff of your departing neck Subject(s): Egypt FIFTH AVENUE AT NOON First Line: And the sun outpouring like a crowd FLYING First Line: When you fly in a plane FOR A SOLDIER'S BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: The weather is war Subject(s): War; Soldiers; Birthdays FUNERAL SERVICE Poem Text First Line: As we poor outnumber the rich, so evil days to good Subject(s): Funerals; Poverty; Burials FURNITURE Poem Text First Line: I, cleverer than chair Subject(s): Mortality FURNITURE First Line: I, cleverer than chair GOOSEBERRY Last Line: Gooseberry, %juice berry, %loose berry jam HAPPY DREAMS First Line: I have a box Last Line: Its own happy dreams HIGGLE WIGGLE First Line: Higgle wiggle piggy Last Line: Higgle never catch me HOLD First Line: The breathing machine halted Last Line: Your hand %that does not let me go HOME FROM THE BEACH First Line: Take off your left shoe and shake it out Last Line: And look in your sun hat: %sand HOME TOWN Poem Text First Line: Where are the evil broomstick and the narrow pointed hat Subject(s): Home; Schools; Students HOW DO YOU KNOW? Poem Text First Line: It is simple, look: statue is huge in the hall Subject(s): Knowledge HOW DO YOU MAKE A PIZZA GROW? Poem Text Subject(s): Pizza HOW DO YOU MAKE A PIZZA GROW? Last Line: Pizza pizza make it grow Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Pizza HOW TO BE ANGRY First Line: Scrunch your eyebrows Last Line: And huff huff huff HOW TO EAT A POEM First Line: Don't be polite Last Line: Or pit %or seed %or skin %to throw away I ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Do not believe tithonus wished to go Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The I ANONYMOUS First Line: Do not believe tithonus wished to go I WANT MY BREAKFAST Last Line: And enough maple syrup %to make a giant mess Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Pancakes IMAGINE YOURSELF Poem Text First Line: Imagine yourself the fairly affluent tourist Subject(s): Tourists; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes IN THE DOGHOUSE First Line: It's nice and small Last Line: Don't snore in my face IN THE KITCHEN First Line: Pepper makes me sneeze Last Line: I'm going to bake %a shoofly pie INSIDE A POEM Poem Text First Line: It doesn't always have to rhyme Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INSIDE A POEM First Line: It doesn't always have to rhyme Last Line: While the vowels open wide as waves in the noon- %blue sea Subject(s): Poetry And Poets IS IT ROBIN O'CLOCK? Poem Text Last Line: Do we still have to wait? Subject(s): Time IS IT ROBIN O'CLOCK? Last Line: Is it half-past snowflake? %do we still have to wait? Subject(s): Spring IS IT ROBIN O'CLOCK? Last Line: Do we still have to wait? Subject(s): Imagination IT FELL IN THE CITY JEW Poem Text First Line: Babies have no special history Subject(s): Anti-semitism JOAN, JOAN First Line: Joan, joan %answer the phone Last Line: Joan, joan, %answer the phone KEYS First Line: Turn, turn %turn about Last Line: Clink clank clunk keys. %keys. %keys. %keys KNOWLEDGE First Line: It was summer night when we knew everything LAP TIME First Line: Kitten, little kitten Last Line: Now fold in your paws %and purr, purr, purr LAZY THOUGHT First Line: There go the grownups Last Line: Of slow %to grow Subject(s): Cities LIBRARY Poem Text First Line: Time clock to the moral prim-mouth female Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians LIBRARY NOTE First Line: Dictionary needs redoing LOVE LETTERS, UNMAILED First Line: Your hand %brushes my hair Last Line: Your palm %against %my cheek, %light as %a snowflake LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Purple, / purple. / purple Subject(s): Purple (color) LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Good night; sweet dreams; the morfgage is asleep Subject(s): Money LULLABY First Line: Purple, %purple Last Line: Dusky, %musky %into night MASHED POTATOES First Line: Mashed potatoes, %mashed potatoes, %piled up high Last Line: Scoop it all up %with a giant's spoon MEMO TO MYSELF Poem Text First Line: Tell me: / is everything else Subject(s): Self MENU First Line: My mommy goes for veggies Last Line: And see how sweet I am Subject(s): Desserts MMMMMM MMMMMMM Last Line: What a delicious %time for a nose MORNING OR MIDNIGHT, THE SAME HOUR Poem Text Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MOVIE STAR IN THE PROJECTION ROOM Poem Text First Line: Her clothes lean forward in the chair Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses OCTOBER-MIDST Poem Text First Line: The mornings careless, sun-sprawled, radical with light Subject(s): Conduct Of Life OF DOGS AND OSTRICHES First Line: Speaking as one jew to another Last Line: The most refined of burials ONE, TWO, THREE - GOUGH! First Line: To make some bread you must have dough Last Line: But you can often call their blough ONOMATOPEIA First Line: The rusty spigot PARKING LOT FULL Poem Text First Line: A much of motors Last Line: A total of exhausts Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Automobiles PARKING LOT FULL First Line: A much of motors Subject(s): Machinery And Machinists PECULIAR Poem Text First Line: I once knew a boy who was odd as could be Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating PECULIAR First Line: I once knew a boy who was odd as could be Last Line: And he didn't like hamburgers or french fries Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating PEELING AN ORANGE Poem Text First Line: Tearing the skin carelessly Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets PEELING AN ORANGE First Line: Tearing the skin carelessly Last Line: The smell %invading the fog Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry And Poets POEM FOR THE SEVENTH DAY Poem Text First Line: Propel no more. Leave off the oars Subject(s): Boats REPLY TO THE QUESTION: HOW CAN YOU BECOME A POET? First Line: Take the leaf of a tree Last Line: Then in winter %where there is no leaf %invent one ROBIN HOOD First Line: Has returned %to sherwood forest Last Line: Sherburger franchises SATISFACTION HAIKU First Line: In high school he was the smart one Last Line: Starred in basketball, got all the girls. %now look, he is balder than I am SAY First Line: You say crow %and I'll say caw Last Line: Whooo whooo %hoo hooo %hooo SECRET First Line: Open the door %with this key Last Line: Don't tell anyone, %not even me SECRET TALK Poem Text First Line: I have a friend Subject(s): Friendship SECRET TALK First Line: I have a friend Subject(s): Friendship SERPENT'S HISS First Line: Sliding over stones Last Line: Ancient synonym for %sibylline %mystery Subject(s): Animals SIDEWALK SOUNDS First Line: What's that %clip-clop Last Line: Sneakers, %sneakers, %shush, shush, sh SILENCE First Line: Quiet, %so quiet Last Line: Snow is a poem %without any words SKIP ROPE RHYME FOR OUR TIME First Line: Junk mail, junk mail %look look look Last Line: My name is dear occupant %and yours is the same SNUGGLE First Line: Sweet bunny baby Last Line: For my baby bear SOMETIMES First Line: Pokey turtles %oh so slow Last Line: Slow...Slow...Slow SOUTH PACIFIC Poem Text First Line: Least enemy is the foe Subject(s): World War Ii; Islands Of The Pacific; Second World War; Oceania STRAY CAT First Line: It's just an old alley cat Last Line: Beauty, come in Subject(s): Animals; Cities SUBWAY SEASONING First Line: On the final bleak day of february SUMMER HEAT Poem Text First Line: Give over to the sun Subject(s): Heat; Summer SUMMER RAIN First Line: A shower, a sprinkle TAKE A LOOK First Line: Look out the window Last Line: I've closed my eyes TEEVEE First Line: In the house %of mr. And mrs. Spouse Last Line: And so they never did find out THE BIRTHDAY COW Poem Text First Line: Happy mooday to you Last Line: Happy mooday to you Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Cows THE CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS RISES GREATLY IN TIME OF WAR Poem Text First Line: Pure as the oyser's pure incest Subject(s): War; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists THE COWARD Poem Text First Line: You, weeping wide atg war, weep with me now Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Cowardice; War THE DEMOCRATIC DIME Poem Text First Line: This perfect hospital to every ill Subject(s): Hospitals THE DUSTY YOUNG MEN Poem Text First Line: The dusty young men move out with combat pack Subject(s): Soldiersl War; Death; Dead, The THE ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: Suddenly in the subway Subject(s): Subways THE STRAY CAT Poem Text First Line: It's just an old alley cat Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Urban Life THE WORD Poem Text First Line: Word: one-man vaudeville show THINK TANK Poem Text First Line: Think thinktank think Subject(s): Computers; Machinery & Machinists THINK TANK First Line: Think thinktank think Subject(s): Computers; Machinery And Machinists TICKLE First Line: Tickle a ladybug Last Line: Ah ha ha ha please UMBILICAL Poem Text First Line: You can take away my mother Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Radio UMBILICAL First Line: You can take away my mother Last Line: That sound that sound that sound that sownd Subject(s): Machinery And Machinists; Radio VEGETABLE LIFE First Line: The artichoke %is the tortoise of vegetables Last Line: I came in thirty-fourth. %hooray!' VIPER Poem Text First Line: Viper, viper Subject(s): Animals VIPER First Line: Viper, viper Last Line: Darting poison with a snaky smile Subject(s): Animals WALL First Line: Scratch a jew and you'll find a wailing wall Last Line: Stirring in safety, smiling at being a jew WEATHER Poem Text First Line: Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot Subject(s): Umbrellas; Rain WEATHER First Line: Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot WHAT IS IT? First Line: It has no teeth Last Line: And watch how it grows WHICH WASHINGTON? First Line: There are many washingtons Last Line: Though all of them were george WINDSHIELD WIPER First Line: Fog smog fog smog Last Line: Clearing clearing veer %clear here clear WONDERFUL WHALE First Line: Too immense for imagination, just big enough for boredom Last Line: Or fretting to be out |
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