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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MYLES, EILEEN Matches Found: 191 Myles, Eileen Poet's Biography 191 poems available by this author 1980: THE YEAR OF THE OX First Line: I was just in this room Last Line: All %those flowers 1993 First Line: This year is ending Last Line: The last %year of %the day %no, I mean 26-AUG First Line: Couple of honchos Last Line: I've been %here before 40TH STREET Poem Text First Line: I'd like / to say Subject(s): Coffee 43 First Line: Look at this my face in shock Last Line: I miss him, last year A WOMAN LIKE ME Poem Text First Line: Wanna hear something really funny? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ABSOLUTELY EARTH First Line: I like movies because Last Line: Just look at all these %people on my %screen ALONG THE STRAND First Line: When I was a coke-dealer Last Line: Pools in her gorgeous and tangled %black hair AN AMERICAN POEM Poem Text First Line: I was born in boston in Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste ANGEL PUNK First Line: What I really like to do is go home Last Line: And my clean well-lit life ANIMAL SOUNDS First Line: Riding past a green Last Line: This is it right here %loews APRIL First Line: Birds tweeting Last Line: Along the %lowering lights AT A WATERFALL, REYKJAVIK First Line: I still feel like Last Line: I'm holding %out half %to you AT LAST First Line: I always fall in love with tired %women Last Line: Now nothing's %the same Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness ATTITUDE ABOUT POETRY First Line: My attitude about poetry is somewhat Last Line: My words jingle AURORA First Line: I come from a long line of worshippers of strong crazy Last Line: A loving cup of lying there forever %on that train AUTHENTICITY First Line: There's pivotal moments %in bouncing time Last Line: For another %one BLACK LACINGS First Line: Bon ami, the shiftless one, walked grimly across Last Line: Tonight. If the front porch was free BLEEDING HEARTS First Line: Know what Last Line: Where %I was %born BOB DYLAN First Line: I can't taste my pie Last Line: Here is my house BRIEF STORY ABOUT MY FAMILY First Line: Myh father's name was terrence myles Last Line: There is no st. Nancy CHOKE Poem Text First Line: Of all the ways of forgetting Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CHRISTMAS First Line: Susie said morton has an island right between haiti Last Line: Sure, she said. You've been listneing to me CIGARETTES First Line: Emotions are like clothes. As I'm putting mine on Last Line: And then you get toe. Fourteen cigarettes under the faucet CITY First Line: It's narrow Last Line: It is 4 o'clock CONTINUITY First Line: As composed as that graveyard over there Last Line: With their television eyes, beach-feet CORIOLANUS First Line: And I hadn't read any of the plays at all Last Line: Got a c+ on the exam I'm no prodigy CORTEGE First Line: Sometimes when I'm riding down the street with my girlfriend Last Line: And I don't know if I want to continue %to be in this life %on a bike Subject(s): Bicycles CRAZY First Line: As a result of my time Last Line: Being different, faraway DAWN First Line: I feel one tit Last Line: I see me - I see me again DEBATE WITH A GLOVE First Line: John higgins, mry mccluskey Last Line: It called %me home %it said %lucifer DECEMBER 9TH First Line: I have the same %birthday as john Last Line: & die with me DESIRE IS JUST LIKE A PARKING LOT Last Line: Standing in the middle of my parking lot EACH DEFEAT Poem Text First Line: Please! Keep / reading me Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Friendship; Relationships; Death - Animals; Failure EFFIGY First Line: At home Last Line: That lolling %stuck-out %tongue EILEEN'S VISION First Line: One night I was home alone Last Line: & I don't have to %tell anyone EN GARDE First Line: All the hills & the trees Last Line: Guns & %beg for %water EVENING First Line: Supposed to be there at 7 o'clock Last Line: The wind's stroking them EXPLANATION First Line: I have this com0pulsion to live no matter what Last Line: To offer you but stripes of light EXPLODING THE SPRING MYSTIQUE First Line: Good morning, world! Captain eileen here Last Line: Though still breathing, and it is spring FIFTY-THREE Poem Text First Line: I've already had a lot of them Subject(s): Birthdays; Middle Age; Books; Trees; Reading GENEVIEVE First Line: One boring march evening Last Line: Up in this mess GLOVE First Line: I couldn't get over the weather Last Line: She loved, uninvented GOLD First Line: Moon or mouse Last Line: Through a fuzzy %gauze of %april trees GOODBYE First Line: You're supposed %to stay Last Line: But she %put the %difference %on GREECE First Line: This summer Last Line: But in greece I will be sane GREEDY SEASONS First Line: The whole idea of sanity is intriguing GREEK First Line: My identity as a specialist Last Line: And the culture wore on GREEN First Line: This is why it rains today Last Line: Nudging selves from inner chambers GREETINGS First Line: Sad %new england Last Line: Houses, wooden %porches. Mom HOME First Line: We don't live with rats but we look at them all the time Last Line: I think god is death. I really do HOMEBODY First Line: Oh, hello. C'mon in Last Line: But just douse them with lemon juice HONEY BEAR First Line: Billie holiday was on the radio Last Line: I'm staring at the honey bear's face HOW I LOST MY NOTEBOOK First Line: Quietly wishing I Last Line: I attach %this note I ALWAYS PUT MY PUSSY Last Line: So my lover & I %can be safe IMMANENCE First Line: All the doors in my home are open Last Line: I wish they were what I think they are; pure sound IN THE RAIN First Line: Chickens spilling Last Line: Jumping like there's %a war INFINITY MINI First Line: I was taking %pictures %with %looking Last Line: Language, %it doesn't %last long IRONY OF THE LEASH First Line: Life is a plot to make me move Last Line: And my latest poem, the irony of the leash JOAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Today, may 30th, joan Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431) JOAN First Line: Today, may 30th, joan Last Line: A dove leaped right out of her mouth JUMBLE First Line: Let's say it's like this Last Line: You %tonight JUNE-STONES First Line: Can't you feel the - quick Last Line: A string of tiny shiny ones JUST GOD First Line: We know the city Last Line: The day is watchful %all we need KID'S SHOW: 1991 First Line: The tree %smells like %a lollipop Last Line: What %I made %up. Goodbye KURT First Line: The weekend you died was Last Line: Was something we both %loved, this dead guy LA VITA NUOVA First Line: Love is an assumption Last Line: Which I have never %ever considered being LA/DRIVING POEMS #1 Poem Text First Line: This is the emerging Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Automobile Drivers LAST SUPPER First Line: It was wednesday night Last Line: Real toast %is food LATE MARCH First Line: Tons of purple Last Line: Home. No %reason %to cry LEO SAID Poem Text First Line: You've gotta Subject(s): Writing & Writers LIFE First Line: My sense of preservation Last Line: I am god LIMBO First Line: There was a party I was at about 10 years ago Last Line: Everyone loved, mark dumay LOOKING OUT, A SAILOR First Line: The clouds looked made, & perhaps Last Line: Now, & %our truth %is dark LORNA & VICKI First Line: Inside the white house lives the president Last Line: Back in bed and fell asleep MAD PEPPER First Line: I wonder if anything really needs to be revived MADELINE REVENGE First Line: It's such a bust to call this an occupation Last Line: Across sheer ice MAXFIELD PARRISH First Line: Often I turn on people Last Line: & I'm dazzled by your frown MAY 10TH Poem Text First Line: The wall / is bleached ME II First Line: There's tomorrow the next can of dog food Last Line: Higher & sweeter MEDIUM POEM First Line: I was the second of three children Last Line: Sure. And I am always here MEMORIAL First Line: Bette davis just died Last Line: All. Except life. And %bette davis doesn't have %it anymore.We do Subject(s): Davis, Bette (1908-1989) MEOW MIX First Line: Pushed the door open and nobody home Last Line: When my dog will eat %cat food MERK First Line: There's too much light in my life Last Line: & proudly %I walked MILK Poem Text First Line: I flew into new york Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MIRROR IS MY MOTHER First Line: If I'm not in there I'm in here Last Line: In the brush let it pass %never strike MISOGYNY First Line: My new tack will be to hate women Last Line: Amelia. James. Anonymous MOM First Line: The youngness Last Line: I lived %in your %house MOVIE Poem Text First Line: You're like / a little fruit Subject(s): Love MR. TWENTY First Line: Everywhere I look %there's another bottle Last Line: He was everywhere %the sun MR. TWENTY', SELS. First Line: Won't somebody stop %this man. The first thing we learned Last Line: Somehow it fell from %the sky MY CHEAP LIFESTYLE First Line: After a bourbon %I came in turned on the tube Last Line: The woods full of bears MY RAMPANT MUSE, FOR HER First Line: Tuesday night reading for love on Last Line: In her evening beauty MY WAR IS LOVE First Line: I was moved Last Line: We light a lamp %in our eyes NANCY AT 40 First Line: Susan wheeler & the dead sea Last Line: And the walls come tumbling down NEEDLES First Line: I seem to be left with the rest of my life Last Line: Then, before %everything NEW ENGLAND WIND First Line: Remember me this summer Last Line: The sky %to be what %fell NEW POEM First Line: My lover came over my house Last Line: Can have some kind of control, %and it is kind of funny, I %mean dogs aren't blue NEW TRUE BLACKNESS First Line: For once the street was something Last Line: Back of your %travel, holding %you, holding %you in %my sleep NEW YORK First Line: I came here because I Last Line: So dark and so beautiful NEW YORK TULIPS First Line: Ten a group of you Last Line: I find them very beaufiful NO NO First Line: Look I don't know Last Line: In you like a door %that returns NO POEMS First Line: It was %a little %golden Last Line: What I %was just %thinking NO REWRITING First Line: Nobody's going to come in Last Line: Grew inside here NOTICE First Line: The feathery horns of 21 Last Line: The horrible geese ODALISK First Line: A toe points at me Last Line: You make %everything %wake ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT LOWELL First Line: O, I don't give a shit Last Line: Fucking dead ONWARDS UPWARDS & ALWAYS First Line: Nobody could deny no other bad times Last Line: Smiling into cupboards OPEN & THE CLOSE First Line: It's the openness of summer Last Line: On the stone %my pages flutter OSSINING CORRECTIONAL FACILITY First Line: I look in the ashtray and Last Line: I scrambled to the train station and %ate my cheese PEANUT BUTTER Poem Text First Line: I am always hungry Subject(s): Peanut Butter; Sex; Appetite; Conduct Of Life POEM First Line: A woman is ugly Last Line: Uncorked. The night they %went back POEM First Line: It's a new year; you try and stick your keys in the door POEM FOR MY NEW FORTUNES First Line: I wish there were some animals Last Line: Pen that %contains me POEM FOR PATSY Poem Text First Line: The wind shifts Subject(s): Relationships POEM ON THE PROFESSION First Line: Language interests me Last Line: I think we both are looking in %the window POET First Line: I made myself into a poet because it was lthe first thing Last Line: She saw words shooting through POETRY READING First Line: I heard this 'f .. Beautiful' PORN POEMS First Line: Her tongue & Last Line: Of her pussy PTOLEMY First Line: September and the shit in the streets Last Line: To hide %beyond. Beyonder PUBLIC TELEVISION First Line: I'm always scared PV First Line: Some old drunk who'd been Last Line: Are growing before my %eyes RAPE First Line: Next time I have a show Last Line: And a loud rattling drain REGINA COELI First Line: Now when Last Line: To thank %you lady %something %everyone ROAD BUDDY First Line: Fairly new blue jeans %every now &then Last Line: I'm your %biggest pal %of all ROAD WARRIOR First Line: What happens when you Last Line: I'm coming home ROMANTIC PAIN First Line: And in the first bar Last Line: Goddamn dawn, said hart crane ROTTING SYMBOLS Poem Text First Line: Soon I shall take more Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ROTTING SYMBOLS First Line: Soon I shall take more Last Line: & apart from the mold. %you survived RUT First Line: I feel like a baby reading Last Line: New & %holy %song SADNESS OF LEAVING First Line: Everything's %so far away Last Line: And there %can't be %two kings SAILAWAY First Line: Listen %I will chase you to Last Line: Breeze %my uneasy boat SCHOOL OF FISH First Line: Everything's equal now. Blue leash blue bike Last Line: Of lostness, it's like home, it's like family SCRIBNER'S Poem Text First Line: There's a little / more going Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Relationships SEATTLE HARBOR First Line: They call it human Last Line: The world %it's hurling SHHH First Line: I don't think Last Line: I'm surrounded by snow SKUPPY THE SAILOR DOG First Line: I was just thinking about influential books in my life Last Line: Correct course. Storm-free and guided by skuppy, smiling at his dreaming SLAM First Line: I'm so sad my camera doesn't work Last Line: But I forget %thank god Subject(s): Cameras SLEEPLESS First Line: I came in tonight and my building sighed Last Line: I leave you I will %open its legs %with my sword SMILE Poem Text First Line: It's just not as much fun without a good Subject(s): Food & Eating; Friendship; Relationships SNAKES Poem Text First Line: I was 6 and Last Line: From the massachusetts review Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Telephones; Childhood; Relatives SO REALISM First Line: Poem in my pocket Last Line: Never artificial & pretty %like that day SORT OF AN EPIC First Line: I want to worship at Last Line: Grief & going %home SPACELESS First Line: There's no kind of care Last Line: Please. Who %won SPEECH ABOUT ALLEN First Line: Allen was more of a star than a homosexual. His Last Line: State, for forty years, and he said that he was home. %speech originally delivered at planet news, % STORY First Line: About a poet Last Line: I said %I'm vanishing SUBSCRIPTION First Line: Animals forever escaping Last Line: Pulls out of a station in jerez, espana SULLIVAN'S BRAIN First Line: If there's a person in the paintings Last Line: Up the steps %to my abstraction SUNSHINE First Line: In it %I see my favorite Last Line: Hot thought. %kissing %it goes SURPRISE First Line: Hey, you know Last Line: Kept meaning %to tell %you that SWAN PLACE First Line: I am running home fast as hell Last Line: Didn't even know what 'sic' %meant SWEET CHINA First Line: I threw the I ching and Last Line: Keep smoking and smoking SYMPATHY First Line: She's rubbing his shoulder %and he's reading about Last Line: That we will fish again & again %& get lucky TAXING First Line: I hate feeling Last Line: The world %is empty. %there %is no %lamb TELL ME First Line: I can't remember now Last Line: If I live %my lie alone. %unenclosed, %selfish &true TEXAS First Line: I'm nerly crying for it Last Line: And shoot that fucking state to bits THE BEACH Poem Text First Line: Economically, not Subject(s): Waves; Colors THE HONEY BEAR Poem Text First Line: Billie holiday was on the radio Subject(s): Honey; Solitude; Conduct Of Life; Loneliness THEKKADY First Line: We're embarrassed to Last Line: The animals %can come %closer %now THIS EVENING First Line: Intense restlessness Last Line: Not the sky and sparkling %stars. Hello %hello THREE WISHES First Line: The tree shadow Last Line: Its beauty %is almost %gone TILL DEATH DO US PART First Line: Was filled by rd laing Last Line: No, books & pricks TITLED First Line: As I am poor Last Line: I like the gorgeousness of new TO THE CLASS OF '92 First Line: You all look great Last Line: Everywhere you go in the world TO THE MAIDEN OF CHOICE First Line: Too lmany systems colliding Last Line: To know some %women and %come home TONIGHT First Line: Just for the fuck of it Last Line: In the light in the woods %tonight TRIAL BALLOON First Line: Annie sprinkle rolled Last Line: Sleep, especially names TROUBADOR First Line: I sing this Last Line: & so is %the sky TRUE NORTH First Line: I want to be Last Line: I am something %warm (a figure) %melting snow TUESDAY BRIGHTNESS First Line: We had a fight so Last Line: Go around again TWILIGHT TRAIN Poem Text First Line: Now the pink is in the water Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TWILIGHT TRAIN First Line: Now the pink is in the water Last Line: I think 'time.' %then 'cargo.' UNLEASHED First Line: Candida took me to fiorucci on friday Last Line: Barbara, she's here, the fiorucci woman - barbara, barbara VERSION OF COMPLAINT First Line: For the past two weeks I've been bleeding Last Line: What will I hang my teeth on WALLPAPER BANKRUPTCY SALE First Line: It doesn't help Last Line: Lights %are going %out WARRIOR First Line: Sensation of the supermarket Last Line: It's very very powerful WATERFALL Poem Text First Line: Poetry has often been described Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WATERFALL First Line: Poetry has often been described Last Line: By in %my eye Subject(s): Poetry And Poets WATERFALL First Line: I miss whiskey Last Line: I came to pray WE THE LIVING First Line: As my platform I suggest Last Line: My black %black cunt WEAVING First Line: Her hand juts up, a claw Last Line: In a mission %but love WELSH POETRY First Line: Mainly it's the shape of the hills as the old soldier laments Last Line: The year is latening, hush, hear the dogs again WHAX 'N WAYNE First Line: The stars were glowing tonight Last Line: Are the most beautiful and I will always love you WHITE ORCHIDS First Line: What kind of Last Line: Cleverly %intersected %later in %new york WILLIAM DAWES Poem Text First Line: Faint tinkling down the street Subject(s): Dawes, William (1745-1799) WINDSOR TRAIL First Line: Pines at attention Last Line: It doesn't %mean it %didn't %happen WOMAN LIKE ME First Line: Wanna hear something really funny? Last Line: Blam - the place where it always starts Subject(s): Homosexuality WOO First Line: Out in a bus stop Last Line: No woman %is like any %other WOODS Last Line: In a moment %it passed WORST SEAT IN THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Everybody / wants to Subject(s): Brainard, Joe (1942) YELLOW TULIPS First Line: I was walking along the sidewalk Last Line: Like wednesday, you %beautiful things |
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