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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: OPPENHEIMER, JOEL Matches Found: 358 Oppenheimer, Joel Poet's Biography 358 poems available by this author #NAME? First Line: Aesthetic %ascetic %athletic Last Line: O %no %ma %to %poetic 17-18 APRIL, 1961, SELS. First Line: Remember, america %eugene debs said he would not Last Line: Other force you dream of america protect %me from my own heaven or hell 2/2/1976 First Line: This day wet storm %moving fast from the south Last Line: Six weeks or no %it is enought %as always 23-MAR First Line: Art, zat strain %means a daft Last Line: And his dada manifesto 3-APR-72 First Line: According to the an- %archist calendar on Last Line: Quite correct to print %this significant date 3/20/1972 First Line: At 7:22 this %am my five %year old was Last Line: Of the courtyard %out my window ACTS First Line: My son and I %walk out Last Line: In some previous wars ADORNMENT OF BODY POEM First Line: Once, younger, with %a woman I loved, I Last Line: Both of us much aroused AFTER A POEM First Line: I don't know if death %is an admiral in full dress Last Line: To recognize so I can %fall before or flee ANARCHISTS First Line: Alexander erkman %shot the wealthy mr frich Last Line: Day after day after day after day ANIMALS First Line: The young goat %tethered on the far Last Line: Make it looking %at that goat %the empty doghouse ANNIVERSARY OF ONE DEATH THE DATE OF ANOTHER, 7/22 First Line: Thirty-eight years ago to %day she put the finger on Last Line: In the middle of america ANSWER NOT GIVEN First Line: You worry about which clothes Last Line: But then I did not understand AROMAS First Line: It stinks in %this bathroom Last Line: Which itself was honest also AT FIFTY: A POEM: 1 First Line: Necessarily %the goddess is %unattainable Last Line: The evidence is in %the sounds AT FIFTY: A POEM: 1 First Line: You smell good she %said like in eighth grade Last Line: And the skunks %how to take that AT FIFTY: A POEM: 1 First Line: Xeng-li the name %means success the sex Last Line: It is hard to find compatible pandas AT FIFTY: A POEM: 1 First Line: Bewildered in %the morning heat Last Line: Still it leads %to another AT FIFTY: A POEM: 10 First Line: One would-be customer Last Line: The wrong room and was beaten AT FIFTY: A POEM: 10 First Line: Some women having let Last Line: When that was not the point AT FIFTY: A POEM: 10 First Line: The leader of the basques Last Line: Is what we have all been fighting for AT FIFTY: A POEM: 10 First Line: Ciba-geigy corp %glens falls Last Line: Unbroken to the sea %thalassa! Thalassa! AT FIFTY: A POEM: 11 First Line: Were you really %a model once Last Line: I was featured %in a movie AT FIFTY: A POEM: 11 First Line: A postcard from nice Last Line: And he ought to know AT FIFTY: A POEM: 11 First Line: Surely in buffalo %there's one bar Last Line: Just a bar to talk AT FIFTY: A POEM: 11 First Line: You can write anything Last Line: And to listen yourself %and still applaud AT FIFTY: A POEM: 12 First Line: A fool always a fool %for young women Last Line: They have this hang-up see %about older men AT FIFTY: A POEM: 12 First Line: Have stick will %travel says Last Line: Un incumbered here %in new york AT FIFTY: A POEM: 12 First Line: Eleven years ago %I stopped making love Last Line: And the team won the pennant AT FIFTY: A POEM: 12 First Line: Or to arrive at a place Last Line: And to wake there alone AT FIFTY: A POEM: 13 First Line: She was perfect still Last Line: Quickly %perfect %she undressed AT FIFTY: A POEM: 13 First Line: It is two days since Last Line: The lady who didn't %answer her phone AT FIFTY: A POEM: 13 First Line: And here's your checklist Last Line: Most stores open sunday AT FIFTY: A POEM: 13 First Line: Brewing plant compounds %in the kitchen Last Line: The experiments %are complete AT FIFTY: A POEM: 14 First Line: At last I understand Last Line: At last I %understand this AT FIFTY: A POEM: 14 First Line: Three years later %live cigar in my hand Last Line: Would you please %get out of my way AT FIFTY: A POEM: 14 First Line: Each day %is one day gone Last Line: Understand this %you are not fifty AT FIFTY: A POEM: 14 First Line: Mao sd Last Line: There is no %occident AT FIFTY: A POEM: 15 First Line: Cleanliness is next %to godliness especially Last Line: Whoever has my blue genes %please return them AT FIFTY: A POEM: 15 First Line: Aphrodite %she says last night Last Line: The more rules and regulations %the more thieves and robbers AT FIFTY: A POEM: 15 First Line: Devil kissed me %saw cathedral Last Line: But in plan %not real AT FIFTY: A POEM: 15 First Line: Others have said it %and I repeat I repeat Last Line: On as a disease just because they make us suffer AT FIFTY: A POEM: 2 First Line: Written: %I felt desire %but wanted love Last Line: To another: yes and yes and yes AT FIFTY: A POEM: 2 First Line: Rain %breasts %new pink dress Last Line: Imagine april in your letter AT FIFTY: A POEM: 2 First Line: To you I was always an enemy Last Line: And they to us of course AT FIFTY: A POEM: 2 First Line: In albuquerque %they want bridges Last Line: Of primitive cottonwoods %the last stand AT FIFTY: A POEM: 3 First Line: Waking middle night %walking the hall Last Line: And was desirable and formed %my image of a woman AT FIFTY: A POEM: 3 First Line: Strange winter with %spring before Last Line: And get the arm %back in shape AT FIFTY: A POEM: 3 First Line: Despite my %own labors Last Line: Triumph again %of nature %over art AT FIFTY: A POEM: 3 First Line: Seeing the woman %corner of bleecker and bank Last Line: Left her smiling swedish AT FIFTY: A POEM: 4 First Line: The blouse was %sequined it %caught the hand Last Line: Right or perhaps %it is only nipples AT FIFTY: A POEM: 4 First Line: In the seat %of a car Last Line: What were we %dreaming of AT FIFTY: A POEM: 4 First Line: Seeking seeking a new discipline Last Line: But they'll never discover that AT FIFTY: A POEM: 4 First Line: Amenophis iii %akhenaten %smenkhkare Last Line: He was a bad mother fucker AT FIFTY: A POEM: 5 First Line: I did ask if %you'd marry me Last Line: You are unincumbered %so marry me AT FIFTY: A POEM: 5 First Line: Spent the night %talking who is Last Line: Both desiring both %waiting for it yet AT FIFTY: A POEM: 5 First Line: Weeds are a purely %arbitrary designation Last Line: Well salute it the %gi's used to say AT FIFTY: A POEM: 5 First Line: The topic sentence says %by any rational calculation Last Line: Since man began %to eat himself AT FIFTY: A POEM: 6 First Line: Oh rachel %your %wide shoulders Last Line: Blouse fell from %your back AT FIFTY: A POEM: 6 First Line: We open like flowers Last Line: Why the rose has thorns AT FIFTY: A POEM: 6 First Line: Seven-thirty in the morning Last Line: Are no stables that way AT FIFTY: A POEM: 6 First Line: He rings the bell %for his friend Last Line: At another end of the city AT FIFTY: A POEM: 7 First Line: Not only beautiful %but also willing in addition Last Line: As you and also %did not know me AT FIFTY: A POEM: 7 First Line: Trying to explain %to a blonde who lives Last Line: Of beauty on this earth AT FIFTY: A POEM: 7 First Line: The vegetarian piranha %live on fruits and seeds Last Line: You're bound to decrease the catch AT FIFTY: A POEM: 7 First Line: Wrestled to the ground %like jacob or the angel Last Line: Breakfast in the peace %that passeth understanding AT FIFTY: A POEM: 8 First Line: A lot of body hair %has gone Last Line: Hundreds of them %all these years AT FIFTY: A POEM: 8 First Line: At my age she said I Last Line: I said let it %serve notice AT FIFTY: A POEM: 8 First Line: They set up headquarters Last Line: Are shown on the airstrip AT FIFTY: A POEM: 8 First Line: Teachers dissatisfied %world fertility in Last Line: Are those lights %on the moon AT FIFTY: A POEM: 9 First Line: The heat rises Last Line: In us also AT FIFTY: A POEM: 9 First Line: Summers are Last Line: Full of love %for us AT FIFTY: A POEM: 9 First Line: The soviets have opened war Last Line: To moslem holy warriors AT FIFTY: A POEM: 9 First Line: Belltower's computer %tells seasons Last Line: I see orion %high in night sky AUTUMN First Line: The weather %moving Last Line: All I know %the body %the poem AUTUMN First Line: This morning %dew wets the toes Last Line: This chill morning %it is morning BATH First Line: He will insist on %reading things into her simplest act BATSHEBE SEEN First Line: Oh summer and a summer love %and I king Last Line: Showed herself again to us BEGINNING First Line: We are here %in this place Last Line: Where we meet the %ships with our cargo BENEDICTION First Line: Creator spirit: %bless this beginning Last Line: To make this beginning %more than beginning BILLIE'S BLUES First Line: I can't get %started easy livin' Last Line: God bless the child %miss brown %to you BIRTHRIGHT First Line: There is a corollary %in astrology that tells us Last Line: Where we were born so far BLUE FUNK First Line: I wish all the %mandragora grew BREAST POEM First Line: Holy mother now I %understand your nine Last Line: Ever be able to dance %before them also? BRIDGE First Line: It's wooden %I thought there were no nails in it Last Line: Or maybe I've got %my own murk to cross BRONXUS First Line: People around here all Last Line: Mother might have said BROTHER POEM First Line: What do you know %of each other Last Line: No need for us ever BUS TRIP First Line: Images of j - - assail him CACTI First Line: Love comes CACTI First Line: Love comes %once a month %these days Last Line: Those who cannot accept %another way %to live CAMILLE OLDER First Line: Everything I have learned CAMILLE OLDER First Line: Everything I have learned %is scratched into me Last Line: Thinking of waking alone there %without friends CELEBRATING THE PEACE First Line: If you celebrate the end %of a war you are celebrating %the war Last Line: Do not celebrate the end of war %nobody wins CHANGES First Line: Those days %a slow cleansing %went on with him Last Line: Perhaps soon he will %begin to learn to pray CHAOS First Line: Chaos is where %we come from %form we reach Last Line: While we wait %to fall back %to grow again CHARM First Line: This is a charm for entering the tower Last Line: The storm building up even with a clear blue sky CHILD First Line: Not to be able %to touch one's Last Line: Touch from her %I did not CHILD POEM First Line: Mother, heat of %early summer, smoke Last Line: You he screamed at, %frightened by your look? CHRISTMAS CARD First Line: We are caught %caught, swung, spun Last Line: Sun starts growing %that far spring CHURCH First Line: A giant panda the %chinese sold you out Last Line: Only life violated %either one of you CITIES THIS CITY First Line: The things they always complain of Last Line: For whatever it is that only people can feed each other CLOTHES POEM First Line: Lady why is it when %I sat down to write Last Line: Possibility that %we came to work COMMENTARY First Line: Sun penetrating young woman's blouse, outlining breast Last Line: Nor journals publish for everyone's enlightenment CORRESPONDENTS First Line: Dear sir I %wld like to see Last Line: You could start a %series of thoughts COUNTRY ALBA First Line: Every morning %we sit over coffee Last Line: No words soar %peck about %these pages CREDO First Line: Ducks on the pond %april fool and Last Line: Foolish ducks %we have faith %each year CULTURAL OPPRESSION First Line: Spring: the old %man watching young Last Line: You will be turned %into a pig DEATH First Line: Nat fourteen said %she had a philosophy Last Line: And no %bears will get %drunk DEATH POEM First Line: Often men die in the %positions in which they Last Line: Walk on, is it %our mother's business? DEBT First Line: It's not accurate DEBT First Line: It's not accurate %for me to say Last Line: Which hold the line %together in my life DEFINITION POEM First Line: The goddess is %mother daughter Last Line: She says where %do I put these? DIFFICULT GRACE First Line: That there is food, where? Last Line: Is all the food we need DIRTY PICTURES POEM First Line: When I asked you how %you could pose naked for Last Line: Telephone, instead %of my mouth DISCOVERY First Line: In the silence of %this morning snow Last Line: Chattering so %to each other %and to me DISCOVERY POEM First Line: Lady, sister, lover, mother Last Line: Is secondary, what is first DOING IT First Line: Isn't it beautiful %the act of printing Last Line: We go on doing both %we clean up %we do this DREAM First Line: Diana goddess DREAM First Line: Diana goddess %moon sister mistress Last Line: With this dream %then I will be free %myself DREAM MOTHER POEM First Line: As I was sleeping %mother I saw your Last Line: This is not a good %dream mother DREAM POEM First Line: Girl of my %dreams I love you Last Line: Am afraid. What %else is new? DULL BURNT First Line: That dull burnt orange the air has Last Line: In new england when the autumn comes E. P. 1885-1972 First Line: For a long while you %were owned by everyone Last Line: You and only %the poets own you ELEPHANT BLUES First Line: I slipped in the mud, %lord, and fell over on my side Last Line: Those seven pretty womens %gettin close again EVENING First Line: One frog %in the neighbor's pond Last Line: The tree toads %keep on singing EVERY TIME WONDERING First Line: It is twenty years almost since Last Line: The matter, this is what we talk of FAMILY'S PASSOVER GRACES First Line: In the desert again %as always %as always lost Last Line: And the hope %that it could be enough FANTASY POEM First Line: Thinking of all the %instruments that have Last Line: Do you suppose we %will know in heaven! FATHER POEM Poem Text First Line: I have fathered / four sons, they surround Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood FATHER POEM First Line: I have fathered %four sons, they surround Last Line: The fathers of daughters %cannot say this Subject(s): Parents FEBRUARY First Line: Everybody hates %this cold month Last Line: And yours ugly groundhog %and lovers %and mine FEEDING First Line: When she fed the %child, he fought back FIRST POEM FOR MY LAST SON First Line: For six months %he babbled in tongues Last Line: And the air in you around you good FIRST SONG AT SAINT ANDREWS First Line: Redbud tree %megenta %hard-edged %in the sun Last Line: To use up %a year's allotment %of magenta FIVE ATTEMPTS AT THE ARMENIAN: FOR HASMIK First Line: When these days aren't any more Last Line: Like wind, detached from myths FIVE ATTEMPTS AT THE ARMENIAN: TARGET SHOOTING First Line: Aim straight at the bull's eye Last Line: And you will be a marksman FIVE ATTEMPTS AT THE ARMENIAN: THE OWL First Line: In the grey night, again, the endless row Last Line: When some sharp eye wakes in my darkened head FIVE ATTEMPTS AT THE ARMENIAN: WE WERE WALKING First Line: We walked in the fields Last Line: She smelled of violets %and fresh sweat FLITCH OF DUNMOW First Line: A flitch or gammon of bacon Last Line: And bacon in your belly %as reward for it FLOWERS First Line: On that table %among the cacti Last Line: Into the vase %into water FOOTPRINTS OF MAN-LIKE CREATURES FOUND First Line: Stopping to look FOOTPRINTS OF MAN-LIKE CREATURES FOUND First Line: Stopping to look %off to the left Last Line: Walking along %singing a song %side by side FOR A PAINTER BEYOND HAZARDVILLE First Line: Driving back from your house Last Line: When poems and paintings stop FOR BASIL BUNTING First Line: Now you are gone too %the last and most hidden Last Line: He has earned it in %your service muse %indeed FOR CHARLES REZNIKOF: 1894-1976 First Line: Outside the spring is here Last Line: Every spring he saw we see still FOR DANIELLE First Line: Although gesell would say %doesn't he always Last Line: Supposed to worry about %so I bought it FOR DANIELLE First Line: Although gesell would say FOR DAVID Poem Text First Line: Eyes wide, we Last Line: If we come to deserve it Subject(s): Children FOR DAVID AND JEANIE First Line: In this same way %we stood together Last Line: Love feeds us %in this ceremony FOR HALLEY'S COMET First Line: As yet there might be wonder Last Line: Oh keep us safe this year FOR HAN YO AFTER ALMOST 1200 YEARS First Line: People say ...' FOR HAN YU AFTER ALMOST 1200 YEARS First Line: People say %when your teeth go Last Line: We're incorrigible %we'll do anything FOR HOYT WILHELM Poem Text First Line: The ball dances in Subject(s): Sports FOR HOYT WILHELM First Line: The ball dances in Subject(s): Sports FOR HOYT WILHELM First Line: The ball dances in %no steam no smoke no Last Line: It's the right stuff %even if it does look funny FOR JAMES LAUGHLIN First Line: Big man but %we didn't know Last Line: Too grew big big man %so thank you FOR JEFF AND LISA First Line: It's love it's %love it's love love Last Line: Yes %love love love love %it is love love FOR JOHN DOBBS, 1972 First Line: Because you have the %hands and eyes and Last Line: Stabs, the attempt %to find voice FOR LOUIS ZUKKOFSKY 1904-1978 First Line: When you tell the truth FOR LOUIS ZUKOFSKY 1904-1978 First Line: When you tell the truth Last Line: And that we paid too little attention FOR MAX First Line: Phones and trucks %all the trappings Last Line: And gone now %from all of this FOR NICK AND SHARON First Line: To honor love %we stand here Last Line: And was right %we flower so FOR PETE HAMILL, HIS 50TH First Line: These days everybody %used to be those days Last Line: I keep sipping at %and will, lad, and will FOR ROBERT AND ANNE First Line: Amor vicit unumquemque %solus was my chosen motto Last Line: And so we are made whole at last FOR THE ANNUAL READING First Line: The cherry trees %finally abloom Last Line: Our flag, we move %ahead, into it all FOR THE INAUGURATION OF WILLIAM R O'CONNELL, JR First Line: There is a magic %to the robes Last Line: And let beginnings %flower always FOR THE O-YANKS First Line: This green square FOR THE O-YANKS 27 AUGUST 1979 First Line: This green square %tilted on end Last Line: In this defined %and timeless space FOR THE WEDDING OF SUZANNE SYLVESTER First Line: Be %rich %in %all %necessities Last Line: Drinking %in %new %graces FOR THOSE, THERE First Line: That wide space %which is maine Last Line: They call me %to that wide space FOR THOSE, THERE First Line: That wide space FOR TOM BLACKBURN First Line: Metaphor is all FOR TOM BLACKBURN First Line: Metaphor is all %and all Last Line: And still have selves %and have the world FOR WILLIE SUTTON First Line: Willie you went %where the money was Last Line: Not knowing %the time they owe FOR WILLIE WUTTON First Line: Willie you went FOSTER MOTHER First Line: The name jumped up %from the obituaries Last Line: And she lived to be %ninety-eight years old FOUND SON POEM First Line: If I am thunder %and I have married Last Line: And I am often %lost in them, mother FOUR FATHERS First Line: The first of whom FOUR FATHERS First Line: The first of whom %is clouded is Last Line: Each has a different picture %folded in your heart GARDEN First Line: I have taken %to buying flowers Last Line: Where flowers never were GENERATIONS First Line: ...Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy Last Line: Your young men shall see visions GETTIN' THERE First Line: Twenty years ago I %knew about love. Now Last Line: Sunset. Then I %will know about love GHOST LOVER First Line: Real %the image %won't disappear Last Line: My lover's round breast %fills my hand GHOSTS First Line: In error %human error %the honey Last Line: Even in the stars %as in our homes GIVE ME MY EYES First Line: Give me my hands %and I'll get colored lights for you Last Line: And the arches of this church will touch the sky GRACE First Line: Over the river %through the trees Last Line: She has set a table %before us GRACE First Line: We ask grace %our earthly heaven Last Line: Our %selves our souls grace GRANITE First Line: We can trace the word granite Last Line: I do not spoil man or earth GRANT US First Line: The story of a forty GRANT US First Line: The story of a forty- %three going on forty Last Line: Deal of money if not %time and also effort GREENS First Line: To have, get, or give one's greens - to enjoy, procure, or confer Last Line: Bed, and so forth - suggested thereby GROWING First Line: Six days into %the eleventh year Last Line: No one believes %it or should GRYLLIDAE ACHENE First Line: City poets grow used %to roaches sharing Last Line: With us while la cucaracha %inherits the earth HARDBOILED MYSTERY First Line: Dashiell hammett and maybe HARDBOILED MYSTERY First Line: Dashiell hammett and maybe %raymond chandler too I am Last Line: In which nothing gets solved or comes clean HOUSES First Line: Eighteen years ago HOUSES First Line: Eighteen years ago %I left your house Last Line: I now do know %and will remember HUNTER First Line: In the sky, and %dog too Last Line: Strain at heel %spring comes soon HURRICANE First Line: They are building %the dunes higher Last Line: Could fend off %you hurricano you HYACINTHUS First Line: Hi, a %shy cunt, hunt Last Line: Uh, I shy, can't IF THERE WAS SENSE First Line: To get there you would Last Line: Give them give them give them IN NEW HAMPSHIRE First Line: The earth moved %this morning Last Line: We trembled with it IN THE SCIENCE MUSEUM First Line: We moved from exhibit to exhibit Last Line: In this new england's days and summer nights INCANTATION First Line: To be intoned by creeley's graduate students Last Line: He hears me not %he hears me INNOCENT BREASTS First Line: The innocence of her %breasts Last Line: Breasts hung innocent %in the morning light Subject(s): Breasts JANE ST POEM First Line: As I %walked along %the street in Last Line: And I want to tell you JOE FLAHERTY First Line: All that night you %wrestled in our minds Last Line: It's lonely now joe %here without you LADY First Line: In the dream %she comes to me clothed Last Line: She is smaller plainer %the dream is still strong LADY OF MADNESS First Line: I did not know what %madness truly was until Last Line: Watched her body freeze %and thaw. She was mad LAERTES SPEAKS First Line: I have had to stay here at home alone Last Line: And make this ithaca my own place so LANDSCAPE First Line: The japanese crabapples %announce autumn Last Line: They stand yellow %and beyond winter LATE WINTER POEM First Line: Dying a slow death %dying small deaths Last Line: Inch and keep on %living. We who live LEGEND First Line: A cairn is LEGEND First Line: A cairn is %a marker of rocks Last Line: There may be %another ahead LESBIAN POEM First Line: In the dream you %sat by her as I Last Line: Disappear, give %me back my wife LESSON First Line: I swear that %this morning %nathaniel said Last Line: No matter how %I stretch %and set %my head LESSONS I First Line: The war was over LESSONS II First Line: The point isn't LESSONS: 1 First Line: The war was over %they found helen in Last Line: And led her in safety back to the ships LESSONS: 2 First Line: The point isn't %that he fought that war Last Line: Paris why him why her %where did I %go wrong LETTER TO PHILIP First Line: Can I any longer address you dear phil Last Line: Writing checks and poems LETTERS FROM MC First Line: And it was thirty-six years %that face grabbed me Last Line: In words and flesh %and mind's eye %and I thank you LIE POEM First Line: There are poems I %will not show you Last Line: Them to you %in the light. Truth LIFE First Line: I wish %there were rules %to give you Last Line: Your first day %at work %out there LIFE STUDIES First Line: The outer surface of %the thigh Last Line: And we kept watching from the bookstore LIFE STUDIES First Line: The outer surface of LITTLE BOYS POEM First Line: Does the mother smile watching Last Line: Man has never learned this LONG BLUES First Line: My father gave me land %my mother gave me money Last Line: Honey if you get it %don't let it go LOST SON POEM First Line: My son the terrors I did not %describe to you because I Last Line: Will make it, while the %terrors fade. Peace LOVE BIT First Line: The colors we depend on are %red for raspberry jam, white Last Line: No, and sometimes in the afternoon Subject(s): Colors LOVER First Line: Every time %the same way Last Line: Plum tree. If you %were a peach tree LOVESONG First Line: It would be different %those browned thighs Last Line: The looks the looks %it would be different MAKING A VALENTINE First Line: The heart is covered with %fatty tissue Last Line: See if %her heart responds. %then, move up and down MAN AND BOY First Line: I was born %came out of my mother Last Line: We could meet %to talk %it over MAN OBSERVED THROUGH THE KITCHEN WINDOW First Line: It is monday morning MAN OBSERVED THROUGH THE KITCHEN WINDOW First Line: Beginning the portrait %it is monday morning Last Line: Bless the food we eat %at beginnings. We begin MARE NOSTRUM First Line: A bosom of %green buds MEAT POEM First Line: We all know it, the %meat of the beloved Last Line: Meat, I cry aloud, %mother do not forsake me MEDITATIONS First Line: Why should I be embarrassed Last Line: Who dances before me MIRROR POEM First Line: Women I love and %watch these days walking Last Line: Blind me, stop %me cold as stone MODERNIST First Line: He said MODERNIST First Line: He said %study greek %and latin Last Line: Then he stopped %coming to class MONOSYLLABLE POEM First Line: Holy mother she was %sitting on the couch Last Line: Madre soledad, lonely %mother. I wanted into it MOTHER First Line: I saw her sex %naked, pouched Last Line: Seeing it %naked and hairless MOTHER POEM First Line: The first cries were %pain Last Line: Only think that will %comfort him at all MOTHER PRAYER First Line: This child, this %child, this child, this Last Line: Mother you have %love enough do we MOTHER PRAYER First Line: Mother you take %the good and Last Line: Our hearts, we %join you too soon MOVING OUT First Line: Because I was afraid %I hid from her. I turned Last Line: Will. Holy mothers %protect me as I walk on MUSE POEM First Line: Now she has shown %up at you house Last Line: Why else would we sing? NAKED POEM First Line: You are so naked I %cannot touch you Last Line: My muse, my turner- %to-stone, my beloved NAKED POEM: 2 First Line: Women naked, men %clothed is an Last Line: Are living in houses, %nothing ever changes NATHANIEL'S VALENTINE First Line: Very beautiful picture for NATHANIEL'S VALENTINE First Line: Very beautiful picture for %my mom Last Line: To form a page in this book NATURAL ORDER POEM First Line: The spring king is %crazy and dying Last Line: We who must die salute you NEW HAMPSHIRE JOURNAL First Line: Alone in bed %I hear a Last Line: We will stop %we will stop all NEW LINE First Line: Talking to mary %telling her Last Line: Keep on talking about NEW YEAR First Line: Signs and portents %omens %bodings Last Line: And the year is two days old NEWS First Line: Mengele lived very well Last Line: And he told me about...Life' NIGHT AND DAY First Line: The man in the NIGHT AND DAY First Line: The man in the %picture looks down Last Line: Send the photo anyway %inscribed NINE TO FIVE First Line: Still they ask for poems Last Line: They keep getting married %life goes on OLD DAVID First Line: I found a father %he went mad Last Line: The rest are one face %and I am cold OLD MAN POEM First Line: In the movie the %old man goes to Last Line: My service when young. %this is my asking OLDER MAN THINKING OF KORE First Line: The song rises OLDER MAN THINKING OF KORE First Line: The song rises %the skin shiny Last Line: I am ready - %hi-yo! %she approaches! OLDEST First Line: Mother %war stone %teeth bit Last Line: Loving him %same mystery %we share that ONE DAY AT A TIME First Line: He said that thursday said ONE DAY AT A TIME First Line: He said that thursday said %it would be friday's friend Last Line: We finally touch each other %is that night's friend ONLY LESTER HAMP POEM First Line: Bushnell hamp's %cousin lester Last Line: That woman has %got an extra %va ganzer PAEAN, PREMATURELY, FOR THE PHILIPPINES First Line: Sometimes despite all we know Last Line: So we may sing at all PARANOIA POEM: 1 First Line: I am afraid of them Last Line: Holy mother cannot find it PETER'S SUITE First Line: Of the mind %which to pursue thought Last Line: I do not think %he is alone PLATES First Line: Short-tailed birds fly %from stars to sun's disc Last Line: Light is equally given %and we are humbled PLUS CA CHANGE First Line: My darling %I wanted %to tell you Last Line: I was %searching %for words POEM BASED ON STASIS First Line: Sends a letter scrawled wants %co-ordinates for fulde gap Last Line: Has the %was begun %or is it stasis? POEM FOR THE NEW YEAR First Line: I shower carefully, scrubbing Last Line: To the next growing out POEM IN DEFENSE OF CHILDREN First Line: Liberty to be defended on %foreign shores Last Line: That is our one inheritance, %or crawl, and cry, and kill Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRAYER POEM First Line: Holy mother of the %perfect tits. Holy Last Line: Mother gives and %mother takes away PRAYER POEM: 2 First Line: Mother gives and %mother takes away Last Line: The service begins %again. Give me strength PROGRESSION First Line: All I know PROGRESSION First Line: All I know %the body %the poem Last Line: Touching ground %as we keep moving QUATRAIN First Line: Now they have cut a life from each of us Last Line: So the fullness of our bodies took the knife QUESTION POEM First Line: Suppose holy mother questioning %you in my innocent Last Line: Tell me, it is no %longer in my power to know QUESTIONS FOR THE MOTHER First Line: Why did you make them that way? Last Line: Is it all right if we just touch it? RE-ORGANIZATION First Line: Sorting %ordering it %what will we not find Last Line: And then I will write all the poems RITUAL First Line: This shawl, son, %this wrap, this Last Line: With the word %until we flower %flower well ROCK AND THE HARD PLACE First Line: Not the gull ROCK AND THE HARD PLACE First Line: Not the gull %picking the bone Last Line: To write what %you don't know ROOT GN First Line: You can make love %for the last time Last Line: Grow moldy %my mind %will all grow moldy ROUND First Line: If in our days we sing %of what most pleasure brings Last Line: We are masters of the age %and of the song the king SCHIZOPHRENIA First Line: I go out SCHIZOPHRENIA First Line: I go out %to buy %a garbage can Last Line: How and when %I might run into you SCREAMING POEM First Line: The woman inside me %does not murmur she Last Line: Screams echoing over %and over, love, love, love SEASON POEM: 1 First Line: The season is changing Last Line: Holy mother to have me? SEASON POEM: 2 First Line: Summer turning to %autumn and we are Last Line: You call me to sleep %I cannot do both SECOND SONG AT SAINT ANDREWS First Line: The flowers are %tiny and true purple Last Line: Purple, purple-blue %and such %for spring SERVING NOTICE First Line: I will not be %that single daddy Last Line: Slicing slices through the week SIOUX SONG First Line: It is raining %it is raining Last Line: The weather is inside us SIR VENTES ON A SAD OCCURRENCE First Line: It is spring, I can walk lightly Last Line: With me? Old lady, act your age SLAM STEWART First Line: Slam stewart died %the other night and Last Line: Oh my %childhood gone already SON First Line: Nat eleven %like %a never ending road Last Line: A worn out ball point pen %a slum %me SONG OF THE UPRISING Poem Text First Line: Joy wings his way Subject(s): War SPRING First Line: This letter %is long overdue Last Line: Even here %so I announce spring SPRING First Line: I don't understand %this taste of spring Last Line: I don't understand %the spring at all SPRING AND SOME First Line: The woman coming toward me Last Line: And we pass, red hat, red cape STATEMENT TO THE CITIZENS First Line: We are here, working Last Line: Can there not %be commerce between us SUMMER First Line: The wind %has an edge %this evening Last Line: The wind turns %on its pivot %endlessly SUMMER HITS ROUTE 9 First Line: On the trestle over the road %coming back from vermont Last Line: Go right any time %but be prepared to stop SUMMER SONGS First Line: Waiting for the afternoon Last Line: I take %what I am able SUNDAY POEM First Line: I forget what you %feel like. I Last Line: Singing, you %will still dance TALKING First Line: All of us TALKING First Line: All of us %sit together Last Line: With real people %waiting for us TANGO POEM: 1 First Line: He keeps calling %the name of the Last Line: To remain silent, %and breathing TANGO POEM: 2 First Line: Or do the dance, %whatever its ritual Last Line: Thought we could %come without moving TEACHER First Line: Battered by sensibilities %I pretend the poem is easy Last Line: That is simplicity enough and %even perhaps sensible also TED BERRIGAN First Line: Oh ted %I'm sorry %it was all %better then Last Line: Kept ringing out %oh my lord %ted I'm sorry THANKSGIVING GRACE First Line: For that we eat Last Line: Let us change our religion' THE BATH Poem Text First Line: He will insist on Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering THE INNOCENT BREASTS Poem Text First Line: The innocence of her / breasts Subject(s): Breasts THE LOVE BIT Poem Text First Line: The colors we depend on are / red for raspberry jam, white Subject(s): Colors THERE WAS SOME SORT OF HAIKU First Line: We lived together ten years THESE DAYS First Line: All the young mothers THESE DAYS First Line: All the young mothers %used to say Last Line: And maybe not %the babies either THIS WAS SOME SORT OF HAIKU First Line: We lived together ten years Last Line: Tells me how strange it looks THOUGHTS OF THE FAT MAN'S FATHER First Line: The fat man's father %lusts also but the Last Line: It is neither %relaxing nor %relaxed %it is %what he does TIME OUT First Line: With even one day's worth TIME OUT First Line: With even one day's worth %poems surrounded with these things Last Line: So that the silt deposits and things grow TO HEAR First Line: To hear %over the phone %poems no one Last Line: Not to know %why these were %never printed TOOTHED WOMAN First Line: I sat toothless %gumming my eggs Last Line: After all the %toothbarers to me TOQER LOOKS LIKE A PIG Last Line: To hold the phillipines %for manifest destiny TORAH First Line: And what doth the lord %require of thee Last Line: Forsaken him %and this simple text %again TOUCH POEM First Line: Feeling you unable to touch me Last Line: Of us, head and %toe, with a touch TRAVELING POEM First Line: You know that we %come to paths Last Line: Crumbled at your %feet. We move on TWO HAIKU TO BE READ EITHER ONE FIRST: ART First Line: Blue-green city bird Last Line: You looked like a bag TWO HAIKU TO BE READ EITHER ONE FIRST: NATURE First Line: Blue-green torn kraft bag Last Line: You looked like a bird UNDEFINED TENDERNESS Subject(s): Travel USES OF ADVERSITY First Line: The combination USES OF ADVERSITY First Line: The combination %of poisons %is called chop Last Line: Combining thus %the words curse %and corse: the body VALENTINE 1975 First Line: I gave her a wand, %a staff of life Last Line: My heart once again VALENTINE'S DAY 1974 First Line: Listening to the stories %romance through the ages Last Line: Still and still, he says %over and over, be mine VARIATION ON A THEME BY WCW First Line: Lustful creature %full of sin and song Last Line: Lustful creature full %of sin my song VILLAGE POEM First Line: In the summer of 23 Last Line: And perfectly formed %and it is where we are VINE DELORIA MEETS A PALESKIN First Line: It's not the chasm %it's the bridge Last Line: That's why %I believe in trolls VINE DELORIA MEETS A PALESKIN First Line: It's not the chasm VOWELS First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue : vowers Last Line: Your eyes, pure violet outpoured WAKING IN BED BY A RINGING TELEPHONE First Line: Whose call this is I think I know Last Line: And miles to go before we sleep WATER POEM First Line: I water the flowers, lady Last Line: Like a fountain in %the hot summer WAY WE WERE First Line: That he used a lot of tabasco sauce Last Line: And finding the big world around us WE MARK THE CENTENNIAL OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS' BIRTH OBSERVING A First Line: Yes I know a %lot depends on %the white house with Last Line: Then she carefully %dries her hands %with it WEAVING POEM First Line: She sits at the loom %quietly. It is the Last Line: Mexican lace, %while this is a very fine burlap WEDDING GIFTS First Line: Bowls to serve our food Last Line: Into in this %our house WEDDING HAIKU First Line: Wind blows shakes island Last Line: And winter passes WEDDING HAIKU First Line: Wind blows WHAT MY FATHER SAID First Line: About words with unpronounced letters in them Last Line: The apple didn't fall far from the tree WORD First Line: No matter what book Last Line: Do not list %more than eight YELLOW CRANE First Line: Yellow crane gone with old man Last Line: River mists, sadness comes strong YOUNGEST GRACE First Line: Lem seven %thank you for the food before us Last Line: Thank you for thanksgiving YOUR TITS POEM First Line: Blocking every time %I sit down to Last Line: Chart which and %at what times |
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