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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: PATCHEN, KENNETH Matches Found: 116 Patchen, Kenneth Poet's Biography 116 poems available by this author 23RD STREET RUNS INTO HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: You stand near the window as lights wink Last Line: Our supper is plain but we are very wonderful. Subject(s): Love - Erotic A LETTER ON THE USE OF MACHINE GUNS AT WEDDINGS Poem Text First Line: Like the soldier, like the sailor Last Line: Who hasn't the guts to deal with sluts, guys like me and you. Subject(s): Social Problems A LETTER TO A POLICEMAN IN KANSAS CITY Poem Text First Line: A lot of men and armies stand to take Last Line: And any man can live on earth when we're through with it. Subject(s): Police; Social Problems A LETTER TO THE LIBERALS Poem Text First Line: It's not enough Subject(s): Politics & Government ALL IS SAFE ... Poem Text First Line: Flow, water, the blue water Subject(s): Birds ALWAYS ANOTHER VIEWPOINT First Line: You climb three 'golden steps' Last Line: When she was a %queen. On rainy nights AND WHAT WITH THE BLUNDERS First Line: We talked of things but all the time we wanted each other AS WE ARE SO WONDERFULLY DONE WITH EACH OTHER Poem Text Subject(s): Love AT THE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: In the shape of this night, in the still fall Subject(s): New Year; Relationships; Re;igion BE MUSIC, NIGHT Poem Text Subject(s): Love BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE Poem Text First Line: Cathedral evening, tinkle of candles Subject(s): Beauty BECAUSE GOING NOWHERE TAKES A LONG TIME First Line: Something in the climate of a hammer BECAUSE HE LIKED TO BE AT HOME First Line: He usually managed to be there when BECAUSE IN THIS SORROWING STATUE OF FLESH First Line: They were hopeful of a curtain raiser BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T ALWAYS BE SO First Line: I never read of any enforceable regulation BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY POOR THAT WINTER First Line: The only mother he could afford was a skinny old man BEHOLD, ONE OF SEVERAL LITTLE CHRISTS First Line: Their war-boots said big-shots to the plank floor BODY BESIDE THE TIES First Line: Can't seem to wake you, kid, guess it Last Line: I had a lot to do a lot to see Subject(s): Death; Youth BUT OF LIFE? Poem Text First Line: What I want in heart Subject(s): Trees CHARACTER OF LOVE SEEN AS SEARCH FOR THE LOST First Line: You, the woman; I, the man; this, the world Last Line: Many desperate arms about us and the things we know Subject(s): Love - Nature Of CONSTANT BRIDEGROOMS First Line: Far down the purple wood Last Line: Somewhere at world's end DAY OF RABBLEMENT First Line: O come here! A sunflower Last Line: Won't come %no no no no %no no no no DELIGHTED WITH BLUEPINK First Line: Flowers! My friend, be delighted with what you like; but with Last Line: Delight in my bluepink flowers! EGYPT Poem Text First Line: Cle- / 1600 men to a stone. Please mention Subject(s): Egypt ELEGY FOR THE SILENT VOICES AND THE JOINERS OF EVERYTHING First Line: The featureless ghost under the wall cannot jerk out at us EMPTY DWELLING PLACES Poem Text First Line: Forever the little thud of names, falling Subject(s): Names EVE OF ST. AGONY OR THE MIDDLECLASS WAS SITTING ON ITS FAT Poem Text First Line: Man-dirt and stomachs that the sea unloads; rockets Subject(s): Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Caste EVERLASTING CONTENDERS First Line: Of the beast - an angel Last Line: But wish they could EXAMINATION INTO LIFE AND DEATH First Line: Someone has fallen to the earth FAMILY PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: Great tarry wings splatter softly up out of the rotting yolk of sun. In the Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Story-telling; Relatives FAMILY PORTRAIT First Line: Great tarry wings splatter softly up out of the rotting yolk of sun. In the Last Line: Candles dripping slowly down on his stiff, dark clothes Subject(s): Family Life; Portraits; Story-telling FAMOUS BOATING PARTY First Line: Instead of remaining in 'c-grade survellesession to mr. Blaskett' Last Line: #name? FIGURE MOTIONED WITH ITS MANGLED HAND TOWARDS THE WALL BEHIND IT First Line: It was rumored on the block Last Line: He knew that he'd never have another chance to be %president FIRST CAME THE LION-RIDER Poem Text FOG First Line: Rain's lovely gray daughter has lost her tall lover FOX First Line: Because the snow is deep Last Line: I don't know what to say of a soldier's dying %because ther e are no proportions in death GAUTAMA IN THE DEER PARK AT BENARES First Line: In a hut of mud and fire HORSES OF YILDERIN First Line: The great horses of yilderin! Last Line: Call them! %they will kill HOW GOD WAS MADE First Line: On the first day HUNTED CITY: 5 First Line: The little hill climbs up to the village and puts it green hands I DON'T WANT TO STARTLE YOU Poem Text First Line: I knew the general only by name of course Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War I DON'T WANT TO STARTLE YOU First Line: I knew the general only by name of course Last Line: Her eyes were looking at me Subject(s): World War Ii I HAVE LIGHTED THE CANDLES, MARY Poem Text Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The I HAVE LIGHTED THE CANDLES, MARY Subject(s): Christmas I'D WANT HER EYES TO FILL WITH WONDER Poem Text I'D WANT HER EYES TO FILL WITH WONDER Last Line: As she lay asleep in my arms Subject(s): Desire; Love IN JUDGMENT OF THE LEAF Poem Text First Line: And we were speaking easily and all the light stayed low Subject(s): Love IN JUDGMENT OF THE LEAF First Line: And we were speaking easily and all the light stayed low Last Line: In the earth of your eyes, in easy wonder building a new god Subject(s): Love IN ORDER TO Poem Text First Line: Apply for the position (I've forgotten now for what) I had Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries IN ORDER TO First Line: Apply for the position (I've forgotten now for what) I had to marry Last Line: Well - it was my turn then to tell them something! Shucks, I didn't want any job that bad JOE HILL LISTENS TO THE PRAYING Poem Text First Line: Look at the steady rifles, joe Last Line: To make songs with. Subject(s): Communism; Hill, Joe (1879-1915); Labor Unions; Social Protest; Hillstrom, Joseph; Hagglund, Joel JOURNAL OF ALBION MOONLIGHT, SELS. First Line: I %want you to listen to me KNOWN SOLDIER First Line: The balancing spaces are not disturbed Subject(s): War LATESUMMER BLUES Poem Text First Line: Well, the grass is a pleasant thing Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LATESUMMER BLUES First Line: A battered hat, a torn shoe filled with gray sand Last Line: Tattered rot at the end of a rope Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians LET US HAVE MADNESS OPENLY, O MEN Poem Text Last Line: A rotting barge of lean huge graves Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Disappointment LIONS OF FIRE SHALL HAVE THEIR HUNTING First Line: The lions of fire %shall have their hunting in this black land Last Line: And their terrible eyes are watching you LITTLE GREEN BLACKBIRD First Line: Because the ground-creature looked so sad Last Line: It is our sentence, to endure; %and our only crime, that we are here to serve it LONESOME BOY BLUES First Line: Oh nobody's a long time Last Line: All your %pals face to face %oh nobody's a long long time LONESOME BOY BLUES First Line: Oh nobody's a long time Last Line: Nobody's a long time LUTE IN THE ATTIC First Line: As this comes in %call you Last Line: And show you things far worse than your father see, willy LUTE IN THE ATTIC [DIFF. VRS.] First Line: I call you Last Line: And show you things far worse than your father see, willy Subject(s): Death MAGICAL MOUSE First Line: I am the magical mouse Last Line: Little birds--and maidens %that taste like dust MIRRU Poem Text First Line: I tiptoed into her sleep Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters MIRRU First Line: I tiptoed into her sleep Last Line: While the snow swirled so prettily on the lawn %like a white queen in a beautiful dress Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MY GENERATION READING THE NEWSPAPERS Poem Text First Line: We must be slow and delicate; return Subject(s): Social Commentaries NICE DAY FOR A LYNCHING Poem Text First Line: The bllodhounds look like sad old judges Subject(s): Lynching; Social Protest NICE DAY FOR A LYNCHING First Line: The bllodhounds look like sad old judges Last Line: I shall be forever killing; and be killed Subject(s): Lynching; Social Protest NIGHT HAS BEEN AS BEAUTIFUL AS VIRGINIA First Line: This ends: entering the show of silence O ALL DOWN WITHIN THE PRETTY MEADOW First Line: How many times, death Last Line: To just such golden ones as these O NOW THE DRENCHED LAND WAKES Poem Text O NOW THE DRENCHED LAND WAKES Last Line: Where all nouns grieve OH SHE IS AS LOVELY - OFTEN Poem Text First Line: And tallness stood upon the sky like a sparkling mane Subject(s): Roman Empire; Beauty ORANGE BEARS First Line: The orange bears with soft friendly eyes Last Line: A hell of a fat chance my orange bears had! Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ORIGIN OF BASEBALL First Line: Someone had been walking in and out Last Line: So he wanted to throw something %and he picked up a baseball Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Sports PARTING CONEY ISLAND Poem Text First Line: We had so much to say; we had no faith in words Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PASTORAL Poem Text First Line: The dove walks with sticky feet Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion PASTORAL First Line: The dove walks with sticky feet Last Line: Flashing like silver teeth in the sun Subject(s): Crucifixion REASON FOR SKYLARKS First Line: It was nearly morning when the giant RELIGION IS THAT I LOVE YOU First Line: As time will turn our bodies straight Last Line: It is that we cling together, not dying near each other now SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE PARTHENON First Line: Tiny green birds skate over the surface of the room SEA IS AWASH WITH ROSES Last Line: Upon the land Subject(s): Flowers; Pleasure; Roses; Transience SO WHEN SHE LAY BESIDE ME Poem Text STATE OF THE NATION First Line: Understand that they were sitting just inside the door Last Line: Crossed to the bar and said hello steve to the barkeeper Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Indifference STREET CORNER COLLEGE Poem Text First Line: Next year the grave grass will cover us Last Line: Cold stars and the whores. Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE BODY BESIDE THE TIES Poem Text First Line: Can't seem to wake you, kid, guess it Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The THE CHARACTER OF LOVE SEEN AS SEARCH FOR THE LOST Poem Text First Line: You, the woman; I, the man; this, the world Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE CLOTH OF THE TEMPEST Poem Text First Line: These of living emanate a formidable light, THE DEER AND THE SNAKE Poem Text First Line: The deer is humble, lovely as god made her Subject(s): Deer; Snakes; Innocence; Serpents; Vipers THE GREAT BIRDS Poem Text First Line: A gentle wind blows in from the water Subject(s): Birds THE KNOWN SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: The balancing spaces are not disturbed Subject(s): War THE LUTE IN THE ATTIC Poem Text First Line: I call you THE MURDER OF TWO MEN BY A YOUNG KID WEARING LEMON-COLORED GLOVES Poem Text First Line: Wait. / wait. THE ORANGE BEARS Poem Text First Line: The orange bears with soft friendly eyes Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Work; Workers THE ORIGIN OF BASEBALL Poem Text First Line: Someone had been walking in and out Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Sports THE RITES OF DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: The sleds of the children THE SEA IS AWASH WITH ROSES Poem Text THE SLUMS Poem Text First Line: That should be obvious Subject(s): Slums; Tenements THE SNOW IS DEEP ON THE GROUND Poem Text Subject(s): Snow; Love THE STATE OF THE NATION Poem Text First Line: Understand that they were sitting just inside the door Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Indifference; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE UNANSWERING CORRESPONDENCES Poem Text First Line: Intensification of compassion, extraordinary, incalculable Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THERE ARE NOT MANY KINGDOMS LEFT Poem Text First Line: I write the lips of the moon upon her shoulders. In a Subject(s): Love THERE ARE TWO Poem Text First Line: Ways about it. In fact, that only scratches the surface; for - well, had Subject(s): Friendship THERE ARE TWO First Line: Ways about it. In fact, that only scratches the surface; for - well, had Last Line: That matter!' Subject(s): Friendship TRISTANESQUE Poem Text First Line: No wine was ever Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Death; Wine; Dead, The TWO FOR HISTORY First Line: Loud on the bright-necked grass Last Line: There's none among the famous dead not envious as you fun UNDER A TREE Poem Text First Line: More than this flecked thing Subject(s): God UNDER THE GREEN LEDGE Poem Text UNDER THE GREEN LEDGE Last Line: I huddle with that life I can steal Subject(s): Hate; Imagination WHAT IS THE BEAUTIFUL? First Line: The narrowing line WHAT THERE IS Poem Text First Line: In this my green world Subject(s): Love WHAT THERE IS First Line: In this my green world Last Line: O there's love all day Subject(s): Love WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER Poem Text First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life; Death - Babies WHEN WE WERE HERE TOGETHER First Line: When we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one another Last Line: Of our mortal goddess on the indifferent wind Subject(s): Death - Children; Death, Return From; Spiritual Life WHILE THE SUN STILL SPENDS HIS FABULOUS MONEY Last Line: Pours down upon us in a final consecration WIDE, WIDE IN THE ROSE'S SIDE Poem Text Subject(s): Innocence |
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