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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: PEACOCK, MOLLY Matches Found: 133 Peacock, Molly Poet's Biography 133 poems available by this author A FAVOR OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: Thank you for making this sacrifice,' Subject(s): Markets; Accidents; First Aid; Good Samaritan; Supermarkets A HOT DAY IN AGRIGENTO Poem Text First Line: Temples look like discarded alphabets. Subject(s): Thirst; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A SIMPLE PURCHASE Poem Text First Line: Buying flowers Last Line: From take heart, random house. Subject(s): Evil; Flowers; God ALTRUISM Poem Text First Line: What if we got outside ourselves and there Subject(s): Relationships ANGER SWEETENED Poem Text First Line: What we don't forget is what we don't say Subject(s): Literary Form ANGER SWEETENED First Line: What we don't forget is what we don't say Last Line: Will gag us now that we are so enraged Subject(s): Literary Form ARTICHOKE HEART First Line: Whenever I cook an artichoke I Last Line: I've prepared an artichoke head ASYLUM HOUSE First Line: Everybody at that age BETTER TO BE NAKED THANA DUTCH PAINTING First Line: Not like fruit BIO LOGOS First Line: I love your face when we are making love Last Line: Above the brown mouth's living o, a species find BLANK PAPER First Line: Blank sheets of paper were my inheritance BUFFALO Poem Text First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers & Daughters; Urban Life BUFFALO First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Last Line: Behind bar blinds we were caged, %some motes of sunlight cathedrally beaming Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers And Daughters CELTIC LADY SEX GARGOYLE ON MEDIEVAL LINTEL First Line: Shelagh na gig, lady on her haunches Last Line: The wisdom of the wenches this: self-love CERTAIN PEOPLE First Line: Certain people take huge pride in keeping Last Line: Tended by those who love their jobs, but go home CHANCE Poem Text First Line: May favor obscure brainy aptitudes in you Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians CHRISEASTER First Line: I woke up to the bleating of a lamb Last Line: In the hall, and later watched as I lay sleeping %at home Subject(s): Literary Form CLEAN IT UP IMMEDIATELY First Line: I hope I'll be a happy old lady COMMANDS OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: The tragedy of a face in pain Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness COMMANDS OF LOVE First Line: The tragedy of a face in pain Last Line: Something to get, something to be done Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness COUPLE SHARING A PEACH Poem Text First Line: It's not the first time Subject(s): Peaches; Togetherness DARK First Line: Agitated, rolling in her barred bed DEFECT-O-METER First Line: The healthy can listen in if they want DESIRE Poem Text First Line: It doesn't speak and it isn't schooled Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form DESIRE First Line: It doesn't speak and it isn't schooled Last Line: Deeper than the brain's detail; the drive to feel Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form DEVOLUTION Poem Text First Line: When the wafer dissolves on my tongue, wonder Subject(s): Literary Form DEVOLUTION First Line: When the wafer dissolves on my tongue, wonder Last Line: I might at last become: simple Subject(s): Literary Form DON'T THINK GOVERNMENTS END THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: Don't think governments end the world. The blast Subject(s): Disasters DON'T THINK GOVERNMENTS END THE WORLD First Line: Don't think governments end the world. The blast Last Line: Name the one you're sure of. The history of nations %is cold; the world burns by generations Subject(s): Disasters DREAM COME TRUE Poem Text First Line: The little girl is shy Subject(s): Literary Form DREAM COME TRUE First Line: The little girl is shy Last Line: Will be her nightmare Subject(s): Literary Form FAVOR OF LOVE First Line: Thank you for making this sacrifice' Last Line: Return to the universe a favor of love FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF First Line: Feeling sorry for yourself is the right FELLINI THE CAT First Line: Before fellini the cat died, he hissed Last Line: A shock only a blanket up to his neck could redress FORGIVENESS Poem Text First Line: Forgiveness is not an abstraction for Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency FORTUNE First Line: A braceleted wrist with a good luck charm Last Line: And the day will begin with something to lose FRIENDS First Line: Friends are our families now. They act GARDEN GIRAFFES First Line: In a hotel room in brussels I wound Last Line: But sometimes form itself makes us content GENTLY WAITING First Line: Gently waiting and attending. Patience Last Line: As if making letters, each meal a missive GOOD GIRL Poem Text First Line: Hold up the universe, good girl. Hold up Subject(s): Literary Form GOOD GIRL First Line: Hold up the universe, good girl. Hold up Last Line: The universe about its pole. God's not far Subject(s): Literary Form GOODBYE HELLO IN THE EAST VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: Three tables down from allen ginsberg we sit Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners GOODBYE HELLO IN THE EAST VILLAGE First Line: Three tables down from allen ginsberg we sit Last Line: Since at this cold dark moment things are fine Subject(s): Restaurants GREEN ARCH First Line: One hump of an 'm,' 'a' 'u' upside down Last Line: Running toward the flat open lawn, ourselves GREETING CARD VERSE First Line: Stop. Arret. This message (you're selfish) is Last Line: To you, to you, dressed up as a card. Love, mama HAVE YOU EVER FAKED AN ORGASM? Poem Text First Line: When I get nervous, it's so hard not to HAVE YOU EVER FAKED AN ORGASM? (1) First Line: All my girlfriends were talking about sex Last Line: Finally turns tender side up as the lock untwists Subject(s): Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Sex HAVE YOU EVER FAKED AN ORGASM? (2) First Line: When I get nervous, it's so hard not to Last Line: That should crack a world, but doesnt slip's, free Subject(s): Erotic Love; Literary Form; Sex HOW I COME TO YOU Poem Text First Line: Even a rock / has insides Subject(s): Literary Form HOW I COME TO YOU First Line: Even a rock %has insides Last Line: This is how I come to you: %broken, %not what I knew Subject(s): Literary Form HOW I HAD TO ACT Poem Text First Line: One day I went and bought a fake fur coat Subject(s): Literary Form HOW I HAD TO ACT First Line: One day I went and bought a fake fur coat Last Line: You have to act this way Subject(s): Literary Form HUNT First Line: The stubby, black-jowled dog inside me growls Last Line: Guarding empty gate and empty street %till hunter becomes me, and we repeat I MUST HAVE LEARNED THIS SOMEWHERE Poem Text First Line: I loved an old doll made of bleached Subject(s): Comfort; Dolls; Mothers INSTEAD OF HER OWN First Line: Instead of her own, my grandfather washed my hair. Last Line: Water almost warm in a room almost cold. KIND OF PARLANCE First Line: At 3 p.M. She feeds the penguins Last Line: The two questions, in the midst %of rockorockos LIFE OF LEON BONVIN First Line: Leon bonvin was a painter LIVING WITHOUT MEANING First Line: The grandmother I loved is dead LOST WITH A MAP First Line: Travel, a brave act to commit LULL First Line: The possum lay on the tracks fully dead. Last Line: Is flesh, flesh, and flesh. LULLABY First Line: Big as a down duvet the night Last Line: On me, chest on breasts, your field MISS MUFFET REVISITED First Line: My costume for halloween is miss muffet Last Line: Back %where I began, amidst embodied ghouls, %though since I've had new dresses and new bowls MY COLLEGE SEX GROUP Poem Text First Line: All my girlfriends were talking about sex MY GOD WHY ARE YOUJ CRYING? Poem Text First Line: When someone cries, after making love spills Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Crying MY GOD, WHY ARE YOU CRYING First Line: When someone cries after making love spills Last Line: The lover with fear to have struck so deep Variant Title(s): My God, Why Are You Crying MY POSTHUMOUS WISH First Line: Growing up won't have been easy for you Last Line: To use my words to re-secure your touch NAME THE BEST WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Last Line: All freshened up? Sashay your hips NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPENED First Line: I'm so sorry I got happy too late OF NIGHT Poem Text First Line: A city mouse darts from the paws of night Last Line: A finger to her lips / the pause of night Subject(s): Night OF NIGHT First Line: A city mouse darts from the paws of night Last Line: A finger to her lips, the pause of night OLD ROADSIDE RESORTS First Line: Summer is a chartreuse hell in the mountains ON KEEPING THINGS SIMPLE First Line: Because you over-concentrate, molly Last Line: Of cobalt and gold for it unfolds over time ONLY CHOICE First Line: To become conscious of all around us OPTIMISM Poem Text First Line: A freak spring snow storm made us take the old Subject(s): Storms; Optimism OUR ROOM Poem Text First Line: I tell the children in school sometimes Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students OUR ROOM First Line: I tell the children in school sometimes Last Line: Oddly lonely when we talk about our homes Subject(s): Education; Schools PAINTED DESERT First Line: Connivers are the victims I hate most PEACOCK'S SUPERETTE First Line: There were plenty of cans Last Line: Forgotten knowledge become belief %on its crooked pole PERSISTENCE Poem Text Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters PINK DOG First Line: The sun is blazing and the sky is blue Last Line: While you go begging, living by your wits Subject(s): Literary Form POOL OF SKY First Line: His kiss on my forehead-a moist surprise Last Line: Never in ten years had he ever blessed me PORTRAYAL First Line: Hearing about a friend's friend over years Last Line: By your own secrets inside the framed %flay which resembles you, beside her name PRAIRIE PRAYER First Line: Time rolls out like a prairie Last Line: Such contact would be prayer, %an endlessness inside there Subject(s): Prayer; Religion PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Herbie sat the class down and told us how Subject(s): Religious Education; Sex; Prayer; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools PURR First Line: As you stand still in the hall thinking what Last Line: In me, the sound something numb come alive makes PURR RIDDLE First Line: Sound beneath layers of tissue and blood Last Line: To its pledge-now-were, now-were-is our purr PUTTING A BURDEN DOWN Poem Text First Line: Putting a burden down feels so empty Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty REPAIR First Line: You have broken yours, haven't you? Last Line: You have broken yours, haven't you? RETURN First Line: When I open my legs to let you seek Last Line: Of the cave must tell you, 'yes, you can go back.' Subject(s): Literary Form REUNION First Line: Sweat lingering in broadcloth over soap SAY YOU LOVE ME Poem Text First Line: What happened earlier I'm not sure of Subject(s): Violence SAY YOU LOVE ME First Line: What happened earlier I'm not sure of Last Line: So there we remained, completely alone Subject(s): Violence SCREAMING AT MY STUDENT First Line: I became angry SEEING A BASKET OF LOBELIA THE COLOR OF A BATHROBE First Line: At that time I read a book about a girl prone Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SEEING A BASKET OF LOBELIA THE COLOR OF A BATHROBE First Line: At that time I read a book about a girl prone Last Line: The tears stored in roots brought out for food Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes SEEING WHAT IT'S LIKE First Line: Killing yourself SITE First Line: I won't explain since you can't understand Last Line: You're forced to hysterics from nothing to do SMELL First Line: The smoky smell of menses--ma always Last Line: God, what animals we are, huge of haunch, %bloody and wise in the stench of bosk SO, WHEN I SWIM TO THE SHORE First Line: Living alone is like floating on blue Last Line: I own every blue day I'm not a part of SPELL First Line: The job in certain lives has been to find a Last Line: Not to destroy it, but to make it haz Subject(s): Literary Form SUNNY DAYS Poem Text First Line: The children are singing a song about Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SUNNY DAYS First Line: The children are singing a song about Last Line: Homes for themselves behind their screams and lies Subject(s): Education; Schools SWEET TIME Poem Text First Line: The largest bud in creation travels Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening SWEET TIME First Line: The largest bud in creation travels Last Line: Their readiness %is making their own sweet ways unburied Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening THAT LEAF Poem Text First Line: That leaf tries very hard to turn over Subject(s): Leaves THE ALL OF IT Poem Text Subject(s): Picnics; Swans; Barbecues THE CHOICE Poem Text First Line: The ghost of my pregnancy, a large Subject(s): Abortion THE CLIFFS OF MISTAKE Poem Text Subject(s): Errors; Mistakes; Fallacies THE CUP Poem Text First Line: Unable to quell a sudden urge for neatness, Subject(s): Cups; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE DARK Poem Text First Line: Agitated, rolling in her barred bed Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Hospitals; Illness THE FARE Poem Text First Line: Bury me in my pink pantsuit, you said--and I did Subject(s): Funerals; Jewelry & Jewelers; Burials; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE FLAW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The best thing about a hand-made pattern Subject(s): Imperfection THE HAPPY DIARY Poem Text First Line: A man on the train feeding grapes to his son Last Line: Day, when I was undone Subject(s): Diaries; Happiness THE LULL Poem Text First Line: The possum lay on the tracks fully dead. Subject(s): Opossums; Death - Animals; Possums THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: When I open my legs to let you seek Last Line: Of my cave must tell you, “yes, you can go back” Subject(s): Love - Erotic THE SILVER ARROW Poem Text First Line: With your fifteen percent chance to survive Last Line: Unbidden, through the forbidden city Subject(s): Railroads; Survival; Marriage THE SPELL Poem Text First Line: The job in certain lives has been to find a Last Line: Not to destroy it, but make it haz Subject(s): Literary Form; Jobs THE SURGE Poem Text First Line: Maybe it is the shyness of the pride Last Line: From take heart, random house. Subject(s): Love - Erotic THOSE PAPERWEIGHTS WITH SNOW INSIDE Poem Text First Line: Dad pushed my mother down the cellar stairs Last Line: The house I became as the glass ball stormed Subject(s): Family Life THOSE PAPERWEIGHTS WITH SNOW INSIDE First Line: Dad pushed my mother down the cellar stairs Last Line: The house I became as the glass ball stormed Subject(s): Literary Form THRONE OF FEAR First Line: When I was afraid, fear took me in Last Line: That its own kingdom might be overthrown TWO PEONIES/TWO GIRLS First Line: How large their heads are. Pink and leonine UNEXPECTED FREEDOM First Line: The aftermath of death is a release VOGUE VISTA First Line: Since each old scar on my face seems a stone pillar Last Line: Her face is a caper in its flower furled. %my hands fly bat-like to my scars WAKING UP First Line: I try to keep the promises I make WHEEL First Line: Because of your nose, like a leaf blade Last Line: As the frozen wheel of fortune thaws Subject(s): Literary Form WHEN I LOVE YOU Poem Text First Line: When I get on the plane, alone again Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation WHEN I LOVE YOU First Line: When I get on the plane, alone again WHY ARE WE ALL CLOTHED? First Line: Why are we all clothed? A man in this room Last Line: The close of reason and belief, %stand as if stepped from, meant for folding up Subject(s): Death - Children WHY I AM NOT A BUDDHIST Poem Text First Line: I love desire, the state of want and thought Subject(s): Buddhism; Buddha; Buddhists WHY I AM NOT A BUDDHIST First Line: I love desire, the state of want and thought WIDOW First Line: Home from the vet, she sniffed the usual Last Line: Down in the dark, and prepared to wait YES Poem Text First Line: What awful thing will I take on |
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