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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONVERSATION WITH MONICA WILSON, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You sayer / what is there to say
Last Line: Stake out settlements in the upper network of death
Subject(s): Conversation; Death


A DRINK ECLOGUE: LANDLADY, BRANDY AND WHISKY, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On auld worm-eaten skelf, in cellar dunk
Last Line: Fley'd to be seen amang the tassel'd train.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Conversation; Quarrels; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Arguments; Disagreements


A LEGEND OF FLORENCE: DOMESTIC CHAT, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world seems glad after its hearty drink
Last Line: Be pleased to think that settled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Conversation; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


A SUMMING UP, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps a table set for two, or a garden
Last Line: They have become so familiar to us.
Subject(s): Conversation


AFFAIR, by MICHAEL SPRING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I counted
Last Line: Left behind on the counter
Subject(s): Conversation


AFTER A CONVERSATION, by GLADYS HASSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This pungent, penetrating talk we've had
Last Line: Enriched my views and made my spirits tower.
Subject(s): Conversation


AN ECLOGUE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas e'ening whan the spreckled gowdspink sang
Last Line: And take your supper kail or sowens wi me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Conversation; Halloween; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ANALYSTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dublin night is a beard and a woman
Last Line: Analysing corruption.
Subject(s): Coffee; Conversation; Night


ANGEL, by PEGGY ANN TARTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the clamor of crows
Last Line: Faint sounds of traffic, %and wings overhead beating
Subject(s): Conversation; Self


ART OF CONVERSATION, by CHRISTINE SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six weeks of radiation she says. I'm in love
Last Line: Or maybe it's the speed of the current
Subject(s): Conversation


BLEAR, by DANIEL PRAVDA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morning-glory crosses the iron gate
Last Line: Into bed. I cannot trust my eyes
Subject(s): Conversation; Morning


BUT -, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He gets in touch only when he wants something
Last Line: But
Subject(s): Charm; Connemara, Ireland; Conversation; Crime And Criminals


BUT I DON'T KNOW, by DELOVA DURNFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Women, they say, are lonelier than men
Last Line: Of friendly talk, over too soon, too soon.
Subject(s): Conversation


CAST FROM HEAVEN, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There must have been something like writing across their faces
Last Line: Thus work and rest are shared.
Subject(s): Conversation


CERTAIN DAYS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sips his whiskey, this late summer evening
Last Line: I am not capable of committing.'
Subject(s): Conversation; Crime And Criminals; Drinks And Drinking; Morality


CHANGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The change from yesterday!
Last Line: Jesus, the sea is fillin' the kitchen!'
Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Ireland


CHITCHAT WITH THE JUNIOR LEAGUE WOMEN, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A junior league woman in blue
Last Line: Underwear and -- sip, sip -- said, everything
Subject(s): Conversation; Women


CHOCOLATES, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once some people were visiting chekhov
Last Line: Unusual conversation.
Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Chocolates; Conversation


COLLOQUE METAPHYSIQUE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: One said: / the mountains comfort me
Last Line: On darker waters, then.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Conversation


CONCLUDING THE REVELATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Would I be talkin' shite?'
Last Line: Ya might.'
Subject(s): Conversation; Lies


CONVERSATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half-way through the conversation he glimpsed
Last Line: How long did the moment last? Enough to make %a spirit shake.
Subject(s): Conversation; Epiphany


CONVERSATION FOUND AT THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: PRAGUE, 1997, by SUE ANN ALDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I gave my coat to a woman when I went in terezin
Last Line: The masquerade ends. %you see?
Subject(s): Conversation; Marriage


CONVERSATION, UPON WHICH EAVESDROPPED, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I did
Last Line: I'm not lying to you...
Subject(s): Conversation


CONVERSATIONAL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How's your father?' came the whisper
Last Line: "came the climax, 'how's your parents?'"
Subject(s): Conversation


CROW IS WALKING, by GRACE BUTCHER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: His beak opens. %he tries a world
Subject(s): Birds; Conversation; Crows


DIALOGUE, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I should touch you now
Last Line: She. Yet I know not where we are!
Subject(s): Conversation


DIALOGUE, by LILIANA URSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a mother testing the water for her baby's bath
Last Line: Mutters from his parisian garret: 'so-after such mockery, death!'
Subject(s): Conversation


DIALOGUE BEFORE SUNRISE, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd like to live; but truly
Last Line: Go ajourneying with the moon.
Subject(s): Conversation; Dawn; Language; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary


DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SQUEAMISH COTTING MECHANIC AND HIS WIFE, by EDWARD WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is the fish ready? You're a tedious while
Last Line: When heaven knows I do but gull the fool.
Subject(s): Conversation; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


DIALOGUE WITH THE BODY, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the star
Last Line: Shroud because something breakable %is passing through
Subject(s): Conversation; Death


DIALOGUE, BETWEEN CRAB AND GILLIAN, by THOMAS D'URFEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where oxen do low and apples do grow
Last Line: And so you may ring the bells.
Subject(s): Conversation; Farewell; Hunting; Plague; Towns; Parting; Hunters


DINNER PARTY, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire is lit in the hearth, and flickers
Last Line: Lifts his cup, and calls for more wine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Conversation; Dinners & Dining; Fire; Guests; Tableware; Visiting; Cutlery; Forks; Plates


DO NOT SPEAK KERESAN TO A MESCALERO APACHE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not speak
Last Line: Is unmarked.
Subject(s): Apache Indians; Conversation; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DRIFTERS: BELLA COOLA TO WILLIAMS LAKE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Used to being his own listener
Last Line: He travels this road.
Subject(s): Conversation; Hitchhikers; Solitude; Loneliness


ELIMINATE THE I, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You may not gather gold nor land
Last Line: Eliminate the I.
Subject(s): Conversation; Selfishness; Selflessness


EMPTY WORDS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He describes eagle feathers with his hands
Last Line: Empty hands, and words, empty words.
Subject(s): Conversation; Deafness; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ENCRYPTED, by ANTHONY SEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I find myself each evening, while commuting on the freeway, or when the blue
Last Line: Parties and diners, their salesmen crying hysterically in motel rooms, the deafening %hiss of prayer
Subject(s): Commuters; Conversation; Neighbors


EVASION, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were discussing siva
Last Line: And pointed to claudio
Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Conversation


EVENING CONVERSATION, by ALLAN JOHNSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reckless and white as a flashlight beam cast
Last Line: We can only walk while there is light
Subject(s): Conversation; Light; Night


FLICKERS, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Johnny, what I done wrong?' - last words
Last Line: Bogie, pancho, johnny, what we done wrong?
Subject(s): Conversation; Death


FOR BILL BIRD, SELS., by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was getting kinda late. We'd been talking cars. I wanted them to come
Last Line: Oh don't worry, mother, she says, we're careful
Subject(s): Conversation


FROGS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm broke, and it rained,
Subject(s): Frogs; Longing; Conversation


FRUSTRATED ANGEL (CONVERSATION NO. 2), by JAY HOPLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why can't I stop pissing on homecoming queens
Last Line: He still wants to know
Subject(s): Angels; Conversation


FUTILITY, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You like to rise at six each day?
Last Line: I do not care, you do not care?
Subject(s): Conversation


GENRE SCENE, by KATHRYN MARIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tulips are drooping
Last Line: Would you go to hell for the woman you love?
Subject(s): Conversation


GIRL WITH MIND WANDERING, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deign, laura - now again the rainy season's here
Subject(s): Conversation


GIRL WITH MIND WANDERING, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deign, laura - now again the rainy season's here
Last Line: Deign, dear, to listen once to what your lips are saying...
Subject(s): Conversation


HAIR, by KELLY LE FAVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Five minutes, maybe, I had known her when
Last Line: There was hardly any blood left in her
Subject(s): Conversation; Hair


HOTEL ROOM, CANTICLE, by MELODY GOETZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I didn't want to go to the party-nothing to say, too tired to be funny, &
Last Line: (this is how we are, are you listening
Subject(s): Conversation; Hotels; Rooms


HOW BAD NEWS COMES, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: A telephone ringing %like an emergency
Last Line: Fall to the floor
Subject(s): Conversation; Messengers; News; Telephones


I CAN'T SPEAK, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's hopeless. Our heads are full of television
Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Words; Vocabulary


I NEED TO LISTEN TO WHAT SHE SAYS, by SUSAN A. MANCHESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She eats a nectarine and a steam of juice
Last Line: To know her somehow and not feel alone
Subject(s): Conversation; Food And Eating; Fruit


I WANT TO SIT NEXT TO EMILY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a girl who for present purposes let us call by the name of
Last Line: But can wander lonely as a cloud among my own beautiful thorts
Subject(s): Conversation; Desire; Girls


I'M WALKING DOWN THE STREET, MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chitchatting with my ebullient consort, peach of a summer afternoon
Last Line: Whatever - maybe, just maybe, toward you
Subject(s): Conversation; Streets


IMP OF THE VERBOSE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Traffic's awful,' says my colleague as we ride the elevator to our floor
Last Line: When I see her, what will I say?
Subject(s): Conversation


IN A TRAIN, by J. D. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At times, almost everyone talks
Last Line: The citizens bolted them, to the last crumb, %and perished from the shock of nourishment
Subject(s): Conversation; Railroads


INCANTATION, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light as motion, people flit lightly along
Last Line: To hold the golden light of winter dusk.
Subject(s): Conversation; Life; Old Age; Poetry & Poets


IS HE FLOATING?, by MARLYS WEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why talk about the devil at all? He's
Last Line: It would hurt me to actually drink it
Subject(s): Conversation; Devil


ISSEI, THE JAPANESE LADY, by JESSICA KAWASUNA SAIKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wears brown as a carapace, annonymous as
Last Line: The paper screen, the brown
Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Conversation; Culture Conflict; Friendship; Guests


IT JUST SO HAPPENS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You fingered the white top
Last Line: That knocks the wind out of the ground
Subject(s): Anxiety; Conversation; Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


LA DONNA E PERPETUUM MOBILE, by IRWIN EDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nice mrs. Eberle early had been told
Last Line: Could I but choke her, cut her head off clean, %I mean - well, really, that's just what I mean
Subject(s): Bores; Chatterboxes; Conversation


LINES IN A ROMAN SCHOOLBOOK: 4, by DESMOND O'GRADY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the valleys of the future we shall walk
Last Line: Taught those after us to do the same for their part
Subject(s): Conversation


LITTLE TALK, by AILEEN FISHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't you think it's probable
Last Line: For talk that is so small
Subject(s): Conversation


MAKING CONVERSATION, by ALESSANDRA LYNCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe if the blue moon listened more
Last Line: Frozen, two mouths, fed on winter grass
Subject(s): Conversation; Moon


MARIN HEADLANDS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grief as we know it
Last Line: Bugless and treeless and airless and waterless and sunless.
Subject(s): California; Conversation; Knowledge


MIXER, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Angus the mixer stood above us
Last Line: And how we raced around for stones to hit it %when the beer was gone
Subject(s): Conversation; Ice Cream; Learning


MONDAY, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today I met someone I thought might know you
Last Line: I think I must be sleeping facing the past
Subject(s): Conversation; Memory; Past


MONOLOGUE WITH CROWS, by BOB BROOKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My program is, I said
Last Line: I wouldn't want to put words %in a crow's mouth
Subject(s): Birds; Conversation; Crows


MUTUAL COMPLAINT OF PLAINSTANES AND CAUSEY, IN THEIR MOTHER-TONGUE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since merlin laid auld reikie's causey
Last Line: And let our words gie place to toil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Conversation; Roads; Paths; Trails


MY PARTNER, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At cheltenham, where one drinks one's fill
Last Line: And hang himself beside it!
Subject(s): Conversation


NO MERCY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's no mercy in the tide, she said
Last Line: Where is the blond child?
Subject(s): Conversation; Gossip; Mercy; Seashore


NORMAN SIVERTSEN, SR., by ED OCHESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dead for ten years, I am now speaking
Last Line: The little snot, thought that that was funny
Variant Title(s): Norman Silvertsen, Sr
Subject(s): Conversation; Death


NOT TOO MUCH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't say too much, he said
Last Line: And your voice offered to the stars %three songs of peace.
Subject(s): Books; Conversation; Friendship


ONE SPEAKS, by KATHARINE A. JENKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To you - someone to pass you a book
Last Line: You would pass me by unknowing.
Subject(s): Conversation; Love - Beginnings; Mouths; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators


OUTSIDE OF TOWN, by ROBERT VANDERMOLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lou gehrig's disease
Last Line: Standing, fooling in her purse
Subject(s): Conversation


OVER COFFEE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What you mean to say about the film is that
Last Line: The first to address this exhilarating stranger
Subject(s): Coffee; Conversation; Guests; Strangers; Visiting


OVER COFFEE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What you mean to say about the film is that
Last Line: Of conviction, finally the stammers, the rush to be %the first to address this exhilarating stranger
Subject(s): Coffee; Conversation; Guests; Strangers


PASSING THE TIME DURING CHEMOTHERAPY, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We could almost be taken
Last Line: And then, unplugged, we turn %toward home
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Conversation; Sickness; Time; Women


PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION, by ROBERT SARGENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Searching for an illustrative example
Last Line: His wife the marriage witness and he not troubling %to turn the radio off
Subject(s): Conversation; Philosophy And Philosophers


PORCH TALK ON THE SUMMER SOLSTICE, by GEORGE WITTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: That day gave way, each ledge of light
Last Line: Salvation none of its business
Subject(s): Conversation; Moon; Summer


PREFERENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Such words of wisdom he had, they just
Last Line: He said he preferred blood to ink.
Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Violence


PROFITLESS TALK, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a pleasant thing to find a man of cultivated
Last Line: Pleasant 'tis, my friends, to view the man who talks of something new!
Subject(s): Conversation; Friendship; Talk


RECREATION, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We took our work, and went, you see
Subject(s): Conversation


RESPONSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I said I love you
Last Line: Waved back at me
Subject(s): Conversation; Love; Trees


SCRAPS, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now my mother's house is filling up
Last Line: So you won't have to, her voice %like parchment in the flames
Subject(s): Conversation; Memory; Mothers


SHE, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The body has its own story -- she said -- oh yes? -- I said
Last Line: The body wins
Subject(s): Bodies; Conversation


SHE, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The body has its own story -- she said -- oh yes? -- I said
Last Line: Vis-a-vis -- the end middle beginning -- and the body argues hers -- yes -- she said but -- let's fa
Subject(s): Bodies; Conversation


SHE TALKED SO MUCH, by DAISY CRUMP WHITEHEAD    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Yet every day she prayed that she be good.
Subject(s): Conversation


SHOT GLASS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll never forget the day this beautiful woman
Last Line: She left me some room for improvement and %a sense of what to work on...
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Conversation; Self; Women


SOMETHING SHE LEFT BEHIND?, by ARTHUR MORTENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the telephone rings he does still answer
Last Line: Some new perception smoking underneath %his voice which purrs to greet the caller: hello?
Subject(s): Conversation; Telephones


TALK WITH A TREE, by FREDERICK MUNDLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cradled in its boughs
Last Line: A plum branch inside you
Subject(s): Conversation; Trees


TALKING CLOTHES, by SHANE GOLBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I asked my mother
Last Line: I wished %we could just talk %again
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Conversation


TEA PARTY, by ELEANOR (ELINOR) CHIPP    Poem Text                    
First Line: My body sits here in the room
Last Line: "I've had so nice an afternoon!"
Subject(s): Conversation; Food & Eating; Love; Tea


TEXT, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A five-day %rain, & our flooded 95-year-old cellar's
Last Line: Not the conversation of equals
Subject(s): Conversation; Talk


THE CONVERSATION, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It always has been thought discreet
Last Line: How many damons, how few dorsets, live!
Subject(s): Conversation; Love; Strangers; Youth


THE VICAR'S WIFE AND THE FAUN, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bend of a green lane on a spring morning
Last Line: (he leaps off.)
Subject(s): Conversation


THINGS WE SAID, by S. P. HEALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In unison, to resemble a cathedral
Last Line: Instead of saying goodbye
Subject(s): Conversation


TO SOME I HAVE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While I wrought out these fitful danaan rhymes
Last Line: Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Life; Conversation


TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can't say can't not
Last Line: It's not time to sleep but it feels like night
Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Poetry & Poets


TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can't say can't not
Last Line: I'm just a nobody making my way
Subject(s): Change; Conversation; Poetry And Poets


TWO WOMEN ON THE POTOMAC HIGHWAY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tuesday's bus I heard the man from state
Last Line: It made me sick, if you must know.
Subject(s): Buses; Conversation; Disdain; Human Abnormalities; Violence; Scorn; Deformities


VERBOSE, by RICHARD MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She gets all talkative and adjectival
Last Line: Awaiting a clear thought's delayed arrival
Subject(s): Conversation


VILLAGE TALK, by CATHERINE MOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The black cat and I
Last Line: His eyes drink %her light
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Conversation; Villages


VOICE-OVER, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Climbing the tower of babel
Last Line: Sometimes, we even answer. %glad we're not alone
Subject(s): Conversation; Poetry And Poets; Talk; Voices


WEIGHING LIGHT, by GEOFFREY BROCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often the slightest gesture is most telling
Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Conversation; Male-female Relations


WHAT HE SAID, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend said to me
Last Line: Make ring for her late into the solitary night
Subject(s): Conversation


WHERE WILL I BE IN SPRING, by FREDERICK MUNDLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw him today mr. Murray
Last Line: Before I get lost in his mind
Subject(s): Conversation; Spring


WHISPERS, by LAURA A. CIRAOLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: You step through a doorway
Last Line: Words appear, clear and clairvoyant %you answer in whispers
Subject(s): Conversation


WORD ANYWAY, by MICHAEL T. YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every time I write it's there at the end of my paragraphs
Last Line: Like a space we allow each other to become whatever we wish
Subject(s): Conversation


WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ocean light as we wake reminds us how dark
Last Line: We could be there if we could lift our eyes
Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Maine (state); Sea; Words; Vocabulary; Ocean


WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ocean light as we wake reminds us how dark
Last Line: We could be there if we could lift our eyes.'
Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Maine (state); Sea