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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DIVORCE Matches Found: 259 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LAMB BY ITS MA, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just before it rains, the lilacs Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Childhood A POPULAR FUNCTIONARY, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did but the law appoint us one, / tired couples to release again Last Line: And in the midst my wife and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Divorce A SEPARATION DEED, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whereas we twain, who still are bound for life Last Line: And this indenture also witnesseth. Subject(s): Divorce ACROSS THE LONG DARK BORDER, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister and I learned about our first war Last Line: War between the states. Subject(s): American Civil War; Divorce; Novels & Novelists; United States - History ADDRESS TO THE EX, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you quieted yet? Subject(s): Divorce ADULTERY, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: We thought we were darwin's darlings Last Line: Scrubbing both each morning in the same soap Subject(s): Divorce AFTER ADULTERY, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Marriage is a bullring Last Line: What you've already caught Subject(s): Divorce AFTER DIVORCE; FOR NAHID SARMAD, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every sunday at 9 pm Last Line: Walk from the potter's field of the past. Subject(s): Divorce; Memory AFTER EDEN, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere zeno was smiling, the foul Subject(s): Divorce AFTER THE DIVORCE HEARING, I CONFESS MY SINS, by BOB ZORDANI Poem Source First Line: It was god-awful cold Last Line: And praying the wind, %wherever it took us, %would set us down easy Subject(s): Divorce AGAINST PLURALISM, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will you point to? In the needle's eye, Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Disappointment; Relationships; Divorce; Half-siblings; Relatives ALL HER SUMMERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That evening was all her summers Last Line: And let her freedom sleep in the arms of banter. Subject(s): Divorce; Freedom; Summer ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE WOODVILLE DEPOT, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Davy left his daffodil on the lid Last Line: What a way to go to the woodville depot Variant Title(s): To The Woodville Depo Subject(s): Divorce AN IMPRINT OF THE ROARING TWENTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a weakness for grubbing at the salvation army's discard tables Last Line: And the cardtable-sized embroidered tablecloths Subject(s): Divorce; Childhood Memories; Tablecloths; Alcohol & Alcoholics; Women AND DAY BROUGHT BACK MY NIGHT, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was so simple: you came back to me Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Divorce; Memory; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AS TO MR. YEATS'S GOLDEN BIRD SILLINESS, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: A year right to the day davy's leg snapped Last Line: Has only to follow the arrow of his wake Subject(s): Divorce AT LEAST HALF THE MAN MY FATHER WAS, by DAVID MARK SPEER Poem Source First Line: Some men age badly Last Line: I want to be at least half the man my father was Subject(s): Divorce AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness BACHELORS AND YOUNG LADIES, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: A freeze easter ... Beach gray, the sun Last Line: The hunks sweating diamonds on the covers Subject(s): Divorce BALLAD OF THE DESPAIRING HUSBAND, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and I lived all alone Subject(s): Divorce; Men BALLAD OF THE DESPAIRING HUSBAND, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and I lived all alone Last Line: Oh lady, grant me time, %please, to finish my rhyme Subject(s): Divorce; Men BEGINNING, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: From that they found most lovely, most abhorred Subject(s): Divorce BEST SEX, by WILLIAM DUKE Poem Source First Line: I want to hear your smoky voice Last Line: When I don't look you in the eyes Subject(s): Divorce BETTY'S BIRTHDAY ROCKET, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Daddy was deaf in his tv bunker Last Line: Nearing a sweet but black planet Subject(s): Divorce BETWEEN WIVES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I was trying to teach him a lesson Last Line: That is the killing thing about him Subject(s): Divorce; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Women BIRDS, by VERONICA SCHUDER Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you honey divorce is the best thing Last Line: I can still see it though, the yellow and blue of them Subject(s): Birds; Divorce BLOODMOBILE, by MARY KOLADA SCOTT Poem Source First Line: The technician rests %my left arm on the computer Last Line: It doesn't even bleed Subject(s): Divorce BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: The one who chose to walk away Last Line: Than being the person who was left Subject(s): Divorce BROKEN HOME, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing the street, %I saw the parents and the child Last Line: With the unstiflement of the entire story, %watch a red setter stretch and sink in cloud Subject(s): Divorce BROKENLEG, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Memory is a poetry bomb Last Line: And has no plot Subject(s): Divorce CACTUS, A DIVORCE PRESENT, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: All year it's a fixture dead as the wild Last Line: And only on defense is it ever prickly Subject(s): Divorce CAFE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Before sunrise this appeared unto us Last Line: And I, we offered her our ears in pairs Subject(s): Divorce CANCER, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Uncle george's chin sticks out like a hatchet Last Line: Even, when miss morphine answers his prayers Subject(s): Divorce CHANCE MEETING, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is how it happens Last Line: Whom now %I run from Subject(s): Divorce CHANGE OF ADDRESS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't get much light,' the real Last Line: And the rat? The rat looks radiant Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Divorce CIGAR, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Ash wednesday I was sitting on a bench Last Line: And their sisters, sent up my best halos Subject(s): Divorce CIGARETTE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Bunk's lounge was hot with hopeful clones Last Line: Hoping for fire, but glad at least for smoke Subject(s): Divorce CIRCUS, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: The yellow balloon burst in davy's face Last Line: And lift the dumbbell of regret Subject(s): Divorce CLIMBING THE FAMILY TREE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I'd used the belt too hard and had to ask Last Line: The legs apart also keep them together Subject(s): Divorce CODA, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it was jet lag, maybe not, Subject(s): Divorce; Conduct Of Life COMING HOME FROM THE DIVORCE, by PETER DESEY Poem Source First Line: Things take their insignificance Last Line: Pulled from their sockets. And dust %gathering on dust Subject(s): Divorce CONFUSION ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVERIA, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: The gulls' shadows looked like black boats Last Line: A blink. That's the beach in the hourglass Subject(s): Divorce CONVERSATION WITH AN EX, by JOHN GREY Poem Source First Line: Still smooth under the eyes Last Line: Of a naked lover %in a foreign play Subject(s): Divorce COUCH, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I had the stares, my electric chair down Last Line: Payments will give you something to live for. Subject(s): Divorce COUNTRY MUSIC, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I feel so lean Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Country Music; Divorce; Farm Life; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers COURT DATE, by MEG+(1) CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: It was our last date Last Line: To myself %as a wife Subject(s): Divorce CRAWLSPACE, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Our parents thought that we were out of the home Last Line: Nothing could have dragged us into daylight Subject(s): Children; Divorce CRAZY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've said that he and I had been crazy Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CRISS CROSS APPLE SAUCE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As we drive from her mother's house to mine Subject(s): Daughters; Divorce; Halloween CROSS, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Last weekend she left her sandals Last Line: Got from god, who didn't even apologize Subject(s): Divorce CUPIDO; REVIVAL OF AN ANTIQUATED FIGURE ... MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roseate darling Last Line: Systems and rights lie forgotten behind us. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Aphrodite; Babies; Cupid; Divorce; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Infants; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CUSTODY, by MAUREEN TOLMAN FLANNERY Poem Source First Line: He has stretch marks on his back Last Line: Try to pin him down Subject(s): Divorce DADDY, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Dead in the lilies, he was not Last Line: Light on his feet, still swinging his partner Subject(s): Divorce DANCING ON THE GRAVE OF A SON OF A BITCH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God damn it, / at last I am going to dance on your grave, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationship; Divorce; Farewell; Money; Dancing & Dancers; Graves; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones DEAR MISS EMILY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the end would be gone before I got there. Subject(s): Divorce DEPENDING ON THE WIND, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A score of years ago I felled a hundred pines to build a house. Subject(s): Loss; Transience; Divorce; Impermanence DISSOLUTION, by PETER DESEY Poem Source First Line: I can't remember %what incantation broke Last Line: And the judge rose and wished us well Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCE, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: It seemed so unlikely, how the wind shattered Last Line: Our lives apart, skin from sleep, light from thunder Subject(s): Divorce; Poetry And Poets DIVORCE, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: At first it was an imperciptible tremor of the skin Last Line: Here are the keys. Here is the scar Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCE, by ANNA LOVELACE GORSUCH Poem Text First Line: The trial is over. I have heard the last decree Last Line: How can a mere man say that we are through! Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCE, by KRISTEN GUGGENHEIM Poem Source First Line: Hiding under overturned rowboats Last Line: Suitcase banging against the storm door Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCE, by DANIEL F. KLIGMAN Poem Source First Line: Children, we are sorry Last Line: On a night we dreamt Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCE, by CHARLES ROSSITER Poem Source First Line: We were %three weeks %together Last Line: She was %one Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was when faith and reason trod Last Line: What god hath joined doth man divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCE, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice from the dark is calling me Last Line: Let me out to the night, let me go, let me go! Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Divorce; Women DIVORCE BOXING, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Divorce boxing - that's when you whip Last Line: Sexier than a love machine in an apron Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCE BOXING, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Divorce boxing is when you whip Last Line: In the towel. What's the big deal? Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCE WORK, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is an energy crisis Last Line: Distilling thru my eyes, tears for this whole world Subject(s): Divorce; Hispanic Americans; Law & Lawyers; Unfaithfulness; Latinos; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy DIVORCED, by PEARL FANCOLLY HALLETT Poem Text First Line: Sorrowfully, tenderly, / as I go Last Line: The world shall never know. Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCED HUSBAND DEMOLISHES HOUSE; NEWS ITEM, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is time to break a house Last Line: Done with. Let it come down Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCED HUSBAND DEMOLISHES HOUSE; NEWS ITEM, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is time to break a house Last Line: Done with. Let it come down Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCEE, by LINN FIEDLER-BOURJEAU Poem Source First Line: If my audacity or hair color shock you Last Line: As I emerge from the birdcage of my ribs Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCEE, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This house was gay once, once upon a time Last Line: And curse the dawn and wish that I could die Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCEE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Waking in the early morning Last Line: Upon her cheek, her neck, her breast Subject(s): Divorce; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DIVORCEE AND GIN, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I love the frosted points you come in Last Line: Destroy everything they touch Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCEE, THE SNOW WOMAN, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Each rose bud threw a red signal Last Line: Too sweet, surely, to freeze into an icicle Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One garland / of flowers, leaves, thorns Subject(s): Divorce DIVORCING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One garland %of flowers, leaves, thorns Last Line: To see if we can survive, %severed Subject(s): Divorce DOWN SOUTH WITH SOMEONE ELSE AS THE MARRIAGE NEAR THE END, by CHARLES ROSSITER Poem Source First Line: Fragrance tornadoes the window Last Line: Til it breaks and he shambles off %blue morning lies down Subject(s): Divorce EATING A FISH AFTER I'D SEEN MY FACE IN THE POND, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I brained him, and the chill Last Line: Looked a lot like a skeleton Subject(s): Divorce EATING THE LEFTOVERS: DIVORCE, THY NAME IS WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am divorcing daddy - dybbuk! Dybbuk Subject(s): Divorce; God; Religion; Theology EATING THE LEFTOVERS: DIVORCE, THY NAME IS WOMAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am divorcing daddy - dybbuk! Dybbuk Last Line: That I turn invisible, but married, at last Subject(s): Divorce; God; Religion ENDORSEMENT TO THE DEED OF SEPARATION, IN THE APRIL OF 1816, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago you swore, fond she! Last Line: And here's exactly what 't is worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Divorce ENDS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loud talk in the overlighted house Last Line: But some mean what they say Subject(s): Honesty; Divorce EPIGRAM ON MY WEDDING DAY: TO PENELOPE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day, of all our days, has done Last Line: And five since we were two. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): To Penelope Subject(s): Anniversaries; Divorce EPISTLE FROM MRS. YONGE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Think not this paper comes with vain pretense Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy EPISTLE FROM MRS. YONGE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Think not this paper comes with vain pretense Last Line: And you the father of a glorious race %endowed with ch - l's strength and low - r's face Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Unfaithfulness EVERY OTHER WEEKEND, by STEPHEN L. LYONS Poem Source First Line: Here in summer's transience of airport terminals Last Line: The ease of letting go Subject(s): Divorce EX-WIFE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: She wore a sailor suit, a blonde with streaks Last Line: Plus, if I stood, I was afraid I'd slip Subject(s): Divorce EXCHANGE, by ELIZABETH HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: He is a man. He talks Last Line: But of course you never could Subject(s): Divorce FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fare thee well! And if forever Last Line: More than this I scarce can die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Fare Thee Well Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Divorce; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Milbanke, Annabelle Isabella (1792-1860); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness FEEDING THE WORMS, by TANIA ROCHELLE Poem Source First Line: You think this is going to be a poem about death Last Line: But a love poem, my first Subject(s): Divorce FIRST BIRTHDAY AFTER SECOND DIVORCE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Daddy was mumbling at the tv screen Last Line: Bonus - his sweetie wearing even less Subject(s): Divorce FIRST MARRIAGE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made it cross country Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Cancer (disease); Reconciliation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRST WIFE TO THE SECOND, by GLENNA MORRIS CLEVENGER Poem Text First Line: All's fair! My dear Last Line: Bearing a mortal wound. Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOLDING, by ANDREA POTOS Poem Source First Line: She wonders if he ever Last Line: Pairing what she could of her life to his Subject(s): Divorce FOR STARTERS, by VICTORIA MCCABE Poem Source First Line: Be good Subject(s): Divorce; Religion FOR THE SAKE OF THE BODY, by GIANNA RUSSO Poem Source First Line: But this is a useless ritual Last Line: Still, the bedposts salute four ways to promise nothing Subject(s): Divorce FRISBEE LOVE TAKES BILOXI BEACH, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I fell in love with a college girl half Last Line: Firm forever, without the first wrinkle Subject(s): Divorce GATHERINGS, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Having let the people of our youth Last Line: Of the comings of the goings %of the other Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage; Past GETTING OUT, by CLEOPATRA MATHIS Poem Source First Line: That year we hardly slept, waking like inmates Subject(s): Divorce GOLDEN STATE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see my father Subject(s): Family Life; Death - Fathers; Divorce; Relatives GRADUATION, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My ex-wife comes over Subject(s): Graduation & Graduates; Divorce; Parents; Parenthood HAIKU #10, by KALAMU YA SALAAM Poem Source First Line: Patient, you wait but Last Line: Sinking in water Subject(s): Divorce HAIKU #49, by KALAMU YA SALAAM Poem Source First Line: Thought I left you but Last Line: Each station is you Subject(s): Divorce HALF OF A CONVERSATION WITH AN EX, by J. P. DANCING BEAR Poem Source First Line: Dead. %they've all been crushed Last Line: I wrote those when I felt that way Subject(s): Divorce HAWK FORMAL, THE WAY TO GO WHEN GOD'S DEAF, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Swoop went the hawk, miss went the luck Last Line: As a five - hundred pound evangelist Subject(s): Divorce HEART'S NEEDLE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of my winter, born Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Divorce; Fathers And Daughters; Parents HER DAUGHTER'S FUTURE WEDDING, by NITA PENFOLD Poem Source First Line: All she can think about Last Line: The knives on the table Subject(s): Divorce HERBERT WHITE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hit her on the head, it was good Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Divorce; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness HOG MYTH, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Grandpa hays thought the only way to kill Last Line: Identical, same puckered lips in the dust Subject(s): Divorce HONEYMOON, by PETER E. MURPHY Poem Source First Line: All night, %we blast our wedding horns %in force Last Line: And two years later %quietly divorce Subject(s): Divorce HORNET NEST ON THE BOGUE HOMA, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Looked like the cotton - candy head Last Line: But can nail you with a faithful french kiss Subject(s): Divorce HOW COW BONES LOOK AFTER YOUR WIFE'S RUN OFF, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Like a chinese poster Last Line: So it's a perfect fit Subject(s): Divorce HOW WE CAME TO STAND ON THAT SHORE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: How we came to stand on that shore Last Line: Window in the now burned-out hotel Subject(s): Divorce I MAY AFTER LEAVING YOU WALK QUICKLY OR EVEN RUN, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain fell in a post-romantic way. Last Line: Glum was the woman in the ostrich feather hat Subject(s): Divorce IN A BOAT ON A SUMMER EVENING ..., by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A girl grows up hidden in far-off rooms Last Line: Surely it's the soul of the wife sent home Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Divorce IN PRAISE OF THEIR DIVORCE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when I heard about the divorce of my friends Last Line: He bystanders pointing at the sky and saying, look Subject(s): Divorce IN THE LAND OF THE FORMERLY MARRIED, by JAMES KATES Poem Source First Line: There are no virgins in this country Last Line: Tonight the kids are with their father' %means I am welcome Subject(s): Divorce INSOMNIA, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: In a twinkling - ten long and slow short years Last Line: What's odd is that it's you that's in this house Subject(s): Divorce INSTRUCTIONS TO THE DEPARTING HUSBAND, by LYNNE BUTLER Poem Source First Line: Take everything you will need Last Line: Keep moving. Learn nothing Subject(s): Divorce INTERVIEW, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought once I'd like to be a kleptomaniac, Subject(s): Divorce; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ITALY NOT IN THE TRAVEL BROUCHURES, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Once all the grapes have been gathered Last Line: Mind that the years come quicker and quicker Subject(s): Divorce JAMIE DOUGLAS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was in the days when culverhouse Subject(s): Divorce JILTED IS BAD EVEN IN WONDERLAND, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Poor bunny rabbit thought his black top hat Last Line: And sent the tortoise sneaking through the wicket Subject(s): Divorce KITCHEN, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: If not for life, at least until january Subject(s): Divorce LAST LETTER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A proper interval, and then Subject(s): Divorce; Remarriage; Grief; Second Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness LAST SUPPER IN MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father-in-law begins the feast Last Line: Kept flying through the leaves. Subject(s): Divorce; Fathers-in-law; Food & Eating; Montana; Prayer LOREEN TELLS YOU HOW TO GET AWAY WITH IT, by NITA PENFOLD Poem Source First Line: You fly out of boston, sitting on the runway for three hours Last Line: Happened, maybe only once Subject(s): Divorce LOVE BUGS, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: They're orange and black Last Line: My fingers won't turn into icicles Subject(s): Divorce MAKE WINE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Let the grapes grow in the backyard Last Line: Stand the upright %beautiful bottles in blood red rows Subject(s): Divorce; Drinks And Drinking; Grief; Marriage MARGARITAS, by TANIA ROCHELLE Poem Source First Line: Beri is the funniest girl in the world Last Line: You have to really trust a man to have sober sex Subject(s): Divorce MARINA LOUNGE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I'm listening to ole miss colonels Last Line: Pooling on the field like a fake strip - tease Subject(s): Divorce MARRIAGE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under its angry skin, her grief Last Line: A new wife, wants her to take him in, %produce a pearl Subject(s): Divorce MEMORIAL DAY, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: Fireworks are exploding over the hotel northampton Last Line: This star-spangled weekend that crawls toward the divorce? Subject(s): Divorce; Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman I used to know well died Last Line: How could you have let this happen to you? Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Marriage; Memory; Past; Time; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MIDNIGHT, by TONY GLOEGGLER Poem Source First Line: You want no one to know Last Line: Play it back twice Subject(s): Divorce MIDSUMMER EVE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let silence with her long pale hands ravish the / violin Last Line: Oh! Elfin hands to-night. Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MISS COCA COLA, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I knew there was no way I could give her Last Line: That even in the dark don't lose their fizz Subject(s): Divorce MODERN LOVE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By this he knew she wept with waking eyes Last Line: Each wishing for the sword that severs all. Subject(s): Divorce; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MODERN LOVE: 50, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus piteously love closed what he begat Last Line: To throw that faint thin line upon the shore! Variant Title(s): "thus Piteously Love Closed What He Begat""; Subject(s): Divorce; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOONLIGHT, NIGHT SWEATS, AND MADNESS, by JEANNE MARIE LUTZ Poem Source First Line: Brighter than the sun, %the moonlight wakes her Last Line: Light will be enough of him %to be her Subject(s): Divorce MOTHER, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Now, it's our children Last Line: Finally, on batteries Subject(s): Divorce MOTHER'S SIDEWALK, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Once more her heart had stopped Last Line: And pop her back Subject(s): Divorce MOVING AGAIN, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night the mountains look like huge Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Divorce MY MARRIAGE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It goes under like a spongy log Last Line: Divorce keeps it real and intact, %like a fossil Subject(s): Divorce MY MOTHER ATTENDS THE WEDDING OF MY DAUGHTER, by CAROL PECKHAM Poem Source Last Line: To make you see Subject(s): Divorce MY PARENTS' WAR, by TOM CHANDLER Poem Source First Line: She is draped in a simple sundress Last Line: Of prisoners, this armistice to which no side agrees Subject(s): Divorce; Marriage NAME ON MOTHER'S CHECK, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I'd never thought of her as a person herself - Last Line: When you know who you are you'll never know Subject(s): Divorce NEAR HERON LAKE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: During the night, horses passed close Last Line: The marriage might never end Subject(s): Divorce NECESSITIES, by MARY SCOTT Poem Source First Line: After divorce, %my new condo Last Line: Wanting more than he can give Subject(s): Divorce NEGLECTED WIFE, by YI TALCH'UNG Poem Source First Line: One moon of joy I knew Last Line: But why was your parting gift to me %another folding fan? Subject(s): Divorce NOTE THIS, by LISA ALLEN ORTIZ Poem Source First Line: Because your face came at me like a fist, and because you tore Last Line: Please %leave now Subject(s): Divorce NOTHING ELABORATE: NOTHING CONTEMPORARY, by KIMMIKA L. H. WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: When the final paper came %legal document Last Line: Nothing contemporary; %just, %I be! Subject(s): Divorce OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 14. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE TENTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smith, by suit divorced, the known adult'ress Last Line: Tree embrace, again the fatal halter. Subject(s): Divorce ON READING POEMS TO A CLASS AT SOUTH HIGH, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: It was the day's first class. Kids sat Last Line: Till she wasn't sure they were fins Subject(s): Divorce ON THE EARL OF ESSEX, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Essex, twice made unhappy by a wife Last Line: Contracted be into a span of dust. Subject(s): Divorce; Essex, Robert Devereaux, 3d Earl Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR DIVORCE, by JANICE MOORE FULLER Poem Source First Line: You will find me under the smallest box on my nightstand Last Line: Every word waits for permission to be forgotten, to be spoken Subject(s): Divorce ON THE THRESHOLD, by LE ROY J. N. BOYD Poem Text First Line: When come the thoughts of things that might have Last Line: For I have only a poor home. Subject(s): Divorce; Longing; Regret ONION, MEMORY, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Divorced, but friends again at last Last Line: And afterwards, I blunder with the washing on the line - %headless torsos, faceless lovers, friends Subject(s): Divorce OVER A DRINK AT DORSHEID'S BAR, by MARY SCOTT Poem Source First Line: A man asks loreen why women Last Line: The same kind of jerk again Subject(s): Divorce PARTNERS, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: At psycho dysco fashion is foreplay Last Line: Rolled down their ankles like life preservers Subject(s): Divorce PAST FRIENDSHIP, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We that were friends, yet are not now Last Line: The thing that we have done! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Variant Title(s): Divorced Subject(s): Divorce; Friendship PATIENCE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: If you're the woman I love Last Line: Rest, lover, you have no more to prove Subject(s): Divorce PAUSE IN OUR DIVORCE, by J. TARWOOD Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow, we start again Last Line: Who played football in no man's land before verdun Subject(s): Absence; Divorce PEOPLE GETTING DIVORCED, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Once the heel %has been replaced Subject(s): Divorce PERSONAL ADS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I paid her twice a week Subject(s): Divorce PERSONAL ADS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I paid her twice a week Last Line: Children you never had will ask you why Subject(s): Divorce PIER MIDNIGHT, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I had just gone through a second divorce Last Line: Like a rare blonde thousand - legger Subject(s): Divorce PLUMBING, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I was in bed alone. The kitchen sink Last Line: In the plumbing, still knocking when I flushed Subject(s): Divorce POEMS FOR THE BREASTS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like other identical twins, they can be Subject(s): Breasts; Divorce POODLE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: If it's a downpour, alexander pope Last Line: Dogs marking their art think they're poodles Subject(s): Divorce PUTTING AWAY RINGS, by MARY KOLADA SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Friday afternoon, I have no business Last Line: The last nail hammered in the lid of her coffin Subject(s): Divorce QUATRAIN: BEAU KNOTS, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: Folks used to get married Last Line: To sorta rehearse. Subject(s): Divorce QUESTIONS, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Enough was left of the wood duck when I Last Line: On his back, proof all works out in the end Subject(s): Divorce QUINCY, CALIFORNIA, by TONY GLOEGGLER Poem Source First Line: The kind of town we stopped Last Line: Forty years old, wanting your first child Subject(s): Divorce RANT OF THE RECENTLY SEPARATED, by PETER WADE Poem Source First Line: I wish I could yell at you but my anger has turned inward to Last Line: Only place I can go where the people are as fucked up as I %am Subject(s): Divorce READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel in which the main character used etcetera Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Marriage; Relationships; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives READING AFTER A CALL FROM MY EX-WIFE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read a novel in which the main character used etcetera Last Line: Become so again, for a while Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Marriage; Relationships REAL TIME, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: .. Where hiroshima was, someone said, there's a little star, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Divorce RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RECONCILIATION, by MEG FILES Poem Source First Line: We meet in this foreign cafe outside Last Line: Where we are exiled, are clean Subject(s): Divorce RENUNCIATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lifted rood thy days have hewn Last Line: For this, o love, for this! Subject(s): Divorce; Flowers; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RIDER, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time we are getting drunk on retsina Subject(s): Family Life; Divorce; Relatives SCHUBERT IN FLORIDA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you slunk across my dream Subject(s): Divorce; Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness SEEING IN THE DARK, by PETER DESEY Poem Source First Line: Twenty-five years sharing %the same bed, table and skins Last Line: There must be more than this Subject(s): Divorce SEPARATION, by SUSAN RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: We could have been new zealand's Last Line: Your falling rain, %my rising mist Subject(s): Divorce SEPARATION, by BRUCE TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: The morning, %this miracle, %we kiss and stir Last Line: You stay there, %so close Subject(s): Divorce SESTINA FROM THE HOME GARDENER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These dried-out paint brushes which fell from my lips have been removed Subject(s): Divorce SESTINA FROM THE HOME GARDENER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These dried-out paint brushes which fell from my lips have been removed Last Line: Counts of drops will substitute the pointed mountain, far away, unfamiliar? Subject(s): Divorce SETTLEMENT, by SHERMAN PEARL Poem Source First Line: Simple surgery, %a few scissor snips and we're Last Line: Where we'd stood together, %half a child Subject(s): Divorce SETTLEMENT, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Who gets custody of the bones Last Line: Oh yes, he said. Oh yes Subject(s): Divorce SHAME, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness SHARK, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: This one had on a pair of sunglasses Last Line: But nothing sundown wouldn't correct Subject(s): Divorce SHAVING DADDY, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: His head over the basin like a horse Last Line: The questions, the more we had to say Subject(s): Divorce SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night, wasted, I went back and climbed the fence Last Line: Of a newborn daughter. Subject(s): Divorce; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness SLINGSHOT BUNNY, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Easter, he hopped like an faulty popcorn Last Line: And both my ears melting longer each year Subject(s): Divorce SOME PLACES I'VE DRIVEN FROM, by LAWRENCE MALLORY Poem Source First Line: The land here lies flat beneath the sky Last Line: My book on my lap and think road Subject(s): Divorce SONNET, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A man talking to his ex-wife on the phone. Last Line: Patient animals, and tangled vines, and rain. Subject(s): Love; Divorce; Nostalgia SONNET: 12. ON THE DETRACTION FOLLOWED MY WRITING TREATISES (2), by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs Last Line: For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood. Variant Title(s): Second Sonnet On Tetrachordon Subject(s): Divorce; Freedom; Liberty SPARROW, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Was pancake flat, a hatpin leg straight up Last Line: ('where will you get the stones. Why so damn big?') %then some king tut made it the latest rage Subject(s): Divorce SPEED LOVE OF THE SWALLOW AND SHARK, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Although she thought Last Line: Isn't even a fish Subject(s): Divorce SPEEDY TOUPEE SEES THROUGH HIMSELF, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I can't forget I have one on. It's real Last Line: My head's glass, my life's a revolving door Subject(s): Divorce SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMOS SIBLEY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not character, not fortitude, not patience Last Line: If I make money thus, I will divorce her. Subject(s): Divorce SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. CHARLES BLISS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reverend wiley advised me not to divorce him Last Line: Preachers and judges! Subject(s): Divorce SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: REV. LEMUEL WILEY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I preached four thousand sermons Last Line: Happy themselves, a credit to the village. Subject(s): Divorce STAINED GLASS, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I'm not a believer, but my knees were Last Line: Shadow was faithful only to the light Subject(s): Divorce STANDING UP STIFF, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I told my mom I hated her Last Line: Standing up stiff Subject(s): Absence; Children; Divorce; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs STARTING OVER, by LOUIS MCKEE Poem Source First Line: After the divorce it took awhile Last Line: And her wardrobe, now, is next to none Subject(s): Divorce STILL LIFE, by LAWRENCE RUSS Poem Source First Line: The plate lies in pieces where it fell Last Line: Of stores closed for the night Subject(s): Divorce STUDENTS, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: So, mother's going on. The heart Last Line: Even a banana peel to stand on Subject(s): Divorce STUMP ON THE OKATOMA CREEK SANDBAR, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Picasso was her god, so I made wise Last Line: For perfect sunday school attendance Subject(s): Divorce SUNDAY BRUNCH, by SUSAN L. HELWIG Poem Source First Line: A meal with children borrowed Last Line: One day they will know this craving too Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Survival SUPPER, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: She gazed and talked, her crystal ball a glass Last Line: All in mcheaven laid me down and slept Subject(s): Divorce TALKNG AMONG OURSELVES, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rental cottage it comes to me, Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Divorce; Grief; Half-brothers; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness TEN-POUND BIBLE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Just three weeks ago I was doing art - Last Line: Below the belt and the jocks killing time Subject(s): Divorce THE BROKEN HOME, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing the street, / I saw the parents and the child Subject(s): Divorce THE FLURRY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we talk about when to tell the kids Subject(s): Divorce THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: FEBRUARY 11TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is favorable for real-estate affairs Last Line: As we dance the karate, and mad burlesque Subject(s): Divorce THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who looked strong? That was years ago. That was me Subject(s): Strength; Divorce; Solitude; Transience; Impermanence THE MARRIAGE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under its angry skin, her grief Subject(s): Divorce THE POWER OF INNOCENCE, by C. G." "H. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "a northern pair, we waive the name, / rich, young and not unknown to fame" Last Line: "ye that have passions for a tear, / give nature vent, and drop it here!" Alternate Author Name(s): "h., C. G.; Subject(s): Divorce THE RING, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I carry it on my keychain, which itself Subject(s): Rings; Keys; Divorce THE VICTIMS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mother divorced you, we were glad. She took it and Subject(s): Divorce THE WITNESS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The divorce judge has asked for a witness Subject(s): Trials; Divorce THEIR DIVORCE & THE REMAINING LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Suddenly it was silent--the snow Last Line: When we walk in the continuing snow. Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Snow THINKING TOO MUCH: THE DANCING BEAR, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: It was greek tragedy, the dancing bear Last Line: How to avoid the hole, he went through it Subject(s): Divorce THORN, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: My son snoring and lying on his back Last Line: In his diaper turns out to be his crown Subject(s): Divorce THOUGHTS ON THE DEATH OF AN EX-HUSBAND, by STEPHANIE KAPLAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: My once love, %at the end Last Line: Of what we had hoped %to become Subject(s): Divorce THREE FLORIDA ORANGES, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I was at my towne house, and terri was Last Line: Each a nugget bigger than my fist Subject(s): Divorce TIME AND SPACE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made her cry in public. They were singing, uproariously Last Line: Spared me the news. Years later, a thoughtless stranger told me Subject(s): Divorce TO A FRIEND WITH A HYPHENATED NAME, AFTER HER DIVORCE, by CATHY SMITH-BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Because neither name %made commotion enough to matter Last Line: You lay it down beside you %in the dark Variant Title(s): Conversation With My Hymen After The Divorc Subject(s): Divorce TO A SINGLE MOTHER, by MEG+(1) CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: You never forget Last Line: You always run, awake Subject(s): Divorce TRAVEL, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: My wife was in oklahoma Last Line: One ghost town after another Subject(s): Divorce TRIANGULATIONS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months of mute resentment, and now you mail Last Line: You'll see: emilia goes to the wall … Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Divorce UPON HEARING OF ANOTHER MARRIAGE BREAKING UP, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Saw an upside-down horse in a puddle. Subject(s): Guilt; Divorce UPON HEARING OF MY FRIEND'S MARRIAGE BREAKING UP, I ENVISION ATTACK, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Even in september moon, the ground hog Last Line: As dog costumes go Variant Title(s): Upon Hearing Of My Friend's Marriage Breaking Up Subject(s): Divorce UPON HEARING OF MY FRIEND'S MARRIAGE BREAKING UP, I ENVISION ATTACK, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in september moon, the ground hog Last Line: To get them working again Variant Title(s): Upon Hearing Of My Friend's Marriage Breaking U Subject(s): Divorce VACATION: CALIFORNIA COAST, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it's because we're all born into this world Last Line: Splitting, and wedding, and breaking, and healing Subject(s): Divorce; Healing; Seashore; Water; Cures; Beach; Coast; Shore VANDERGAST AND THE GIRL, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Extramarital Affairs; Divorce; Middle Age VICTIMS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mother divorced you, we were glad. She took it and Last Line: Given it all away and had nothing %left but this Subject(s): Divorce VIETNAM, MARTINI, AND CIGAR, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Dick tracy took a missile north of hue Last Line: Although a meadow was chomping pot holes Subject(s): Divorce VISITATION RITES, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My gentle son is performing tricks for me on his bicycle Last Line: Just in a flash in the sun he's suddenly perfected, and I'm gone. Subject(s): Bicycles; Divorce; Farewell; Sons; Youth; Cycling; Parting WAITING FOR THIS STORY TO END BEFORE I BEGIN ANOTHER, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my stories are about being left, Subject(s): Divorce; Relationships; Love WANDERING HOME, by JUDITH DICKERMAN-NELSON Poem Source First Line: My husband and I drive through two states Last Line: They can smell the path leading home, still Subject(s): Divorce WANTING A DIVORCE, by RYNN WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: How long it takes Last Line: My heel sinks %as it might into flesh Subject(s): Divorce WAY TO SURVIVE DIVORCE, by MEG+(1) CAMPBELL Poem Source Last Line: Unveiling her heart %with her hands Subject(s): Divorce WEDDING-RING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wedding-ring lies in a basket Subject(s): Divorce WEDDING-RING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wedding-ring lies in a basket Last Line: Into a simple gift I could give in friendship? Subject(s): Divorce WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?, by DOVID P. PRIMACK Poem Source First Line: Mother and father argue at night Last Line: I am a terrified lost little boy Subject(s): Divorce WHEN THE WIFE SLAMS A COFFEE CUP ON A TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS, by FRANK VAN ZANT Poem Source First Line: Husband's bland response yes, it was raining, but we didn't Last Line: Cup sounding with hope for what the husband might hear Subject(s): Divorce WHERE LOVE ONCE WAS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where love once was, let there be no hate Last Line: Where love once was. Subject(s): Divorce WHY I WILL NOT WRITE ABOUT A FAILED MARRIAGE, by PETER HEARNS LIOTTA Poem Source First Line: When it was over, when we were sure there could be nothing to save, I Last Line: Waves, now kiss the rocks. We did what we could Subject(s): Divorce WIFE OF THE FIELD TRIALS WINS THE RIBBON, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: A wife got me one pretty day. I'd come Last Line: Lo, near motels the prettiest will veer. Subject(s): Divorce WINTER, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Neighbors; Sons; Friendship; Suicide; Divorce WIPER, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: I thought irene might make it in the wrecked Last Line: But did go round and round Subject(s): Divorce WISHBONE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: Fig leaves are not what covers a woman's Last Line: One stopped pulling, or sometimes both Subject(s): Divorce YOU RIPPED OUT THE IVY, by WILLIAM DUKE Poem Source First Line: On a gray day %drops fall silently in the garden Last Line: It's your garden now Subject(s): Divorce YOUR SHADOW IS DEATH'S ACCOUNTANT, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: And it's always correct Last Line: The entries long and short Subject(s): Divorce |
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