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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EMPTINESS Matches Found: 80 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1ST, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember about that day Last Line: Nothing about the emptied rooms %nothing about the emptied family Variant Title(s): Evictio Subject(s): Children; Emptiness; Memory A CASTLE-BUILDER'S WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unripe harvest there hath none to reap it Last Line: Shades of bodies without souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Emptiness; Desolation ABSENT, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary of being surrounded by things Last Line: Mocking me with the emptiness of my house. Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Separation; Isolation ACHILL, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay Subject(s): Emptiness; Longing; Nostalgia ACHILL, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay Last Line: As I glance through a few thin pages and switch off the light Subject(s): Emptiness; Longing; Nostalgia AFTER ACTIUM: LOSS FILLING THE EMPTINESS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers do not move in the windless pause Last Line: As you in me now, all the time, day after day Subject(s): Actium, Battle Of (31 B.c.); Emptiness; Loss ALL NIGHT THEY WILL SPEAK ABOUT LILACS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Still burning %out of season. The sky flames, embracing all Last Line: Await us %on the jericho road? Subject(s): Emptiness; Night; Shadows ALLATOONA EVENING, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half a mile through a briar scrub thickening to woods Last Line: These three stars soaking up twilight. Subject(s): Ambition; Emptiness; Happiness; Success; Joy; Delight AN EMPTY LITTLE BED, by AUDREY LEE KIRKMAN Poem Text First Line: There is such a world of heartache Last Line: Of a laughing little boy. Subject(s): Emptiness; Memory APOCRYPHA, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Everything will be forsaken then Last Line: Trickling, the empty ditch trickles down Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Exiles; Farewell; Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Orphans; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude AS YOU CAME FROM THE HOLY LAND, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of western new york state Subject(s): Emptiness; Experience; Time ATGET'S GARDENS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it always a dream then? Last Line: Water, in the eyes of the poet Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Emptiness; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness BEAUTY, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: He looked inside to find beauty Last Line: To plant a small animal Subject(s): Emptiness; Love - Loss Of BLACK CROSS FARM, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After full many a mutual delay Last Line: The secret of the black cross back with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crosses; Emptiness; Farm Life; Home; Secrets; Agriculture; Farmers BRIGHTER, by SUSAN HUTTON Poem Source First Line: Walking into an empty house Last Line: The snowfall brightens everything, %regardless Subject(s): Emptiness; Light; Snow CHRISTMASTIDE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not go tonight to bethlehem Last Line: To guide me on to holy bethlehem. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christianity; Christmas; Emptiness; Nativity, The CLOSETS HAVE REMAINED EMPTY FOREVER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Then she begins to sing Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Emptiness; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures DOMESTIC LIFE: 1. TODAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open yourself up: today Last Line: Except cold inside. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Emptiness; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations EMPTINESS, by YOANY BELDARRAIN Poem Source First Line: Like a black hole Subject(s): Emptiness EMPTINESS, by ADOLFO COELHO DA ROCHA Poem Source First Line: The sun dies beheaded in the tilled lands Last Line: Undulates, %and never ripens! Subject(s): Emptiness EMPTINESS, by YUSUF O. KASSAM Poem Source First Line: People walk Last Line: Yes, the very soil under my feet lacks fertility Subject(s): Emptiness EMPTINESS, by LAURIE KIRK Poem Source First Line: The radio was playing old songs Last Line: And the rosebush is beautiful %though its only flowers are thorns Subject(s): Emptiness EMPTINESS, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To meet that void of emptiness - Subject(s): Emptiness EMPTINESS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Give me rest eyes of the jealous film over Subject(s): Emptiness; Solitude EMPTINESS, by GEORGE TRIBUNE Poem Source First Line: Good intentions %candy coat Last Line: A vast volid %of emptiness Subject(s): Emptiness EMPTINESS, by DEREK WELSH Poem Source First Line: This emptiness inside of me Last Line: And gone now is the will to live Subject(s): Emptiness EMPTINESS OF MAN, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: The emptiness of man is not like %any other Last Line: Or the emptiness that swells by being empty Subject(s): Emptiness EMPTY ROOM, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: My wife is %gone Last Line: I'll rise above the far-off river, %a crescent moon Subject(s): Absence; Death; Emptiness; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Prisons And Prisoners FAKE SPOTS, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like air / in rocks, fake Subject(s): Apartments; Emptiness FINIS TERRAE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: At last the earth stripped of all the voices of women Last Line: The time without time of death Subject(s): Art And Artists; Emptiness; Paintings And Painters; Poetry And Poets FOR A DISSOLVING MUSIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be seen? Last Line: Not hope of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Emptiness; Old Age; Solitude GERONTION, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am, an old man in a dry month Last Line: Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Decay; Emptiness; Old Age; Estrangement; Outcasts; Rot; Decadence I CAN'T SEE EVEN STARLIGHT, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: After vomiting everything Last Line: And I can't see even starlight Subject(s): Emptiness; Prisons And Prisoners II. (WITHOUT BANISTER), by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The immense stairs without banister, which the diaphanous flag of your en- Last Line: Entrance of the illustrious deceased Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Death; Emptiness IN AN EMPTY HOUSE, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the walls the paper's blue is vanished Last Line: Leaving their yet unforgotten trace. Subject(s): Emptiness; Houses, Deserted; Memory IN THE STILLNESS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Lightning arises %in the stillness Last Line: Thank you, rinpoche %in the stillness Subject(s): Emptiness; Silence INSIDE THE ROOM, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: There's not much to notice: against the far wall Last Line: The ending, the slow opening. Subject(s): Emptiness; Loss; Mothers; Rain INTERIOR, by BORIS NOVAK Poem Source First Line: Mysterious are the characters of things close to us Last Line: And my trousers without my legs. Empty Subject(s): Emptiness; Solitude INVITE ME INTO YOUR DREAM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: The root of the foliage of the morning Subject(s): Emptiness; Hearts; Love; Memory; Paintings And Painters IT'S SO EASY; JUST RECANT, by MYKOLA RUDENKO Poem Source Last Line: A dungeon concealed in a man Subject(s): Emptiness; Human Rights JARS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Now you find, along the river, red clay and black clay Last Line: It more than if were brimming with blood Subject(s): Desolation; Emptiness KEATS' PHRASE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Emptiness LONELINESS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Lonely %indeed Last Line: Is an unexpected gift Subject(s): Emptiness; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude LOVING ON EMPTY, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: If only you had given me Last Line: Still not knowing what hit her Subject(s): Death; Emptiness; Love MAN WHO CANNOT CONTROL HIS BODY, by JOHN NIEKRASZ Poem Source First Line: Is in the window - naked - across the street Last Line: Of the wholeness he only feels %in his sleep Subject(s): Emptiness MARRIED, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: Dining with him at home, she looked between Last Line: Now empty, ineffectual, and blurred. Subject(s): Boredom; Emptiness; Marriage; Nothingness; Ennui; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nihilism; Voids MORNING'S MAIL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: This emptiness has never known a sound Last Line: Why leave these burning words unsigned? Subject(s): Emptiness; Language; Letters MY ROAD'S BEYOND BLUE EMPTINESS, by SHU SHAN K'UANG-JEN Poem Source Last Line: The wind gives all of its yellow leaves back Subject(s): Emptiness; Zen Buddhism NOTHING, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Out of desire, everything begins Last Line: Out of desire %everything is born Subject(s): Desire; Emptiness; Love; Prisons And Prisoners NOTHING, by RICHARD PORSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mysterious nothing! How shall I define Last Line: And -- like my sonnet -- all in nothing end. Subject(s): Emptiness OLD PEOPLE ON THE NURSING HOME PORCH, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Able at last to stop Subject(s): Emptiness; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living OLD PEOPLE ON THE NURSING HOME PORCH, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Able at last to stop Subject(s): Emptiness; Nursing Homes; Old Age OLD WHITE SOUP BOWL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One of us is always empty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Emptiness; Nature ON VACATION, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things seem empty Last Line: Driven by that density home Subject(s): Emptiness; Vacation ON VACATION, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things seem empty Last Line: Driven by that density home Subject(s): Emptiness; Vacation PRAISE TO THE EMPTINESS THAT BLANKS OUT EXISTENCE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Emptiness SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I am falling through the branches of a tree Last Line: To break my bones. Subject(s): Emptiness THE 1ST, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I remember about that day Last Line: Nothing about the emptied family Variant Title(s): Eviction Subject(s): Children; Emptiness; Memory; Childhood THE THREAT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: How tame has earth become Last Line: The thirst of emptiness. Subject(s): Earth; Emptiness; World THE WASTE LAND (1-5, COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: April is the cruellest month, breeding Last Line: Shantih shantih shantih Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Civilization; Decay; Emptiness; Rot; Decadence THEY ARE ALIVE ALTHOUGH CELADON, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The house is lightly lived in Last Line: But he lives here, he really lives here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Abandonment; Emptiness; Grief; Loss THIRST, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: All vessels are athirst,' the potter went on to say to me Last Line: Vessel, which likewise is a thirsty mouth' Subject(s): Affliction; Emptiness THIS, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: Is where it all begins the ant-feast Last Line: To the scabbed shade %of its emptiness Subject(s): Emptiness THIS STRANGENESS IN MY LIFE, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is so hard to see where it is Last Line: As someone else, not ever remembered. Subject(s): Emptiness; Solitude; Loneliness THIS-THAT, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: It scratches on the door Last Line: Rocked in the wind's cradle Subject(s): Emptiness; Grief; Rain; Storms; Water; Wind TOAST, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: The sisters huddle together in the youngest one's Last Line: And is busy at the moment forgetting even their names Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Emptiness; Sisters; Toasts TREAD THE DARK: 12. AN ACCOUNT IN THE PRESENT TENSE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am about to close the refigerator after removing a package of meat Last Line: We look at each other, beginning to understand Subject(s): Emptiness; Food And Eating; Hunger; Hunting; Landlords And Tenants VESSELS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: We are all vessels,' said the potter; and, as I smiled Last Line: Because the highest ardor has that tremendous whiteness' Subject(s): Emptiness; Love - Complaints VOID IS EMPTY, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: The sky's been murdered Last Line: Is the graven image we have fashioned Subject(s): Emptiness VOID ONLY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time like glass / space like glass Last Line: "of the coiling mind Subject(s): Emptiness VOID ONLY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time like glass %space like glass Last Line: Of the coiling mind %only Subject(s): Emptiness WAITING, by JANE COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body knows it will never bear children Last Line: Filling you with poems Subject(s): Emptiness; Infertility WAITING, by JANE COOPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body knows it will never bear children Last Line: Breathe in and out of you Subject(s): Emptiness; Infertility WEARYIN' FOR YOU, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jes' a - wearyin' for you Last Line: Jes' a-wearyin' for you! Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness WIND AND WATER AND STONE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water hollowed the stone Subject(s): Emptiness WIND AND WATER AND STONE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water hollowed the stone Last Line: Water and stone and wind Subject(s): Emptiness WISH: 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: This is no place to stay Last Line: You who calls me %from afar Subject(s): Emptiness; Hearts; Love; Prisons And Prisoners; Wishes WITHOUT BEGINNING, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of breezes drifting through pine Subject(s): Emptiness WORLD'S END, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: At the world's end Last Line: Time goes so fast %in this empty country Subject(s): Earth; Emptiness; Judgment Day YOU WAKE UP WITHOUT, by GEMMA COOPER-NOVAK Poem Source First Line: You wake up without: finding inside Last Line: Much too, %to figure out Subject(s): Emptiness |
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