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Subject: EMPTINESS
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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