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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HEALING Matches Found: 395 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 48 YEARS MARRIED AND NOT A HAPPY ONE AMONG EM, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Here's the old man determined to hold Last Line: And handed me the lids. %there was some sweet ones in there,too Subject(s): Healing A DOCTOR'S CENTURY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A doctor's century dead and gone! Last Line: And to the past a glad good-night. Subject(s): Healing; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Cures; Doctors A RECEIPT TO CURE A LOVE FIT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tie one end of a rope fast over a beam Last Line: And leave all the rest of the work to the string Subject(s): Crickets;healing;love;swings; Cures ABERRANTS, by MARGARET KEY BIGGS Poem Source First Line: He told me of her aberrations Last Line: I smiled feebly as he told me this, %and I wondered when they would come for me Subject(s): Healing ACCIDENTS, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: When I was eight, I broke Last Line: I was a root pushing for air, %and I was still growing Subject(s): Healing ACUPENCTURE AND NATURAL HEALING: RUSHING THE INNER FRONTIER, by TOM TIMMINS Poem Source First Line: I remember my brother's note Last Line: That lined our childhood street %have all been cut down, tom Subject(s): Healing ACUPENCTURE AND NATURAL HEALING: THE ULTIMATE SOURCE, by TOM TIMMINS Poem Source First Line: Some people come here Last Line: Other %reveal their souls Subject(s): Healing ACUPENCTURE AND NATURAL HEALING: WIND POND, by TOM TIMMINS Poem Source First Line: What can I %do to keep well?' Last Line: Why don't you learn %to ride the waves Subject(s): Healing ACUPUNCTURE AND NATURAL HEALING: FLY AND SCATTER, by TOM TIMMINS Poem Source First Line: Two hours of talk Last Line: My new doctor %every day now! Subject(s): Healing ACUPUNCTURE AND NATURAL HEALING: GREAT ENVELOPING, by TOM TIMMINS Poem Source First Line: If I wear my watch Last Line: Of her treatment room %where I wear %no watch, %no shoes Subject(s): Healing ACUPUNCTURE AND NATURAL HEALING: JOINING THE VALLEYS, by TOM TIMMINS Poem Source First Line: I told her I was Last Line: You'll get used to it. %it's just the absence of pain.' Subject(s): Healing ACUPUNCTURE AND NATURAL HEALING: OUTER FRONTIER GATE, by TOM TIMMINS Poem Source First Line: On the drive home Last Line: Blossoming over %a raucous stand of %buddy maple Subject(s): Healing ACUPUNCTURE AND NATURAL HEALING: PALACE OF WEARINESS, by TOM TIMMINS Poem Source First Line: Is that real pain Last Line: When you stab the needles %into my palms? Subject(s): Healing ACUPUNCTURE AND NATURAL HEALING: PRINCE'S GRANDSON, by TOM TIMMINS Poem Source First Line: It is the return of spring Last Line: Of beautiful women %leading me to their beds? Subject(s): Healing ADDICTION, by JOYCE ODAM Poem Source First Line: I have survived one day without you Last Line: I do not speak. %I make one tally %on the calendar Subject(s): Healing AFTER TALKING ABOUT POETRY, by E. P. BOLLIER Poem Source First Line: How to explain, even to myself Last Line: So I'll sit here, contemplating %until dawn. Nevertheless.... Subject(s): Healing AFTER THE CLASS, by WILLIAM PACKARD Poem Source First Line: After the class, after that last 11th hour asking Last Line: It is raining words words words %the syllables go dribbling down my beard Subject(s): Healing AFTER THE PLANE CRASH, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: My second day in the hospital Last Line: I thought, and looked harder, %taking every little last thing in Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Healing; Hospitality; Miracles; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival AFTER WITNESSING A SEIZURE, by JUDITH SKILLMAN Poem Source First Line: The victim's persona shifts, as if by plain Last Line: In a plaid blanket, helping her %in a wooden chair Subject(s): Healing AFTERMATH, by JUDITH HOUGEN Poem Source First Line: The morning is like others Last Line: To life, the pen gives its ink Subject(s): Healing AIDS, by ELSPETH CAMERON RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: My sperm encapsulates skulls Last Line: I wait for needles %and creeping snake death %where is the garden? Subject(s): Healing ALL HALLOW'S EVE, by E. P. BOLLIER Poem Source First Line: This then is the use of memory: that love endure Last Line: Let all who in our memory live %join us tonight once more in love Subject(s): Healing ALL ROADS LEADING ME TO, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: To night and its %faith in the time %of healing Subject(s): Forests; France; Healing; Nature; Paintings And Painters AN APPEAL FOR THOMAS ELLIOT, THE SHOEMAKER POET, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor tom's a-cold!' upon his shrinking head Last Line: Lend to the lord—he surely will repay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Healing; Poetry & Poets; Sickness; Cures; Illness AN EPISTLE TO DR. GUIBBONS, A CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To trace all-wondrous nature's latent ways Last Line: Should be himself detain'd amidst us too. Subject(s): Death; Healing; Letters; Nature; Physicians; Praise; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors ANESTHESIA, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night the landlord lets them in Last Line: Tell them to stop the anesthesia. %doctor, tell them, tell them to love me Subject(s): Healing ANOTHER SURGERY / I SHOULD BE PREPARED BY NOW, by MARY JO BANG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pass me the specimen - that warm souvenir-- %words, floating in a blood-tinged bath Subject(s): Healing ANSWER, by W. C. GOSNELL Poem Source First Line: I wish I could tell you Last Line: Must weather many hard lessons %and then fade away Subject(s): Healing ANTI-FATHER, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contrary to / tales you told us Last Line: Inconceivably intimate Subject(s): Healing; Cures ANTI-FATHER, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contrary to %tales you told us Last Line: Me and you, %woman to man, %outer space is %inconceivably %intimate Subject(s): Healing APRAXIA, by MARGARET ROBISON Poem Source First Line: Cars and truck come and go Last Line: Was in the beginning was in the %beginning was %the word %the word Subject(s): Healing ARM AS AN INSTRUMENT, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: In the moonlight %your arm has separate life Last Line: But it is also a message %that comes from the other side Subject(s): Healing ASYMPTOTE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: And so, it was not so much that goldin had been cured-if we Last Line: Asymptotes-goldin should be grateful-but to whom? Subject(s): Gratitude; Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SACERDOTAL, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Overhead next day from a goodhearted underpaid nurse's aide Last Line: Gold was brow's goal, gut's rot has made it dross. %watch me shape shapely silver from gold's loss Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SACRAMENT, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Days passed. Am now sealed from all the blurs I forgot Last Line: Plugged into gimmicks of expensive ouch, %I squint gray cataracts at what regreens Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SACRE DE PRINTEMPS, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Just once %to be one with the dew on the leaf, with the sun's Last Line: A shot of morphine its opium, %its garden the surgery room Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SACRED CODE, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: All my life is a search: to hear - to decipher - her source Last Line: She's throbbing throb-throbbing a message most urgent %in a code I cannot read Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SACRED ODE, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Right now as I talk, are her seas, are my shores Last Line: From lungfish-ancestor's beachhead to birth's first arena. %then, vulva of unda marina, sway me the Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SACRED WOOD, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Land of shy kindnesses and embarrassing stains Last Line: Crashes: 'so be it.' share %leftovers; dregs matter; some ashes %warm Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SACRILEGE, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Above the border that's the neck's Last Line: Half soother of storm, half stormy harridan, %don't let your clown-priest down Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SACROILIAC, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Must we blubber at death (what a dowdy gaffe) Last Line: That I'll never again hear tide. %far voice: 'bet recorded.' Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SAFE INLAND, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Hospital. Back from my sea trip (if that's where I've been) Last Line: No answer? I'm hurtling too headlong to hamper. %unda, where's to, where to? Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: SANCTUARY, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Enter (what price sanctuary?) a new kind of showdown Last Line: These my shares and these my riches %till the third fate's fatal shears Subject(s): Healing AT MY HOSTPIAL WINDOW: UNSACROSANCT, by PETER VIERECK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Can abstract set up shop behind shingles Last Line: I love you not less but touchably-human more-- %while on his scythe my waiting reaper leans Subject(s): Healing AT THE BESIDE OF A DYING GRANDFATHER WHO ONCE PLAYED VIOLIN, by ALISON TOUSTER REED Poem Source First Line: Start right in with the proper word Last Line: Like touching a baby. You know how. %look in his face. Come,say you love him Subject(s): Healing AT THE CROSSING, by LYUBOV SIROTA Poem Source First Line: A century of universal decay Last Line: When flocks of crows %circle over the city %in skies smoky, alarmed Subject(s): Healing AT THE WALL, by JOSEPH HARRIS Poem Source First Line: All over america %people come here Last Line: World without end. %world without end Subject(s): Healing BANGLA DESH: 2. THE BLOOD IN MY EYES, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Layer by layer, the dust of bitterness Last Line: Will be cleansed of blood forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Bangladesh; Blood; Eyes; Healing; Tears; Cures BARN SWALLOWS, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: You do not have to win prizes Last Line: Think of yourself as a barn swallow %making perfect circles above the mimosa Subject(s): Healing BEHOLD MY HANDS, by LULA G. WINSTON Poem Text Last Line: We'll feel thy wounds and know the touch divine. Subject(s): Healing; Peace; Sickness; Cures; Illness BILL IN BED, by DAVID STRINGER Poem Source First Line: Bill tells mehe is having a crisis of faith Last Line: I am jealous of this broken dying man. I see %now the death I missed Subject(s): Healing BIRCHES TANGLE, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In pines woodsmoke %crab apple %plum Last Line: Like a wound some %succulents put out %to bear fruit %and be healed Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Healing BLACKBIRD IN THE WALL, by SHARAN FLYNN TETTE Poem Source First Line: All morning I hunch on the sofa Last Line: While the bird behind the wall %beats her way up and out Subject(s): Healing BLUE FAIRY I PINNOCHIO AND GEPETTO DIALOGUE ..., by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Gepetto: help me to swim Last Line: Remember to hold your own child %as close to the music as you can Subject(s): Healing BOB SUMMERS' BODY, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never told this -- I saw bob summers' body Subject(s): Healing; Cures BOB SUMMERS' BODY, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never told this -- I saw bob summers' body Last Line: Nodding and smiling in the plush darkness Subject(s): Healing BODY BONDING, by PHYLLIS BEAUVAIS Poem Source First Line: She screams, lunging %with dog theeth of my bared neck I duck Last Line: As she should have been %held %waiting %until she comes home Subject(s): Healing BONES, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: The first time I felt them Last Line: In the street melting %there in front of you Subject(s): Healing BOURBON PRAYERS, by BERWYN MOORE Poem Source First Line: A letter today. Pray for us Last Line: Will hear if he wants to and listen %as the pipes clink in the falling dark Subject(s): Healing BRIEF ASSAY OF COMMUNICATION, by JR. THEODORE WOROZBYT Poem Source First Line: When our hearts depended on a word Last Line: Who are having words. %so far that's been useful Subject(s): Healing BRIEF BLUES FOR SINGING OUT THE HARMING SPIRIT, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Go now: %I embraced you once Last Line: I'll settle for ocean %instead of fever %behind these eyes Subject(s): Healing BURDEN, by LYUBOV SIROTA Poem Source First Line: How amazing Last Line: Even so, the burden is sacred, %the heavier %the dearer! Subject(s): Healing BY CANDLELIGHT, by NANCY PETERS HASTINGS Poem Source First Line: The woman with raven hair Last Line: Cloud confusion troubled %by lightning, stirred by wind Subject(s): Healing CALLING OFF THE WEDDING, by JUDY GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: It was buying the bed that did it Last Line: And voices were begging, loud as organ music, %don't do it, don't do it, don't do it Subject(s): Healing CALLING THE ANGELS, by SUSAN ARONS KATZ Poem Source First Line: As dusk I watched the slaughter Last Line: To keep you, menke, from loving words %into one last poem Subject(s): Healing CARVING, by BARBARA WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: This in the anger poem that won't come Last Line: Into a work of art %this is a love poem %for you, daddy Subject(s): Healing CASE HISTORY, by ROBERT NOREAULT Poem Source First Line: I had to get beyond the mind, the thought Last Line: I'd loved with where the cancer was too much Subject(s): Healing CAT'S CRADLE, by BAYLA WINTERS Poem Source First Line: I check into nuclear medicine Last Line: As a metaphor for the statistic %I've become Subject(s): Healing CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 1, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So this must be a mouth Last Line: Impossible words, look %at me Subject(s): Healing; Hospitals; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Surgery COLLISION, by SUSAN ARONS KATZ Poem Source First Line: Einstein said that death dissolves us Last Line: Thrown back into the soup of time, %how I will bear %the parting pain Subject(s): Healing COLLISION, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wind and change Last Line: A hand of leaves into dawn. Subject(s): Birds; Healing; Marriage; Cures; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COMING BACK, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Morphine on your doorstep Last Line: Walked through the muscle of thunder %without speaking Subject(s): Healing COMING TO TERMS WITH APRIL SNOW, by NORBERT KRAPF Poem Source First Line: The third spring since we Last Line: For a flight we hope %will go well as soon %as this weather clears? Subject(s): Healing CONTENDING WITH ENVY, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Winter-- %and more than breathing Last Line: That would be a better way to manage %spring Subject(s): Healing CURE, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: When the humpback's fluke Last Line: To the arms and the lips of the sea Subject(s): Healing; Hearts; Love CURE, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: She bled for twelve years Last Line: His coat beginning to show its age Subject(s): Healing CURE FOR AFFLICTIONS, by ARCHILOCHUS Poem Text First Line: Soul, rule thy passions, dry thy weeping eyes Last Line: No course of human things is in thy choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Archilochos Subject(s): Healing; Cures CURE OF LOGIC, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: What does not exist cannot speak, thought goldin Last Line: What cloudy film has closed off my mind like a cataract? Subject(s): Healing CURIOSITY, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What does a tomato know Subject(s): Healing DEAR MOTHER, I WANT TO WANT TO FORGIVE, by KENNETTE H. WILKES Poem Source First Line: I want to forgive the beatings, knotting winter limbs Last Line: Help hopin that god is not answerable to me should I inquire%exactly how many words I have taken to Subject(s): Healing DEEP IMAGES, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I open your door Last Line: Are children, those childrren you will never, %never see Subject(s): Healing DEEPNESS OF LEAVES AND LIGHT, by BERWYN MOORE Poem Source First Line: They come in to disclaim their lives Last Line: Towards unresurrected death, %dust visible in this windless half-light Subject(s): Healing DELICATE BOAT, by PAUL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: The stillness of morning Last Line: Let them rise and lift him %drift him free of this troubled shore Subject(s): Healing DENIAL, by VIVIAN SMALLWOOD Poem Source First Line: You are not here. The stone that bears your name Last Line: I turn my back upon this marble lie. %you are not dead. I will not let you die Subject(s): Healing DISAPPOINTED FATHER, by JOHN J. BRUGALETTA Poem Source First Line: Some men there are who look upon their sons Last Line: Had he the plain, unwrinkled sons I grow, %his soul would blaze so angry, mars should glow Subject(s): Healing DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE, by CONRAD ROSENBERG Poem Source First Line: Supine on cocoa-brown carpet Last Line: To rinse my mouth, %the taste of the taste stays Subject(s): Healing DORK, by SUSAN JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: The kardex said: admitted for Last Line: Your eyes closing in sleep. %your face rosy as a child's %that sigh Subject(s): Healing DOUBLE ENTENDRE: COLONY BREAKFAST, by LILA L. ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: Believe me, I did wake up Last Line: Lean in. At times we touch the edge %of what buries us %almost to the heart Subject(s): Healing DREAM TIME, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In the dream time Last Line: Like a rope in search of water %through the fire Subject(s): Healing ELECT, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Many the shadowless under the rose leaves Last Line: The soul of our daughter walks out %between the thorns, uplifted, no one %warbling her absence, ever Subject(s): Healing EMERGENCY ROOM, by ROGER GRANET Poem Source First Line: Once in february %behind unnecessary lights and sirens Last Line: Denying the last lifeless call: %'you gotta pronouce her, doc.' Subject(s): Healing ENTREATY, by ELSIE GLENN Poem Text First Line: Lord, grant me the right of the open fields Last Line: Heal me as a meadowlark bursts into song! Subject(s): Healing; Cures EVENING TEARS AND MORNING SONGS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening there is weeping Last Line: God shall wipe thy tears away! Subject(s): Healing; Cures EVERY DAY, by CAROL E. MILLER Poem Source First Line: There are flowers %tied in knots Last Line: I am a serious woman. %what I mean is to live Subject(s): Healing FABLE, by DAVID R. DAHL Poem Source First Line: There was a man who so hated the world Last Line: Will he remember who he was before %he changed into a pig Subject(s): Healing FACING THE ANGELS, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: I always wanted a room of them Last Line: Come, feed your soul the right food %and your brain will give you the right face Subject(s): Healing FAITH HEALER COME TO RABUN COUNTY, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seldom is that tent full, but tonight he expects the local radio Last Line: O sisters come to the altar, lay your hands on the radio. Subject(s): Healing; Revivals; Tents; Cures; Religious Revivals FAMOUS CATCH, by NATHAN SLACK Poem Source First Line: Me and my firend bryant Last Line: I would be very glad %because some nights %I cry because I can't Subject(s): Healing FATE, by LYUBOV SIROTA Poem Source First Line: I am working Last Line: May the flame of the redeemed soul shield you! Subject(s): Healing FED UP WITH LEFTOVERS, by DOROTHY MOSELEY SUTTON Poem Source First Line: You were inspired %at my initial fear, but I'm only human Last Line: Trouble is, I done tturned that burner off. %that supper's done got cold Subject(s): Healing FEMALE, by INGRID HUGHES Poem Source First Line: At the doctor's office where I went about the pebble in my breast Last Line: Darlings, I pray, holding one with each hand, %good globes of sex and life, fight on my side Subject(s): Healing FIGUREHEAD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching my paralytic friend Subject(s): Healing FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF MY LIFE, SELS., by MARJORIE LEES LINN Poem Source First Line: Death has crossed my mind Last Line: Withing this room and free %to live %as long as you remember Subject(s): Healing FIVE MONTHS AFTER MY STROKE, by MARGARET ROBISON Poem Source Last Line: Shaking the sumac. The lilac. The beech. %knocking the ripe apples together Subject(s): Healing FLAGSTONES, by ELSPETH CAMERON RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Tome to plant new bulbs Last Line: Plant thirty narcussus bulbs %and clumps of snowdrops Subject(s): Healing FOOT, by JEANNE MARIE FOSTER Poem Source First Line: When I saw the man's foot Last Line: I had not thought about this for years %until I saw that man's foot Subject(s): Healing FOR A LOST CHILD, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happens is, the kind of snow that sweeps Subject(s): Healing; Cures FOR A LOST CHILD, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happens is, the kind of snow that sweeps Last Line: I find your note left from a trip that year %our family traveled: 'daddy, we would meet here' Subject(s): Healing FOR ALISSA, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: This is a poem for my daughter Last Line: Which brought me to morning, %nudging their small way upward Subject(s): Healing FOR MY DAUGHTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die choose a star Subject(s): Daughters; Healing; Cures FOR MY DAUGHTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die choose a star Last Line: Me in darkness and silence %together Subject(s): Daughters; Healing FOR MY MOTHER ILL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll join you in your sleep Last Line: As you close your eyes, / its comfort Subject(s): Healing; Mothers; Sickness; Cures; Illness FOR MY MOTHER ILL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll join you in your sleep Last Line: As you close your eyes, %its comfort Subject(s): Healing; Mothers; Sickness FOR MY MOTHER, WHOSE FRIEND IS DYING, by LAURA POLLARD Poem Source First Line: All around me in the trees were talented people Last Line: What you have to give, I swear, %is loaves and fishes Subject(s): Healing FOUR THIEVES VINEGAR, by DEANNE LUNDIN Poem Source First Line: Stench and sting of the fires. Morning a dim of ash. Evening a Last Line: And they picked up the dead woman and carried her to the fires Subject(s): Healing; Plague; Vinegar FRIEND, by PAT SCHNEIDER Poem Source First Line: I run to you across the field Last Line: At the edge of the field %and my pockets aer full of your stories Subject(s): Healing FROM PERSEPHONE'S LETTERS TO DEMETER, by NAN FRY Poem Source First Line: You've got it all wrong, mother Last Line: Some to return to you, remembering %that I will return here,a seed Subject(s): Healing GENESIS, by ANYA ACHTENBERG Poem Source First Line: She sat on the stoop and looked out at all that had been made Last Line: As she stood on her thin legs in front of her teacher, %her own voice work its way into the air Subject(s): Healing GETTIN' WELL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When yer really sick abed Last Line: When I've been sick. Subject(s): Children; Healing; Sickness; Childhood; Cures; Illness GLIDERMAN, by SUE BRANNAN WALKER Poem Source First Line: Always when we drove up Last Line: Leaving your old heart %at the altar %with the collection Subject(s): Healing GOING HOME, by SUSAN JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Matt, listen to me Last Line: It is time to go to the place %where I live-- %I have already been home tonight Subject(s): Healing GOOD PHYSICIANS, by PETER WILD Poem Source First Line: Your family will be awed Last Line: That all cures are derived %from their patients' belief in them Subject(s): Healing GRACE BEFORE MEALS, by AMY JO SCHOONOVER Poem Source First Line: How carefully she used to set the table Last Line: And silver, of a ten-year holding period. %now intentions count for nothing. Now Subject(s): Healing GRANDMOTHER'S GIFTS, by PAMELA PORTWOOD Poem Source First Line: Shoes, purses, slips, nightgows, hose, scarfs Last Line: How little we knew each other %and how little is mattered Subject(s): Healing GRAPE SHERBERT, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The day? Memorial. / after the grill Last Line: You bothered, / father Subject(s): Healing; Cures GRAPE SHERBERT, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day? Memorial. %after the grill Last Line: Now I see why %you bothered %father Subject(s): Healing GURU, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The guru's eyes were sleepy-wise, so calm Subject(s): Healing GUSTAV GOTTHEIL, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God healed him while he slept Last Line: Chant kaddish at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Spiritual Healing; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Faith-cure HAUNTED, by JUDITH HIRSHMILLER Poem Source First Line: You will not leave me Last Line: Knowing that you will be there %& that I will leave again Subject(s): Healing HEALALL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the daily love, grass high Last Line: It will cure her. Subject(s): Healing; Plants; Cures; Planting; Planters HEALED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds like a pack of hounds Last Line: And its face was the face of a mother, and its voice was the voice of a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dust; Healing; Storms; Wind; Cures HEALING, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: From all the hustle, bustle, nerve-wear, noise Last Line: If once he knows the healing woods of maine. Subject(s): Forests; Healing; Life; Woods; Cures HEALING, by BESS HEATH OLMSTEAD Poem Text First Line: I thought I could not bear another spring Last Line: Forget-me-nots may gather, and heart's-ease. Subject(s): Flowers; Healing; Spring; Cures HEALING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The sun is rising Last Line: That is all Subject(s): Healing HEALINGS, by PAMELA MARIE USCHUK Poem Source First Line: Between dusk and the end of shadow Last Line: The peace rose I planted blooms %near the front door defying frost Subject(s): Healing HEART, by TOM CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: The heart, we tell ourselves, is a pump Last Line: What's measurable? The walk to the gate %before boarding. The solitary ride home Subject(s): Healing; Kent State University - Riot, 1970 HEARTCLEANING TIME, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took my small dreams from my heart Last Line: I put them back like new. Subject(s): Healing; Hearts; Love; Cures HER SUITCASE PACKED, by LYNNE H. DECOURCY Poem Source First Line: Her suitcase is packed Last Line: Her mouth and it would come inside %to fill her, fill her Subject(s): Healing HERBAL, by JOSEPH HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Sweet basil for the bowel Last Line: Visions of death will pass, %and eros rise to life Subject(s): Healing HOSPITAL SPACES, by ELSPETH CAMERON RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Life is defined by bounds Last Line: I can remember where the car is, %and that %yellow crocuses are blooming Subject(s): Healing HOSPITAL VISITS, 1955, by MARION ARENAS Poem Source First Line: Aren't you glad it isn't you? Mother said Last Line: Grieving, busy, we hardly wrote each other, %seldom called, and wre never alone again Subject(s): Healing HOW THE HEALING TAKES PLACE, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the face changes, the cloud Last Line: Stones from entrances Subject(s): Substance Abuse; Healing HOW WE LIVE, by WENDY MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: You say you want Last Line: Find their sound on a page %sing them to me Subject(s): Healing HYMN TO THE SUPREME BEING ON RECOVERY FROM .. ILLNESS, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, o immortals! What had I to plead Last Line: A birth of joy - not like the first of tears and woe Subject(s): Affliction; Healing; Revivals; Sickness HYMN: THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord! Whose love, in power excelling Last Line: Jesus! Master! Make us clean! Subject(s): Healing; Jesus Christ; Cures I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO SAY', by CARL DJERASSI Poem Source First Line: Five years after your death Last Line: Before you walked into the woods? %if only you'd said these words to me Subject(s): Healing I OWN THIS TRUTH, by RUTH BRINTON Poem Source First Line: This body %with her cover Last Line: Forget, then find again when need compels %and re-claim as my own Subject(s): Healing I WANT TO KNOW WHY, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: Every time I'm sick Last Line: As an old lady's gums, naked as I plead %understand %please %love me Subject(s): Healing IF WORDS WERE TRUE, by WILLIAM PACKARD Poem Source Last Line: We wouldn't %need %poetry Subject(s): Healing IN THE BOOK OF TEA, by GARY ASPENBERG Poem Source First Line: In okakura's book of tea Last Line: Write something nice %about me. ...' Subject(s): Healing IN THE HOSPITAL SHOP, by HERB KITSON Poem Source First Line: It's ten below and the sun Last Line: Or the woman whose blood, reminded of its birthright %becamewhole Subject(s): Healing IN THE WOODS, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: I leave the hospital room Last Line: I stop, kneel %in these leaves %and pray Subject(s): Healing INDENTIFICATION AND FITTING OF PIECES, by PAMELA GROSS Poem Source First Line: When the plat'es crazed pieces are pressed Last Line: Piecing together to take place, %something must be broken Subject(s): Healing INSIDE THE SIGN, by MARY SUE KOEPPEL Poem Source First Line: Guests permitted %only with permission Last Line: We hear her whisper, %'hello girls' Subject(s): Healing INTENSIVE CARE UNIT DECEMBER 25, 1986, by ELSPETH CAMERON RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: The lady lies %surrounded by a court Last Line: I will try to keep her %breathing until tomorrow Subject(s): Healing IOS, FR. THE PORT, 4/26/90, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: On this island where the mountains show their age Last Line: A thin road twists up through the wind-carved rock Subject(s): Healing IT HURTS TO BURN, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: My words are naked Subject(s): Healing IT'S HERE! HE TELLS HIS MOUTH, HERE!, by ANDREW GLAZE Poem Source Last Line: Fluttering, and fluttering %just out of reach, %fierce outrageous wings Subject(s): Healing JACOB COMES TO HEAR THE HEALING SONGS OF NIGHT, by JAMES BARFOOT Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the fallow fields become so fair Last Line: The dead we wed will come for autumn wheat %as leah comes for mandrakes rachel eats.' Subject(s): Healing JENILU, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: The psychotherapist %who eavesdrops upon Last Line: Both hemispheres of the brain %with unsolicited %catalogues of troubles Subject(s): Healing JERUSALEM (1), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not interested in / who suffered the most Last Line: It's late but everything comes next. Subject(s): Healing; Israel; Jerusalem; Palestine; Peace; Cures JETTY, DECEMBER 23, by ANNE GEORGE Poem Source First Line: The gulf churns around and sometimes Last Line: To do with being earthbound, mortal and alive Subject(s): Healing JOURNEY, by BARBARA UNGER Poem Source First Line: Coming back %from that world Last Line: I study %combination locks, %blueprints of the catacombs %hidden in my shoe Subject(s): Healing JOURNEYING ABROAD, by JOAN NEW Poem Source First Line: What is it like, this journey Last Line: On a garden bench among the flowering beds %before you vanish, forever into light Subject(s): Healing JUDGE, by CAROLYN PAGE Poem Source First Line: Raw wind sweeps me up the stone steps Last Line: His honor calls, suggests we meet %for drinks at his house Subject(s): Healing JUNK JEWELRY, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband buys me pearls Subject(s): Healing; Cures JUNK JEWELRY, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband buys me pearls Last Line: Our bond is ringless. %nothing can break Subject(s): Healing KENTUCKY, 1833, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is sunday, day of roughhousing. We are let out in the woods Last Line: Night; as if the sky were an omen we could not understand, the book that, if we could %read, would c Subject(s): Healing LACRIMAE STELLAE, by MARIAN DE ZEEUW Poem Source First Line: When your hear breaks, %let it stay open Last Line: Forged eons ago %from the tears of a star Subject(s): Healing; Love LANDSCAPE WITH BLUEBIRDS, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: Winter colorless after a long illness Last Line: Red, green, seablue trees, bluebirds on clay roofs, %healingcolors after a winter's long illness Subject(s): Healing LAST GIFT, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Tonight my mother, dinner over Last Line: What name did she give me for the rock? %what kind of luminescence did she spell into my hand? Subject(s): Healing LAST SELF-PORTRAIT, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Vincent, this is where our stars part company Last Line: Emerges, clouds liftr, today is absolute and clear. %friend,I am writing you this poem on that sky Subject(s): Healing LAST VISIT, by FRANK LOUIS FINALE Poem Source First Line: Squeeze my hand if you hear,' we repeated Last Line: Over again, before she chose her world %and forever closed her eyes and ears to us Subject(s): Healing LEARNING TO SPEAK: OVERCOMING IMPOTENCE, by JUDI KIEFER MILES Poem Source First Line: Judi could either say yes Last Line: Judi practiced how not to say yes. %'no,' judi said Subject(s): Healing LEG, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the iodoform, in twilight-sleep Last Line: That if thou take me angrily in hand %and hurl me to the shark, I shall not die! Subject(s): Amputees; Healing; War LENS OF A BLUEFISH EYE, by VINCE CLEMENTE Poem Source First Line: If you and your friend Last Line: Hear the child's story again, %a lesson even aquinas never read Subject(s): Healing LETTER POEM, by MARGARET ROBISON Poem Source First Line: Mother, the tree across from me is such Last Line: Dear mother, what I meant to say was this... %dear mother, don't you know Subject(s): Healing LETTER TO AUNT LUCY, by MARION ARENAS Poem Source First Line: I'm mad at you, aunt lucy Last Line: Aunt lucy, and I'm mad at you for that. %I'm really mad at you for that Subject(s): Healing LISTEN, by ROALD HOFFMANN Poem Source First Line: Praise, aloud: human sound, scrapes Last Line: A quieter time) tells his mother: the absence %of language, silence, is the meaning of eternal life Subject(s): Healing LITTLE POEM, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thick spriglets of mistletoe Subject(s): Healing LIVE OLD SOLDIER, LIVE, by SUE BRANNAN WALKER Poem Source First Line: Never mind old soldier Last Line: Old soldier, you heart is forever %in the sanctity of a moment like this Subject(s): Healing LIVING IN AMERICA: ACCIDENT, by JAMES SNYDAL Poem Source First Line: I carry hemingway's memoirs and stroll down Last Line: Months later, I rest in a hospital bed. %I believe that, soon, I shall be less weary Subject(s): Healing LIVING IN AMERICA: ALL THE TIME, by JAMES SNYDAL Poem Source First Line: Each day, I see the same hills Last Line: Burp-it-all. I wet my bed %so an orchestra I dream can play Subject(s): Healing LIVING IN AMERICA: HAVING THINGS WRONG, by JAMES SNYDAL Poem Source First Line: One week when I wake up Last Line: I don't know what is going on. %I get warm under my covers Subject(s): Healing LIVING IN AMERICA: HOSPITAL ROOMMATES, by JAMES SNYDAL Poem Source First Line: I hardly know who ivan is Last Line: I hear him holler, then scream. %no nurse will go with him Subject(s): Healing LIVING IN AMERICA: RECOVERING, by JAMES SNYDAL Poem Source First Line: I sleep in a tidy bed, yet dream Last Line: My wife. I balance on my legs %for hours, alive in america Subject(s): Healing LIVING IN AMERICA: REMEMBERING WHAT HAD BEEN, by JAMES SNYDAL Poem Source First Line: One of the bosses from my last job comes Last Line: I wish the woman who used to be my wife would visit Subject(s): Healing LIVING IN AMERICA: SLEEPING IN A HOSPITAL BED, by JAMES SNYDAL Poem Source First Line: A dead friend talks to me Last Line: In a wheelchair during the days %he tells me I should leave Subject(s): Healing LONE WOMAN, by ANNE MEISENZAHL Poem Source First Line: If she has a son Last Line: Are like melted honey at the bottom of a cup %a strong tea Subject(s): Healing LOOK FOR MARTINS, by HENRY LANGHORNE Poem Source First Line: The tubes in my body still hurt Last Line: Stand under the live oak %wait for the purple martin Subject(s): Healing LOOM, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Unless light be applied to it like a poultice Last Line: They find themselves raveled in the expanse of a great cloth Subject(s): Healing LOSS OF ANEMONE, by JANE FRANCIS MAYHALL Poem Source First Line: All night he tried to remember Last Line: The thrall, and anemone came to mind. %evidently by his losing, something chosen Subject(s): Healing LUCIA THERESA: NICARAGUA, 1985, by PAT SCHNEIDER Poem Source First Line: Lucia theresa is raped by eight solders Last Line: Because I do not know what else to do: %lucia theresa Subject(s): Healing; Nicaragua; Women MAGIC WORDS TO CURE A SICK CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O my tiny child Last Line: You'll live a long long time Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Healing; Magic; Native Americans; Parents MAN WITH STARS INSIDE, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in this old man's chest, %a shadow of pneumonia grows Last Line: His body was, %and see inside, the stars Subject(s): Healing MARRIAGE, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS Poem Source First Line: You came from another state Last Line: One half forever turned away %peering into the unknown Subject(s): Healing MARRIAGE POEM, by SHARON WHITE Poem Source First Line: You %left me %slowly Last Line: To tell me you loved %me you lost almost %everything %but that Subject(s): Healing MASSAGE, by MELISSA KWASNY Poem Source First Line: These feet are large Last Line: But who will heal, who %will stay with me the winter? Subject(s): Healing MASTECTOMY POEMS: 9. HEALING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brilliant - Last Line: I make vow after vow Subject(s): Breasts; Healing MEA MAXIMA CULPA, by FRANK ANTHONY Poem Source First Line: He taught me how to sing Last Line: Had already been going on, %waiting for that to start growing Subject(s): Healing MEDICINE STONE, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This stone I picked at a medicine dance Subject(s): Healing; Cures MEDICINE STONE, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This stone I picked at a medicine dance Last Line: This stone is an aspect of soul that lasts. %I call it my friend, my black stone friend Subject(s): Healing MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: TUESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour died, according to our faith Last Line: Pain is its cure, and it exists no more. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; Healing; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Belief; Creed; Cures; Theology MEMORIAL: SON BRET, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the way you went you were important Last Line: Set off like other strangers %the bees, the wind Subject(s): Healing METAMORPHOSIS: 2, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: The man I am looks at me with rainy eyes Last Line: To heal my wounds with living salt Subject(s): Healing MICROBE HUNTERS, by HAROLD WITT Poem Source First Line: Among the stirring paperbacks I bought Last Line: But 'when in disgrace--' singing in my head, %I wrote another fourteen lines instead Subject(s): Healing MID-WINTER FLUE, by BRIAN CRONWALL Poem Source First Line: It is like forces have invaded the country of my body. Not Last Line: Back, biding time, conserving resources, secretly building a%determination to throw the bastards out Subject(s): Healing MORTALITY TABLES, by GERALD CABLE Poem Source First Line: Her dreads dying in the supermarket Last Line: Leaving the blue sky, as always, %alone and untouched Subject(s): Healing MOTHER'S DAY BLUES, by MARILYN ELAINE CARMEN Poem Source First Line: Momma %I carry your picture with me Last Line: Or to be able to stop by after work %to have a cup of tea with you Subject(s): Healing MY BROTHER, by UNKNOWN+221 Poem Source First Line: My brother lives in a box of cigars Last Line: Bring instead a perfect crayoned picture %to wrap around his coffin Subject(s): Healing MY MOTHER AS A CHILD, by TINA MARIE CONWAY Poem Source First Line: I row my mother as a child across Last Line: For herself. A thick breeze prods %us close to shore Subject(s): Healing NAGUAL, by MARIO RENE PADILLA Poem Source First Line: ... And like the cats who animate the night Last Line: That creeps creeps %like rats %through endless %alley nights Subject(s): Healing NASCENCE, by ROBERT JAY BIXBY Poem Source First Line: In me %a desire to own Last Line: Then desire %to possess %that dark pearl %to touch %to peer inside Subject(s): Healing NATALIE, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Long before science could sex a fetus Last Line: Why today do you float in my brain %like a salamander reborn in flame Subject(s): Healing NECESSARY ACTS, by SUSAN LUZZARO Poem Source First Line: I crawl in the dark to the phone Last Line: & I have a gun in my nightstand so powerful %it frightens me Subject(s): Healing NEW STUDENTS, by CAROLYN KREMERS Poem Source First Line: To her they smell comfortable Last Line: This girl could set the house on fire. %or does she want to talk? Subject(s): Healing NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NOT A SUICIDE POEM, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: The children talk of suicide Last Line: Depending on hwere you stand, sometimes large, %sometimes not Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Friendship; Healing; Love NOTHING WILL CURE THE SICK LION BUT TO EAT AN APE', by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perceiving that in the masked ball Last Line: To smother us with fresh air. Subject(s): Healing; Cures OCTOBER TURNS THE CORNER AND I THINK OF CELLS, by WALTER PETERSON Poem Source First Line: In at 8 a.M. %they have completed two small tests Last Line: And will do so in the future %if the chance or that need %should arise Subject(s): Healing ON A MINERAL IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND ... CURED OF DISEASES, SELECTION, by WILLIAM LUCKYN Poem Text First Line: For introduction, not to stay Last Line: Rapture to give it you again. Alternate Author Name(s): Grimston, Viscount Subject(s): Healing; Water; Cures ON FAIRNESS, by LIZA SCHAFER Poem Source First Line: Life is not fair' Last Line: Whether they complain %of cold coffee %or uncomfortable chairs Subject(s): Healing ON LOSING MY ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: One way to speed the body's healing Last Line: Her daffodils sing a cappella %on its knobby tor Subject(s): Healing ON MISTRESS S.W., WHO CURED MY HAND BY A PLASTED .. KNIFE WHICH HURT, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wounded and weary of my life Last Line: The salve that heal'd my hand can't cure my heart. Subject(s): Healing; Cures ON THIS HEALING POWER, by LIBBY BERNARDIN Poem Source First Line: I told you when I was a child Last Line: Them in our hands and crush them-- %essence penetrating, like morning Subject(s): Healing ONE VOLUME MISSING, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Green sludge of a riverbank Last Line: No zebras, no virginia, / no wars Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Healing; Cures ONE VOLUME MISSING, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green sludge of a riverbank Last Line: No zebras, no virginia, %no wars Subject(s): Healing ORGAN SONGS: BLIND BARTIMEUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As jesus went into jericho town Last Line: Tis he! I follow him! Subject(s): Blindness; Healing; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Visually Handicapped; Cures ORGAN SONGS: COME UNTO ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come unto me, the master says Last Line: And that will make thee well. Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures; Suffering; Misery ORGAN SONGS: WRITTEN FOR ONE IN SORE PAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, on before thy sheep Last Line: Thou wilt miss me—and wilt find! Subject(s): God; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Sickness; Cures; Suffering; Misery; Illness ORIGINS, by LEO CONNELLAN Poem Source First Line: Mother, father told me you were %like an impossible lily Last Line: The only way I can think father, mother, %is I have put away the bottle Subject(s): Healing OTTAWA, MARCH, 1986, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: In the small darkened room Last Line: How the hating and hitting %tied us together. %in all of the silence %this was our language Subject(s): Healing OUTER EDGE, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: And the blind %whisper to each other Last Line: And the wind on its ghost crutch %bushes the hard limits of a star Subject(s): Healing OWED TO BETSY SCHOLL POET, by M. S. LEAVITT Poem Source First Line: She said her alter-ego talked tough for her Last Line: She also taught me silence Subject(s): Healing OZARK ODES: REMEDY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sty sty leave my eye Last Line: Go to the next feller passing by Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Eyes; Healing PANACEA, by ANNIE NYHAM SCRIBNER Poem Text First Line: When life proves disappointing Last Line: Not a trace. Subject(s): Healing; Cures PARADOX, by SUSAN LUZZARO Poem Source First Line: Some say art brings order Last Line: Is only the eye of the maelstrom-- %life is a found penny Subject(s): Healing PARATROOPER FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA, by ELSPETH CAMERON RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: I am lonely and cold Last Line: In my ears. The jumpmaster %calls, 'jump!' I do Subject(s): Healing PARTICIPANT, by VIVIAN SMALLWOOD Poem Source First Line: I am a part of something big Last Line: For I share in the life of all who live %and the death of all who die Subject(s): Healing PARTS, by LAMONT B. STEPTOE Poem Source First Line: We saw %people %fragile as brown sticks Last Line: I am %the dry season %I am %the red dust of the moon Subject(s): Healing PATTERNS, by CATHY BLACKBURN Poem Source First Line: To keep the hose, each sister knitted Last Line: Perhaps, but not voiceless, after all, %a way of listening for a way back Subject(s): Healing PAY ATTENTION, by BERNADETTE DARNELL Poem Source First Line: My mother was very small Last Line: It makes you feel small. %I should have listened to my mother Subject(s): Healing PERENNIAL, by PAMELA WAMPLER Poem Source First Line: I have repotted the pink geraniums and placed Last Line: Inside, no profusion of cells, no paralysis. %as if you believed in the perennial promise Subject(s): Healing PERU: CANTO 5, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did e'er the human bosom throb with pain Last Line: Is wrapt in wonder, or dissolv'd in love. Subject(s): Healing; Love; Pain; Cures; Suffering; Misery PILL, by KATRINA ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Reason being, it often come to this. So that Last Line: See it ever, which begins deep down somewhere, which keeps rising Subject(s): Healing PLEASE, by ALICE B. FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Hold closely the red, round, sleek Last Line: Healing as it breaks its way %between the walls of cells Subject(s): Healing POEM FOR THE DEPRESSED, by CLARK POWELL Poem Source First Line: Beneath you chair %gravity reverses itself Last Line: Stop reading %and go outside. %in winter trees are plans in the sky Subject(s): Healing POEM IN WINTER, by ANGIE ESTES Poem Source First Line: I wanted to remember you the way spring Last Line: Nothing else imagines the earth with slits %and then makes good on its promise Subject(s): Healing POEMS FROM IOS: ABOUT WHAT THEY DO ON HORA ..., by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: They planted stone flowers in front of the houses of Last Line: And may those women of hora, in their dark shawls, also %have reward for their vigils Subject(s): Healing POEMS FROM IOS: IOS, 1980, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: On a hill piled high on hills of stones Last Line: And remember ... Maybe he's not buried in this earth at all,%all the better! Think of him! Homer Subject(s): Healing POEMS FROM IOS: THE AGES OF WOMEN, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Caves gave way to whitewashed houses Last Line: Of this village, the vertical effort, but %we can't even guess the ages of the women Subject(s): Healing POEMS FROM IOS: WHAT MADE THE POET SING HERE, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: The gods lived for thousands of years Last Line: Among all things. That's what made the poet %sing about everything under the sun Subject(s): Healing POOR MAN WONDERING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She was so pharmaceutically demure Last Line: He wondered, 'is this a cure %or a poison?' Subject(s): Healing POP-SICLE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martina had a mama, anna-lisa Subject(s): Healing; Cures POP-SICLE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martina had a mama, anna-lisa Last Line: Fathers. Martina glares at the men from %slitted eyes. Herbie's still frozen Subject(s): Healing PRAYER FOR A DAMPENED SPIRIT, by GRACE M. GRAVES Poem Text First Line: Let me close my lids Last Line: Fire alone stirs fire! Subject(s): Spiritual Healing; Faith-cure PRAYER-SONG OF REGENERATION, by EVELYN ROEHL Poem Source First Line: Like the leaves of a tree Last Line: My happiness and joy %shall grow back anwew Subject(s): Healing PREPARING FOR THE LIVER BIOPSY, by CONNIE HUTCHISON Poem Source First Line: She draws the world a curve in prussian Last Line: Streaming the narrow pseeudopod, %she glides out, protean Subject(s): Healing PRESCRIPTIONS: LISTENING DEEPLY TO WISDOM OF THE UNLICENSED, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Walking barefoot %while there is still earth Last Line: And the blue water will %keep you from darkness Subject(s): Healing PROCESSIONAL, by RON WEBER Poem Source First Line: All day I walk Last Line: My mother. We tell %each other we are planting %a trea Subject(s): Healing PROPER DISTANCE, by KATHLEEN PATRICK Poem Source First Line: Outside an auto showroom Last Line: I inhale deeply, take it in %and let go Subject(s): Healing READ BEFORE CLOSING, by SALVATORE CETRANO Poem Source First Line: Accept a ticking malignancy behind all things Last Line: Trolling for unscheduled joys. %with each survival, death begins again Subject(s): Healing READING HOLDERLIN ON THE PATIO WITH THE AID OF A DICTIONARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, the words Last Line: Remembering air Subject(s): Healing; Cures READING HOLDERLIN ON THE PATIO WITH THE AID OF A DICTIONARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, the words Last Line: I go under, %a skindiver %remembering air Subject(s): Healing READING NAMES AT THE MUSEUM, by LEON DRISKELL Poem Source First Line: The woman before me grieved for a son Last Line: I walk into the first day of september Subject(s): Healing RECOVERY, by CHRISTOPHER MOYLAN Poem Source First Line: Here, in your east of unfinished Last Line: On bedside lamplight %between darkness and desire Subject(s): Healing RECOVERY ROOM, by BERWYN MOORE Poem Source First Line: Something like a huge hand Last Line: I feel a tugging on my foot. %someone has come to claim me Subject(s): Healing RED RIBBON FOR JANE, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The chinese evergreen that jane gave me Last Line: Grows the message of the red ribbon Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Friendship; Healing; Sickness REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM, by ARTHUR BEAMAN SIMONDS Poem Text First Line: Of every ill is love the cure Last Line: A. B. Simonds. Subject(s): Healing; Love; Cures RELEARNING TO SPEAK, by GERRY SLOAN Poem Source First Line: This is how it's done Last Line: Hopelessness of moonlight, %dark destination %of married lovers Subject(s): Healing REMEDIES, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: Half on the earth, half in the heart Last Line: The remedies for all our pains %wait for the songs of healing Subject(s): Healing REMEMBER THE PATIENT IS AWAKE, by SUE BRANNAN WALKER Poem Source First Line: She stares at the o.R. Lights Last Line: Surgeon, nurses, patient, %and above all %those eyes Subject(s): Healing RESOLUTION ON THE DEATH OF MY POET-FATHER, by BETSY BARBER BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Returning to the earth where he now lies Last Line: And rather than lay wreaths upon his skull, %return to learning poems at his feet Subject(s): Healing RHEUMATIC FEVER, by DAVID HOOD Poem Source First Line: Elizabeth is sick, %the doctors say Last Line: Can purr loud %as the kitten %she holds %in her arms Subject(s): Healing RIDDLE, by NAN FRY Poem Source First Line: I'm a blanket that cools Last Line: There's a ticking %in your skin, seeds %spreading, garish blooms %infecting the garden Subject(s): Healing RIGHT TO DIE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God takes care of it for Last Line: I'd be very kind when the hurt eyes %turn, sudenly loud, toward me Subject(s): Healing ROAST POSSUM, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The possum's a greasy critter Subject(s): Healing; Cures ROAST POSSUM, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The possum's a greasy critter Last Line: We enjoyed that possum. We ate him %real slow, with sweet potatoes Subject(s): Healing ROCKY MEADOW, by MARINE ROBERT WARDEN Poem Source First Line: A delphic sun monkey and pine scented Last Line: His hand gentle on my shoulder no word %just his small hand more eloquent than a word Subject(s): Healing ROUTE, by KAREN BLOMAIN Poem Source First Line: Seven years later on my way home from lunch Last Line: And somehow it's important to retrace %the route your mind traveled to put you there Subject(s): Healing SACRED SPINE, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will always be invisible, it will Last Line: On the bleached wood and the pillows and the warm air %and the weeds and the water Subject(s): Healing SAY IT, by JEFFREY HILLARD Poem Source First Line: I could hear the new woman upstairs savor the words Last Line: Rushing to me to finally hear them, syllable %after composedsyllable: rise, curshed, rising again Subject(s): Healing SECOND CHILD, by MEG BAXTER Poem Source First Line: Footsteps on my belly Last Line: Doll-still, %you close your asian eyes Subject(s): Healing SESTINA, by LIZA SCHAFER Poem Source First Line: Father gave me a silver key Last Line: Blue is just a color. Spiders without reason crawl. %and I am not a child because mother as a diseas Subject(s): Healing SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO HEALING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scab / is a beautiful thing - a coin Last Line: Of better proof of le bon dieu Subject(s): Healing; Cures SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO HEALING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scab %is a beautiful thing - a coin Last Line: Faith is health's requisite: %we have this fact in lieu %of better proof of le bon dieu Subject(s): Healing SHAMAN, by DOROTHY HARIMAN SUTTON Poem Source First Line: We %hold together %edges of the gaping places Last Line: The pain %then only jaws %ingrained, vague traces of a scar Subject(s): Healing SING A SONG, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I am ill, not in body, but spirit Last Line: I will be a well man by to-morrow. Subject(s): Healing; Love; Cures SIX BUILDINGS: 2. HOSPITAL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Large, low, whirring block of perfectly white, perfectly Last Line: Sharply with the bright salmon of the vestigial lid Subject(s): Healing; Hospitals; Medicine SIX DAYS: FRIDAY, by MARY R. DEMAINE Poem Source First Line: My restlessness wakes him early Last Line: I am not teasing this time. %we lie for a long time crying Subject(s): Healing SIX DAYS: MONDAY, by MARY R. DEMAINE Poem Source First Line: There is a path worn through my house Last Line: But I cannot bring myself to pick up the telephone %and call her Subject(s): Healing SIX DAYS: SATURDAY, by MARY R. DEMAINE Poem Source First Line: Yesterday %lies %buried Last Line: To %tear %any %hope %it %finds %into %shreds Subject(s): Healing SIX DAYS: SUNDAY, by MARY R. DEMAINE Poem Source First Line: Today is my mother's family reunion Last Line: They think it's from laughing, I %refuse to spoil their day with truth Subject(s): Healing SIX DAYS: THURSDAY, by MARY R. DEMAINE Poem Source First Line: One instant, she snaps the x-ray Last Line: Of my mind, a dirge begins: is, %isnot, is, isnot, is, isnot, is Subject(s): Healing SIX DAYS: TUESDAY, by MARY R. DEMAINE Poem Source First Line: I call the doctor's office Last Line: Been through, but I can't. I'm too %too busy repeating, thank you Subject(s): Healing SIX-HUNDRED-POUND MAN, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of the six-hundred-pound man on two beds Last Line: This six hundred pound man, %I discover him beautiful Variant Title(s): For The First Tim Subject(s): Healing SKINWALKERS, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In these old buildings Subject(s): Healing SMALL GRATITUDE, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: You risk it, take my hand Last Line: To stumble along the way, and miss %all the stored up grace in this forest Subject(s): Healing SNOW ON THE PATH, by GERI ROSENZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Something is taking my mother Last Line: Of milk bottles delivered %to her red-tiled doorstep Subject(s): Healing SOFTENED BY TIME'S CONSUMMATE PLUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So easy to repair Subject(s): Children; Despair; Time; Healing SOLARIUM, by MARION ARENAS Poem Source First Line: The spring I got chiken pox madame put me Last Line: I ate everything, then fed air soup and air bread %to marie annettececileemilieyvonne Subject(s): Healing SONG, by WENDY HESFORD Poem Source First Line: I looked for the oceans of sugar Last Line: The stones of the sky %they know they are %all as one Subject(s): Healing SONG, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said to my heart, to my restless heart Last Line: "but makes the pains of the past more dear!" Subject(s): Beauty; Healing; Melodies; Cures SONOGRAM AT FOUR MONTHS, by EDWARD WILLIAM STEVER Poem Source First Line: My unborn child %pauses Last Line: She sees %distances %and depths %that swallow %even the stars Subject(s): Healing SORROW OF THE WORLD, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the last he will ever remember Last Line: They never say if anyone survives... %the sorrow of the world that worketh death Subject(s): Healing SOUND OF HEALING, by ALLEN C. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: Five hundred people waited in stillness Last Line: The chatter of their lives, %the next day's agenda Subject(s): Healing; Music And Musicians; Sound SPRING LETTUCE, by ELSPETH CAMERON RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: When the march wind tossed sandy maryland Last Line: Worms swarm in both. I weed and fertilize. %sails fly, frantically, through the river Subject(s): Healing STONE TALK, by LINDA ALLARDT Poem Source First Line: What I wanted to tell you Last Line: Fit in my palm to throw. %stone in the hardes language I'm learning Subject(s): Healing STORY OF CUPS: WITH APPENDED PRAYER, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: There is one still steaming Subject(s): Healing SUMMING UP, by DANIEL MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: It's the right metaphor Last Line: We're all good people.' %'it was nothing personal.' Subject(s): Healing SWEET PARSLEY, by CYNTHIA LELOS Poem Source First Line: All five foot ten and one half inches Last Line: To rest %is a soft, fragrant bed %of sweet parsley Subject(s): Healing TAXIDERMIST'S WIFE, by JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE Poem Source First Line: Don't all obsessions start innocently? Last Line: Look, my dear lady, you have already lived %longer than anyone expected Subject(s): Healing TEARING THROUGH THE MOON, by ELSPETH CAMERON RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: The hurricane rears: %clouds puff with anger Last Line: That needle stick innocent-- %my blood still tests negative Subject(s): Healing TELEPHONE BOOTH, by CAROLYN PAGE Poem Source First Line: Life is counting up Last Line: And a voice from durham %talks you back of life Subject(s): Healing TETHERED LOVE, by RALPH HAMMOND Poem Source First Line: So little time to feel warm slant of sun Last Line: When greiving heart recalls the love we pledged %as nectared roses burst in fullest bloom Subject(s): Healing THE AMBULANCE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never see in our bustling town Last Line: For a breath of heaven in the darkest day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Accidents; Ambulances; Healing; Hospitals; Red Cross; Sickness; Cures; Illness THE ANACREONTICS: 6, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear thou the dream, o faithless maid Last Line: "no better herb to ease thy woe." Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Healing; Pain; Cures; Suffering; Misery THE BLACK HILLS OF DAKOTA, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: They say the good great spirit Last Line: Is to have walked with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): God; Religion; Spiritual Healing; Theology; Faith-cure THE CLOISTER, by KATHARINE R. HEGEMAN Poem Text First Line: Green grasses grow between the broken flag Last Line: The need of cloister -- or the heart must break. Subject(s): Healing; Cures THE CLOISTER GARTH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: I love the quiet of this place Last Line: And gifts of wonder, beauty, and of peace. Subject(s): Healing; Peace; Silence; Cures THE COUNTRY CURATE, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In t' other hundred, o'er yon swarthy moor Last Line: And falls, alas! Unpitied, as he lived before. Subject(s): Healing; Sabbath; Cures; Sunday THE CUP, by JEAN WHITE Poem Text First Line: I shall not take the bitter cup Last Line: And let thy life flow in! Subject(s): Blessings; Healing; Cures THE CURE, by J. N. MARR Poem Text First Line: We'll let some blood,' the doctor said Last Line: "the cure is ""pull their teeth." Subject(s): Healing; Cures THE CURTAIN FALLS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the sorrow and over the bliss Last Line: Silently downward the curtain falls. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Healing; Holidays; New Year; Cures THE FIGUREHEAD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching my paralytic friend Last Line: With rosy clouds of sediment Subject(s): Healing; Cures THE FIRST CALL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I was wearied to-night from my quest of gold Last Line: My children and my wife. Subject(s): Gold; Spiritual Healing; Faith-cure THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 7. THE WOMAN WHO CAME 'BEHIND HIM IN THE CROWD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near him she stole, rank after rank Last Line: He comforteth her soul. Subject(s): Bible; Healing; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Women; Cures THE GUARDIAN ANGELS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Father john in the green lane went Last Line: "I thank thee, lord,"" he said." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Angels; Clergy; Healing; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Cures THE HEALED HEART SHOWS ITS SHALLOW STAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than such fidelity Subject(s): Healing; Hearts; Fidelity THE HEALER; TO A YOUNG PHYSICIAN WITH DORE'S PICTURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So stood of old the holy christ Last Line: Shall walk the rounds with thee. Subject(s): Dore, Gustave (1832-1883); Healing; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Cures THE HEALERS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a vision of the night I saw them Last Line: Braver than the brave? Subject(s): Courage; Death; First Aid; Healing; Nurses; Physicians; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors; First World War THE HEALING MINISTRY OF JESUS, by MABELLE FAY KOONSEN Poem Text First Line: May the healing touch of jesus Last Line: We are doing unto thee. Subject(s): Healing; Cures THE LAME, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dragging the foot to the water's edge Last Line: All the whole and newly healed leave the river lame. Subject(s): Bible; Healing; Human Abnormalities; Cures; Deformities THE LAME SHEPHERD, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly I followed on Last Line: Kissing and kneeling. Subject(s): Christmas; Healing; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The; Cures THE LEG, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the iodoform, in twilight-sleep Subject(s): Amputees; Healing; War; Cures THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 9. HEALING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brilliant - Last Line: I make vow after vow. Subject(s): Breasts; Healing; Cures THE MOON OF MIND AGAINST THE WOODEN LOUVER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visitors in room 8509 Last Line: Fence from our despair, our rage, our bitter greedy fear. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fear; Healing; Hospitals; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Illness; Feminism THE RECOVERY OF MISS JESSY LEWARS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But rarely seen since nature's birth Last Line: For jessy did not die. Subject(s): Healing; Cures THE SACRED SPINE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will always be invisible, it will Subject(s): Healing; Cures THE THING YOU MUST REMEMBER, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thing you must remember is how, as a child Subject(s): Education; Healing; Schools; Cures; Students THE TYPICAL HAND, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket is a hand Last Line: So keen, cutting you now. Subject(s): Hands; Healing; Cures THE WALLS OF JERICHO, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, what is your word Last Line: And de walls come a-tumblin' down. Subject(s): Bible; Spiritual Healing; Faith-cure THE WELL OF ALL-HEALING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a cure for sorrow in the well at ballylee Last Line: While the heart of the earth is full. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures THERE IS A HOUSE, by LAMONT B. STEPTOE Poem Source Last Line: A time so wide %that it must be called death %yes, death Subject(s): Healing THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF FIFE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which cured that old person of fife Subject(s): Healing; Old Age THESE DREAMS ARE SPECIFICALLY CONCERNED, by NANCY LAMBERT Poem Source Last Line: The cracks we've seen through the wallpaper %peeling away like our own skins Subject(s): Healing THING YOU MUST REMEMBER, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The thing you must remember is how, as a child Last Line: Hands: large, rough and grainy %over yours, holding on Subject(s): Education; Healing; Schools THIS IS A POEM TO MY SON PETER, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: So I write this for life, for love, for %you, my oldest son peter, age 10, %going on 11 Subject(s): Healing TIME MENDS, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time mends a ruined wall as well Last Line: Are singing vernal orisions. Subject(s): Healing; Nature; Repairing; Time; Cures; Mending TIME TO SAY THANK YOU, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Shaved from the thinnest of abalone shells Last Line: You would yell - I'll always remember the 'now please, %packup and get yourself the hell off this is Subject(s): Healing TO AN ABSENT MUSE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, come, fruitful spirit, long known as the muse Last Line: The mantle of poesy, and hie me to bed. Subject(s): Muses; Spiritual Healing; Faith-cure TO MARJORIE - REMEMBERING, by RICHARD G. BEYER Poem Source First Line: How do I recall thee? Let me count the memories Last Line: To hold back the dying years - your legacy of poetry, %and every word of every sentence you ever sai Subject(s): Healing TO PRIPYAT, by LYUBOV SIROTA Poem Source First Line: We can neither expiate nor rectify Last Line: May our charred wings %protect you from carelessness Subject(s): Healing TO RECOVERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Recovery, where art thou? Last Line: Watches the dawn of day. Subject(s): Blessings; Depression, Mental; Healing; Hope; Prayer; Waiting; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Cures; Optimism TO THOMAS STANLEY, RECOVERED OF THE SMALL-POX, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature foreseeing that if thou wert gone Last Line: Deface the woman in thee, not the man. Subject(s): Healing; Small Pox; Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678); Cures TO VASILY DEOMIDOVICH DUBODEL ..., by LYUBOV SIROTA Poem Source First Line: They did not register us Last Line: Peace unto your remains, %my fellow-villager %from abandoned hamlets Subject(s): Healing TOP KNOT, by ANNA RABINOWICZ Poem Source First Line: Because life is short she learned how to live with things, took them in as if Last Line: Since she imagined he had always wanted to model in clay or stone, what else to %do but use the mate Subject(s): Healing TOUCHED, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold december nights I'd go Last Line: Each healing we begin. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cold; Death; Healing; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Touch (sense); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Cures; Illness; Feminism TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. GRACIOUS MOTHER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O gracious mother, in thy vast eternal sunlight Last Line: In ash-heaps for salvation. Subject(s): Healing; Salvation; Sin; Cures TRAUMA CLINIC, by MARIAN STEELE Poem Source First Line: Code purple, as in bruises Last Line: Sre never their own, %they dram of walking, maybe even flying Subject(s): Healing TREE TALK, by LUCIA MORSE RIMBACH Poem Text First Line: You've brought your sorrow for us to heal?' Last Line: "you have come to your own clan." Subject(s): Healing; Cures TRIBUTE, by SUSAN LUZZARO Poem Source First Line: Blind bob's newstand %kept long hours and my father Last Line: Without object, to open %the closed shop of my heart Subject(s): Healing TRUST UNDER THE MOON, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Your dog is leading Last Line: I see a flat sheen moving you out of dreams and on Subject(s): Healing TUBERCULOSIS, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Not wishing to pronounce the taboo word Subject(s): Healing; Tuberculosis TUESDAY MORNING, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: At last, the sun Last Line: %dear indrek, I try behind the iron curtain Subject(s): Healing TURTLE SIGHING TREE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Eons swallowed whole. Your reptilian unease Last Line: Remnants. The undoing %that heals Subject(s): Evolution; Healing; Reptiles; Turtles TWO FROM RANCHO CIENEGUILLA: NIGHT, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: We have come here for dream time Last Line: Bearing new shields and lightning-tipped lances Subject(s): Healing; Love UNDERGROUDN: AFTER A FRIEND'S ATTEMPTY, by JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE Poem Source First Line: Like the pills you took, my words don't work Last Line: Doctors sweating under the hot lights %to bring up a body Subject(s): Healing UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, BOSTON, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees on the hospital lawn Subject(s): Healing; Cures UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, BOSTON, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees on the hospital lawn Last Line: As I stand there, loving you Subject(s): Healing UNTIL I THINK, by KENNETH FROST Poem Source First Line: It's a strange thing to say Last Line: My shadow almost floats %into my hand %wanting to %point something out Subject(s): Healing UPON GRACIOSA, WALKING AND TALKING, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When as abroad, to greet the morn Last Line: And, by a word restored, live. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Healing; Talk; Walking; Cures 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 VERSES DESIGNED FOR AN INFIRMARY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear loving sirs! Behold, as ye pass by Last Line: "come, ye true friends, and be for ever blest." Subject(s): Blessings; Compassion; Healing; Physicians; Sickness; Cures; Doctors; Illness VERSES ON THE RECOVERY OF A. M. G. FROM A SEVERE ILLNESS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden in the arms of death Last Line: And closed the opening grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Faith; God; Healing; Prayer; Sickness; Belief; Creed; Cures; Illness VISITING HOURS, by GLENNA LUSCHEI Poem Source First Line: My aunt tells me she's writing a story Last Line: I am readying your story. %my heart turns page after page Subject(s): Healing WAKE, by NADINE LAMBERT Poem Source First Line: She was ninety. %I am twenty-five Last Line: With her pink dress, folded hands, %and sewed-shut eyes Subject(s): Healing WAKE, by VIVIAN SMALLWOOD Poem Source First Line: After a while they will go away Last Line: But I watch their faces, I watch the clock. %I know what a door is for Subject(s): Healing WALK ON THE WATER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chafed ocean, a chadored moon Last Line: Song without skin to hold. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Healing; Mythology - Classical; Peace; Sea; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Ocean; Illness; Feminism WE ARE THE BLIGHTED, by CHANDLER SHAW Poem Text First Line: We are the blighted, the sick, the tortured of body and soul Last Line: Living spirit of god. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Healing; Dead, The; Cures WHAT NO LIPS CAN TELL, by SUE BRANNAN WALKER Poem Source First Line: Lips carved in yellow jasper Last Line: The ocean, and tried to understand %what no lips can tell Subject(s): Healing WHAT YOU MIGHT SAY IF A FRIENDSHIP ENDS UNHAPPILY, by KIM BRIDGFORD Poem Source First Line: It's not hate that I feel for you Last Line: Until finally, my friends, %I had to get the hell out Subject(s): Healing WHATEVER IT IS, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: Near the end we will travel as two old men Subject(s): Aging; Healing WHEN I DIE, by MARK SCOTT Poem Source First Line: When I die, shall I tell you what to say? Last Line: Add that to the end. %then bury me beside my brothers Subject(s): Healing WHISTLE, by ALICE CONNELLY NAGLE Poem Source First Line: It was send in the clowns Last Line: The first notes for what will be %another past Subject(s): Healing WILLOW BRUSH, by JOANNE M. RILEY Poem Source First Line: I have waited years to yell you Last Line: Burn the brush and place it with them. %I have earned it Subject(s): Healing WINTER LIGHT, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Outside my window the hard ground Last Line: In the winter light. The ground in breaking up. %even you are getting tired of my song Subject(s): Healing WITH THE DOOR OPEN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something I want to communicate to you Last Line: With the door open between us Subject(s): Healing; Cures WITH THE DOOR OPEN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something I want to communicate to you Subject(s): Healing WORD, by ARLENE G. LEVINE Poem Source First Line: I quiet the voice dying inside me Last Line: Saved by a kind word welling up within %nourishing seed planted eons ago Subject(s): Healing WORD WOUNDS AND WATER FLOWERS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Where can mad money be spent %or windless meadows, vaporized forests Last Line: Under one %bright thirsty sun Subject(s): Healing WORDS, by MARGARET ROBISON Poem Source First Line: The voices of my dead have not Last Line: As if they too were a part %of the blood and bone of ourselves Subject(s): Healing WORMWOOD, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: My father tells the story Last Line: That could have killed him Subject(s): Healing; Medicine; Sickness; Weeds YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS, by COLLEEN CONNORS Poem Source First Line: The dense thicket of dreams is upon you now Last Line: What the anesthesiologist don't know %may already have killed you Subject(s): Healing YOU WON'T REMEMBER THIS, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: You lift your arms to your head Last Line: Liquid, muscle, bone. Hold them. %go with them into the day Subject(s): Healing |
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