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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HUMAN RIGHTS Matches Found: 295 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONTRAST, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A humble christian - to whose inward sight Last Line: Now I go hence to paradise—and died. Subject(s): Human Rights; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ABSENCE OF SHADOWS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the shadows %where the wind dwells Last Line: In the kingdom of absences Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Shadows ABSOLUTELY ORDINARY RAINBOW, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The word goes round repins, the murmur goes round lorenzinis Last Line: Evading believers, he hurries off down pitt street Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Human Rights; Tears AFTER THE DELUGE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poet's Biography First Line: Once, for a dare Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Human Rights AFTER THE DELUGE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, for a dare Last Line: They hunt and mate %on crusted algae Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Human Rights AMNESIA, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: My memory fails me Last Line: While children in prison %had their first communion %dressedin street clothes, %with no bows or sash Subject(s): Human Rights; Life AMONG THE PINES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: A gallows light traverses the pines. The disfigured fog with its brumous Last Line: The sunken paving stones Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners AN EVENING IN PRISON, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From intricate clustera of stars Last Line: Snuff out the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts AND SOMETIMES I APPROACH THE BORDERS OF INSOMNIA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Like a talisman of my sorrows Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Grief; Human Rights - Argentina; Insomnia; Photography And Photographers; Pictures AND THEIR LIPS BEGAN TO OPEN VERY SLOWLY AS IF THEY WERE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And my words %thousands of faces Subject(s): Children - Lost; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina AND THEN THE VISIONARIES MADE ALTARS. ONE BROUGHT A MOTHER-OF-PEARL, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And someone lighted candles to %accompany the living Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Rest AND THEN THEY WERE HURLED INTO THE DENSE AIR, SOMEONE WAS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Then they wore white kerchiefs, the same way %love is worn Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Love AND THEY WERE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: For how do you talk about the dead? Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory AND YOU AGAIN, GOOD SIR, by JAMIE SUAREZ QUEMAIN Poem Source First Line: ...Nevertheless, you, good sir, Last Line: You, good sir, you... %can still be saved Subject(s): Human Rights; Poetry And Poets; Social Classes ANIMAL AND INSECT ACT, by CECIL RAJENDRA Poem Source First Line: Finally, in order to ensure Last Line: There was now total security Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Discipline; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Riots ANNE FRANK AND US, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Like a scar %attached to Last Line: Not to forget them Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Human Rights - Argentina ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Shoah; Judaism ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest Last Line: And wicks turn down to darkness in the madman's eyes Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews ANONYMOUS PEOPLE, by BASIL FERNANDO Poem Source First Line: We %are anonymous people Last Line: Are the anonymous people %silence is our mask Subject(s): Human Rights; 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 APOLOGY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I demand an apology Last Line: Marked by the scars of memory %fragile and alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration APOTHEOSIS OF MASTER SERGEANT DOE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear master sergeant to the fold Last Line: A blood-red streamer %in monrovian skies, a lamppost and-theswinging %redeemer Subject(s): Admiration; Human Rights; Leadership; Military; Patriotism; Survival APRONS OF SMOKE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Somber and full of winged Last Line: Lost among clots of venomous tides Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence; Terror ARMY OF TRUTH, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Words? Those sounds the world despises Last Line: Raze them to the ground with truth! Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews AS GENTLE AS BEGINNINGS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The intrepid dawn awakens Last Line: And the spirits of the disappeared %wound her Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures AT THE ROTTEN SEA, by ION CARAION Poem Source First Line: We shall torture you, we shall kill you and we shall laugh Last Line: Everything is lie, even truth - %darkness begets itself Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Lies; Torture AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: At the foot of the cathedral of burgos Subject(s): Human Rights; Life AUTUMN IN GAOL, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: In autumn a friend Last Line: Heavy as the world Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons BARN OWL (FROM: FATHER AND CHILD), by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak: the household slept Last Line: For what I had begun Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Birds; Cruelty; Human Rights; Hunting; Night; Owls BEGGAR WITH THOSE EYES, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Once a week Last Line: Only his eyes struck me as strange-- %they were orange %and made a noise when they closed Subject(s): Human Rights; Life BEHIND THE LAKE THE MOON'S NOT STIRRED, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the lake the moon's not stirred Last Line: Doleful, the cry of eagle-owls, and hot %in the garden the wind is blustering Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Human Rights; Mystery BEIJING, by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE Poem Source First Line: It is your blood again Last Line: To prevent the future from ever taking place Subject(s): Beijing, China; Human Rights; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BEIRUT, by AHMAD FARAZ Poem Source First Line: Whose headless body is this Last Line: Who take god's name %are silent! Subject(s): Beirut - United States Troops (1982-3); Blood; Enemies; Human Rights; Tyranny And Tyrants BELOVED SISTER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Let me be %your daughter Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina BEYOND THE DAWN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the dawn %clothed in fog Last Line: Give me back my %daughter Subject(s): Children - Lost; Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina BIRDS NEST, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Birds nest Last Line: And men think I'm nothing Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Men; Mothers BIRDS NEST IN MY ARMS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights BLACK DEATHS, by ROBERT HAY MORRISON Poem Source First Line: We do not hang them now, but still they hang Last Line: In some far noose another lost one dies, %and one of the surviving lost remembers Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Despair; Human Rights BLOOD IS A NEST, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The blood is a nest of feathers Last Line: The questions stayed behind %in my flight Variant Title(s): Blood Nes Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Survival BLUE CORN, BLACK MESA, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: Before you go, I need to tell you Last Line: No one knows why this story is true Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Hopi Indians; Human Rights; Native Americans BODY IS A SUSPECT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Its rights. It is a suspect Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Human Rights; Nudity; Sex BRIAR SHOOTS, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Briar shoots, briar shoots Last Line: Not the roaring lion of law Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews CANTICLE FOR THE BICENTENNIAL DEAD, by ROBERT+(1) ADAMSON Poem Source First Line: They are talking in their cedar-benched rooms Last Line: And court reporter's hands move over the papers Subject(s): Death; Government; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The light like a feeble hostage Last Line: Eyes, from the blindfold slashed and sullied from lonely times and prisms Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women; Women - Captives CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am a shadow visiting Last Line: I learn to see myself Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Women - Captives CENSOR, by IVAN KRAUS Poem Source First Line: The censor is seated on a stool (or possibly two stools) Last Line: Censor: I won't stand for any innuendo. Gently, now...That's better...Gently...Very, very slowly... Subject(s): Censorship; Dancing And Dancers; Human Rights CENSORS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Censors are dead men Last Line: Breathing of the dead men, %the censors, breathing with relief Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Censorship; Human Rights CHINESE JOURNEY 10, by OGLA SEDAKOVA Poem Source First Line: Great Last Line: The skies bow %submissively Subject(s): Human Rights CHIRI MOUNTAIN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: The sight of the snow-covered mountain Last Line: Oh! Chiri mountain, %chiri mountain Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Human Rights; Love CHRISTMAS EVE, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Who can't remember Last Line: The poor jews will complain' Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews CIRCUS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Tonight, clowns Last Line: -- I want you to see it all clearly, folks. %diogenes, bring the lamp closer Subject(s): Human Rights; Life 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 COLD COMFORT, by MIRCEA DINESCU Poem Source First Line: God preserve me from those who want what's best for me Last Line: Only great provisions of tolerance and fear Subject(s): Government; Human Rights; Tyranny And Tyrants COMPETITION, by MARIN SORESCU Poem Source First Line: One, two, three Last Line: Stay standing %as for the national anthem Subject(s): Competition; Human Rights CONSCIOUSNESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Back from africa, she says she's conscious of the fact Last Line: If it meant she could feed a starving child. Subject(s): Africa; Human Rights; Poetry And Poets COULD WE HAVE BEEN HER?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Could we have been her Last Line: On a night of glittering bones? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Terror CREMATORIUM IN DACHAU, by HANNES PETURSSON Poem Source First Line: Cunning building %of pink, slender stones Last Line: On a deflated belly, %not yet decomposed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Human Rights DARK ROOMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Darkness waits for me Last Line: In the dark room %distant, blurred, delirious Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fear; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners DEATH OF DAMIENS OR L'APRES-MIDI DES LUMIERES, by ROBERT FRANCIS BRISSENDEN Poem Source First Line: The man's left leg Last Line: The dying madman's hair %has all gone white Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Damien, Father (1840-1889); Death; Human Rights DEATH SENTENCE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold as no plea Last Line: The law allows it %and the court awards Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We, children %of the universe Last Line: Swings to reach the sky Subject(s): Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina DEDICATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not save Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Poland - Communist Regime; Shoah; Judaism DEDICATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not save Last Line: I put this book here for you, who once lived %so that you should visit us no more Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Poland - Communist Regime DESCRIPTION OF AN IDEA, by BRUCE DAWE Poem Source First Line: You can nail it to a cross Last Line: And the billionth will reach for a dictionary Subject(s): Freedom; Human Rights; Ideas; Thought DISAPPEARED WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am the disappeared woman Last Line: Name myself. %call my name Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am the disappeared woman Last Line: Call my name Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons; Exiles; Human Rights DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Now with everybody %disappeared Last Line: Charred %by moldering blood? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 3, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Find her, %uncover her Last Line: On her saint's day Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 4, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I dream her by roadsides Last Line: And on thresholds %I embrace her Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 5, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I had no witnesses Last Line: Because I never went to my %own funeral Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 6, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Mother %I know you are calling me Last Line: Filled with daggers and serpents Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DOMINGA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I was asleep for a long time among Last Line: I carry a daughter inside it Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Human Rights - Argentina; Murder; Soldiers; Tyranny And Tyrants; War DON'T THINK, by AHMAD FARAZ Poem Source First Line: And she %pouring red wine into my glass Last Line: Don't think so much Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Human Rights; Memory; Self-criticism; Thought DOVES, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: My hands are two birds Last Line: When my hands saw you %they became transfixed %I'm afraid they'll go crazy %if they can't light on y Subject(s): Human Rights; Life EL SALVADOR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Eva tells me %that she is from el salvador Last Line: Not even the jews Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Escapes; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Immigrants; Memory; War ENGLISH - UGH!, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: One morning, reading the paper, I was flabbergasted Last Line: Or, rather, wheat-wine to our fascist friends Subject(s): English Language; Fascism And Fascists; Human Rights; Japan - Foreign Population ENVELOPE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true, martin heidegger, as you have written Last Line: That chain letter good for the next twenty-five %thousand days of their lives Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Death - Children; Fear; Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976); Human Rights EVERY NIGHT I KILL MYSELF A LITTLE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Last Line: And if we mourn when something living dies, %we aren't so sad when what has died lives Subject(s): Human Rights; Life EYES OF THE INTERRED, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The eyes of the interred Last Line: And the absences %transfix me Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Funerals; Human Rights - Argentina EZLN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Note this / a range of which Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Freedom; Human Rights; Labor Unions; Mexico; Military; Poverty; Strikes; Liberty; Labor Disputes; Lockouts EZLN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Note this %a range of which Last Line: Terra-cotta idols %smashed to the ground Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Freedom; Human Rights; Labor Unions; Mexico; Military; Poverty; Strikes FABLE, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time %there was a lonely wolf Last Line: And on into the morning when he was beaten to death Subject(s): Human Rights; Solitude; Wolves FEAR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Fear %nested %like a murmur Last Line: Of all these perverse %distances Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fear; Human Rights - Argentina; Tyranny And Tyrants FEAR HAS RISEN IN ME, by CHRISTINE LAVANT Poem Source First Line: Fear has risen in me Last Line: On the thread of a single hope %above us Subject(s): Fear; Human Rights FEAR II, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Fear was no longer that continuous presence that took pleasure Last Line: A time of %lies and idleness Subject(s): Death; Democracy; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fear; Human Rights - Argentina FIGHT GOES ON, by EDILBERTO COUTINHO Poem Source First Line: First half Last Line: It was such a pleasure baking it for you Subject(s): Fights; Human Rights; Mothers And Sons; Social Problems FINDING THE LANDSCAPE, by JONATHAN AARON Poem Source First Line: Last night you questioned the number of stars Last Line: Into laminated darkness like fish, and the horizon %sweepingyour eyes with its little white flag Subject(s): Human Rights; Landscape; Salvation FINE NIGHT, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: What song has risen tonight Last Line: Now I am drunk %with everything that is Subject(s): Human Rights; Night; Singing And Singers FLINT, by GAO FALIN Poem Source First Line: I am flint Last Line: Silent star %hardened flower Subject(s): Geology; Human Rights; Steel; Stones FOLLOW THE CALL, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Royal eagle, chained and bound Last Line: But two or three stand firm together Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews FROM PRISON, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You took away all the oceans and all the room Last Line: You left me my lips, and they shape words, even in silence Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners FROM THE CELL I OUTLINE THE TRACE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Darkened I outline traces Last Line: In their gestures %I exist Subject(s): Desolation; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I landed in the republic of conscience Subject(s): Conscience; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Human Rights; Nationalism - Ireland FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I landed in the republic of conscience Last Line: But operated independently %and no ambassador would ever be relieved Subject(s): Conscience; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Human Rights; Nationalism - Ireland GENERAL CEMETERY, by GARY GEDDES Poem Source First Line: Between the wrought-iron crosses of the disappeared Last Line: Into the silent, unassuming earth Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Disappeared Persons; Human Rights GIVE ME A NICKNAME, PRISON, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source Last Line: Place of our outcasts, executions %in this twentieth century Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Torture; Twentieth Century GOD OF CHILDREN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: They undressed her and bound her Last Line: I believe in the god of children Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Faith; Human Rights; Human Rights - Argentina GROWING UP, by IVA KOTRLA Poem Source First Line: In the years %when the secret police Last Line: And spoke to us %gently, like a mother Subject(s): Aging; Human Rights; Maturity HAND, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Someone wounded, %transmuted %takes me by the hand Last Line: The dream of the %living ones Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: She continued to ask Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Sons HAVING REVISED OUR GODS, by VINCENT BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Having revised our gods Last Line: There'll be lots, mainly the past, to talk about, %but no names for the new animals Subject(s): Human Rights; Nature HELL 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Nothing %can you believe here Last Line: Oh! These silent streets Subject(s): Danger; Hell; Human Rights; Silence; Streets; Tyranny And Tyrants HERE ARE OUR ALBUMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Take one of these photographs with you Subject(s): Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Photography And Photographers; Pictures HERE I AM EXPOSED LIKE EVERYONE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Last Line: For loving a person more than things %for never wearing shoes %for hoping god will come down to comb Subject(s): Human Rights; Life HORIZON, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And yet there must exist Last Line: Toward another outlet, even greater Subject(s): Human Rights; Salvation; Water HOW DOES AN IMPRISONED WOMAN SEE THE LIGHT?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The imprisoned woman on the threshold Last Line: In the midst of laments Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Freedom; Human Rights - Argentina; Lament; Prisons And Prisoners HOW MANY TIMES DO I TALK WITH MY DEAD?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: A shore to be crossed Subject(s): Absence; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Look at my continent containing Last Line: I've finished my lesson in geography. %look at my contained continent Subject(s): Human Rights; Life HYMN FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have strewn the burning hearths of man with / darkness and with mire Last Line: When mothers of men are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Elections; Human Rights; Justice; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism I DON'T KNOW, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I don't know where I'm from Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights I HAVE WITNESSED THE MASSACRE, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: I have witnessed the massacre Last Line: And carnations grew Subject(s): Human Rights; Massacres; Middle East - Conflicts I KEPT SILENT, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN Poem Source First Line: I kept silent when I was tortured by my enemy Last Line: Been stupid enough to open his mouth and ask for mercy? Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnam I MAKE POEMS, GENTLEMAN, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights; Writing And Writers I SING OF CHANGE, by NIYI OSUNDARE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing / of the beauty of athens Subject(s): Change; Hope; Human Rights; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs I SING OF CHANGE, by NIYI OSUNDARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sing %of the beauty of athens Last Line: I sing of a world reshaped Subject(s): Change; Hope; Human Rights; Singing And Singers I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER, by SHAO YANXIANG Poem Source First Line: Thirty-three tribunals of public censure Last Line: Let's cast a contemptuous look %on those who stratagems all l came to naught Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Human Rights; Women - Abused I'M ONLY A WOMAN, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I'm only a woman, and that's enough Subject(s): Human Rights; Life IF DEATH, by MIGUEL HUEZO MIXCO Poem Source First Line: If death should come asking for me Last Line: I haven't even set off along the road Subject(s): Death; Human Rights IF I KNEW I'D BEAR MYSELF PROUDLY, by METIJA BECKOVIC Poem Source Last Line: I'd spit on all and agree to anything Subject(s): Fear; Human Rights; Torture IN A FOREST, by SHERKO BEKAS Poem Source First Line: Darkness came %and in its lair, a lion thought Last Line: How could she, she wondered Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Human Rights; Hunger; Hunting; Survival IN THE DARKNESS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Someone calls to me Last Line: Call to my raw, naked body %in the darkness Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Silence INTERIOR LANDSCAPE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Like a madwoman and almost alone Last Line: And through my thought crosses %a wingless 'what is it to me?' Subject(s): Human Rights; Life INTERNMENT, by VINCENT BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: They have him squeezed into the square room Last Line: Patrick shivers %a mouthful of water after five days Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights IRASCIBLE DISTINCT MIST PEEKS THROUGH THE CREVICES OF THE GARDEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Hope? Who has not seen a child hiding behind a tree trunk? Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina IT'S SO EASY; JUST RECANT, by MYKOLA RUDENKO Poem Source Last Line: A dungeon concealed in a man Subject(s): Emptiness; Human Rights IT'S USELESS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: It's useless at this date Subject(s): Human Rights; Life JACARANDAS, SPREADING THEIR SCENT, CHARMING US ..., by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Seashore. A concave and painful absence locked within my painful dreams Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina JEWESS, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Doff your veil, o jewess! Doff it Last Line: Flowing out of true repentance? Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews JINDYWOROBAKSHEESH, by JAMES PHILIP MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: By the waters of babylon Last Line: The droppings from the perch of government Subject(s): Art And Artists; Human Rights; Propaganda KARL MARX, by ROBERT GRAY Poem Source First Line: Karl marx was playing a parlour game Last Line: It is the most essential of all %the complete works Subject(s): Games; Human Rights; Marx, Karl (1818-1883) KERCHIEFS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The kerchiefs that they tie, that are untied, madly whistle, kiss and moan Last Line: Close to mine, as if we were two joining fountainheads Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, by ARIEL DORFMAN Poem Source First Line: When they tell you Last Line: Don't believe them Subject(s): Disappeared Persons; Exiles; Human Rights LIKE A MIGRATORY BIRD, SHE UNFURLS HERSELF AMONG THE DRAPED, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: The mothers of the plaza de mayo Subject(s): Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Farewell; Human Rights - Argentina LISTEN TO ME, by KISHWAR NAHEED Poem Source First Line: If you want to speak %your punishment is death Last Line: Than pause and think: %of the word you first learnt Subject(s): Advice; Human Rights LITTLE CAMBRAY TAMALES, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two pounds of mestizo cornmeal Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Human Rights LITTLE CAMBRAY TAMALES, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two pounds of mestizo cornmeal Last Line: For five hundred years %and you'll see how tasty it is Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Food And Eating; Human Rights LOOK, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And record them in the albums of life Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Identity; Photography And Photographers; Pictures LOOKING FOR WORDS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Looking for words plain enough to tell the truth Last Line: Looking for words plain enough to tell the truth Subject(s): Human Rights; Language; Truth LOVE / LAST NIGHT I FORGOT EVERYTHING, by ANA IRIS VARAS Poem Source Last Line: Trying to reach you Subject(s): Absence; Human Rights; Love LUMINOUS SAGE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And bathe in the light of silent victory Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers MAKING A MYTH, by RONALD ALBERT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Making a myth is easy Last Line: You can't bear: %it's so immense Subject(s): Creation; Human Rights; Mythology MAKING POETRY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You have to inhabit poetry Subject(s): Human Rights; Poetry & Poets MAKING POETRY, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have to inhabit poetry Last Line: One of those haunted, undefendable, unpoetic %crosses we have to find Subject(s): Human Rights; Poetry And Poets MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man bent over his guitar Last Line: The imagined pine, the imagined jay Subject(s): Human Rights; Music And Musicians MAN-MOTH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, above, %cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight Last Line: Cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink Subject(s): Animals; Human Rights MAPLE AND THE PINE, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: What is this song I hear at dusk Last Line: That solitude's a blessed state, %and I'm not changing now! Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The big sweet muscles of an athlete's dream Last Line: Full loaded with his contraceptive hate Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Human Rights; Innocence MASSACRE SANDHILL, by GRANDFATHER KOORI Poem Source First Line: The rain the rain the rain Last Line: The rain the rain cried %until there was only the drought Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Human Rights MAYBE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF MADNESS, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Read it to me quietly, quietly Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Conscience; Human Rights; Insanity MEMORIAL, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Memory, like a piece of beautiful and imprecise canvas Last Line: That cannot say anything Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory MESSENGER, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The messenger awaited a desperately long time Last Line: And in the last moment everyone longs to be pardoned Subject(s): Forgiveness; Human Rights; Messengers MISTY LETTERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Speechless and full of tenderness Last Line: Watches over her, crowning her with birds Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Letters MORE THAN PEACE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: More than peace %or joy Last Line: Go back to my %forests Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Peace; Rest MORNING AGAIN, by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Morning again, though not yet light Last Line: Attends me as I fill the kettle Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Human Rights; Morning; Night; Violence MOST UNBELIEVABLE PART, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Yes, nice people %just like us Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Torture MOTHERS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Like the furtive heels of %death Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Farewell; Graves; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Last Line: Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky %had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings And Painters MUSEUM IN KAMPUCHEA, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: We went into a museum that use to be a high school Last Line: The young women who passed by on the street %looked like pagodas Subject(s): Cambodia; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Torture MY DAUGHTER, by HABIB JALIB Poem Source First Line: Thinking that it was a toy Last Line: A living hint of a free tomorrow %gave meaning to my night of sorrow Subject(s): Daughters; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Strength MY NEPALI WORDS BROKEN, FRAGMENTED, by MOHAN KOIRALA Poem Source First Line: Sugar, I write sugar, and paraffin I write Last Line: Who will buy onions?' %can nepali poems not be written at all Subject(s): Human Rights; Language Poetry; Pens And Pencils; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers MY OPTIMISM, by SHAO YANXIANG Poem Source First Line: I'm an adult Last Line: My long-suffering weather-beaten optimism Subject(s): Hope; Human Rights MYTH OF TIME, by HORST BIENEK Poem Source First Line: The myth of time disintegrates Last Line: The birds mourn softly in the wind %the myth of time disintegrates Subject(s): Human Rights; Mourning; Prisons And Prisoners NAKED GIRLS IN THE FORESTS OF BARBED WIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: At times I dressed up as a priestess, and went leaping through air Last Line: Clear that never had we known how to see ourselves Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Nudity; Pornography; Prostitution; Women - Abused NAPA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: As bountiful as love Last Line: And the men overflowed with poppies %and magueys Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Flowers; Human Rights - Argentina; Love; Passion NATIONALITY, by MARY CAMERON GILMORE Poem Source First Line: I have grown past hate and bitterness Last Line: But this loaf in my hand, %this loaf is my son's bread Subject(s): Human Rights; War NEWS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Because sadness pursued me Subject(s): Human Rights; Life NIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the night, %among the crystalline thresholds of dream Last Line: To the austere language of absence Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Travel NIGHT SONG OF THE PERSONAL SHADOW, by GYORGY PETRI Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is pissing down Subject(s): Danube (river); Flight; Human Rights; Rain; Flying NIGHT SONG OF THE PERSONAL SHADOW, by GYORGY PETRI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is pissing down Last Line: The time will come %when I feed you to fish in the danube Subject(s): Danube (river); Flight; Human Rights; Rain NIGHTFALL IN SOWETO, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI Poem Source First Line: Nightfall comes like %a dreaded disease Last Line: Why can't it be daytime? %daytime for evermore? Subject(s): Danger; Human Rights; Night; Soweto, South Africa NO SPEECH FROM THE SCAFFOLD, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will no speech from Last Line: As he rests there, while %he is still a human Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights NOT ALLOWED TO WRITE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I work for a newspaper Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights; Writing And Writers NOTHING MORE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by truth Last Line: The sea works in my silence Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Human Rights; Negra Island (chile) NOTICE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Because sadness was following me Last Line: Say that sadness was following me %and I sought freedom on an island %you can't find on any map Subject(s): Human Rights; Life NOW IT IS CERTAIN, by DESANKA MAKSIMOVIC Poem Source First Line: Through the same gate I shall enter too Last Line: Perhaps by the arch of the eyebrow Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Reunions OBEDIENT GIRL, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The obedient girl %with the patent-leather shoes Last Line: As if her body were a country %of obscure travelers Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Obedience; Silence OF THREE OR FOUR IN A ROOM, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Address and no one to receive them Subject(s): Human Rights; Windows OFAY-WATCHER LOOKS BACK, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poet's Biography First Line: I want to look at what happened Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Human Rights; Silence; Vision; Watchmen; Enigmas; Oddities OFAY-WATCHER LOOKS BACK, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to look at what happened Last Line: Like death comes out of disease, %I want to look at what happened Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Human Rights; Silence; Vision; Watchmen OFFERING: FOR MARINA TSVETAYEVA, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Through yellow fingers smoke rises about you Last Line: An unwanted dog? O black icon Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941) ON KILLING A TREE, by GIEVE PATEL Poem Source First Line: It takes much time to kill a tree Last Line: Twisting, withering, %and then it is done Subject(s): Human Rights; Trees ON THE SICK-BED, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: These fiery stabs, this icy thrill Last Line: A dewy flower my soul is now, %new-born in sanctity Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews ONCE AGAIN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Once again the women linger Last Line: Even in the perverse secret of %wicked deaths Subject(s): Chile; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fascism And Fascists; Human Rights - Argentina; Tyranny And Tyrants OPEN AND CLOSED ROOMS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man touches the world with his trade for a glove Last Line: Stand still. %no, fly on Subject(s): Gloves; Human Rights; Sky; Wind OUR CHAINS WEAR US DOWN, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Paralyzed, we stagger around Last Line: Like the pain, the cold and the ghost, %and that loud howl at midnight %in a city with no wolves Subject(s): Human Rights; Life PAIN, by MBELLA SONNE DIPOKO Poem Source First Line: All was quiet in this park Last Line: Like wild gum on tree-trunks Subject(s): Despair; Human Rights PAINTED WINDOWS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I lived in a house Subject(s): Human Rights; Life PASSION, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Only the warmth of the slaughter-house Last Line: Somehow cannot even now finish Subject(s): Human Rights; Slaughterhouses; Violence PATIENTLY NAME THEM, AS IF DEALING WITH LEGENDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And no one looks out of the antechambers of the departed Subject(s): Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina PIETA, by ALLEN AFTERMAN Poem Source First Line: I leave it for you to say why it is Last Line: Why is it that every moment we are awake we do not weep? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Human Rights; Tears PLOWING, by YANG LIAN Poem Source First Line: I am a plow Last Line: And submerge into new green during a radiant season Subject(s): Grief; Human Rights; Love; Plowing And Plowmen POEM ON MY BIRTHDAY FOR IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA, by DAVID CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: We have the day in common, also verses Last Line: Courage, %sister. Good courage, my white sister Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Human Rights POEM TO BE RECITED IN DREAMS OF THE SEA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: At night, in the sounds of an ocher and hallucinatory, confused and Last Line: With light like the invincible seasons of dream Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Human Rights - Argentina; Love POINT, by EVAN JONES Poem Source First Line: The point, I imagine, is Last Line: Merely final and absolute: %without it no people, no life, no art Subject(s): Fidelity; Human Rights POSTMAN'S FEAR, by MOHAMED AL-MAGUT Poem Source First Line: Prisoners everywhere %send me all you have Last Line: What I fear most is %god could be illiterate Subject(s): Human Rights; Letters; Pain PRAYER, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Our father who I know is on earth Subject(s): Human Rights; Life PRESIDENT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: All dressed in white Last Line: This summer in the country of the dead Subject(s): Democracy; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fascism And Fascists; Government; Human Rights - Argentina PRISON NIGHTFALL, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night descends Last Line: They cannot blind the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Prisons And Prisoners PROCESSIONS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beneath her eyes she carries the scars of absence, and her gait Last Line: A concave surface beneath her nebulous steps Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence PROFESSION: GHOST, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Last Line: He knew a lot about art and I must confess %together we composed many of my paintings Subject(s): Human Rights; Life PROLOGUE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The disappeared women slipped in among dreams. They would watch me Last Line: Because I wish to accompany my dead sisters Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Pain; Women PROPAGANDA, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: How quickly the victors Last Line: The truth ye know %and all ye need to know Subject(s): Human Rights; Propaganda; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 PUNISHMENT, by KIM KWANG-SUP Poem Source First Line: I, number 2,223 %draped in the garb of a prisoner Last Line: As for me, though you give me your country, I'll spurn it Subject(s): Human Rights; Identity; Prisons And Prisoners; Punishment PUPILS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Light overflowing and melodious Last Line: A wound that makes its nest %amid the sadness Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Grief; Human Rights - Argentina PYRAMID OF ENMITY, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: The mist continues Last Line: And while I scrape my knees, %slip farther away and break myelbows, %poetry is hoisted up Subject(s): Human Rights; Life QUESTIONS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I will not rest easy with my questions Last Line: But the men %cloaked in darkness Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; History; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence REMEMBERING THE MADWOMEN OF THE PLAZA DE MAYO, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: There is nothing here Last Line: Of the forgotten ones %here present Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina RENEE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She still approaches %murmurs, whispers Last Line: Who could not gather seedlings Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers And Daughters; Photography And Photographers; Pictures RENEE EPPELBAUM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: As in a circular Last Line: And found my hands Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Heaven; Human Rights - Argentina REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angelic choirs the unequalled hour exalted Last Line: No one as much as dared to look that way Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a time when only the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Dead, The; Leningrad; Petrograd REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those years only the dead smiled Last Line: Under the tyres of black marias Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia ROPE FOR HARRY FAT, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh some have killed in angry love Last Line: We will not change our policy,' %says harry fat the proud Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Human Rights; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Rope SEARCH, by YANNIS RITSOS Poem Source First Line: Come in, gentlemen - he said. No inconvenience. Look through everything Last Line: Who planted these in here? Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Forgery; Human Rights SENTENCE, by SAUL YURKIEVICH Poem Source First Line: Doesn't read what he should Last Line: Lives but shouldn't %shouldn't live Subject(s): Books; Human Rights; Language; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers SHRIEK, by RENATA PALLOTTINI Poem Source First Line: If at least this pain helped Last Line: If at least this pain would bleed Subject(s): Human Rights; Pain SHROUDED WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Between slits and amulets Last Line: Covers her with greenish and solitary %epitaphs Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Solitude; Terror; Women SILENT, BUT..., by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: I may be silent, but Last Line: I may not talk, but %don't mistake me for a wall Subject(s): Human Rights; Silence SLAUGHTERHOUSE, by JANA STROBLOVA Poem Source First Line: Certainly somewhere there's paradise Last Line: Don't shut your eyes %hold my hand in this world Subject(s): Human Rights; Slaughterhouses SNOW-WHITE WALL, by LIANG XIAOBIN Poem Source First Line: Mother, %I saw a snow-white wall Last Line: Mother, %I saw a snow-white wall Subject(s): Colors; Human Rights; Walls; White (color) SOME LAST QUESTIONS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the head Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Curiosities & Wonders; Human Rights; Heritage; Heredity; Enigmas; Oddities SOME LAST QUESTIONS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the head Last Line: Who are the compatriots %a. They make the stars of bone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Curiosities And Wonders; Human Rights SOMEWHERE, by ES'KIA MPHAHLELE Poem Source First Line: Somewhere a mother sobs Last Line: Somewhere a mother will rejoice Subject(s): Human Rights; Oppression; Single Parents SOMOZA UNVEILS THE STATUE OF SOMOZA IN SOMOZA STADIUM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: It's not that I think the people erected this statue Last Line: I erected this statue because I knew you would hate it Subject(s): Human Rights; Statues; Tyranny And Tyrants SONG OF A PRISON GUARD, by LUPENGA MPHANDE Poem Source First Line: I see you, prisoner of dzeleka Last Line: To fall away, one after another, wasted Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners SOOYU-RI DIARY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: For whose neck is this silk noose? Last Line: Burns red and white again and again Subject(s): Diaries; Government; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners SOUNDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The words broke away from the sound Last Line: So I could repeat a name Subject(s): Deafness; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence SOUNDS BEGIN AGAIN, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My sounds begin again Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Human Rights; Noises; Pain; Violence SPOILS TO THE VICTORS, by ROSS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Always, when the conquerors come Last Line: In every conquered household Subject(s): Human Rights; Imperialism; War; Women STALIN EPIGRAM, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives no longer feel ground under them Last Line: He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries. %he wishes he could hug them like big friends fr Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STORY, by ROBERTO SABALLOS Poem Source First Line: This is the story of maria teresa Last Line: This is the story of maria teresa %this is the story of my people Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons; Farewell; Human Rights SUBVERSIVE, by FERREIRA GULLAR Poem Source First Line: Poetry %when she comes Last Line: And promises to set the country on fire Subject(s): Brazil; Human Rights; Poetry And Poets TALK TO THE PEACH TREE, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA Poem Source First Line: Let's talk to the swallows visiting us in summer Last Line: It's about time Subject(s): Human Rights; Language; Talk TELL ME NEWS, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA Poem Source First Line: Tell me of a brother Last Line: Of a mangled corpse %not begun to sit on your conscience Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights; Immortality; Prisons And Prisoners THE DEMOCRATIC BARBER; OR, COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S SURPRISE, by JOHN PARRISH Poem Text First Line: Good gad! Who's this? What's this, my son? Last Line: Unto the world I will the deed proclaim. Subject(s): Democracy; Human Rights; Men; Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) THE GREAT FRANCHISE DEMONSTRATION: DUNDEE, 20TH SEPTEMBER 1884, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1884, and on saturday the 20th of september Last Line: And they all dispersed quietly to their homes without delay. Subject(s): Human Rights; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR: 1-6, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The man bent over his guitar Last Line: A composing of senses of the guitar Subject(s): Human Rights; Music & Musicians THE MAN-MOTH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, above, / cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight Subject(s): Animals; Human Rights THE RIGHT TO PERISH MIGHT BE THOUGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To pay you scrutiny Subject(s): Human Rights; Death THE STALIN EPIGRAM, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives no longer feel ground under them Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) THEIR BEHAVIOUR, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their guilt %is not so very different from ours Last Line: Becomes obscene in orgies Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Guilt; Human Rights; Self-consciousness THEIR EMBASSIES, HE SAID, WERE EVERYWHERE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For who is Last Line: Unless it be in the full sense of the night %and in the full severity of mercy Subject(s): Human Rights; Judgments; Punishment THEN HE ASKED HER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Of the maimed eyes Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures THEY AROSE ON TIPTOE, INTOXICATED IN THEIR DOOM, AND EACH FOOTSTEP, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: A feast of lights Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Insomnia; Solitude THEY BEGIN TO MOVE SLOWLY, SLUGGISHLY, AS IF SOMEONE WERE SUSPENDING, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: They dance, and they dance as if this dance were the last round of their souls Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina THEY SAW HER GRASP HER OWN WAIST, AND THE FRICTION FROM HER HANDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Rocked dead in her dreams-a memory-in her land of smoke Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers; Solitude; Sons THIS IS THE STONE, by ALISON CROGGON Poem Source First Line: It's when you want to shrug it all off Last Line: This is the stone you work on Subject(s): Human Behavior; Human Rights; Stones THISTLEDOWN GATHERER, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Look at the immense and restless red sea of the wide thistle health! Last Line: Workdays will seem like distant vineyards glittering in the sun Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews THOUGHTS UPON HUMAN REASON, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I have read them - but I cannot find Last Line: "have prov'd the point, by their complete rotation." Subject(s): Human Rights; Mankind; Reason; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THREE, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: What beautiful temples of human love are the public inns of the Last Line: Heaven because they took pity on our frailty? Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews THROUGH KIEV, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through kiev, through the streets of the monster Last Line: Don't worry, we'll be back!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Kiev, Ukraine; Russia - Army-military Life TO BE SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN, by GYORGY PETRI Poet's Biography First Line: I glance down at my shoe and - there's the lace! Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons & Prisoners; Shoes; Convicts; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers TO BE SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN, by GYORGY PETRI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I glance down at my shoe and - there's the lace! Last Line: This can't be gaol then, can it, in that case Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Shoes TO HAVE A CHILD THESE DAYS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights TO HORACE BUMSTEAD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you been sore discouraged in the fight Last Line: You shall not, no, you shall not, fight alone. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Bumstead, Horace (1841-1919); Human Rights; Justice TODAY IS SUNDAY, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life TORTURE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Slowly and in secret Last Line: Eternal ceremony of torture Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Torture TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THESE POPULATIONS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These populations Last Line: The true the human society! Subject(s): Democracy; Equality; Human Rights; Public Opinion TRANSPARENT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: In her eyes that throb with presences Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by KEVIN HART Poem Source First Line: When we arrive there Last Line: Across the fields of sadness, walking towards the horizon Subject(s): Human Rights; Modern Man; Twentieth Century; War TWO ESKIMO SONGS: 2: HOW WATER BEGAN TO PLAY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water wanted to live Last Line: Till it had no weeping left %it lay at the bottom of all things %utterly worn out utterly clear Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Human Rights; Tears; Water; Weariness VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Hearts of christians all should glow Last Line: As your fellows all mankind Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews VORKUTA, by HORST BIENEK Poem Source First Line: In vorkuta no disciple of the lord Last Line: Drift to the rivers with the melting snow Subject(s): Despair; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners WAITING, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: The one who waits is always the mother Last Line: Until in the end %no one sees her Subject(s): Human Rights; Mothers; Patience; Waiting WAKE UP, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: Outside the window the sky is clean Last Line: Clean language clean language Subject(s): Human Rights; Language; Truth WALKING, SHE IS A SOLILOQUY, AN ALCHEMY OF LIFE ITSELF, ERECT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Sea, surely he will be in heaven Subject(s): Absence; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Heaven; Human Rights - Argentina WANTON WEEDS, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Now, farewell!' said my friend one summer evening when we had Last Line: Norway's rightful symbols: we are love and liberty' Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews WARRANT FOR MY ARREST, by JASPER BERNES Poem Source First Line: Yes I have the right to remain a problem Last Line: You don't know me either. I said I heard you Subject(s): Human Rights; Lament; Problems WE MUST TRY NOT TO LIE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: We must try not to lie so much Last Line: Sometimes I walk around naked. %since then I go for days without saying a word Subject(s): Human Rights; Life WE WERE MET, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We were met by Last Line: Bringing us to light Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Freedom; Happiness; Human Rights - Argentina; Light WE WILL NOT GO INTO THAT RIVER, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source Last Line: All goodness of the earth -- for his shoulder Subject(s): Human Rights; Memory; Prisons And Prisoners; Rivers WEAPON, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The will to power destroys the power to will Last Line: In the one stroke we win the world and lose it. %the will to power destroys the power to will Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Assassination; Human Rights; War WHAT LIES IN THE DEPTHS OF YOUR EYES?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: What lies in the depths Last Line: Because you are a butterfly luminous in the mirrors Subject(s): Absence; Blindness; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners; Terror WHEN I HEAR YOUR NAME, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Last Line: I will be sentenced to repeating it forever Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Life Change Events WHEN I HEAR YOUR NAME, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life WHEN SHE SHOWED ME HER PHOTOGRAPH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: That it seems as if she were alive? Subject(s): Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Love; Pictures WHEN THE EVENING LIGHT BURNS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And I begin to dream with %my photo Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Insanity; Love; Memory WHEN THE POLICY CHANGES, by DOAN VAN MINH Poem Source First Line: Whenever the policy changes Last Line: Don't bother about the time being %no matter what kind of life we are living now Subject(s): Human Rights; Social Problems; Vietnam - Communist Regime WHEN THE SUN SHINES MORE YEARS THAN FEAR, by JANET FRAME Poem Source Last Line: I have no hunger, %remove my plate Subject(s): Human Rights; Old Age WHY IS OUR CENTURY WORSE THAN ANY OTHER?, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And calling the ravens and the ravens are in flight Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Pain; Twentieth Century WILD BALLAD, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Between the stag and the little gazelle Subject(s): Human Rights; Life WILDSTRAWBERRY TOWN, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source First Line: In wildstrawberry town -- Last Line: Set off without cares %to wildstrawberry town Subject(s): Human Rights; Towns; Utopia WILLY-WILLY MAN, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: Beside the quiet billabong %underneath a quadong tree Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Human Rights WIND WILL COME FROM THE SOUTH, by CIRCE MAIA Poem Source First Line: A wind will come from the south with unleashed rain Last Line: Down the stairs, from the balconies, %calling to each other Subject(s): Cleanliness; Human Rights; Rain; Storms; Wind WINTRY MANIFESTO, by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE Poem Source First Line: It was the death of satan first of all Last Line: Our greatest joy to mark an outline truly %and know the piece of earth on which we stand Subject(s): Devil; Human Rights; Tyranny And Tyrants WITH A BURNING THIRST, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In the back alley at daybreak Last Line: Long live democracy! Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Human Rights; Police; Politics; Prisons And Prisoners WOMAN OF AIR, WOMAN OF WATER, by GLORIA DIEZ Poem Source First Line: I know that a seaweed wind Last Line: Will be a woman of earth %a woman of fire Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Human Rights; Water; Wind WOMAN WAITS FOR HER DEAD IN A USELESS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: A woman waits for her dead Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina WOMEN AT THE CHURCHYARD, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Which is the word in every tongue Last Line: But which lies in death's dominion Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews YELLOW FLOWERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: For the tombs %of the nameless Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Flowers; Graves; Human Rights - Argentina; Solitude; Women YOU, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: You who vainly %made your tongue Last Line: Landscape %between my hands Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory YOU'LL GET YOURS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: The dead hourse has it all Subject(s): Human Rights; Life ZONES OF PAIN: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The zones of pain, restless, scattered Last Line: Offer solace to the dead-dying Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Pain ZONES OF PAIN: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The pain, savage and exact Last Line: Now dream amid %the delirium Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Pain; Solitude |
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