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Subject: INCEST Matches Found: 100 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACUTE MEMORY, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: My friends tell me %they don't remember anything that happened Last Line: I remember being three. %somewhere underneath my thinking %my childhood stays with me Subject(s): Incest ADOLESCENCE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Most adolescents resist %parental coddling or direction Last Line: And they seldom saw you. %but it didn't change my attitude. %I hated you Subject(s): Incest ALONE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: A little girl of seven %sits on the front steps Last Line: In infinite sadness and despair %as she bears her burden %alone Subject(s): Incest ANGER, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Anger %was never allowed Last Line: A slow, patient walk toward forgiveness %or at least acceptance. %a grown-up little girl %set free Subject(s): Incest ARMS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I was small %and wanted arms Last Line: Trust those hands %I have never known %the love of father's arms Subject(s): Incest BATH TIME, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Bath time was fun! %warm water %sometimes bubbly Last Line: I weep for the innocent little girl %who couldn't know %the darkness yet to come Subject(s): Incest BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: When my husband touches me Last Line: I have to tell myself %over and over %and sometimes I relax %and love is good Subject(s): Incest BITTERNESS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I'm not bitter. %mother loved me Last Line: My childlike wonder %and soured my life for years. %I hate you Subject(s): Incest CAUSE AND EFFECT, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Somewhere inside you %there must be a chasm- Last Line: Rejection %abuse %contamination. %I am left with your burden%and my despair Subject(s): Incest CHAIN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faces surround me that have no smell or color no time Last Line: How do I learn to love her %as you have loved me? Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Child Molesting; Incest CHANGE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: On a quiet september night Last Line: My body breathes freely %because it belongs at last %to me Subject(s): Incest CHARMING CHILD, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Funny, but I know %I was a charming child Last Line: And constantly pulled herself %away from its destruction. %ifought to keep my spirit %alive Subject(s): Incest CHILDREN, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I know now %I shall always be afraid Last Line: Because it is reality for me %based on my experience %with you Subject(s): Incest CHRISTMAS WITH THE HOLY FAMILY, by SUSAN CAVIN Poem Source First Line: Christmas come tomorrow Subject(s): Homosexuality; Incest COAXING, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: When I'd hesitate %you'd coax me Last Line: How to diagree %and I hoped someday %to please you Subject(s): Incest CONFESSIONS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: After therapy %I was afraid to tell Last Line: I am not spoiled %a ruined, lessened person. %they care for me Subject(s): Incest COUNSELING, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I need to be held Last Line: I am held %with integrity and caring. %I learn %that it is possible %to be loved Subject(s): Incest COURAGE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: A friend told me %that my past was not important- Last Line: After all the years of hiding %and repressing the truth %in fear %I am now the one %called brave! %I Subject(s): Incest CRAZY, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: This is crazy. %I am crying Last Line: This is crazy. %I carry the weight of the sentence %but you are the killer Subject(s): Incest DADDY WARBUCKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's missing is the eyeballs Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Fathers & Daughters; Incest; Death DANGER, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Danger threatened! %I knew I had to get away Last Line: Abandoned and abused, %I sealed the doors %so that no one would know Subject(s): Incest DECISION, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Now that I remember %have worked through my past Last Line: Either choice is difficult %I must wait %to see what's best to do- %best not for you %but best for m Subject(s): Incest DON SEBASTIAN: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I quaked at heart, for fear the royal fashion Last Line: And make me thundring votes of lives and fortune. Subject(s): Clergy; Incest; Love; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops DREAM, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I had a dream. %two small girls were Last Line: I have come to wonder %what the dream might mean %and if the little girls %were really we Subject(s): Incest DYING, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I wished I would be Last Line: Deep in my head %where no one could see- %not even me. %I died %inside Subject(s): Incest EIGHTH GRADE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: It was the one time I fought Last Line: I lost. %I lost it all. %I was young, fourteen. %I never fought again Subject(s): Incest ENGLISH WAS ONLY A SECONG LANGUAGE, by WALTA BORAWSKI Poem Source Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Homosexuality; Incest ESCAPE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Take it away! %take away the truth Last Line: I had a normal, loving life. %I was a happy child. %let me forget the past %the truth Subject(s): Incest EXPLOITATION, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: People easily take advantage of me Last Line: It is a habit I developed %in exploitive relationship %with you Subject(s): Incest FAMILY, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Where were you when I needed you? Last Line: I bore your pain %plus all of mine %while you ignored me. %where the hell were you? Subject(s): Incest FANTASY, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I have called a meeting Last Line: You cannot run %too weak to resist. %I have my revenge. %youare exposed! %a fantasy Subject(s): Incest FEAR, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Fear is still a way of life Last Line: Fear of never being able %to let someone love me Subject(s): Incest FICKLE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I'd date boys at college Last Line: Jut to get some favors, %draw away or scold me- %leave. %just like you Subject(s): Incest FORGIVENESS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: There are those who expect me to forgive Last Line: Seventy experiences and understandings %times seven or seventy more. %I can believe I will forgive % Subject(s): Incest FOUR YEARS OLD, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I always sang for company Last Line: Everybody loked the show. %even me. %I was used to performing %for you Subject(s): Incest FOURTH COMMANDMENT, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: They taught me %not to hate my parent Last Line: It is sad %and it comes back to me %again and again Subject(s): Incest GOD, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I've been glad for god the spirit Last Line: Because I don't believe %my heart can ever understand %that god is like a father Subject(s): Incest GRIEF, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a record does it Last Line: From which the water of spirit flows, %diminishing me. %emp ty, %I am left only tears %until the gri Subject(s): Incest HATE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Hate %hate %hate %hate Last Line: Hate %hate %hate %hate %hate %hate %why me? Subject(s): Incest IMAGE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: It doesn't happen in the %nicer homes Last Line: Not a person I could tell %would want to belive me. %it would ruin the %neighborhood image Subject(s): Incest INCEST, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed. Inscribed. Interred. In my house Subject(s): Incest; Hate JUNIOR HIGH, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Embarrassed. %I was humiliated %when you handled me Last Line: Spoiled every success, %and pride %was abandoned in the bloody snow %to cold cruel wolves Subject(s): Incest JUSTICE IS REASON ENOUGH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who was once my brother, is dead by his own hand Last Line: Reason enough for anything ugly. It balances the beauty in the air Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Suicide; Incest KNOWLEDGE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Play and pleasure %changed to far and mistruct Last Line: And now I had a terrible secret %which I could never tell- %ever Subject(s): Incest LAPS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Daughters love to sit %on daddies' laps Last Line: Why I watch so carefully %little girls sitting %on their daddies' laps Subject(s): Incest LEGACY, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I began to realize %I could hurt my children Last Line: I must discover %what was wrong with me. %I must try to change. %I must go for help Subject(s): Incest MAN RACED WILDLY THROUGH A BURNING, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: A man told me %I was aloof Last Line: In order to feel safe %around men %especially those I liked Subject(s): Incest MATURITY, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I'm always a little afraid %I'll lose control Last Line: To stand firm %unafraid %trusting me. %I long to feel free Subject(s): Incest MEMORIES OF SIMPLE-MINDED OLD MEN / ARTHUR RIMBAUD, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If there's a god, forgive me! Last Line: I reach down: lord, let's both of us jack off! Subject(s): Incest; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) MERCY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Incest MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MOTHER, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Mother loved me. %she told me little girls Last Line: Mother loved me %so I didn't want to hurt %or disappoint her Subject(s): Incest MUSIC, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: When I was young %I knew a lot of torch songs- Last Line: That someone only ten or twelve %should like such songs %andsing them with such feeling Subject(s): Incest MY BODY, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I don't really dare %have a body Last Line: I've lost too many times before. %I'm afraid to have a body Subject(s): Incest MYRRHA, by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI Poem Text First Line: Come, faithful eurycleia: now the dawn Last Line: I had died ... Guiltless; ... Guilty ... Now ... I die. ... Subject(s): Incest; Suicide; Tragedy MYSTERIOUS DELIGHT, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Company came %and I got to stay up late Last Line: I can still hear that laugh. %it scares me Subject(s): Incest NELL COOK; A LEGEND OF THE 'DARK ENTRY': THE KING'S SCHOLAR'S STORY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Listen, mrs. Ingoldsby, - the clock is striking nine! Last Line: And bless us all, both great and small, -- and keep us from nell cook! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Murder; Incest; Ghosts NIGHTMARES, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I lived in the shadow of dreams Last Line: Often unexpectedly %sometimes vague %sometimes repetitious. %I could not run away Subject(s): Incest OBEDIENCE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: You insisted. %I crinkled my face Last Line: And it was hard to keep my balance %so I followed. %I obeyed. %children do that, after all Subject(s): Incest OLDER MEN, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Older men often seem nice Last Line: My lover-father %wouldn't hurt me %would hold me close %and stay. %I couldn't take the risk. %I sent Subject(s): Incest OTHER DADS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: My friends had nice dads- %men who talked to us Last Line: And I seldom asked girlfriends over %when you were home. %I wasn't sure I dared Subject(s): Incest PATSY, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I used to say to friends %I'm a patsy Last Line: I might do anything he wanted %just to please him. %a patsy Subject(s): Incest PLEA, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Why do you hate me, daddy? Last Line: I'll do anything you say. %I want you to like me. %please Subject(s): Incest POINT OF VIEW, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: A grown woman %realizes what she did for years Last Line: She can start to recognize %it wasn't she who failed at all.%she is the victim %not the criminal Subject(s): Incest POSTURE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I', one of the round-shouldered women Last Line: The irony is you used to tell me %'stand straight %shouldersback %walk proud' Subject(s): Incest POWERFUL WORDS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Everybody has a word or two Last Line: I wouldn't say them aloud. %my words were %touch %and kiss Subject(s): Incest PRINCESS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I fell in love %with a young man Last Line: Something a father %might call his little girl. %but the young man left too Subject(s): Incest PROTECTION, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Nobody took care of me. %I was seven Last Line: Children need protection. %but nobody knew. %nobody took care of me Subject(s): Incest QUIET, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: No one ever heard us %because you'd wait Last Line: There was no reason to yell. %no one would hear Subject(s): Incest RECOLLECTION, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I awakened this morning uneasy- Last Line: My sigh reveals %I tire of the need %to face the truth %again %and again Subject(s): Incest REDEMPTION, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I am now able Last Line: And find that all my pain %has greater meaning. %in sharing love %my trauma is redeemed Subject(s): Incest RELIEF, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: At times during therapy Last Line: I've never become ill %when I faced the truth- %only relieved Subject(s): Incest REMEMBERING YOUTH, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: We were talking together Last Line: What it means to feel the pain %of adolescence. %perhaps I will know %more than I care to remember Subject(s): Incest RULES, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Lessons. %little girls sit still Last Line: Don't talk to strangers- %they might hurt you. %mind mommy %and daddy Subject(s): Incest SECRETS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: To love a man in secret Last Line: My past and my present, %and a recurring desire %for meaningless secret love Subject(s): Incest SELF-HATE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: What I cannot bear %is knowing that I wanted you- Last Line: I live %the intolerable misery %of hating not only you %but me Subject(s): Incest; Self-hate SEX EDUCATION, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Sex education. %I was quite surprised Last Line: Of when a girl's body can conceive- %in case I needed to know... %I needed to know Subject(s): Incest SHAME, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I don't like to remember Last Line: The gradual debasement of my soul %I long to believe I didn't succumb Subject(s): Incest SHOWER, by LINDA SMUKLER Poem Source First Line: My voice is thin I stand in the shower Last Line: The water got too hot I made him turn it up Subject(s): Homosexuality; Incest SIXTEEN, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: When I was sixteen %we lived by a lake Last Line: My femininity already spoiled, %sixteen wasn't sweet Subject(s): Incest SPRING AFTERNOON, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Driving down the street on a spring afternoon Last Line: Destroys the beauty of a spring afternoon %and my compassion for an old man Subject(s): Incest STRUGGLE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I';m afraid of dying. %more afraid than many Last Line: Destroy my concept of my self %my will to survive %my joy oflife. %every day I fight to live Subject(s): Incest SURVIVAL, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Eyes can be blank. %they can refuse to see Last Line: Over and over and over %you can forget %in order to survive Subject(s): Incest TEARS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I was four %(or maybe two). %I cried Last Line: I cried too long %and you hit me hard. %I never forgot. %I hardly ever cry anymore Subject(s): Incest TECHNIQUES, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: There are books %full of diagrams, drawings Last Line: And ugly memories. %I knew the techniques %long before I wanted to know Subject(s): Incest THERAPIST, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Help me, I pleaded- %never saying the words Last Line: Telling you %was the beginning of my life. %you heard my plea %and understood Subject(s): Incest THIRD-GRADE TEACHER, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Dear third-grade teacher: %you found me daydreaming today Last Line: And I spent the april afternoon %daydreaming. %you didn't understand Subject(s): Incest THIRTEEN, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Textbooks say that thirteen Last Line: I was a textbook case of the struggle %and doomed to lose. %a blank empty life %looking out the scre Subject(s): Incest THIRTY-SIX, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: It took me more than %thirty-six years Last Line: I am destroyng me %by protecting you. %I've done it for thirty-six years Subject(s): Incest TWELVE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: One terrible night %you asked too much Last Line: Until I turned into a statue- %a metal sculpture. %I would never %be warm again Subject(s): Incest UNCLE LOUIE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Uncle louie always gave little girls Last Line: Maybe every little girl %should like her uncle's kiss. %I looked at uncle louie %and I smiled too Subject(s): Incest VICTIM, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: I think I'm fine %and life is going well Last Line: I learned so young %what it is to be victim %I hardly know how to believe %I can win- %and I lose ag Subject(s): Incest VOCATION, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: Once I thought %my goal in life Last Line: It scare me to think %I might have tried it. %it seemed to fit Subject(s): Incest VOLCANO, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: God! Take away this awful time! Last Line: God, give me a safe place %a safe person %who can help me be%without destroying someone else %or me Subject(s): Incest WATERCOLORS, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: It was a watercolor painting- Last Line: Only a gray portrait %of the confusion and destruction %of a child become woman Subject(s): Incest WE BUILT MOUNTAIN PADDIES, by KINASHI NO KARU Poem Source Last Line: Like the tangle when reeds are cut - %when we two have slept Subject(s): Incest; Sisters WELL-MEANING, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: There have been those Last Line: Something about the limits %of those who want to help. %nexttime I hope they'll refer Subject(s): Incest WIND OF LATE SUMMER, by PAMELA STEWART Poem Source First Line: At first, what flew hard from my grandmother's mouth Subject(s): Incest WOULD BE MORE THAN KIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady is most fair and kind Last Line: I cannot bear to be your brother! Subject(s): Beauty; Brothers And Sisters; Incest; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOU AND I, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: You %are %a %selfish %terrifying %cruel %person Last Line: And %I %can't %find %anyplace %to %hide Subject(s): Incest |
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