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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INTROSPECTION Matches Found: 87 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VERY EARLY MORNING EXERCISE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chan yuen is on the threshold of a remarkable career Subject(s): Introspection; Men; Nanking, China A WHITE BIRCH TREE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I would not be a clinging vine Last Line: It lifts again to meet the sky. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Introspection; Strength ADDRESS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Lacking the intimate tu, and with thou Last Line: How I want to say it, what I most fear losing Subject(s): Fear; Introspection; Loss AFTER FIFTY YEARS OR TRACKING CLOUDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How odd to see the mist so clearly Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Nature AFTER ROWING MY BLUE AND BROWN BOAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The two loons close by, the theory of red wine Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Nature; Rowing; Self ALL MY LIFE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Running the locomotive Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Nature; Self AN EVENING OUT, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered into chekhov Last Line: Velvety and dark / finally falling Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Self BEYOND THE EAST GATE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: I listen to the voice of the cricket Last Line: Come down from the mountain Subject(s): Desire; Hope; Introspection; Self; Women BLUEBERRIES AND CREAM, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In this dense kiosk of august heat Last Line: Hanging from gravity's dark branches Subject(s): Blueberries; Introspection BOUNDLESS ROOM, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Yes, I belong to those who were once under the spell Last Line: I don't sleep at night so day will shine more truly Subject(s): Introspection; Self COME TO THINK OF IT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who you are Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity; Introspection; Nature; Self DAVID, MUSING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was I who faced the lion and the bear Last Line: For later -- for her -- for israel -- for my sons Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Faith; Hunger; Introspection; Passion; Regret DEBT, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK Poem Source First Line: A row of mullberries is heavy Last Line: Yet I feel indebted to everything Subject(s): Debt; Introspection DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I write to avenge my mother's death Last Line: But this is what I have to do Subject(s): Introspection; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers FISHING AT FORTY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: We got ourselves up Last Line: His silver and steel; the whiskey %behind the seat, half gone; %the long, hard winter coming on Subject(s): Aging; Fishing And Fishermen; Introspection; Life; Middle Age FOLLOWERS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving east on buddha's birthday Last Line: And climb a tree though few of us do. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Travel; Journeys; Trips GEO-BESTIARY: 24, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A whiff of that dead bird along the trail Last Line: Still wondering above all else what kind of beast am I? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Dead, The GEO-BESTIARY: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The resplendent female 'elegant trogon.' Last Line: This all took three seconds by my geologic watch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Introspection GIC TO HAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late at night, cold and damp Last Line: Ten years in an unfriendly city Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Introspection; Solitude; Loneliness GIC TO HAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late at night, cold and damp Last Line: Ten years in an unfriendly city Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Introspection; Solitude GOOD NIGHT, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: My brother sighs in his sleep Last Line: And already I miss it. %good night Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Night GRAND HOTEL EUROPA, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The carline thistles wither in the vase on the shelf. No man's land Last Line: Anymore, yet I must sing for them to find peace in my song, finally united Subject(s): Affliction; Introspection; Life GRAVITY'S FIRST LESSON, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Tired of raging ive decided Last Line: Let myself go %gently Subject(s): Games; Introspection; Self; Youth GROUND PLAN, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Wonderful if at our deaths some savior neatly clipped our souls Last Line: Made from the same tragical textures, %figures woven into ground Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Self HOW CAN I DISAPPOINT MYSELF?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wrinkled skin? Just one in pieces Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Disappointment; Introspection; Nature; Self; Self-pity I.D. BRACELETS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Outside the kitchen window, even the flimsy birds Last Line: How do you put your hand through them Subject(s): Identity; Introspection IL PENSEROSO, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hence vain deluding joys Last Line: And I with thee will choose to live. Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Melancholy; Night; Dejection; Bedtime INSCRIPTION FOR A CAVERN THAT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter this cavern, stranger! The ascent Last Line: That man creates the evil he endures. Subject(s): Caves; Evil; Humanity; Introspection; Solitude; Strangers; Caverns; Loneliness INSCRIPTION FOR THE CENOTAPH AT ERMENONVILLE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! The man of nature lies not here Last Line: From hence returning purified of heart. Subject(s): Introspection; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Strangers; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De INTERIOR, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With narrow eyes below soft chains, a slave Last Line: Without the apparatus of pure thought. Subject(s): Introspection INTROSPECTION, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind was six feet deep in a Last Line: The brick wall, scraping at the %cracks Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Introspection INVOCATION BY A SMALL BED, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The water bubbles in the radiator. And the ebb and flow of the sea Last Line: I'm untouchable. And thrilled to learn there is no other way Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Life Change Events; Self-satisfaction LAST LINES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look out I see the fair Last Line: Their supple thighs towards the sleek ocean. Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Self; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness LEAVING THE ASYLUM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The metal harps of the high gates Last Line: I love its glint among the dust and stones. Subject(s): Change; Hospitals; Insanity; Introspection; Self-reliance; Madness; Mental Illness LETTERS TO YESENIN: 11; TO DIANE W., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No tranquil pills this year wanting to live peeled as they Last Line: From want of her, cut off well past our prime. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 9, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if I own more paper clips than I'll ever use in this Last Line: Beautiful duck and my time is free again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Poverty; Property; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Possessions LORENA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lay in my palm soft and trembled Last Line: I thought it could fly Subject(s): Introspection LORENA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lay in my palm soft and trembled Last Line: I thought it could fly Subject(s): Introspection MEDITATION, by MRS. GALE SPINK Poem Text First Line: I love solitude and god Last Line: And lead to god. Subject(s): God; Introspection; Nature; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking MEDITATION ON BARNS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: After years in new england I see its stolid barns Last Line: Or to retreat, where form and anecdote slumber, paradisial and done Subject(s): Barns; Introspection METAMORPHOSIS OF GRASS, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The grass on a grave grows faster than memory. A green down blanket Last Line: And in the house the carpet turns to hair, like a meadow Subject(s): Introspection; Nature MIRRORS HAVE ALWAYS GIVE THE WRONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So do I. Let's stop this right now Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Facades; Introspection; Mirrors; Nature; Self MODERN, by EVELYN GRACE FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: I probed deep Last Line: A question. Subject(s): Introspection MONODY, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: My soul is a small, black island washed by the sea Last Line: When will its restless fingers reach my heart ... Subject(s): Fear; Introspection; Self; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness MY DEAR CONFLICTED READER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you will grant me that most of us have an equivocal nature, and that Last Line: Wrong-answer button and we are all waiting for it to go off Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Introspection MY SHRINE, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: I love the friendly loneliness of plains Last Line: And waft to me old dreams that cannot die. Subject(s): Calm; Introspection; Prairies; Self; Shrines; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Plains NIGHT BEFORE THE SENTENCE IS CARRIED OUT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A woman is riding a bus Last Line: The bottom falls out of the sack. %she leaves the apples scattered in the aisle Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Buses; Introspection; Prisons And Prisoners ON FLOWER WREATH HILL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: Circle of dancing gopis Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: In the streets of thhazy city Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought; Woods; Thinking ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No leaf stirs. I am alone Last Line: Rustles softly like fine silk Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours, before we Last Line: Sands of the shores of all the world Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ORIGINS OF MILK, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Mushrooms grow in my thighs Last Line: I long to be an apple tree standing in your garden Subject(s): Introspection; Love - Loss Of; Milk PAIN-DANCE BEGINS, by MARK ANDREW NOWAK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Worn shoes in the days of my youth Last Line: I say it out loud, I breathe it into the world against the horizon line Subject(s): Farewell; Introspection; Pain PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 9. THIS DAZZLE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it only Last Line: Radiant labyrinth? Subject(s): Heaven; Introspection; Self; Paradise PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S ODE [THAT SHE SANG IN HER ARBOR], by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting by a river's side Last Line: No sweet love but honesty. Subject(s): Deception; Honesty; Introspection; Love; Mankind; Human Race POEM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truth's in myth not fact Last Line: How bees made honey in a skull. Subject(s): Introspection; Life POEM OF COFFEE, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, even as you drink it, you cannot say how it tastes. Yet you Last Line: Curtains, this pencil writing. It is these words before you,any time of the %year, any time, any day Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Thought RAREFIED; THE SWEATER IS MADE FROM ONLY THE FINEST SOFTEST UNDERHAIRS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy-schmancy my father would have said Subject(s): Introspection; Laborers - Taiwan; Sweatshops; Sweating System REFLECTING TREES OF BEING AND NOT BEING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood when I first Last Line: Golden fires and lamps of years Subject(s): Introspection; Love; Ontology; Self RELIGION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My heart is dead to love,' I said Last Line: I knelt in fervent love of god. Subject(s): God; Introspection; Love; Religion; Theology RETURNING TO EARTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She / pulls the sheet of this dance Last Line: Let the predator love his prey. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Despair; Introspection; Magic; United States; America SEARCHLIGHT, by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK Poem Text First Line: And now must every man his soul explore Last Line: The conqueror enrolled, braced to endure. Subject(s): Introspection SELF-PORTRAIT AT TWENTY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood inside myself Last Line: And the rain came. Subject(s): Introspection; Self-hate; Self-pity SELFING, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Out of my way! %all day it Last Line: Chain links circling the sprockets of a stationary bike Subject(s): Introspection; Self SELVES, SUBJECTS AND SOULS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In that picture of us standing by the toyota at crater lake Last Line: Carving out canyons, electrons burning like brush fires. %hold on kids Subject(s): Introspection; Self SEQUEL, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Each day ends, a record left turning Last Line: There must be someone there %waiting in the silence Subject(s): Introspection; Self; Self-reliance; Solitude SOLVING THE MYSTERY, by RICHARD W. LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Silent I sit and gaze at space Last Line: No time to gaze, no turn to shirk! Subject(s): Introspection STEPHANYA, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I am a mind Last Line: Am only stephanya the crazy one. Subject(s): Introspection; Self-consciousness STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming back over the col between Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming back over the col between Last Line: Standing sentry for the avalanche Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self SURFACE DISTANCE DISTORTION LIKE THE SEA, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Nuance, itself rational %like introspection, offers Last Line: Of our invented remains Subject(s): Introspection; Self-consciousness THE BURIED LIFE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet Last Line: And the sea where it goes. Subject(s): Introspection; Conduct Of Life THE VASE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boredom and terror, and the older Last Line: And green, exotic birds in flight. Subject(s): Boredom; Introspection; Life; Terror; Vases; Ennui TIME SPIRALS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the second moon the Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time TIME SPIRALS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the second moon the Last Line: Cycle from the sky to the sea Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief. Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO FAME, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be self-deceived Last Line: Sets the dews shaking and the thorn-twig bends. Subject(s): Fame; Introspection; Self; Reputation TOMB POND; FOR DAVE SMITH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Farmer drags two lashed poles through a storm Last Line: As an old pond once built to solemnize a tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Introspection; Knowledge; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRYING TO DREAM UP AN ANSWER, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Like a compass needle Last Line: As if all these miles meant something Subject(s): Dreams; Introspection UTOPIA, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inside of me Last Line: There is only enough soil enough blood %and seed good enough for one tree Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Introspection; Utopia VERY EARLY MORNING EXERCISE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chan yuen is on the threshold of a remarkable career Last Line: The first dawn glows at the end of the streets Subject(s): Introspection; Men; Nanking, China WASHING MY FACE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night's dreams disappear Last Line: A transparent rose swallowed by its stem. Subject(s): Dreams; Faces; Introspection; Past; Nightmares WEARING BREASTS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: I sit back in the city Last Line: Among creatures that stare from green mud Subject(s): Identity; Introspection WEATHER FORECAST, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A spring shower rushes over the sunken monarchy. Will it ever end? Last Line: Before a line of sturdy soldiers, give an order, and the line will shudder Subject(s): Introspection; Weather WHAT COMES AFTER THIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water earth fire air Last Line: After this -- whether it is air %or it is nothing Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Future; Introspection; Water WHAT TO DO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell your mind and its Last Line: For a little while. Subject(s): Introspection; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WINTER DAYS, by JEAN HOLMES MINTY Poem Text First Line: Today I think the fairest thing I know Last Line: On many winter days for one of peace. Subject(s): Introspection; Peace; Winter |
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