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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KENT STATE UNIVERSITY - RIOT, 1970 Matches Found: 169 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 394, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toward the empty earth Last Line: Flowres are deathless. Heaven is round. %and everything to be is only a promise Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 4-MAY, by DANIEL+(2) THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Though I come with passion to kent Last Line: At least equal of that of the pigeons %in the fragrant, ohio air Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 4-MAY-70, by DONALD HASSLER Poem Source First Line: We have wasted our lives as james wright said Last Line: Against the darkness and a absent god. %we save what we can in a wasting storm Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 4-MAY-90, by TIFF HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: This is the true memorial Last Line: It is important, I think, %to remember the ground Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 AFTER ELEGIES, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost two years now I've been sleeping Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 AFTER ELEGIES, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost two years now I've been sleeping Last Line: Asian faces; flat %earth - your face - fern - coal Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 AFTER KENT STATE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only to keep / his little fear Last Line: Black / and live Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 AFTER KENT STATE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only to keep %his little fear Last Line: Black %and live Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 AFTERWARDS APOLLO, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Walked around in the dark woods Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ALLISON, by ALEX GILDZEN Poem Source First Line: Lured from corngreen commons Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 AMERICAN, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: He stands bent before negation Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Nuclear War AN AWFUL LOT WAS HAPPENING, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you come down to particulars everything's more complicated Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ARROWS, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: My brother tells me deer are too plentiful and will surely starve Last Line: There. His sons' blue eyes will arrow-pierce his heart Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ART IN AMERICA, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three of us, two poets and one painter Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 AS IF HE WERE FREE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shahid so beautifully brwon he is silk Last Line: In the blue tatters of the poet Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 AS IF HE WERE FREE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shahid so beautifully brwon he is silk Last Line: An occasional tone added which does not belong, offered %in the blue tatters of the poet Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ASKING THE DEAD FOR HELP, by JAN BEATTY Poem Source First Line: The horses are standing still now Last Line: The words uttered at the moment between worlds, %the only words that can save us Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 AWFUL LOT WAS HAPPENING, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you come down to particulars everything's more complicated Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 BE NOBODY'S DARLING / BE AN OUTCAST, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Be an outcast. %qualified to live %among your dead Variant Title(s): Outcas Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 BEDTIME STORY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon lies on the river Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 BEDTIME STORY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon lies on the river Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 BIRCH TREES, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From a distance, they are the perfect sentences Last Line: And will not go away Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 BLUE IS FOR FISH, by DEBORAH PURSIFULL Poem Source First Line: Mother bakes angel food cakes Last Line: There goes the crazy dog around the house. %I hope she stops that soon Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read / sand creek massacre: white antelope's scrotum Last Line: & the mountains Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Meditation BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read %sand creek massacre: white antelope's scrotum Last Line: Nothing lasts long %nothing %but earth %& the mountains Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Meditation BURNING ONESELF TO DEATH, by TAKAHASHI SHINKICHI Poem Source First Line: That was the best moment of the monk's life Last Line: The delighted sparrows flew round like fire balls Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Self-immolation; Zen Buddhism BUT ARTEMIS WAS LESS UNCERTAIN THAN HER BROTHER, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source Last Line: She kept on floating above them, %lovely and terrible, %but still somehow %desirable Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CEDAR WAXWING ON SCARLET FIRETHORN, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To start again with something beautiful Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CEDAR WAXWING ON SCARLET FIRETHORN, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To start again with something beautiful Last Line: Who, when they answer, have the power of song Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CELL, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: Through a microscope %I saw a cell Last Line: For this choice, each of us %bears witness for the other Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CHANGING PLACES, by SUSAN A. CARLSEN Poem Source First Line: We haven't had a chance to change things Last Line: The window and watch. %we keep asking you to dream Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CHILD WITH A TOY HAND GRENADE IN CENTRAL PARK, N.Y.C., by JILL MOSES Poem Source First Line: You stand on the clay battlefield in your keds Last Line: He doesn't know is father's numbers: 52, 1-y, 4-f %and how the wings of geese burst toward canada Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CHILDREN JUMP OVER THE TRENCHES, by MAJ RAGAIN Poem Source First Line: Off my back step Last Line: Hiding in the trees, %still trusting that %the children would find him first Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 COMMONS, by PETER MAKUCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are changing its look Last Line: We gather in the sun, %the rifles are about to speak Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CONSIDERING THE SOURCE, by FRANK POLITE Poem Source First Line: Out one day to dig up a few potatoes Last Line: All the long and cruel cinema of being, %to answer an insane question Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CONTEMPLATION ON BLANET HILL, by GARY SCOTT Poem Source First Line: For the same reason that Last Line: In fact like my father's heart medicine %it seem almost natural Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 COSMOPOLITAN GREETINGS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up against governments, against god Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 COSMOPOLITAN GREETINGS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up against governments, against god Last Line: Others can measure their vision by what we see. %candor ends paranoia Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CROSSING, by JUDITH RACHEL PLATZ Poem Source First Line: But %I remember %the meadow insects Last Line: You watch for a while, %then let go Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 CROSSING INTO WEST GERMANY, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: There are borders on earth Last Line: Of clear streams to the sea, %birds chanting praise %to each dawn Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 DADDY, WHAT COLOR IS THUNDER, by CHARLES ROSSITER Poem Source First Line: And you were there, in the wrong place Last Line: The tides will take you %you will now the color of thunder Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 DAY THE AUDIENCE WALKED OUT ON ME, AND WHY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like this it happened Last Line: No one desecrated the white folks' chapel, %because no memorial service was held Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 DEAD BABY, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the kitchen I open the spoon drawer Last Line: Even in this poem from thinking about the starved, chopped up %dead baby Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 DEATH OF THE NIOBIDS, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Afterwards it was very still Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 DESERT, by THOMAS MEYER Poem Source First Line: Today we went further before the sun Last Line: By stars. Even so, only this scorching %sun allows us true directions Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 DETERMINATION, by JEFF OAKS Poem Source First Line: Among the feathers and grass Last Line: It has, all it had, %even as I have, even as I would Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 DISCOVERY OF FIRE, by DAVID SHEVIN Poem Source First Line: The five years of hibernation relaxed me Last Line: Had gone through. I held a match near %the wax. I waited Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 EAGLE POEM, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To pray you open your whole self Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 EAGLE POEM, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To pray you open your whole self Last Line: We pray that it will be done. %in beauty %in beauty Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ENCOUNTER, by RICHARD SHELTON Poem Source First Line: In some small flatland town Last Line: That have never happened before %can happen again Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ENOUGH, by MARY M. CHADBOURNE Poem Source First Line: Thriteen seconds for thirteen people Last Line: Sufficient cause %and insufficient reason. %and together, enough Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 EVERY YEAR, by MARC KAMINSKY Poem Source First Line: A great river runs through hiroshima Last Line: The full breadth of the river is one %mass of flames Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FACING IT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My black face fades Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; War; Negroes; American Blacks; America FACING IT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My black face fades Last Line: No, she's brushing a boy's hair Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; War FATE OF THE CHILDREN, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lately, in cambodia, they tear the children apart Last Line: The way we sacrifice our sons. %like lambs, %yes, precisely:like lambs? Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FBI FILES ON / THE LATE EMILE DE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Told someone he wanted %to be an eggplant %when he grew up Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FIVE VIEWS OF THE NEW HISTORY: 1, HER ARMS, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: He was killed %in saigon Last Line: Her graceful yellow thighs %were the forearms %of our lord Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FIVE VIEWS OF THE NEW HISTORY: 2, THE MARRIAGE, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: No longer willingly %imprisoned Last Line: Of opposition %to be the marriage %of the lamb Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FIVE VIEWS OF THE NEW HISTORY: 3, THE GARDEN, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: Her garden, %terraced %to several heights of color Last Line: In the bleached hours, %her face the salmon-pink %of the drooping rose Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FIVE VIEWS OF THE NEW HISTORY: 4, SEVENTH MONTH, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: From deep in the crib her eyes Last Line: But moment by moment my memory leaves %and I still haven't learned %to speak Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FIVE VIEWS OF THE NEW HISTORY: 5, THE FACE, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: Each day the face Last Line: The skin color rich, cheekbones %high, the fiminine eyes %slanted deliciously Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FLASHBOAT, by JANE MARVEL COOPER Poem Source First Line: A high deck. Blue skies overhead. White distance Last Line: A rope ladder drops over. My voice with its crunch of bone %wakes me: I choose %the flashboat! %work Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FOR A GATHERING OF POETS, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poets of the world, ignite! Last Line: Be arsonists of the phoenix nest %and glow! Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FOR THE DEAD AT JACKSON STATE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Names I cannot answer to %that in my heart keep %whispering their syllables Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FREEZE-FRAME, by ALAN WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Things stopped: like a freeze-frame, held for twenty years Last Line: When they have built one for you %we can go free Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 FROM ANCIENT TO PRESENT: HOMAGE TO KENT STATE, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: An old pond. %a frog jumps in Last Line: Many frogs emerge-- %the sound of water! Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 GATHERING APPROACHES / & I CHOKE, by ALEX GILDZEN Poem Source Last Line: Wondering %how many friends %will live another day Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 GODS ARE OPTIONAL, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: The gods sat in trees Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 GOING INTO MOONLIGHT, by DICK BAKKEN Poem Source First Line: I didn't intend %to walk the old road Last Line: Outlines us. And when I stepped forward, right %misting my face, the shadow %came with me Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 GOING TO BED WHOLE: KENT STATE PRAYER, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source First Line: If we could only drink Last Line: I say %make them shine-- %those blood jewels Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 GRAVE CREEK INSCRIBED STONE, by LOUISE MCNEILL Poem Source First Line: The stone tablet they found in the mound at grave creek Last Line: Touch not your footsoles to the moon. %joy in your hour of sunlight. %beware the atom when it comes Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 GREEN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are victims of wars we didn't start Last Line: The regret. Grief is a long time green Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 GREEN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are victims of wars we didn't start Last Line: Not to remember the wars - but not to forget %the regret. Grief is a long time green Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 HARDEST THING / IS THAT THERE'S NO UNDOING IT, by KATHE DAVIS Poem Source Last Line: The poem shouts no. The heart %cries no. But we %go on hearing gunfire's %echo Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 HEART, by TOM CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: The heart, we tell ourselves, is a pump Last Line: What's measurable? The walk to the gate %before boarding. The solitary ride home Subject(s): Healing; Kent State University - Riot, 1970 HEART FIRE, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three months since your young son shot himself Last Line: Of the bridge and gear down, as all the lights beyond %the river come on now, across his safe, perfe Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 HISTORY LESSON, by YVONNE MOORE HARDENBROOK Poem Source First Line: Talkin' about them killin's at kent state Last Line: It's war waht sells the steel, %and the big boys what calls the goddam shots Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 HOLD STILL, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: On the evening of the summer solstice Last Line: One was a leaf, or a bud or a flower petal %...Whatever the occasion demanded.' Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 HOVERING AT A LOW ALTITUDE, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: I am not here Last Line: When that hand closes over her hair, grasping it %without a shred of pity Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Middle East - Conflicts HOW BIRDS SHOULD DIE, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not like hailstones Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 I'VE NEVER TOLD / ANYONE ABT BEING, by TODD MOORE Poem Source Last Line: I was afraid to %spend the mone %so I hid it %in the bible %at the 23rd %psalm Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 IF ONLY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If only the wind moved, outside, and all else waited Last Line: Turn with one long reverent look, %and go tumbling downwind calling the names Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is fresh meat right mr. Nixon? Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 INLAND SEA, by SOPHIE CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: Inland, looking into the canyon Last Line: For a tide in our bodies. %anything for the ocean Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 INSTANT RECALL, by JOHN F. SOLLERS Poem Source First Line: I remember my home town Last Line: Though they weren't there, %though they'd rather not, %stillremember Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ISIS AGAIN, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: Black marble sinking %into the earth, the blade Last Line: And her mother kneels %to read my words to you, %to her Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 KATHE KOLLWITZ, AFTER A VISIT TO THE NEW RUSSIA, 1927, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: My model sleeps. But no matter Last Line: Even there hunger rattles on %like an empty train Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States KENT 25, SELS., by BILL ARTHRELL Poem Source First Line: Starting that rhythm again Last Line: Black in ravenna. Gray nobember. %poet's weather Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 KENT STATE, by CONNIE LEE MONSON Poem Source First Line: Porch swings, lawns, barbecue pits, maples Last Line: I see men and women dance together in the shadows %as though they knew the mjsic, or night, or madne Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 KENT STATE, by JOHN PERREAULT Poem Source First Line: Although I was elsewhere Last Line: I eat the four bodies %over and over again. %I put a flower in your Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 KENT STATE MAY 1970, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rotc building %still smoking %the guard moved Last Line: Blood sinking %unto the warm %ground. Parents %picking up phones %that burned %their hands Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 KENT STATE, MAY 1970, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke in the Last Line: Black polished %shoes bayonettes %against a burn %ing building Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 KUMBHA THOUGHTS, by KATHE DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Ohio's water has a funnier Last Line: And happy, and the river %didn't burn Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LANGUAGE OF THE DEAD, by DANIEL CARTER BOURNE Poem Source First Line: One of those days when the earth Last Line: We will stop in the stores, but no one %will acknowledge our presence Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LEARNING TO FISH, by SANDRA WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: All afternoon we fish with uncle george Last Line: Brushing hot ears with the scales %still gleaming on my hands Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LEGEND OF HELL, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A few hours ago a woman went on a walk Last Line: Now this is pleasure Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LETTER TO A FRIEND, by JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE Poem Source First Line: Of course I remember when it happened Last Line: Open-hearted people %come together to mourn %and so to commune Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LIBERTY & TEN YEARS OF RETURN, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: In the singed breath of london Last Line: No message, and no home waiting %or wanting us here Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LILAC AGE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: All at once Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LISTENING AND TELLING, by MARC HARSHMAN Poem Source First Line: An old tree, wobbly with yellow fruit Last Line: This listening, this telling everything, %this late light thinning on these comfortable hills Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LITTLE KING, FR. THE NIOBE POEMS, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: He rode to bed that last night Last Line: By taking away all she lived for, %every single thing she loved Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LOMBARDO AT MIDNIGHT, NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1972, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: It was neither the fire we trimmed Last Line: Blowing the same red ball off its edge %like a man falling head-first into earth Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LUCKY LIFE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucky life isn't one long string of horrors Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 LUCKY LIFE, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucky life isn't one long string of horrors Last Line: Lucky life is that. Lucky life. Oh lucky life. %oh lucky lucky life. Lucky life Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 MATTER OF TREES, by BROOKE HORVATH Poem Source First Line: Sometimes it's just the sound of words Last Line: Leaving their eyes like blank verse, %the dog returning later to the field %to scan a line of scarec Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 MAUD HARRIS, by LEASA BURTON Poem Source First Line: Mother now midwife to daughter Last Line: She lit the ove, left open the door %him inside %loaf of bread to rise Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 MAY '70, by MICHAEL MCCAFFERTY Poem Source First Line: When the steel ripped open Last Line: Just keep that one bullet hole. %close range, in steel Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 MAY 4TH, by ELIZABETH MIHALY Poem Source First Line: Four students' faces Last Line: Ever be enough, %like an old dead %river bed we %try to fill up Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 MAY FOUR, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: Green, if you can bear to be Last Line: Allison, jeffrey, sandra, william %which are our names also Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 MAY-90, by DAVID HASSLER Poem Source First Line: The ground is beginning again Last Line: And patiently do the work %I hope will turn green Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 MINKS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard of our house on norwood, Last Line: The shining of the soul, gives us each %character and beauty. Variant Title(s): Captivity: The Mink Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NIGHT SAUNA, by CRAIG PAULENICH Poem Source First Line: Druids planted circles of stones Last Line: Dip hot, white bodies %and stand alone, steaming %like stars Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Saunas ODESSA STEPS, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old lady with the pince-nez whirling Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 OH, BY THE WAY, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: My friend april fallon tells me Last Line: O thin veil of blood %where dreams reside %cool veil of blood Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 OLIVE WOOD FIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fergus woke crying at night Last Line: Had burned low. In my arms lay fergus %fast asleep, left cheek glowing, god Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Politics; War ON LIVING, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living is no laughing matter: / you must live with great seriousness Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ON LIVING, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living is no laughing matter: %you must live with great seriousness Last Line: If you're going to say 'I lived' Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 POET'S GARDEN, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the first revolution Last Line: Waiting to hatch into green loopers %with fearsome jaws Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 PORTRAITS, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: It's not the chapel bell at arles Last Line: And call, come home boy, come home, %unable to see or hear what's out there, %what's not Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 PROTESTOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were driving north, through the snow, you said Last Line: Swallowed and carried in the ark of the body itself Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 REAL COMEDIAN: THE TRUE GENIUS OF BOB HOPE, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was he ever really funny? When? I want to know Last Line: All I can do %is the scene where the walls are closing in Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 RED CARNATIONS, by ANGELA BILIA Poem Source First Line: They had occupied what belonged to them Last Line: The black and white truth %of a tank crushing red carnations Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 REMINDER TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT; FOR LEWIS COOK, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: On an average afternoon men lay down Last Line: The dimming heavens, far off, like a telegram %on its way Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REPRIEVE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away for a month, I knew something was missing Last Line: And in the confusion, how hard they run, %for life is sweet to them Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 REVEREND, by BILL TREMBLAY Poem Source First Line: You walk out the door Last Line: Gathering your requiem, your fellow ministers will say %yourdeath was not political Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 RISING TO MEET IT, by CHANA BLOCH Poem Source First Line: Today I woke up missing Last Line: That sewed itself shut, turns it %precipitously %out into the air Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SAINT COW, by KARL PATTEN Poem Source First Line: The hydrogen bomb they mistakenly Last Line: Who do and know not what they do. %feast day: may 22 %emblem: five full teats Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Nuclear War SCREAM, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aids is germ warfare against homosexuals Last Line: It is also, and becoming more so every day, %germ warfare against humanity Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SILENCE OF ONE HAND CLAPPING, by TONY TRIGILIO Poem Source First Line: The army's arrived. The phones Last Line: Waits like a decayed tooth %among the flowers %planted %each4th of may Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SILENCE; OHIO, WINTER 1970, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Every day is a long pause without seams Last Line: To stay alive is to lie still as death Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SKY, by KEVIN CLARK Poem Source First Line: Two ten year old boys hold a third Last Line: Quietly hold open a door for a friend %who may freely choose to leave, or to stay Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY; I DONT' WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO Poem Source First Line: Like the legless, the armless, the sightless Last Line: Who nourish the rice paddies %like the whole country %a sacred burial ground Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SOLDIER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his hands the submachine gun is excited Last Line: In any ace / he is finished Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SOLDIER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his hands the submachine gun is excited Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SOLDIER STORIES, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great-uncle afred was pleased to ride Last Line: Only a curtian he keeps pulled around those years %as if withing that cubicle lay his own white-shet Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SOMETIMES I UNDERSTAND THE HATRED AGAINST WOMEN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO Poem Source First Line: You are in conference Last Line: And the children I bring forth: %I issue to you %and the battlefield Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SOMETINES I SEE ANGELS, by LORI JAKIELA Poem Source First Line: Children, she says, know death Last Line: Care for children? One woman stands, %shouts, 'but you aren't jesus.' Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SPECIFIC NOUNS, by THOMAS L. BECKETT Poem Source First Line: This is this %intersection Last Line: By what separated %difference %and opposition). %where are we %in this? Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SPRING: KENT, by MORT KRAHLING Poem Source First Line: It comes, as ever, far after Last Line: Beneath the water. I imagine coils %of thick wet hair, anchored %against the current Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SURFACE OF MURDER, by M. L. LIEBLER Poem Source First Line: The world can never be Last Line: Human, returning back to dust %to be sprinkled below %the surface of murder Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 TEACHER, by MAXINE SCATES Poem Source First Line: On the day I learned of your death Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 THANKS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for the tree Last Line: Stood among those lost trees %& moved only when I moved Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THE DAY THE AUDIENCE WALKED OUT ON ME, AND WHY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like this it happened Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 THE MINKS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard of our house on norwood, Last Line: Character and beauty Variant Title(s): Captivity: The Minks Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THE ODESSA STEPS, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Old lady with the pince-nez whirling Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 THE OLIVE WOOD FIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fergus woke crying at night Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Politics & Government; War THE PLANET KRYPTON, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window the mcgill smelter Last Line: We could have anything we wanted. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Baby Boom Generation; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Women; Nuclear Freeze THE PROTESTOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were driving north, through the snow, you said Last Line: Swallowed and carried in the ark of the body itself Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 THE REPRIEVE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away for a month, I knew something was missing Last Line: For life is sweet to them Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 THE TORCHES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Limbs lopped off, the fathers Last Line: (2001) Subject(s): Death; Fire; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Murder; Nicaragua; Dead, The THREE LAKES, WISCONSIN, by LYNN WIKLE Poem Source First Line: We were kids, driving home Last Line: A broken light bulb, here on the porch, %shut out of my mother's house, telling lies Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 THREE STEEL MILLS PINS, by JUDY LINDBERG Poem Source First Line: There's one for each decade my father Last Line: With thirty years hanging in the empty space %between laurel leaf and flame Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 THREE SUNS, by LOUISE MCNEILL Poem Source First Line: Three suns come up before a war' Last Line: So in out time twelve suns arose %to count the sons who fell Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 THUNDER AFTER THUNDER, RETURNING LIKE RHYME, by JUDITH ROCHE Poem Source First Line: It could have been called history Last Line: Concealed in the half-smile. %death itself instructs Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 TO JEFFREY MILLER, by JOSEPH HANSEN Poem Source First Line: It is not easy to be young Last Line: Washing it from our hands %every eternal morning %of your dying Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 TOMORROW, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the car radio warned that / 'war threatened' as 'europe mobilized' Subject(s): Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; America TOMORROW, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the car radio warned that %'war threatened' as 'europe mobilized' Last Line: At the red lights of intersections Subject(s): Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States TRACE ELEMENTS AROUND THE SAYLOR CREEK BOMBING RANGE, by WILLIAM STUDEBAKER Poem Source First Line: We accept the dilapidated cabin Last Line: Of how the world is the same: %earth, fire, wind, and water Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 TWO POEMS WRITTIN IN APRIL, 1970: 1, by JACOB LEED Poem Source First Line: I don't walk out much at night anymore Last Line: I know that the minds around me are like, failing Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 TWO POEMS WRITTIN IN APRIL, 1970: 2, by JACOB LEED Poem Source First Line: Back to somebody else's lines Last Line: Listening to a friend in a blue golf shirt %who tries to bring him part way back from where he's hea Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 VISITING MY GRAVESITE: TALBOTT CHURCHYARD, WEST VIRGINIA, by IRENE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: Maybe because I was married and felt secure and dead Last Line: I wouldn't interfere for the world, the world being %everything this isn't, this unknown buried in t Subject(s): Churchyards; Kent State University - Riot, 1970 WAR AT HOME, by LOWELL JAEGER Poem Source First Line: Fall of 1969. All you get for five dollars Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 WAR EFFORT, 1943, by TOM CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: Everything right now is a reminder of the war I was too small to fly in Last Line: Who can understand this country? The surplus of feelings. The peace %that never comes Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 WE MYOPIC, by STEVE POSTI Poem Source First Line: It will not be those tudents, townspeople Last Line: However, history %is not written %with such a fine and intricate typeface Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 WHILE IT HAS YOU, by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN Poem Source Last Line: That bird %flying those roses %from down, way down Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 WHITE DEER, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: I was angry at the absent father of the world Last Line: Did it come from, why, what %can I use it for? Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 WHY WE ARE TRULY A NATION, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we rage inside Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 WHY WE ARE TRULY A NATION, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we rage inside Last Line: Like the locked antlers of moose %who die on their knees in pairs Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 YOU AND I ARE DISAPPEARING, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cry I bring down from the hills Last Line: She burns like a burning bush %driven by a godawful wind Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 |
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