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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KITES Matches Found: 27 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a man flying his wife Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy BEACH KITES, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a new way of being born? Subject(s): Seashore; Kites; Beach; Coast; Shore BOX KITE, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: In one of the photos Last Line: In the past can seem and big %as kitty hawk, as icarus Subject(s): Kites DANGEROUS GAMES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fly a black kite on a long string Last Line: Trembling on an aphid-riddled leaf. Subject(s): Games; Kites; Women; Women's Rights; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism FIVE POEMS ON WATCHING A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN FLY A KITE: 1, by YANG WAN Poem Source First Line: Together we watch a jade wrist hold a light thread Last Line: The penetration of the clouds and swaying of the trees mark the appointed hour Subject(s): Kites FIVE POEMS ON WATCHING A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN FLY A KITE: 2, by YANG WAN Poem Source First Line: I would fain relax my sad heart but find no reason for it Last Line: It would not be able to reach the loftiest heights Subject(s): Kites FIVE POEMS ON WATCHING A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN FLY A KITE: 3, by YANG WAN Poem Source First Line: I envy your crossing the bright welkin for thousands of miles Last Line: Could you take him a few lines from me? Subject(s): Kites FIVE POEMS ON WATCHING A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN FLY A KITE: 4, by YANG WAN Poem Source First Line: Paper-thin its love, its heart of bamboo Last Line: At sky's edge vanishing, it sends no word Subject(s): Kites FIVE POEMS ON WATCHING A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN FLY A KITE: 5, by YANG WAN Poem Source First Line: When the time comes, it departs in the wake of floating clouds Last Line: Like a beautiful lady, it vainly blames the east wind Subject(s): Kites FROM HAWK AND KITE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor fluttered, frightened, silent one! Last Line: Guard the poor from treachery! Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Kites HOW THE LITTLE KITE LEARNED TO FLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I never can do it,' the little kite said Subject(s): Kites KITE, by JOHN POCH Poem Source First Line: The sewage washes through the streets Last Line: A string long enough to fly his miniature kite Subject(s): Kites KITE, by YU CHI-HWAN Poem Source First Line: A something that has come into being Last Line: How it spreads its brilliant dreams aloft %over the bright daylight world, o kite Subject(s): Kites KITE (FOR BILL AND SANDY BAILEY), by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rises over the lake, the farms Last Line: And the man turns in his chair, %slowly beginning to wake Subject(s): Kites KITE DAYS, by MARK SAWYER Poem Source First Line: A kite, a sky, and a good firm breeze Last Line: O boy, o boy! I call that spring! Subject(s): Kites; Spring KITE TREE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kite tree is a fearful and astonishing vegetable when all the kites Last Line: But would be frequented by small boys if they knew where it grew Subject(s): Boys; Kites KITE-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night me an' my brother made a kite Last Line: A-hangin' in that elm tree down the street. Subject(s): Children; Kites; Play; Toys; Childhood KITES, by LEIGH MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: The two long fingers Last Line: Strung with bitter honey, %they fly Subject(s): Kites LOVERS GO FLY A KITE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's up, today, with our lovers Last Line: On an invisible staff %to run up an allegiance! Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Kites RED KITE, by SAIJO YASO Poem Source First Line: My dear, what have you done Last Line: Towards the moon in the sky Subject(s): Kites; Love RITUAL AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a man flying his wife Subject(s): Kites; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness SELF PORTRAIT AS A KITE, by TINA KELLEY Poem Source First Line: I am a yellow, green and turquoise cellular star Last Line: And fit in the seed of myself? What was it? Subject(s): Kites THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 1. PRELUDE. THE KITES, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three cupids (so I dream'd) Last Line: Rose in the sun, and flew for hours. Subject(s): Kites THE DIATRIBE OF THE KITE; FOR KHENPO KARTHAR RINPOCHE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come from the white barrier of noon Last Line: Those ancestors for whom we are ashamed. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Asia; Kites; Heritage; Heredity; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE KITE (FOR BILL AND SANDY BAILEY), by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rises over the lake, the farms Last Line: Slowly beginning to wake Subject(s): Kites THE PAPER KITE, SELS, by SAMUEL BOWDEN Poem Text First Line: The kite, completed thus, is borne along / by some blest leaders Last Line: With her alike concludes th' advent'rous flight. Subject(s): Air; Kites; Paper; Sailing & Sailors; Sky; Seamen; Sails WIND, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Not kites, the wind didn't loft us Last Line: That the day could see and the crows Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Kites; Wind |
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