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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KOREAN WAR, 1950-1953 Matches Found: 59 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER A YEAR IN KOREA, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle oscar hated cold, hauled Last Line: The bomb, good summers short, %the winters hard, more bitter every year Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Prairies - Texas AMERICANS PLAYING SLOW-PITCH SOFTBALL AT AN AIRBASE ..., by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Early september %the first game of Last Line: Don't look back. Something may be %gaining on you.' Subject(s): Army Life; Baseball; Korean War, 1950-1953; Sports ANAGRAM BORN OF MADNESS AT CZERNOWITZ, 12 NOVEMBER 1920, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were the strong nudes of a forgotten Last Line: "hold on to me and we'll sing." Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Czernowitz (chernvits), Romania; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb ANIMAL FARM, OR SONG OF THE COLONIAL GOVERNOR-GENERAL, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Admit it. You hate the body Last Line: It shamed you to cover with dung Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 AT TABUWON, by CHO JI-HOON Poem Source First Line: Finally I've come out safe from a month-long siege Last Line: The living and the dead alike %possess no restful place; only the wind blows Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 AUBADE ENDING WITH LINES FROM THE JAPANESE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of wind hissing through muslin curtains Last Line: We're alive and can see each other, you and I Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 AZALEAS FLOODING THE LANDSCAPE, by SHIN TONG'YOP Poem Source First Line: A few flowering azaleas dotting the roadside Last Line: You lay bleeding in quiet, %your cigarette case thrown down on the grass Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 BETWEEN THE WARS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot hear her Last Line: Unspeakable, its icy space [or, spaces] opening Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 BLACK GOD, by PARK IN-HWAN Poem Source First Line: Who is sobbing in the graveyard? Last Line: Of the wat %shall be your theme Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 BORDERLANDS; FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crush my eyes, bitter grapes Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Death; Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; Dead, The COUPLE NEXT DOOR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tend their yard every weekend, %when they re-paint or straighten Last Line: On the grass. I should look away but don't Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 DRUNK METAPHYSICS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've never been one soul Last Line: Sixty trillion cells-all drunk! Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 FLIGHT, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We ran from a home %we never saw again Last Line: The soon is mute Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 FRAGMENTS OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not protect Last Line: I think of a carcass foaming with maggots, the bone black with hatching flies Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 FUGUE FOR EYE AND VANISHING POINT, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the clarity, the sharpness Last Line: Infinite engine trapped in skin Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 GENERATION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was nothing: once we were one Last Line: Each question answered by the echo of my voice alone: I, I, I Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 GUERRILLA CAMP; KOREA, 1952, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: We arrived at sok to Last Line: Could farm %with a hand like that Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 HANJI: NOTES FOR A PAPERMAKER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shaped like a slab of granite Last Line: My work, keep your mouth shut' Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 HARD ROCK RETURNS TO PRISON FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINAL INSANE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hard rock / was / 'known not to take no shit Subject(s): African Americans; Insanity; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisons & Prisoners; Surgery; Negroes; American Blacks; Madness; Mental Illness; Convicts HARD ROCK RETURNS TO PRISON FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINAL INSANE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard rock / was / 'known not to take no shit Last Line: Had cut deep bloody grooves %across our backs Subject(s): African Americans; Insanity; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisons And Prisoners; Surgery HWAJON (FIRE-FIELD), by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is no need to keep Last Line: Hurls me, astonished and stinging, into the acid light Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 IDEA OF ANCESTRY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black Last Line: They are all of me, I am me, they are thee, and I have no children to float in the space between Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors And Ancestry; Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Prayer; Prisons And Prisoners KOREAN COMMUNITY GARDEN IN QUEENS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the vacant lot nobody else wanted to rebuild Last Line: Who stop at nothing, see life and paradise as one [or, life the one paradise they wanted] Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Queens, New York City LAKOTA WARRIOR, by ARTHUR J. HARVEY Poem Source First Line: My lakota father Last Line: Only saluted, %at moment of death Subject(s): Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953 LEAVING CHINATOWN, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peeling a mango to share between us, your mother Last Line: Faces, even yours, she might have looked into with love Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Variant Title(s): On Pike Stree Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 LEVITATIONS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw my dead great-aunt levitating over the hudson in red Last Line: Except for the humans-faced masks they kept trying to tear off Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 LOOKING AT A YI DYNASTY RICE BOWL, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing this plain %white clay Last Line: I am finally ready %to have as they are Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 MIDDLE KINGDOM, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gruel, crumbs on a table Last Line: So as not to frighten her Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 MONOLOGUE FOR AN ONION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not mean to make you cry Last Line: A heart that will one day beat you to death Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Onions MONTAGE WITH NEON, BOK CHOI, GASOLINE, LOVERS & STRANGERS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: None of the streets here has a name Last Line: May you never remember & may you never forget Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 NOCTURNE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If these are not [or, because these are not] the nights of empty hands Last Line: When we'll feel [or, remember] the indifference of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 OCCUPATION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soldiers are Last Line: There is room %for everyone Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 ODE FOR THE AMERICAN DEAD IN ASIA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: God love you now, if no one else will ever Variant Title(s): Ode For The American Dead In Korea Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War ON SPARROWS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are the song that lies beyond the ear Last Line: White-throated. Gold-crowned. Vesper. Song Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 PRELUDE FOR GRAINS OF SAND, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the harbor with its tackle and roped masts Last Line: You sang me beyond song Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 PRIMARY GRADES, by ARLENE MAASS Poem Source First Line: Born on the brink of the korean war Last Line: Of the sacred heart of jesus Subject(s): Children; Korean War, 1950-1953 RESISTANCE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snuff out the collaborators, sense by sense Last Line: Summer wind sang through the corpse-forest Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 RICE, OR SONG OF ORIENTALAMENTATIONS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now. %I %see %you %completely Last Line: Fail %me, %thing Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 ROAD TO SKYE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is paved with sheep shit, among other things Last Line: Who want and want and want, drive to no end Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Roads ROBEMAKER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You begin. In your arms, unreeling bolts Last Line: Here your hand has long since moved away Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 SAVING AMERICA, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I was twelve, we were at war %in korea. I did my part, climbing Last Line: And in the birdsong dawn, flying away, my fear Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Bombs; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; United States SKINS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pretend I can't see %the lady in pearls mistaking me Last Line: So I did sit and eat' Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 SONG OF CH'U: TO THE SEA-WIND, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now I'm frightened. I see Last Line: To you already. I want %to be one Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 THE CHASM, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dream vultures circle above my mother's cousin Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers THE IDEA OF ANCESTRY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Convicts THE LAUREL TREE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the clear light that confuses everything Subject(s): Trees; Korean War, 1950-1953 THE MOUNTAIN OF SKELETONS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain strikes into a clouded sky Last Line: In what forgotten war. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Mountains; Skeletons; Soldiers; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War TRANSIT CAR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder of wheels on tracks. Hidden pistons punch Last Line: Only clarity remains and it is not enough Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MOTHER TONGUE: 1. KHIMJAHNG, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It held you once. Chora of hands splashing water Last Line: Steep them in the element that destroys and saves Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MOTHER TONGUE: 2. P'ANSORI, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are singing of bamboo flutes and barrel drums Last Line: The part of you that first began to sing Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go back, you'll never see it again Last Line: Lie to me. Say you forgive me for being born Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TREE OF UNKNOWING, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Uncertainty, take me into the forest %leaf by leaf Last Line: I wonder who you were: I wonder %because you were Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TRUCE LINE, by PARK PONG'U Poem Source First Line: Mountains face each other. Distrusting eyes glare Last Line: Should we remain here helpless as flowers? Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WAR POEMS 1, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Out of the patched-glass window of boarded shacks Last Line: I become jolly as if drunk; %shadow overtakes me with a smile Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WAR POEMS 2, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Perhaps anyone could have been flung into fits of Last Line: Transformed into the black and white image of a father with his child in his arms Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WAR POEMS 3, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Across the tundra of my heart Last Line: How nausea chokes me! %who is responsible for this? Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WAR POEMS 7. THE GRAVEYARD FOR THE ENEMY, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: O rows and rows of mounds for the dead! Last Line: I wail over the graveyard %of love and hate Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WHAT A FALLEN SOLDIER SAYS?, by MO YUNSUK Poem Source First Line: I chanced on a fallen soldier while wandering the hills and valleys Last Line: I lean over him to lament his youthful death %and listen to what he has last to say Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 WITHOUT TEARS, by PARK IN-HWAN Poem Source First Line: In the field bristling Last Line: In the field bristling with weeds %no one comes Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 |
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