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Subject: PICASSO, PABLO (1881-1973)
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First Line: Already she is turning
Last Line: Where there is appetite, %there also will legends gather
Subject(s): Doisneau, Robert (1912-1994); Gilot, Francoise (b. 1921); Photography And Photographers; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


ARTIST KNOWS HE CAN'T SAVE THE WORLD, by EDWARD BOCCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Right now I'm a ball
Last Line: Just like us when we sit up in bed %after a bad dream
Subject(s): Chagall, Marc (1889-1885); Paintings And Painters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


BROKEN POEM FOR PICASSO, by JEAN COCTEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hand that's broken like a peach
Last Line: Where are the muses now, and where %ladies more fugitive than trout?
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


CHICAGO PICASSO, AUGUST 15, 1967, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does man love art? Man visits art, squirms
Last Line: As meaningful and as meaningless as any %other flower in the western field
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Sculpture And Sculptors


CONTRADICTING PICASSO, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mansion deceives itself
Last Line: Down as we do in our baths, to fool away the night
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


CONTRADICTING PICASSO, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mansion deceives itself
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


CUBES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the days of the broken cubes of picasso
Last Line: From the city of the broken cubes of picasso %disease
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


DUENDE FOR PABLO PICASSO, by BARON JAMES ASHANTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scourge if nothing more %than a song of blood
Last Line: Predestined/the demon satiated...Bon soir %bon soir %picasso
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


EXHIBITION, by KATHRYN BUDD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Solemn smiles in gilded frames
Last Line: Battered-beaten-bold beauty isn't for sale
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Exhibitions; Museums; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


FRUGAL REPAST (PICASSO, 1904), by TRAYCE DISKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sun barely out and already the couple is thinning
Last Line: Vine-lipped. Palm at the waistline. Never enough
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


GUERNICA (PABLO PICASSO), by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day before
Last Line: Again to prepare the affections %for the atrocity of its flowers
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


HOMAGE TO PICASSO, SCULPTOR, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The cock, and bull, women, violins
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


I DANCE FOR YOU PICASSO, by SANDRA NELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lift my cardboard leg
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


IF I TOLD HIM, A COMPLETE PORTRAIT OF PICASSO, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I told him would he like it. Would he like it if I told him.
Subject(s): Portraits; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Language; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Words; Vocabulary


IN MEMORY OF GUERNICA BY PABLO PICASSO, by MICHAEL SLORY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am wearing my green pants
Last Line: Fear takes my breath away
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


LADY WITH THE PICASSO HEAD, by NANCY ASHFORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: One eye on the mandolin player
Last Line: With the vision of a phoenix %she pictures the color of fire against snow
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


LE MYSTERE DE PICASSO, by ANNIE REINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Muses, midwives, friends
Last Line: And laugh beneath his legs-- %tangled in his joke %on history
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


MYSTERY OF PICASSO, by NAOMI MYLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the big screen
Last Line: He brands neutral canvas %with franco's legacy: guernica
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PABLO PICASSO, by EUGENE GRINDEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The weapons of slumber have hollowed in the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When picasso came
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A large man with a head of a bull
Last Line: Its marble lips, slightly parted, seem %to be telling him something
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO, by RUDY RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Small & squat & round
Last Line: Howl of lost perspective %say it has no meaning %the story of the new
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO AND MATISSE, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At vallauris and vence, picasso and matisse
Last Line: Peacefully pursue their war
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO AND THE MANY EYEGLASSES, by KATHRYN NOCERINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: An adventurer named belain d'esnambuc, in 1635
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO IN THE CATALOGUE, by TAMARA SHULZ-KIVI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half-reclining, the greek god
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO IS RIGHT, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On my bedroom wall
Last Line: The colour that makes everyone weep...'
Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Women - Middle Aged


PICASSO LAUGHING, by PATTI SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Notebook %divine love is so %invisible
Last Line: And picasso's boatneck shirt
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO MUSIC, by ROBERT BAGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Calm beams from the antibes lighthouse
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO POEM, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was when the bridal wreaths were all out
Last Line: Beside the hostas and the mugho pine, %the dirty bottles and the stones %fixing the boundary for ano
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO RETHINKS HIS POSITION ON THE CIVIL WAR, by MIKE CLUFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cannons were never silent
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO STANDING NEAR SOME GERMANS AFTER HE PAINTED GUERNICA, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One of the
Last Line: No, picasso said %it was %you
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO VISITS BRAQUE, by HAROLD NOURSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Picasso flies into a rage at braque
Last Line: Blinking malevolently %3 eyes
Subject(s): Braque, Georges (1882-1963); Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S BOY LEADING A HORSE, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a naked horse and a naked boy
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S WOMAN WITH CROW, by TOM BARDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is the shadow he casts
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S BALCONY, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale morning light, dying in shadows, loving the earth in
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S BALCONY, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale morning light, dying in shadows, loving the earth in
Last Line: The pearl neck of morning, beneath the laughter, of sad sea birds
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S BOY WITH A PIPE, by PHILIP MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: His face is twinned
Last Line: Like pan between the thumb %and forefinger of his %curving, delicate %hand
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S CHAIR, by JIM BARNES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dried hide of a pig for a seat
Last Line: And no art apparent in their form
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S EGG, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little oval painting, an egg lying on its side
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S ETCHING NUDE AND SCULPTURE, 1933, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not love book, let me repeat
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S MAGIC LANTERN, by JACQUES PREVERT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the eyes of a woman in one picture
Last Line: Usual and unusual %handsome as hell
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S OLD MAN, SEATED, by LYNNE KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Flying fish we'd need a third eye to land
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S PANTALOONS, by JEFFREY LEVINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last time out for stone crabs, my grandfather pointed
Last Line: How my son studies the ground
Subject(s): Grandparents; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S PROMENADE, by JACQUES PREVERT    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: On a very round plate of real porcelain
Last Line: The terrifying pips of reality
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S THIRD, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was the last of the wives if not of the lovers
Last Line: Fractured for the sake of someone else's art
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S WOMAN WITH HAT, by SHMU'EL SHATAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bought her, the woman with a hat
Last Line: And turn your face %to the wall
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO'S WOMEN, by OLGA CABRAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In cagliostro's mirror the magician keeps all his women
Last Line: Under the grave eyes of women forbidden to age
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO: DREAM OIL 1932, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She dreams a landscape. On her chest
Last Line: She dreams its root: red smile
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO: 1, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He's a gypsy
Last Line: Picasso masters %the wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO: 2, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He loved to turn some
Last Line: Thing else
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO: 3, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never have hesitated
Last Line: But have my horror %of copying myself
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO: 4, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He kept moving
Last Line: Than shoot a whole %day in vietnam
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO: 5, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Painting is not
Last Line: Is a weapon to %wage war
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICASSO: STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT DISH AND MANDOLIN, by GERALD LOCKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of course a fruit dish would be
Last Line: But picasso would never have perhapsed %himself to death
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD: 24, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Picasso's acrobats epitomize the world
Last Line: C'est pas symbolique!
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


POEM IN ENVY OF PICASSO'S ACROBATS, by SAM KASHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The seams of her stockings break through the mist
Last Line: Hear us weeping, tremulous as boats in a sea of rooms
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


PROJECT FOR AN AESTHETIC SUB-TITLE: MOONLIGHT OF A MAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. And mrs. Longfellow little who
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Paintings & Painters; Taste (esthetics)


RIVER BY PICASSO, 1903, by SCOTT PRESTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You caught the river's winding
Last Line: Leaving your eyes with a curve of river %and fascination, old and still lost
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


THE CHICAGO PICASSO, AUGUST 15, 1967, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does man love art? Man visits art, squirms
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Sculpture & Sculptors


THE PICASSO POEM, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was when the bridal wreaths were all out
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


TO A GIRL JIVING IN THE PICASSO, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, girl, to the bees
Last Line: Will dry again in the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


WOMAN WITH A CROW, PICASSO, 1904, by JEANETTE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Loving the darkness
Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)