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Subject: PSYCHOANALYSIS Matches Found: 81 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABORTED WHALE WATCH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales AFTER MY BREAKDOWN, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: With gillette stainless steel blades Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Psychoanalysis ALCOHOLIC'S GRANDCHILD, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: His grandpa used to take him into central park Last Line: And in a husky growl, say %smell dead men Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships ANGER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger which breaks a man into children Subject(s): Human Behavior; Psychoanalysis; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy ANGER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger which breaks a man into children Subject(s): Human Behavior; Psychoanalysis AT THE BEACH ALONE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: At the beach alone %I step toward the creaming surf Last Line: One now too fragile, one distant one lost Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Solitude AUTUMN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: It's late october and the garden glows Last Line: For the heartbeat before winter comes Subject(s): Love; Psychoanalysis; Relationships BABY IN GROUP, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Her mother drank too much, shot up Last Line: Ten months to go until her blood can tell us %if she dies or lives Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships BALLAD OF THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From travancore to tripoli Last Line: To be a warning to all men %who have mamas and pas Subject(s): Psychoanalysis BULIMIC IN SEARCH OF INTIMACY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: In the secret world of women Last Line: Curl his tongue around her tears %she would never leave him Subject(s): Bulimia; Eating Disorders; Psychoanalysis; Relationships CELEBRATION, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Where did it come from %the strength to shed that tattered cocoon depression Last Line: To spiral down the molten core of illness %and pop the cork of death Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Psychoanalysis; Relationships COLOSSA, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My mother has always been larger than life Last Line: Like manhattan reaching for the sky Subject(s): Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships COUPLE THERAPY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: She says I found his letters to another woman Last Line: She reaches out and lays her hand on his Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Psychoanalysis; Relationships CROW COME FROM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No one will listen Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Family Life; Nature; Psychoanalysis CURING HOMOSEXUALITY, by JIM EVERHARD Poem Source First Line: Of the many known and proven Subject(s): Homosexuality; Psychoanalysis DAD TURNS NINETY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Sometime between the birthday and %the birthday brunch Last Line: We were away, he changed his mind %and didn't die Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DEUCE: 12:23 A.M., by BARBARA ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Dr. Berman, my old lady listens to you Last Line: I dedicate this to her Subject(s): Psychoanalysis DIVORCEE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Waking in the early morning Last Line: Upon her cheek, her neck, her breast Subject(s): Divorce; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DRACULA'S WAKE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Although I never liked cats much myself Last Line: How did you get so good at death? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sympathy DWARF GETS SOBER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Daisy saw the world from the sand up Last Line: The judge who's giving her kids back %asks what do you want, daisy? Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships ENCAPSULATED DELUSION, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Aster can't remember that her father is dead Last Line: The suit of dusty black limp %as if nothing lay within it Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Psychoanalysis; Relationships FEMINIST'S INCORRECT WEDDING SONG, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: We talk of growth Last Line: Don't tell the women Subject(s): Marriage; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Women's Rights FORT HILL CEMETERY, 1991, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Our plot's a bargain: six feet of earth with ocean view Last Line: With steady beats above the illimitable sea Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships FRISBEE PRACTICE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Smooth limbs flung skyward as the frisbee sails Last Line: Grinning as from his body rises %the sweet odor of spring Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sons GARDEN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Crocuses invested in the fall Last Line: The garden breathes Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GLADS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I first admired gladioli Last Line: Until even cut, in water, every one %flew its triumphant colors Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GOING TO THE DOCTOR, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: I found his office down the long unswept hall Last Line: In order to know before the frost comes %what was lost Subject(s): Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis GROWING PEONIES, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The first time I grew peonies Last Line: And a paradisal scent %rare as water in the desert Subject(s): Peonies; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HISTORY LESSONS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Our bedroom becomes his new room. And it becomes him, this boy Last Line: Cause and effect medication. Can the pharmacist help us with the %dosage? Are there any contraindica Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Child Psychology; Children; Experience; Orphans; Psychoanalysis HITTING BOTTOM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Swimming in the bottle, aquarium for one Last Line: To say his name and add %I'm an alcoholic Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HONEY HALF, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You pass by those who would hold you up Last Line: You want no part of this world Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate HOSPITAL AUDIENCE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The dreary auditorium is rimmed with portraits Last Line: Tomorrow she may be high on crack again %but right now she is dancing, dancing Subject(s): Hospitals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HOT TUB IN THE STARRY NIGHT, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Who wouldn't give an ear for such a night Last Line: Whispery grasses growing as I go Subject(s): Nature; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HUSBAND SPEAKS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My husband, brian, in his long career as reluctant Last Line: Make it clear that he currently has a wonderful boss! Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships I HEAR THE MERMAIDS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I hear the mermaids singing too, mrs. Stevens Last Line: The mermaids go on singing Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Psychoanalysis; Relationships ICE STORM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: While sixty cars were slewing wildly on Last Line: Not the darkness she expected %but the beckoning tunnel of light Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Psychoanalysis; Relationships IN THE YARD, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: If I sit long enough on this wooden bench Last Line: I think I'll sit right here on this old bench %for twenty years and watch the dogwood grow Subject(s): Old Age; Psychoanalysis; Relationships JAMIE THINKS HE'S ALWAYS RIGHT, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: This is a found poem, a verbatim quotation Last Line: So he's always wrong Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sons LAST FIREFLY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: As the moon rises it circles Last Line: Singing with yellow light its clear small song Subject(s): Fireflies; Psychoanalysis; Relationships LIMITATIONS OF THERAPY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Maria sits on the edge of her chair Last Line: That's just what they say about you!' %says maria Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MAN WALKS BY WITH A LOAF OF BREAD ON HIS SHOULDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How speak of the not-I without crying out? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Psychoanalysis MASTER: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He will trouble the thoughts of men Last Line: Only I, %I will escape Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Psychoanalysis MEDITATION, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Sitting lotus hurts my knees Last Line: And deep inside, a still small voice assures me I can go on Subject(s): Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MERMAID AS SHE REALLY IS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source Last Line: She hails it blowing a derisive raspberry %on a shell-pink conch Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea; Women MONARCHS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I remember when they found the hidden valley Last Line: Pausing for just a moment on its long journey Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships MOTHERS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: We used to ride the broadway bus together Last Line: I envy you %wait till next year Subject(s): Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MY AUNTS ON BOTH SIDES WITH THE LONGEVITY GENES, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Still a virgin at ninety-one Last Line: I guess the honeymoon is over Subject(s): Aunts; Longevity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MY FATHER'S BIRTHDAY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: My mother doesn't want to give the party Last Line: Rather pleased about it all %and says: I am an ancient man Subject(s): Aging; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Worry MY MOTHER IN PROVINCETOWN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Mother, now pushing ninety Last Line: The men are pretty and the women are strong! Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NATURAL DEATH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The first my age to die Last Line: Our hands on hers, seeking to hold her and to let her go %and murmured over and over, these are good Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NEW YEAR'S 1990, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Joanne's husband was on pan am flight 103 Last Line: And at the turn of the decade write new poems %while you lie breathing Subject(s): Fireworks; Gratitude; Holidays; New Year; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NIGHT POEM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: It's like the red shoes only listened of dancing Last Line: Kissing my mouth, stroking my ass, parting my thighs %I don't write poems Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships OUT OF SEASON, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The first frost is overdue Last Line: And practice positive thinking my mother says %that crap! Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Thought OUTING, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Then there was the day I took them to the zoo Last Line: And presenting me with a rose-colored t-shirt %that said we're all crazy about you! Subject(s): Insanity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships PEACEABLE KINGDOM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: A tawny lion sprawls on flowers Last Line: She tells him trouble! And he says knowingly, ah, dat freebase, mon! Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships POET IN THE GARDEN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source Last Line: The poet's thighs ache as if she had been riding %a broad wild night of love Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Love; Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Romance PRIVATE THEATER, by NELO RISI Poem Source First Line: What a beautiful thing to dump everything on the unconscious! Last Line: It's still the old conscience that counts Subject(s): Psychoanalysis PSYCHOANALYSIS, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can one tell what love may be about Last Line: That in the teeming sea, mile after mile, %the biggest fish are still outside the nets Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Psychoanalysis PSYCHOANALYSTS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old mandarin was always pleased Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Psychoanalysis PURSUER PLEADS WITH THE DISTANCER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: If you must borrow your survival traits Last Line: Tight shut against the merest dangerous grain of light Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships RABBI'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: A wilted flower child Last Line: To send your prayers with me %I will deliver them Subject(s): Jews; Psychoanalysis; Relationships RETURN TO BROOKLYN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Half an hour early for my appointment Last Line: And said she was bathing the baby now %too fearful to let me in Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Psychoanalysis; Relationships RIFT, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: There is a rift in the world Last Line: Arms outflung to embrace the light, riding the midst %singing as she goes Subject(s): Love; Psychoanalysis; Relationships ROOMS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That it would be okay very soon okay, that okay it could be sooner before I Subject(s): Buddhism; Psychoanalysis; Reason; Women; Buddha; Buddhists; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ROOMS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That it would be okay very soon okay, that okay it could be sooner before I Last Line: Over. You don't even have a vocabulary yet Subject(s): Buddhism; Psychoanalysis; Reason; Women RUNNING AROUND THE RESERVOIR, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: God, it's not as if I don't know why you wanted her Last Line: That she should have to miss this perfect day Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Solitude SECRETS OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The pale eyes flashing in his dark face Last Line: They do not know that I am grieving %they do not know I loved you Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Jews - Women; Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships SELF-AUTOPSY OF A CRAZED MAN, by WILLIAM JAMES KING Poem Source First Line: I was living through a breakdown Last Line: Too many others to bleed Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Insanity; Psychoanalysis STARTING TO RAIN, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Distracted, I leave %the therapist's office Last Line: How did they manage %to make themselves heard? Subject(s): Grief; Psychoanalysis; Rain; Tears STEP THREE WITH WHALES, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: When the finback glides Last Line: Boat and water and whale are one Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships STEPFATHER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: This poem dates from a period in my Last Line: One of the people you like Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Stepfathers SYLVIA, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And you wonder how will you escape? Last Line: Time to go Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Selflessness TELEPATHY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Saturdays they never spent together Last Line: They failed to recognize each other's voices Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; Psychoanalysis; Relationships THE MUSE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she was, for centuries, the big Last Line: The writer. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Language; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Psychoanalysis; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy THEIR LAST GIFTS; FOR MY FATHER, JOSEPH LAPIDUS (1899-1990), by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Her last gift to him Last Line: Such a short time to hurt %such a long time to be immortal Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Jewish Families; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships THERE'S SO MUCH I MISS, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: What sort of hunger, %what sort of thirst Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Self-gratification THRESHOLD, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I stand here on the threshold of life's exit door Last Line: Nodding cheerfully as he passes me by Subject(s): Death; Praise; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Writing And Writers TURNING YOUR DEATH INTO RALPH LAUREN, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: In hell I'll be wearing ralph lauren Last Line: Have hanging in your closet now? Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Death; Family Life; Psychoanalysis WATERLINE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Walking the beach in winter Last Line: Until the next flows in, and those that can %fly out past sight of shore Subject(s): Longevity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships WHERE WE MEET, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: As the world slow-dances through the universe Last Line: Anchored as we stitch our common way %from dark to morning, from past to future Subject(s): Aging; Psychoanalysis; Relationships |
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