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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SKELETONS Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fine cataracts of falling mountain water Last Line: While dressed in ice skates and the long green gown. Subject(s): Heaven; Loss; Moose; Skeletons; Paradise ANIMAL SKELETON, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Whatever was inscribed in me is now revealed Last Line: Until I make no sense, %and, senseless, I await you Subject(s): Bones; Death; Skeletons; Writing And Writers CASUALTIES: 2. SKULLS AND CUPS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look up, %how do you tell a skull Last Line: Broken up the fields after nsukka' Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Nigerian Civil War; Skeletons; Skulls COMPLAINT OF THE SKELETON TO TIME, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take my love, it is not true, Subject(s): Skeletons DEAD HORSE, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the early morning mist Last Line: O heavy breast of the dead horse! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Skeletons GALLOWS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn showed %distant and sinister Last Line: The dawn showed %distant and sinister Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Fear; Skeletons GHAZAL OF THE TERRIFYING PRESENCE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I want the water to go on without its bed Last Line: But do not let me see your pure waist Subject(s): Death; Presence; Skeletons HOLYROOD ABBEY, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: No guidebook description prepares for this Last Line: Like a fragment of the cross Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Churches; Clergy; Death; Monasteries; Religion; Skeletons I DIED FOR BEAUTY, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: What can be said Last Line: In the shallows just below %my pelvic hollow Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Skeletons IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THERE'S A SKELETON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Girl getting out of her red car Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Nature; Skeletons LA MUERTE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't belong, fea dona sebastiana Subject(s): Skeletons; Ash Wednesday LEARNING ANATOMY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: My son must learn the bones of the body, their articulations Last Line: Crumble into dust, bones pass time in the urn of earth Subject(s): Bones; Corpses; Skeletons LEAVINGS, by DEENA POSY METZGER Poem Source First Line: I want what is left Last Line: And we will have rain, %and begin again Subject(s): Absence; Corpses; Death; Skeletons LINES ON A SKELETON, by ANNA JANE VARDHILL Poem Text First Line: Behold this ruin! - 'twas a skull Last Line: And tread the palace of the sky! Variant Title(s): To A Skeleton Subject(s): Life; Skeletons MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean MY SKELETON, MY RIVAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Interesting that I have to live with my skeleton Last Line: And I its friend, shielding it from harm Subject(s): Skeletons; Identity; Death; Dead, The ON THE SKELETON OF A HOUND, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Skeletons; Dogs; Death - Animals PLAYTIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: You're my hypnotic, indecisive one.' Last Line: And you're my perfumed, fleshed out skeleton.' Subject(s): Hypnotism; Relationships; Skeletons REQUIEM TO THE DINOSAURS AND MASTODONS, by UBADAH IBN MA' AL-SAMA Poem Text First Line: Here roots a glebe of rough mesquite Last Line: Was dear to her who sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Ubada; Ubada, Muhammed Ibn Subject(s): Amphibians; Bones; Dinosaurs; Skeletons SKELETON, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Once again, huge rock! Whose front sublime Last Line: And breathe a requiem to thy nameless dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Graves; Punishment; Saint Michael's Mount (england); Skeletons SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just this one day in all the year Last Line: The skeleton taps on the door Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Christmas; Skeletons SKELETON UNDER A LEDGE, by LEONARD JENNEWEIN Poem Text First Line: Perhaps it was a storm that on some night Last Line: To meet you now———most interesting. Subject(s): Death; Rest; Skeletons; Dead, The SKELETONS, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE Poem Source First Line: What a lot of trouble it would save if we Last Line: Even stripped to the barest necessities, %still human Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Skeletons SO MANY THINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Skeletons suss clever flesh Last Line: So many things tight-lipped %poems won't tell. Subject(s): Death; Poetry And Poets; Skeletons STANZAS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep in peace when life is fled Last Line: And stars behold our bones again. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fort George, Battle Of (1813); Graves; New York City; Skeletons; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE LION'S SKELETON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o lion, hast thou fleshless lain? Last Line: Have sifted out the substance of thy feet. Subject(s): Animals; Decay; Lions; Skeletons; Rot; Decadence 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 THE PHANTOM COASTERS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The coasters of the past are back Last Line: And troy town's wreck behind them lies. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prehistoric Peoples; Skeletons; Dead, The; Paradise THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where once I loved my flesh Last Line: I find it was always here Subject(s): Skeletons; Skin; Soul THE SKELETON'S WITNESS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rooted in soil dull as a dead man's eye Last Line: The leprous whiteness of the rotting oak! Subject(s): Skeletons WINTER MORNING, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood! Last Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood! Subject(s): Death; Haunted Houses; Skeletons; Dead, The X-RAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What truth the doctor reads Last Line: And breath. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Medicine; Physicians; Skeletons; X-rays; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors |
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