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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VIOLENCE Matches Found: 174 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE ART OF WENCHING, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Be punctual then to know / where maids resort Last Line: For who can say 'misfortunes know not me?' Subject(s): Violence 100 NOTES ON VIOLEBCE: 59, by JULIE CARR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book about violence must be a book of quotations Last Line: Agree to take me with you Subject(s): Violence 18-OCT-77, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Land flows into her eyes through the record player in her cell Last Line: She's murdered in her cell or kills herself, which terrifies Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities A NEW TEMPERANCE POEM, IN MEMORY OF MY DEPARTED PARENTS, WHO WERE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My parents were sober living, and often did pray Last Line: And the people would have more peace in it to dwell Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Violence; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A PLEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Pretty star / stay where you are Last Line: You fill me with delight. Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR OF POINTS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Our eyelids pushed down as if by a big darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Rape; Sex; Violence AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BLUES (1993), by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right now two black people sit in a jury room Last Line: I am not a pinata, rodney king insists. Opw can't we all get along Subject(s): King, Rodney (b.1966); Trials; Racism; Language; Police Violence AMBITIONS ARE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You don't trade money here Last Line: How old were you when you began to disappear? Subject(s): Ambition; Emotions; Selfishness; Violence ANOTHER ART, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cut me down from four to two, she said Last Line: So he cut her down, he did Subject(s): Relationships; Violence AS IF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prayerful humanity of bach Last Line: To make a whole of it Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Violence; Contradictions; Life AS TOLD TO WALLACE TERRY, by THOMAS G. PALAIMA Poem Source First Line: Wallace told us %he interviewed his soldiers Last Line: Washington, d.C. %and vietnam Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Vietnam; Violence; War Correspondents AT THE NURSERY OF A LOCOMOTIVE PARTS PLANT NEAR BEIJING, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Huey newton and the other panthers stand around a sandbox Last Line: And the children are thankful for the visit Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ATLAS, by CLAUDIA EMERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the museum gift shop at the foot Last Line: They ever met another death Subject(s): American Civil War; History; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence; War; War Injuries BABY MILK PLANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The night of desert storm I've put my daughter and love on a plane Last Line: Pilot lying in a pool of it, as it mixes with his blood and curdles Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BACCHAE ON THE DOCKS AT TENTH STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In a drizzle in the middle of a week of rain Last Line: Who, soaked by a sudden downpour, run for the tip of christopher %without a thought to thank the god Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BANGLA DESH: 1, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The festival of massacre: how make it vivid? Last Line: So beware. Because my heart is thirsting for blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Bangladesh; Blood; Bodies; Violence BEATING, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: My father knows only that Last Line: And in a great solitude Subject(s): Children; Domestic Relations; Marriage; Parents; Violence BECAUSE THE WIND REMEMBERS, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hideous laughter %of your invisible mockingbird Last Line: Laughter like heavy guns thundering Subject(s): Violence BEGINNINGS, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The house on bentalou street Last Line: The world became many houses, %all of them under siege Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Violence BITCHFIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: No fellas here (they're watching, though Last Line: To claw each other's eyes out. Subject(s): Fights; Violence; Women BLACK EYE, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Your fist beat a know on my face Last Line: The winter was a lovely white Subject(s): Eyes; Violence BLOOD IS A BRIGHT COLOR & TEARS ARE CLEAR, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever get yourself square & situated in a boxy apartment Last Line: Gotta hold up this scar to the light %and let you see Subject(s): Blood; Violence BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: It's mount hope in the background, but comet lake up close Last Line: Otherworldly place where these laughing girls can't find me Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BRULE VILLAGE, WOUNDED KNEE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This is no forest primeval: badlands, black hills, a month Last Line: Beyond the breastworks of the cavalry, resistance of the ice is shale Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BURIAL AT SEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Forty knots, a bugle call - our heads bowed down in sorrow Last Line: We sleep above the restless graves tonight %and dream the day when the dead shall rise in laughter Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities CASSANDRA, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am locked away %wrapped in the fillets of a priestess Last Line: How you will fall %and who will take you down? Subject(s): Failure; Hero And Leander; Violence CEAUSESCU'S POET LAUREATE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: You, paunescu, what love inspired your odes Last Line: Which of your words can be made back into flesh again Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities CHANGING STYLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Our irish style is changing,' she said Last Line: It seems we prefer steel kicks in the head %to stabs in the back.' Subject(s): Betrayal; Ireland; Violence CLARA BARTON, by CHAMP ATLEE Poem Source First Line: She couldn't have believed Last Line: At the amusement park next door Subject(s): Fights; Violence; War; Women And War CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono Last Line: I placed her %between my clothes in my packed suitcase. %that is how we left him %forever Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence COCHITI LAKE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The desert around was as pre-cambrian sea Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities COLLABORATEURS, ST. TROPEZ, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Paraded up a boulevard of plane trees and umbrella pines Last Line: For the sake of those who stayed silent, or resisted Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities CRUSADER, by ROGER MCGOUGH Poem Source First Line: In bed %like a dead %crusader Last Line: On the %glistening %back of the night Subject(s): Violence; War DANNY, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night a score of erris men Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Violence DEAD GERMAN SS PRISON GUARD, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Under the blood-clogged waters and the river weeds Last Line: Were known and sung and loved for poetry Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DEEP, by ODESSA CLEVELAND Poem Source First Line: The writer televises her views Last Line: As a short as the fire %in a spark Subject(s): Ghettos; Violence DESTROYED FLYING FORTRESS (PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN), by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After the automatic eye clicks a frame Last Line: Just where we're left to brood and wonder Subject(s): Troy; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DIFFERENT GAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He broke his jaw, lost the sight of one eye Last Line: A different game then. Red and yellow cards today. Subject(s): Blindness; Fights; Silence; Violence DUNKER CHURCH, ANTIETAM, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: For melville, on malvern hill the elms would speak Last Line: Greening in this page of sediments and sorrow Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities EARLY MORNING CALISTHENICS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: On daniel field, the civil war's a hundred years behind us now Last Line: Each swell and juming jack is one cadet, alive and full and sexual Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ESTADIO CHILE, by VICTOR JARA Poem Source First Line: There are five thousand of us here Last Line: Will give birth to the moment Subject(s): Fascism And Fascists; Fights; Protest, Social; Violence ETYMOLOGY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I understand her well because I too practice love Last Line: That is a larger that. Subject(s): Faith; Language; Love; Mythology - Classical; Violence; Women's Rights; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism FEBRUARY: THE BOY BREUGHEL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birches stand in their beggar's row Last Line: A sunrise. The snow. Subject(s): Animals; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Foxes; Rabbits; Red (color); Violence; White (color); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Hares FIGHT TO THE DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Across the steppes of kursk, kazakhstan, the army partisans Last Line: Of starlings tightens, lets go, and hastens skyward Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FIRING RANGE, ATLACATL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the boys, tin icons of the fmln, shot-gauge target practice Last Line: At journalists or poets who limp away from here towards home Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FOR THE DARKLING THRUSH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This time we have to hope: green cockaigne and truck stops Last Line: Who snaps at flies but eats the sandfleas Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call out the colored girls Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor & Laborers; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Work; Workers FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call out the colored girls Last Line: Planning their return %and they weren't even %sisters Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor And Laborers; Violence FUN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A gang of boys and girls, loving fun Last Line: One girl says, 'it's like a fuckin' video.' Subject(s): Children; Ireland; Violence GENEOLOGY, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great-grandfathers, blessed by great-grandmothers Subject(s): Violence GENEOLOGY, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great-grandfathers, blessed by great-grandmothers Last Line: Here, adam, take back your god damn rib Subject(s): Violence GHAZALS: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't walk across that bridge in hannibal Last Line: Street falling softly on our heads, the dread dope again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Travel; Violence; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips GHOST OF MY MOTHER, by MATT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: What of her history when all the traces Last Line: And now she nudges me, %with frightened, loving eyes Subject(s): Mothers; Violence GOETHE'S OAK, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I stood in a fog before the pile of shoes in an exhibition hall Last Line: Could quiet the whey-crapped mouth of another dawn coming on Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GRAND ILLUSION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not 1937 for long. A clump of ash trees and a walk Last Line: Their uncle still casting images of animals for them... Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Violence; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War GREAT PALACES OF VERSAILLES, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing nastier than a white person! Last Line: I need a man who'll protect me %while smoking her cigarette down to the very end Subject(s): Versailles, Frances; Violence; Women GREGORIOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: My cousin does a wheelie in a muddied mustang, radish red Last Line: And each of our ancient maids and ministers is blessing us Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GRIEF, KERCH, 1942, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A snow-bound road, high above the world of winnowers Last Line: On foot quite accidentally, like you and me, %and makes of this world a camera obscura Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities HANDS OVER HEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hands over my head Last Line: When he's done, we shall sing Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Violence; Warships HEARTBREAK HOTEL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Here I sit, dumbfounded, at the old french jail in hanoi Last Line: To you and ask will you come? When will I be free? Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ILL-POLITICAL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Is wind across the kansas prairie. The babyface mashes stiff potato Last Line: And disappearances, the glop of spuds now greening on his plate Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities IMPRESSION MADE IN THE GROUND AT BILLERICAY, BY..., by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Like susan rothenberg's horses, the image Last Line: Limbs the wings that take him farther, %farther than we ever want to go Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities IN A WORD, by ELIZABETH KUHLMAN Poem Source First Line: The male domestic fowl Last Line: Raises his crowned head Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Violence IN HIS OWN IMAGE, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was not myself, myself Last Line: I'm a new woman Subject(s): Women – Abused; Violence IN THE SOUND OF MULL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tradition, be thou mute! Oblivion, throw Last Line: "yon towering peaks, ""shepherds of etive glen?" Subject(s): Violence IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Ezekiel's bones, dried to dust beyond this cusp of hill Last Line: For the sun to rise upon another century Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities JOBS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: No more killings, he said Last Line: I'll try teaching instead Subject(s): Teaching And Teachers; Violence JOE LOUIS IN ITALY, 1944, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In his mouth is a wad of regulation wonder bread Last Line: Until one war is over and another starts Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities JULY TROUBLES IN PETROGRAD, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Like an oscillating wave that gathers its roll Last Line: Which the thousands plot their coming Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities KAGERA FALLS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Follow the white nile up seven cataracts, up the nyabarongo river Last Line: And picture to tie your shoe, as if it had nothing to do with you Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities LATE OCTOBER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight. The cats under the open window Last Line: On end, afraid of what I might do next. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; October; Violence; Nightmares LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LEGEND, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In chicago, it is snowing softly Last Line: Let the weaver girl cross the bridge of heaven %and take up his cold hands Subject(s): Chicago; Violence LOOKING FOR OMAR, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in the school bathroom Subject(s): Youth; Violence; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict LYNCH-LAW, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deed he had done was a terrible one Last Line: At eve, and cut it down. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Country Life; Death; Lynching; Violence; Mobs; Crowds; Dead, The MAKING CANNON IN BETHLEHEM, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was long ago in bethlehem town Last Line: The great word is love, the right plan is peace! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Peace; Social Protest; Violence; War; Weapons; Ammunition MARCH TO CALUMNY, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Throckmorton's troops are already out of it -- even the segregated Last Line: So the chances of capturing her smile are next to nothing Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities MARY TODD LINCOLN AT FORD'S THEATRE, by SUSAN TERRIS Poem Source First Line: So I said no, no more dramas like these with pieces of my flesh Last Line: Let me, too, be freed from myself and from this killing darkness Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Violence MATCHSTICK ROMANCE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: A husband beats Last Line: Setting off %an alarm they couldn't hear Subject(s): Marriage; Violence MCGONAGALL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou demon drink, thou fell destroyer Last Line: That the abolition of strong drink is the only home rule. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Sickness; Social Problems; Violence; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Illness MEMORIZING CHAUCER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: October leaves were falling Last Line: I run for a corner, %shivering from head to foot Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities MILITEROTICS, by CHARLES ORTLEB Poem Source First Line: In vietnam %eels live in the water Subject(s): Homosexuality; Men; Vietnam; Violence MISSING PATRIARCH, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She peeked our from under %the old foot-powered sewing machine Last Line: Or the screeching of my aunts and mother %like frenzied chicks beside her Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Violence MORNING AGAIN, by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Morning again, though not yet light Last Line: Attends me as I fill the kettle Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Human Rights; Morning; Night; Violence NEVER AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Anger flashing in the fist, the stick Last Line: Go with the stranger, or go alone. Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Violence; Youth NEWS REPORT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At two a.M. A thing, jumping out of a manhole Last Line: Through perfume and a bath Subject(s): News; Violence NOISE METER, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: So open out and hear Last Line: That sound that seems enough then %then is not enough Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Noises; Traffic; Violence OLD SHAGGER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If there were no killing,' the old shagger said Last Line: The old shagger quit the main road for a crooked lane Subject(s): Death; Violence OLIVE NIGHT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jemez / indians mention the los ojos bar Last Line: Summer night. Subject(s): Night; Violence; Bedtime ON HEARING GEESE FLY OVER MANHATTAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Something close to chaos Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ON NORTH BROTHER ISLAND, HALF-CRAZED SURVIVORS OF THE WRECK, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Beaux-art bas-relief in tompkins park commemorates the burning Last Line: Here, then rise, to where they can try to find some peace Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities OTHER FORMS OF SLAUGHTER, by CATHERINE OBIANUJU ACHOLONU Poem Source First Line: There were other forms %of slaughter Last Line: These were other forms of slaughter Subject(s): Violence OTHERWISE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sunday afternoon, ballybough road Last Line: Otherwise, a peaceful sabbath, thank god Subject(s): Children; Sabbath; Violence PAGE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In measured hand / we write the letter Last Line: Go to it. Subject(s): Violence PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence PARK SUICIDES, VIENNA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A clock has stopped at quarter to nine this morning Last Line: The shrill of a magpie by the river can be heard Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PASSION, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Only the warmth of the slaughter-house Last Line: Somehow cannot even now finish Subject(s): Human Rights; Slaughterhouses; Violence PHILOTHEOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The singing rocks are ravished by the currents of the gulf Last Line: Through other storms like this one I come in from now Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHING A DEAD HORSE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I do not share your faith in the moral power of exacting Last Line: So alas, he tries to rescue his brain %through irony, by pushing the camera's button Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PLACE IN THE SUN OF THE SON OF HENRY CLAY, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This burnt plate is place in the sun of the son of henry clay Last Line: Rest in peace now, in the arms of an absent howling mother Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN SOLDIER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Giuseppe ugesi, prisoner at milowitz Last Line: For all of us who wait for him to speak Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PREFERENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Such words of wisdom he had, they just Last Line: He said he preferred blood to ink. Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Violence PRESENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: His smile stresses his broken jaw Last Line: A christmas present %from the law. Subject(s): Christmas; Police; Smiles; Violence RAW SIENNA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: When we grow up, we'll bomb paris Last Line: A beam of oblique sunlight will spread in the samovar Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Violence REASON DETHRONED, by BETTY ANN FEINEMAN Poem Text First Line: The mangled form beneath the arc-light's glow Last Line: Crescendoing from ache of pinioned wings. Subject(s): Violence REISE IN DIE VERGANGENHEIT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Eyes agog in a gas mask, wrapped in burlap sacks Last Line: Of mortar, to find a flower still in bloom Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities REPLANTING THE PEACH ORCHARD, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: The way blood flowed and flesh Last Line: Larry's pockets bulged with lead Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Fights; Military; U.s. - History; Violence; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) RIPRENDE LA VITA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: For all the world, this is a man indifferent to all I do Last Line: And help stray silent black sheep from the fold Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ROBBEN ISLAND SEQUENCE, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neonbright orange %vermilion Last Line: But what a bruised and broken motley lot we were! Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Persecution; Violence SANTO DOMINGO, KILOMETRO OCHO, REPUBLICA DOMINICANA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Off the butt of a standard-issue rifle: the rose-blue swollen eye Last Line: For rum and coke, rare bright birds, and cane to suck on Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SAY YOU LOVE ME, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happened earlier I'm not sure of Subject(s): Violence SAY YOU LOVE ME, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happened earlier I'm not sure of Last Line: So there we remained, completely alone Subject(s): Violence SEA, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before our human dream (or terror) wove Last Line: Who is the sea, and who am I? The day %that follows my last agony shall say Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Sea; Violence SHADOWS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: From the foothills, you can see traffic on nagasaki bay Last Line: Who linger offshore, waiting for us to brim the tide Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SHOOTING STAR, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a concussion / the mind severs the pain Last Line: Shooting star. Subject(s): Calligraphy; Life; Violence SHOOTINGS, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I dislike watching shootings Last Line: Who wants to deal with that Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Violence SIMONOPETRA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Epiphany today. Three quarters moon over neponset bay Last Line: Waits for me; waves pull back and blink at the gathering black Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO HUMAN AWARENESS CLASS: ONE FATE WORSE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Loutish soldiers joke in line Last Line: No god in his right mind could forgive Subject(s): Violence SKETCHES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In new york, bus drivers are the only happy men Last Line: That reads drink blotto! Subject(s): Cruelty; New York City; Violence; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SNIPER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Last monday, they rushed out like Last Line: Death comes from the trees Subject(s): Ambulances; Blood; Death; Guns; Violence SNOWY EGRET, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor's boy has lifted his father's shotgun and stolen Subject(s): Egrets; Violence SNOWY EGRET, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor's boy has lifted his father's shotgun and stolen Last Line: What he hadn't even known he loved, blasting %such beauty into nothing. Subject(s): Egrets; Violence SOUNDS BEGIN AGAIN, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My sounds begin again Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Human Rights; Noises; Pain; Violence SOWJETUNION, 1941, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Close as we are, what can we suppose of the midnight sky Last Line: Ox-bow of a river, when the men %can't rise and return to their homes Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 2. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: Possession is the law on earth, 9/10ths Last Line: Dispossessed - so that I can be, by god Subject(s): Marriage; Violence STALINGRAD, REVISITED, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Winterreise, storm and snow. U.S. Troops in bosnia tonight Last Line: By my bed and cried, wailing the city stalingrad, revisited Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities STALKING DRAGONFLIES ON MT. WASHUSETT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: We hunt them Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities STARGAZING, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt %edith Last Line: The bear Subject(s): Minnesota; Murder; Violence STREET FIGHT, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From prehistoric distance, beyond clocks Subject(s): Violence STRIKING BEAUTY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom, struck by her face, took and married a wife Last Line: He should ever be struck by her fist as well! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Marriage; Violence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TALKING OF SHARP THINGS, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think of the razor-sharp knife Last Line: And the tattered body of my country that waits to be sewn Subject(s): Violence TENT CITY, HOMELESS SHELTER, HOOVERVILLES, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Corlears hook. Terns and cormorants stotter along the fuel dock Last Line: In starched white sheets on army cots and grope towards sleep Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities THE APHRODISIAC, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power is my aphrodisiac Last Line: Before a grenade explodes. Subject(s): Conspiracy; Politics; Violence; War; Politicians; Political Poetry THE ASSASSIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling him amongst the cobbles of Last Line: Draw backward flickeringly and knock him dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Assassination; Hate; Violence THE BLOODY SIRE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is not bad. Let them play. Subject(s): Violence; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CAMPS; FOR MARILYN HACKER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the young brown-haired Last Line: Rest on the unmoving forms. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Despair; Love; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Writing & Writers; Dead, The THE CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Fugitives THE DANCE AT SILVER VALLEY, by WILLIAM MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Don't you hear the big spurs jingle? Last Line: And danced his dance tonight. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Jealousy; Ranch Life; Violence; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE GREAT PALACES OF VERSAILLES, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing nastier than a white person! Subject(s): Versailles, Frances; Violence; Women THE IMPROVISATORE: LEOPOLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle is over; the dews of the fog Last Line: The storm was hushed. Men tell not where he went. Subject(s): Adoption; Betrayal; Blood; Clergy; Death; Despair; Evil; Loss; Love; Violence; War; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE INTRUDER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother - preferring the strange to the tame Last Line: She washed and washed the pity from her hands. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Violence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE ORDEAL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the golden city and the sea Last Line: Across the sounding threshold of the sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Family Life; Justice; Longing; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Torture; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE RIDE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I struck him down in sudden wrath / over a trivial word Last Line: Come riding o'er the hill! Subject(s): Friendship; Ghosts; Horseback Riding; Murder; Supernatural; Violence THE SAILOR WHO SERVED IN THE SLAVE-TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stopt, -- it surely was a groan Last Line: O god, deliver me! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Murder; Prayer; Regret; Sailing & Sailors; Shame; Slavery; Violence; Clemency; Serfs THE UNDERGROUND, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cities arise Last Line: The glaciers have set up their tents Subject(s): Cities; Glaciers; Hallucinations And Illusions; Sex; Violence; Urban Life THEY SAID, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said your footprints were stamped in blood Last Line: Say what hurts. Subject(s): Hospitals; Police; Regret; Violence THIS MORNING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking this morning, / a violent woman in the violent day Variant Title(s): Waking This Morning Subject(s): Violence THIS MORNING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking this morning, %a violent woman in the violent day Last Line: This morning, waking the world away %in the violent day Variant Title(s): Waking This Mornin Subject(s): Violence THREE PIKE STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: End of century, february thaw, horse stalls of a delancey cul-de-sac Last Line: Rose grunts and pees in sawdust, turns to her curds and whey Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities TICKLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A prosperous light Last Line: Nothing at all Subject(s): Details; Evening; Knowledge; Spring; Violence TOURS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A girl on the stairs listens to her father Last Line: She presses stays down, makes no sound, %someone putting their tongue where their tooth had been Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Children; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Parents; Pianos; Violence TREES, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: We marvel how the elms can grow Last Line: When dawn breaks cool and still. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War TULE LAKE LAVA BEDS, THE MODOC WARS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Time is motion, energy, stress, and speed, divided by the sun's Last Line: As the desert music wavers, unmetered and unspoke Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities TWO WOMEN ON THE POTOMAC HIGHWAY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On tuesday's bus I heard the man from state Last Line: It made me sick, if you must know. Subject(s): Buses; Conversation; Disdain; Human Abnormalities; Violence; Scorn; Deformities TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii; Theology; Second World War TYWATER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Last Line: And what to say of him, god knows %such violence. And such repose Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii UNCROWNED, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY Poem Text First Line: The ogre leaps with massing hands Last Line: And no blood-basted armies fish it back. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens UNLOCKING THE DOORS, by JILL BRECKENRIDGE Poem Source First Line: One night, I saw a woman Last Line: If only I could take her %by the arm and not let go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Violence UNYIELDINGLY PRESENT, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Near the curb behind the police lines Subject(s): Violence VAIN BIRTH, by ODESSA CLEVELAND Poem Source First Line: The black man battled with milkweed faces Last Line: Dripping teardrops towards god Subject(s): Tyranny And Tyrants; Violence VIOLENCE, by JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Shots ring out! Last Line: Riots. Los angeles. %rodney king Subject(s): Racism; United States; Violence VOLLEYBALL, MANZANAR, SIERRAS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Here's a still life set in apple orchards on the plains of uz Last Line: The earth to overlap a reeling and burgeoned moon Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WAITING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the fervor Last Line: But I can't tell you how any of them sing. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Waiting; Dead, The; Judaism WAR OF THE WORLDS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After my shift at the foundling hospital, the moon is down Last Line: Shards of evil caught in the blinking retinas of every single child Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This could be samothrace, 1440 b.C.E. This could be thebes Last Line: I sacrifice the origin of all ideals on earth to give this girl a drink Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WHERE I LIVE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the lip of a big black vagina Last Line: Named black los angeles Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Los Angeles; Night Clubs; Violence WHERE I LIVE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the lip of a big black vagina Last Line: She's the baddest piece of ass on the west coast %named black los angeles Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Los Angeles; Night Clubs; Violence WHERE LITTLE POND MEETS THE OCEAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Out early, in search of the last light Last Line: In smiling, her way to say %oh yes, this is where I want to be Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WILLIAMS DREAMLAND THEATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I passed through harlem sundays only as a child Last Line: With all the news from akron, memphis, and thermopylae Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WITH YOUR PERMISSION, by MARIO BENEDETTI Poem Source First Line: It is forbidden to write about a certain class of violence Last Line: Was about good violence Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Violence WOULD IT HAD BEEN MY ENEMY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would it had been mine enemy Last Line: His hand who gave the blow! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Violence YESTERDAY, by GU CHENG Poem Source First Line: Yesterday %coils in the corner Last Line: To circumvent %the second coming Subject(s): China - Democracy; Violence |
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