|
|
|
|
Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: KOCH, KENNETH Matches Found: 286 Koch, Kenneth Poet's Biography 286 poems available by this author A MOMENTARY LONGING TO HEAR SAD ADVICE FROM ONE LONG DEAD Poem Text First Line: Who was my teacher at harvard. Did not wear / overcoat Subject(s): Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Students; Educators; Professors AFRICA PAESE NOTTURNO Poem Text Last Line: Just one ray of light africa my africa Subject(s): Africa AFRICA PAESE NOTTURNO Last Line: Just one ray of light %africa my africa Subject(s): Africa AH, SWEET BANQUET, LOVELY BANQUET Last Line: Been and which will last forever ALIVE FOR AN INSTANT First Line: I have a bird in my head and a pig in my stomach Last Line: I have a baby in my landscape and I have a wild rat in my secrets from you ALLEGHENY MENACES Last Line: Buy them right and sell them right %and we'll go home again! ALLEGORY OF SPRING First Line: The blossoming cherry trees were quarreling. She thought this when Last Line: Understand. Well, will you or not? He said. Yes, she said. Then she %said, no ART OF LOVE ART OF POETRY First Line: To write a poem, perfect physical condition Last Line: And poetry and life are not like that. Now I have said enough Subject(s): Poetry And Poets ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: CHIAROSCURO First Line: Other romes, other moons, other umbrellas Last Line: Gaze at us with another sense of space ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: FRAGMENT First Line: Moon in the mirror, are you the same as the one outside Last Line: Are you like that lady, who ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: FRAGMENT First Line: They wandered in the scorched and gloomy summer Last Line: So like the bird, so like our good old beach,' %he said ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: FROTH First Line: Coppers in the ocean, millions of them, dropped there Last Line: To be red masters ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: GETTING BACK ON LAND First Line: The arms of those armchairs resemble the legs Last Line: And they are glad to see the armchairs again, which remind them of their legs ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: GREAT BEAUTY First Line: It's like being received in the arms of a great beauty Last Line: But I love this fog ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: LA DIMINUZIONE DALLA MAMMA First Line: La mia mamma Last Line: Nell'aria bruna di firenze ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: LITTLE-KNOWN HISTORIAL FACT First Line: Charlemagne, don't be so unhappy! You gadabout, rain Last Line: Charlemagne was an italian ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: MATEEYANAH First Line: Not like a child but like a wild blackbird Last Line: She descended the stairs from her tree ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: MATTERS First Line: At eight o'clock the torn apron was willing Last Line: Of sunshine and beautiful ways ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: MORRO ROCK First Line: No more sandals made from fibrous particles of lunch Last Line: Dropped on the equally fibrous cheerleader. Uhuh, henry hudson ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: NINETEEN THIRTY SIX First Line: Paint the house, painter Last Line: Hit the sidewalk, cement ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: OFFER First Line: Morning may find us whiter, perhaps surprised Last Line: By the clanging streetcar ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: PASSAGE First Line: A boat comes by, captain smiling, lady on his arm Last Line: Written on the paper beneath his pen. Boat goes by with a frown ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: SCHWEITZERREICH First Line: Geneva. A bird call. Someone's name Last Line: Geneva. The flowers. The flower. The geneva ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: SOLEMN First Line: Les jeunes gens jouent des checkers Last Line: The boy stares at his checkers, and the other cries 'move ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE BOOK OF MAGICAL POETRY First Line: An anthology of magical poetry Last Line: Abandon pour toujours my habeas corpus ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE FLOWERS OF EVIL First Line: Lay on the table Last Line: My savior replied ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE RUE QUENTIN-BAUCHART IN 1951 First Line: It was horsemeat Last Line: No I else. %goodbye ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: TRIESTE E UNA DONNA First Line: Vagabond silence, music of my tears Last Line: Chugging like a train, into trieste ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: VAGABONDS First Line: Vagabonds! That's what we are - vagabonds Last Line: We stand and watch, enchanted, some human fiesta ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: VIDA BREVE First Line: Nothing else matters, only the clam with the little william nose Last Line: Here, eat him, now here, eat him; and then smile ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: WAHEGO First Line: Aren't you afraid of being a few Last Line: When he reaches the last place of rest ARTIST First Line: Ah, well, I abandon you, cherrywood smokestack Last Line: Million tons of blue paint. Waiting anxiously for it to arrive. How would %grass be as a substitute? AT EXTREMES First Line: I had a dream about a polar bear Last Line: The polar bear swims toward the dam. He is part of a %continuum AT THE OPERA First Line: Ah do you remember %the voice of gianni poggi Last Line: Was still alive %when we left %the theatre and came home ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVY, INTENSE (SUMMER) STILLNESS First Line: Let's sit down %in this blazing garden Last Line: Yes, yes -- look! The future! %but now it's gone AU COCONUT SCHOOL Last Line: With a pleasure undreamed-of today %bonheur aujourd'hui meme pas reve! Variant Title(s): A La Coconut Schoo AUS EINER KINDHEIT First Line: Is the basketball coach a homosexual lemon manufacturer? Last Line: For we're due to be dawned on, I guess BALLADE First Line: We who have ten years to live, approximately Last Line: A wonderful seamlessness has just come up in my poetry BEL CANTO Poem Text First Line: The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp, Subject(s): Inspiration; Books; Wisdom; Reading BEL CANTO First Line: The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp Last Line: Thank you for being this, and for its inspiration BERTHA First Line: Noble: the walls of our castles no longer withstand Last Line: Norway was happy under her rule BOILING WATER First Line: A serious moment for the water is when it boils Last Line: That is enough. For the germ when it enters or leaves a body. For the fly when it lifts its little w BORDER First Line: At the border the french customs person, a woman, seeing the baby Last Line: Customs, can't you get that little monster to be still? The baby also was %named charlotte, and she BRASSIERE FACTORY First Line: Is the governor falling Last Line: And foolish tanks, for what bare breasts might be BRICKS First Line: The bricks in a wall %sang this song Last Line: Or if it was the animals, %and, 'everything comes soon.' BRING BACK THE BEDS Last Line: Make love %- two hundred times BURNING MYSTERY OF ANNA IN 1951 First Line: I don't know how to kiss' Last Line: Walking, until I smelled the fields, on two legs CIRCUS First Line: We will have to go away, said the girls in the circus Last Line: The soft wind of summer blew in the light green trees Subject(s): Circus CIRCUS (II) First Line: I remember when I wrote the circus Last Line: And I wonder if any good will come of either of them %all the same Subject(s): Circus; Poetry And Poets COLLECTED POEMS First Line: Buffalo days Last Line: The hand-painted ears of death %oh look inside me %alabama %alabama COMMOSSO First Line: Perhaps at the end of the mountains that isn't a woman Last Line: That spends its wild excitement on the water CURRENCY First Line: In the fifties western europe was the place Last Line: We can pay for the coffee so we have the dawn DAYS AND NIGHTS First Line: It came to me that all this time Last Line: At the house in bella firenze DEPARTURE FROM HYDRA First Line: As I was walking home just now, from seeing Last Line: Seems surely true. I smiled, and closed the door DESIRE CAME BACK TO HIM, BUT THE GIRL WAS GONE.... Last Line: Branches of some trees and kiss. The sheet, as she turns now to the %right, makes the sound of the l DESIRE FOR SPRING First Line: Calcium days, days when we feed our bones! Last Line: Dear coolness of heaven, come swiftly and sit my chairs! DOES THE SUN USE YOU Last Line: Become a science in other minds DOWN AT THE DOCKS Poem Text Subject(s): Piers DOWN AT THE DOCKS Last Line: For you and that big dark blue DRIVING ALONG Last Line: Tonight' %'unto this planet.' Subject(s): Driving And Drivers DUPLICATIONS EN L'AN TRENTIESME DE MON EAGE First Line: O red-hot cupboards and burning pavements, alas it's summer; my cheeks ... Last Line: We can't stand here forever smoking bumblebee cigarettes! ENERGY IN SWEDEN Poem Text First Line: Those were the days / when there was so much energy in and around me Subject(s): Sweden ENERGY IN SWEDEN First Line: Those were the days %when there was so much energy in and around me Last Line: When the gods give both, a man shouldn't complain Subject(s): Sweden EQUAL TO YOU First Line: Can you imagine the body being Last Line: And by being the body of the real FARM'S THOUGHTS First Line: Hay, passion stilled the Last Line: Oh how through the air my beloved master bee sails! FATE First Line: In a room on west tenth street in june FIRST STEP First Line: In the country of the middle Last Line: A line in the water %a line around the park %of bushes and trees FOUR ATLANTICS First Line: There are four emilies: the emily of her parents Last Line: That goes from the strait of gibraltar to britain's northmost edge FRESH AIR Poem Text First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America FRESH AIR First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say Last Line: O green, beneath which all of them shall drown! Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America GEOGRAPHY First Line: In the blue hubbub of the same-through-wealth sky Last Line: The lake was covered with gloom. Enna plunged into it screaming GIGUE Poem Text First Line: Yet dancers / twisting their backs toward a future Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers GIRL AND BABY FLORIST SIDEWALK PRAM NINETEEN SEVENTY ... First Line: Sweeping past the florist's came the baby and the girl Last Line: Neither inside nor outside thinking about the mountains of peru GREEN STEP First Line: The green step was near the two girls, five-year-olds, in white rather stiff Last Line: Her mother is miles away, in a car. The old man is here. A servant comes down the step and picks th GUINEVERE OR THE DEATH OF THE KANGAROO First Line: Guinevere: oh solids! %giraffe: yes, and you know, last evening there were Last Line: The manner of machines, %daguerrotype, cigarette store HEARING First Line: Hear the beautiful tinny voices of the trumpets Last Line: And from the earth, a sigh: 'this song is finished.' -- alabama HEROINE OF THE GREEK RESISTANCE First Line: K (a man): my first trip to greece and I don't have any buttons Last Line: J, as the heroine of the greek resistance: the %sharpness clears the bay HISTORY OF JAZZ First Line: The leaves of blue came drifting down Last Line: He smilingly picked up his yellow horn to play, but all that came out of it was steam Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians HOMAGE First Line: Mrs. Pubo is out on the sidewalk sitting HOMAGE TO FOH First Line: Well, if you can't get off the telephone HOMAGE TO FRANK O'HARA First Line: Sometimes it seems to me I am possessed HOMAGE TO FRANK'S UNCOLLECTED POEMS First Line: Marsden is in hartford and kim is in cincinnati HOW IN HER PIROGUE SHE GLIDES Poem Text HOW IN HER PIROGUE SHE GLIDES Last Line: Like boats, themselves, upon the running tide Subject(s): Women HUMAN SACRAMENT First Line: Is nothing new sacred? The book, the sky Last Line: They're here in time I AM DEATH I'LL TAKE THE HAND Last Line: For each is there alone IF I AM TO BE PRESERVED FROM HEARTACHE AND SHYNESS Last Line: And give that person some joy in that person's heart IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA IN ANCIENT TIMES Last Line: The oxen bring us power and bring us love! Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Past IN BED First Line: Mornings in bed Last Line: Discobolus in bed %the discus thrower %is still in bed IN LOVE WITH YOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: O what a physical effect it has on me Subject(s): Love IN LOVE WITH YOU First Line: O what a physical effect it has on me Last Line: Not like an edge of land coming over the sea! IN THE MORNING IN THE RANCHHOUSE AT DAWN First Line: O corpuscle! IO First Line: Look at this lovely river maid, who bears the name of io Last Line: Her father was, and stirred the lust of jove the thunder-giver KO, OR, A SEASON ON EARTH, SELS. L'ART D'ETRE GRAND-PERE First Line: We like the reticent muscle of these days Last Line: Making the spinning earth its messenger %of all that it's about LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN Poem Text First Line: Enter the heroines complete with red lip and hairless leg Subject(s): Women; Sexual Allure LAST TO FRANK (FOR A WHILE) First Line: Nothing on the radio LET THE OBI FALL Last Line: Obi! Obi! %let it fall LET US PRAISE THE ELEPHANT Poem Text LET US PRAISE THE ELEPHANT Last Line: The elephant brings it down - %man gai no chi Subject(s): Elephants LET'S POUR COCA COLA ON THE PRIEST Last Line: While he's asleep Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers LO WHERE HAUSSMANN COMES, SEE WHERE HE COMES LO, WHERE HAUSSMANN COMES, SEE WHERE HE COMES Poem Text Subject(s): Haussmann, Georges-eugene (1809-1891); Paris, France; Architecture & Architects LOCKS Poem Text First Line: These locksw on doors have brought me happiness Subject(s): Locks LOCKS First Line: These locks on doors have brought me happiness Last Line: From waking and finding you are not there LUNCH Poem Text First Line: The lanternslides grinding out b-flat minor Subject(s): Lunch LUNCH First Line: The lanternslides grinding out b-flat minor Last Line: To see what they are, because it's time for lunch Subject(s): Lunch MA PROVENCE Poem Text First Line: En ma provence le ble est toujours vert Subject(s): Provence, France MA PROVENCE First Line: En ma provence le ble est toujours vert Last Line: She writes it out in enervating prose %'in my provence, my rose.' Subject(s): Provence, France MAGIC OF NUMBERS First Line: How strange it was to hear the furniture being moved around Last Line: Everything I read turned into a story about you and me, and everything I did was turned into a poem MARY MAGDALENE'S SONG First Line: Mary magdalene's coming! Last Line: The merry magdalene way! MEDITERRANEAN SUNS! Poem Text MEDITERRANEAN SUNS! Last Line: Of these resorts? %just climb down Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; Sun MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS Poem Text First Line: I should like to describe amerika to you Subject(s): United States; New York City; Immigrants; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration MENDING SUMP First Line: Hiram, I think the sump is backing up' MIGHT I BE THE FIRST Last Line: Oh raids on the english supplies! MY OLIVETTI SPEAKS First Line: Birds don't sing, they explain. Only human beings sing Last Line: Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time NEVER AGAIN WILL TONE COME NEW GUIDE First Line: Look at this champagne factory Last Line: Two women and three men go by, speaking catalan NO ONE ELSE First Line: I could never have had anything Last Line: Forgotten and evenings %boat-flat similar and signed: 'no one else' ON AESTHETICS First Line: Aesthetics of taking a walk Last Line: One shadow -- %enough! %is passing by ON BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Beauty is sometimes personified Subject(s): Beauty ON BEAUTY First Line: Beauty is sometimes personified ON HAPPINESS First Line: It was distressing to think that kawabata had committed suicide. It Last Line: Happiness? He told me his answer: 'I said 'how can anyone answer %a question like that?'' ON THE EDGE First Line: Sleeping one day beside the zuyder zee Last Line: Getting out of the car and going back ON THE GREAT ATLANTIC RAINWAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I set forth one misted white day of june Subject(s): Relationships; Rain ON THE GREAT ATLANTIC RAINWAY First Line: I set forth one misted white day of june Last Line: In the same way, though we are dying for the truth ONE TRAIN MAY HIDE ANOTHER Poem Text Recitation First Line: In a poem, one line may hide another line Subject(s): Kenya; Railroads; Railways; Trains ONE TRAIN MAY HIDE ANOTHER First Line: In a poem, one line may hide another line Last Line: To have waited at least a moment to see what was already there Subject(s): Kenya; Railroads OUR HEARTS First Line: All hearts should beat when cho fu's orchestra plays 'love' Last Line: Or power to change anything (sometimes -- maybe a fraction -- if so, it's amazing!) -- the PASSING TIME IN SKANSEN First Line: I went dancing in stockholm at a public dancing place Last Line: I got on some kind of streetcar that eventually stopped near my hotel PERICLES First Line: I stop and go, pericles Last Line: (epilogue) the organ's orgasm and the aspirin tablet's speechless spasm PERMANENTLY Poem Text Recitation First Line: One day the nouns were clustered in the street Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PERMANENTLY First Line: One day the nouns were clustered in the street Last Line: Which can never be undone %until the destruction of language Subject(s): Language PLEASURES OF PEACE First Line: Another ribald tale of the good times at madame lipsky's Last Line: Crackle, love's flat, sun's sweets, o peace, to you POEM First Line: Here there are girls with tearing breasts, like Last Line: And now, I hear, some shy thing has happened to you POEM First Line: The thing Last Line: And therefore %must use %science POEM FOR MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Passing the american graveyard, for my birthday Subject(s): Birthdays; Cemeteries; Graveyards POEM OF THE FORTY-EIGHT STATES First Line: O kentucky! My parents were driving Last Line: You and I will go there when kenneth is dead POEMS BY SHIPS AT SEA: AMERICAN FOAM First Line: You can talk about the banda's crazy waters Last Line: Carried upon her parent's shoulders home POEMS BY SHIPS AT SEA: AUTUMN LEAVES First Line: In autumn the leaves fall Last Line: Final harbour, who are the mother of life POEMS BY SHIPS AT SEA: BEARING CARGO First Line: Bearing cargo, heavy cargo over the plain Last Line: But, on the second, she is there again POEMS BY SHIPS AT SEA: BOXERS First Line: Boxers sometimes try to stabilize Last Line: I'll try, but can't do much, to let him win POEMS BY SHIPS AT SEA: BRAGAN First Line: Way over the expanding water Last Line: This island, this woman, this bragan PREGNANCY Poem Text First Line: Inside the pomegranate is the blue sky Subject(s): Wisconsin; Paris, France; Animals; City & Town Life; Country Life PREGNANCY First Line: Inside the pomegranate is the blue sky Last Line: Tell me, sons of atlantis, what will happen next? PROMENADE OF THE GHOSTLY SUBTITLES First Line: It was the time of the promenade of the ghostly subtitles Last Line: Which one the titles awoke they would never have PROVERB First Line: Les morts vont vite, the dead go fast, the next day absent! Last Line: And life goes on QUESTION IN RED INK First Line: I come to you out of an old darkness Last Line: To streak away like electrons, %careless and obscene as a broken nerve? RAILWAY STATIONERY First Line: The railway stationery lay upon Last Line: Now it screams closer, and he flags it down Subject(s): Railroads RED ROBINS RELATIONS First Line: Julie, there was the time Last Line: From where her family cemented its name RESTAURANT ON THE BEACH First Line: Shellfish, well really only clams, by the dozens and dozens were being Last Line: The girl said, in a tentative tone. One part of the mother's being ill was %the panic she felt drivi ROMA NON BASTA UNA VITA First Line: Kate, to mario. You seem so happy. How can that be, when you've told Last Line: So comes the dawn SCHOOLROOM IN HAITI First Line: In haiti, port-au-prince, a man walked up and down the Last Line: They were left fatally behind SCHOOLYARD IN APRIL Poem Text First Line: Little girls smearing Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOLYARD IN APRIL First Line: Little girls smearing Last Line: Stare out of windows %remembering april Subject(s): Education; Schools SEASONS ON EARTH First Line: There is a way of thinking about happiness Last Line: And true? Oh, was it ever yours and mine? SEASONS: 1. SPRING First Line: Now pizza units open up, and froth Last Line: That we bounce high on this day's trampoline SEASONS: 2. SUMMER First Line: So do they prosper, and so do we look Last Line: And toward which they resume their silent strains SEASONS: 3. AUTUMN First Line: But now hear autumn bellow from the trees Last Line: Becomes a thing autumnal of its own SEASONS: 4. WINTER First Line: If the west wind is autumn's, what is that Last Line: And in the range of how they most appear SEINE Poem Text First Line: Hounded by central islip to the end SIMPLICITY OF THE UNKNOWN PAST First Line: Out the window, the cow out the window SIX HAMLETS: HAMLET REBUS First Line: To be, or not to be: that is the question Last Line: And by opposing end them SIX HAMLETS: LA COMTESSE DE BERCY HAMLET First Line: To be, or not to be: that is the question Last Line: And by opposing end them SIX HAMLETS: LITTLE RED RIDING HAMLET First Line: To be, or not to be: that is the question Last Line: And by opposing end them SIX HAMLETS: SMOKING HAMLET First Line: To be, or not to be: that is the question Last Line: And by opposing end them SLEEPING WITH WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Caruso: a voice Subject(s): Love - Erotic SLEEPING WITH WOMEN First Line: Caruso: a voice. %naples: sleeping with women Last Line: Asleep and sleeping with them, asleep and asleep, sleeping with women, %asleep & sleeping with them, SOME GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS First Line: Do not bake bread in an oven that is not made of stone Last Line: And you can show that you have learned them for yourself SONGS ARE ABOUT DEATH Last Line: And sight is about stopping %for a while SPICES First Line: We need three tons of spice by tuesday next Last Line: Such is the lot that heaven sends to both of us. L'chaim. Farewell! SPRING First Line: Let's take a walk Last Line: To be bathed in a light white light %come on STRAITS First Line: It is easy to be cruel in love: one merely has not to love Last Line: He spent a number of years in exile. 'it is supposed to be turning out our products STUDY OF TIME First Line: One bird deserves another. One white and orange tabletop Last Line: And be forty-eight years old? One age deserves another. One time deserves another time SUMMERY WEATHER First Line: One earring's smile Last Line: To themselves; but %the wind is blowing, blowing! SUN OUT First Line: Bananas, piers, limericks! Last Line: Of the black brave ocean TAKING A WALK WITH YOU Poem Text First Line: My misunderstandings: for years I thought muno bello meant Subject(s): Language; Knowledge; Words; Vocabulary TAKING A WALK WITH YOU First Line: My misunderstandings: for years I thought TALKING TO PATRIZIA Poem Text First Line: Patrizia doesn't want to Subject(s): Love TALKING TO PATRIZIA First Line: Patrizia doesn't want to Last Line: Let my back and head fall against %the chair late isn't anything! THANK YOU Poem Text First Line: Oh thank you for giving me the chance Subject(s): Advertising; Teeth; Self; Careers; Toothaches THANK YOU First Line: Oh thank you for giving me the chance Last Line: And thank you for the evening of the night on which I fell off my horse %in the shadows. That was re THANKSGIVING Poem Text First Line: What's sweeter than at the end of a summer's day Subject(s): Native Americans; Thanksgiving Day; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THANKSGIVING First Line: What's sweeter than at the end of a summer's day THE ART OF POETRY Poem Text First Line: To write a poem, perfect physical condition Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE BANQUET SONG Poem Text First Line: As, sweet banquet, lovely banquet Subject(s): Food & Eating THE BRASSIERE FACTORY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Is the governor falling Subject(s): Brassieres THE CIRCUS (I) Poem Text First Line: We will have to go away, said the girls in the circus Subject(s): Circus THE CIRCUS (II) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I remember when I wrote the circus Subject(s): Circus; Poetry & Poets THE HISTORY OF JAZZ Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The leaves of blue came drifting down Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians THE HORSE Poem Text First Line: Not so unsound as a path Subject(s): Horses THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: How strange it was to hear the furniture moved around in the apartment upstairs Subject(s): Relationships; Ooetry And Poets; Love - Erotic; Time; Numbers; Conduct Of Life THE RAILWAY STATIONERY Poem Text First Line: The railway stationery lay upon Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE STUDY OF HAPPINESS Recitation by Author Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight THE TRIP FROM CALIFORNIA Poem Text First Line: In the shoe-fixery and on the train Subject(s): Travel; Pleasure; Journeys; Trips THE TRUE LIFE Poem Text THEY SAY PRINCE HAMLET'S FOUND A SOUTHERN ISLAND Poem Text THEY SAY PRINCE HAMLET'S FOUND A SOUTHERN ISLAND Last Line: And wear, with fair ophelia, denmark's crown Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet THIS DANCING MAN WAS ONCE THE POPE Last Line: And all we need to know THIS LIFE WHICH SEEMS SO FAIR Last Line: It shoots the bubbles from the air %and closes down the market Subject(s): Life TIME ZONE First Line: A light from the ceiling is swinging outside on forty-second street Last Line: I'm excited I'm writing at my typewriter it doesn't make too much sense TO 'YES' First Line: You are always the member of a team Last Line: Are you smiling? Yes. I'll follow you, yes? No reply TO ANGELIC CIRCUMSTANCES Poem Text First Line: God bless you, angelic circumstances Subject(s): Angels; Blessings TO ANGELIC CIRCUMSTANCES First Line: God bless you, angelic circumstances Last Line: The blest air that we breathe! Subject(s): Angels; Blessings TO DESTINY Poem Text First Line: You could be a rock Last Line: Still, thanks for whatever I have. “not my doing – I'm the shall-have man” Subject(s): Conduct Of Life TO DESTINY First Line: You could be a rock %or a rock star. An elephant. A ride in a canoe Last Line: No wonder hardly anyone speaks to you any more. 'I know. It's useless.' %still, thanks for what I al TO EXPERIENCE Poem Text First Line: You hung out with me till I was eleven years old Subject(s): Experience TO EXPERIENCE First Line: You hung out with me till I was eleven years old Last Line: I'm no angel. I'm with you if you ring or if you crack the bell Subject(s): Experience TO FRANK 2 First Line: Junk junk junk and I read in the paper TO FRANK O'HARA WITH MY INSPIRATION DIMMING First Line: Nothing's easy, if love is love TO INSULTS First Line: I used to, to some degree, live by you. When Last Line: Our saviour was never known to smile,' wrote baudelaire. %neither did he use you TO JEWISHNESS, PARIS, AMBITION, TREES, MY HEART, AND DESTINY First Line: Now that you all have gathered here to talk with me Last Line: Heart, the rest of this story is yours. Let it go forward in any way it needs %to go TO KIDDING AROUND First Line: Kidding around you are terrible sometimes Last Line: Snow swirls in the mountains TO LIFE Poem Text First Line: All one can say with certainty about anything that has you is it moves!' Subject(s): Life TO LIFE First Line: All one can say with certainty about anything that has you is it moves! Last Line: I have no husband, says the would-be bride. But she has you TO MARIJUANA First Line: There is one wonderful moment %that I remember, when I had smoked you Last Line: For the eagle's wing, away from my reasonable beak TO MARINA First Line: So many convolutions and not enough simplicity Last Line: When I had you to write to, when I could see you %and it could change TO MEXICO First Line: I can't imagine your not existing; but on the other hand Last Line: One explosion. What could be there instead? TO MY FATHER'S BUSINESS Poem Text First Line: Leo bends over his desk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Careers TO MY FIFTIES First Line: I should say something to you Last Line: No time. Farewell!' TO MY HEART AS I GO ALONG Poem Text First Line: I'm sorry you feel lonely Subject(s): Self TO MY HEART AS I GO ALONG First Line: I'm sorry you feel lonely Last Line: Of brilliance, as beneath my breastbone I found you TO MY OLD ADDRESSES Poem Text First Line: Help! Get out of here! Go walking! Subject(s): Home; Houses TO MY OLD ADDRESSES First Line: Help! Get out of here! Go walking! Last Line: Forty-eight, neneteen, twenty-three, o worlds in which I was alive! Subject(s): Home; Houses TO MY OLD POEMS Poem Text First Line: You had no indpendence Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO MY OLD POEMS First Line: You had no independence Last Line: Things seem to be all right between us now TO MY POLLOCK First Line: Picture! If only jackson had used ink TO ORGASMS First Line: You've never really settled down %have you, orgasms? Last Line: For an hour or a day at a time TO SLEEP First Line: Great comrade woman of existence, brava sleep! Last Line: Of what we together still might do TO SOME BUCKETS Poem Text First Line: Waiting to fill you, buckets Subject(s): Buckets And Pails TO SOME BUCKETS First Line: Waiting to fill you, buckets Last Line: You lend your sides to the soul TO TESTOSTERONE Poem Text First Line: You took me to the spanish steps Subject(s): Testosterone; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO TESTOSTERONE First Line: You took me to the spanish steps Last Line: Exhiliration, riding on your horns, is never far away TO THE FRENCH LANGUAGE First Line: I needed to find you and, once having found you, to keep you Last Line: Even when the theater had no people in it, you were there TO THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE First Line: I will never forget %the first time I heard you Last Line: In fact on the very same rapido %ten years before TO THE OHIO First Line: You separated my hometown from kentucky Last Line: From one you took your name, and from the other, then, %your meaning TO THE PAST Poem Text First Line: In every microsecond of the present, you're here Last Line: Together, might past, we dominate Subject(s): Past; Love – Loss Of; Absence TO THE ROMAN FORUM First Line: After my daughter katherine was born Last Line: It is happening now, it happened then TO THE UNITED STATES ARMY Poem Text First Line: It felt unusual Subject(s): Army - United States TO THE UNITED STATES ARMY First Line: It felt unusual %even if for a good cause Last Line: And be glad to be with you TO THE UNKNOWN First Line: Though we don't know anything about you Last Line: As far as the open part in which you live TO VARIOUS PERSONS TALKED TO ALL AT ONCE First Line: You have hlped hold me together Last Line: If you want to we can go over there %where there's a little more light TO YOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut Subject(s): Love TO YOU First Line: I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut Last Line: Receives me in the questions which you always pose TOMB OF ALEXANDER First Line: Inside here adamantly Last Line: Alexander cinnamon tree TRANSPOSED HAMLET First Line: Tube heat, or nog tube heat: data's congestion Last Line: Ant ply cop posy kingdom TRUE LIFE Last Line: Come with us up from the ground %to the village of breathable air!' Subject(s): Life; Villages TRUE STORY OF THE MULE First Line: Enjoying everyone Last Line: Over distant facades ULLA First Line: I followed the young woman - ulla, was that her name Last Line: Please follow me. On the walls are designs of roses and of fleurs-de-lys VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS First Line: I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next Last Line: I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 1 First Line: Botticelli lived %in a little house Last Line: Will be, and am VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 10 First Line: Jean dubuffet lived Last Line: Plus beaux que %vous ne pensiez VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 2 First Line: Sappho lived %in a little house Last Line: And can be taken away VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 3 First Line: George gordon lord byron lived Last Line: Time after time after time VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 4 First Line: Saint francis of assisi lived Last Line: Above it %carved on a stone VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 5 First Line: Borges lived %in a little house Last Line: At the library day's end VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 6 First Line: Vladimir mayakowsky lived Last Line: To hear him read his lines VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 7 First Line: Maya plisetskaya lived Last Line: You start to lose %your 'elevation' VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 8 First Line: Ludwig wittgenstein lived Last Line: He completely changed his mind VOUS ETES PLUS BEAUX QUE VOUS NE PENSIEZ: 9 First Line: Frank o'hara lived Last Line: At five a.M., amazed WEST WIND First Line: It's the ocean of western steel Last Line: The intemperate climate of this double frame of the universe WHAT MAKES THIS STATUE NOBLE SEEMING Last Line: I want your mouth, your breath Subject(s): Faces; Desire WHAT MAKES THIS STATUE NOBLE SEEMING Last Line: I want you! That or death! %I want your mouth, your breath! Subject(s): Desire WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT PARIS Poem Text First Line: They often begin by saying, 'paris! How I wish I were there!' Subject(s): Paris, France WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT PARIS First Line: They often begin by saying, 'paris! How I wish I were there!' Subject(s): Paris, France WHEN I WAS A YOUNG WOMAN Last Line: That it may chance again WHEN THE SUN TRIES TO GO ON WHERE AM I KENNETH? First Line: Nail kenneth down Last Line: (blue is the air above concentric lambeth.) WHY SHOULD DENMARK GRIP MY MIND Last Line: They shall be our hecatomb WISH TO BE PREGNANT First Line: A bird just sat on a tree branch outside my living room window and Last Line: My wife came in from the kitchen. Lunch is ready, she said. Then, %oh, how I want to have a child! WITH JANICE First Line: The leaves were already on the trees, the fruit blossoms Last Line: Except when they are speaking, as we stopped less %when all this was around WITTGENSTEIN, OR BRAVO, DR. WITTGENSTEIN! First Line: The only things that we can say Last Line: And can never come true YOU KNOW ALL THIS Poem Text First Line: The first, violent year Subject(s): Time; Love YOU WANT A SOCIAL LIFE, WITH FRIENDS Last Line: But writes hardly anything at all YOU WERE WEARING Poem Text First Line: You were wearing your edgar allan poe printed cotton blouse Subject(s): Clothing & Dress YOU WERE WEARING First Line: You were wearing your edgar allan poe printed cotton blouse Last Line: Lid smashed into a likeness of the mad english king, george the third Subject(s): Clothing And Dress YOUR FUN IS A SNOB First Line: Amnesty store by the facing machine Last Line: Without, in leaflets, to within, often 'we're,' the crib YOUR GENIUS MADE ME SHIVER Poem Text YOUR GENIUS MADE ME SHIVER Last Line: Thank you shall have it, ever - %illumined, and onrushing like a river Subject(s): Genius |
|