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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MAXWELL, GLYN Matches Found: 247 Maxwell, Glyn Poet's Biography 247 poems available by this author ACTRESS-AS-CAT First Line: I loved actress-as-cat Last Line: And her soft new word: his ALBATROSS REVOLUTION First Line: The residence was coddled by the light Last Line: Of a high window, the albatross-man. ALFIE'S LULLABY First Line: On a day %when I lay Last Line: Till the sun %was a road on the sea ALLIES First Line: Us? We were with the allies. We were with you Last Line: And daughters too if this fellow will ever serve me. ALTERED SLIGHTLY First Line: Hilarious to the virus that has spent Last Line: And set to work. AMASSING First Line: Amass, the people-loving government Last Line: Nudge and run, and patients bang the bell AND INDIANS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: They made a word for light when it went out, Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AND INDIANS First Line: They made a word for light when it went out Last Line: Then to the listed ruin of a fact AND LEAVES ASTONISHING First Line: For now, among the falling of the ochres, Last Line: On streets of blood, in cafes of the lung. ANYTHING BUT THE CASE Poem Text First Line: Do me my elegy now, or I'll scrawl the thing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ART SHOWS First Line: Down among the art shows %they made some striking models Last Line: Casting yellow shadows. %we too cast yellow shadows! AS A GHOST WOULD MAKE YOU First Line: His aged desk, or his cheshire map by now Last Line: Quicken her breath, unearth you for a second AS YOU WALK OUT ONE MORNING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Brrring. It is the day of your proposal Subject(s): Courtship AS YOU WALK OUT ONE MORNING First Line: Brrring. It is the day our your proposal. Last Line: With all respect, don't hold your breath for a yes. AUGUST MONDAY First Line: It's going to take forever for the holiday Last Line: Shellfire, which is what it is, round valenciennes AURORA First Line: Aurora wakes without a kiss and it's not Last Line: Now it's pouring with men saying 'sorry' and 'innocent' BACK GARDENS IN EARLY MORNING First Line: It's cold in the tall gardens of the well-to-do Last Line: And people make their way into these gardens BIRTH DAY First Line: Through light so nursery-bright on a playing field, Last Line: Whatever. Time began. BLACKSONG First Line: All the objects coloured black Last Line: All meaning nothing more than am BONFIRE First Line: The nests dropped out of the trees, the Last Line: More specific. Her cold hands, my warm hands BOYS AND GIRLS OF THERE First Line: The grasses were as ever the first to know, Last Line: Was a wound they would have to mend, and they made a start. BOYS AT TWILIGHT First Line: Alive to the lilac, dead to the blue, Last Line: Who are going to be boys, who have had to be men. BREAKAGE First Line: Someone broke our beautiful Last Line: Quick as I can warn them BREATH First Line: Inhaling and inhaling. Think of that pain Last Line: Or says 'nonetheless' CALAIS Poem Text First Line: They tin-opened his head Subject(s): Calais, France CALAIS First Line: They tin-opened his head Last Line: Finds the ferry gone CANDLE PALACE: 41 First Line: He sold cards at the counter, happy hour Last Line: We do to them,' she said. 'we do to them.' CANDLE PALACE: 42 First Line: She struggled from her pocket a short list Last Line: They quietened, some talking, two, one, none CANDLE PALACE: 43 First Line: The train was emptied of its innocent Last Line: If this was creslet, but they didn't hear CANDLE PALACE: 44 First Line: The air was cold and had a slicing wind Last Line: To do the hedges! Still do, when it's warm.' CANDLE PALACE: 45 First Line: Can't do it all now, so she's got machines Last Line: For ink to cling to or for soul to say CAP D'AIL First Line: The chap on the next promontory began Last Line: That was and silence answers nobody's CARNIVAL BAHIA First Line: We're here in a shade of white for a time of prayer Last Line: Are only the riffling back for the lost place off the only reader CHANCE IN HELL: 1 First Line: When the train stopped I started and woke up Last Line: As if the light could fight it, and had tried CHANCE IN HELL: 2 First Line: You and your book are the only things this scene Last Line: No, I felt saved, and damned if I knew why.' CHANCE IN HELL: 3 First Line: No, I don't think you're nuts,' the poet sighed Last Line: Mister lea. It's boiling here. Let's leave.'' CHANCE IN HELL: 4 First Line: Four o'clock,' explained the poet. 'hmm.' Last Line: Planning our life together. Think of me.' CHANCE IN HELL: 5 First Line: The poet made his hands like empty hands Last Line: The train's gold shadow on a sea of maize.' CHILD'S RECORDER: 26 First Line: And it was policemen who when I was nine Last Line: Until it foamed. 'because it's time I did.' CHILD'S RECORDER: 27 First Line: She's got this tape recorder by her bed Last Line: The dead might hold, the living incline to CHILD'S RECORDER: 28 First Line: It seemed a customs point had been provided Last Line: Then I was smooth again and death to know CHILD'S RECORDER: 29 First Line: Farewells were over quickly. In the game Last Line: I waited for him, facing the night air CHILD'S RECORDER: 30 First Line: When nothing moved as if he hadn't heard Last Line: Well, I'll be damned. Welcome to evermore.' CONQUEST First Line: His house, his town, his garden, his own room Last Line: Now he's a native, sickly and just breathing. COTTAGE IN FOREST First Line: The captains halt, gasping: they left Subject(s): Forests; Woods COTTAGE IN FOREST First Line: The captains halt, gasping: they left Last Line: In wet forests of ash and steel Subject(s): Forests CREAK First Line: I needed to write a note to her. I'd needed Last Line: In time, and without his or any english CRESSIDA First Line: I got her. I'd been reading chaucer's troilus Last Line: Dear of the city, but you aren't her, weren't there CURSE ON A CHILD First Line: May the love of your life get on at ongar Last Line: As men can make it, but, dear, may you sleep. DAWN ON THE MIDI First Line: In the one pink hour these villas Last Line: Stone-deaf to the sea breaking DEATH IN A MIST First Line: Snaps it shut in the night, the man DEEP SORRINESS ATONEMENT SONG Poem Text First Line: The man who sold manhattan for a halfway decent bangle Subject(s): Failure; Regret DEEP SORRINESS ATONEMENT SONG First Line: The man who sold manhattan for a halfway decent bangle Last Line: I'm the sorriest of all DEMUNDO: 31 First Line: That you are good: somewhere there is a place Last Line: When no one gives a monkey's, think of me.' DEMUNDO: 32 First Line: My hands were at my sides out there. I chose Last Line: Since you last lighted up the neighbourhood.' DEMUNDO: 33 First Line: The silence that was me, and had been me Last Line: Still beaming when they helped him from the room DEMUNDO: 34 First Line: I rode in a long car. I had my hands Last Line: Dark on the sky, white on a passing field DEMUNDO: 35 First Line: Once on an ocean distance in the day Last Line: I giggled, reaching for my ice-cold lager DESIRE OF THE BLOSSOM First Line: This strain bloomed red. It became tended: Last Line: Strain and harden. DEVIL AT WAR First Line: That truce didn't last. Last Line: Gives his word. DID I IMAGINE THAT First Line: A man in a suitg in a field DIDYMUS THE SEATED First Line: Without a shadow of doubt, Last Line: There is a saint for doubt. DOMINION First Line: Only the cliftons' yacht Last Line: Huddle and wipe again, and stir the beer DON'T WASTE YOUR BREATH First Line: On sales or sermons at my door, Last Line: To one part me. DREAM BUT A DOOR First Line: Dream but a door slams then. Last Line: And well again. Look up. DRIVE TO THE SEASHORE First Line: We passed, free citizens, between the gloves Last Line: Their opposites, and curse to no effect. DUSK First Line: Glad I remembered Last Line: Night, and they looked at inexplicable light falling away EATER First Line: Top of the morning, dogfood family! Last Line: And rot? Or not? EC3 First Line: Her heart alert and in on things she walks Last Line: In the dead east of town. EDWARD WILSON First Line: A dream of english watercolourists Last Line: Are unenquiring and as blue as skies EITHER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A northern hill aghast with weather Subject(s): Death; Disappointment; Absence; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation EITHER First Line: A northern hill aghast with weather Last Line: Field I don't remember either. ELBOW PEOPLE First Line: Let's hand it to the elbow people. Theirs Last Line: Down the hatch . Today is elbow day END OF THE WEEKEND First Line: The chairs were folded up when the light was, Last Line: Tell me what kind they are, and how kind. ENDING EQUALING First Line: Through the defeat of drink and neutralising Last Line: Roceeds, diagonal joy again, fog again, boooooo! %so I poised eyesight at the edge of diagonal joy ENGLAND GERMANY Poem Text First Line: The boys were risen right out of their seats Subject(s): Soccer; Crowds ENGLAND GERMANY First Line: The boys were risen right out of their seats Last Line: Obscuring him, till he became unknown ERRAND BOY First Line: To amble on on the brightening, clouding Last Line: Then monitors interesting forming clouds. FARM CLOSE First Line: The small field by my house is the small field Last Line: Who, as you probably know, can't do that. FIRE-ANTS First Line: Look who was standing in a loaf af ants Last Line: A dance it isn't, what we have to do FIRES BY THE RIVER First Line: Just say you went beside the fires by the river, Last Line: Like years in thought. FIVE-TO-FOUR (3.55PM) First Line: Who hasn't ever thought Last Line: And they all turn and stare FLOOD BEFORE AND AFTER First Line: It reeled across the north, to the extent Last Line: The crow and the scarecrow were rowing it. FLOTILLA First Line: The fireworks freckle again in the bright sunlight Last Line: If no one turns from the rail in a while to explain that FOR MY DAUGHTER First Line: If I call this poem that, I have as new Last Line: Of what was blissful but incredible FORCE THAT ATE ITSELF First Line: They had marched on crust an infinitude of miles Last Line: With high hopes. FURTHEST WEST First Line: You lot got dazzled and burned Last Line: Then gathers, rolling, breaking clean out of nowhere %its only news. GARDEN CITY QUATRAINS First Line: First day of school. A boy looks through a pane. Last Line: He's got his gift and bottle. What have you got? GHAZAL First Line: So many leaves are falling that it's clear to me Last Line: By winter may the ground have lent an ear to me GHOST OUT OF WORK First Line: I died and I tried haunting massachusetts Last Line: Not a care in the world. Nobody stopped me GINGER-HAIRED IN HEAVEN First Line: Sometimes only the ginger-haired in heaven Last Line: Then we might stay here if you said we could. GIRL IN FILMS First Line: The girl had the nothing talked out of her Last Line: Who'd lace one cup in six with cyanide GOLDFISH First Line: We go down to the harbour Last Line: And now we were hungry GREAT DETECTIVES First Line: None can leap as far as the great detectives. Last Line: He couldn't understand, so wouldn't use. GROWING MEN First Line: Unravelling red carpets for ourselves, Last Line: Quite carefully, as if he'd wait that long. HANG OF IT First Line: High it was who told me, didn't tell me, Last Line: But picking up his planes. HEAT CAME OUT First Line: The heat came out and spread a cloth as wide Last Line: If anything prepares what comes for us HELENE AND HELOISE First Line: So swim in the embassy pool in a tinkling breeze Last Line: Who'd not hurt them for all their limited kisses. HIDE AND SEEK Poem Text First Line: Of all the things to win at. There I am, Subject(s): Coming Of Age HIDE AND SEEK First Line: Of all the things to win at. There I am Last Line: And the last thing that matered mattered here HIGH ACHIEVERS First Line: Educated in the humanities, Last Line: Sick with its fish, was turning them to men. HILLES, EDGE First Line: A man has clambered up a hill so high Last Line: The awe he can now only understand HIS FIRST MINUTE First Line: Afternoon is night, we'd done in english Last Line: Not being here,' she asked and caught my eye HOME FROM A CLOSE READING First Line: Excuse how late we are, or how our once white sleeves Last Line: You find out what it did about you when it could HOODHEAD First Line: Clothed in a rottenness to two women Last Line: Passing. He wanted to die again and he said so HORSES' MOUTHS: I PYROIS First Line: Film me in silhouette. I insist. I'm not Last Line: He wanted it again. He ran his course. HORSES' MOUTHS: II EOUS First Line: How did you find me here? Last Line: Wraps her and deserts me, drenched, here. HORSES' MOUTHS: IV PHLEGON First Line: Get on my back. You all do in the end. Last Line: Here where the star fell, here where he got his wish. HORSES'S MOUTHS: III AETHON First Line: One minute, love. Last Line: Fanfared, forgiven %aethon. HOW MANY THINGS First Line: Five things are happening, and I see why Last Line: With a bulletin, but I'd gone out by then HURRY MY WAY First Line: After the accident of rain all night Last Line: Whack on your winter coat and hurry my way HYPHEN First Line: That the third digit Last Line: In the brilliant sunshine I.M. DAVID PENHALIGON First Line: His very name a small peninsula Last Line: Is when he would have spoken, and we must IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT A SHILLING First Line: Christmas came so fast around the corner Last Line: Because he really thinks we do all wonder. IN THE GAP First Line: The road is dark and wet and red ISLANDER First Line: I have grown my hedge Last Line: Come when I call JOEY AWAKE NOW Poem Text First Line: Some poems, / right some poems Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine JUNE 31ST, THE SOMME First Line: My granddad held his nerve by mentioning me Last Line: As you can see!' they went off in a wobbly line, %forgot us JUST LIKE US First Line: It will have to be sunny. It can rain only Last Line: Or never meant, or never met. LA BREA Poem Text First Line: Los angeles. So just / guess what I saw: not the dust Subject(s): La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles LA BREA First Line: Los angeles. So just Last Line: Tar-pits, in la brea, in los angeles. LAST DESERT First Line: The sixteen guests sat back, applauding Last Line: Shoeless in the seething woods LETTERS TO EDWARD THOMAS First Line: Dear edward, just a note to say we're here Last Line: Or names to bring them back when the snow comes LONDON FROM MY WINDOW First Line: Cosy in their offices, through disobedient Last Line: In time and indifference that means, that mends LOVE MADE YEAH First Line: First and zillionth my eyes meet eyes Last Line: Friends, I am history! LOYAL First Line: The next division of perfected men Last Line: To answer questions neither hard nor fair LULLABY OF THE THAMES First Line: Now you are in my life, my insomniac Last Line: With a light dirt of dream where it meets ground LUST Poem Text First Line: Lust is at home here and I make it welcome. Subject(s): Lust LUST First Line: Lust is at home here and I make it welcome. Last Line: But I live here. MALLAREA: 21 First Line: I said I'd get him cards, a pack of cards Last Line: You gonna hang with spock?' MALLAREA: 22 First Line: At times there's little mystery to how Last Line: Said polly. I said nothing, then the same MALLAREA: 23 First Line: So unfamiliar and unreal had seemed Last Line: Sometimes I think you're better off! God bless MALLAREA: 24 First Line: Another well-lit house, another gate Last Line: As her. Only the name. Or one of them.' MALLAREA: 25 First Line: We sat in the upstairs. I'd never seen Last Line: Could keep the light rising to release me MANDATE ON AN EIGHTH OF MAY First Line: There came a mandate for a street-parade. Last Line: See us. Remember us. Remember the date. MARGIT-ISLE First Line: The boy had died. We knew that right away. Last Line: Something to carry around and feel. Move on. MARTAL DIPTYCH Poem Text First Line: By stock-still flags on the hottest day Subject(s): Presidents, United States; War MATTERING First Line: But the next day I was a hood with teeth Last Line: When I was frowning at a picture-book MILD CITIZEN First Line: Sunday is wringing its discoloured hands. Last Line: Empty musicians play in endless rain. MINE First Line: Someone lied to someone's friend Last Line: A human is no more than that MOONCALVES First Line: A local beauty known to the police Last Line: Were anybody wondering was she MR F GETS FIT First Line: I jogged away from town on a dim day Last Line: It did me good. I hope it does you gooder MR GEM First Line: Mr gem was now full of himself, he had a party= Last Line: Rich and fresh, next in the telephone queue MR HARMEN TO YOU First Line: Harmen had kept the mornings to himself Last Line: He'll reach under his desk and see star-devils MUSEUM Poem Text First Line: Sundays, like a stanza break Subject(s): Solitude MUSEUM First Line: Sundays, like a stanza break Last Line: Or god among the dinosaurs. MY FIRST POEM: 11 First Line: Hereafter what you read %in stone. At this point we arrive Last Line: I noted in the cold. She looked at me MY FIRST POEM: 12 First Line: In recollection what descended then Last Line: He calls, then cries it through the streaming air MY FIRST POEM: 13 First Line: The dog and duck.' 'the lions.' 'the green man.' Last Line: Put off a light, until the night was bare MY FIRST POEM: 14 First Line: I'm in the greenest spot. From where I sit Last Line: Destroyed, old lad. I want to be destroyed.' MY FIRST POEM: 15 First Line: The word departed from him with a sigh Last Line: That took his place, it took my empty hands MY GRANDFATHER AT THE POOL First Line: This photo I know best of him is him Last Line: When I'm what disappears into my day MY TURN First Line: I have been so enchanted by the girls Last Line: With my foot down, then both my feet on it. NATIVITY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Town of a hundred thousand hands Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The NATIVITY First Line: Town of a hundred thousand hands Last Line: Sudden, distinct, involving events. NIGHT IS YOUNG First Line: I was with some friends when I noticed with some strangers Last Line: You don't forgive what's left of what you loved. OCTOBER SOUTH PLEASNANT First Line: The sugars congregated in this fuss of leaves Last Line: I'll lower my arm in time and make a note somehow OFFICER First Line: The apparatus of the officer Last Line: That wrote this, or the bible, or hamlet %or godot OLD SMILE AT THE ROAST Poem Text Subject(s): Relationships ON A DEVON ROAD First Line: Whatever thoughts there were for me on a devon road Last Line: Use his hand to stop light coming through it ONCE WAS, IS NOW First Line: Once was a rock, is now a knack, a tin Last Line: Around a tightening throat no blacker stone is carved ONCE: 16 First Line: His shape receded, spinning to the end Last Line: Her brother's hand. My present meant the world ONCE: 17 First Line: Cole struck again, he talked to me again Last Line: Why not? I deeply breathed and made my way ONCE: 18 First Line: You couldn't reach him, as you never can Last Line: I told them. 'yellow river. Happy hour.' ONCE: 19 First Line: He must have had the thinnest skull I've seen Last Line: Thought lost forever, I could hear the wind ONCE: 20 First Line: If you are with me, you do not know hell Last Line: Is on you ages after you pass by ONE AND ANOTHER GO HOME First Line: The one flies back to his land and it dubs him king; Last Line: Whose fault is it all?' at which he goes 'not yours.' ORDEAL First Line: Acknowledged on our side of town Last Line: For a head-to-head in winter OUT OF THE RAIN First Line: The animals went in two by two, but I, Last Line: I take it down and send it to myself. PEOPLE'S CINEMA First Line: As blank as scripture to a ruling class Last Line: How riches look in daylight when there are none. PETER BROOK First Line: Let every page %begin as clean Last Line: As I do mine %and cling to these. PLAINT OF THE ELDER PRINCES First Line: We are the first and second sons of kings. Last Line: Show us the map. This time we'll understand. POEM FOR A WEDDING First Line: I had a sunlight poem and a cloud poem Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium POEM FOR A WEDDING First Line: I had a sunlight poem and a cloud poem Last Line: And, like the best of dreams, it's come true Subject(s): Wedding Song POEM IN BLANK RHYME First Line: This sin't very difficult to do Last Line: Days are very many. Days are few. %I want to be with someone and you're who POEM OF THE BIRTHS First Line: And so they came to a clearing, where the ground Last Line: Two vandals, and that fuming in its cot POISONFIELD First Line: We went to vote in our democracy PORTOBELLO First Line: When you were the one reading Last Line: I mean, when I look at the stars it isn't the stars %I'm looking at PROSPECTORS ON CHERRY MOUNTAIN First Line: The mountain had the minerals PURSUIT First Line: Running through woods he came to the wrong wood, Last Line: But he ran elsewhere, though a red x was him. PUSH ON, AMIGO First Line: Push on, amigo - slurs the indian earth RARE CHAT WITH THE RED SQUIRREL First Line: No even now, when your Last Line: You should recognize. RECOLLECTION OF A MEAL First Line: She was a rich in her own right. Last Line: Telling her why on the way. RHYMES First Line: Back in the indescribable condition Last Line: Was one of them. Then they hid away like wings RIO NEGRO First Line: As a boy awake in bed with mum's kiss Last Line: Is paying homage like a satellite ROOM First Line: The room was his and said so, and its reds Last Line: And forced the window up %to smoke from RUMPELSTILTSKIN Poem Text Recitation by Author Variant Title(s): Rumplestiltskin Subject(s): Rumpelstiltskin RUMPELSTILTSKIN First Line: Your name is rumpelstiltskin!' cried Last Line: As liars tend to have to do. Variant Title(s): Rumplestiltski SARAJEVO ZOO First Line: Men had used up their hands, men had Last Line: Then winter howled a command and the sorry branches %shed their leaves. SCHOOL HOLIDAY, SOUTH WALES First Line: Some steaming cook this afternoon SEA COMES IN LIKE NOTHING BUT THE SEA Last Line: To prove we were still there when it was doubted SECOND SECOND SON IN EXILE First Line: My younger sister arrived in disguise Last Line: Scratched it on the sand SECOND SONS' ESCAPE First Line: Like silence, second sons are impolite Last Line: We heard the big guns sounding in the bay SELECT First Line: Film it in london. Put Last Line: She eats. Nothing is yours SENTENCE First Line: Lied to like a judge I stepped down. Last Line: The innocent or the found innocent. SONG OF OUR MAN First Line: By light of what when filtered down Last Line: But not, now, far. SOUTH-SOUTH-EAST First Line: Into the choosing zone Last Line: Get back where I stgarted from. %nobody's SPORT STORY OF A WINNER Poem Text First Line: He was a great ambassador for the game Subject(s): Sports SPORT STORY OF A WINNER First Line: He was a great ambassador for the game. Last Line: Never-to-be-beaten time that'll last forever! %won't he. Trevor. SPRINGS OF SIMON PETER First Line: In a town in which to have tried three times Last Line: From his own words spreading through the whole of space. STAIRS AND OAK First Line: Yes, the standing on the uppermost stair Last Line: Then out, away STAKES First Line: Forget that in the three-fifteen Last Line: I will not lose. Now off they go. STARGAZING First Line: The night is fine and dry. It falls and spreads Last Line: And go back into the house. STAY First Line: The group, the gang, the team Last Line: Crunching across the gravel like an army STILL TO WANT YOU GONE: 36 First Line: The seventh year was hills seen from afar Last Line: He grinned at me. His eyes were red and wide STILL TO WANT YOU GONE: 37 First Line: I did enjoy the ride. Or I enjoyed Last Line: Well, here he is, in, in - reality.' STILL TO WANT YOU GONE: 38 First Line: The husband put aside his ring of lights Last Line: Worm-fashion. So. I'm going to disappear.' STILL TO WANT YOU GONE: 39 First Line: As I was staring, they were showing me Last Line: The two of us, out to the starlit garden STILL TO WANT YOU GONE: 40 First Line: We steeplechased to shelter from the last Last Line: To watch me closely till I wasn't there STUNNING First Line: We must pause and throw our collective arms around Last Line: To forgive. They may take some convincing SULK First Line: What we are at is pining for our lost Last Line: And cluster there by the millpond of the ages. TALE OF A CHOCOLATE EGG First Line: The advertising of the chocolate egg Last Line: Scoffed the thing and didn't die of it. TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON Poem Text Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Courtship; Popular Culture; Relationships; Disappointment; Bullies TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON First Line: The mayor's son had options. One was death, Last Line: Will find its way to me and I will wear it. THE BOYS AT TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Alive to the lilac, dead to the blue Subject(s): Youth; Coming Of Age THE ONLY WORK Poem Text First Line: When a poet leaves to see to all that matters Subject(s): Ali, Agha Shahid; Poetry & Poets THE ORDEAL Poem Text First Line: Acknowledged on our side town, Subject(s): Schools; Friendship; Relationships; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Students THE SARAJEVO ZOO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Men had used up their hands, men had Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia; Zoos; Death - Animals THE UNINVITED Poem Text First Line: We did not care muchly who, in the murder Subject(s): Murder; Social Commentaries THEY LESSEN ONE First Line: Coughs. Ash. A corner's dust. The curtains answer Last Line: Like -- here we go again -- like they were taught THIEF ON THE CROSS First Line: How are you doing on yours, my pal Last Line: He's innocent; he can't help. THIRTEENTH STOREY First Line: As we flickered up the storey Last Line: If you're seriously asking TRUE THAT I LIE First Line: In the need for truth (our affair) and sudden shock Last Line: And getting only me, my love) goodbye TWO OLD ONES DID IT First Line: Is coped with, skyscrapers and is coped with Last Line: Both quite dead now UNDER THESE LIGHTS First Line: You who had dared me out under these lights Last Line: One could survive was not a sign for home UNINVITED First Line: We did not care muchly who, in the murder, Last Line: Caught in the act of an act of murder. US AND NELL AND BEN First Line: You wishing thing! Across the fields Last Line: He's the dimliest-lit of men VALENTINES AT THE FRONT First Line: Valentines' day aynwhere the boys are Last Line: Of untold villages of untold brides WAR HERO Poem Text First Line: Where recollections end, Subject(s): Grandparents; Storms; Oak Trees; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood WAR HERO First Line: Where recollections end, Last Line: To lancashire summers beyond the hideous river. WASP First Line: We were all strained with the food when look, a wasp Last Line: Don't fuck with us, little guys. We're mad as hell. WATCHING OVER First Line: Elated by ourselves, we shift and slip- Last Line: To hurt you, nor one raindrop on the wind. WE BILLION CHEERED Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): News; Popular Culture WE BILLION CHEERED First Line: We billion cheered. Last Line: It, its friend, its foe and its opposite. WE DID IT IN MUSIC: 10 First Line: A pledge, a promise, said that poet, glen Last Line: Soon you could see the ocean in my eye WE DID IT IN MUSIC: 6 First Line: Out there the reflection sat, the empty volume Last Line: Were staring at me from the pudding line WE DID IT IN MUSIC: 7 First Line: Glen walked the slowest of our little crew Last Line: Now nothing streamed like rain across my face WE DID IT IN MUSIC: 8 First Line: I ran in it unflinching to a stage Last Line: I heard the door close, then the bolting sound WE DID IT IN MUSIC: 9 First Line: My wretched fellow-outcast had a watch Last Line: The ones you wanted when you wanted love!' WEATHER GUY First Line: Hurricane this is scaring us, %hurricane that's not far behind Last Line: I have to warn them of WHATEVER ELSE First Line: Silence's still geology, and I WHITE CAR First Line: To know this is, to know the last one Last Line: A loud sadness WHITSUN First Line: One of the very first Last Line: Any brilliant morning. WISH First Line: Alone in spoiling it, I said I wish Last Line: Unwishing, backwards, everything I could. YELLOW PLATES First Line: The family moving into the house were told Last Line: Yellow plates: five, six, seven. YOUNGER THAN THAT NOW First Line: Open the door one crack and you are backstage. Last Line: And over before long. |
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