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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: SIKELIANOS, ELENI Matches Found: 88 Sikelianos, Eleni Poet's Biography 88 poems available by this author ARTIFACT: FIRST OF ALL, SEA; AND HALF OF THE SEA IS TRUTH, HALF WIND First Line: 1. It is wise to hearken not to me, but to my word, and to confess that all Last Line: ........... The surge of blue Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) ARTIFACT: THE ALPHABET CALIPHS: ABCS First Line: Of the / 'be and it was' Last Line: —khwandamir Subject(s): Alphabets ARTIFACT: TWO INK ON POTTERY FRAGMENTS: 7TH-8TH C.A.D. First Line: ...Behold, another 4 Last Line: Fireworks out on the river Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Salads; Vegetables ARTIFACT: WHEN - OUT OF...DELIGHT First Line: When - out of my d in the b of the house of g - the loveliness of the many Last Line: —abbÉ suger Subject(s): Artifacts AT NIGHT, TWO First Line: We sat on the stoop till my speech changed Last Line: As a way to express (the body) speaking AU LAIT First Line: Had we not betrayed the farmer Last Line: Something from the accordion again. %I won't give in BIRD & MEAT SUBJECT Poem Text First Line: My little bird & meat subject BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips CALIFORNIA POEM, SELS First Line: I want to tell you about the dream. The california is a paradise lake with Last Line: Diners geodes %cracked open at the door CAMPO SANTO Poem Text First Line: I learned to say no I the old language Last Line: Backroads, humming, they are blind Subject(s): Electricity; Schools; Students CANTO: ROCKS: WHICH HOLD THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THUS FAR Poem Text First Line: Look! It's a rock depicting the solid Last Line: Forward & back Subject(s): History; Nature; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks CATALOGUE: AND WHY FOR POETRY LIKE LIFE IS 'EXQUISITE IN ITS KIND' First Line: I observe how imperfectly words CATALOGUE: AND WHY FOR POETRY LIKE LIFE IS EXQUISITE IN ITS KIND' First Line: I observe how imperfectly words CITIES: THE LAST LIGHTS OFF THE WEST Poem Text First Line: In darkness a paperweight Last Line: Are these? (curtains.) Subject(s): Cities; West (u.s.); Urban Life; Southwest; Pacific States EARDRUM'S THEORY First Line: Dear t %humor me Last Line: Praise be her %brightness-back ESSAY: 13 PRESSURE POINTS INSIDE THE SKULL First Line: (I was) (previously) incapable of establishing a link between one phenomenon & Last Line: I wrote recognition to perform in Subject(s): Bones; Essays; Skulls ESSAY: AN AMATEUR OF HUMAN ICHTHYOLOGY: HAIRSHIRT WOVEN IN #S First Line: I hear person from a practicable point of view Last Line: At the human-to-be-made: an alphabet collar of hairs, woven in white Subject(s): Bodies; Creation; Mankind; Human Race ESSAY: AT NIGHT THE AUTOPORTRAIT AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Each evening from my bed I calculated & compared Last Line: Second elbow Subject(s): Essays; Soul ESSAY: BEAUTIFUL First Line: Live soldiers swimming through silver Last Line: Comma. Brenda's carnival taffy. Yum. Subject(s): Beauty; Essays ESSAY: CANTUS INFIRMUS First Line: The way to rise to god is to dissipate into particles of light like Last Line: Giant ys inscribed in strings of light on the face of the earth Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Essays; Philip I, King Of Spain (1478-1506) ESSAY: COLOR First Line: There is a magenta inside the snail, a red Last Line: The round world Subject(s): Colors; Essays ESSAY: DELICATELY Poem Text First Line: The father pollutes his body and Last Line: Or small, dark, and beautiful. Subject(s): Essays; Pollution ESSAY: DUCKS First Line: Break what is the / nectarine - word Last Line: Of the thought: dusks reflect you Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Lakes; Mallards; Drakes; Pools; Ponds ESSAY: FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER SPED APART Poem Text First Line: What symmetry can there be Last Line: In pursuit of roads and balance, birds. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation ESSAY: HISTORIES III (EARLY GREECE) First Line: The pots & pans %of early %greece were really Last Line: The strobe light dead, twice ESSAY: I SAID TO MY LEG: BE STILL First Line: I said to my head: be kingly! Last Line: Of color? The 14 bands of the globe? Subject(s): Bodies; Essays; Legs ESSAY: IN THE WORLD THAT WAS SLATED TO BE REAPPORTIONED THAT DAY OR First Line: I had a crisis in my male domesticity Last Line: Difficult at all. Subject(s): Essays; Love - Complaints ESSAY: IN THE LAND OF WHAT DRESS Poem Text First Line: I'd like to share this news Last Line: My poems made the low plains, the cowpalace, move. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ESSAY: NAKED AT THE ROOT-POST: JOY First Line: That night there was the pleasurable feeling Last Line: I am in a hurry to have this end Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight ESSAY: NOAH & THE WASHING MACHINE First Line: To erase all color Last Line: The name, the pleasure porch / / all this that / I was sitting on Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Geology ESSAY: ODE First Line: A pythagorean belief in numbers satisfied the need for symbols thinking of Last Line: Poetry poetry & architecture & poetry Subject(s): Odes (as Poetic Form) ESSAY: OF CANNIBALS, OF THUMBS First Line: What revolves in the thinking disk? What reflects of the eye is due Last Line: Burning to cover joy's shadow of joy beneath the thumb. Subject(s): Cannibals; Desire; Essays; Happiness; Joy; Delight ESSAY: OF SPACE, STAINLESS STEEL, OF GIFTS Poem Text First Line: Excellent earth, magnet jar, now Last Line: Touch this axis Subject(s): Earth; Essays; Geology; World ESSAY: OF SUN, OF HISTORY, OF SEEING Poem Text First Line: In this one, seeing is a form of touching Last Line: I shall survive on prairie mice Subject(s): History; Historians ESSAY: ON THE FIRST LINES OF THE INVOCATION TO LIGHT First Line: (now we will speak of) Last Line: What good is a brain Subject(s): Light; Science; Scientists ESSAY: ON THE WORLD AS WILL OR WILL NOT First Line: Accident, come / from the side of the walk I forgot Subject(s): Essays; New York City; Taxis; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips ESSAY: PARTS OF PLANTS, ANIMALS, PHYSICS First Line: Every time I want(ed) to read in a sort of Last Line: Now I'm getting something to blow you up Subject(s): Physics ESSAY: SEVEN ASPECTS OF MILKING TIME First Line: I had it in my mind to move Last Line: & end up in the gutter Subject(s): Essays; Religion; Theology ESSAY: THE ALIEN & BEAUTIFUL LIGHT OF WAKING, RAIN, NIGHT First Line: At evening / announced on flight Last Line: Radiant radiant rain Subject(s): Atoms; Rain; Science; Scientists ESSAY: THE COMPLETE SENTENCE OF THE LIMBS First Line: I was bathing as an individual in something more general Last Line: I will have to sleep a long time to find them again Subject(s): Essays; Maritime Law; Navigation; Sea Law ESSAY: THE EARLIEST WORLD First Line: When the tired drones of tv sit Last Line: The snakes? These are all worlds, gone. Subject(s): Danger; Mankind; Human Race ESSAY: THE HANGING PARADOGS SLIP First Line: There is an octave between us Last Line: To this you, you take it Subject(s): Cities; Essays; Retail Trade; Urban Life; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ESSAY: THE INFINITE ASSONANCES WITHIN Poem Text First Line: The new york phone book is suggestive of a sublime Last Line: What is happening anywhere, what has happened, and what will Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme ESSAY: THE SLEEPYHEAD First Line: Paysage: / a red strip of sky Last Line: I made those clouds Subject(s): Nature ESSAY: WHEN I THINK OF SEX, A MOIST FOG First Line: When I think of sex, some people Last Line: Person until I am dead. Subject(s): Essays; Sex ESSAY: WHO THINKING ON HER LEGS: MANIFESTO First Line: What color is your arrow? Mine is green Last Line: At your voice Subject(s): Telescopes And Binoculars ESSAY: WOULD ROME BE ROME First Line: The ensemble of signs by which we usually recognize a feeling for example love Last Line: Speak? Subject(s): Love; Patriotism FORKHEAD BOX P2 (AKA POXP2) Poem Text First Line: What haunts the brain: a cell spell Subject(s): Mind, The HERE WE ARE ON THE PLACE ST. SULPICE AGAIN LOOKING ONTO THE Poem Text Last Line: Cumference would not be the animals’ shadow but real: real Subject(s): Light HISTORIES: 'THE POTS & PANS OF EARLY GREECE' HISTORIES: A WOMAN WAS CONSTRUCTED N 20 OZ. ANTIQUITY, CERTAINLY SHE Poem Text First Line: It is true that ( ) discovered the Last Line: Chassis in the glove of a chandelier Subject(s): History; Man-woman Relationships; Historians; Male-female Relations HISTORIES: BIRTH, WITHOUT THE THEME OF BURNING: US, BORN OF A THICKET First Line: Then all the forests divided & them oceans & Last Line: Lobsters? Sweetmeats? Subject(s): Birth; History; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Historians; Human Race HISTORIES: THAT WOBBLE OF LIGHT Poem Text First Line: I hereby cluster all day loveliness with flick Last Line: A fire of your house. Subject(s): Earth; Planets; World HISTORIES: THE FLESH First Line: Living in the lap / of lux- / ury Last Line: Animate the factory, the flush Subject(s): History; Mankind; Historians; Human Race HISTORIES: THE GREAT HANDIWORK: WATER, & SOFT, DELICIOUS AIR Poem Text First Line: All of them the great...Mmm...Did Last Line: Take. Subject(s): History; Water; Historians I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: JOY'S THE AIM First Line: A man was leading us through trees. We saw darkness in the Last Line: Relations; ... Then, & I was young: ... Suddenly. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: JOY, ALSO First Line: Suddenly a stone shaped like a Last Line: Thick with leaves Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE BRIGHTER FLESH Poem Text First Line: Where is the center of human Last Line: Between dark between cities Subject(s): Bodies; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Shadows; Work; Workers; Human Race I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES Poem Text First Line: It was just before easter Last Line: "next to me,"" history writes." Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Festivals; Holidays; The Resurrection; Fairs; Pageants I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE SPEED OF C First Line: Human, have you heard? Last Line: Would like to exempt itself from the laws of gravity. Subject(s): Science; Scientists IN THE AIRPORT Poem Text First Line: A man called dad walks by Subject(s): Fathers IT IS NOT ENOUGH THAT THE BUDS HAVE COME OUT. IT IS NOT Poem Text Last Line: Tourists have begun to fill up the city like a box of arms and legs Subject(s): Spring J(OY)'S THE AIM (ESSAY) First Line: It sounds like a war outside the tuileries Last Line: On all my bodies. Then, & I was young: suddenly LET THE EYE Poem Text Last Line: Of the earth Subject(s): Eyes LIGHT COMES THROUGH AND IS Poem Text Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Light MY LOVE: MUSIC DOES Poem Text First Line: Music is a dog Last Line: On a catalpa flower. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians MY LOVE: ODELET Poem Text First Line: I want to say something about my love. My love is Last Line: Friends Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion MY LOVE: WITH SECRET LATITUDINAL KNOWLEDGE First Line: My love and I love Last Line: Over the verge for a very long time. Subject(s): Hearts; Love NAMES AND ALIASES Poem Text First Line: Helen pappamarkou (birth certificate) Last Line: The feral child Subject(s): Names; Greece O MELENA! First Line: It was something like yr smile%yr rings Last Line: I inherited the mole on my right cheek %the sad %documentingheart of a woman alone & the propensity ORIGINS: MY LIFE IN MOVING PICTURES Poem Text First Line: If I'm a leaf I'm a leaf if you're a Last Line: Of the birds? Subject(s): Life; Single Parents; Parents Without Partners POOL POEM First Line: There might be a blue eye of a pool Last Line: The rooftop of ruining beauty %set down in weeds SKETCH: EPISODE B AT GOLD CITY Poem Text First Line: As an aid / for apprehending the vanishing point Last Line: You Subject(s): Cities; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Urban Life SO CRANE'S LATIN'S A LITTLE OFF SO Poem Text Last Line: Tongue of the sea Subject(s): Language SONG OF LA PIEDRA CANSATA Poem Text First Line: I know in your ear Last Line: "all the while, whistling Subject(s): Writing & Writers SONG: KING SALON OF THE TESTICLES OF JESUS (WHO SHARPENS A DOG'S TOOTH First Line: Other is and/or are me and/or and/or is/are is/are not me speaking Last Line: What would have to do with the sea? STORY Poem Text First Line: There is no one in this world than my father Last Line: On the piano keys Subject(s): Fathers THE BIRDS ARE AT THEIR HIGHEST THOUGHTS OF LEAVING' First Line: My eye can't fix you Last Line: Of a heart; (shut up or) tell me Variant Title(s): Poem Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE BIRDS ARE AT THEIR HIGHEST THOUGHTS OF LEAVING' First Line: My eye can't fix you THE HUMAN PORTFOL;IO Poem Text First Line: To express milk, like expressing a feeling Subject(s): Horses; Milk; Body, Human; Milkmen; Milkmaids THE PREMIUM MOBILE Poem Text First Line: On the subway, I saw a m an kiss the crown of his Last Line: ........... The surge of blue THE TYPICAL HAND Poem Text First Line: In my left pocket is a hand Last Line: So keen, cutting you now. Subject(s): Hands; Healing; Cures THOUSAND PETALS DRY UNDER SEX'S FLEXED BICEPS First Line: When a man Last Line: Her own thighs %like this %when he %thrusts THUS, SPEAK THE CHROMOGRAPH Poem Text First Line: Saying: one night in a cloud chamber Last Line: Run toward the sea) Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Nature; Reading TRAVELOGUE: WHEN WE CONSIDER THE DARK LIGHT Poem Text First Line: If you could hear a town grow, to wonder about other, distant objects Last Line: By thinking the thinking heart so smokeable Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips UNBRIDLED, SELS. First Line: Watch %each articulation, each Last Line: Nobody %is going anywhere VISIBLE STAR Poem Text First Line: In my collection of gluons whose color adds up Last Line: Out there / hissing Subject(s): Earth WHO WAS Poem Text First Line: Who was / authoring rain Last Line: The incredible achilles tendon . . . Subject(s): Rain |
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