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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ryan, kay Matches Found: 296 Ryan, Kay Poet's Biography 296 poems available by this author A BALL ROLLS ON A POINT Poem Text Recitation First Line: The whole ball A CAT/A FUTURE Poem Text First Line: A cat can draw Subject(s): Cats A CERTAIN KIND OF EDEN Poem Text First Line: It seems like you could, but Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Time; Hope; Optimism A HUNDRED BOLTS OF SATIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All you / have to lose Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Reason; Railways; Trains; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A PLAIN ORDINARY STEEL NEEDLE CAN FLOAT ON PURE WATER Poem Text Subject(s): Water ABSOLUTES First Line: There are certain islands ADMIRABLE BEDE, 7TH CENTURY ENGLISH HISTORIAN First Line: There has always been a machiavelli, urban Subject(s): Bede, Saint. The Venerable (673-735); Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527) AGAINST GRAVITY First Line: How do we move %under weight? Last Line: No bombs or appointments AGE Poem Text First Line: As some people age Subject(s): Aging AGE First Line: As some people age Last Line: They hear heaven, they think boiled or broken AGREEMENT First Line: The satisfactions %of agreement are Last Line: Not singular. %many prefer it ALBUM Poem Text First Line: Death has a life Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ALL SHALL BE RESTORED First Line: The grains shall be collected Last Line: In its effort to insist that nothing %shall be lost ALL YOU DID Poem Text Recitation by Author ALMOST WITHOUT A SURFACE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes before / going to sleep a person Subject(s): Sleep ALMOST WITHOUT SURFACE First Line: Sometimes before %going to sleep a person Last Line: Each other, refusing %to rain ANIMAL ITSELF First Line: As to its digestion ANY MORNING First Line: Any morning %can turn molten Last Line: Never see it coming like hawaii APOGEE First Line: At high speeds %we know Last Line: Seems like our fault APPLICATION First Line: Let me be through AT THE EDGE OF A PHILOSOPHY First Line: It is sedgy here at the edge Last Line: You have eaten away the %gentle ground of unanimity, %the sweet grasses, the duck ATLAS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Extreme exertion / isolates a person Subject(s): Atlas (mythology) BACKWARD MIRACLE Poem Text First Line: Every once in a while Subject(s): Miracles BACKWARD MIRACLE First Line: Every once in a while %we need a Last Line: And the single %fish thereby BAD DAY Poem Text First Line: Not every day / is a good day Subject(s): Life BAD PATCH First Line: It is not comical like grease Last Line: Hire on people BAD TIME FOR THE SUBLIME First Line: The sublime is now BAIT GOAT Poem Text First Line: There is a / distance where Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BARBARIAN'S REPLY First Line: I am the barbarian BEACHSCAPE First Line: A brittle BEASTS Poem Text First Line: Time lingers Subject(s): Monsters BEASTS First Line: Time lingers Last Line: And don't invite %the rainbow beasts Subject(s): Monsters BED ABANDONED First Line: The velvet BEST OF IT First Line: However carved up Last Line: Could nourish us BESTIARY First Line: A bestiary catalog Last Line: A text alas lost now for centuries BLANDEUR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If it please god Subject(s): Quiet Life BLANDEUR First Line: If it please god Last Line: Withdraw your grandeur %from these parts BLAST Poem Text First Line: The holes have / almost left the BLUE CHINA DOORKNOB Poem Text First Line: Rooms may be / using us BLUE CHINA DOORKNOB First Line: Rooms may be %using us. We Last Line: Were never our secrets %anyway BRAVE ROW BROOKLYN BRIDGE First Line: Unbuild the Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge BULL IN A CHINA SHOP First Line: Why is china not shamed in the presence BYZANTIUM First Line: What boxes they Subject(s): Constantinople CABINET OF CURIOSITIES First Line: It's hard for %minor monsters Last Line: Mopping up %apologizing CAN A DOG BE AS LARGE AS AN ELEPHANT First Line: A dog can't get bigger without getting thicker Last Line: Of their necks! These are moments that nothing %but lightness protects CARRYING A LADDER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We are always / really carrying Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Ladders CARRYING A LADDER First Line: We are always %really carrying Last Line: Out of the damage %and apology CAT/A FUTURE First Line: A cat can draw Last Line: Still sitting there, %doing nothing rude CAUGHT First Line: If something %gets caught Last Line: Our own throats %like pate geese CERTAIN KIND OF EDEN First Line: It seems like you could, but Last Line: The greenest saddest strongest %kind of hope CHEMISE First Line: What would the self Last Line: Than paint %to plese CHEMISTRY First Line: Words especially %are subject to Last Line: Grow from filament CHESHIRE First Line: It's not the cat Last Line: Some separate part %might manage CHINESE FOOT CHART First Line: Every part of us Last Line: Our heart at the %oddest knock CHOP Poem Text First Line: The bird / walks down Subject(s): Birds CHOP First Line: The bird %walks down Last Line: The sea bows %to repolish CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION First Line: They hade been taken far Subject(s): Animals; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) CIRQUE First Line: Even the clean %blue-green water Last Line: Has to recombine %or sink CLOSELY WATCHED THINGS First Line: A too closely watched flower Last Line: Only open at midnight CLOUD Poem Text First Line: A blue stain / creeps across Subject(s): Clouds COME DARK SHIP COMING AND GOING First Line: There is a %recently discovered %order, neither Last Line: What we can't see %coming, going COMPOSITION First Line: No. Not diluted Last Line: How matter turns %animate CONNECTIONS First Line: Connections lie in wait Last Line: For a little something gratis CONVERSION First Line: Before the powerful coercion COUNSEL First Line: It is possible Last Line: What the body wants is so exact CRASH First Line: Slip is one %law of crash Last Line: Like a legal system %out of dickens CREATURES OF THE MARGINS First Line: There are the creatures of the margins Last Line: Of the known. They turn brown CRIB Poem Text First Line: From the greek for / woven or plaited Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CRIB First Line: From the greek for %woven or plaited Last Line: Or thought we did Subject(s): Language CROCODILE TEARS Poem Text First Line: The one sincere / crocodile has Subject(s): Crocodiles; Crying CROWN Poem Text First Line: Too much rain Subject(s): Rain CROWN First Line: Too much rain Last Line: Places only birds %should fly to CRUSTACEAN ISLAND First Line: There could be an island paradise Last Line: And no flamencos CUT OUT FOR IT Poem Text First Line: Cut out / as a horse Subject(s): Horses DEFERRED SILENCE First Line: There is a %deferred silence Last Line: Freshness to the aftershock DESERT LAKE First Line: Any time after april DEW Poem Text First Line: As neatly as peas Subject(s): Dew DEW First Line: As neatly as peas Last Line: Into the general damp %they're gone DIAMONDS First Line: Is the snail Last Line: Barriers to lettuce %are useless DISTANCE First Line: The texts %are insistent Last Line: Lets distance collapse DON'T LOOK BACK Poem Text First Line: This is not / a problem DON'T LOOK BACK First Line: This is not %a problem Last Line: And if she does not %also loses DOUBT Poem Text First Line: A chick has just so much time Subject(s): Doubt; Chickens; Skepticism DOUBT First Line: A chick has just so much time Last Line: His napkin stained the most delicate colors DUCK Poem Text First Line: It isn't ever / all green thought Subject(s): Ducks; Thought; Mallards; Drakes; Thinking DUTCH Poem Text First Line: Much of life / is dutch Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DUTCH First Line: Much %of life is dutch Last Line: Little black-suspendered %tulip magnates stride around EGYPTIANS First Line: Novelty had not yet ELEPHANT ROCKS First Line: Here and there Last Line: We've done to the beasts %whatever we say ENTERTAINING POSSIBILITIES First Line: This must be observed ERIK SATIE First Line: Only that which does EVERY PAINTING BY CHAGALL First Line: Every twined groom and bride EXCLUDED ANIMALS First Line: Only a certain %claque of beasts Last Line: Like the blankets on him EXPECTATIONS Poem Text First Line: We expect rain Subject(s): Rain EXPECTATIONS First Line: We expect rain %to animate this Last Line: The bed is ready %but no rain yet EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS First Line: The only justification Last Line: Lacquered boats just help %themselves to lengths %that tangle up and float %as pleasantly as kelp FAILURE Poem Text First Line: Like slime / inside a / stagnant tank Subject(s): Failure FAILURE First Line: Like slime %inside a %stagnant tank Last Line: Than success %is in general Subject(s): Failure FAKE SPOTS Poem Text First Line: Like air / in rocks, fake Subject(s): Apartments; Emptiness FELIX CROW Poem Text Recitation First Line: Crow school / is basic and Subject(s): Crows FISHING First Line: You can taste it in fish FLAMINGO WATCHING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Wherever the flamingo goes, Subject(s): Flamingos; Individuality FLUID CORE First Line: It is probably not the intention FLY FISHERS First Line: There are different FOOTPRINTS First Line: The footprint documents FULL MEASURE First Line: You will get your full measure Last Line: Every empty act they undertake GAMBLER First Line: He's seen all he can of moon GAPS First Line: Gaps don't %just happen Last Line: Constant since %the oldest maps GLASS SLIPPERS First Line: Despite the hard luck Last Line: Like a hoof. So many miracles %don't start far back enough GRABBING AT STRAWS First Line: She envied the mathematical eye of a bird GRAZING HORSES First Line: Sometimes the %green pasture Last Line: They weren't %designed to climb %and can't GREAT THOUGHTS First Line: Great thoughts %do not nourish %small thoughts %as parents do children Last Line: Standing in a %grove of them %is hideous GREEN BEHIND THE EARS Poem Text First Line: I was still slightly Subject(s): Innocence GREEN HILLS Poem Text First Line: Their green flanks GREEN HILLS First Line: Their green flanks %and swells are not Last Line: The languor of their %rolling over HE LIT A FIRE WITH ICICLES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This was the work / of st. Sebolt, one Subject(s): Fire; Ice HEAT Poem Text First Line: There is a heat Subject(s): Heat HEAT First Line: There is a heat Last Line: For when the warming %starts Subject(s): Heat HEAVENS NEED FURNACES HER POLITENESS First Line: It's her politeness Last Line: You'd spring to obey HERRING Poem Text First Line: A thousand / tiny silver Subject(s): Herring HERRING First Line: A thousand %tiny silver Last Line: It is uncaring? HOME TO ROOST Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The chickens / are circling and Subject(s): Chcikens HOME TO ROOST First Line: The chicken %are circling and Last Line: The same kind %at the same speed HOPE Poem Text Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE First Line: What's the use Last Line: Righting of the present HOPE First Line: Hope should come to a full stop HOUDINI Poem Text Recitation First Line: Each escape / involved some art Subject(s): Houdini, Harry (1874-1926) HOW A THOUGHT THINKS First Line: A thought is dumb Last Line: Topple in the garden HOW BIRDS SING First Line: One is not taxed Last Line: A series of notes %upon the breeze HUNDRED BOLTS OF SATIN First Line: All you %have to lose Last Line: Specialized %more than %you imagined Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Reason IDEAL AUDIENCE First Line: Not scattered legions, %not a dozen from Last Line: That only we two %ever found this room IF SHE ONLY HAD ONE MINUTE First Line: What would she put in it? Last Line: Like a gravid salmon or the moon IF THE MOON HAPPENED ONCE Last Line: Things with scarves %it does IMAGINARY ESKIMOS First Line: Who knows %if eskimos Last Line: For that sort of person IN THE VERY ESSENCE OF POETRY THERE IS SOMETHING INDECENT First Line: After a brief period INSULT Poem Text First Line: Insult is injury INSULT First Line: Insult is injury Last Line: That we must say, you must stop this INTENTION First Line: Intention doesn't sweeten Last Line: Then if you want to eat it, %you can't INTRANSIGENCE First Line: Intransigence %as a quality Last Line: And for intransigence IS IT MODEST OR ARROGANT Last Line: Hem to kiss; un-becoming on and on, %leaving us like this? IT'S ALWAYS DARKEST JUST BEFORE THE DAWN First Line: But how dark %is darkest? Last Line: We'll have the %night behind us? JAR ALLEGED TO CONTAIN THE ORIGINAL EGYPTIAN DARKNESS ... First Line: What would anyone do JOB First Line: Imagine that %the job were Last Line: It's so easy %to forget again JOURNEY First Line: Even the philosophical chinese KILLING TIME First Line: Time is rubbery Last Line: Sooner or later %it will be found L'ABANDON OU LES DUEX AMIES First Line: Always and always LACQUER ARTIST First Line: There is a nacreous gleam Last Line: Coats per japanese box LACUNAE First Line: Lacunae aren't %what was going to be Last Line: Gone -- pond shaped %or jagged LATENTS Poem Text First Line: Just the hints, say Subject(s): Fingerprints LEARNING First Line: Whatever must be learned Last Line: The folded things in them LEAST ACTION First Line: Is it vision %or the lack Last Line: Like to love what she %can do LES PETITES CONFITURES (THE LITTLE JAMS) First Line: These three pieces Last Line: Was half the banjo-piano %man's work LIGHT OF INTERIORS First Line: The light of interiors %is the admixture Last Line: Table with flowers %an island LIGHTHOUSE KEEPING Poem Text First Line: Seas pleat / winds keen Subject(s): Lighthouses LIME LIGHT Poem Text Subject(s): Fame; Reputation LIME LIGHT First Line: One can't work %by lime light Last Line: Doesn't equal %what daylight did LINEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There are charms / that forestall harm Subject(s): Charms (magic); Linen LIVING WITH STRIPES First Line: In tigers, zebras %and other striped creatures Last Line: I wonder if they dread to start sometimes LOSSES Poem Text Subject(s): Loss LOSSES First Line: Most losses add something Last Line: Of castaways %thought dead but not MARIANNE MOORE ANNOUNCES LUNCH Poem Text First Line: With several well-placed Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Food & Eating MARIANNE MOORE ANNOUNCES LUNCH First Line: With several well-placed MASTERWORKS OF MING Poem Text First Line: Ming, ming / such a lovely Subject(s): China - Ming Dynasty (1368-1640); China (porcelain) MASTERWORKS OF MING First Line: Ming, ming, %such a lovely Last Line: The other %end in MATERIAL First Line: Whatever is done Last Line: Above a war we %hope mattered MIRAGE OASES First Line: First among places Last Line: Thrive only at our pleasure %checked MISER TIME Poem Text First Line: Miser time grows Subject(s): Misers MOST GENERAL TREND WE KNOW IS SPECIATION, ANNIE DILLARD First Line: Oh the joy and the expense MUSEUM OF FALSE STARTS First Line: It is incredibly %beautiful but Last Line: Horn of an otherwise %unfashioned animal NEEDLE Poem Text First Line: Not even a / needle is left Subject(s): Vases NEEDLE First Line: Not even a %needle is left Last Line: Workable paste %of art NEW ASCETICISM NEW CLOTHES First Line: The emperor who %was tricked by the tailors Last Line: To something you've got NEW INSTRUMENTS First Line: Precise instruments NEW ROOMS Poem Text First Line: The mind must / set itself up NEW TRUTH First Line: Only a new truth NIAGARA RIVER First Line: As though %the river were Last Line: It is hard to remember what the means NO NAMES First Line: There are high places %that don't invite us Last Line: I'm giddy with thinking %where thinking can't stick NOT NEWS First Line: It's what we can't Last Line: Too much matching part NOTHING VENTURED Poem Text First Line: Nothing exists as a block Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids ODE ON A GRECIAN CONTAINER First Line: A beaker of wine OLD COSMOTOLOGISTS First Line: When their cosmologists %grows soft and spongy Last Line: Moment by moment as age is ON THE DIFFICULTY OF DRAWING ONESELF UP Poem Text First Line: One does not stack Subject(s): Mice OSPREY Poem Text First Line: The great taloned osprey Subject(s): Ospreys OTHER SIDE First Line: Oh if it were Last Line: And weight. We %feel it accumulate OTHER SILENCE First Line: It waits in the ear OUTSIDER ART First Line: Most of it's too dreary Last Line: We would be pleased PAIRED THINGS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Who, who had only seen wings, Subject(s): Birds PALPABLE SILENCE First Line: What is as delightful PART MIDAS First Line: The trick would be to be Last Line: Started breeding goblets PARTY SHIP Poem Text Subject(s): Relationships PAST First Line: Sometimes there's Last Line: For so long it's %developed seasons PATIENCE Poem Text First Line: Patience is / wider than one Subject(s): Patience PATIENCE First Line: Patience is %wider than one Last Line: In brilliance %or hardness PERIPHERY First Line: Unlike igneous PIECES THAT FALL TO EARTH First Line: One could %almost wish Last Line: The commanding %way they matter PINHOLE Poem Text First Line: We say / pinhole PLAIN ORDINARY STEEL NEEDLE CAN FLOAT ON PURE WATER First Line: Who hasn't seen Last Line: We almost forget the oddity %of that POETRY IN TRANSLATION First Line: It is %so snug Last Line: The russian steppes %perhaps POETRY IS A KIND OF MONEY Poem Text POLISH AND BALM Poem Text First Line: Dust develops / from inside Subject(s): Abandonment; Dust; Cleanliness; Desertion POST-CONSTRUCTION Poem Text First Line: Who knows better / than the builder Subject(s): Buildings & Builders POST-CONSTRUCTION First Line: Who knows better %than the builder Last Line: Had been added %after one left PRAYER First Line: Radiant particulars PROLOGUE First Line: Like boulders rolled away from doors PUTTING THINGS IN PROPORTION Recitation by Author RATS' TAILS Poem Text First Line: Let's say / some day Subject(s): Brodsky, Joseph (1940-1996) REACH AND GRASP First Line: Let us not confuse reach with grasp RELIEF First Line: We know it is close Last Line: Clocks set back %disasters averted RENAISSANCE Poem Text First Line: It is always the renaissance Subject(s): Renaissance REPETITION Poem Text First Line: Trying to walk Subject(s): Walking; Habits REPULSIVE THEORY Poem Text First Line: Little has been made Subject(s): Magnetism REVERSE DRAMA First Line: Lightning, but not bright Last Line: Things were heightened %and now they're calmer RUBBING LAMPS Poem Text First Line: Things beside / aladdin's and Subject(s): Lamps SALTS First Line: It makes no sense Last Line: To table salt %available in boxes SALVAGE Poem Text First Line: The wreck / is a fact SALVATIONS Poem Text First Line: Like hope / it springs SAY UNCLE First Line: Every day %you say, %just one %more try Last Line: You why %won't you %say uncle? SECOND First Line: In any collision, one strikes Last Line: Her home her home SEED First Line: We misread SELF IS NOT PORTABLE First Line: The self is not %portable. It Last Line: To home: one part %in seventy SHARKS' TEETH Poem Text First Line: Everything contains some / silence. Noise gets Subject(s): Silence SHARKS' TEETH First Line: Everything contains some %silence. Noise gets Last Line: Be sensed in parks Subject(s): Silence SHIFT Poem Text First Line: Words have loyalties Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SHIPWRECK First Line: They're laughable %when we get there Last Line: From the waist, accept %your kudos SHOW First Line: There will be a show SHRIMP First Line: A shrimp is Subject(s): Shrimp SILENCE First Line: Silence is not snow Last Line: When we feel trapped %like mastodons SILENCE ISLANDS First Line: These are the %silence islands Last Line: Children or anyone weakened %by sickness is expected SIMPLY BY GROWING LARGER First Line: As a thing grows larger Last Line: To grow gravid and broad-bellied SOFT Poem Text SOME OF OUR PARTS Last Line: Implacable as a nutcracker %and too close to the brain SONG IN THE OLD TONGUE First Line: I do not mind belonging to SONNET TO SPRING First Line: The brown, unpleasant, Last Line: Spring is frivolous like that SPIDERWEB Poem Text First Line: From other / angles the Subject(s): Cobwebs SQUIRREL First Line: Alas the squirrel STAR BLOCK First Line: There is no such thing Last Line: Burns us with love STARDUST Poem Text First Line: Star is / the hardest thing STARDUST First Line: Stardust is %the hardest thing Last Line: It's hard to explain STARS OF BETHLEHEM First Line: Throughout the sky %there are cinders Last Line: Or the outskirts of it STILL START Poem Text First Line: As if engine / parts could be Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars SUCH WOMEN First Line: There are those for whom rooms SURFACES First Line: Surfaces serve %their own purposes Last Line: And what it doesn't teach SURVIVAL SKILLS Poem Text First Line: Here is the virtue Subject(s): Survival SWEPT UP WHOLE First Line: You aren't swept up whole Last Line: You recongeal. It's %a surprise TABLETS First Line: Where were the tablets before moses TAR BABIES Poem Text First Line: Tar babies are / not the children Subject(s): Babies; Infants TENDERNESS AND ROT Poem Text TEST First Line: Imagine a surface %so still and vast Last Line: And what warps dissipates THAT VASE OF LILACS First Line: Not just lilacs %are like that Last Line: Intermittent immortality %of purple THAT WILL TO DIVEST Poem Text First Line: Action creates / a taste Subject(s): Inanimate Objects THE ADMIRABLE BEDE, 7TH CENTURY ENGLISH HISTORIAN First Line: There has always been a machiavelli, urban Subject(s): Bede, Saint. The Venerable (673-735); Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527) THE BEST OF IT Poem Text First Line: However carved up Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE EDGES OF TIME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is at the edges Subject(s): Aging THE EGYPTIANS Poem Text First Line: Novelty has not yet Subject(s): Egypt THE FABRIC OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: It is very stretchy Subject(s): Life THE FOURTH WISE MAN Poem Text Subject(s): Travel; Likes & Dislikes; Journeys; Trips THE LATE WORM Poem Text First Line: The worms / which had been Subject(s): Worms THE LIGHT OF INTERIORS Poem Text Subject(s): Light THE NEW KABBALISTS Poem Text First Line: None of the new kabbalists THE NIAGARA RIVER Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Niagara River THE OBSOLETION OF A LANGUAGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We knew it / would happen, Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE PALM AT THE END OF THE MIND Poem Text First Line: After fulfilling everything Last Line: Taking cover. Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) THE PIECES THAT FALL TO EARTH Poem Text First Line: One could / almost wish THE WOMAN WHO WROTE TOO MUCH Poem Text First Line: I have written Subject(s): Women - Writers THIEVES First Line: There are thieves %in the mind, their Last Line: That they thought %matched THINGS SHOULDN'T BE SO HARD Poem Text First Line: How anything / is known TO EXPLAIN THE SOLITARY First Line: It's easy to think a moor or heath Last Line: Or ireland hurt yeats into song TO THE VIETNAMESE BOY HOUNDED AND AT LAST MURDERED First Line: No more than the delicate springbok TO THE YOUNG ANGLERFISH First Line: For now and for the next 400-plus generations Last Line: Comical, budding power, and then %you don't again TOULOUSE-LAUTREC First Line: Monsier lautrc gave his son TRYING TO GET TO AMERICA First Line: As in a dream where I can TUNE First Line: Imagine a sea Last Line: Vanish again and again %without a hint? TURTLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Who would be a turtle who could help it? Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TWO MORE, AND UP GOES THE DONKEY First Line: Old men %who were boys then Last Line: Which trick %wasn't done VESSEL AND THE CUP First Line: What cup knows the distress Last Line: Could use it up WASTE Poem Text First Line: Not even waste Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal WASTE First Line: Not even waste Last Line: Leaning into hunger %and hard luck Subject(s): Refuse And Refuse Disposal WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: That's water under Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE First Line: That's water under Last Line: Slide ever onward; %we aren't demented Subject(s): Language WE'RE BUILDING THE SHIP AS WE SAIL IT Poem Text First Line: The first fear / being drowning Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Life WELL OR THE CUP First Line: How can %you tell Last Line: People get %drunk up WHY ISN'T IT ALL MORE MARKED Last Line: Take black sorrow %and make surcease WHY WE MUST STRUGGLE Poem Text First Line: If we have not struggled WHY WE MUST STRUGGLE First Line: If we have not struggled Last Line: As upon nectar %upon need? WINTER FEAR Poem Text First Line: Is it just winter Subject(s): Winter WITHOUT MINUTE NEATNESS OF EXECUTION First Line: And how in this welter WITNESS First Line: Never trust a witness Last Line: Told us where he went WOMAN WHO WROTE TOO MUCH First Line: I have written %over the doors Last Line: With something %for me to eat WOODEN First Line: In the presence of supple Last Line: I can't be human after all YELLOW First Line: Yellow is the most YESES First Line: Just behind %the door Last Line: Too small %to pinch YOUR FACE WILL STICK First Line: However bland we all Last Line: To strike the hour |
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