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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BONES Matches Found: 82 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MODEST MOUND OF BONES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That short-sleeved man, our Last Line: It sags! What buntingis flesh to be hung from such ele- gant balconies? Subject(s): Bones A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children picking up our bones Subject(s): Bones ABSOLUTELY UNTITLED, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: In the boney marrow Last Line: In the marrow of my bones %the internal ocean Subject(s): Bones AFTER LOOKING UP INTO ONE TOO MANY CAMERAS, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bones of my arm were emptied I began Last Line: Dangerous words are the ones we never hear Subject(s): Self; Bones; Secrets AFTER X-RAY, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To shine somewhere like strung beads of coral Subject(s): X-rays; Bones ANIMAL SKELETON, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Whatever was inscribed in me is now revealed Last Line: Until I make no sense, %and, senseless, I await you Subject(s): Bones; Death; Skeletons; Writing And Writers ANTHEM, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bones will all be built into the runway Subject(s): Bones ASHFALL FOSSIL BEDS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Once, long ago, in what is now idaho Last Line: Needed only to die down for it to fall Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Fossils; Skulls BEAUTIFUL MATH: XY, by AMY NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: About this time, the world reduces like a sauce Last Line: The greatest length away, in a windmill arc %of force and velocity Subject(s): Bones BELLS, by KARY WAYSON Poem Source First Line: She gets up, goes to the telephone, lifts it and listens Last Line: Can't feel her feet and wonders how she got these broken bones Subject(s): Bells; Bones; Women BODY, REASSEMBLED, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Traffic and people return to the marketplace Last Line: To wander the afterlife, slick in their tendons and skin Subject(s): Bodies; Bones; Future Life BONE, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An erratic, complicated shape, like a tool for some obsolete task: Last Line: Maman, please... % it's filthy. Drop it. Drop it! Drop it! Drop it! Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Bones; Tools BONE FRAGMENTS, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stray frays of virga. In the wood grain: line graph of annual rainfall Last Line: Or perhaps a gray fox’s or a dog’s? The cracked femur spills sand Subject(s): Bones; Knowledge BONE THOUGHTS ON A DRY DAY, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Walking to the museum Last Line: There, on a squared stone, some cast-up keels beach. %here, a dark sea speaks with white hands Variant Title(s): Bone Thoughts On A Dry Day: Chicag Subject(s): Bones BONES, by GEORGE BURNS Poem Source First Line: If there were a law Last Line: After you were away, %my earth Subject(s): Bones BONES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Some think we make too much %of bones Last Line: You and I are only %an attractive tapestry %our bones flaunt Subject(s): Bones; Humanity BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 4. WITHSTANDING, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: In the sketch, here's where his angel can't stop %remembering Last Line: The branches, up into that sky going the color of bone Subject(s): Bones; Memory CASUALTIES: 18. DIRGE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Show me a house where nobody has died Last Line: But let us not cut down the clan Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bones; Children - Lost; Death; Funerals; Sons CASUALTIES: 20. ABURI AND AFTER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With old faces in my mind Last Line: A prayer in his heart Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Prayer DEAD PINES, by DANE ZAJC Poem Source First Line: We were shrunken from fear Last Line: Close the doors of your hearing %before our silence Subject(s): Bones; Death; Funerals; Silence DEATH, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: From the bones of animals Last Line: Pomona %naked and laughing Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Statues DISCOVERIES OF BONES AND STONES, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Certain bones are from other bones distinquished Subject(s): Bones; Travel DISLOCATION, by WILLIS FREDERICK OSTRANDER Poem Source First Line: I can articulate this skeleton Last Line: And incessant shores are the only buffer Subject(s): Bones ELEGY, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Through air beaten back, beaten Last Line: Begin their lonely dissolve %into swans Subject(s): Absence; Bones; Love - Loss Of; Solitude ELEMENTAL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I open my door to a glassy white world Last Line: I walk stiffly back to the house %to think blue thoughts till spring Subject(s): Bones; Death; Graves; Prairies ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The bears are kept by hundreds within fences, are fed cracked / eggs Last Line: Every inch of you, a terrible vision, not bear, but virgin! Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Bones; Christmas; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nativity, The ESSAY: 13 PRESSURE POINTS INSIDE THE SKULL, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 EUMARES, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tumultuous sea, whose wrath and foam are spent Last Line: For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monuments; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EXPULSION, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The brief upholstery of bone and muscle Last Line: Each alone in its dark tent Subject(s): Bodies; Bones EXTRA RIB, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: I worry that it's calcified cancer Last Line: A bit of mud and breath %what could lie beyond these gates? Subject(s): Bones GILES'S HOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Rise again with all one's bones? Last Line: To go without my rib. Subject(s): Bones HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My bones migrate in Last Line: They strean white ashes Subject(s): Bones HOLLOW FLUTE, by AVNER STRAUSS Poem Source First Line: I have a dream bone Last Line: Dry bones make good flutes Subject(s): Bones ILSAN POEMS: 5, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: The flesh %on my body has departed Last Line: Where a new heaven and earth grows Subject(s): Bones; Death; Poetry And Poets; Prisons And Prisoners IN THE DARK, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: I've swallowed the poison of sadness Last Line: And I can't speak your name %any more Subject(s): Absence; Bones; Death LADY'S-MAID SONG, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When adam found his rib was gone Last Line: For though we throw the dog his bone %he wants it back with interest Subject(s): Bones; Hate LEARNING ANATOMY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: My son must learn the bones of the body, their articulations Last Line: Crumble into dust, bones pass time in the urn of earth Subject(s): Bones; Corpses; Skeletons LINES INSPIRED BY AN ANCIENT BONE FOUND AT THE ROMAN CAMP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Bonus! Bona! Bonum! Which means, you know Last Line: So I'll betake me to mine ease again, %restrain the muse, and lay aside my pen Subject(s): Bones LOSS, by PATRICIA ZONTELLI Poem Source First Line: Digging up the bones. Reburying them Last Line: In a place where even I can't find them Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Loss MAKING FACES, by MARY LYDIA CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: How little we think, as we go our way Last Line: We need fear no tales that our faces tell. Subject(s): Bones; Faces MAKING INSTRUMENTS FROM BIRD SKELETONS, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: What better bones for wind to pass through Last Line: Jays will hear your breath stir the song of dead things %and if birds don't know anger they will inv Subject(s): Birds; Bones; Whistles And Whistling MARGERY'S SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a jill-whisper Last Line: With hawthorn in my hair Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bones; Hunger; Poverty MEDITATION ON A BONE (A PIECE OF BONE FOUND AT TRONDHJEM), by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words scored upon a bone Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bones; Hate MEDITATION ON A BONE (A PIECE OF BONE FOUND AT TRONDHJEM), by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Words scored upon a bone Last Line: And thinks: when I am dung, %what bone shall speak for me? Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bones; Hate MODEST MOUND OF BONES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That short-sleeved man, our Last Line: Is flesh to be hung from such elegeant balconies? Subject(s): Bones MOON'S WALTZING ALONE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: In deserted kitchens Last Line: Only their love, like a thing never done, burns through %into morning Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Death; Love - Loss Of NEAR A BUILDING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That sad summer, the loneliest thing Last Line: Bone emphasising perfect bone Subject(s): Bones; Death; Solitude; Summer NIP AND TUCK, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Both nip and tuck are spaniel pups Last Line: Or bones beneath the ground! Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Dogs O HADA CIBERNETICA: 2, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Fine that so much heaven for so many Last Line: Strip off my skin my bones %even my marrow Subject(s): Bones; Death OLD BONES, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard them talking, muttering and mouthing Last Line: I'll be going gayly in my sweet, young flesh! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Bones ON A DEAD SWALLOW, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Here you are, grounded in road gravel Last Line: To raise up gloriously from your bones Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves ON THE REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS OF CALDERON; 1840, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto a tomb more splendid than was thine Last Line: For lo, thy tomb is portugal and spain! Subject(s): Bones; Calderon De La Barca, Pedro (1600-1681); Dust; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones ORACLE AT DELPHI, by ELENI Z. AUERBACH Poem Source First Line: I keep writing about bones as if Last Line: The stones are full of buzzing %in this heat Subject(s): Bodies; Bones PENCILLED IN A BOOK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lies old jones, %who all his collected bones Last Line: Boned old jones so neat and tidy, %that he lies all bona fide Subject(s): Bones POEM FOR DOROTHY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No shape in darkness single stands Last Line: From ruin moving amends our peace Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children picking up our bones Last Line: Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun Subject(s): Bones RELIC, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found this jawbone at the sea's edge Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Bones; Time RELIC, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found this jawbone at the sea's edge Last Line: In the sea. This curved jawbone did not laugh %but gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Bones; Time REQUIEM TO THE DINOSAURS AND MASTODONS, by UBADAH IBN MA' AL-SAMA Poem Text First Line: Here roots a glebe of rough mesquite Last Line: Was dear to her who sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Ubada; Ubada, Muhammed Ibn Subject(s): Amphibians; Bones; Dinosaurs; Skeletons RIME OF THE PALMERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, and in the morning Last Line: Thus, lest the land repent Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Hunger RITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Short for el rito. The town dog Last Line: For rito, the town dog - a free spirit! Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Graves SECOND SNOW, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Trees grow wild in the pasture Last Line: Lanterns, light calling %'come home' Subject(s): Bones; Death; Memory; Winter SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO THE PALEONTHOLOGY CLASS: BEFORE ... BONE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was 510 million years ago today Last Line: This oburdate life of bone Subject(s): Bones STONES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small yellow stones Last Line: Of an unfoaming far unvisioned sea. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore SUNSHINE: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet and merry sunshine makes the very churchyard fair Last Line: Though it plays upon a grave-stone through the gloomy cypress tree. Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Coffins; Thought; Thinking SYLLABUS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Steering between %scylla and charybdis Last Line: Marking time till it turn: %lamb. Lamb. I am Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Bones; Death; Love THE BONE THAT HAS NO MARROW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Confronting us again! Subject(s): Bones THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in Last Line: That vampire conger eel. Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE COURSE OF TIME: PROXIMITIES, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The memphian mummy, that from age to age Last Line: The clown that long had slumbered in his arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Bones; Dust; Egyptology; Mummies; Mystery THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dreadful city's roar Last Line: Far from these clattering stones. Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds THE LADY'S-MAID SONG, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When adam found his rib was gone Subject(s): Bones; Hate THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The humming sea is full of dirges Last Line: Who have passed into repose! Subject(s): Bones; Death; Life; Loss; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE MARRIAGE (3), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tons of suicide rock hauled away Last Line: Tons of suicide rock hauled away Subject(s): Honeymoons; Bones THE PIONEER, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a servant boy, and he Last Line: The tale of the early pioneer. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Pioneers; Dead, The THESE BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, by MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: Ho, pines, black pines, walk 'round, walk 'round Last Line: That the old lost dreams were right. Alternate Author Name(s): Douglass, Marjorie Stoneman Subject(s): Bones; Trees UNSTRUNG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a jeweled tapestry Last Line: A face so like its own. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Birds; Bones; Death; Dead, The VILLANELLE FOR MY SPINE, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O chain of bones, o venomous snake Last Line: Pain is the only truth when my backbone aches Subject(s): Bones; Pain VIVA LA MUERTE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Viva la muerte Last Line: Of salt cod and catastrophe Subject(s): Bones; Death; Love; Widows And Widowers WATER LACE AND WHITE EYES, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the mist rising Last Line: In the northern dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Bones; Frost; Ice; North, The; Snow WHILE WALKING THROUGH THE CHURCHYARD, by KENNETH O'KEEFE Poem Source First Line: The amber air of summer paints the stones Last Line: My soul in peace beyond the grief it knows Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Death WRECK, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Although the preparation was so long Last Line: Would say to the very end refused rest Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks X-RAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What truth the doctor reads Last Line: And breath. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Medicine; Physicians; Skeletons; X-rays; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors |
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