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| Searching... Subject: CAMPS Matches Found: 152 A CAMP IN THREE LIGHTS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the darkness sharply lined Last Line: The faded fire, the aurora's loss. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps A DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming A TENT BESIDE A RIVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering lanterned, canvas-sprawled fields Last Line: Nor their words ferried anyone safely anywhere. Subject(s): Bible; Camping; Faith; Parents; Camps; Summer Camps; Belief; Creed; Parenthood ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We went to the bug-eating state Subject(s): Camping; Insects; Camps; Summer Camps; Bugs AN ANSWER TO VARIOUS BARDS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in Last Line: And then return to sydney and vermilionize the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Death; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Camps; Summer Camps; Dead, The AND THE WAGES OF GOODNESS ARE NOT ASSURED, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That jacob stole his own brother's blessing Subject(s): Concentration Camps AROUND PASTOR BONHOEFFER: THE EXTERMINATION CAMP, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the half-open door of the hut Last Line: To face his brothers in the world Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Concentration Camps AT CAMP, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone says the deep woods are soothing Last Line: Howling for howling, the best kind of howl Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities AUSCHWITZ: FIRST, UNDRESS, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: One morning at about 4 a.M., while the rest of the lager slept, filip Last Line: Speaking to his subordinates: 'you see?' aumeyer said. 'you see? %that's the way to do it!' Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: LIKE BUTTERFLIES, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: The auschwitz 'angel of death,' josef mengele Last Line: Human eyes of every color %mounted on the wall like butterflies Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mengele, Josef (1911-1979) AUSCHWITZ: UNFORGETTABLE, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: A man who, in his youth in poland Last Line: Of setting these trained dogs on prisoners; %he cannot forget the third signal Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: UNFORGETTABLE II, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: Another man Last Line: This way, please, ladies, gentlemen...' %these things he once saw, he says, he can never forget Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet's Biography First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around Last Line: In my own small commonwealth Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps BEAST IN THE SOUTH, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last the beast that moved south Last Line: Had hunted down to his den Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; South Africa BLUES, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Convexcavatious day Subject(s): Blues (mood); Concentration Camps BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal Last Line: Though they killed him in the camp they sent him to, %he will walk in as you're sitting down to a me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BREAKING CAMP, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having spent a hard-earned sleep, you must break camp Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps BY THE RIVERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring he was fourteen Last Line: By the rivers of salt. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Duty; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Shoah; Judaism CAMPING AT THE HEADLANDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love each landscape Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps CAMPING OUT, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: And now she cleans her teeth into the lake Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Last Line: Sting. These chrysanthemums stolen, crossing an ocean to %return them Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CONCENTRATION CONSTELLATION, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: In this earthly configuration Last Line: Of a twisted and remembered fence Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Japanese Americans - Internment; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864 COULD WE HAVE BEEN HER?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Could we have been her Last Line: On a night of glittering bones? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Terror COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gypsy man and gypsy woman drinking tea Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Camps; Summer Camps; Agriculture; Farmers COYOTE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We spotted him scouting antelope along bison basin road Last Line: Until the curve of his ribs began to cool beneath my fingers Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CRAZED MAN IN CONCENTRATION CAMP, by AGNES GERGELY Poem Source First Line: All through the march, besides bag and blanket Last Line: And it meant nothing to him to be shot dead Subject(s): Concentration Camps CREMATORIUM IN DACHAU, by HANNES PETURSSON Poem Source First Line: Cunning building %of pink, slender stones Last Line: On a deflated belly, %not yet decomposed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Human Rights DACHAU, by MARY KATHRYN STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: I was born within these confines Last Line: I am not allowed to go farther. %I will not go Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DACHAU [REVISITED], by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: By the light of the ovens Last Line: Curls into my mouth %like a mother tongue Subject(s): Concentration Camps DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Last Line: Shaped welts on yellow ivory Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming DEATH CAMP, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When they took us to the shower I saw Last Line: It was sunny and clear my smoke %was distinct I rose quiet left her %beneath Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Homosexuality DI MAGILAS FUN AUSHVITS (THE SCROLLS OF AUSCHSWITZ), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He vanished & reappeared in a room no bigger than a Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Concentration Camps; Jews; Judaism DIE VERARBEITUNG, PROCESSING, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: In the words of ss unterscharfuhrer franz suchomel, treblinka was Last Line: Figure cited by some jews today Variant Title(s): A German Lesson; Treblink Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DRILL AT NATHANYA, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: As strange as it would be to encounter a five-legged zebra Last Line: Thick and black against the ash-gray heavens Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Military EDDY-GRAMS: 1. EDDY BLEW HIMSELF, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy bilt his mountin camp Last Line: He'll blow his hed off yet. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps EDDY-GRAMS: 2. EDDY BUM PROOF CELLER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy blasted out that hole Last Line: Oh boy—fur me his celler. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps EXPLICATION, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Waiting behind barbed wire Last Line: Smoke above the arms of trees Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Czechoslovakia; Genocide FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Last Line: And gleaming coils of fine, silk twine Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FOG ON KENNESAW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We pitch our tent on kennesaw mountain Last Line: Maneuvering on kennesaw. Subject(s): Camping; Confederate States Of America; Fog; Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia; Camps; Summer Camps; Confederacy; Haze FOR RUDOLF HOESS, COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ: 2., by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: Anne frank opened her diary Last Line: Stroked her dark hair, looked in her eyes. %ash of your years, hoess, afflicts heaven still Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Frank, Anne (1929-1945) FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept under rhododendron Subject(s): Camping; Oregon; Love; Youth; Memory; Camps; Summer Camps GESTAPO PRISON GUARD NAMED HILDA, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Concentration Camps HAIR, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a scene in the film Subject(s): Hair; Motion Pictures; Concentration Camps; Movies; Cinema HARBACH 1944, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: At all times I see them Last Line: Its gates flung savagely back, %death gapes to its hinges Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Last Line: To keep from blowing away Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 10. MINORU SAITO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I shaved my head and became Last Line: That made me say no Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Last Line: I see the man-in-the-moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 3. MASA NAKAHARA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am thinking about the temple Last Line: Serial number in its ear Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 5. LILY IWASAKI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Minoru, it's been over a month Last Line: Full of rage and cunning Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 6. SAM TOYAMA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother held up a wrinkled fashion Last Line: Kicking me in the face inside her Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 7. NINA INOUE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since the shoe ration, I can't play Last Line: I learned what it means to be kind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 8. YOSHIO MIYAKE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It sours my incense, disturbs the sleep Last Line: Will suddenly wake, eyes spitting blood Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 9. CHIKAKO OKANO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know tweezing away dead skin Last Line: The scars I leave behind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother recognized / my feet and claimed me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother recognized %my feet and claimed me Last Line: Richly embroidered %by unfamiliar hands Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HOLOCAUST, SELECTION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jews from holland, france, and hungary, and later from greece Last Line: And there were two pyres of bodies burning all the time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Concentration Camps HOLOCAUST: 7. WORK CAMPS: 3, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the second world war began Last Line: Next morning they were taken to the gas chambers Subject(s): Camps HUNGER CAMP AT JASYO, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Write it. Write. In ordinary ink Subject(s): Concentration Camps HUNGER CAMP AT JASYO, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Write it. Write. In ordinary ink Last Line: Write: how silent. %'yes' Subject(s): Concentration Camps IN THE CAMP THERE WAS ONE ALIVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flakes pour to the black dead Last Line: The footsteps die was he dies Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Concentration Camps; Shoah; Judaism INDIAN DRUMS, by ISABEL WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Indian summer camps in the hills Last Line: Where her bright fires are burning! Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps INSIDE DACHAU, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having lied to our german hosts about our plan Last Line: I have nothing new to say about death. Subject(s): Dachau, Germany; Concentration Camps INSIDE DACHAU: 2. HISTORY AS THE HOME MOVIE, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It begins and ends with ash, though we insist Last Line: Decades after dachau fell, we stand in mist %that begins and ends with ash Subject(s): Concentration Camps INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Let us take %what we can Last Line: Let there be %order. %let us be %wise Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Asian Americans - Japanese; Concentration Camps; Home; Japanese Americans - Internment JOHNSON'S ANTIDOTE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down along the snakebite river where the overlanders camp Last Line: Somehow seems to dodge the subject of the snakebite antidote. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Life; Snakes; Camps; Summer Camps; Serpents; Vipers KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming; Dreams KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell %you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming LEGENDS FROM CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: It began as truth, as fact Last Line: Will anyone ever need %another camp director Subject(s): Buddhism; Concentration Camps; Crime And Criminals; History; Japanese Americans - Internment; Legends; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Terror LOOKING BACK AT CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: To get into the fair Last Line: This is not amache!' Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Concentration Camps; Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners MERCY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I see him in the middle of a field Last Line: Go about their loving Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Cruelty; History; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mercy MITTEN SPRINGS: 1. BENNY'S PLACE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We made camp %by the springs Last Line: Flung from the snow Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 2. ANTELOPE HUNTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stirring up grouse Last Line: Of dust and hoofbeats Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 3. GUTTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sawing the ribcage %was hard work Last Line: The spicy sage taste %run through me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MORNING IN CAMP, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bed of ashes and a half-burned brand Last Line: Great, pulsing heart of bold, advancing day! Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps NIGHT IN CAMP, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text First Line: Fierce burns our fire of driftwood; overhead Last Line: The darkness pushing down upon the land. Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire Last Line: Presently to die. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She took me everywhere Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She took me everywhere Last Line: Opening the sky Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poet's Biography First Line: The gleaming arc / of knife Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gleaming arc %of knife Last Line: A white moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OH LOVELY ROCK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of ventana creek, up the east fork. Last Line: Felt its intense reality with love and wonder, this lonely rock Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Last Line: I am your sister Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PACK-TRIP SUITE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night is revery awake Last Line: Quiet admits the dark intense. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Camping; Night; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime PASSION OF RAVENSBRUCK, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: He steps out from the others Last Line: That he forgot to cry out %before he collapsed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii PEACH GIRL, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apprehended by snow Last Line: And you will spit it out Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Last Line: It hurts. And the more it hurts, %the bigger the pearl Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LANTERN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget me Last Line: Her own limbs, one by one Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Last Line: Of peony petals crumpling in my fists Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PIGTAIL, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: When all the women in the transport Last Line: Pulled at school %by naughty boys Subject(s): Concentration Camps PINE CAMP, by GORDON BAINE CLARK Poem Text First Line: There were the three of us and we were young Last Line: We hear winds in whisper with far-distant pines. Subject(s): Autumn; Camping; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Camps; Summer Camps POEMS FROM AMACHE CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Dear lawson, %2 ys u r, %s ys u b Last Line: I meet you at %amache gate! %always, %naomi Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Japanese Americans - Internment; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864 POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: MARCH TO CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: Again we have orders, from high sources to march Last Line: We completed this journey of four or five miles. Subject(s): American Civil War; Camping; U.s. - History; Walking; Camps; Summer Camps PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine; Shoah; Judaism PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Last Line: And that is how you die. And that is how you die Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine QUESTIONS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I will not rest easy with my questions Last Line: But the men %cloaked in darkness Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; History; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence RAIN IN CAMP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The camp-fire smoulders and will not burn Last Line: Alas, shall there no man paint or tell. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Rain; Camps; Summer Camps RATS AT ALLATOONA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the lake the stars scatter their crumbs of light Last Line: The lobe of an ear. Subject(s): Camping; Rats; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Camps; Summer Camps RURAL PROGRESS; OR WE'RE LIVIN' 'MOST IN TOWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: So you're sorry for us fellows Last Line: Are a-livin' 'most in town. Subject(s): Camping; Country Life; Fields; Towns; Camps; Summer Camps; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SALTBUSH BILL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now this is the law of the overland that all in the west obey Last Line: How the best day's work that he ever did was the day that he lost the fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Peace; Camps; Summer Camps SALTBUSH BILL'S GAMECOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas saltbush bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way / to town Last Line: Remarked, 'discharged with a clean discharge -- the assault was justified!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Cooking & Cooks; Fate; Sin; Camps; Summer Camps; Destiny SALTBUSH BILL, J. P., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the land where leichhardt went Last Line: Their saltbush bill, j.P. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Horses; Camps; Summer Camps SIGNAL, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: He awaits a signal of a sort that he thinks cannot be compared Last Line: Fraction of a second is poised on the hair-line edge between being and nonbeing Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Last Line: And pry each of my petals loose Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ..., by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hands that were nailed, the ankles that were pierced as if one Last Line: The cloud appeared to him by day and the little star by night. Subject(s): Angels; Concentration Camps; Crucifixion; Death; Jews; Religion; Spirituality; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology SPEARFISH CANYON, by CORIE DAVIS HENTON Poem Text First Line: My camp fire smoke wreathes in and out the trees Last Line: And rest, by nature soothed, carefree, content. Subject(s): Camping; Canyons; Explorers; Camps; Summer Camps; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SQUID, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Purplish pink, their bodies were mottled with black dots, like Last Line: Water, and when I held them up to my nose they smelled like %another country Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 1. SUMIDA RIVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rice-paper lanterns bob Last Line: The sides of the boats %in judgment Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 2. ORIHIME'S SONG, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I came from mulberry trees Last Line: To have you inside me again Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 3. A THOUSAND CRANES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I go to the bamboo grove Last Line: I am selfish Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STORY OF MONGREL GREY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story the stockman told Last Line: The purchase money of mongrel grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Dogs; Forests; Moon; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods TELLING THEM OF TAMPA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "weary months I've spent in tampa, where the luscious hardtack grows" Last Line: Down at -- o! Confound old tampa. Sister! Won't you pass / the cake! Subject(s): Camping;war Bonds;weariness; Camps;summer Camps;fatigue THE BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism THE CAMPER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim Last Line: Watch o'er his hemlock bed—his sinless sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Night; Solitude; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime; Loneliness THE CAMPFIRE, by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Until that eve I never knew you Last Line: Just you and I: outside the night! Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FIRST STATION: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the serpent: Subject(s): Concentration Camps THE FIRST SURVEYOR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The opening of the railway line! - the governor and all! Last Line: I'm sorry, but I can't come down -- I'm dining out tonight!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Cattle; Horses; Hunting; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE GREAT NEBULA OF ANDROMEDA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We get into camp after Last Line: To murder you while you sleep Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Camping; Love; Camps; Summer Camps THE OLD CAMP COFFEE-POT (WRITTEN FOR EBEN W. MARTIN), by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old camp-mate, black and rough to see Last Line: From your black throat, old coffee-pot. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Camping; Cowboys; Camps; Summer Camps THE OLD CAMP; WRITTEN IN A ROMAN FORTIFICATION IN BAVARIA, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a cloud before the sun Last Line: If sadness fits the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bavaria; Camping; Life; Roman Empire; Camps; Summer Camps THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There's a playground hid in the forest's depths Last Line: With tender care and love. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Leisure; Parks; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN TENTS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque. Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips THE SUMMER-CANP BUS PULLS AWAY FROM THE CURB, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever he needs, he has or doesn't Subject(s): Camping; Summer; Farewell; Camps; Summer Camps; Parting THE TENT ASTRONOMER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a barrier against mosquitoes Last Line: Let lens and mirror lift me up toward light. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Camping; Solitude; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps; Loneliness THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War THE WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand outside my gate Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming THE WOMEN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Were not treated so well as I. Last Line: To work a miracle with everything left to her Subject(s): Women; Concentration Camps; Hair TO A WOMAN GLANCING UP FROM THE RIVER, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On either bank Subject(s): Camping; Rivers; Camps; Summer Camps TREBLINKA, by HENRY F. BEECHHOLD Poem Source First Line: Here are the ruins Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, by MARTIN EDMUNDS Poem Source First Line: Still, when the wind is right Last Line: Could you be the heilige jungfrau %of belsen and birkenau? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: That winter night they were burning corpses Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews UTOYASUKATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's a black bird Last Line: And you'll say yasukata Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters Last Line: The state you're living in. Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters WANDERERS, by JAMES HEBBLETHWAITE Poem Text First Line: As I rose in the early dawn Last Line: Pull up the stakes and go! Subject(s): Camping; Wandering & Wanderers; Camps; Summer Camps; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WAR OF THE SECRET AGENTS: 3. ANONYMOUS: ON A WALL AT BUCHENWALD, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: 11 november 1944 %I had one motive Last Line: Loyalty, and I carried it too far. %goodbye, goldilocks. Goodbye Subject(s): Concentration Camps WAR OF THE SECRET AGENTS: 4. KIEFFER'S DIARY: 1942-45: EXCERPTS, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: It is like a musical composition Last Line: They fear what I might say, yet I would not speak: %the methods the methods go on Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Diaries WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand outside my gate Last Line: My honeybee. %my centipede Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming YANKEE DOODLE UP TO DATE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Old spain took cuba by the hair Last Line: "those islands will come handy." Subject(s): Boys; Camping; Children; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood YOU CAN'T KILL A BABY TWICE, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: By the sewage puddles of sabra and shatila Last Line: Was to come home %safe Subject(s): Lebanon - Refugee Camps |
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