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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CENTRAL AMERICA Matches Found: 83 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADVICE TO TRAVELERS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: All this life you were cold Last Line: You will grow light enough %to vanish Subject(s): Central America; Nature ADVICE TO TRAVELERS II, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: When you wake, leave furtively Last Line: Be suspicious of the songs of sparrows %for there are no sparrows Subject(s): Central America; Nature AFTER THE WAR: 1. DROWNING, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: I loved you in ways you Last Line: I wish I had let you kill me Subject(s): Central America; Nature AFTER THE WAR: 2. THE LATE SHOW, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Memory crawls from every muscle in my body Last Line: On the plane coming home Subject(s): Central America; Nature AFTER THE WAR: 3. THE POLITICS OF COMPASSION, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: My youth and your hard destiny Last Line: Medicine taken again and again Subject(s): Central America; Nature AFTER THE WAR: 4. FUNERAL RITES, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: My fingers are like sticks and I don't mind Last Line: That year I was with you, that year I burned Subject(s): Central America; Nature BASILICA OF OUR LADY OF GOOD HEALTH, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: They shaped you from tzintzingue paste, rich yellow corn Last Line: The one shaped like a heart %I want a miracle for every part of my body Subject(s): Central America; Nature BIRTHDAY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The jobs you cannot or will not keep Last Line: That I will always be younger than you Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: A LITTLE FIRE, A WILD FIELD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: When I was a child, we could often see Last Line: Like light diffused through air %as thick as water Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: FIRST NIGHT, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The world beyond the page is yellow, the day is blue Last Line: Who will soon walk away from myself Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: FRIDAY: POOR TOM THAT EATS THE SWIMMING.., by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Boy children are all around you Last Line: He is younger than the youngest child you know Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: MONDAY: FALSE OF HEART, LIGHT OF EAR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Lines we cast, dust that stings our eyes, hooks in Last Line: Stop right where you are Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: NEXT DAY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Stale, the hard loaf of our day Last Line: The days when stone could talk? Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: OCEAN, AFTERNOON, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Sleep now in the parched sea of childhood Last Line: But skin with no love of breaking Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: SATURDAY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: My heart grows scales Last Line: I am dreaming %someone else's dream Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: SECOND DAY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: A bird whistles. You could not call that singing Last Line: And yellow green, in the dirty marketplace Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOULEVARD OF HEROES, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The day you took me up there, they marched Last Line: Fooling yourself. This is the safest life I know Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOUND CHILDREN, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: You, little blank slate Last Line: At play with forlorn pleasure Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: 1, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: This september, lovebugs over east texas Last Line: And another's reddish hair Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: 2, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Even this late in the evening, nettie's crypt Last Line: No small stone here to mark the story Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: 3, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: That autumn, twilight at the blake graves Last Line: The one white angel looked away Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: 4, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: A century-old tree dwarfs %mausoleum, angel, crypt Last Line: It is not love, %but heat only heat Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: PRELUDE: THREE WIVES' SONNET, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The wives did not survive. Over their graves Last Line: But the wives did not survive Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Prelude: Three Wives Sonne Subject(s): Central America; Nature CHILD'S GEOGRAPHY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: After we had language you Last Line: Of memory where we float and cannot find %a place to land Subject(s): Central America; Nature CHILDREN'S CORNER, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The game is pretend. The dark cape of superman Last Line: Starved by a happy childhood, our sad legacy Subject(s): Central America; Nature CHILDREN'S CRUSADE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The parade begins its black paper circuit Last Line: Taste of salt and sting your soft mouth Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 1. THE PATH TO THE MEADOW, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: We walk through the shadow Last Line: We will not come here again Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 10. THE UNDATED DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: I am drifting down from a blue, blue sky Last Line: And nothing will rouse me %from such calm water Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 2. CONFESSION, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Listen, doctor, I tell you Last Line: Foreign eyes that might have %held him here Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 3. THE CHILD'S BODY DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: You said look, but I would not look Last Line: And it is flesh %you no longer have to own Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 4. AIR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: There were the heirlooms %to consider Last Line: A faint whisper when I stepped %from the train in vienna Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 5. THREE DRESSES DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In the closet, there are three Last Line: Rustles in its muslin bag Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 6. DANCES DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: She ties the corsage to her wrist Last Line: Of the vague colors of august Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 7. THE STORY OF MARRIAGE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: If you marry me, though it's you Last Line: It is not a matter of choice Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 8. MERMAID DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: We followed her %her white lace dress Last Line: Her fins a scratch %across my forehead Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 9. MEMORY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: If he had been good to me Last Line: And then I would be free, %free and light as air Subject(s): Central America; Nature DOOR OF THE DEVIL, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: At puerto del diablo, the boys Last Line: The white streets of the city Subject(s): Central America; Nature EL SALVADOR DEL MUNDO, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: It's full moon here. Saturn and jupiter Last Line: Easing its way into the stone hand of god Subject(s): Central America; Nature FLOOD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: We drive the car into the next morning Last Line: On its line, a place of motion, nothing more Subject(s): Central America; Nature GRAND HOTEL, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In those days everything was forbidden Last Line: Fearful only of the wild cries of ravens? Subject(s): Central America; Nature HANDS OF TAINO: 1. ADMIRAL, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Laid out on vellum, the past Last Line: God and the crown. Both want too much Subject(s): Central America; Nature HANDS OF THE TAINO: 2. GOVERNOR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: At guanahani, they swam to the caravel Last Line: They have the faces of christian angels Subject(s): Central America; Nature HEART, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: I found your letter after a long month Last Line: Runs on hunger, a solid muscle %over its four empty, fragile chambers Subject(s): Central America; Nature HUNGER, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: What could I say to you that day Last Line: As the plane banks the white-clouds over lake michigan Subject(s): Central America; Nature ISLAND OF LOST LUGGAGE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: What breeze whispers when you step onto Last Line: Pick up your suitcase and go Subject(s): Central America; Nature LEAN YEAR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In the west room of an old house Last Line: I think your life will always matter Subject(s): Central America; Nature LEAVING THE OLD GODS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The people who watch me hang my coat Last Line: I can't understand your words Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Central America; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature LEON, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: I used to live in a big house by the church of st. Francis Last Line: And crying %bread Subject(s): Central America; Churchyards; Hunger LIGHTS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: That top-secret flight at night Last Line: Of all that was about to come Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Central America; Fights; Nicaragua; Revolutions LOVE POEM, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who widened the panama canal Last Line: My compariots, / my brothers Subject(s): Central America LOVE POEM, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who widened the panama canal Last Line: My compatriots %my brothers Subject(s): Central America MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1. FATHER, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Tommorrow's the twentieth century. Your brothers Last Line: What tom martin, with his forceful x, %never learned Subject(s): Central America; Nature MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 2. GRANDFATHER, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Your sister leaves the room whispering not true Last Line: The laws by which they could not live Subject(s): Central America; Nature MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 3. NURSE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: This room is cold as death. This room is death Last Line: For the chance to live again Subject(s): Central America; Nature MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 4. BATTLEFIELD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: No, it's impossible to imagine, the distance between france and cleburne Last Line: Everyone is dead, maybe everyone is dead Subject(s): Central America; Nature MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 5. DESCENDENTS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The last time we checked, one thanksgiving Last Line: The past we own exists on stone and white paper Subject(s): Central America; Nature MONSTER OF CHILDHOOD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In the house of your childhood, the blue monster Last Line: In it, the trees of childhood make a terrible sound Subject(s): Central America; Nature MOSQUITO KINGDOM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: The coronation ceremony was held in belize this time Last Line: The librarians say, and it can't be xeroxed; you touch it and it turns to ashes Subject(s): Central America; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Imperialism; Nicaragua; Vanderbilt, Cornelius (1843-1899) NEWS FROM THE IMAGINARY FRONT, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Nothing is the latest news of your death Last Line: The sweet milk of death, the salt blood %of someone else's war Subject(s): Central America; Nature NICARAGUAN TRIPTYCH, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember two dwarfs, back there in our country home Last Line: Under the impassivity of the firmament Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Central America; Clowns; Laughter; Memory; Nicaragua; Youth PARADISE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Everything is ours. Everything Last Line: Stretches, flat and without motion Subject(s): Central America; Nature PSALM 5, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Give ear to my words, o lord Last Line: As with armor-plated tanks Subject(s): Central America; Peace; Political Campaigns; Social Protest; War SEVEN: 1. COMMUNION, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Take this bowl of memory between your hands Last Line: Keeps death away, %outside the circle of our circle Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 2. PLAGUE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Death sweeps the country clean of untainted life Last Line: They marry false angels Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 3. CRUSADE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: She writes: come home to the dying. Come home Last Line: A world made sick with evil Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 4. FEAST, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: How cold it is in the world beyond memory Last Line: Lick our fingers over the greasy carcass Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 5. A GAME OF CHESS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Death will not answer your questions, sweet traveler Last Line: The board will buckle, the pieces scatter %black and white Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 6. WITCH-BURNING, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Advice to travelers: %avoid the south for there is pestilence Last Line: But if they are innocent, god is guilty Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 7. SEVEN, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: An hourglass, a sundial, a scythe, a silver bracelet. Milk, strawberries Last Line: Where there is no sky, only horizon Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 1. COUNTING ARMADILLOS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Beside the highway, vultures pick them down Last Line: As the semis fly by Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 2. MOVES, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The mover wants to sleep with me Last Line: Past medians choked with oxalis Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 3. THE CHANGE STONE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Weren't there two cities? Last Line: And sold stale chocolate door to door Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 4. THE BLACK SILK JACKET, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In the stiff photograph, six bone buttons Last Line: And take it all : there is nothing for us here Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 5. LEAVING, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: I leave the photograph in the left-hand pocket Last Line: I let them go. I let them all go Subject(s): Central America; Nature THOUSAND-YEAR WAR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Imagine, if you will, a people sleeping Last Line: Will we ever speak of it? Subject(s): Central America; Nature TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone brought them to palma Last Line: Impossible to bury them Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone brought them to palma Last Line: Impossible to bury them Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny And Tyrants; War TRAVELERS: 1, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: How did we come here? Last Line: Finally: shoes, jewelry, photographs Subject(s): Central America; Nature TRAVELERS: 2, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Flimsy as the reeds that scratch her bony cheekbone, the world is a Last Line: Essential landscape. Our hearts grew light when the burden of trying %to save ourselves lifted Subject(s): Central America; Nature TRAVELERS: 3, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: A man and a woman enter the landscape, moving clumsily Last Line: Whispers: brother, we will find it Subject(s): Central America; Nature VENUS THREAD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Here is the gold coin spinning Last Line: Who we are, what we will become? Subject(s): Central America; Nature VISIT OF DIPLOMACY: CENTRAL AMERICA, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: The wife of a visiting politician Variant Title(s): Gautemal Subject(s): Central America; Social Problems WOMAN SPEAKS TO HER PAST, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Lies make us up like a bed no one's slept in Last Line: But it is you who must speak Subject(s): Central America; Nature |
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