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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 17-JAN-32, by MIKLOS RADNOTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went hiking into the morning mountains
Last Line: Take care!
Subject(s): Death; Exiles; News; Prisons And Prisoners


A JACOBITE'S EXILE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The weary day rins down and dies
Last Line: The graves wherein we lie.
Subject(s): Exiles; Jacobites; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean


A NEW YORK TORY'S EPISTLE TO ONE OF HIS FRIENDS, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark glooms the day that sees me leave this shore
Last Line: He reigns secure the monarch of the wild.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Exiles


A NIGHT AT ST. HELENA, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It wants three hours to midnight. Do you hear
Last Line: Ninette, ninette, remember the old guard.
Subject(s): Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


A PEASANT WOMAN'S SONG, by DION BOUCICAULT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm very happy where I am
Last Line: Oh! Nobody but me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner
Variant Title(s): The Exiled Mother
Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; Homesickness


A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boat is always going by, set afloat
Last Line: Alone along the looming foreign shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Seashore; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


A RENEGADO EPISTLE TO THE INDEPENDENT AMERICANS, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We tories, who lately were frightened away
Last Line: The worst that can happen is -- feathers and tar.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Exiles; Treason & Traitors


ABOUT WRITING POETRY, by SOPHIE SLINGELAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why take time, with so little time left
Last Line: Will find we once had words
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ACHIMOTA: FROM THE STORY MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a place between accra and the legon hills
Last Line: A forest, and its meaning-%the place, and its silence
Subject(s): Exiles


ADMINISTRATOR, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The women are within her, smoking angel dust, sipping tea
Last Line: The state is your conservator; the prairie will be your life
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


AFTER THE MAD SONGS OF SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Squeezing a half-eaten peach, %I rub the other palm
Last Line: I hear mosquitoes sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Variant Title(s): After The Fall Of Saigon; After The Noise Of Saigo
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


AFTER WIRIYAMU VILLAGE MASSACRE BY PORTUGUESE, by JACK A. MAPANJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No, go back into your exile, go back quick
Last Line: Where is your verse? You have no shame! %no, go back until our anger has simmered
Subject(s): Exiles; Imperialism; Malawi; Massacres


AGAINST SIMPLE READING, by MEREDITH STRICKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother's hair is a maze I cannot read
Last Line: Against the enemy's decoding, against simple reading
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ALCESTE IN THE WILDERNESS, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evening is clogged with gnats as the light falls
Last Line: Peruked and stately for the final act
Subject(s): Exiles


ALIEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The foreign woman %asks for a drink
Last Line: Tattoos of her %sorrows
Subject(s): Exiles; Islands; Maps; Tourists; Travel


ALIEN, by NANCY PADDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: They can enter the window and they will
Last Line: That wobbles daily into darkness %into light
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ALL MY FRIENDS ARE EXILES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: We have everywhere to go, %but home
Subject(s): Exiles


ALL THAT IS NEEDED, by LOURDES ESPINOLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are alone in never-ending exile
Last Line: That we are alone, %alone, as ever
Subject(s): Exiles


ALPHABET BY THE POOL ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by LUSIA SLOMKOWSKA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother crawled with the rest
Last Line: Put their lips to a straw %and blew the insides out
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ALTAR CALL, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the day of my confirmation
Last Line: Who time is prone to make us forget %I offer this my third liberation
Subject(s): Exiles


AMONG STRANGERS, by SILVIA CURBELO    Poem Source                    
First Line: One lost track of the story
Last Line: One licked his empty plate
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


AN EXILE'S HYMN AT THE SUNSET OF THE SEA, by JULJUSZ SLOWACKI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I grieve, o god; for my sake in the west
Last Line: I'll grieve, o god!
Subject(s): Exiles


ANA IN MIAMI, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every morning in miami
Last Line: Is one more morning's blessing
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami, Florida; Survival; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish
Last Line: To survive?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians;


ANCIENT BALLAD: KING DON SANCHO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Time it is to pay, urraca %if your promise you would hold
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Distrust; Exiles; Hate


ANCIENT GREEK SONG OF EXILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the summer, with her golden sun?
Last Line: -- far from my own bright land!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Exiles; Greece; Greeks


AND I AM A WOMAN RAVISHED AND NAKED, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I'm a black man's child, still %stranded on the shores of saxon seas
Subject(s): Exiles


AND MOTHER WAS YOUNG, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Watching the defeated years %march past
Subject(s): Exiles


ANDROGYNY, by STEPHEN ORLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just when you thought it safe enough
Last Line: Which cannot distinguish one sex from the other
Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ANNE HUTCHINSON'S EXILE (1638), by EDWARD EVERETT HALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Home, home - where's my baby's home?
Last Line: "home, home, here's my baby's home!"
Subject(s): Exiles; Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643); Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict


ANNOTATIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This last work has evidently been
Last Line: Something shattering happened. %we can't reassemble the fragments
Subject(s): Exiles


ANOREXIC, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's only the attic I miss
Last Line: Where cheers rise from the empty bleaches %again and again, though %I am like a cloud by now, like v
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ANOTHER TIME TRACK, by ILZE MUELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's from another time track
Last Line: Is the slow rush and thrill of this wild passing %enough forhim?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ANTICIPATION, by SHEILA RICHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My friend says the vines are prized for making baskets. She
Last Line: It killed the lilac bushes and the weight may pull the phone lines down
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ANY ANYWAY I CAN'T GO HOME, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suddenly I recall that yesterday
Last Line: And being a long way from home %I don't know that I'll write it
Subject(s): Exiles


APOCRYPHA, by JANOS PILINSZKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything will be forsaken then
Last Line: Trickling, the empty ditch trickles down
Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Exiles; Farewell; Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Orphans; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude


APOLOGY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I demand an apology
Last Line: Marked by the scars of memory %fragile and alone
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


ASSIGNMENT, by LEN ROBERTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All of the pens leaked
Last Line: Staggered home from boney's bar
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


AT A PARTY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They want to petition the hungarian government
Last Line: Knitted into the sweater
Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Exiles; Government; Hungary


AT LAST RITES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a passion of disharmonies
Last Line: That portion of the earth which gave me birth
Subject(s): Exiles


AT MOTHER TERESA'S, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Finally there are enough people to hug!
Last Line: Her face closes. I will never guess
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


AT MT. AUBURN CEMETERY, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father is lying in a green %field, green, green under the sun
Last Line: What can I say, I who therefore %cannot be here to say it?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


AT PRESENT I AM WORKING AS A SECURITY GUARD, by EDISON DUPREE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watching a mallard, just beyond
Last Line: Feeding species
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


AT THE GATE, by NATHAN FREDERICK SPIELVOGEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: They drive me out of my country
Last Line: They'll be led by the alien jew.
Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips


AUTHOR IN EXILE TO HIS PUBLISHER IN PRISON, by VASSILIS VASSILIKOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear theodore, %going through some old papers
Last Line: Because, as the saying goes, careful accounts %make good friends
Subject(s): Exiles


AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN DOE, by JON LAVIERI    Poem Source                    
First Line: He got hauled in %on a routine sweep for illegals
Last Line: And over there, the man who posed %as a man we all knew
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BABOUCHKA, by SOPHIE SLINGELAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, does she still want to live?
Last Line: Let her go with her dreams yet unlived?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


BABYLEAVES THAT KILL THE RAVEN OR THE POSION TREE, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He ran away on a steamboat, a jalopy but quick. Playing
Last Line: When children and school openings collide. In mitsrayim
Subject(s): Escapes; Exiles; Ravens


BALLATA 11. LAST SONG; FROM EXILE, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I do not hope to return ever
Last Line: For her true worth, for ever
Subject(s): Exiles; Italian Renaissance


BANISHED FROM MASSACHSETTS; 1660 (PAINTING BY E. A. ABBEY), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the threshold of his pleasant home
Last Line: The gain was theirs, the loss alone was thine.
Subject(s): Abbey, Edwin Austin (1852-1911); Exiles; Paintings And Painters; Pilgrim Fathers


BARBELLS OF THE GODS, by MARK COX    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a thursday, getting late
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BATTERED TODDLER, PAGE B6, by ELLEN DORE WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes grown-ups forget you're down there
Last Line: Turns out to be, it will be one good mother
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BEE MOTHER, by MEREDITH STRICKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother - anya, meh
Last Line: We speak or will never hear
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


BEGGARS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each day as I leave holiday health spa
Last Line: Of stones dripping green blood, and rotting plums
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BEING A MONSTER, by LAWRENCE RAAB    Poem Source                    
First Line: You talk about disappointment
Last Line: That you and I share almost nothing
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BELOVED SPIC, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the new white neighborhood
Last Line: With a sign that read: for sale
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride
Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time.
Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas
Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


BLACK IRISH BLUES (1), by JOE-ANNE MCLAUGHLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already this tremor in my hands
Last Line: Understand, it killed me just the same
Variant Title(s): Companion Piece
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BLANTYRE, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rusty grey roofs, stunted white-washed walls
Last Line: Walled into personal prisons where fear rules
Subject(s): Exiles; Police States; Scotland


BLOOD IS A NEST, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blood is a nest of feathers
Last Line: The questions stayed behind %in my flight
Variant Title(s): Blood Nes
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Survival


BLUENESS OF THE DAY: 1. MIZUNO IN PARIS (1947), by DAVID MURA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It happened in an instant
Last Line: Of my eyes, the alien energy thrashing her thighs, %but no, it's just my face, that implacable mask
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BOB HOLLY, by J. E. LIDDLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two men a 'pipe' had in a 'show'
Last Line: And none have seen him from that date.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Exiles; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment


BODO, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We could weep for him
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


BODO, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We could weep for him
Last Line: In which a fish head floated
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BOOK OF HUMAN ANOMALIES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maud stevens received her first tattoo in 1904
Last Line: In and out of breath through our complex sleeps %astonishing
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America


BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys
Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States


BOTTLED, by JILL BRECKENRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When mother's drinking, the door to my room
Last Line: I love you. You!
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 1. PAUL KLEE IN EXILE, by PIMONE TRIPLETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caught, held between the joints, the sickness whispered
Last Line: You are the gristle thinning, you are the silence I grind.'
Subject(s): Exiles


BRODSKY IN EXILE, by AMY SCATTERGOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: He left russia with only his typewriter
Last Line: (it's trial underway) and flew like history over tired, sleeping europe
Subject(s): Exiles; Russia


BROKEN SONNETS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: After supper in the big room
Last Line: The one god and the angels forgot. Or simply missed
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BROTHER BODY, by PETER COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I am, awakened by accident
Last Line: I plug in the shaver, lift myself to it. Now today
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BURIAL, by ALICE WALKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have fenced in the dirt road
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts


BURIAL, by ALICE WALKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have fenced in the dirt road
Last Line: Them sad. But seen from the angle of her death
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


BYZANTINE NOBLEMAN IN EXILE COMPOSING VERSES, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The frivolous can call me frivolous
Last Line: It may be just this strictness that provokes their %disapproval
Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P.
Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Exiles; Poetry And Poets


CAJUN, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to take the word back into my body, back
Last Line: Again, the word's been stolen, like me %gutted
Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CALIBAN, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This tongue that I have mastered
Last Line: I speak this dispossession %in the language of the master
Subject(s): Exiles


CALLE DE LA AMARGURA, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the street of bitterness
Last Line: Calle de la amargura, no one is surprised %at the awful taste of paradise
Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


CANCIONES, by KENNETH ZAMORA DAMACION    Poem Source                    
First Line: What told us that the day was over?
Last Line: Perhaps, they'll call out to us
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CASE STUDY: ABUSE, BUT THE GIRL'S ROOM CLEAN . . ., by GAYLE ROGERS KAUNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile, the child regresses
Last Line: The rungs of her chair, vibrate %with their eager feet
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


CHOSEN, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They stand on the shore
Last Line: A plangent hope, a culture of water?
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami Beach; Seashore; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


CHRISTMAS IN THE MIDWEST, by MAUREEN SEATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I brought a lover home
Last Line: Without their disapproval, the headlights %of a straight society to validate us
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono
Last Line: I placed her %between my clothes in my packed suitcase. %that is how we left him %forever
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence


COLD HARBOUR SEASONS: 1. OUTSIDE AUTUMN, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never saw your homes
Last Line: How your nine to five friendliness %left me lonely nights
Subject(s): Exiles


COLD HARBOUR SEASONS: 2. STILL LIFE IN WINTER BROWN-OUT, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the background
Last Line: The slam of the dark solid door %clamming behind her in the echoing silence
Subject(s): Exiles


COLD HARBOUR SEASONS: 3. SUMMER'S POISONING IVY, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even in the sunshine
Last Line: An ivory haven of walls towering %corridors of lost faith
Subject(s): Exiles


COMMENT ON MY HOST, by MARK SOLOMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What a relief to be speaking again, restored
Last Line: Though he shakes his head, mumbling into his beard
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CONSENT, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling
Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindnesses no world can offer?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


CONSENT, by CAROL FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling
Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindness no %world can offer?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CONSPIRACY, by ROBERT HILL LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cambodian kids speak english faster
Last Line: The smile that translates all-clear, truce, %ok, hello. That says the kids can stay
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CORPOREAL, by ROBERT A. AYRES    Poem Source                    
First Line: In seventh grade larry saclarides had a gym locker next to mine, and
Last Line: Desire's root will grow
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


COUNTER-COUP, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Harshly aware of the brightness of electric light
Last Line: From guns to guns again: %again
Subject(s): Exiles


COYOTE'S DISGUISE AS A MAN IS UP, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coyote eats a tuna sandwich at her desk
Last Line: Now she was life itself. Star of texas. Blessing and gratitude
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


CRITIC, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the boston public library on boylston street, where all the bums come
Last Line: And start again: page one, chapter one, his blood-rimmed eyes as rapt as %david's doing psalms
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CRYPTO-JEWS, by ROBIN BECKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This summer, reading the history of the jews of spain
Last Line: Weather, peddle our goods and die into the future
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CUANDO EL TEOLOTE CANTA, EL INDIO MUERE, by CONSUELO DE AERENLUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long before the spainards came
Last Line: Slowly fill with tears
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CUBA, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: There it is, the long prow
Last Line: And the death of desire
Variant Title(s): The Floating Islan
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; West Indies


CURE, by EUGENE WILDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everyone in here hates. That is why this place is called a clinic
Last Line: The bars you are on
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CURRENT NOW, VOYAGER FANTASY, by REMY HOLZER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am standing tensely at the desk
Last Line: The woman with a past, the voyager, camille
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DANTE, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What should be said of him cannot be said
Last Line: Ne'er walked the earth a greaer man than he
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Exiles; Italian Renaissance


DAVID, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: There on the hills
Last Line: And commune with god.
Subject(s): Exiles; Solitude; Loneliness


DAVID'S RUMOR, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am busy doing drawings
Last Line: This riot, that hall, that vacancy and pressure %wherein we draw towards goodbye
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


DAY LILY AND THE FOX, by EMILY HIESTAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: An irish soul walks away from paddy's
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when
Last Line: In the evening ground when the bell
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Bedtime


DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when
Last Line: Sounded for [evening] prayer
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night


DEPARTED TRAVELLERS, by GRANT HYDE CODE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have been exiled among stony hilltops
Last Line: Have wistful eyes.
Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips


DEPRESSIVE EPISODE, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's funny, but I don't remember much
Last Line: Of health has tried to take her life. They hate her
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DESPERANTO, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dream's forfeit was a night in jail
Subject(s): Roth, Joseph (1894-1939); Exiles


DIALOGUE ON FINDING SOMEPLACE TO LIVE; AFTER ANNE SEXTON, by LORI STORIE-PAHLITZSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we were small we could call anything home
Last Line: When we were little we could call anything home
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


DIARY, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am at last that thing, a stranger in my own life
Last Line: And holding on between the few late pinched tomatoes %and the whistling dove
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Diaries; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DIRINGER'S THE ALPHABET: A KEY TO THE HISTORY OF MANKIND, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted . . .A guneaform, a woman's form
Last Line: But as I said, wiped out
Variant Title(s): On First Looking Into Diringer's The Alphabet: A Key To The Histor
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the disappeared woman
Last Line: Call my name
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons; Exiles; Human Rights


DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now with everybody %disappeared
Last Line: Charred %by moldering blood?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina


DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 3, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Find her, %uncover her
Last Line: On her saint's day
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina


DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 4, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dream her by roadsides
Last Line: And on thresholds %I embrace her
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina


DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 5, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had no witnesses
Last Line: Because I never went to my %own funeral
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina


DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 6, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother %I know you are calling me
Last Line: Filled with daggers and serpents
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina


DIVORCED, by DONALD SHARE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air swimming with the bugs' forlorn morse code on a hellish mid-morning
Last Line: The wind insistent, out rhythm inconstant, my thoughts divorced
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DONEGAL, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bog cotton and whin. A stone
Last Line: Goes up each morning, %singing to penetrate the sun
Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Exiles; Irish Language


DOOMSAYERS, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say because the tallest pine
Last Line: And they are wrong, all of them. %wrong
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


DOUBLE, by JOAN ALESHIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Attractive at that distance, hair fanning out
Last Line: Her true, betraying sister
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DOWN AND OUT DRUNK; WRITTEN ON LEAVING JING-KOU, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clouds were thin, the moon was faint
Last Line: But I am always setting off %to go farther on southeast
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Exiles


DOWNTOWN SUNDAY, by ROBERT+(2) CRAWFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The amputated husband
Last Line: Main street's like a lost %funeral procession
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DREAM TRANSFORMATIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My body heats in dreams
Last Line: And meanwhile expectant children are watching %meanwhile the children are waiting
Subject(s): Exiles


DREAM WAR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: With his eyes closed, he looked like a dead man on some eternal ship
Last Line: A wilderness rooted in a nighttime that knows nothing of daybreaks'
Subject(s): Dreams; Exiles; Soldiers


DUST AND BLUE, by CYNTHIA OLSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: All eyes watch the sky. The boring blue sky. No thunder-heads
Last Line: The child, so real, obediently in tow
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


EDEN RETOLD: 7. EXILE, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The one who gave the warning with his wings
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Exiles; Eve


EDGE, by SANDRA PRICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I set the shorelines of the world by perpetual decrees, so
Last Line: Gifts that come through gracem which has no bounds
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


EL SALVADOR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eva tells me %that she is from el salvador
Last Line: Not even the jews
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Escapes; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Immigrants; Memory; War


ELBA, by GERRIT KOUWENAAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wear a warning bloodcoat
Last Line: And st. Helena comes later
Subject(s): Cobra Artists; Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


ELEGIAC SONNET: 43, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The unhappy exile, whom his fates confine
Last Line: Then, from contrasted truth -- my feeble soul recoils.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Exiles


ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 2, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sodden moss sinks underfoot when we cross half-frozen bays and walk
Last Line: Separate, I can barely swallow, tell me the lyrics of your song. I want to sing %with you
Subject(s): Cold; Exiles; Snow


ELINOR FROST'S MARBLE-TOPPED KNEADING TABLE, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine that motion, the turning and pressing
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts


ELINOR FROST'S MARBLE-TOPPED KNEADING TABLE, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine that motion, the turning and pressing
Last Line: Clang open the door, tosses another stick %on the fire
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ELLIS ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1907 (1), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sadie, who was only twelve, wrote each letter down
Last Line: Where she could become it
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Marginality, Social; Names


ELM TREE ON LAFAYETTE STREET, by ROD KESSLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thinks it's all junk these days, the routine
Last Line: Thinks. Just look at me. And it bugs him that we don't get it
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EMBATTLED GARDENS I: THE ROAD THROUGH GETHSEMANE 1., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breaking out of old dispensations
Last Line: Sweating drops of blood %in a garden
Subject(s): Exiles


EMBATTLED GARDENS I: THE ROAD THROUGH GETHSEMANE 2., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The price paid was dear
Last Line: And do the rescued witness %the resolution in the rising
Subject(s): Exiles


EMBATTLED GARDENS I: THE ROAD THROUGH GETHSEMANE 3., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This was going to be about how christ
Last Line: Hear %the splintering of bones on wood
Subject(s): Exiles


EMBLEMS OF EXILE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hunchback in the park with halo of pigeons
Last Line: Which the beggarman mind accepts but cannot reconcile
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Exiles; Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Ugliness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


EMIGRANT - IMMIGRANT I, by RINA FERRARELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the people %beyond reckoning of generations
Last Line: They don't know, do you?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


EMIGRANT - IMMIGRANT II, by RINA FERRARELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A slight accent. %forming
Last Line: A bridge, a border town
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


EMIGRANTS, by KJELL ESPMARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do we darken the night sky for you
Last Line: We're trying in the next galaxy
Subject(s): Automobiles; Continents; Exiles; Immigrants; Travel


EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 5. THE EXILE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovelier than jewels
Last Line: "on the clear, green seas --"
Subject(s): Exiles


ENDURING WITNESS, THE MOSQUES OF KATTANKUDI, by PETER MICHELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Muhammad wheels us through
Last Line: Upon those durable imperatives %grace and hospitality
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EPIPHANY, by NANCY PADDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My church is filled with snow
Last Line: I kneel, %baptized, in a rush %of melting
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ERIN'S FLAG, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unroll erin's flag! Fling its folds to the breeze!
Last Line: "they'll sail to the music of ""home, sweet home!"
Subject(s): Exiles; Flags - Ireland


EROSION, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Parachuting into the desert is a quiet arrival
Last Line: Eroding the shore beneath the nomad's feet
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EUGENIE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In exile, widowed, childless, desolate
Last Line: Threefold the cross that measures love divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Exiles


EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO WORK CAN, by BROOKE WIESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman at the lecture waves her hand
Last Line: And who cannot read any of these words?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, by MARTIN JUDE FARAWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit %in the second-to-last seat
Last Line: The dumbest one in the room
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Kindergarten; Marginality, Social


EVOLUTION OF APPETITE, by KELLEEN ZUBICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think about st. Joan without
Last Line: Divoting, then lifting to end
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EXAMPLE, by PAUL ZIMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The papers on my desk out of hand
Last Line: Smile my abiding smile and work and work
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EXILE, by JESSIE J. DALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mine the lonely way
Last Line: I stand apart, and beat my lonely drum.
Subject(s): Exiles


EXILE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time came for him to be released
Last Line: The unruly fiction which he labored to believe
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EXILE, by MARTA FENYVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The train started to take off
Last Line: What - will - tomorrow - %bring
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


EXILE, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the evening they listen to the same
Last Line: Touches my dogs my friends
Subject(s): Exiles


EXILE, by ERICH FRIED    Poem Source                    
First Line: He took %flight
Last Line: Only %his flight
Subject(s): Exiles; World War Ii


EXILE, by NELS JENSEN HERBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me the fruit of eden's knowledge-tree
Last Line: In exile glad, despising paradise.
Subject(s): Exiles; Knowledge; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


EXILE, by YAHYA KEMAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Exile, what is it, can he know who has not been driven
Last Line: Yet this man, overcome by it, to be broken must endure
Subject(s): Exiles; Muslims


EXILE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dalai lama, exiled, fondles the beards
Last Line: There's a smile on every face %and on the face of god.
Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom; Religion; Tibet


EXILE, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He returned to grass two feet tall
Last Line: Felt his feet settling on the road
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EXILE, by BORIS NOVAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: No star can help me any more
Last Line: My only home is my throat
Subject(s): Exiles


EXILE, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: This mania of knowing I am an angel
Last Line: And devastate hope
Subject(s): Angels; Exiles; Love - Complaints


EXILE'S LETTER, by LI PO    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: To so-kin of rakuyo, ancient friend, chancellor of gen
Last Line: And send it a thousand miles, thinking.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Exiles


EXILE'S LETTER (OR: AN ESSAY ON ASSIMILATION), by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are in louisiana now
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Assimilation; Exiles


EXILE'S LETTER: AFTER THE FAILED REVOLUTION, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A world exists beyond the limits of this pane
Last Line: On regret road we must not tarry
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


EXILE, REPRESENTATIVE, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You grow less agile, more compliant
Last Line: From belching entrails come blind freedom fighters
Subject(s): Exiles


EXILE, SELS., by MARIE RENE AUGUSTE ALEXIS SAINT-LEGER LEGER                       
Subject(s): Exiles; France; World War Ii


EXILED, by MYRA WADSWORTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a country that I love, far away
Last Line: There's a green-grown tiny mound, far away.
Subject(s): Exiles


EXILED FROM NEW JERSEY, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted to come back, brother, and visit
Last Line: I will walk without shoes each of the million streets
Subject(s): Exiles; New Jersey


EXILED FROM THE LIGHT, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The president caressed the mane of his favorite horse
Last Line: Poor peruvians exiled from the light
Subject(s): Assassination; Exiles; Grief; Peru; Social Protest


EXILES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Funerals are important
Last Line: Our unburied dead eat with us, %follow behind through bedroom doors
Subject(s): Exiles


EXILES, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father, listening
Last Line: They leaned toward news %that never came
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EXILES, by JUDY F. HAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father beat the robins
Last Line: And never brought my babies home
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


EXILES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Exiles are we from our very birth
Last Line: Where the lost gods of our people are!
Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Home; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The


EXMATRIATE, by JACQUELINE LAPIDUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Waking to drizzle and the inevitable
Last Line: Eating dry bread in steerage %for a glimpse of the new world
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


FALLING FOR JESUS, by ENID SHOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For years I wanted to trade
Last Line: In a slack face-the pose %of a woman in love
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


FAREWELL, by FLORENCE CHARD DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I search %for the straight path
Last Line: How we love you! %but we are leaving
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


FEBRUARY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night approaching perfection
Last Line: Certain movements and shadows
Subject(s): Exiles; Winter


FEW WORDS IN THE MOTHER TONGUE, by IRENA KLEPFISZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lemoshl: for example
Last Line: Zi kholmt %di hor %di lange shvartse hor %zi kholmt %zi kholmt %zi kholmt
Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


FIRST LESSONS, REDUX, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not the hunter who is cunning
Last Line: But a moth dying on the screen %leaving her face-powder
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


FISH STORY: HOW LANGUAGE CARRIES US INTO THE UNKNOWN, by BRIGITTE FRASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We practice our scales
Last Line: They have secret names %but only we can sing them
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


FISSURES IN OLD FRIENDSHIPS: 1. ADMIRATION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In your sure footed stride
Last Line: Of those of us who crave %a strength to match your beauty
Subject(s): Exiles


FISSURES IN OLD FRIENDSHIPS: 2. WALKING DISTANCES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: 9 shadow falls this twilight
Last Line: Passes between us in our talk along this path %and leaves you wondering what happened
Subject(s): Exiles


FISSURES IN OLD FRIENDSHIPS: 3. DEMANDS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's not that I don't want you with me
Last Line: Or whimpering %behind me
Subject(s): Exiles


FISSURES IN OLD FRIENDSHIPS: 4. ROOMMATES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes, I waited
Last Line: And you have brought me %pink roses, out of season
Subject(s): Exiles


FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth was my home, but even there I was a stranger. This mineral crust.
Last Line: The intelligence of the stars
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


FOR A WOMAN MURDERED WHILE RUNNING AT LAND'S END, OCT. 1979, by PATRICIA KIRKPATRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late in the fall
Last Line: It is hard to keep going
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


FOR DEAR LIFE, by ALANE ROLLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before we pushed off for moon in manana land
Last Line: In this mess of a sea that never settles
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


FOR LEAH, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd like to spare a thought for leah, who
Last Line: Through all those years of being compared %I think I know the bitterness of sorrow leah felt
Subject(s): Exiles


FOR MY MOTHER, WHO LIVES: 4, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We come from a long line
Last Line: Reach a despairing hand across me %not that night, anyway
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ancestors And Ancestry; Exiles; Mothers


FOR THE DRUNK, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the river cleaves
Last Line: I hand him his hat
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1787, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The noblest bards of albion's choir
Last Line: His lyre had blameless been, his tribute all sincere.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Exiles; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Muses


FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call out the colored girls
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor & Laborers; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Work; Workers


FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call out the colored girls
Last Line: Planning their return %and they weren't even %sisters
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor And Laborers; Violence


FOREIGN LAND, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I work in a foreign country
Last Line: And I'll have lost everything in a foreign country
Subject(s): Absence; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


FOREIGNER'S ART, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is how I dress my face
Last Line: Soon he will turn away
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Strangers; U.s. - Foreign Population


FOREIGNERS, by MEREDITH STRICKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I meet gustavo and hilda
Last Line: Believing against all evidence, no one will take this away
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


FORKED TONGUE, by HELEN RUGGIERI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Celtic tribes speak an anapestic lilt
Last Line: One to be thought in, one to be loved %one for the heart, one for the head
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


FRAGMENTS OF LOST LOVES: 1. A DIVIDED LOVE POEM, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man I want
Last Line: And I've a whole lot of other gifts he doesn't now he doesn't %know
Subject(s): Exiles


FRAGMENTS OF LOST LOVES: 2. AN END TO THE AFFAIR, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the silence that separates
Last Line: And took a breath %and moved
Subject(s): Exiles


FRAGMENTS OF LOST LOVES: 3. CONFESSIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was confused
Last Line: I didn't tell you to hurt you either, %I just wanted you to know what I had known all along
Subject(s): Exiles


FREEDOM, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: For 20 years they hid your words
Last Line: Here, a poem %doesn't upset anyone
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Censorship; Exiles


FREEDOM, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A few months after
Last Line: Take care
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Freedom; Hunger; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


FREEDOM RIDES QUIZ, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can you tell me where is dien bien phu?
Last Line: I'll tell you who will; %ask the children of soweto if the answer rhymes with still
Subject(s): Exiles


FROM MY PARISIAN DIARY, by MBELLA SONNE DIPOKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thirty centimes is all the money I have left
Last Line: And we must open new fronts even in our dreams
Subject(s): Diaries; Exiles


FROM VERY CLOSE, by OTTO ORBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had been a battery commander and lived and slept with the
Last Line: Filled with dry bread that I've wrapped in paper
Subject(s): Exiles; War


GENEALOGY, by JOAN LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come from alcohol
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts


GENEALOGY, by JOAN LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come from alcohol
Last Line: And all that I could ever hope to bear
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


GENERAL, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had just planned
Last Line: Pieces of a jigsaw %without a trace of fear
Subject(s): Exiles


GENESES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are leaving the strait of belle isle
Last Line: Eddying currents of a song inspired %by the cadence heard at the end of an announcement
Subject(s): Exiles


GENESIS 4:3-10, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Am I my brother's keeper?'
Last Line: And the voice that asks the questions %is the self that knows the answers
Subject(s): Exiles


GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a story as famous as the three little pigs
Last Line: Downstream, and its upturned reflection in the water
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a story as famous as the three little pigs
Last Line: Nothing but the arc of the stone bridge he notices %downstream, and its upturned reflection in the w
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


GOOD DEVIL, by KURT BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was bad at torture. Flubbed his first flaying
Last Line: Glistening with everlasting life
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


GOOD LUCK, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Four hundred years ago
Last Line: Space in a prison
Subject(s): Exiles; History


GRAND TRADITION OF WESTERN CULTURE, by JULIA STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My girlhood was surrounded by flickering screens
Last Line: Their ghosts from the death camps %will be in the aisles and rooms screaming
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


GREEN MARKET, NEW YORK, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first day of false spring, I hit the street
Last Line: Whoever puts his hand to the plow and looks back %is not fit for the kingdom of god
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


GRIEF, by MAUREEN SEATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the ghanaian dancing we fought
Last Line: What does africa %mean to a black new yorked? And why %did you hurt so hard you had to sleep?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


GUARDIAN ANGEL, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afloat between lives and stale truths
Last Line: Beneath the surfaces of the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


GUESTS ON THE SEA, by MAHMOUD DARWISH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Guests on the sea: our visit is short
Last Line: Sea, do not give us the song that we do not deserve
Subject(s): Exiles


GWENDOLYN BROOKS, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She doesn't wear %costume jewelry
Last Line: Bro, they been calling that sister by the wrong name
Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


HANDFUL OF PEBBLES, MOUTHFUL OF STONES, by PEGATHA HUGHES    Poem Source                    
First Line: So serious. Why don't you smile?'
Last Line: Finally, I leave that place
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


HARLEM, by MAUREEN SEATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was little more that summer
Last Line: To keep ourselves from burning up %so hot the sun in our hearts
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


HEALTH'S EXILES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O diamond isle upon a diamond sea
Last Line: Back in the home-land where their heart remains!
Subject(s): Exiles; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


HEIRLOOM, by CINDA THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My great-grandmother's native %american eyes stare back
Last Line: Her son would ever wish %to know
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


HERBIE, by DAVID ALPAUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was almost eighteen years old
Last Line: You can have my fucking tricycle, herbie
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


HERMANN AND DOROTHEA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Truly, I never have seen the market and street so deserted
Last Line: "might against might, and peace should revisit us all with its gladness."
Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


HISTORIES OF NATIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And the next of these generations must weep again %when the first fruits die
Subject(s): Exiles


HOME NEWS, by AHMED TIDJANI-CISSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear son I am well thanks to god
Last Line: Send me a shirt and a neck-tie
Subject(s): Exiles


HOME NEWS, by AHMED TIDJANI-CISSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear son I am well thanks be to god
Last Line: Send me a shirt and neck-tie.
Subject(s): Exiles


HOMEGOING, by BRIGITTE FRASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hoboken was the first stop
Last Line: With one finger I followed the grain of the world
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil
Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Gays & Lesbians; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil
Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Homosexuality; Marginality, Social


HOUSE OF EXILES, by INGEMAR LECKIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The exiles' house has a doorway
Last Line: Lekh-lekha!
Subject(s): Exiles


HOW SHE OPERATES, by GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES    Poem Source                    
First Line: She holds you by the hair
Last Line: All in good time
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


HOW TO APPROACH YOUR LOVER'S WIFE, by AMY BOTTKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spot her, but don't lock on her
Last Line: Chat recipes with the host
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 7. 'SIENA MI FE', by EZRA POUND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the pickled fetuses and bottled bones
Last Line: Because of these reveries.
Subject(s): Exiles; Plarr, Victor Gustav (1863-1929); Poetry & Poets


I LEARNED TO SEW, by MITSUYE YAMADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I say this?
Last Line: Say that I am not going back %I am staying here
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


I MUST DEPART NOW, by ARIWARA NO YUKIHIRA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: So soon disordered
Subject(s): Exiles


IDENTITY CARD, by MAHMOUD DARWISH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Put it on record %I am an arab
Last Line: Beware, beware of my hunger %and of my anger
Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Middle East - Conflicts


IF SHE CAN'T HEAR YOU, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ask each of them, nine boys, one girl, to make a list of leaders, of he
Last Line: How long before you are no longer the mother of a young girl's dream's?
Subject(s): Exiles


ILLICIT PASSION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All our dreams are possible
Last Line: Straining for rain through a scarred earth %hiding traces of abandoned lives
Subject(s): Exiles


IMAGINATION, by DINA UAHUPIRAPI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I am six years old in sub b, sitting on the big rock
Last Line: Shiny memory to take with me to travel around the world
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


IN AND OUT OF CHECKPOINTS, by YE WEILIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is the river a boundary line?
Last Line: Is the sea a boundary line?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


IN DREAMS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In dreams the exile cometh home
Last Line: In dreams alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dreams; Exiles; Nightmares


IN EXILE, by BLANCHE EDITH BAUGHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea is a lonely thing
Subject(s): Exiles


IN EXILE, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twilight is here, soft breezes bow the grass
Last Line: And the broad prairie melts in mist of tears.
Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Judaism


IN EXILE, by MORRIS ROSENFELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, with the wand'rer's staff in hand
Last Line: Lo, there will cease the tyrant's rod.
Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers; Zionism; Judaism


IN EXILE, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An angel with a flaming sword
Last Line: Whose form is life, whose shadow death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Exiles; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


IN MEMORIAM, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since poems aren't always organized
Last Line: You, me, soledad gonzalez
Subject(s): Exiles; Memory; Women - Secluding


IN PRAISE THAT IT WAS NOT MY BONE AND TISSUE, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The face out the window of my darkened room
Last Line: Dust %where his bullets just missed the dining room lock
Subject(s): Exiles


IN THE BARN, by ROGER FANNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cat composed as an uncut pie
Last Line: How they beg to be devoured
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


IN THE BASEMENT OF THE GOODWILL STORE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In musty light, in the thin brown air
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


IN THE BASEMENT OF THE GOODWILL STORE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In musty light, in the thin brown air
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students


IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life
Last Line: Des moines, I was saying to myself %baton rouge. Terre haute. Boise
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations


IN THE NEW COUNTRY, by BARBARA RAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love america. Ham bones and shoes
Last Line: We'll feed to the pig in the cellar
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, SIXTEEN MONTHS SOBER, by JOAN LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To find words for this
Last Line: I'm picking up %this pen
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't the body
Last Line: Though you utter %every one of my words, %you are a stranger. %it's time you spoke.'
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


INNER MONGOLIA - THE GRASSLANDS, by SIBYL JAMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The road climbs steeply till it crests above the hills
Last Line: That circle of protection, keeping always on the edge %of longing, unable to swing home
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


INSOMNIA LITANY, by JOAN LOGGHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a jew among sunflowers, a jew
Last Line: Of the unlabeled. An uncircumcised sleep
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


INVISIBILITY POEM: LESBIAN, by ILZE MUELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's quite enough to %identify her
Last Line: The times she imagines %the price she pays for
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


INVISIBLE BOUNDARIES, by MAUREEN VIOLA HURLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: No conozco la palabra to say I sometimes miss you en espanol
Last Line: How easily I was replaced by the one %who wears your daughter's face
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ISRAEL AND COLUMBIA, by JOHN MCCABE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O glory of an elder age!
Last Line: As herald of the new world's morn.
Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Language; Jews; Right To Asylum; Judaism


ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON                        Poet's Biography
First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires
Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Estrangement; Outcasts


ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires
Last Line: Through the heart. Corazone. Corragio. Core
Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


IX, by GIZELLA HERVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What a trap: the stone the light
Last Line: From whose hands we can receive bread
Subject(s): Exiles; Punishment; Whips


JERUSALEM IN ZION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We haven't grasped the prophecies, dreams, birthrights
Last Line: Zion may stand, but dear god, %jerusalem's divided
Subject(s): Exiles


JERUSALEM SHADOW, by MELANIE KAYE-KANTROWITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine the desert the cast of light
Last Line: Let my people heal
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


JEWISH, by HARVEY M. PLOTNICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My skin is white, but my name is foreign, a dark reflection
Last Line: And sometimes you sudder as I stir in mass graves
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jews; Marginality, Social


JOTTINGS: EXILE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You cannot exile me
Last Line: How then can you exile me?
Subject(s): Exiles


JUST THIS DAY, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just this day, white winter
Last Line: The beautiful ones %are still among us
Subject(s): African Americans; Exiles; Freedom; Protest, Social; Writing And Writers


KIND OF LOSS, by INGEBORG BACHMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Used together: seasons, books, a piece of music
Last Line: It's not you I've lost, %but the world
Subject(s): Exiles


KNEADING BREAD, by TERESA ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a rhythm to it
Last Line: Of the heel of your hand %do not be afraid
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


KNIFE-THROWER'S WIFE, by MEKEEL MCBRIDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The knife-thrower's wife stands
Last Line: Like a crowd of adoring suitors
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LACKAWANNA ELEGY, by IWAN GOLL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: America %the tongues of your rivers burn with thirst
Last Line: In the rose-garden of your sick soul %the holocaust waits to begin
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan
Subject(s): Exiles; United States; World War Ii


LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along
Last Line: Until we're even. Until the last %coin is rubbed for luck and spent. %I don't sell for nothing less
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States


LADY'S SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear
Last Line: When pan, and his son, and fair syrinx, return
Variant Title(s): The May Queen; Phillis Unwilling; The Beautiful Lady Of The Ma
Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460)


LAMENT OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH EXILE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I want to win me hame
Last Line: Ancient history began.
Subject(s): Exiles; Ireland; Lament; Irish


LAMENTATION FOR LOST HARMONIES: FOR SINGER, FLUTE, DANCER, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I must seek sure notes for the dancer
Last Line: And steps for the dance %for a harmony of children to sing free
Subject(s): Exiles


LARGE BEAK FINCHES, by IMNIWOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The large beak finches have flown away
Last Line: Will not have left any traces
Subject(s): Absence; Exiles


LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, by ARIEL DORFMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When they tell you
Last Line: Don't believe them
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons; Exiles; Human Rights


LAY OF THE CID: HIS WIFE & DAUGHTERS COME TO EXILED ONE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And lo! The dame ximena came with her daughters twain
Last Line: May they grant me, wife, much honored, to serve thee then once more
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Exiles


LAY OF THE CID: THE BANISHMENT OF THE CID, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He turned and looked upon them, and he wept very sore
Last Line: That he lacked the king's favor now well the cid might see
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Enemies; Exiles; Grief


LAY OF THE CID: THE FAREWELL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And now the prayer is over and the mass in its due course
Last Line: The god who gave us spirits shall give us aid also
Subject(s): Absence; Cid, El (1043-1099); Exiles; Grief; Travel


LAZARUS, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: After jesus raised him from the dead
Last Line: God's name in vain on his cracked and loamy lips
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LEARNING MY FATHER'S LANGUAGE, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He tells me about the time
Last Line: Pronouncing from his first year %reader a word he sees on the page: %em-er-gen-cy
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


LEARNING THE WAR, by WENDY WILDER LARSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never made friends faster
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LEAVING, by MARGOT FORTUNATO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who would have guessed she didn't have everything
Last Line: No one saw her afterwards
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


LEAVING EDEN, by NADYA AISENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The date palm and the cypress
Last Line: Before we tasted murder, mortality
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women's Rights


LEAVING THE COUNTRY, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He drifts into a room of strangers
Last Line: Or run across the wet summer grass
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


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


LEFT EYE OF ODIN, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She knows them all. Urchins. Beggars
Last Line: In the garden, a bird rings the bell %of sky
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


LESSON, by KATHLEEN CAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pride got passed at the breakfast table
Last Line: No. He said. Worse. %worse
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


LETTERS FROM AN EXILE, by VALERIE DUFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trotsky's dead. My strays
Last Line: We argue, we sweat
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LIBERATION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are all mothers
Last Line: What we will make %of the broken pieces of our lives
Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom


LINE UP, by FORREST HAMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again, someone took me %for another black man, my brother
Last Line: Presuming it belonged to me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trembling old men are stamm'ring
Last Line: An ode to humanity.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Humanity; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism


LISA'S RITUAL, AGE 10, by GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Afterwards when he is finished with her
Last Line: It is tall like a promise %only better
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Child Molesting; Exiles


LITTLE CITIZEN, LITTLE SURVIVOR, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A brown rat has taken up residence with me
Last Line: Lend me your presence, and I will lend you mine.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Rats; Estrangement; Outcasts


LIVING IN AT LEAST TWO WORLDS, by CLEM L. RAWLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back from the spring in the green draw
Last Line: Glad the oat-man's home
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature


LONG DIVISION: A TRIBAL HISTORY, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our skin loosely lays
Last Line: I suckle coyotes and grieve
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature


LONG FOR HOME, by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Long for home and hate your homeland
Last Line: Like rain upon the ocean %fall your tears
Subject(s): Exiles; Homesickness


LOVE OF BLONDES, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't know what I would be
Last Line: And I obliging
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


LXIV, by GIZELLA HERVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've no country only castles and cities
Last Line: Is really ours
Subject(s): Exiles


LXXXVI, by GIZELLA HERVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wane with the moon
Last Line: To never-resurrection
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners


MACENATTOWAWIN (BIRCH BARK BITING), by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The white bark is peeled from the birch. The layers pulled apart
Last Line: Bringing her bitings from the dark
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


MAGNIFICAT!, by MICHAEL S. GLASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight, on holiday in oxford, bach's magnificat
Last Line: Gloria et spiritui sancto
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MAL'OCCHIO, by JENNIFER MARTELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The red pepper hangs from a nail
Last Line: Muffled goodness. Beneficent abstraction. Snuffed flame
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MAN IN THE MOON, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: White-faced, white-suited, as big as the full moon in the tropical sky
Last Line: Black sky like a terrible white sign: they know you wherever you are
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MANIC: A CONVERSATION WITH JIMI HENDRIX, by TIMOTHY SEIBLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: All these hang-ups, all this time wasted when
Last Line: Is a smile, you know
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MARIUS AMONG THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas noon - and afric's dazzling sun on high
Last Line: "marius, the exile, rest where carthage once hath been!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Carthage; Exiles; Marius, Gaius (157-86 B.c.)


MARK, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shatterfall. Scutter
Last Line: This isn't about truth
Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MAWU OF THE WATERS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am mawu of the waters.
Last Line: As fresh streams surge %to make seas.
Subject(s): Exiles


MAWU/MAWO, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mmmmmmmmmmm
Last Line: A! A!
Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom


MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust
Last Line: " at drancy. There, the nazis let him die - a sick old jew? - ""natural death. "" "
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust
Last Line: - an old jew with pneumonia - 'naturally.'
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MEAL, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You wonder what it is that makes them pray
Last Line: They say grace they are not forsaken %and mean it. You wonder
Subject(s): Exiles


MEMORY OF WILMINGTON, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty-some years ago, hitchhiking
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


MEMORY OF WILMINGTON, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty-some years ago, hitchhiking
Last Line: Was far along on its way to becoming a city %and already well advanced on its way back to dust
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts; Mennonites


MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance
Last Line: That we lift, as chaff lifts, toward god
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles


MIAMI: 2.CALLE OCHO, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the ebb and flow
Last Line: Riding the edge of the sea
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Love; Sea Voyages; Tourists; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


MIDLIFE, by JOSEPH MILLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's slim and seems distracted, the social worker
Last Line: And the wind in th trees outside %like someone passing
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MIGRATIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have lived that moment of the scattering of the people
Last Line: Where do the birds fly, after the last sky?
Subject(s): Exiles


MITSRAYIM, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A country of the sultan of jinns where he secretly escaped
Last Line: Mitsrayim. Forty days. He has grown his hair. He likes his loneliness
Subject(s): Exiles; Sea Voyages; Travel


MONARCHS, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All morning, as I sit thinking of you
Last Line: The beauty and silence of the great migrations
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Longing


MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My body is a white thing in the sun, now
Last Line: Polished and swarming frankly in the sun
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MOTHER, by BEA LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish that I could talk with her again
Last Line: You're a big girl now. You can work things out
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Maturity


MOTHER TONGUE, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dark cul de sac
Last Line: I cannot answer %I have stopped speaking
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


MOUNT SINAI REVISITED, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Desperately in need
Last Line: We seek yet another %sign
Subject(s): Exiles


MOVE 5 HOUSES DOWN THE STREET IN A DAY, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Iron horse. Ah ho. Iron lung. Rattling the air. Squeezing out smoke
Last Line: The nurse of the heart saying soon it will get well
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


MURDERER, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I talked, I kept thinking
Last Line: I hardly know what I've done
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MUTE PROPHETS, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a language before
Last Line: And the world %will tremble
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MY FIRST MEMORY, SWITZERLAND, CIRCA 1947, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think I was not yet two
Last Line: Snorting hugely %& drank up all my water
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


MY MOTHER'S HOMELAND, by BELKIS CUZA MALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother always said
Last Line: The place where she would die
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


NAME THE OLDEST MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY, by KALAMU YA SALAAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The baby, the newborn, is the oldest
Last Line: Eternity are wise enough to distinguish
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NAPOLEON AT HELENA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And who shall write thine epitaph? Thou man
Last Line: "o'er unforgiven injuries, answer'd -- ""none."
Subject(s): Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


NAZIS, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god they're all gone
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


NAZIS, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god they're all gone
Last Line: I can see he's not one of us
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NEW BOY, by PETER E. MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crossing brooklyn ferry from staten island
Last Line: To play with, someone mean enough to take him in?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NEW NETHERLAND, 1654, by GRACE SCHULMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pardon us for uttering a handful
Last Line: To tales unstamped by laws and never sacred
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NEW REFUGEE, by MARISELLA VEIGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stands %outside my door this morning
Last Line: Come in. Have lunch. In this house %we are not without a gun
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Refugees


NEW YORK CITY MIRA MIRA BLUES, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the freeway you can almost
Last Line: A shroud of down, stilling, if only %for a moment, the island's screams
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City


NIGHT SHIFT AT THE FRUIT CANNERY, by ILZE MUELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The thin neon light spills on the hands in the tubs
Last Line: Still dazzle-eyed, they look up and see %stars in their multitudes blazing over their heads
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


NO TOOL OR ROPE OR PAIL, by BOB ARNOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It hardly mattered what time of year
Last Line: And they waved
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NOBODY HERE BUT US, by RICHARD GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Being old is not so bad. You wake up
Last Line: And spin that chicken over my head, spraying blood like rain
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NOCHEBUENA, by ROSARIO CAICEDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where I come from we have no snow
Last Line: Sometimes I feel %that I've been left %with nothing
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


NORTH, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ancients knew the sorrows of exile
Subject(s): Exiles; North, The


NOSTALGIA, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why look back at the old roads again? Drugs and buggery flourished. My
Last Line: Under those wheels...Oh, I welcome it
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


OBON: FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD, by MITSUYE YAMADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the day of the festival uncle leads our
Last Line: The sky is aflame as thousands of silent roman %candles float out with the tide
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Japanese Americans - Internment; Rites And Ceremonies


OF COLOURS AND SHADOWS, by AHMED TIDJANI-CISSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Royal blue azure blue %the nobility of a cololur
Last Line: I have ceased to be the shadow of my colour
Subject(s): Exiles


OHIO IS THE IROQUOIS WORD FOR BEAUTIFUL, by HELEN RUGGIERI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon is nailed to the 'river' %by a great horn of light....'
Last Line: A great corucopia %flowing into the ohio
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This could be scotland: a crag and far below
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This could be scotland: a crag and far below
Last Line: There was room for air, if you were there
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, by GERALD COSTANZO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a time in my life when
Last Line: Neighborhood %once more
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


OLMOS, by DENNIS NURKSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man walks a dusty road
Last Line: That will mould me out of ashes
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ON A CERTAIN FIELD IN AUVERS, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the road to hallucination
Last Line: And the great light of the sun
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


ON A CERTAIN FIELD IN AUVERS, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the road to hallucination
Last Line: And the great light of the sun
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ON BEING KICKED OUT OF THE HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY CENTER FOR NAPPIN, by THOM WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above me no seraphim or nymphs
Last Line: Dear james I too %have wasted my life
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ON BEING TOLD I DON'T SPEAK LIKE A BLACK PERSON, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Emphasize the h, you ignorant ass
Last Line: Greetings familiar %in any language
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


ON RETURNING, by BRIGITTE FRASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today I learn 'tamarisk'
Last Line: The mountains will go with me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ON TV THE FACE OF THE SLAUGHTERED, by LYLE GLAZIER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Hungry, in fact, as hell
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ONE POLAR BEAR, by PETER SEARS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know how in the zoo most of the polar bears
Last Line: I know about rubbing yourself away on the bars
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Irene loves a man %who is afraid of sex: she's attended
Last Line: Would say it was somebody else's
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE. SILENCE, by LUCIA CORDELL GETSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: April. I have wheeled you to the park
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ORIGINAL MIND, by NANCY PADDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though the world fills with sorrow and rage
Last Line: Stumbling over the very roots %of paradise
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


OTHER SIDE, by MEREDITH STRICKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The country she inhabits, where pale people
Last Line: As you cross the stage, cross the mirrors %in a saffron dress, turning and returning
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


OVID IN EXILE, by GENE THORNTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hate the quiet, green suburban hills
Last Line: That taper down too soon to red-eyed dawn
Subject(s): Exiles; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rome, Italy


PAID VACATION, by JOAN OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've decided to go away forever
Last Line: Lives in exile
Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Travel; Vacation


PARACHUTIST'S WIFE, by SANDRA M. GILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six men turned to smoke in the next square
Last Line: In my bone cave %I marry the wind
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


PARADING WITH THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apache, omaha, osage, choctaw, comanche, cherokee, oglala, micmac
Last Line: Absence of buffalo here in the %gateway to the west, st louis
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): Parading With The V.f.w
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Depressions, Economic; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


PAREDON, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Staring down the mountainous wall
Last Line: Cursed island who has never known its sick from itself
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PARTY, by DONALD FINKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: They're throwing a party upstairs
Last Line: With, my delectable sea-grape %I do without
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PASSING (2), by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A professor invites me to his black lit class; they're
Last Line: My father quizzed me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


PASSING (2), by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A professor invites me to his black lit class; they're
Last Line: What do you think %he would always write?' my father'd say
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PATHOLIGIST, by ELLEN DUDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If he turns them, they are purple, black from head to heel
Last Line: Cool belly, his whole body tingling
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PAUL VERLAINE AT THE GRAVE OF LUCIEN LETINOIS, by BIN RAMKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does the world with its lung of ocean breathe
Last Line: He could not buy his bones
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PEOPLE AT THE PAY TELEPHONE, by VICTORIA MCCABE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A husband or a lover has run this one out
Last Line: Eating fine food, talking to people
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker / slapped the back of my head
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools; Estrangement; Outcasts; Words; Vocabulary; Students


PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker %slapped the back of my head
Last Line: In your palm, the ripe weight
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools


PETITION OVER PRAYERS UNSPOKEN: AN INCANTATION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: With the gift of laughter beloved of the lord
Last Line: Through the dailiness of living which %the living take for granted
Subject(s): Exiles


PETITIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: And we have asked for courage not
Last Line: Making more barren %the strangeness of our foreign homes
Subject(s): Exiles


PHARAOH'S ARMY GOT DROWNDED, by LYNN DOMINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cop's face for an odd second
Last Line: In any world but ours
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PHAROAH, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: ...Grown. And you used to go to bed with a pharaoh till
Last Line: Ready to bear this monstrous traveler in hashish
Subject(s): Exiles; Travel


PHOTO THAT WATCHES, by CARLOTA CAULFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I, who have been so many angels
Last Line: You, who have been so many angels
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


PICTURE FROM MY COUSIN, by ILZE MUELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted to write about these children on the beach, but what can
Last Line: And my heart clenches with fear and with love for these %children, the summer after chernobyl
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


PILLAR OF FLAME, by BARBARA UNGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A clumsy cross burns
Last Line: I dig the pit again. %I kneel inside
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


PLANTINGS, by CATALINA CARIAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everywhere %they go %they plant
Last Line: Gardenias %are birds %of paradise
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


POEM, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was something I can't bring myself
Last Line: I pulled to the side of the road and wrote this poem
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER, by LESLEA NEWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Minukha, minukha, here comes your faigl's rukhl
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women


POEM FOR NATALIA GINZBURG, by ANITA HELLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When natalia ginzburg died, the papers of her region declared
Last Line: The nocturnal pause between two pronouns, you and I
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


POEM FOR THE MAN WHO SAID SHIT, by DAVID CLEWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first I lost it in your beard
Last Line: The sergeant will say it's people like me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


POEM OF THE CID: 1. THE CID CALLS HIS VASSALS TOGETHER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He %turned and looked back to see the towers
Last Line: This treachery upon me
Subject(s): Exiles


POEM: 4, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Edward our comely king
Last Line: And keþed him in þe berde.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; France; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness


POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: AN EPITAPH, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some leave their home for private discontent
Last Line: Which was thy good, and true religion.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Exiles; Grief; Home; Knights & Knighthood; Sorrow; Sadness


POETS, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What were they like as schoolboys? Long on themes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PORTRAIT, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hair - shiny black geisha hair
Last Line: Please be nice to me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Sexism


PORTRAIT, by CONSTANCE URDANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trespasser in my own house
Last Line: Not even the dog knows me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


POURING OUT MY FEELINGS AFTER PARTING FROM YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drip drip, the rain on paulownia leaves
Last Line: One who shares my heart has gone away %and I learn how emptych'ang-an can be
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Exiles


PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts


PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take
Last Line: Either life you choose will end in her arms
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women


PREFACE, SELS., by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID    Poem Source                    
First Line: I write in a language that exiles me. The relationship of an arab poet
Last Line: A promise of a beginning, a perpetual beginning
Subject(s): Arabic Language; Exiles


PROSE-POEM FOR LYNNE: 1., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your sudden call scattered my meditations
Last Line: Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not %recovered?
Subject(s): Exiles


PROSE-POEM FOR LYNNE: 2., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: How long?
Last Line: And can only write these words for you %out of an early sorrow
Subject(s): Exiles


PROSE-POEM FOR LYNNE: 3., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yet is the journey over?
Last Line: We sing songs for you %for we are glad we walked together, awhile
Subject(s): Exiles


PSALM 137: EXILE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We sat & cried along babylon rivers
Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


PUT A WOMAN INTO THE MEMORY BOX, by BRIGITTE FRASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steady in the darkness
Last Line: Gazing quietly at your image
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


PYTHIAN ODES: 4. COURAGE IN EXILE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When some great oak-tree, glorious in mens' gaze
Last Line: And its home lies desolate
Subject(s): Courage; Exiles


QUICKNESS OF FEAR, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Putting away wedding gifts
Last Line: I am waiting for you %to leave me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


RACIAL MEMORIES, by ELIZABETH MISCHE JOHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dinah shore sings of america
Last Line: By my rejection of everything she knows to be true: the beautiful %are blond
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


RADIATING NAIVETE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a false philosopher of this
Last Line: Knuckled god, nobody's humming bird
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


RADIO YEREVAN, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since 1915 %the walled monastery
Last Line: His happy child %will inherit all his tears
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


RAID ON A CHEYENNE VILLAGE, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death was lovely
Last Line: What could be lovelier than the fire - %oak yellow, orange %red as life?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


RAINBOW CALENDAR OF ISAAC LURIA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nisan if you see the rainbow from the east side
Last Line: Great sorrow in the deserts
Subject(s): "cabbala;calendars;exiles;jews;luria, Isaac Ben Solomon (1534-1572);mysticism - Judaism;" Kabbala;kabbalah;judaism


REMEMBERING MEXICO, 1969, by BARBARA LAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were dauntless then
Last Line: On the edge %of danger
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


REMEMBERING THE PRIEST QUANG TRI, by DOAN VAN KHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though you fled the capital for the woods
Last Line: In rivers and mountains, his face still shines
Subject(s): Clergy; Exiles


REPORT FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY, by CHARLENE LANGFUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: A friend writes, 'we're not talking about any port'
Last Line: Play us songs %that will make our feet tap until nothing else matters
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


RESTAURANT, by MAXINE HONG KINGSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The main cook lies sick on a banquette, and his assistant
Last Line: And wonder at the clean diners behind glass in candlelight
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Restaurants


RETABLO, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The park bench is unoccupied
Last Line: Tomorrow is christmas
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Homeless; Marriage; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


RETURN TO MANKILLER FLATS, OKLAHOMA, by MARY CRESCENZO SIMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another trail of tears
Last Line: And bellies of those spirits walked before
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


RETURNED AMERICAN, by KATHLEEN CAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stare out of the long windowed house
Last Line: And the trees in the rain
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


RIDDLE OF NOAH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You want to change your name. You're looking
Last Line: In quest of his rightful self while the world looks on
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ROBERT WILSON, by MICHAEL COLLIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though he is dead now and his miracle
Last Line: Straight in the river and walked deftly toward us %out of the water to his shoes %that lay abandoned
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WHITHER NOW?, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither now? My stupid foot
Last Line: Have myself been wandering greatly.
Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; War; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


RUSSIA 1914; BOLINAS 1988, by GAIL SHAFARMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of my window high as aerie
Last Line: Of salt, of fish, of water, %of blood
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SALT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lisa, leona, loretta? %she's sipping a milkshake
Last Line: In a wooden barrel
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house in detroit
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life


SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house in detroit
Last Line: With cousin and brother %against the stranger
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 4. CHIMAYO, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dog ambles across the empty dusty road
Last Line: I am the bear that comes at nightfall %to greet the new moon%soy india, soy mexicana %soy mujer %soy
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTOS AND STONES, by J. DELAYNE BARBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alma, te quiero que tu no eres ni gringa
Last Line: You might have ended elsewhere %than on that bridge, alma, cupping the blue %of the sky in your fath
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure sunlight is strewn all over the lawn
Last Line: I'm on nobody's team
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SEA WORLD, by ERIC BERLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This lady in her wheel chair has been left
Last Line: Move as slow as pennies dropped in a pool
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SEARCH, by NANCY PETERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mugsy, what happened to you?
Last Line: I breathe out %to pink your flesh
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SEARCHING FOR SCHUPFEN, by DONA LUONGO STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's not just schupfen she's looking for
Last Line: She'll tell each child what the flowers smell like %and if there's a name, the name
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SEASON OF THE DEAD: 1. VERGILIAN FORTUNES FROM THE AENEID, by ANDRES ROJAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weeping I left my native coast
Last Line: The only crop we had that year was death
Subject(s): Exiles; Travel


SECOND LANGUAGE, by CHRISTINE DUMAINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I must die young
Last Line: Then there is earth I say %lifting hands of louisiana black
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SEED IS THE LIGHT OF THE EARTH; FOR MURIEL RUKEYSER, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the absence of light
Last Line: As the seed loves the earth enclosing it
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SENSE OF WRITING, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see piles of dirty coffee cups
Last Line: And grope for words I cannot find. %I need someone here that I can touch
Subject(s): Exiles


SERMONS FROM RIVERSIDE: 1. CHOICES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the moment of hesitation before the knife fall
Last Line: Before the promise dies, the lamb cries %and astonished children climb off the altar
Subject(s): Exiles


SEVEN SIDES AND SEVEN SYLLABLES; FOR AIMEE CESAIRE AND PIERRE EMMANUEL, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happen you come on your own
Last Line: With this, my derisive voice.
Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Negritude (literary Movement); Poetry & Poets


SEVEN SORROWS: 2, by WANG CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jing-man is not my home
Last Line: This wayfaring will never end, %the sting of care is hard to endure
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Exiles; Night; Solitude


SHAME, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the shame of the woman whose hand hides
Last Line: And the shame of knowing how cheap such dreams are
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SHE DRIVES, by SOPHIE CABOT BLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: And drives as if she is
Last Line: Offered across the table
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SHE-WHO-WATCHES...THE NAMES ARE PRAYER, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is celilo %dispossed, the village of neglect
Last Line: And everyone dissolved from the fall
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SHORT WAVE IN SHANGHAI, by SIBYL JAMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've never felt so knifed loose from the world
Last Line: World war ii, and the front is somewhere %just past the fading line I hold
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SHOW BIZ PARTIES, by ELIZABETH CLAMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dad cracks a joke and two men laugh
Last Line: A prick this big. Beautiful
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SILOS, by NANCY PADDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: All week she watched
Last Line: Like black corridors %a woman could get lost in
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SILVER WEDDING, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: After celebrations
Last Line: Celebrations leave their marks, %there are new stains on the old lace tablecloth
Subject(s): Exiles


SIMPLEST AND THE HARDEST, by MARGARET LLOYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I prepare for you the way I plan
Last Line: Allowed to be still as well as the heart %which closes and opens when he departs
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SINGLE SPACE, by NORITA DITTBERNER-JAX    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first nights alone, after my husband moved out and the kids
Last Line: Or the image %of the woman floating out to sea
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SIX SMALL FIRES, by PAUL JENKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They hurry through the forest suitcases in hand
Last Line: I set just now to witness my shame
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loaded like spoons
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery; Estrangement; Outcasts; Serfs


SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loaded like spoons
Last Line: Can this sin live
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery


SO WE GOT OUT OF LEBANON, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: His screech his %portentous scold %iyew iyew
Subject(s): Arabs; Exiles; Jerusalem; Jews; Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


SOLOING, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


SOLOING, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed
Last Line: Turned back and lost the music
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SONDRA, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You stock the shelves with quick-food - baked beans, canned peas
Last Line: Shop waiting for customers while darkness drops around you like a net
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; India


SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a song for the speechless
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a song for the speechless
Last Line: Who have no voices have one tongue
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SONG OF AN EXILE, by WILLIAM HAMILTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen the cliffs of dover
Subject(s): Exiles; Soldiers; World War I


SONG OF THE SIBERIAN EXILES, SELS., by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We stand unbroken in our places
Last Line: For each stone is of use to russia, %and each by our own hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A.
Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom


SONG OF THE SPANISH JEWS, by GRACE AGUILAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Oh, dark is the spirit that loves not the land
Last Line: And seek not and wish not a lovelier rest.
Subject(s): Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Spain; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism


SONGS OF EXILE, by JOAN OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One night when the moon was full
Last Line: That I dream of it whole
Subject(s): Exiles


SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones
Last Line: I'm just going to school.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts;


SOUND SCATTERS LIGHT THROUGH DARKENED AGES, COME TO, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Come one step across chasms come between %come home
Subject(s): Exiles


SPACE, by MAURA STANTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monday a boy who cannot lift
Last Line: Mother, teacher, aliens, stones
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SPACE BETWEEN, by ANA LUISA ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm a runaway child
Last Line: Those of the mother who turns into another
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


ST. HELENA, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a volcano whose dark throat doth dash
Last Line: Lowers the great napoleon to the grave.
Subject(s): Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


STAR-SPANGLED, by MICHELE GLAZER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One man won't say anything
Last Line: And how so many birds fit inside
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


STRANGER, by GERALD LOCKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were building a fort
Last Line: Build a cardboard fort
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SUMMONS, by DAVID RIVARD            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose I can convince myself this
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


SUMMONS, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose I can convince myself this
Last Line: And skittering over one another's backs
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by MARILYN J. BOE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've come to see a stranger
Last Line: To guide me, so I won't stay lost %in the dark mystery of my daughter's face
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SUPER-BRAVE, by TERESA WHITMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My son's father is kiowa-comanche
Last Line: The muscle and pitch of landscape %the wingbone of a man's shoulder
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


SWORD, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The vagabondary of the sea. The octopus beached on the
Last Line: Round my waist a sea of thoughts
Subject(s): Exiles; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Ships And Shipping


SYLLABLE UPON SYLLABLE, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am learning a grammar of exile, on the slopes of silence. It
Last Line: There I place them, syllable upon syllable. From the rising to the setting of the sun
Subject(s): Exiles; Learning


TENNESSEE WALTZ, by JAMES HAUG    Poem Source                    
First Line: He bows because he is nobody
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 1., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Faced
Last Line: Across immortal spaces %and always and only love survives
Subject(s): Exiles


TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 2., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We can not
Last Line: Bereaved %anew
Subject(s): Exiles


TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 3., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time
Last Line: Perpetual fictions %days do not dull the memories
Subject(s): Exiles


TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 4., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: And if history grant us one request
Last Line: An apology %for you
Subject(s): Exiles


TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 5., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good memories come back now
Last Line: Random moments frozen %like fossils in an arbitrary space
Subject(s): Exiles


TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 6., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each day we find one thing
Last Line: We have to solve alone 5do some great deed we cannot tell
Subject(s): Exiles


TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 7., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shared stories spill from our lips
Last Line: So many pieces of one vision %repeated in remembrance
Subject(s): Exiles


TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 8., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Resurrection is a promise
Last Line: But always %love survives
Subject(s): Exiles


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They came to the door because he was small or went to some
Last Line: This time the dead man will see them in hell.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Dissenters; Exiles; Funerals; Graves; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones


THE CANADIAN BOAT SONG, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen to me, as when ye heard our father
Last Line: But we are exiles from our fathers' land.
Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher
Subject(s): Exiles; Patriotism


THE CID'S DEPARTURE INTO EXILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With sixty knights in his gallant train
Last Line: -- he is gone from the towers of his own bivar!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Exiles; Cid Campeador (143-199); Diaz De Vivar, Rodrigo (143-199)


THE CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Fugitives


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear
Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven.
Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun
Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory.
Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English


THE CRYPTO-JEWS, by ROBIN BECKER                        Poet's Biography
First Line: This summer, reading the history of the jews of spain
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE DOWNFALL OF THE GAEL, by FEARFLATHA O'GNIVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is in woe
Last Line: Or the billows burst o'er her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gnimb, Fearflatha
Subject(s): Exiles; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims


THE EMIGRANTS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow in the wintry morn, the struggling light
Last Line: The reign of reason, liberty, and peace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Exiles; French Revolution (1789)


THE EXILE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The swallow with summer
Last Line: Except in the skies!
Subject(s): Exiles


THE EXILE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here night is hideous with lurid flame
Last Line: Amid a wizard-world of wandering stars.
Subject(s): Exiles; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


THE EXILE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not when the seamew cries above the grey-green foam
Last Line: Or the hill-wind in a broom-sweet place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Exiles; Home; Longing; Nostalgia; Sighs


THE EXILE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I have lost the mountains, I
Last Line: I see the mountains in my dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Exiles; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE EXILE, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring's sweet odours from the meadow
Last Line: In my own dear far-off land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Exiles


THE EXILE (PARAPHRASED FROM THE FRENCH), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've passed through the nations unheeded, unknown
Last Line: And cherish the exile, no longer alone!
Subject(s): Exiles


THE EXILE OF BEAUTY, by REMY DE GOURMONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go seeking in the human forest old
Last Line: Be ugliness to them, though beauty's self thou art.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Exiles; Lips; Love; Dead, The


THE EXILE TO HIS WIFE, by JOSEPH BRENAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to me, dearest, I'm lonely without
Last Line: Come to the heart that is throbbing to press thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brennan, Joseph
Subject(s): Absence; Exiles; Separation; Isolation


THE EXILE'S DEPARTURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fond scenes, which delighted my youthful existence
Last Line: Shall be the heart's prayer of the lonely exile!
Subject(s): Exiles


THE EXILE'S DEVOTION, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I forswear the art divine
Last Line: My native land, to thee!
Subject(s): Exiles


THE EXILE'S DIRGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There went a dirge through the forest's gloom
Last Line: They had reached the exile's lonely tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Exiles; Funerals; Burials


THE EXILE'S LAMENT, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not happy here, mother!
Last Line: Where you and lizzie are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Exiles; Lament; Love; Mothers


THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade
Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain.
Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails


THE EXILE'S SECRET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye that have faced the billows and the spray
Last Line: And thus began, -- the rose-lipped english girl.
Subject(s): Exiles


THE EXILE'S SONG, by ROBERT GILFILLAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, why left I my hame [home]?
Last Line: To their ain countrie.
Subject(s): Exiles; Patriotism


THE FEMALE EXILE. WRITTEN AT BRIGHTELMSTONE IN NOVEMBER 1792, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: November's chill blast on the rough beach is howling
Last Line: I can warm the cold heart of the wretched no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Brighton, England; Exiles; French Revolution (1789)


THE FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth was my home, but even there I was a stranger. This mineral crust.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE HOOSIER IN EXILE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hoosier in exile - a toast
Last Line: "the hoosier in exile!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Exiles; Nightmares; World


THE INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't the body
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE INTRUDER, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once in my secluded chamber
Last Line: "stay""—and I awoke. ..."
Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M.
Variant Title(s): ...whom You Are To Blame'
Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Literature; Israel; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression


THE JEWISH EXILE, by LEON HUHNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherefore weep our brethren yonder
Last Line: Israel and jerusalem.
Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judaism


THE JEWISH SOLDIER (1), by ALICE LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother england, mother england, 'mid the / thousands
Last Line: England say!
Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia
Subject(s): Exiles; Great Britain - Civil War; Heroism; Jews; Right To Asylum; Soldiers; English Civil War; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism


THE JEWISH SOLDIER (2), by ALICE LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by the walls of plevna, not fifty yards away
Last Line: And on gatschina's palace forevermore they lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia
Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians


THE LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE LAND OF EXILE, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Methinks there's a genius
Last Line: Cradle my sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): Exiles


THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became
Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race


THE MEMORY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the little, crooked street that went to meet the sea
Last Line: The blowing grass, the torn nets -- and one girl's scorning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Exiles; Insects; Bugs


THE MODERN FIRST LADY, by SOAME JENYNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair
Last Line: And with true scorpion rage she stings herself to death.
Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My body is a white thing in the sun, now
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE NATIVE LAND, by FRANCISCO DE ALDANA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clear fount of light! My native land on high
Last Line: That, whither love aspires, there shall my dwelling be.
Variant Title(s): My Native Land
Subject(s): Exiles; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE NORTH, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ancients knew the sorrows of exile
Subject(s): Exiles; North, The


THE ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Irene loves a man / who is afraid of sex: she's attended
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE PARTING SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A youth went forth to exile, from a home
Last Line: "murmuring, ""return, my son!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Greece; Parting; Greeks


THE PROPHECY OF DANTE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more in man's frail world! Which I
Last Line: And make them own the prophet in his tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Exiles


THE REST, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O helpless few in my country
Last Line: I have beaten out my exile.
Subject(s): Exiles; United States; America


THE RUSSIAN EXILE, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But what is this? Our infant winter sinks
Last Line: Hardens his heart against assailing want.
Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis
Subject(s): Exiles; Russia; Siberia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE TOMBS OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In babylon they sat and wept
Last Line: "how doth she now sit desolate!"
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Babylon; Exiles; Jews; Judaism


THEN, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: And what of afterlife? I comfort
Last Line: Great spirit saying here, in this way %now more toward that
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


THINGS GROW UP OUT OF THE DARK, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the wall by the bathtub there clings
Last Line: Because something that just might turn out to be beautiful %demanded to be born
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


THIS GIFT OF ASHES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My passion spent on recreating
Last Line: But hesitant flames left untended %gutter
Subject(s): Exiles


THIS SPRING, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dissent of trees over the space of roots
Last Line: Something turning sllowly green, and holy
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and I have no place to go
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Estrangement; Outcasts


THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature; Estrangement; Outcasts; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars
Last Line: They do not love the earth
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature


THOUGH I HAVE SWORN, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: At such remove from their realities %spotlights the pain
Subject(s): Exiles


THREE: 2) EXILE, by ALEXANDRA THURMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gold, books, money, dust, home
Last Line: Shriveled. No one thought to water them
Subject(s): Exiles; United States


TO AN EXILE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As still upon the prophet shone
Last Line: The splendor of thy native skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Exiles


TO AN UNKNOWN POET, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I haven't the heart to say
Last Line: In this bastion of culture.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Estrangement; Outcasts; Feminism


TO JERUSALEM, 1990, by MYRA SHAPIRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a sheroot, that's what
Last Line: After school, in my own house. Home
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


TO MASTER W. MONTAGUE, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, I arrest you at your country's suit
Last Line: Give you fair leave to wound me so agen.
Subject(s): Revenge; Exiles


TO THE POETS EXILED IN AMSTERDAM, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The scene must open with a narrow house, sleepless with the fear
Last Line: Like an eternal light, rises above the uproar of the mob, dancing endlessly
Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Exiles; Poetry And Poets


TONG-CAHO TOWER AT ZHENG-MAI STATION, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For the rest of my days I would grow old
Last Line: Is a hair's breadt line of green mountains, %and that is the heartland
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Exiles


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. HIGH IN MY CHAMBER, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High in my chamber I can hear the deep bells chime
Last Line: Through the night rising I hear.
Subject(s): Exiles; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


TRAVELING BACK, by SARA HUNTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Traveling for the last time
Last Line: The minnesota prairie %and burying ground
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


TRAVELOGUE FOR EXILES, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look and remember. Look upon this sky
Subject(s): Exiles


TRAVELOGUE FOR EXILES, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look and remember. Look upon this sky
Subject(s): Exiles


TRILOGY FOR AZANIA: 1. LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was not intended as a life sentense of prison food
Last Line: A body apart/hate dances a ritual beheading %to hold still the tongue
Subject(s): Exiles


TRILOGY FOR AZANIA: 2. BEATITUDES OF THE RIGHTEOUS FAMISHED, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blessed are the poor-in-spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
Last Line: For they shall be filled amen. They shall surely be %filled
Subject(s): Exiles


TRILOGY FOR AZANIA: 3. DOXOLOGY FOR LIBERATION DAY, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This poem is an unfinished song
Last Line: This anthem will be done when freedom come...
Subject(s): Exiles


TSUNEKO-PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS CLINIC, by SUSAN KOLODNY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the north-south street, glass birds
Last Line: The north-south street the square flat stones
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Writer's Conferences And Workshops


TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter
Last Line: I will take that ancestral one
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women


UNDER HER CRIB, by MARCIA PELLETIERE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the yiddish song a goat danced under
Last Line: And miril sings, so the goat will dance her girl to sleep
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


UNLOCKING THE DOORS, by JILL BRECKENRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One night, I saw a woman
Last Line: If only I could take her %by the arm and not let go
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Violence


UNREPENTANT, by BRANDEL FRANCE DE BRAVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: What could I do %when I saw his face
Last Line: From my young bones
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


UNSPOKEN WORLD, by HELEN RUGGIERI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sometimes think about
Last Line: I never learned and %mock in plangorous bleats %poems I never wrote
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


UPON MASTER WALTER MONTAGUE HIS RETURN FROM TRAVEL, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lead the black bull to slaughter, with the boar
Last Line: As laymen clasp their hands, we join our feet.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Exiles


UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A knife blade of cold air keeps prying
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A knife blade of cold air keeps prying
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


USUAL IMMIGRANT UNCLE POEM, by ASKOLD MELNYCZUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: He feared money so much he was known
Last Line: Still, that doesn't quite explain the money
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WALK, by ETHAN GILSDORF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why must that slight man
Last Line: This is no world for old men
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts


WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward
Last Line: Hide your daughters, lock your doors
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


WE WALK TOWARDS A LAND NOT OF OUR FLESH, by MAHMOUD DARWISH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: We have a country where we see %only the invisible
Subject(s): Exiles


WEIGHT, by JAY SCHNEIDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day long she works to not feel fat. She culls
Last Line: We would have it no other way
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WHEN FATHER DIED, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I swim %and do not drown
Subject(s): Exiles


WHEN YOU ARE GROWN, AMANDA ROSE, by LAURA BOSS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You're going to have a good life
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WHERE IS THE SEA?; SONG OF THE GREEK ISLANDER IN EXILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the sea? -- I languish here
Last Line: -- where is my own blue sea?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Exiles; Sea; Ocean


WHERE WE ARE, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bertha let me run barefoot those weeks
Last Line: Yet it's her I see, hunched in the soft spot %of airplane light, embroidering above him, alive
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


WHY SHE HURRIES OUT, THEN HOME, by MARTHA RHODES    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's always expecting disaster
Last Line: A small gray cloud waiting at the gate
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door
Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream.
Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence
Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab


WITHOUT, by BRUCE BERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friends my own age all have kids they can't wait
Last Line: The quiet of a dead end
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WITHOUT YOU I AM, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A lute without strings
Last Line: Song without a lure
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the valley, ten children working the fields
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the valley, ten children working the fields
Last Line: Village to village and into the smoky huts, %her soul a well, an eye, and open door
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WOMEN I KNEW, by LOIS ROMA-DEELEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At thirteen I was reading oedipus rex
Last Line: Rough landmarks %to star the way %back
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


WORD & WORLD, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Am I am brother's keeper?' %first breaking of the blood bond
Last Line: They with silent tears now sow
Subject(s): Exiles; Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918)


WRITING AGAIN ON THE SAME THEME (A NEW THATCHED HALL), by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun's high, I've slept enough, still too lazy to get up
Last Line: Why should I always think of ch'ang-an as home?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Exiles


WRITTEN ON MY INTO EXILE ..., by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: One document at dawn, submitted to the nine-tiered palace
Last Line: Eb kind and gather up my bones from the shores of the fetid river
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): Exiles


XCIII, by GIZELLA HERVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was put to death but survived it
Last Line: But never lived a death with him
Subject(s): Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners; Survival


XLV, by GIZELLA HERVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For the person with convict-eyes
Last Line: Does he hear words he can believe
Subject(s): Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners


XXIII, by GIZELLA HERVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't know what fear is
Last Line: The roads don't know where they're leading
Subject(s): Exiles; Roads; Travel


XXIX, by GIZELLA HERVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're alarmed by the dead
Last Line: From their wide-open eyes
Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners


YOU CALL ME BY OLD NAMES: HOW STRANGE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But no names from another life %a long time back, a long way south
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles


YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the black trunk I shake out
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts


YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the black trunk I shake out
Last Line: From me, nail shut my lips. My son %will keep sitting in the last row %among the red words that drin
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


ZION, by EUGENE KOHN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Land of the cedar and palm
Last Line: In god's time we shall come to thee.
Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Peace; Praise; Zionism; Judaism