|
|
|
|
Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: HOMELESS Matches Found: 317 606 CRIES, TAKES MYLANTA FOR HIS HANGOVER AND VOWS HE', by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Boy that's better than the stuff in the university art %museum Subject(s): Homeless 606 HAS CONSTRUCTION SKILL. HE CAN FRAME A DOOR, USE A, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Businessmen snorting cocaine Subject(s): Homeless 606 LOSES HIS JOB AND LANDS IN THE HOMELESS POPULATION, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Homeless not helpless', read their placards. They will %find a way Subject(s): Homeless A BED, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm glad I have a good warm bed to snuggle / in to-night Last Line: For the winds are in the alleys and the stars are cold and bright. Subject(s): Beds; Homeless; Poverty ABANDONED, by JAMES ENGLISH Poem Source First Line: And put behind a big, strong gate Subject(s): Homeless AFTER THE HOLIDAYS, by ELIAZBETH GUION HESS Poem Text First Line: A garbage wagon, rolling / along snowy ... Last Line: And smell and feel? Subject(s): Homeless AFTER THE VERDICT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: When the verdict was read Last Line: Flashing their blood-stained %teeth %in the photos %of lynchings Subject(s): Cities; Homeless AGNOSTICS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Every man has a right to be an agnostic Subject(s): Homeless AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE, by WOODY GUTHRIE Poem Source First Line: I ain't got no home Last Line: And I ain't got no home in this world anymore Subject(s): Homeless; Social Protest AIN'T THIS PLACE A BITCH?, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They have nothing better to do Last Line: & abduct homeless people %from shopping malls! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ALIBIS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They'll tell you %'I wasn't there %when he perished' Last Line: On my way %home from %work Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ALL THE WAY TO L.A., by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: No one's seen the hobbler for awhile Last Line: Hobbler don't need no damn train after all, %says the woman of too many days Subject(s): Homeless; Women AMERICA, by JAMES ENGLISH Poem Source First Line: Especially if you happen to be of a minority race Subject(s): Homeless AN OLD WOMAN, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER Poem Text First Line: I saw her as I passed her corner Last Line: Worn, utterly weary, she was asleep. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Homeless; Old Age ANABLEPHOBIA, by GARY ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Wandering the streets Last Line: And thinks he'll sleep here tonight %still wanting no reply Subject(s): Fear; Homeless AND MY GOOD SHOES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days is looking Last Line: And I won't come back for it %next time Subject(s): Homeless; Women ANDREW, 1993, by BONNY BARRY SANDERS Poem Source First Line: First the lights went out Last Line: Next to our neighbors for the first time %and ate our soup Subject(s): Fire; Homeless ANOTHER JOURNEY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %is in iceland Last Line: You never know where she'll turn up next Subject(s): Homeless; Women ANTIPOVERTY ANTIPOETRY, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: You shouldn't be surprised %to catch a whiff %of me Last Line: Like a crooked picture %from your present past Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ANYWHERE, NOWHERE, by JOHN WILLIAM LLOYD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the ignominy! Oh the shame of it, the Last Line: Forever be nowhere? Alternate Author Name(s): Lloyd, J. William Subject(s): Homeless; Poverty; Youth APPROPRIATION OF A BILLY JOEL CLASSIC, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Don't go changin %your drawers %to try and %please me Last Line: Take you %just the way %you are Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ARSONIST, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: Derelict. He slept in basements Last Line: Of flames fissure a building, turning round, %calm, with the fire reflected on his back Subject(s): Arson; Homeless ASHES TO ASHES, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source Last Line: I'm ashes, %remember? Subject(s): Cities; Homeless AT ONCE, by K. KERN Poem Source Subject(s): Homeless AWAY FROM TOWN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-perched upon a boxcar, I speed, / I speed, to-day Last Line: He longs for a place to stretch in, he hankers for country cheer. Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; Homeless; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes BABE WONDERS WHAT SHE DID TO RONNIE AND NANCY, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Okay if starved, if just ordinary hungry, tasting like %alpo Subject(s): Homeless BABE, BROUGHT UP IN A FAMILY WHERE IT WAS AS NORMAL AS, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Until he turns mean as they do sometimes Subject(s): Homeless BAD ACCIDENT OF A WOMAN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: You might think I know %the woman of too many days Last Line: She happens everywhere, %like a bad accident of a woman Subject(s): Homeless; Women BAD FEET AND LITTLE PIECES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: People think pigeons like bagels %but they don't Last Line: I wonder if a revolution can begin %on bad feet Subject(s): Homeless; Women BAG LADY OF SUTTON PLACE, by RENEE WEISS Poem Source First Line: In her crammed-up apartment on the 19th floor Last Line: They circulate her always-bluer blood Subject(s): Homeless BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by MAJOR SIGOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Beautiful snow! Beautiful snow! Last Line: Pity the homeless exposed to the cold, icy snow. Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Grief; Happiness; Homeless; Poverty; Snow; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight BEGGAR GETS TOO PREACHY, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: If I can't make %this park bench Last Line: Like the rich sayz: %it's all or nothing! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BEGGAR IS A VEGETARIAN, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: If %it %wasn't %for the %fact Last Line: I would %eat my %shoes Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BEGGAR'S LUCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Where did you sleep in the country, lad? Last Line: And drove me away with stones.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Environment; Fields; Homeless; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BELIEVIN IN AIR, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Men, says the woman of too many days Last Line: I been blue in my fingertips, ever since. %see? Subject(s): Homeless; Women BEVELED EDGE, by MORRIS PELTZ Poem Source First Line: Oh sadness, sadness beyond madness Subject(s): Homeless BIG HOUSE REVISITED, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Bigger thomas %wasn't suppose Last Line: Without strings %attached %bein everybody's %big tom Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BIRD SONG, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: So she came back from the mountains and she says Last Line: Further than my knobby old feet could carry me Subject(s): Homeless; Women BORDER, by ALFREDO DE PALCHI Poem Source First Line: Incongruous consolation of being at the window Last Line: Someone who wants to come in Subject(s): Homeless BOTTLE OF WINE, by CONRAD Poem Source First Line: Me and my wine, we just lay here Subject(s): Homeless BRACE YOURSELF, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: To keep from catching 22 colds Last Line: But brace yourself! %nothing's permanent Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BROKE MIRROR IMAGE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Those that murder me %say that I'm responsible Last Line: Plasters %onto the back %of their minds Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BUD SAYS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO CALL MY OWN ON THIS, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Look out, sleeping america! Subject(s): Homeless BURNT OFFERING AT THE BABALAO, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: He committed suicide Last Line: That he was just %a janitor Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CALAMITIES: ANOTHER EDEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out beyond what we imagine Last Line: And leave into the questing Subject(s): Homeless; Travel CALGARY STATION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dazzled by sun and drugged by space Last Line: While a new nation clamors at our gate! Subject(s): Calgary, Canada; Homeless; Poverty; Travel; Journeys; Trips CHARITY, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: A woman lies on the floor Last Line: Like a flame, while around us %the homeless shivered Subject(s): Charity; Homeless; Poetry And Poets; Sickness CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I cherish %public displays %of affection Last Line: A broken jaw %and caved in chest Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CHASING THE HOLY GHOSTS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Religion wasn't enough Last Line: For him; so he began %drinking heavily Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CHILDREN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Children are curious %about the woman of too many days Last Line: They back away from her like adults do %who discover they've attracted pigeons Subject(s): Homeless; Women CINDERELLA 1993 STYLE, by MORRIS WEISSMAN Poem Source First Line: She stoops over the garbage bin; examines Last Line: As I saw her today, %stooped over a garbage bin, selecting Subject(s): Homeless; Women COLD GROUND WAS MY BED LAST NIGHT, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Start again it will be grand Subject(s): Homeless COME AND GET IT, by JOHN KRIEBEL Poem Source First Line: Here's a hot meal Last Line: Now repeat after me Subject(s): Homeless COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Do you know me? %I'm that smell Last Line: Hasn't fought %for me Subject(s): Cities; Homeless COMPASSION, by RALPH ERNEST WEBBER Poem Text First Line: I cannot reap a profit's gain Last Line: And end the night in shame, afraid. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Compassion; Homeless; Hunger CONFESSIONS OF A FLAGELLANT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %my own %body odor Last Line: Guard %hose me %down %good Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CONFESSIONS OF A URINAL, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: One of the worse feelings %besides eating Last Line: Is when your %socks %fall Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 2. WILL WORK FOR GOOD FOOD, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source First Line: They often walk out of the fog Last Line: The stinking saintly homeless? Well! Subject(s): Food And Eating; Homeless CONTENTION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I'm content with the sky being blue Last Line: I'm content with the rain & the grave off my back Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CONVERSATION WITH MYSELF ON THE CURB, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It's not that I loathe %posturepedic beds Last Line: Of neighborhood youth %setting my clothes on fire Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CONVERSATIONS WITH JOB, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Jobs? %we all have jobs Last Line: You feel %uncomfortable Subject(s): Cities; Homeless COSTUME TALK, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, %you can find the woman of too many days Last Line: For awhile and playin their costume talk %like it was for real Subject(s): Homeless; Women CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Nothin grows up faster than a vacant lot Last Line: Only that crimes against humanity %make fertile soil Subject(s): Homeless; Women CRY OF THE HOMELESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Instigator of the ruin Last Line: Till death dark thee with his pall.' Subject(s): Homeless; World War I; First World War DAY ON EARTH, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %informs me this morning at the bus stop Last Line: Trees harbored in iron cages %concede their leaves %in rain Subject(s): Homeless; Women DEJA VU AGAIN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I ask the woman of too many days %it she knows what deja vu is Last Line: You go mean just lookin at it Subject(s): Homeless; Women DESOLATION, by SETH RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: A foghorn deep unseen Subject(s): Homeless DICTIONARY OF TERMINOLOGY, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It's got to help you out %a bit Last Line: W/ a squeegee %creating my own %job Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DIET TO DIE FOR, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I live on air %and ashes Last Line: Of dirty needles %drinking %my %tears Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DIRE REAR, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I've been rejected %and evicted so many Last Line: Times, I shit doorknobs Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DISCOURSE ON SANITY &WELL BEING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I'm on edge %because I'm on the ledge Last Line: And what I need %to keep on breathing Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DOC SEYMOUR HANGS OUT AT RAINBOW VILLAGE THE DAY, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Howie the harp runs the oakland drop in center Subject(s): Homeless DOUBLE DECKER, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Good enough to eat, %the woman of too many days says Last Line: A double decker on a sugar cone Subject(s): Homeless; Women DOWN IN PEOPLE'S PARK THEY'RE HAVING A RUMBLE, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: To cappucino and no bed Subject(s): Homeless DRASTIC DARK, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The bureaucracies of monopoly capitalism Last Line: That's trying %to keep %beating Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DUMMY, by EARL R. KEENER Poem Source First Line: The dummy beneath the bridge Last Line: I stole his shirt. It was something I needed %and he wasn't going to stop me Subject(s): Homeless DYSENTERY FOR BEGINNERS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Just as bowls %evict shit Last Line: Like capitalism %is a brutal %motherfucker Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ELEPHANT GOES MAD IN DULUTH, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I read in the papers the other day Last Line: The circus would never be the same Subject(s): Homeless; Women EXTENDED REMIX, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They follow you %to the grave Last Line: Which neglected %to pay back %your loans! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FAT-FREE SUGGESTIONS FROM THE STATE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Wash the soot off your rusty ass Last Line: Strain the fat from your water %shower %shit %shave Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FATE OF A WOULD-BE FEMINIST OBSERVED FROM A STREET CORNER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: She was abducted %by traffic cops Last Line: For pronouncing %menage a trois %mangy twat Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FIGHTING FIRE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet's Biography First Line: First the fire engines shake the night, the red blare Last Line: Blazes up, light flickers over mouths shut on the word / nothing Subject(s): Fire; Homeless FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE LASTING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: You see me as %a puddle of piss Last Line: That says %this could %be %you Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FIVE POINTS, 1838, by LAUGHTON OSBORN Poem Text First Line: Fast by the dike, where frown the granite eaves Last Line: In laurens street, the southern side of broom. Subject(s): Five Points, New York City; Homeless; Hunger; New York City - 19th Century FOR A WAITRESS, by ROBERTA D'ALOIS Poem Source First Line: Fatty meat on a dirty grill Subject(s): Homeless FOR MOMS, by LYNN MANNING Poem Source First Line: Somebody asked me the other day Last Line: She's doing 'reeeaal' good Subject(s): Homeless; Mothers; Poverty; Social Problems FOR POETS WHO WANNA BE COMEDIANS WHEN WE DYIN &AIN'T A DAMN THING...., by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Oh ha ha hee hee %hoo hoo ho ho Last Line: -ha-ha-ha- %ain't that a bitch %we dyin Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FORECAST, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In my youth %I aspired to be %a weatherman Last Line: From head to toe %in skin flakes Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FORTUNE COOKIES FOR THE RICH, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: After every meal %may you be overcome Last Line: & see things %from my %perspective Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FREE DRY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days says she got the free dry yesterday Last Line: There's nothin like it in this town Subject(s): Homeless; Women FURTHER COMPLAINTS FROM AN UNGRATEFUL TENANT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Eviction %eviction %what's your %prescription Last Line: Except for dogs %they always leave %something Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FURTHER DELIBERATIONS ON DEATH, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: All rise! %this court is now in session Last Line: At a later date %if need be %order in the court! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless GATHERING OF OLD WINOS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: -my first wife %was a pack of pall malls Last Line: She got her own self pregnant %and delivered the baby as well Subject(s): Cities; Homeless GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Fascism is a virtual reality Last Line: To be so %unfortunate Subject(s): Cities; Homeless GOOD THIEF SPEAKS AGAIN, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I guess you're wondering %what I'm doing Last Line: But from here on end: %consider me a political prisoner Subject(s): Cities; Homeless GREEN SHOES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those green shoes on the curb Last Line: Fortune in the unblinking sunlight Subject(s): Homeless; Idleness; Poverty HALF A LIFE AGO THE BLOOM WAS ON THE ROSE, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: When your heart is still battered and bruised Subject(s): Homeless HAND-ME_DOWNS RIGHT OVER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I often wear %dead people's clothes Last Line: In exchange %for a %quarter Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HANDOUTS FROM THE CHURCH, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It must be sobering %to know that Last Line: It must be sobering %not having to see me Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HANGING OUT IN ASHTRAYS BEING HOMELESS, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Back to the shelter Subject(s): Homeless HEAD DOWN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He knows he can't play the flute Last Line: He'll have enough to pay for bite and bed Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Cities; Homeless; Music And Musicians HEART, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women HEART, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax Last Line: Cop-on-the-beat heart with its black billy club, %banging on the lid Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women HIGHLIGHTS OF A BEGGAR'S RESUME, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: His high school %senior class Last Line: Bottles %to make %a full beer Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HOBBLER, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The hobbler wears a bandana around his head Last Line: He throws cigarette butts at the pigeons, %and they peck at his toes Subject(s): Homeless; Women HOMELESS, by DANIELA CRASNARU Poem Source First Line: In another reality Last Line: Feeling, for the first time, homeless Subject(s): Homeless HOMELESS, by JORGE HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: The years wear %an unsized shoe Last Line: As to give me your little sandals Subject(s): Homeless; Poverty HOMELESS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No room of his own Last Line: Come instead. Subject(s): Homeless HOMELESS, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without a home at holy christmas-tide Last Line: Hide in god's heart, beloved, that great home is yours. Subject(s): Christmas; Homeless; Nativity, The HOMELESS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold dark midnight, yet listen Last Line: And dives neglects him still. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): England; Homeless; Poverty; English HOMELESS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks that if my spirit could behold Last Line: Nor breathe one sigh of pity to return? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Homeless HOMELESS BELOW THE BRIDGE, by WILLIAM FORD Poem Source First Line: They cry out in their longing Last Line: I've seen them, below the bridge Subject(s): Homeless HOMELESS COMPLEYNT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag Subject(s): Homeless; Insects; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Bugs HOMELESS COMPLEYNT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag Subject(s): Homeless; Insects HOMELESS IN THE EIGHTIES, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source First Line: In reagansvilles %the homeless stamp their feet Last Line: Kenny asks for yardwork. Brings a ladder he swiped Subject(s): Homeless HOMELESS MEN, by KATHERINE GUNN DAME Poem Text First Line: It is night / warm fires glow within Last Line: Tramping an unfriendly street. Subject(s): Dreams; Homeless; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes HOMELESS SUE COPS FOR KIDNAPPING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In the wealthiest cities %in the richest country Last Line: Abduct rich people %off downtown streets Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HOP A TRAIN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The other day the hobbler %was telling the woman of too many days Last Line: You can't hop trains anymore. %they're faster now Subject(s): Homeless; Women HORIZONTAL SNAPSHOTS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A big %buzz %w/ propellers Last Line: Snapshots %from an epileptic %eyelash Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HOT-COALS SHUFFLE, by JACQUELINE DE WEEVER Poem Source First Line: The sudden ammonia of days'-old urine Last Line: Some rags are more of soul than body Subject(s): Class Struggle; Homeless HUNGER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Each day my shadow %loses weight Last Line: With little %or no choices Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HUSTLERS AND MOOCHERS, by MORRIS PELTZ Poem Source First Line: I don't mind a good con job Subject(s): Homeless I CREATE MY OWN JOB, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I collect tips %at atms Last Line: Hey, dude, %all life does %is prolong death' %and slaps me five Subject(s): Cities; Homeless I DO TOO, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I know some of you %would like %to throw Last Line: For something %I do too Subject(s): Cities; Homeless I GIVE UP, by MORRIS PELTZ Poem Source First Line: I'm really fucked and Subject(s): Homeless I GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN, by MICHAEL DAVID WILSON Poem Source First Line: Young women are not Subject(s): Homeless I PUT EM DOWN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The next time I see her, %the woman of too many days has no bags Last Line: She is appearing at proctor's, she informs me. %tonight. A solo performance Subject(s): Homeless; Women IN CITY STREETS, by ADA SMITH Poem Text First Line: Yonder in the heather there's a bed for sleeping Last Line: Through the peaty soil and tinkling heather-bells. Subject(s): Country Life; Homeless; Homesickness; London IN FRONT OF THE LIBRARY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %is sitting on the sculpture in front of the library Last Line: But that only happens to a few Subject(s): Homeless; Women IN MEMORIAM, RAY THOMPSON (1943-1990), by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the streets, / of begging hands and windblown cardboard Last Line: Never-ending memory of his ascendings Subject(s): San Francisco; Homeless; Poetry & Poets IN OTHER NEWS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source Last Line: Clarence thomas declares: %'I'm no uncle tom!!!' Subject(s): Cities; Homeless IN THE METRO, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Around here %you don't know %what will take %you out Last Line: In this life %death has %many dis %guises Subject(s): Cities; Homeless IN THE NINETEEN FIFTIES THEY DEINSTITUTIONALIZED THE, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Made such a scary sound Subject(s): Homeless INCIDENT IN KEY BANK, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I hear the woman of too many days %got put away Last Line: But I hear that was her alright, %right in the middle of things Subject(s): Homeless; Women INCUBUS, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young man who goes about all muffled up from harm, Subject(s): Homeless INNER LIGHT, by K. KERN Poem Source Subject(s): Homeless INSIDE LOOKS BETTER FROM THE OUTSIDE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I ask the woman of too many days %how she stands it in the winter Last Line: So she saves it for special occasions Subject(s): Homeless; Women INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE GUILLOTINE FOR THOSE WHO CRAVE NICOTINE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They got a %cure & a pill Last Line: Capitalism is more hazardous %to your health any day Subject(s): Cities; Homeless IT'S ON YOU OR MAYBE ON HIM, by MORRIS PELTZ Poem Source First Line: Does man propose and god dispose Subject(s): Homeless IT'S YOUR WORLD; THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HERE, by MORRIS PELTZ Poem Source First Line: First, you thought I was all wrong Subject(s): Homeless JIVE BITCH WITH THE POOL STICK, by WELDON KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: I was standing around Subject(s): Homeless JOEL WAS IN VIET NAM, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Fugitive for an act of violence done %in honor Subject(s): Homeless JOY OF SOCKS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I once gave %a pair of socks Last Line: To put them on %his burning bleeding feet Subject(s): Cities; Homeless JUDGE ME NOT, by JAMES ENGLISH Poem Source First Line: For who is to say what is right or wrong Subject(s): Homeless JUDGMENT & CRITICISM, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I know, I know: %my reputation precedes me Last Line: Take your time, %I don't mean to pester you Subject(s): Cities; Homeless JUST WAITING FOR THE FORTY BUS, THERE'S NEVER NOTHING THERE, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Just waiting for the forty bus to don't know where Subject(s): Homeless JUXTAPOSITIONS, by JACQUELINE DE WEEVER Poem Source First Line: To the power of the wind Last Line: The footsteps pass - pause %pass Subject(s): Homeless KARMIC NEWS FLASH, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A twins tower %five alarm fire Last Line: &roasting marshmellows %with rodents %in their mouths Subject(s): Cities; Homeless KENNY STEALS THE FILMAKER'S CAMERA, SELLS IT TO A MOTEL, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Find her fritos or m and ms or whatever her heart %desired Subject(s): Homeless LARK AND WASHINGTON, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: At this time of day %not even the pigeon people Last Line: That puts its hands all over them, %can't come out here Subject(s): Homeless; Women LAST REQUEST, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In the event %that I shit Last Line: Off my feet %on the white house lawn Subject(s): Cities; Homeless LAW, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I can't panhandle in the subway Last Line: Nor can I %afford %to die Subject(s): Cities; Homeless LAZY RUSS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I've walked %through %many rooms Last Line: Open wound %of street graters Subject(s): Cities; Homeless LEAVING MY ROOMMATES IN NEW YORK, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow falls upon snow fastening its delicate hooks Last Line: To the subliminal sounds of ermines living in the lath. Subject(s): Homeless; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LECTURE ON ART & EATING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In the new york winter %which lasts 12 months Last Line: It beats eating %glass Subject(s): Cities; Homeless LETTER THAT HOLDS HER UP, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days holds a letter in both hands Last Line: Not right, %but good enough to move on Subject(s): Homeless; Women LIFE IS A DANCE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Life is a dance, says the woman of too many days Last Line: I can tell a dancer Subject(s): Homeless; Women LIKE REAL DOVES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days says she read in the paper Last Line: They wear the city's suit Subject(s): Homeless; Women LILA'S WORD, HER VIGIL, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are no windows Last Line: Like great chords of music Subject(s): Homeless Shelters LISTENER, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I asked the woman of too many days Last Line: Just the things it falls upon Subject(s): Homeless; Women LITTLE FEET, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: O tiny feet of children Last Line: And see you not? Subject(s): Children; Feet; Homeless; Poverty; Roads LITTLE TIN FINGERS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days Last Line: And it never brought her solace Subject(s): Homeless; Women LOSS OF HABITAT, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days Last Line: If I was an owl, they'd think twice about this, she says Subject(s): Homeless; Women MAN SLEEPING, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Large flakes of snow fall slowly, far Last Line: Or like abel, broken, at his brother’s feet Subject(s): Homeless MAN SO BEAUTIFUL, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I loved a man so beautiful I had to leave him Last Line: I'd bring him somethin fine Subject(s): Homeless; Women MANGOS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days is eating a mango Last Line: Like the smoke %when your man leaves the room Subject(s): Homeless; Women MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY, by CHRIS SEMANSKY Poem Source First Line: Once when the roof flew off Last Line: A savage, had a dozen children, and died, %years later, of a common cold gone wild, %his memory clea Subject(s): Homeless; Maps MARGIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the city of caricature and mocking distortion Last Line: Mortal and venial sin Subject(s): Cities; Homeless; Religion MATTIE DRINKS, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Wonders when her life will turn Subject(s): Homeless MEMORIES OF EATING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Once for lunch %I mauled %a lady's %shoe Last Line: Leafing through %for wall street journal Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MONOTONY OF A HUNGER ARTIST, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Playing my ribcage like a xylophone for quarters Last Line: I work my way from subway car to subway car Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Did you ever %ride an elevator %with piss %in it Last Line: Staring outside the window %of your favorite restaurant %at me Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MOUTH OF PAVEMENT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Poetry shouldn't %lobotomize you %like marlpan Last Line: Something to count on Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MOVIE STAR PETER AT THE SUPPER FOR STREET PEOPLE, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The style a form of concealment the way style is. Subject(s): Homeless; Actors & Actresses; Actresses MY MOTHER? I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT MY MOTHER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: One day %she opened %the freezer Last Line: She died %of lone %li %ness Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MY SKIN OVERTAKES ME, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: When I was young, %the woman of too many days says Last Line: Just like that girl over there Subject(s): Homeless; Women NIGHT FISHIN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: My sister and me learned night fishin Last Line: Long as she's gone, I know her that way Subject(s): Homeless; Women NO FREE LUNCHES, by ROBERT R. HENTZ Poem Source First Line: What shall we do with the homeless Subject(s): No Free Lunches; Homeless NO PLACE LIKE HOME, by JOHN KRIEBEL Poem Source First Line: People were meant to have homes Last Line: Who's kidding whom? Subject(s): Homeless NO ROOM, by WINNIFRED ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: Across a wintry windswept plain Last Line: No room in men's hearts is a sadder thing! Subject(s): Children; Homeless; Hunger; Childhood NO ROOM IN HOSPITALS NOW, FEW HALFWAY HOUSES, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: And now is sitting pretty except for the noise, the rats %and the roaches Subject(s): Homeless NOBODY KNOWS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows when de col' winds am blowin' Last Line: An' bime-by de lo'd'll tell humanity ter free 'em. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Homeless; Poverty NOCTURNE OF 1933, by ELIOT WHITE Poem Text First Line: West twenty-third street on a windy night Last Line: "dear heaven! -- 'twas ""home sweet home"" the old man played!" Subject(s): Homeless NOT BRUEGHEL BUT BRUTAL, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Judging from the portraits %they paint Last Line: I was made %of air Subject(s): Cities; Homeless NOTHING TO COME BACK FOR, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %is a traveler of vacant lots Last Line: Still fat from the child they ate, %right down to her shoes Subject(s): Homeless; Women NOW THEY'RE TORN DOWN, FELL DOWN, DISMANTLED, RUINED, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Proud that he has his rolled up piece of thick foam to %place under her Subject(s): Homeless OLD CLOTHES IN A CLOSET, by CONRAD Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning Subject(s): Homeless OLD WOMAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echo Last Line: Homeless. Subject(s): Homeless; Old Age; Women ON MARRIAGE & LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Like you %I too %would like %to get married %and settle down Last Line: An annulment %from my previous %relationship Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ON THE RISE OF THE POLICE FORCE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They put a uniform %on any old psychopath Last Line: A couple of bullets %in your mouth Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ONE DAY WHEN I AM BOSS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Maybe one day %I will end up Last Line: Or the model t %or even the capitalist himself! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless OTHERS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I tell the woman of too many days %I heard about the incident Last Line: Donovan. Emile and little sarah. %the mushrooms Subject(s): Homeless; Women OUT OF THE RAIN, by MORRIS PELTZ Poem Source First Line: Such an easy thing to say Subject(s): Homeless OUTSIDE THE TOYSHOP, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the door they stand, anear the pane Last Line: Shall manhood's craving miss even these poor crumbs? Subject(s): Bread; Food & Eating; Homeless; Hunger; Poverty OUTSIDER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A disinterested act, stumbled on Last Line: I teeter between rage and scorn Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Weariness PALM READING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source Last Line: It's empty Subject(s): Cities; Homeless PARK BENCH, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I live on a park bench Last Line: Move on over %to park avenue? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Homeless; Social Protest PERSONAL NOTES, ETC., by SETH RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: I seek the dreams Subject(s): Homeless PICTURES OF BROKE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The great poet %william carlos %williams Last Line: No %place %like %home Subject(s): Cities; Homeless PIGEONS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days and pigeons Last Line: Or where she or the pigeons go %at night Subject(s): Homeless; Women PLAYERS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Union of blood or need, boy and girl Last Line: In her eyes is not of the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Homeless; Poverty POEM FOR SHELTER, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source First Line: Who has set his house among the stars? Last Line: The wanderers wait, the breakers of icicles, %the homeless ones Subject(s): Homeless POEM, TO DIOGENES, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, who today would notice Last Line: Would lick your hands hanging out of the tub Subject(s): Homeless POETIC EXCHANGE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Q. You grow dreads? Last Line: A. The only thing I grow %is hungry Subject(s): Cities; Homeless POETRY SPEAKS TO ME, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Packed in snow %like fish %in a korean market Last Line: Walking walking %on you grave %face Subject(s): Cities; Homeless POOR ARE NEVER WITH US, by FREDERICK FOOTE Poem Source First Line: They disappear Last Line: The poor are never with us: they don't remain Subject(s): Homeless POOR IN CHURCH, by PRESTON MERCHANT Poem Source First Line: Between corner pews warmed by their breath Last Line: Dip yellow fingers into holy water Subject(s): Homeless; Religion PRETTY HANDSOME, YOU THINK IMPORTANT, by MORRIS PELTZ Poem Source First Line: I'm not vain, it's true Subject(s): Homeless PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I have to %bottle my %burps Last Line: When I had %food Subject(s): Cities; Homeless PUBLIC EXECUTIONS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Like jesus %who died %for our sins Last Line: I am %always persecuted Subject(s): Cities; Homeless PUNCH IS AS, by MORRIS PELTZ Poem Source First Line: An unwashed sonata of vagrant dreams Subject(s): Homeless RACE & CLASS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: There was a time %when I had Last Line: What they call %progress? Subject(s): Cities; Homeless RECIPE FOR MURDER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In this racket %you can't lose Last Line: Like your %life %depends %on it Subject(s): Cities; Homeless RESURRECTION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I was evicted %from my grave Last Line: Upon my name %&lifelong %ending day Subject(s): Cities; Homeless 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 RULE NO. 1 ON WHAT NOT TO SAY WHEN PANHANDLING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I just need %some money Last Line: Sticking out %of my forehead Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SARAH ALLEN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days comes to the albany rural cemetery Last Line: And says the names that sound like prayers Subject(s): Homeless; Women SCENES FROM THE PEOPLE'S COURT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: What a homeless woman %told the judge at her hearing Last Line: Call your %next witness! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SECOND THOUGHTS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Maybe I %would've been %better off Last Line: A simple scratch %in the memory %of her uterus Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SELF-PORTRAIT: NOVEMBER, by SANDY LONGHORN Poem Source First Line: Walking home in the first hard freeze Last Line: To the metallic bite of birch bark and rust in my throat Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Portraits; Solitude; Winter SERMON ON THE MOUNT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: One day %the rich were bored Last Line: With a year's supply of toilet paper Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On monday he died %on tuesday they folded up his bones Last Line: He went back to work again Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SHAPES, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the longer view it doesn't matter Last Line: At the farthest edge; accepting that blur. Subject(s): Grief; Homeless; Loss; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy SHE DOESN'T ASK FOR MONEY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: If you're looking for the woman of too many days Last Line: Her bags are like pollen sacs. %she's self contained Subject(s): Homeless; Women SIDEWALK SHUFFLE, by KENNETH M. ROY Poem Source First Line: Blowing snows and bowling shoes Last Line: They seek a blanket. Cover them Subject(s): Homeless SIN CITY, U.S.A., by WELDON KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: You meet the pimps and whores Subject(s): Homeless SNAIL, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Little, peaceful wanderer of the grassblades Last Line: Little friend in the grass, he who wanders %on a kiss Subject(s): Homeless; Wanderers And Wandering SNAP, CRACKLE, POP, by MICHAEL DAVID WILSON Poem Source First Line: The jewish be-bop Subject(s): Homeless SNAPSHOTS OF A BEGGAR'S DIFFICULT LIFE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A blind man %was leading %a blind dog %by the nose %bleeding Last Line: On a bed %of nails %dreaming of food Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SOLO PERFORMANCE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days is appearing at proctor's Last Line: And no one knows when to applaud or leave Subject(s): Homeless; Women SOME HISTORY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The hobbler and the woman of too many days Last Line: But she won't say Subject(s): Homeless; Women SONG OF MARVELS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day is down Last Line: All for the love of patience Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Homeless; Patience SONG OF THE NEW FOOL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let the sea and all her women Last Line: And my hands are tender Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Child Care; Food And Eating; Homeless; Hunger; Poverty SONNY ANSWERS: I DREAMED I LIVED IN MARBLE HALLS, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Back then, back then Subject(s): Homeless SORREL HORSE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I heard this, but I don't believe it Last Line: But it's funny how stories get around Subject(s): Homeless; Women SORROW, by JAMES ENGLISH Poem Source First Line: Clean like a season without any reason Subject(s): Homeless SPIDER RIDE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: More and more now %the woman of too many days talks crazy Last Line: Thinking I meet myself %in the strangest places Subject(s): Homeless; Women SPIRIT OF THE STREET, by TIM DIVITO Poem Source First Line: There is no fragrance of sweet roses on the streets Last Line: To give warmth and compassion to a homeless soul Subject(s): Homeless SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 7. HOMELESSNESS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: As indicators go, so go the people Last Line: I ceased to be before I ceased to be Subject(s): Homeless SPRITE'S SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On lonely heights, / which a faint moon lights Last Line: You must just let me go again! Subject(s): Homeless; Solitude; Loneliness SSI BABY DON'T CRY, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Landslide we were flying and the day ended Subject(s): Homeless STATE CERTIFICATION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They stalk you %with pencils %and ball-point pens Last Line: And every day %is a drag Subject(s): Cities; Homeless STRANGER IN YOUR LAND, by CHAMP MEANS Poem Source First Line: Walking down the city sidewalks Subject(s): Homeless STREET MUSICIANS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One died, and the soul was wrenched out Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Homeless SUBWAY CAR SEMINAR, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Don't take offense %if I don't smile Last Line: You don't %take me %home Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SUICIDE IS A LUXURY I COULD DO WITHOUT!, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Some people ask me %how I do it Last Line: Let alone %doing it Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SUNRISE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source First Line: The sunrise of new york Last Line: As though recently rescued from a shipwreck of blood Subject(s): Homeless; New York City - Streets; Poverty SUSAN IS HOMELESS TOO, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: The ones who didn't have med-I-cal couldn't fill their %prescriptions Subject(s): Homeless SWEEPING, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The other day I saw the hobbler %sweeping the sidewalk Last Line: But the next day he wasn't there Subject(s): Homeless; Women SYMPATHY FROM THE DIARY OF A HUNGER ARTIST, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I should've left you %to your book Last Line: I'm not the one %holding your soul %for ransom Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SYRUP SWEET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thrift, thrift Subject(s): Homeless TAX MAN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %says how she visited her tax man the other day Last Line: Like some family members %you didn't know you had Subject(s): Homeless; Women TEN COMMANDMENTS OF A STREET POET, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Let all books be remaindered for a dollar Last Line: Don't let the 20th century end with a panel discussion Subject(s): Cities; Homeless THANKSGIVING, by JAMES ENGLISH Poem Source First Line: A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in Subject(s): Homeless THE BEGGAR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, all the day, in the dust, in the heat Last Line: These cry out unheard, and must die on the street. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Homeless; Money; Poverty; Philanthropy THE CASTAWAYS, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vivid grass with visible delight Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Nature; Homeless THE CHURCH ORGAN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The homeless man has heard thy voice Last Line: Ere we made second homes or none. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Homeless THE EDGE OF DOOM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heartsick, homeless, weak, and weary Last Line: Even as leah, to the land. Subject(s): Women; Homeless; Grief THE FERRY, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet's Biography First Line: Today, she tells the woman close beside her, I saw a man Last Line: Today, she tells the woman close beside her, I saw a man Subject(s): Homeless THE GUEST ELLEN AT THE SUPPER FOR STREET PEOPLE, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The unclean spirits cry out in the body Subject(s): Homeless THE HAG, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old hag sat on the park bench, picking her teeth Last Line: And see what else the world means. Subject(s): Homeless; Old Age; Women THE HOMELESS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad hearts! The wayside and the wilderness Last Line: And lo! The rapture of the home above! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Homeless THE HOMELESS POOR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm the city lay in midnight silence Last Line: In thy homeless ones to succor thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Homeless; Poverty; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE KING DINES; IMPRESSION, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two people on a bench in boston commons Last Line: Of the day round him for his dining-room. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Boston Common; Food & Eating; Homeless THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was biting cold, and the falling snow Last Line: A bright reward for all the hardships she suffered here. Subject(s): Child Molesting; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Child Abuse; Suffering; Misery THE PAUPER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sad and seedy pauper has no one for a Last Line: The kettle boil; for visions all are bootless which are not backed by toil. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Homeless; Idleness; Poverty; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 245, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The homeless people I know Last Line: They wander forever content Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Contentment; Homeless; Buddha; Buddhists THE RED BOX AT VESEY STREET, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Past the red box at vesey street Last Line: Through the red box at vesey street. Subject(s): Homeless; Kindness; New York City - Streets; Poverty THE SLEEPERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: As I walked down the waterside Last Line: And long before their time they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Homeless; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE SNOW, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When freezing winter smites the whirling globe Last Line: In all the universe of star and sun? Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Homeless; Snow; Winter; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SORROW OF THE HOUSE OF LIR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy our father lir afar Last Line: Homeless we are from shore to shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Brothers; Homeless; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Pain; Swans; Half-brothers; Suffering; Misery THE STREET LAMP, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Homes stand in slumber. Sleep broods shadowingly Last Line: Sadly you wane. How sad, and oh, how wise! Subject(s): Abandonment; Cities; Grief; Homeless; Poverty; Desertion; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNDER VOICE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I saw streaming up out of the sidewalk the homeless women and men Subject(s): Homeless THE WIND, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All last night and all day long Last Line: He moves off. They can hear him in the leaves. Subject(s): Homeless; Storms; Weather; Wind THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF EL HUMS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the roads and the lanes of el hums Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Old Age THERE'S TROUBLE EVERYWHERE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There the blind man and his personal dark Subject(s): Blindness; Homeless; City & Town Life; Visually Handicapped THEY ARE UNDERCOVER AGENTS, by MICHAEL PORTER Poem Source Subject(s): Homeless THEY DON'T EVEN TAKE SHELTER, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: What an endless procession towards the city Last Line: Those at the front, approaching the merciless gates %are already walking into their invisibility Subject(s): Homeless; Migration; Poverty THEY SEEK SHELTER, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: The commissioner and his suite Last Line: That you promise us a place in reality %some day in a remotechronology? Subject(s): Homeless THIS JUST IN: THE MAYOR HANDS OUT $100 FINES FOR ANYONE CAUGHT ......, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I'm always %on the outs %it seems Last Line: Getting used to %the tar &feathers Subject(s): Cities; Homeless THORNS AND BEES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Life was all up in me, then, %says the woman of too many days Last Line: Wind's goin to have to bring me down Subject(s): Homeless; Women THROUGH THE CLEAR GLASS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The clink of glass %through windowpane Last Line: &write it off %on your taxes Subject(s): Cities; Homeless THROWN OUT, by DIETER WESLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Good for them Last Line: No more handouts from %the forsythia hedges Subject(s): Homeless TO AN OLD BLACK WOMAN, HOMELESS AND INDISTINCT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poet's Biography First Line: Your every day is a pilgrimage Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Homeless; Women – Old Age TO AN OLD BLACK WOMAN, HOMELESS AND INDISTINCT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your every day is a pilgrimage Last Line: Folks used to say 'that child is going far' Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Homeless TO DON JUAN BAZ, EX-GOV. OF MEXICO, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, stranger! Glad I greet thee Last Line: Of sad thoughts that swell thy heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Homeless; Mexico TO RISE ABOVE THE LIFE ON THE STREET, by TIM DIVITO Poem Source First Line: Alone and sitting in an alley Last Line: Not even by the devil in the shopping carts Subject(s): Homeless TO THE MOUNTAINS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %is going to the mountains Last Line: Has no intentions of making a reservation Subject(s): Homeless; Women TO WISH AND NOT WISH, by MORRIS PELTZ Poem Source First Line: I wish that I had never bothered Subject(s): Homeless TODAY I AM DOCILE, by SETH RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: I once was a killer Subject(s): Homeless TOUCH THEM, WARM ANGELS, by JOHN KRIEBEL Poem Source First Line: Give them shelter, angels Last Line: And warmth, and peace Subject(s): Homeless TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ETERNAL HUNGER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal hunger! O through the black night Last Line: Gaze long in silence, friend; gaze long for all are thine Subject(s): Children; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Childhood; Suffering; Misery TRAVELER, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I'm a traveler, states the woman of too many days Last Line: That's the one, she says Subject(s): Homeless; Women TREPIDATION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I'm afraid %of being %afraid Last Line: To not be %afraid Subject(s): Cities; Homeless TURNED OUT FOR RENT, by M. L. S. BURKE Poem Text First Line: Out, out in the night, in the chill wintry air Last Line: -- gaunt poverty fills all her measure of blame. Subject(s): Homeless; Money; Poverty TWENTY POET SKETCHES: 16, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The scavenger poet wheeled in Last Line: I just wrote this baby %this morning Subject(s): Homeless; Poetry And Poets UNDONE DAY, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You think I like being a dime bag in a doorway? Last Line: Going from one key to another %in search of the outside of in Subject(s): Homeless; Politics VOTING THE PAUPERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No choice again? Say, that makes twice Last Line: "the ""lister fight"" is won." Subject(s): Charity; Homeless; Poverty; Vermont; Philanthropy WAIFS: PRELUDE, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye waifs, which up till now have had no home Last Line: Find, each of you, within this little book. Subject(s): Homeless WAITING FOR THE BUS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The older you get %the more deja vu there is in this world Last Line: I would have asked her more but the bus came Subject(s): Homeless; Women WALKING IN CALIFORNIA, by SETH RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Saw some people easing back Subject(s): Homeless WANTED: THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: My face %is on %an id card %in the post office Last Line: But here %even death %evicts me Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WAYS OF SEEING & SAYING ON WAYS OF BEING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Uno: my calling card %I subscribe to Last Line: Until it pushes %something up Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WELL-TO-DO BARBECUE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I feel like %my plane crashed Last Line: Dental insurance %is a bitch %in this motherfucker! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WHAT FINE KINDLING THE HOMELESS MAKE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know the importance of replication but intend no action Last Line: Of saying in the manner of a child, do it again Subject(s): Homeless WHAT SCHOOL CHILDREN TELL ME AS THEY WATCH PEOPLE STEP OVER ME...., by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They'll acknowledge %the toilet Last Line: Before they %acknowledge %you' Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WHAT WE OWE WE OWE TO SCIENCE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In this world %you have %bomb threats Last Line: What %you %pay for Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE TODAY?, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: If by chance %a fortune 500 corporation Last Line: Look out down below %or carry a good umbrella! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WHEN A MAN LEAVES HIS WIFE FOR AN OTTOMAN, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I want to talk plainly %about a man Last Line: And hit his drawers %and be happy Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAIN, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source Last Line: Find forever in a silver sign Subject(s): Homeless WHERE AM I NOW?, by P. JONES Poem Source First Line: What to meet-the wicked Subject(s): Homeless WHITE HORSES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I'm surprised to see the woman of too many days %reading the paper Last Line: Just a funny thought that crossed her mind Subject(s): Homeless; Women WHITE SHROUDS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From our kitchen window I watched the hard sleet chipping Last Line: To husband the small logs, two at a time, onto the fire. Subject(s): Cold; Homeless; Marriage; Winter; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WIZARD, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The hobbler is always saying %how he's fed up with the system Last Line: But he's just an old fool with a broom %who can't find his shoes Subject(s): Homeless; Women WOMEN'S ROOM IN PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Covered with rags and cardboard and nothing Last Line: Carrying away its cargo of men Subject(s): Homeless; Lavatories; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Women YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT, THEY TELL ME!, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Imagine %being in heaven %with a cup Last Line: Helps you %costs you %your life Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ZOO NATION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They feed me %through these %bars Last Line: Shoe heels %ignore %my grief Subject(s): Cities; Homeless |
|