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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MASCULINITY (PSYCHOLOGY) Matches Found: 169 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1937 DODGE, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Left by my father's uncle wesley Last Line: Dodge shone, colossal %in its tomb Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) A BOOK OF AIRS SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man of life upright Last Line: And quiet pilgrimage. Variant Title(s): The Armour Of Innocence;integer Vitae;justvm Et Tenacem;dovine And Moral Songs: 2 Subject(s): Contentment; Courage; Honor; Masculinity (psychology); Valor; Bravery AIR, by STELLA REED Poem Source First Line: Marcy called, said I should Last Line: Beneath them the thin air turning Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ALFRESCO, by JOHN BRIGGS Poem Source First Line: Floating noaked on a rubber raft, I share the surface Last Line: Of air and water creatures pounce upon, devour my sperm Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ALONE IN THE HOUSE, by HANS J. STAHLSCHMIDT Poem Source Last Line: Bending his stiff fingers into fists Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) AMN, by LISA C. TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: I like the parts of you %that are not the parts of me Last Line: In the steam that is our common element Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR'S END, by BINNIE PASQUIER Poem Source First Line: Amazed you could be %safe at home Last Line: Sweetness as these boys Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ANOTHER SON, by SEYMOUR MAYNE Poem Source First Line: Why does he call me ishmael now Last Line: A perfect isaac subservient to his dreams Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) AT THE RAILYARDS, by KAYLOCK SELLERS Poem Source First Line: Min %gather at the railyards Last Line: The lean fire of these men Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by EBBY MALMGREN Poem Source First Line: It was the rock Last Line: Then I married and fathered the future Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) BABY BOY BATH RITUAL, by JAMES G. MERRILL Poem Source First Line: The mother will ask him - he's 2 and a half - if Last Line: He will say: 'daddy's pee-pee, my pee-pee Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) BALDING, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: With every spring %as the west wind snaps flags Last Line: Banners in the wind, %above the ground Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) BASEBALL, by JIM NASON Poem Source First Line: Curled up fetal Last Line: To your calves, ankles, your perfect size ten feet Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) BOX SET, by JOHN AZRAK Poem Source First Line: To fix in a box neatly what remains of your Last Line: With the songs you still had to give Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) BOYS HAVE GUNS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: There must be eight of them Last Line: Curls from their fingers like smoke Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) BRETT'S GAME, by ROGER CARL PFINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Slowly the leaves unpile themselves Last Line: Only hairy. Now go away, he says, and don't tell anybody Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) BROTHER, by KAYLOCK SELLERS Poem Source First Line: Baby %baby brother Last Line: Find their %peace Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) BUILDING, by ROGER KIRSCHBAUM Poem Source First Line: Bill and david, familiar Last Line: See the need for building Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) CAPE HATTERAS: 1939, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I went fishing with my father Last Line: Hooked you, father? Will I land %your heart at last? Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) CARPENTER, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: Someone nailed her; and someone Last Line: No chip off this block, the kid could be right Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) CATTAILS, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I love the desolation of this lake shore in april Last Line: A man stands up green and tall from the lake of tears Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) CHUCO PACHUCO CARNAL, by JR. TRINIDAD SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: In the 'colegio' where the establishment Last Line: My chest feels heavy around my soul Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) CITY OF MEN, by DONALD RAWLEY Poem Source First Line: I am in love in a city of men Last Line: Of being in love in a city of men Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) CLAIMING KIN, by CHRISTOPHER WOODS Poem Source First Line: Maybe he didn't know where he was going that night, or why Last Line: Passed away, beyond knowing again Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) COMB, by JIM NASON Poem Source First Line: This black comb smells of sex Last Line: Ask him while you're wet Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) CONSTRUCTION LINGO, by LORRAINE LENER CIANCIO Poem Source First Line: Jacks and kings and cripples Last Line: Does anyone know what a %prick punch is for? Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) COWBOY POEM, by MICHAEL L. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: This poem rises before dawn Last Line: Dallies its rope, dallies its tongue Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) CRANES MATE FOR LIFE, by HANS J. STAHLSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: C Last Line: Who then is calling me? Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) CREAM THEY SAY, by JEREMY SPEARS Poem Source First Line: Rises, blank and white as an inch of snow Last Line: Stay. Rise tonight. Shine in my arms Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) DAD (1), by THOMAS FITZSIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Big hands hoisting me -- plunk Last Line: Blessing, and forget it Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Masculinity (psychology) DAREDEVIL, by KIRBY CONGDON Poem Source First Line: Hard helmets and high boots Last Line: Closing like an office door Subject(s): Homosexuality; Masculinity (psychology) DAVIDS ELEGIE UPON JONATHAN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: What name of comfort can returne Last Line: Thy love, as thou, was masculine. Subject(s): Love; Masculinity (psychology); Mourning; Bereavement DAY TIMER, by MICHAEL S. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Slick and cocky as an old trout Last Line: To tunnel slowly home again Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) DEPENDS, by JIM NASON Poem Source First Line: When a man does %'woman's work' Last Line: Who then holds them %crying out Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) DOG SMILES, by MAGGIE MCKIRGAN Poem Source First Line: My son john liked to dress the dog in people clothes Last Line: And a long-nosed dog smile behind dark glasses Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) DREAMING OF MONTANA, by DANIEL SARGENT Poem Source First Line: First night %I can see the woman now Last Line: And touches his horn %as he passes Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) DRESSING MY FATHER, by ROSEMARY MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: My father was a natty dresser so choosing a tie for him was tricky Last Line: Gently crowning his forehead with his silver waves Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) DRUNK, WITH ROSES, by TIM MYERS Poem Source First Line: He stumbles a bit on the porch step but Last Line: Down around their life Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) DRYWALL, by PAULA FARKAS Poem Source First Line: I hear the men talking Last Line: The women are quietly thinking Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ELEGIA A MI PADRE, by ALFREDO CARDONA PENA Poem Source First Line: Because of your birth in the manger of san jose Last Line: And in it your soul floats like a microscopic bread Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ELVIS AND THE BIRDHOUSES, by APRIL SELLEY Poem Source First Line: One morning, in soiled glitter Last Line: As he blesses his bird-graced lands Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) EMMETT'S DECISION, by ROGER CARL PFINGSTON Poem Source First Line: The last time emmett modeled nude he was nine years old Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) FAMILIARITY, by LAWRENCE SCHIMEL Poem Source First Line: I no longer pretend I don't take Last Line: The water is involved Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) FATHER TO SON, by NANCY PETERS HASTINGS Poem Source First Line: He shows him how to string the bow Last Line: Except by bending it slow, with love Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) FATHER'S CURSE, by ERIC LOCHRIDGE Poem Source First Line: My wife wants me %to fll her belly with seeds Last Line: Turning onto another highway at night, traveling %north, always north Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) FATHERS ARE NOT STONES, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Fathers are not stones, though their voices Last Line: So I have life to give Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) FISHING AT NIGHTFALL, by TODD PALMER Poem Source First Line: I guess my grandfather's love for fishing Last Line: While we stand, obscured by nightfall, %on opposing sides Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) FOR ERIN, by JOHN OUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Small and new, you turn into me Last Line: I'm holding my ribs up like an umbrella Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) FOR WOMEN WHO WONDER AT THE MISANTHROPY OF CERTAIN MEN, by DONNA SPECTOR Poem Source First Line: Maybe men can afford to malinger Last Line: Soon after their mothers kiss their lips %and teach them how to speak Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) FOURTEEN MONTHS, A MAN WITH DEXTERITY, by ELIZABETH JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: My boy with his obsidian eyes, a face of berries Last Line: And bites into my breast as if it were a nectarine Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOY WALKS INTO THE BLIZZARD, by JACKSON AHRENS Poem Source First Line: Maybe it was something she said on the phone Last Line: Behind him. Leaving no trace Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) GARY'S WAY, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: I was a gay teenager Last Line: No longer feel in danger, alone Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) GENTS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the gents room between acts Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) GEORGE WASHINGTON, LOVER, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: I always preferred the quiet life Last Line: I am the good wife Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology); Men; Presidents, United States; Washington, D.c.; Washington, George (1732-1799) GERMAN CHILDHOOD, by HANS J. STAHLSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Whenever he screamed in his dreams Last Line: Sleeping body behind the door Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) GERMAN OFFICER WRITES A LETTER, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: My dear predecessor, %these three days have proved Last Line: Would you be so kind %to recommend somebody good Variant Title(s): The German Officer Inherit Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Masculinity (psychology) GETTING ANSWERS, by DELORIS SELINSKY Poem Source First Line: My grandson walks the shore Last Line: He has set his mind to hearing Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) GIRL CRAZY, by GERARD DONNELLEY SMITH Poem Source First Line: Don't cut the sheep and don't cut the conversation Last Line: And I always had work Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) GRAMMAR, by GERARD DONNELLEY SMITH Poem Source First Line: When I first began teaching he asked Last Line: Had ate, eaten and been eating for forty years Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) GROWING UP A BLOCK AWAY FROM JOHN MCCRAE, by JOHN OUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Winter is withering through the dried grass Last Line: Your words march on...In flanders fields Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) HAIR-PULLING FIGHT, by TROXEY KEMPER Poem Source First Line: When my brother willis was eleven he Last Line: And after a while the hair grew in again Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) HISTORY LESSON, by BRIAN DALDORPH Poem Source First Line: The bullies grabbed me Last Line: My first naked encounter with history Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) HOW CAN I FOLLOW MY BEAUTIFUL DREAMS?, by J. B. BRYAN Poem Source First Line: I left iowa one thanksgiving Last Line: Ecstatic to wear my hat on backwards Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) HOW DO YOU WANT TOM DIE?, by DAVID COOPER Poem Source First Line: I'd like to die quickly, say, in a plane crash. But if Last Line: We had this over with. We're going %into real nut country Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) HOW MEN FEAR WOMEN, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: Because I couldn't stop her flying Last Line: She warned me: %don't look up Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) HOW WE GOT THE HOLE IN OUR ROOF, by JULIA M. DEISLER Poem Source First Line: Titanium man had been struggling out Last Line: You'd fly away. He did Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) HUNT AT LANGLEY, by DAVID COOPER Poem Source First Line: I have nothing to fight with. Am Last Line: Since we lost china Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) I NEVER WANTED ON FOR SEX, by ELIZABETH JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Being on the opposite end of the pole Last Line: Every target a bulls-eye, unmissable like hitting yourself in the face Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ICARUS, by CHRISTINE E. HEMP Poem Source First Line: It was his idea, this flying thing Last Line: He rises to a light he never knew, his son Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ICARUS, MANHATTAN, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Across this fortressed isle Last Line: But now I've learned to swim Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) IN THIS POEM I AM TEN YEARS OLD, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: My name is vinnie or tommy or wade Last Line: Yo, hundreds of boxcars quake and thunder Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) INTERNAL COOMBUSTION, by JR. JOSEPH G. HUTCHISON Poem Source First Line: I'm a responsible man, and so Last Line: Roaring like hell, eating my own sweet dust Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) IT'S HARD TO HUG A PREGNANT WOMAN, by AL GABOR Poem Source First Line: It's hard to hug a pregnant woman in bed Last Line: Walk the shoreline, %welcoming Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) JOYFUL INTERPENETRATION, by DANIEL WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Uremic droning spring blossoms Last Line: And not be gone not gone Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) KIDDUSH ON THE TURNPIKE, by SHEL HOROWITZ Poem Source First Line: Friday night he brought %challah, wine and paper cups Last Line: Keeps the mitzvah %of his mission %in gear Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) KISSING MAN, by ELMO MONDRAGON Poem Source First Line: The kissing man came to the door Last Line: All I ask is that you give me this day.' Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) KITCHEN WITCH, by KAREN PICONI Poem Source First Line: Your mother stays with us after the miscarriage Last Line: But one hand cupping, dry-rubbing a breast Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) LABOR DAY - UP ON THE ROOF, by PHILLIP AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: We are working today, although it hardly seems work, such is Last Line: For the morning, which, as lovely as the evening may be, will %come tomorrow Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) LAST TIME I REMEMBER BOB WELL, by ROSEMARY MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: Bob in his hawaiian shirt, red rayon, screaming yellow flowers Last Line: Still saying goodbye Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) LEUKEMIA, by GERARD DONNELLEY SMITH Poem Source First Line: Even in pain, %his heart murmur howling Last Line: And we are second Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) LOVERS, by TIM MYERS Poem Source First Line: A man who loves a woman Last Line: Then gathers; %rain Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MALE GORILLAS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the doughnut shop / twenty-three silverbacks Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MALE GORILLAS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the doughnut shop %twenty-three silverbacks Last Line: Confused library, the female mind Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MAN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I am a man, he said, and therefore Last Line: Neither? Both? %inescapable? Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MANBEAST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A beast doesn't know he's a beast Last Line: Is better able to play the game Subject(s): Animals; Masculinity (psychology) MAP OF A CATCHER, by FRANK VAN ZANT Poem Source First Line: Three-year old zach lays out Last Line: His persistent veins like oakroots liftinng sidewalks of skin Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MARATHON, by NATHALIE K. LOBE Poem Source First Line: Twenty thousand zealots Last Line: To a distant pole Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, by ELMO MONDRAGON Poem Source First Line: Consider %the movement of people Last Line: All I can offer you is a love as common as flowers Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MASCULINE ART OF LONGING, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: In a cream-colored room with blue curtains Last Line: That sinks below those lilies floating on water Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MATHEW, by JAMES KATES Poem Source First Line: When his wife's belly swelled like a starving child's Last Line: Farther and farther apart, like a father and son Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MEETING THE BUDDHA NEAR BANGALORE, by HANS J. STAHLSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: It is only stone he kisses leaning across Last Line: That instant again when he was not himself Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MORE THAN ONE BUDDHA, by MIRIAM SAGAN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, on canyon road Last Line: Umbrellas, teacups, shoes, rain Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MUSKIE, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: In our parents' yard, a twenty-three pound Last Line: I see those rows of cat-like teeth hooked downward in you, %and a drunken fisherman trailing his han Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MY BABY GOING UPSTREAM, by FRANK VAN ZANT Poem Source First Line: This is no crawl, this thing he does on the floor Last Line: Or the swimming original seed Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MY FATHER'S BREAKFAST, by DONNA SPECTOR Poem Source First Line: After his first heart attack my father Last Line: Has finally disappeared Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MY HUSBAND'S BEARD, by JUDITH RAFAELA Poem Source First Line: Salt and pepper gray, my husband's beard bushes out Last Line: Salt and pepper. %the spice of my life Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) MY SON'S PUBERTY, by MICHAEL L. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Child infinite in faculty no more Last Line: It gets better, but what do fathers know? Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) NIGHT TOGETHER, by VIVINA CIOLLI Poem Source First Line: This close, but without touching Last Line: Snaps off the light, and sleeps Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) NO EQUAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: His voice is money Last Line: All defeated but one %'gone! Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology); Strength; Victory NOSTRADAMUS OF THE MACHINE SHOP, by JOAN JOBE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Because fred has a sense of humor Last Line: Because I know they don't.' Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) NOTE FROM HOME, by PHILLIP AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: To whom it may concern: %re: robin's absence from the fourth grade yesterday Last Line: We give time off for good behavior Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) OLD MEN AND WIVES, by PHYLLIS HOTCH Poem Source First Line: I saw my father cry Last Line: Lay down to wait again beside her Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ON MEETING A FORMER LOVER AND HER NEWBORN SON, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: Whatever I said when we parted Last Line: Aching to take fire in his arms no matter how it burns Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ONE HUNDRED MILES FROM NOWHERE, by DONALD RAWLEY Poem Source First Line: Joe turner is singing 'honey hush' Last Line: And you stroke my chin in silence Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ONE SUMMER DUSK, by MARY BARRETT Poem Source First Line: The bull got loose, somehow, Last Line: To their constrained places? Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) OUR FIRST FIGHT, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: I passionately stated my belief that jim morrison Last Line: Had done with his cock Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PATERNAL BORDERS, by MARY ALICE MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Every year we leave new mexico Last Line: Only the dove remains Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PEEING, by ROGER KIRSCHBAUM Poem Source First Line: At first we believed this Last Line: Near the mirrors waiting to swallow us Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PLACE OF SENSE, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: I want to know my body Last Line: For the man who drove them out Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PLUTO TO PERSEPHONE, by DANIEL WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I know what it is you %want from me Last Line: The more the world suffers Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PNEUMONIA, by JR. JOSEPH G. HUTCHISON Poem Source First Line: Stars through the windshield glinted Last Line: The blackness swallowed its stars Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) POURING CONCRETE IN 100 TEMPERATURES, by PAUL BUFIS Poem Source First Line: I tell them %how it will be done Last Line: As from my bed, %in dreams of life Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PREEN, by CHRISTOPHE BRUNSKI Poem Source First Line: Watchful birds of prey Last Line: Combing her tresses the lavender clouds of early evening Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PRICK, by DELIA DESMOND Poem Source First Line: I see you, beneath %my hands, as some Last Line: Many limbed where sight tells me there is %only %one Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PROPER RHYTHM, by GERARD DONNELLEY SMITH Poem Source First Line: To shear three-hundred and twenty head in eight hours Last Line: And sang: this will cut a throat Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PULLING PETER BACK, by CHRISTINE E. HEMP Poem Source First Line: Since you died I've tried to pull you back Last Line: For your birthday - till I look down to see %the red on my palm. And I let go Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) PUSH UPS, by H. PALMER HALL Poem Source First Line: Sergeant smith: mosley's going to set the brigade record. He %only needs 230! Last Line: A drop of sweat from your lip, stood up %and walked away Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) QUIET, IT'S TOO QUIET, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: A neighbor stopped me tonight Last Line: I knelt in your pool of silence Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) RED LIGHTS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Red light district, 1966 %amsterdam streets: women Last Line: Of my blood all the way to life? Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) REFLEX-TIONS, by AHIMSA TIMOTEO BODHRAN Poem Source First Line: Daddy I know u never touched me Last Line: But these fists r cramped %they won't uncurl Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) REPLACING A PIECE OF SIDEWALK, by PAUL BUFIS Poem Source First Line: After years of concrete contracting Last Line: Except for one thing: men give up too soon Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) RIFLE RACK, by JOHN FRANCIS GILGUN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, about to pull out of my driveway, on my way to the post Last Line: The rifle glowed like an icon Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) RIO PACUARE, COSTA RICA, by JUDITH RAFAELA Poem Source First Line: The river god emerges from the swirling foam Last Line: Past swollen knees and %tourist demands Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) RIVER STORY, by MARY ALICE MORRIS Poem Source First Line: He is in love with rivers Last Line: How we all got swept away Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) ROSES, by CATHERINE DOTY Poem Source First Line: Whenever I try to dissolve Last Line: Dizzy from that sweetness Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SEASONG, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I cut the balls off the tiger Last Line: Death is a matter of money.' Subject(s): Death; Masculinity (psychology); Sea SEEING BEAR, by ART GOODTIMES Poem Source First Line: Walking petersburg creek Last Line: With the dark shape of myself Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SHEEPHERDER TO HIS WIFE, by ELMO MONDRAGON Poem Source First Line: I want the earth in my speech Last Line: The fountains of our sleep Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SHOEBOX HOUSE, by TIM MYERS Poem Source First Line: Her father sits down on the living-room floor Last Line: The wicked language of a slamming door Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SHORT HISTORY OF SEX, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hijo, this is the lightswitch. No pay you bill, no light, and Last Line: When you played with it very lightly Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SHOW MUST GO ON, by EBBY MALMGREN Poem Source First Line: Without a father Last Line: The story would end Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SINCE DANIEL, by STELLA REED Poem Source First Line: Since daniel jumped %from the towering cliffs Last Line: Regret not. Going is without blame.' Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SKINNING THE ELK, by ART GOODTIMES Poem Source First Line: There's a lot of life in these animals' Last Line: Spirit leaping %from shape to shape Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SLIABH, LOCH, AGUS FEAR CE TARAING ANAIL IAD, by DANIEL SARGENT Poem Source First Line: Two old men bend toward each other Last Line: Riding the rock melting heat beneath Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SLIVER, by SHEILA COWING Poem Source First Line: In the dark, she shivers in his arms Last Line: She is pounding, pounding the glass Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SMUGGLIN' BLUES: 2, by ANNE MACNAUGHTON Poem Source First Line: A thousand dancers %wearing turtle shells Last Line: In each stomp %multiplicity Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SMUGGLIN' BLUES: 5, by ANNE MACNAUGHTON Poem Source First Line: More men %round the world Last Line: Genes %identified %by plaid Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SMUGGLIN' BLUES: 9, by ANNE MACNAUGHTON Poem Source First Line: The old man has a young son Last Line: And lemon %like rain coming Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SNAPSHOTS, by LAWRENCE M. JONES Poem Source First Line: He sits alone at the table Last Line: Another dead soldier, he thinks Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SONNET; THERE ARE NO BASEBALLS, by STEPHEN BANKHEAD Poem Source First Line: There are no baseballs needing to be thrown Last Line: I feel it has begun to disappear Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SONS, by BURTON D. WASSERMAN Poem Source First Line: We've wrestled since %we stood upright Last Line: Till he covers the sky Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SPERM AND THE EGG, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sperm hate the egg Last Line: To be or not to be!' Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) STRICKEN, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How does it happen Last Line: That darkens the eye Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) STRIPPER AT THE FUNERAL, by LEE PATTON Poem Source First Line: No one thought to read 'to an athlete Last Line: Meeting every beat of the boy's broken heart Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SUMMER OF NINETY-THREE, by MICHAEL L. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Today the air conditioner broke down Last Line: Hell is not temperature. Hell is time Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SUMMIT, by JOANNE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: I walked up your mountain today Last Line: An antidote to my venom Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) SWEATING IT, by BURTON D. WASSERMAN Poem Source First Line: They call me fatso/I'm eighteen/wearing a halo of pimples Last Line: Disheveled old cleaning lady/is my fairy godmother Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) TASK, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: He stands in the shower, a serious angel Last Line: Take your time, look closely -- and I can go home Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) TASTE OF MY FATHER, by JOE MOWREY Poem Source First Line: Find me afterward in the rain Last Line: The house is bloody with silence Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) TASTING FIRE, by MARK THOMA Poem Source First Line: My brother matt tried to taste fire Last Line: Eyes fixed on the teasing flames Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) TESTOSTERONE, by MICHAEL L. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Just barely still a child Last Line: Of my long puberty Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) THE SPERM AND THE EGG, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sperm hate the egg Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) THEORY OF TEARS, by JOAN LOGGHE Poem Source First Line: Tears come from tombs Last Line: Of tears, a full diamond walking hard toward a horizon Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 27. LOVE, AND NEVER FEAR, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never love unless you can / bear with all the faults of man Last Line: Then like, and love, and never fear! Variant Title(s): Advice To A Girl Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Complaints; Masculinity (psychology); Trust THIS MAN, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: This man - I shook him when he cried Last Line: My newborn song Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) TIDEWATER SPECIALTIES, by SHEILA COWING Poem Source First Line: On the cover the man leans to his gun Last Line: The two gold geese flying Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) TO BE A BOY, by JACKSON AHRENS Poem Source First Line: There is no good way to be a boy Last Line: When you realize that %you will be a man Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) TRIM, by JOANNE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: My husand cut my pubic hair Last Line: Sculpting a woman back into a girl Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) VOLLEYBALL PLALYER, by H. PALMER HALL Poem Source First Line: His picture in the paper, blond and brave Last Line: A sharp directed shot, the ball blasting near the line Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WARRIOR OF THE TIMES, by RONALD CHALMERS Poem Source First Line: I have run the gauntlet of the brave Last Line: And I am now a warrior of the times Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WASHING OF THE FEET, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: We will grow a time, in time Last Line: Where you stand Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WE ARE MORE BOYS THAN MEN, by JIM NASON Poem Source First Line: Wrestling on the sofa Last Line: Torment my filthy hair Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WHAT A LEAKY BATHROOM DID, by BURT RASHBAUM Poem Source First Line: My fears arise within me like the sun Last Line: And take a walk in autumn air Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WHAT MEN TALK ABOUT, by CHARLES ROSSITER Poem Source First Line: Robert, stretched out on the cot Last Line: Boasting, boasting and bleeding, %together we men Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WHERE WATER HAS BEEN RECENTLY, by JUDYTH HILL Poem Source First Line: So have I. %walked the aspen meadows so full of wildflowers this year Last Line: As where water has just lately %been running Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WHY I AM A POET, by ELMO MONDRAGON Poem Source First Line: My craft is the emotions. The ship I build Last Line: I will take your breath away Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WHY WOMEN OPEN THE DOOR, by DONNA SPECTOR Poem Source First Line: When the dark stranger comes to our door Last Line: The shades and take the phone off the hook Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WILLIAM TELL'S SON SPEAKS, by JOHN OUGHTON Poem Source First Line: I do wish dad %would give up on this Last Line: While his lips hiss: 'this is for you, son!' Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) WORK, by JOHN FRANCIS GILGUN Poem Source First Line: Work & the cruelty of bosses & Last Line: And my baby loves me cadillac style, yeah, sure Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) |
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