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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOVING & MOVERS Matches Found: 52 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck / at the gold head of my grandchild Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; United States - Race Relations AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go there!' 'stay here!' Last Line: "to go." Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN AUTUMN MOVING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The browns are coming back to town Last Line: And in will move the whites! Subject(s): Moving & Movers APACHE PLUME; 9. STARLIGHT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here skid marks on I-25 mark a head-on collision Last Line: Here is the origin of starlight. Subject(s): Moving & Movers CABIN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Eviction people arrive to haunt me Last Line: Needle tickle your shoulder, peak curve, fresh air. Subject(s): Homecoming; Moving & Movers; Universities & Colleges CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, the movers come Subject(s): Moving & Movers DIALECT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember the air, the light, the voices Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration DWARF WITH VIOLIN, GOVERNMENT CENTER STATION, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long-distance connections fade and rectify Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FARRAGUT NORTH, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tunnel-light at the top of the station two or three Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FIRST OF MAY IN NEW YORK (CHATHAM GARDEN, 1825), by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN Poem Text First Line: First of may, clear the way! Last Line: Devil take the first of may. Subject(s): May Day; Moving & Movers; New York City - 19th Century FURNITURE MOVER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah the great Subject(s): Furniture; Moving & Movers GALLERY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandfather stepped from the boat Last Line: And pretty as a picture Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration GHAZALS: 26, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will I do with seven billion cubic feet of clouds Last Line: House and car and parents. I'm going to greenland at dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Moving & Movers; Relationships; Separation; Isolation GREEN ASH, RED MAPLE, BLACK GUM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often the names of trees consoled me Last Line: Black gum, black gum, black gum. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Marriage; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Trees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HIATUS, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weedy light through the uncurtained glass Subject(s): Home; Time; Moving & Movers HOMECOMING, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time, thunder unshackles the rain Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN A U-HAUL NORTH OF DAMASCUS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what are the sins Last Line: To believe in new beginnings? Could I be moved? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Pain; Popular Culture - United States; Suffering; Misery IN AN APARTMENT, by ELLEN MARIE JENSEN Poem Text First Line: I live in a new apartment Last Line: And shrill violin! Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants; Moving & Movers; Noises IN TRANSIT, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, then, if that's the case, let's start packing and get Last Line: The place that yet was right here all along Subject(s): Moving & Movers INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LENOX HILL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hun so loved the cry, one falling elephant's Last Line: When I remember you – beyond all accounting o my mother? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LIVING WHERE WE DO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to think of the man under the house Last Line: Its root lodged deep in the ground. Subject(s): Houses; Moving & Movers; Secrets LOST AND FOUND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for the photo that would make all the difference in my life. It's Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas MOMENT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A person wakes from sleep Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration MOVE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether it's a turtle who drags herself Last Line: For the song that is to follow Subject(s): Moving & Movers MOVING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not those who have lived here and gone Last Line: Of all that happened there. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing; Memory; Moving & Movers; Property; Solitude; Possessions; Loneliness MOVING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tenderly I swathe cups in the times Last Line: As I box my life. Subject(s): Memory; Moving & Movers MOVING DAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: With what style / the final exit Last Line: To earth. Subject(s): Moving & Movers MOVING HOUSE, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My old desire to live in the southern village Last Line: Doubtful meanings we examine together and settle. Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Moving & Movers MOVING IN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it your hope, hope's hearth, heart's home, here at the lane's end Last Line: Proudly reaped the light, passed peacefully into dark Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Moving & Movers MOVING WITH CHILDREN, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should you prepare them for homesickness? Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Children; Homesickness; Childhood NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sold my brownstone windows full of leaves Last Line: Their clopping rhythm muffled in fresh snow. Subject(s): Cities; Moving & Movers; Winter; Urban Life NOTE TO THE PREVIOUS TENANTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for leaving the bar of soap Last Line: And dried in the air like the floor Subject(s): Moving & Movers ON LEAVING A PLACE WHERE ONE HAD DWELT MANY YEARS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some moments in each life Last Line: Of aught can never be the last. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Change; Home; Moving & Movers ON LEAVING MRS. BROWN'S LODGINGS, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So goodbye, mrs. Brown Last Line: But all's one for that, since I must and will away. Subject(s): Farewell; Moving & Movers; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips PLANTING A MAILBOX, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prepare the ground when maple buds have burst Last Line: A branch post office blooms Subject(s): Mailboxes; Moving & Movers PLUS SHIPPING, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certainly it was a premonition of a navajo warrior that men Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POSTCARDS TO COLUMBUS, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning at the front door of the white house, travel west Last Line: Of your television set? Can you hear the ghost of drums approasching? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POSTMODERNISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene you loathe, the sheer fervor, the speed Last Line: And now even your pity is worthless Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration QUESTIONS FOR ECCLESIASTES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if on a foggy night in a beachtown, a night when the pacific leans close Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration SHE DECIDES ON THE LETTER C FOR WASHCLOTH, by LINDEN ONTJES Poem Text First Line: She is sorting their lives / into boxes, taping Subject(s): Moving & Movers SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Yiddish STARLINGS ON THE ROOF, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot Last Line: Till they move their last - no care to pack!' Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Starlings THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a deacon in their church dreamt god would burn portland Last Line: Bright as trumpets, far and farther. Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Moving & Movers; Owls; Prophecy & Prophets; Belief; Creed THE MINKS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard of our house on norwood, Last Line: Character and beauty Variant Title(s): Captivity: The Minks Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sure then, as I sang along Last Line: Ricky's accent so much like how she remembers yours Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full 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 WHY SHE MOVED HOUSE (THE DOG MUSES), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why she moved house, without a word Last Line: And I but pause and pass. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Moving & Movers WUPATKI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a people abandon their town Last Line: And the small bones of a family. Subject(s): Abandonment; Legacies; Moving & Movers; Desertion YES, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to culture shock: / a guide to customs and etiquette Last Line: What he means by his yes Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration |
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