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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NUCLEAR FREEZE Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I remember Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AT THE BOMB TESTING SITE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon in the desert a panting lizard Last Line: The hands gripped hard on the desert. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Desserts; Nuclear Freeze BLESSING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed / are the injured animals Last Line: When no one is left to speak. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America DIRECTIONS FOR CARRYING EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR WASTES THROUGH ..., by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the long island expressway at brookhaven Last Line: And look out for the crazies. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Nuclear Waste; Trucks & Trucking; Nuclear Freeze; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight FOR ETHEL ROSENBERG, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Europe 1953: / throughout my random sleepwalk Last Line: With secrets she has never sold Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Capital Punishment; Communism; Mccarthyism; Rosenberg Case; Nuclear Freeze; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius GATHERED AT THE RIVER; FOR BEATRICE HAWLEY AND JOHN JAGEL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the trees were not indifferent Last Line: No pollen. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nagasaki, Japan; Nature; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indian HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR; AFTER READING IBUSE'S 'BLACK RAIN', by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought low in kyoto Last Line: The enemies of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LAND OF LITTLE STICKS, 1945, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the wife is scouring the frying pan Last Line: Against his forearm, leaning up against the barn. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LATE SPRING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE; FOR CLARE ROSSINI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fish hit water nymphs, breaking surface Last Line: That our deaths will not be the last. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Death; Nuclear War; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb OPENING DAY, by DAVID MCKAIN Poem Source First Line: Gusts of wind cruise like fish Last Line: Else gets up, the seagulls yammering upriver. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; History; Pacifism; Social Protest; Nuclear Freeze; Historians; Peace Movements PLUTONIAN ODE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What new element before us unborn in nature? Last Line: Space, so ah! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb PRIMER FOR THE NUCLEAR AGE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the edge of the mariner's Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Freeze RADIATION, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand in the sun long enough to remember Last Line: Our one original name. Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Nuclear Freeze SHOULDERS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man crosses the street in rain Last Line: The rain will never stop falling. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Fathers & Sons; Peace; Nuclear Freeze SIMULTANEOUSLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simultaneously, five thousand miles apart Last Line: Sprouting leaves. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb SONNET AGAINST NUCLEAR WEAPONS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The human sigh commuted to life imprisonment Last Line: The suppression of rights. A snake. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Freeze STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hiss and flashing lights of a jet Last Line: Belongs to the twentieth century and its wars. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Strategic Air Command; Nuclear Freeze SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT FULHAM PALACE, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sunday afternoon in late september, one of the last Last Line: And ask, once more, to enter that innocent first world. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; London; Nuclear Freeze TAR, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first morning of three mile island: those first disquieting Last Line: Scribbled with obscenities and hearts. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Accidents; Nuclear Freeze; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island TERMINAL COLLOQUY, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where will you go when the blinding flash Last Line: Nothing, after the blinding flash. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE BATH: AUGUST 6, 1945, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathing the summer night Last Line: And to take hold. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Peace; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Social Protest; Survival; War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT OF TECHNOLOGY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under glass: glass dishes which changed Last Line: To look back and say, a flash, a white flash sparkled. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Judgment Day; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GARDEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were talking about poetry Last Line: Preparing to open the door. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Poetry & Poets; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GARDEN SHUKKEI-EN, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river Last Line: It is the bell to awaken god that we've heard ringing Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE HORSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They spoke of the horse alive Last Line: Their bones in one mad dance. Subject(s): Animals; Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Horses; Nuclear Freeze THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians THE ORIGINS OF CORN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the female corn. / this is the male Last Line: Will find it green and alive. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Love; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE PLANET KRYPTON, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window the mcgill smelter Last Line: We could have anything we wanted. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Baby Boom Generation; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Women; Nuclear Freeze THE TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; TRYING TO TALK WITH A MAN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in this desert we are testing bombs Last Line: As if we were testing anything else. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Men; Nuclear Freeze U.S. 1946 KING'S X, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having invented a new holocaust Last Line: King's x – no fairs to use it any more! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Freeze VAPOR TRAILS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twin streaks twice higher than cumulus Last Line: —spotting that design. Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WELCOME TO HIROSHIMA, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is what you first see, stepping off the train Last Line: Worked its filthy way out like a tongue. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Hiroshima, Japan; Literary Form; World War Ii; Nuclear Freeze; Second World War WHAT THE END IS FOR (GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy just like you took me out to see them Last Line: Until the sound of the open ocean grows and the voice. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Strategic Air Command; Nuclear Freeze WHEN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder now only when it will happen Last Line: It will look so beautiful. Subject(s): Amputees; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHEN THE VACATION IS OVER FOR GOOD, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be strange Last Line: We are dying. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Vacation; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb |
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