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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OBSESSIONS Matches Found: 40 A PICTURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There's a face that haunts me ever Last Line: But till death that face shall greet me: / lydia pinkham is her name Subject(s): Obsessions AINT NOBODY'S BIDNESS IF I DO?, by HATTIE GOSSETT Poem Source First Line: Are all human beings equally endowed with an inalienable Last Line: Rights in bed with someone else what are your rights? Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions BLACK MADONNA, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Screaming legions/her children chase her down shame Last Line: Father, the crucifixion did not take Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions BOYS GAME-SHE ASKED FOR IT, by HATTIE GOSSETT Poem Source First Line: The boys have this game they play called she asked for it Last Line: One man. Especially if he is white. Right? Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions CANADA, by PAT CALIFIA Poem Source First Line: It's another country, %she said in her letter Last Line: Where I do not belong %I belong with you Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions CAVATINA, by JEFFREY LEVINE Poem Text First Line: It may be there's a time of day when everything Subject(s): Beaujolais Wine; Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians; Obsessions DEATH 213, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time only one body on the divan Last Line: And this time, no savior Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions DREAMS IN BONDAGE, by MICHAEL LASSELL Poem Source First Line: My dreams are slung in hammocks %like refugees Last Line: Sowing dream seeds %sweetened by tears Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-ONE, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He said his name was nick; later I learned Last Line: On the screen, then up at the black ceiling Subject(s): Fetishes; Homosexuality; Obsessions ELEGY: THE POET INVOKES THE SPIRITS OF THE ELEMENTS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sylphs, who banquet on my delia's blush Last Line: And burst my feeble body's frail control. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Obsessions; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women FIERCELY FREE 40S, by HATTIE GOSSETT Poem Source First Line: For years she had been planning that when she reached Last Line: Of sex and sexual freedom-was lifted from her eyes Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions GONE, by PAT CALIFIA Poem Source First Line: I called you one night Last Line: I'd so much rather %you had a dog Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions HEAVY BREATHING, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of heavy breathing, %very little of my focus intentional Last Line: Pictures of bushes, %canisters of tears Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions HEROIN, by PAT CALIFIA Poem Source First Line: You say, %tie yourself off Last Line: Smiles and continues to bask %in this tropical poisonous sun Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions HOMELESS/DOES ECONOMICS TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER SEXUALITY?, by HATTIE GOSSETT Poem Source First Line: Do homeless people have sex? Last Line: Have time to think about getting a little bit? %are you sure? Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions MAUD, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood Last Line: I embrace the purpose of god, and the doom assign'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Obsessions; Love MEG'S CURSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rode high in a cloudless sky Last Line: And die for the sake of the man. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Unrequited; Obsessions; Dead, The METAL EYE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Secretly I'm dead inside Last Line: At 3,200 degrees platinum liquefies Subject(s): Desire; Girls; Indifference; Love - Loss Of; Obsessions NEUROSIS, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can not seem to lose this little ghost Last Line: Dancing back and forth across the sill. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T. Subject(s): Obsessions OBSESSIONAL, by MARGOT SCHILPP Poem Source First Line: I have an obsession with the color red Last Line: The dynamite and hydranges, and live Subject(s): Obsessions OBSESSIONS, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steady as the heat Subject(s): Obsessions OBSESSIONS, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Steady as the heat Subject(s): Obsessions OBSESSIONS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it is true we have to return Subject(s): Obsessions OBSESSIONS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it is true we have to return Last Line: Flew into the intense sky still burning Subject(s): Obsessions OBSESSIONS, by MARTHA RONK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obsessions make what Last Line: The itching that shapes things Subject(s): Obsessions OBSESSIVE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could be a clip, it could be a comb Last Line: The father of a friend just sickened and sickened. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Games; Obsessions; Childhood; Relatives; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur leonce miranda, then, ... But stay! Last Line: Meanwhile, no separation of the pair! Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so slipt pleasantly away five years Last Line: Look at it for a moment while I breathe. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 4, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ready to hear the rest? How good you are! Last Line: And stand all ready for morn's joy a-blush? Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology THE MISER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I was out last night Subject(s): Self; Reality; Misers; Obsessions THE POET EXPATIATES ON THE BEAUTY OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The comb between whose ivory teeth she strains Last Line: The ringlets rob for faery fiddle-strings. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Hair; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Women; Eros; Male-female Relations THE POET RELATES HOW HE OBTAINED DELIA'S POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis mine! What accents can my joy declare? Last Line: And I will kiss thee o'er and o'er again. Variant Title(s): Delia's Pocket-handkerchief;love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Food & Eating; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE POET RELATES HOW HE STOLE A LOCK OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Be the day accurst that gave me birth! Last Line: "you stupid puppy—you have spoil'd my wig!" Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4 Subject(s): Anger; Crime & Criminals; Despair; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Wigs; Male-female Relations; Toupees; Hairpieces THE WRECKER'S DAUGHTER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down beside carn barra bay Last Line: Died meraud. Subject(s): Death; Love; Obsessions; Dead, The WE REALLY SHOULD STOP THIS, YOU KNOW, by PAT CALIFIA Poem Source First Line: I am not so much fun Last Line: I bet it was what you wanted %all along Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions WELFARE CLIENTS, by HATTIE GOSSETT Poem Source First Line: Is it true that welfare clients lay around all day and watch Last Line: Fuck fuck fuck all day long? Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions WHAT I KNOW OF MY MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How his head turns when desire enters his mind Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions WHAT I KNOW OF MY MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How his head turns when desire enters his mind Last Line: Friction exacerbates his final exquisite suffusion %baby baby Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions WHITE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm your oxygen girl Last Line: Too pale to leave turning in the sun Subject(s): Girls; Obsessions WHY I DON'T WRITE LOVE POEMS FOR YOU, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evahbody wanna do da horizontal bop' Last Line: To ward off this possession %of me by you Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions |
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