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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PICTURES Matches Found: 262 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FILM, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's strangely like a man Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema A FILM FROM THE SIXTIES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This adult male. This person on earth. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema A PICTURE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emerald, the rim of the sea Last Line: That the dawn of day Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures; Portraits A SERENE HEART AT THE MOVIES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She strode to her car and turned the key and Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Car Bombs; Movies; Cinema ACTION MOVIE STUNT-EXTRA THERAPY GROUP, by JOSH BELL Poem Source First Line: Our career ambition is to die cursing in a final scene of cathartic come-uppanc Last Line: Of occluding dust that our bodies are the best of Subject(s): Motion Pictures AD, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harper's and many magazines contain Subject(s): Magazines; War; Soldiers; Corpses; Pictures; Cadavers AFTER A MOVIE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last small credits fade Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Imagination; Movies; Cinema; Fancy AFTER MOVIES, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: The stairs would lead Last Line: Of something burning Subject(s): Motion Pictures AGAINST THE FALSE MAGICIANS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poem must not charm us like a film [or, play] Last Line: The rituals of our humanity Subject(s): Humanity; Lies; Magic; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema ALEXANDRA, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breasting white whirlwinds Last Line: Ay, my comrade long and well-beloved, alexandra! Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Love; Pictures; Portraits; Thought; Thinking ALMA DE CASA, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For last night, in your faded photograph album of a voice Last Line: With two immense wings, one heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Soul AMBER ALERT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having a child changes you. For example, Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Steven Spielberg (b. 1946); Childhood; Movies; Cinema AN AMERICAN IN HOLLYWOOD, by FRANK BIDART Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema AND SOMETIMES I APPROACH THE BORDERS OF INSOMNIA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Like a talisman of my sorrows Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Grief; Human Rights - Argentina; Insomnia; Photography And Photographers; Pictures ANNIE BISSELL, WEDDING PICTURE, by BRUCE RICE Poem Source First Line: I am a woman seen from a distance Last Line: Of no return Subject(s): Marriage; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Women APOLLO 13' STARRING TOM HANKS, by DANIEL BOSCH Poem Source First Line: Lift-off's gift is a canaveral aurora Last Line: Our canaveral auroras and lift-off gifts Subject(s): Motion Pictures ARS POETICA: OR: WHO LIVES IN THE IVORY TOWER?, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps you'd like a marching song for the embattled proletariat ... Last Line: Your feet are muddy, you son-of-a-bitch, get out of our ivory tower Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Poetry & Poets; South Sea Islands; Movies; Cinema AS GENTLE AS BEGINNINGS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The intrepid dawn awakens Last Line: And the spirits of the disappeared %wound her Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures AT A MOVIE THEATRE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How well he spoke who coined the phrase Last Line: Of shadow, cast upon a screen! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema AT A PRIVATE SHOWING IN 1982, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This loving attention to the details Last Line: And skulk out on this spring night %together, unsafe on capitol hill Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Pictures AT THE MOVIE: VIRGINIA, 1956, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is how it was: Subject(s): Racism; Southern States; Motion Pictures; Youth; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.); Movies; Cinema AT THE MOVIES, by ROBERT FUNGE Poem Source First Line: If life were a movie Last Line: The credits %rolling %and all we'd hear is the music Subject(s): Life; Motion Pictures; Theater And Theaters AT THE MOVIES, by FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN Poem Text First Line: They swing across the screen in brave array Last Line: Then I remember, and my heart grows cold! Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women And War; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War AT THE PICTURE-SHOW, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits with eyes intent upon the screen Last Line: But all the heroes have some trick of his. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema AVA GARDNER AFTER CHRISTMAS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold air rushing under door Last Line: Browsing: a semi-contented mind Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Motion Pictures; Stars AVE MARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mothers of america Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures; Work; Workers; Movies; Cinema AVE MARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mothers of america Last Line: Movies you wouldn't let them see when they were young Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures BESS COPELAND: PLAIN AS DAY, by ELIOT WILSON Poem Source First Line: Even in the oldest photos Last Line: She smiles %because it's a picture Subject(s): Pictures BIG' STARRING TOM HANKS, by DANIEL BOSCH Poem Source First Line: This is a magic kingdom. We must watch, not worry Last Line: On the disney channel. Is that good news? %you're hot as hansel. Have an organge juice Subject(s): Motion Pictures BLACK NARCISSUS, THE MOVIE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of the bell Last Line: On squat gray donkeys. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema BLINDED FILM CRITIC, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The dark used to mean anticipation Last Line: Looking to make sense of it Subject(s): Motion Pictures BLUE ANGEL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marlene dietrich is singing a lament Last Line: But not till I have found a man %to occupy my mind Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Motion Pictures BLUE MOVIE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no cause for love in such a script Last Line: The disassembled gestures of the dead Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pornography; Movies; Cinema BLUE MOVIE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no cause for love in such a script Last Line: The disassembled gestures of the dead Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pornography BRESSON'S MOVIES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A movie of robert Subject(s): Bresson, Robert (1907-1999); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema BRESSON'S MOVIES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A movie of robert Last Line: In love. You stand %in the woods, with %a horse, bleeding. %the story is true Subject(s): Bresson, Robert (1907-1999); Motion Pictures CECIL B. DE MILLE, by NICHOLAS BENTLEY Poem Source First Line: Cecil b. De mille, %rather against his will Last Line: Was persuaded to leave moses %out of 'the war of the roses' Subject(s): De Mille, Cecil B. (1881-1959); Motion Pictures CHINESE GRANDMOTHER, by LLOYD STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly she sits in the darkened movie house Last Line: And politely watches. Subject(s): Grandparents; Motion Pictures; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Movies; Cinema CINEMA VERITE: FILM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY ROBERTO JUARROZ, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A net of looking holds the world together. Meanwhile the Last Line: Trucks, coins, your body, dear reader, your gaze... %this will not work on film Variant Title(s): Film Beginning With A Line By Roberto Juarro Subject(s): Motion Pictures CINEMA VERITE: LECTURE ON SNOW, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winter snowstorm Last Line: Like a gas pump fallen over ... No: like an old man covered %with snow... Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Snow CLINT, by BROCK BROWER Poem Source First Line: Clint's next film should be a bible epic Last Line: And direct to camera, say, %'make my day.' Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures CLOSETS HAVE REMAINED EMPTY FOREVER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Then she begins to sing Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Emptiness; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures COME HOME FROM THE MOVIES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They already know how to dance Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures COME WITH ME, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was on the verge of the actual genuine Subject(s): Tourists; Motion Pictures; Man-woman Relationships; Movies; Cinema; Male-female Relations CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights; Movies; Cinema; Feminism CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and Last Line: A lousy move, he remarked. Then, his arm gently guided by wife %nancy, he cut the cake Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights DAFFY DUCK IN HOLLYWOOD, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema DATE MOVIE, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: How I had come to you Last Line: Broadcast over the moon, red drape Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Relationships DAYS INN, by M. B. MCLATCHEY Poem Source First Line: Everything about it says economy Last Line: To choruses like this. Love wants a jungle shower Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Animals; Apes; Motion Pictures DEPRESSION DAYS (2), by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought the dark with my last fifteen cents Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and skin and names. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Motion Pictures; Theater & Theaters; United States - Race Relations; Recessions; Movies; Cinema; Stage Life DIRTY VALENTINE, by RICHARD SIKEN Poem Source First Line: There are so many things I'm not allowed to tell you Last Line: I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious Subject(s): Motion Pictures DOCUMENTARY, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: I watch your hospital tv as you sleep Last Line: His face flushed, bursting like a match Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Television; Youth EARLY CINEMA, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to mister hedges, the custodian Last Line: No movies for months after Subject(s): Motion Pictures; School; Movies; Cinema EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday EDISON FILMS AN EXECUTION, by GEORGE BILGERE Poem Source First Line: Jumbo finally put his foot down Last Line: Of their own fixed frame to vanish %far down the line %in our remote perspective Subject(s): Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931); Motion Pictures ENDINGS: 2, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Setting the v.C.R. When we go to bed Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema EPILOGUE, by GWYN MCVAY Poem Source First Line: In my sci-fi b-movie, well-stocked Last Line: The vaporized amen of hot pine resin Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Science Fiction EXTRA, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: We knew his dark slavic eyes Last Line: Anonymity is the supreme vanity, finally Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures EXTRA GIRL WRITES TO HER SISTER BACK HOME, by LISA VERIGIN Poem Source First Line: I got my break! Yesterday, mr. Sennett asked Last Line: Mourning some hard loss she will never understand Subject(s): Motion Pictures FAMILY GROUP, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The low-branched oak-tree made Last Line: But not in mortal flesh again that four. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures FAMOUS WOMEN - CLAUDETTE COLBERT, by KATHLEEN DE AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: He was quite a guy how he laughed like oh what's the name of the guy Last Line: Not that we can tell which was which Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Colbert, Claudette (1903-1996); Motion Pictures; Popular Culture - United States FARNEY'S SISTER, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The storm expected for many days had tasted Last Line: To look up at farney's sister, I can't Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Pictures; Sisters FEMALE PORTRAIT, 19TH CENTURY, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is stifled in the clothing. Her eyes Subject(s): Pictures; Portraits FEMALE PORTRAIT, 19TH CENTURY, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is stifled in the clothing. Her eyes Last Line: A gilt frame %strangles the picture Subject(s): Pictures; Portraits FIGHT SCENE BEGINNING, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bick benedict, that is, rock hudson in the Last Line: Of memory, ablaze in warner-color light Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics FIGHT SCENE, PART 2, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mad-eyed sarge recovers with a vengeance Last Line: That raging song that seems to keep the fight alive Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics FIGHT SCENE: FINAL FRAMES, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now it must end. Sarge with too much muscle Last Line: Again, timing is everything. Dissolve and the music ends Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics FILM AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was watching a movie / about myself Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures; Actresses; Movies; Cinema FILM AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was watching a movie %about myself Last Line: I am not film. I am living, I say [or, he said you, the creature of muscle and hair] Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures FILM NOIR, by CAROLYN MARIE SOUAID Poem Source First Line: The war measures act, 1970 Last Line: Past a roadblock, sun rooted to his shoulders %the one thing lifting his spirits Subject(s): Motion Pictures FILM NOIR, by ROBERT THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I look for you everywhere: in the 4:00 a.M. Red snapper alleys Last Line: Her rose umbrella and goes downstairs to the underground rail Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Relationships FILM NOIR (THE CHASE), by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have a rat's chance Last Line: Her snuffed, stubbed out / lipstuck cigarette Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FILM NOIR (THE CHASE), by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have a rat's chance Last Line: Her snuffed, stubbed out %lipstuck cigarette Subject(s): Motion Pictures FILM NOIR (THE SET-UP), by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snake oil sales Last Line: Home, humming gumshoe blues Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FILM NOIR (THE SET-UP), by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snake oil sales Last Line: Tired, I humped it %home, humming gumshoe blues Subject(s): Motion Pictures FIRE IN THE OLD WAY, by FLORENCE FRIESEN LARSON Poem Source First Line: God, so young!' you groan of the photo Last Line: How we knew to keep that flame %burning Subject(s): Caves; New Mexico; Pictures; Travel; Vacation FIRST AID TRAINING FILM, by MATTHEW MURREY Poem Source First Line: Looking up he reaches Last Line: This is what a man can do Subject(s): First Aid; Motion Pictures FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 3, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is as it was in the film Last Line: The camera shuttles nervously %eddies of dust rise up Subject(s): Motion Pictures FOLK SINGER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The other day I heard in the movies Last Line: It was so beautiful %how he sang Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Singing And Singers FOR A PICTURE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight lines and circles, triangles and squares Last Line: Inclusive number, and the circle squared. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Pictures; Portraits FOR LAUREL AND HARDY ON MY WORKROOM WALL, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're tipping their battered derbies and striding forward Subject(s): Comedy; Hardy, Norvell (oliver) (1892-1957); Laurel, Stan (1890-1965); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FORREST GUMP' STARRING TOM HANKS, by DANIEL BOSCH Poem Source First Line: This is the river that sees everything Last Line: Nineteen sixty-two. I will live to hear %the lies of the third millennium Subject(s): Motion Pictures FRENCH MOVIE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in a french movie Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema GETTING UP, LEAVING, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: I go to movies Last Line: In grainy european films. %then, 'that's good' Subject(s): Motion Pictures GRAND ILLUSION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not 1937 for long. A clump of ash trees and a walk Last Line: Their uncle still casting images of animals for them... Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Violence; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War GROWING UP IN HOLLYWOOD, 1939-1957, by STEPHEN BEAL Poem Source First Line: I am not happy in the west Last Line: Now how is that for irony Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Motion Pictures HAIR, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a scene in the film Subject(s): Hair; Motion Pictures; Concentration Camps; Movies; Cinema HAND-ME-DOWNS: THE MOVIES, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power schmauer. The trees glinting their crystal boughs beyond the breakfront Last Line: The sparkling allure of the wager and the winning streak? On your mark, go Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema HAND-ME-DOWNS: THE MOVIES, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power schmauer. The trees glinting their crystal boughs beyond the breakfront Last Line: The sparkling allure of the wager and the winning streak? On your mark, go Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Motion Pictures HAPPINESS WAS A CHARLIE CHAPLIN MOVIE, by LUIS OMAR SALINAS Poem Source First Line: Papa, here are the seven dollars Last Line: To make sense %of his bad luck too Subject(s): Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Motion Pictures HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 1. STEVE MCQUEEN ..., by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Motherfucker leaped Last Line: Damn! Strong to be free Subject(s): African Americans; Mcqueen, Steve (1930-1980); Motion Pictures HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 2. BOGART IN THE AFRICAN..., by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jumped and yelled, kissed her Last Line: (grease smeared the lady's white belt), %broke out what she felt Subject(s): African Americans; Bogart, Humphrey (1899-1957); Motion Pictures HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 3. GARBO IN NINOTCHKA, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Saw it twice honey Last Line: Xcuse me now: that's funny! Subject(s): African Americans; Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Motion Pictures HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 4. DENZEL WASHINGTON ..., by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He stood the lashes Last Line: (soldiers need shoes): tears you saw-- %dig this - was the blues Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures; Washington, Denzel HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 4. GARY COOPER ..., by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aims his machine gun Last Line: Sweet-talks her far from it all. %then the bad cards fall Subject(s): African Americans; Cooper, Gary (1901-1961); Motion Pictures HEAL-ALL: IN MEMORY OF KANA NAKAMA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Because the sky is a cipher Last Line: I've grown too pale and thin Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Silence HER PICTURE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Paint me her picture, master, thou who / know'st Last Line: The picture, master, never may be done. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Pictures HERE ARE OUR ALBUMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Take one of these photographs with you Subject(s): Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Photography And Photographers; Pictures HEROIC SMILE, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the swordsman fell in kurosawa's seven samurai Last Line: There are limits to imagination Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema HEY, DR: WHO, LET'S DIAL 1965, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In petaled decade glassy sunlight Last Line: Dancers receding? Subject(s): Screen Writing; Motion Pictures - Play Writing HOLLYWOOD, by DON BLANDING Poem Source First Line: Hollywood ... Hollywood Last Line: Perhaps you're a goddess that bears a bright beacon Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Motion Pictures HOLLYWOOD, by JOSEPH W. NUGENT Poem Source First Line: Movies show the warrior falling Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Motion Pictures HOME MOVIE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the other end of a telescope, a long way Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Family Life; Movies; Cinema; Relatives HORROR MOVIE, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dr. Unlikely, we love you so Last Line: There's a little death in every body Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Terror I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dream with open eyes Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs I FEEL LIKE FRANKFURT, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: Well I feel like frankfurt and tranquility base Last Line: The idiot is beautifully covered with moons. %the teenage writer can see the stars and stripes Subject(s): Armstrong, Neil (b. 1930); Astronauts; Moon; Pictures; Space And Space Travel; Television I WANT TO LIVE AS A MAGICIAN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is not easy to move about on this earth with crumpled Last Line: From my pocket and perch them on blooming branches Subject(s): Blood; Buddhism; Memory; Pictures; War Injuries IF A BASEBALL PLAYER DOES HIS JOB CORRECTLY 30 PERCENT OF THE TIME ..., by BOB KING Poem Source First Line: I once heard the best place to sit Last Line: Like children who need their parents to believe for them Subject(s): Baseball; Motion Pictures; Sports IMAGINATIVE MAN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Perhaps,' he told me, 'I imagine things because I don't dream' Last Line: He closed his eyes, and I knew he was already in full-dream-production mode Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Motion Pictures IN JOHN UPDIKE'S ROOM, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in your room – I ask them at reception Last Line: That thing you knew here, and darkness is coming fast Subject(s): Scotland; Motion Pictures; Mourning; Memory IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl Last Line: Watch o'er the happier of his lives: say, does he ewake, or sleep? Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures; Reading; Movies; Cinema IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl Last Line: Say, does he wake, or sleep? Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures IN PRAISE OF ANTONIONI, by STEPHEN HOLDEN Poem Source First Line: They travelled like a blue pencil against the stars Last Line: Against the stars defining it %in the darkness under the searchlights Subject(s): Antonioni, Michelangelo (b. 1912); Motion Pictures IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight she brings Last Line: Her shining / black eyes Subject(s): Pictures IN THE LOCKER ROOM, by PAULA GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: Undressing I look down, see my belly and hate myself. Don't other Last Line: Over her sparse pubic hair or was that my mother? Where am I in this %picture? Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Bodies; Pictures; Women IN THE MOVIES, by BARBARA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Twenty-four times per second Last Line: Hurts madame take a bite Subject(s): Motion Pictures INTERIOR SCROLL, by CAROLEE SCHNEEMAN Poem Source First Line: From tape 2 'kitch's last meal' Last Line: Oh no he said we think of you %as a dancer Subject(s): Motion Pictures JACK WARDEN, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a woody allen film Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Warden, Jack (1920-2006); Movies; Cinema JOHN WAYNE'S PERFUMES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 'cast a giant shadow', john wayne wore claiborne sport; Subject(s): Wayne, John (1907-1979)' Perfume; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema JUGGLER AT HEAVEN'S GATE, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the dirty table where kristofferson is having Last Line: To go with that. Juggling Subject(s): Motion Pictures KING KONG, by ROBERT MYLES HERSHON Poem Source First Line: The great ape emerges from the mist Last Line: And you look up stunned and bleeding- %the fighter planes like hornets in the searchlights Subject(s): King Kong; Motion Pictures KING KONG - AN OUTTAKE FOR THE END, by ROBERT M. CHUTE Poem Source First Line: When the great ape dies Subject(s): King Kong; Motion Pictures LEAK SOMEWHERE, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No toy in a bathtub, the titanic Last Line: In random order, and we start to rock %in one another's arms Subject(s): Disasters; Motion Pictures; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) LEVEL ROAD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I drank blood %I drove a truck Last Line: In tasteless color photographs is much difference between footprints Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures LIKENESS, by PETER T. INMAN Poem Source First Line: Seamstresses' lungs %that she shelves to rock Last Line: Finished 11/11/91 watching von trotta's film rosa with tina Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Seamstresses LOOK, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And record them in the albums of life Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Identity; Photography And Photographers; Pictures LUCIANO PAVAROTTI STORY, by LOUIS PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: The movie of luciano pavarotti Last Line: (the rest of the film is just plain silly) Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pavarotti, Luciano (b. 1935) MADAME DELUXE'S ADULT VIDEO AND ALL-NITE DELI, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Here's a preview: %the universe seems tender Last Line: Maybe shrink-wrapped in the cooler of tongues Subject(s): Erotic Love; Motion Pictures; Sex MADONNA, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not by old masters, rich on crowded walls Last Line: Most pure exemplar of the purest grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Pictures; Praise MAE MARSH, MOTION PICTURE ACTRESS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The arts are old, old as the stone Last Line: Tomorrow's years of yesteryear. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Marsh, Mae; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema MAIN CHARACTER, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to see Subject(s): Motion Pictures; West (u.s.); Movies; Cinema; Southwest; Pacific States MATINEE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve years old, two silver quarters singing Last Line: Just reach out and take them into my arms. Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Sexual Harassment; Childhood; Movies; Cinema MATINEE, by JANE O. WAYNE Poem Source First Line: In the forest of that movie theater Last Line: In the distance - some black bird %that can tear the flesh from bone Subject(s): Children; Fear; Motion Pictures MIDWEEK, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plentiful people went to the cadillac drawing Subject(s): Lotteries; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema MOVIE, by BOB PERELMAN Poem Source First Line: History is not a sentence Last Line: That makes %anomalies of us all, %doesn't it Subject(s): Motion Pictures MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel; Movies; Cinema; Journeys; Trips MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the Last Line: In snow, if all that you did was get out of the car you'd never %get there Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel MOVIE ACTRESS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shal sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses MOVIE FOR THE IDLE, by DAVID NAPOLIN Poem Source First Line: The square of dreams to drunken eyes; golden Last Line: Proceed, then where is hope to brace the bone? Subject(s): Motion Pictures MOVIE HOUSE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: View it, by day, from the back Last Line: Could secrete a pyramid %to sight the stars by Subject(s): Motion Pictures MOVIE STAR IN THE PROJECTION ROOM, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her clothes lean forward in the chair Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses MOVIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roosevelt, renaissance, gem, alhambra Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures; Negroes; American Blacks; Movies; Cinema MOVIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roosevelt, renaissance, gem, alhambra Last Line: (hoolywood %laughs at me, %black %so I laugh back) Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures MOVIES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: A day at the races rf Last Line: Masculine feminine Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures MOVIES FOR THE TROOPS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hollywood the pale white stars Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Soldiers; War; Movies; Cinema MY FATHER'S CAMERA, by ANDREA HENY Poem Source First Line: Last spring, he visited to steal the purple Last Line: Black and lensed. This has never been a choice Subject(s): Cameras; Pictures MY FIRST R-RATED MOVIE, by COREY THRASHER Poem Source First Line: We huddled on a narrow plank of sunlight Last Line: Bright light of our thirteen years showing the way Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures MY WEALTH AND MY WEAPONS, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: My favorite objects are on top of this glass table Last Line: My weapons that haven't been stained with blood Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Pens And Pencils; Pictures NAPOLEONETTE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: I had a small part in napoleonette, I wrapped some meat in news Last Line: But never was I able to stay a man long enough to remain him Subject(s): Motion Pictures NEW YORK MOVIE, 1939, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: Under an hourglass of lamplight Last Line: To part the fiery stillness of her curtain Subject(s): Hopper, Edward (1882-1967); Motion Pictures NO EVIL COULD, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Used to walk to el Last Line: Could hear or catch me Subject(s): Evil; Motion Pictures NO SMOKING, PLEASE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cigar smoke can't come into the famous-actor's house Last Line: The dog, and, alas, the cigar with no lips to give the plot away [or, with no lips to keep it alive] Subject(s): Motion Pictures; San Joaquin Valley, California; Smoking NOVELS IN HAIKU: TWO: THE SATIRE, by ALYCE MILLER Poem Source First Line: They met for burgers. No snow fell, just smog shrouding. He drove Last Line: They made a movie. She betrayed him, crushed his pride. The %husband directed Subject(s): Marriage; Motion Pictures; Sex NOWADAYS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the films they fall into a bed Last Line: Thing love that will last forever Subject(s): Motion Pictures OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 18. FORD MADOX BROWN'S 'CHRIST WASHING..', by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a picture-you have seen it oft Last Line: A new world, where dull conscious self is dofft. Subject(s): Pictures; Portraits OCTOBER, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: In the half-empty city hall Last Line: In a cold half-empty theater %with few people Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Motion Pictures; Theater And Theaters ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: And whose immortal hand could shed Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Venus (goddess); Pictures; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE TO MR. BONE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because he is ridiculous Last Line: Will have its way with both of them Subject(s): Motion Pictures OLD MOVIES, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fueled with violins, the luscious soundtrack Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema OLD MOVIES, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fueled with violins, the luscious soundtrack Last Line: Opalescent air draining out of us %night rushing in Subject(s): Motion Pictures OLD MOVIES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Television is a hereafter Last Line: The code was handed down Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Television ON PHOTOGRAPHING THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Dramatic staircases leading nowhere Last Line: Some rubbing of the unreal remains Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Travel ON VIEWING TWO DIFFERENT DATE RAPE MOVIES, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Both movies star actresses better known Last Line: After the weekend, the parties, %the encounters you're never privy to? Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Rape ONCE I GOT A POSTCARD FROM THE FIJI ISLANDS, by JAAN KAPLINSKI Poem Source Last Line: Never forgot to put in my pocket Subject(s): Harvest; Pictures; Poetry And Poets ONE DAY IN THE DINING ROOM I TOOK THE EXACT MEASUREMENTS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: One day st. Arnolfina appeared on the calendar Subject(s): Art And Artists; Pictures ONE REASON I LIKE OPERA, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In movies, you can tell the heroine Subject(s): Opera; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema OUTSIDE A DISNEY MOVIE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The light in the forest Last Line: But that isn't in print Subject(s): Disney, Walt (1901-1966); Motion Pictures PAIN, A FENCEPOST, A BLACK-AND-WHITE FILM, by SUSAN B. A. SOMERS-WILLETT Poem Source First Line: Because pain is not for anything Last Line: It sleeps. Sometimes it feels %like a village on fire Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pain PAINTED DESERT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: When we got to the painted desert Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Pictures; Roads; Tourists; Travel PEPPERS; ON A NEWSPAPER REVIEW OF A ROBERT ALTMAN FILM, by MICHAEL ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Peppers green, peppers red, peppers blue Last Line: And I take them the only way I can %on film Subject(s): Altman, Robert (b. 1925); Critics And Criticism; Motion Pictures PHILADELPHIA' STARRING TOM HANKS, by DANIEL BOSCH Poem Source First Line: The clots of burnt engine oil that sink into my vat Last Line: And jacqueline showed up, claiming she had nothing to do? Subject(s): Motion Pictures PHOTOGRAPH, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: We lost the picture Last Line: Even childhood is curable Subject(s): Bombs; Childhood Memories; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; War PHOTOGRAPH, by KATALIN MEZEY Poem Source First Line: Just stay for a moment Last Line: In this night drizzle Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Pictures PHOTOGRAPH (25 JANUARY 1945), by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Though released your return Last Line: Your soul make invisible circles about me? Subject(s): Death - Children; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF PEOPLE WAVING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound, the whole thing Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farewell; Photography & Photographers; Pictures; Silence; Heritage; Heredity; Parting PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF PEOPLE WAVING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound, the whole thing Last Line: And you wave down to future generations like this Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farewell; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Silence PICTURE PUZZLES, by ELLEN MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: The firelight flickered on the hearth Last Line: At doubts and fears that puzzled us awhile. Subject(s): Pictures PICTURE-PALACES, by PHILIP HESELTINE Poem Source First Line: The young things who frequent picture-palaces Last Line: They cling to their long-standing fallacies Subject(s): Motion Pictures PICTURES OF MOTHER, by STELLA PFEIFFER BAISCH Poem Text First Line: My mother's picture as a girl Last Line: The smile of mother mine. Subject(s): Beauty; Mothers; Pictures PICTURES OF THE RAIN AND MILK, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: Pictures of the rain and milk do the magnets roger Last Line: Code name eagle. %code name ed sullivan. %roger how's it look. %fine. %strangled Subject(s): Pictures POPULAR REVIVALS 1956, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thylacine, long thought to be extinct Last Line: And in the films, co-starred with stewart granger Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema POPULAR REVIVALS 1956, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thylacine, long thought to be extinct Last Line: And in the films, co-starred with stewart granger Subject(s): Motion Pictures PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This family portrait Last Line: The long road of the flesh Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Pictures PRAIRIE PICTURES, by T. W. STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: I cannot sing of mountain peaks capped by eternal snow Last Line: Before the sable angel rings the curtain of the day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Peace; Pictures; Agriculture; Farmers PRISONER OF ZENDA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end a %'the prisoner of zenda' Last Line: Far from being a stranger, %is also stewart granger Subject(s): Granger, Stewart (1913-1993); Motion Pictures PRODUCER REASSURES THE STARLET, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI Poem Source First Line: Honey baby, what a silly question Last Line: I'll fill you in tonight at the motel Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures PSYCHO COMES TO THE SOUTHSIDE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: When watching the classic thriller Last Line: Once-in-a-lifetime performance Subject(s): Motion Pictures REDEMPTION, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The extra well movie ups and outs Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema REDS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There isn't much to say to marxists in nicaragua witth .45s Last Line: Peter orlovsky laughed. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema REFLECTIONS ON DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are the teeth, so dazzlingly white Last Line: Let his fate a warning be. %grin, but not eternally Subject(s): Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr. (1883-1939); Motion Pictures RENEE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She still approaches %murmurs, whispers Last Line: Who could not gather seedlings Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Mothers And Daughters; Photography And Photographers; Pictures REVERIE: FOREIGN MOVIE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: There is something innocent and indecent about a foreigner Last Line: And shook with public laughter Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Variant Title(s): Reverie: Foreign Movie In A Foreign Country [for Reg Gibbons Subject(s): Italy; Motion Pictures; Strangers; Tourists SAILBOAT MOVIE, by MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN Poem Source First Line: The sailboat was brand new Last Line: Where the sky is incidentally green %right now, green and getting darker Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Sailors And Sailing SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SAVING PRIVATE RYAN , SELS, by CLIFFORD PAUL FETTERS Poem Source First Line: For me, the most difficult scene of many difficult Last Line: Only two. One to kill, one to die. 'wait a second' Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Murder SCARY MOVIES, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Today the cloud shapes are terrifying Last Line: They're dead, and I'm older, %and I know better Subject(s): Aging; Death; Motion Pictures SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics & Government; Popular Culture - United States; Movies; Cinema SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Last Line: Helpless light, local-looking, unthought of at fourteen Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics; Popular Culture - United States SCREEN TEST, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They don't make movies %like this anymore, mother would say Last Line: Illuminated on screen %for the whole world to watch Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Motion Pictures; Women SCRIPT MIST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hang on to moment, naked, fair Last Line: In the great carpentry Subject(s): Epitaphs; Screen Writing; Writing & Writers; Motion Pictures - Play Writing SEPPUKU, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming out of it, a curious Subject(s): Japan; Motion Pictures; Japanese; Movies; Cinema SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips SEVENTEEN QUESTIONS ABOUT KING KONG, by JANE COOPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If so, what does it tell us about ourselves? Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema SHOOTINGS, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I dislike watching shootings Last Line: Who wants to deal with that Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Violence SINGING HANDS, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: Over-under-patient-slow Last Line: White men wait with yellow gold. Subject(s): Memory; Paintings & Painters; Pictures SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES CINEMATOGRAPHY CLASS: LATE MOVIE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During each black and white frame Last Line: Who's come back for his children Subject(s): Motion Pictures SOUVENIR, by RAY HEDGPETH Poem Source First Line: As we turned to leave yosemite falls Last Line: In her white coat and scarf Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Souvenirs; Travel SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where do we reside Last Line: We can no longer see Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Vision STILL, FALLING, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: As the woman falls Last Line: Just beyond our reach Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Pictures STOP THE MOVIE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Still experiencing negative Last Line: I've memorized for %just such occasions Subject(s): Friendship; Motion Pictures STUMPTOWN ATTENDS THE PICTURE SHOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Word has come and martha the ticket girl Last Line: Moving in a cloud of dust toward the theater marquee. Subject(s): Canton, Georgia; Motion Pictures; Police; Racism; Southern States; Movies; Cinema; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.) STUNNING, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: As if a lost demented bee had stung Last Line: The hard things we were learning, could not say Subject(s): Love; Memory; Pictures; Saint Kilda (scotland) SURFACES AND MASKS; 2, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sit silently in the dark Last Line: William dean howells swim / in the grand canal Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Memory; Venice, Italy TEATRO MARTI, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outside, I would close one eye and squint the other and count the bulbs Last Line: Since la revolucion, and to save us, too Subject(s): Motion Pictures THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For centuries only painters, poets, and sculptors Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Time; Immortality; Actresses; Movies; Cinema THE BLUE ANGEL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marlene dietrich is singing a lament Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE COWBOY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me, that I was Subject(s): Practical Jokes; Imagination; Motion Pictures; Pranks; Fancy; Movies; Cinema THE DRINK, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am always interested in the people in films who have just had a drink Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Drinks & Drinking; Movies; Cinema; Wine THE FIRST MOVIE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked with jessamine, the tall black lady Last Line: Sayng hush, hush, but I 'd hushed myself already Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Childhood Memories THE FLIRT, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the play approaches its climax Last Line: On the other side of him. Subject(s): Flirtation; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE HEREAFTER, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the gates to the hereafter Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE HUMAN FACE, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A film of green, unfocused plush, of fantasy Last Line: This is a being. The one nobody dares portray Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Hauser, Kaspar (1812-1833); Faces; Movies; Cinema THE ILLUSTRATION?ÇÖA FOOTNOTE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months after the muse Subject(s): Books; Pictures; Reading THE JAMES BOND MOVIE, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The popcorn is greasy, and I forgot to bring a kleenex Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE LAST MOVIE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Death; Conduct Of Life; Movies; Cinema; Dead, The THE LOST WORLD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On my way home I pass a cameraman Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Children; Movies; Cinema; Childhood THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes Last Line: Like young seals around our rock. Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life THE MAGIC CARPET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every american is a movie critic Last Line: "and ""siponelle,"" large worm." Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Movies; Cinema THE MOUNTAIN MAY SEEM VERY HIGH, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: In my small picture reading book Subject(s): Mountains; Pictures THE MOVIE PICTURE COWBOY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cowboy game is busted 'cuz the cattle biz dead Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Cowboys; Movies; Cinema THE MOVIE QUEEN, by MYRTES-MARIE PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: Majestically she sweeps upon the scene Last Line: Reality gives way to glamorous lore. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE MOVIES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to watch a movie tonight Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE NEW CHINESE FICTION, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the depiction of living forms Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Motion Pictures; Wit & Humor; Movies; Cinema THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At the end a / 'the prisoner of zenda' Last Line: Is also stewart granger Subject(s): Granger, Stewart (1913-1993); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE REELING BRAIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is a movie film Last Line: Will applaud ironically. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Reason; Movies; Cinema; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE SEITZ THEATER, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back of the silver screen in sandusky Last Line: In my first bikinis, into redemption and sin Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Motion Pictures; Clergy THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boing, boing, boing Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Astaire, Fred (1899-1987); Rogers, Ginger (1911-1995); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE WORLD'S A MOVING PICTURE PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: All the pictures come and go Subject(s): Life; Motion Pictures THEN HE ASKED HER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Of the maimed eyes Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures THERE STANDS THERE GREEN, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: There stands there green, he said, bound Last Line: A chair conjuring fire, he said Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Pictures THEY GO TO SEE 3 MOVIES, by CORRADO COSTA Poem Source First Line: So then they make us continuously %watch movies Last Line: You should see it %at least twice Subject(s): Motion Pictures THIS MINNUTE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The videotape runs Last Line: Watching. and here it starts over Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THREE PICTURES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen many things in many lands Last Line: Burneth athirst like the red pit of hell. Subject(s): Pictures THREE POEMS ON DEMAND: PICTURES OF BUGS BUNNY DRESSED LIKE A THUG, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What drove me to draw this picture Subject(s): Pictures TO ALICE'S PICTURE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unconscious child, fair pictured phantasy Last Line: For wild rebellion and for yearning woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Death; Pictures; Dead, The TO NORMA SHEARER AS JULIET, by OTTO FREUND Poem Text First Line: The sword-rasp of the quick, fierce duel is dead Last Line: And always your white beauty in my heart. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Shearer, Norma (1900-1983); Movies; Cinema TORNADO WARNING, by AMY LEVIN Poem Source First Line: It's spring on the silver screen Last Line: A leaving song, trailers and bassinets Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Tornadoes TRYING TO HELP, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On another planet, a silvery starlet is brooding Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema TV MEN: LAZARUS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I admit a degree of unease about my Last Line: Of the vermin in his ten fingers and I stand back to wait for the miracle Subject(s): Motion Pictures, Documentary; God; Television; Names UFA NIGHTMARE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gramophony, telephony, photophony Last Line: Pedals, parched with the fear of solitude Subject(s): Future; Motion Pictures; Progress VISION (2), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No money for lunch so I rode an elevator to the top of the onb Last Line: Extras, we're a; extras Subject(s): Native Americans; Racism; Motion Pictures VIVA ZAPATA!, by AMY WACK Poem Source First Line: It's easy to be a hero, in 1952 Last Line: Wrapped in back-lot black Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Zapata, Emiliano (1879-1919) WABAN MERE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Fair centre of a fair demesne Last Line: The age of gold is now. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age; Pictures WANTED, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white bull, a cassock, an antique mirror Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema WAR FILM, by TERESA HOOLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw, %with a catch of the breath and the heart's uplifting Last Line: He thought it was a game %and laughed, and laughed Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women; World War I WARBLER AT HOWELL'S DRIVE-IN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You might come here now Last Line: Or gone into briars, pine needles, air? Subject(s): Adolescence; Aging; Decay; Motion Pictures; Teen Agers; Rot; Decadence; Movies; Cinema WATCHING 'DARK CIRCLE', by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men are willing to observe Last Line: And ruth landy of the independent documentary group. Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing; Christianity; Motion Pictures, Documentary; Religion; Theology WATCHING BERGMAN FILMS WITH MY FATHER, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: What you can't quite appreciate Last Line: Difference between us tonight, %and there's nobody else Subject(s): Bergman, Ingmar (b. 1918); Motion Pictures WATCHING WELLES, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What he knows: hustling wine to the middle class Last Line: Decades gone and replaced by the bitterness %of having nothing but last words to say Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Theater And Theaters WEATHER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Church steeple through gray mist Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Weather WEATHER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Church steeple through gray mist Last Line: Direction then another, day after day Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Weather WHEN SHE SHOWED ME HER PHOTOGRAPH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: That it seems as if she were alive? Subject(s): Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Love; Pictures |
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