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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RESTAURANTS Matches Found: 183 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A.K.A. MATA HARI, by BARBARA SZERLIP Poem Source First Line: She suggested we meet for lunch the next day at cafe americaine Last Line: Brow. 'a kiss,' she said, bestowing one, and was off Subject(s): Hotels; Restaurants; Reunions; Travel ACCIDENT, by LISA LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I had no business there in the first place Last Line: That man. I might have blown his brains out Subject(s): Restaurants ADMISSION OF FAILURE, by PHYLLIS KOESTENBAUM Poem Source First Line: The hostess seats a girl and a young man in a short-sleeve sport shirt Last Line: Paragraph for more than two years Subject(s): Restaurants ALL-NIGHT DINER, by III MARKHAM P. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Tonight, you will not tire Last Line: And turns over the vacancy sign to full Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants ALL-NIGHT DINERS, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At another table, some south americans are singing Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners ALL-NIGHT DINERS, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At another table, some south americans are singing Last Line: Can be shared but not this survival Subject(s): Restaurants ALL-NIGHT WAITRESS, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: To tell the truth, I really am Last Line: On a brain so small how could it hurt Subject(s): Restaurants ALL-NITE LUNCHROOM, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shallow nature, pleased Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners AMHERST WITH FRIES, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: When the bored cashier at burger king Last Line: As a line forms all day in front of her Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Restaurants ARTHUR BRYANT'S, KANSAS CITY, MO- OR, CUBAN POET GORGES HIMSELF...., by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entropy is the daily topic here, how sauces ooze off plastic trays Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Restaurants; Food & Eating; Kansas City, Missoufri; Latinos AT BICKFORD'S, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You should understand that I use my body now for everything Subject(s): Aging; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners AT BICKFORD'S, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You should understand that I use my body now for everything Last Line: I will sit and read in my chair; %I will wave from my window Subject(s): Aging; Restaurants AT THE HALF NOTE CAFE (VERSION B), by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard him play Subject(s): Ammons, Gene (1925-1974); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners AT THE HALF NOTE CAFE (VERSION B), by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard him play Last Line: Put her stiffened nipple in my mouth Subject(s): Ammons, Gene (1925-1974); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Restaurants BALLAD OF THE RIDDLING GHOST AND THE CHUGGAMONGA FROG, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There lived a chuggamonga frog %as brown as buttered toast Last Line: At the moon &riddles diner %and the sunnyside cafe Subject(s): Restaurants BALLADE OF THE IDEAL WAITER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some people sigh for a waiter who's humble Last Line: —I want a waiter who'll leave me alone! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Restaurants; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners BEACON OF WINCHESTER COUNTY, by JON LAVIERI Poem Source First Line: As if the night has opened Last Line: As I to them as we pour our faces into our cups Subject(s): Restaurants BIRD COACH, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Was it chickens children lapwings letterings Last Line: I. E. Broke off the tree that it %formed the poet's initial Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Food And Eating; Poetry And Poets; Restaurants BREAKFAST AT THE GOLDEN EGG CAFE, by JON LAVIERI Poem Source First Line: I was thinking about nothing Last Line: Between the cheesecake and pecan pie Subject(s): Restaurants BREAKFAST AT THE WESTERN CAFE, by JIM PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Rain has muddied the river, someone says Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners BUCKHORN EXCHANGE, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this perfectly clear fifth of july Last Line: So empty of heartbreak and loss Subject(s): Restaurants BUS BOY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a smarmy restaurant, serving the tied Last Line: A dead-pan matre d', our napolean, our saint peter Subject(s): Restaurants CAFE MACONDO, by ELIZABETH CLAMEN Poem Source First Line: Sixteenth near mission, my favorite cafe Last Line: And the tongue of an anteater Subject(s): Restaurants CAFE NOTRE DAME, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sort of sexual trauma Last Line: Of their passion Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners CAFE NOTRE DAME, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sort of sexual trauma Last Line: In the mons veneris %of their passion Subject(s): Restaurants CAFE TORTONI ('81), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edouard manet (solus) Last Line: I left them—well—a living world! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Food & Eating; France; Restaurants; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Cafes; Diners CAFES IN DAMASCUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Languidly the night-wind bloweth Last Line: Could be such a dream! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Damascus, Syria; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners CAFETERIA, by LEE ANN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Ice tea Last Line: Plus one meat Subject(s): Food And Eating; Restaurants CAFETERIA IN BOSTON, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could digest the white slick watery mash Last Line: That was the course that kept the others down Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Restaurants CAFFE TRIESTE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: It's too hot for april and the recycled hawaiian shirts Last Line: Reaching in to a place that wants to let loose Subject(s): Restaurants CHRISTMAS DINNER AT CHILDS', by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday the merchant-men Last Line: To my land a hundred songs. Subject(s): Christmas; Food & Eating; Restaurants; Nativity, The; Cafes; Diners CLEVELAND SUMMER OF NICKEL TIPS, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: In the daily pallor of tablecloths Last Line: In a haze of nickel days Subject(s): Restaurants COMING SOON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I placed one toe Last Line: It said it did not need me. Subject(s): Cold; December; Restaurants; Time; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 10. BIRDIES SING AND EVERYTHING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Friends, one of the facts Last Line: Doth glint. Or smiling jump off same Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Food And Eating; Marine Animals; Restaurants; San Francisco Bay, California COQ AU VIN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In paris once, just as the waiter Last Line: And I flung down my napkin and fled %with a sound in me like ripped cloth Subject(s): Paris, France; Restaurants DANCING ALL NIGHT, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When shoofly sally claps her hands Last Line: They hoof it low, %across the milky way Subject(s): Restaurants DELI, by SUZAN MILBURN Poem Source First Line: Number 46 please Last Line: Begin to serve %ouselves Subject(s): Restaurants DINER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I order a sandwich and get a plate of ham and eggs instead Last Line: Now when in hell did I buy this diner and who needs it! Subject(s): Restaurants DINER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The men smell %of petroleum Last Line: A siren skins %the afternoon Subject(s): Men; Restaurants DINING LATE, by BRUCE BERGER Poem Source First Line: There are no burnt croutons in the restaurants of heaven Last Line: The time of her afterlife Subject(s): Restaurants DINING [OR, EATING] OUT ALONE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through two layers of glass Last Line: Of which I am one, dining out alone Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners DINNER AT EIGHT, by JAY D. MANCINI Poem Source First Line: West nineteenth street Last Line: It's a good night for a long walk %I return to the bar Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Restaurants DINNER IN A QUICK LUNCH ROOM, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn Last Line: And gorge the sticky mess these fools call food! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners DOMICILES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: At the 310 bistro, we order snails and chew them slow. My father and I with Last Line: Lips shamelessly buttery, watches a blonde at the next table wiggle out of her coat Subject(s): Family Life; Food And Eating; Restaurants; Snails DOWNTOWN DINER, by JEREDITH MERRIN Poem Source First Line: Scuzzy michael's diner. Briefcase Last Line: For labor or love without small %consolations? Who can live? Variant Title(s): Downtown Diner: Columbus, Ohi Subject(s): Ohio; Restaurants ELYSIAN FIELDS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Champs elysees of broadway' says the awning Last Line: Under the awning frmo behind the glass Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners ELYSIAN FIELDS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Champs elysees of broadway' says the awning Last Line: Under the awning from behind the glass Subject(s): Restaurants END OF THE THEORY, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: Banach and tarski Last Line: About its presumption Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Restaurants EXCELLENT COFFEE SHOP, by ROBERT LONG Poem Source First Line: Where did it go? Some guy Last Line: Bust through the schoold oors at 2:32, %and where do they go? Subject(s): Coffee; New Jersey; Restaurants FALL IN THE EQUINOX CAFE, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: Under he thin, chill, ripling light Last Line: Like a warm brown baby Subject(s): Restaurants FIXED POINTS, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: At first they meet at the cafe roma in lvov Last Line: Which still today no one can reproduce Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Restaurants FLEETWOOD CAFE, by CHARLES BAXTER Poem Source First Line: The sickening lunchtime sun is pale as bouillon Last Line: And pole, a hollow wooden peppermint Subject(s): Restaurants FORTUNE COOKIE, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: How easy to be humbled by the peking noodle co Last Line: Holding an unbroken cookie with one free hand Subject(s): Fortune; Restaurants; Superstition GIRL EATING RICE, by BILL HOLM Poem Source First Line: Dinner on a dusty february night in a teacher's cramped cement flat Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Restaurants; Rice GOLDEN GLOBE RESTAURANT (YUCCA, ARIZONA), by ROBERT PETERSON Poem Source First Line: A brown dot on the desert you can spot from at least Last Line: I think I've done all I an for golden globe Subject(s): Restaurants; Yucca, Arizona GOODBYE HELLO IN THE EAST VILLAGE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three tables down from allen ginsberg we sit Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners GOODBYE HELLO IN THE EAST VILLAGE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three tables down from allen ginsberg we sit Last Line: Since at this cold dark moment things are fine Subject(s): Restaurants GREAT BEAR GOES FOR A MIDNIGHT SHUFFLE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon & riddles diner? %it's half a smile away Last Line: Where they let me dance all night Subject(s): Restaurants GRIEF OF CAFETERIAS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone sitting along with a sorrow Subject(s): Restaurants HAMBURGER HEAVEN, by MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN Poem Source First Line: A man orders a hamburger Last Line: He'd specifically ordered Subject(s): Restaurants HOLY THURSDAY, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're kindly here, to let us linger so late Subject(s): Maundy Thursday; Restaurants; Farewell; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners; Parting HOMAGE TO H & THE SPEEDWAY DINER, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners HONOLULU, RESTAURANT ROW, by WILLIAM LINVILLE Poem Source First Line: The cannery %puts up Last Line: Keeps us alive %in paradise Subject(s): Honolulu; Restaurants HUSBANDS, by WILLIAM CARPENTER Poem Source First Line: I watch the new england foliage bus tour stop Last Line: Anywhere tomorrow, and they can sleep forever Subject(s): Restaurants I HAD BUT FIFTY CENTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I took my girl to a fancy ball Last Line: "take my advice, don't try it twice / if you've got but fifty cents!" Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes;diners IKEA RESTAURANT, ELIZABETH, NJ, by ANNELIESE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: The mother's calm pursuit %of swedish meatballs sliding Last Line: Will goad, time after time %to search for, find again Subject(s): New Jersey; Restaurants IN A CAFE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss the maid and pass her round Last Line: Their hearts at peace, their god above them. Subject(s): Restaurants; Soldiers; World War I; Cafes; Diners; First World War IN A CHOP-SUEY JOINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climb up a flight of darkly-winding stair Last Line: Whose voice betrays her painted wantonness. Subject(s): Dirt; Poverty; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners IN A RESTAURANT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wears a red rose in his buttonhole Last Line: On rose-red seas of melody aswim. Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners IN A RESTAURANT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkened street was muffled with snow Last Line: And once more on your shoulders fell the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners IN HOBOKEN: 3., by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The overpriced reestaurant Last Line: Out of exotic locales %to daydream about Subject(s): Restaurants IN THE GLORIOUS YEMEN RESTAURANT, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 25 on atlantic avenue, faces kneaded Subject(s): Restaurants; Immigrants; Arab Americans; Cafes; Diners; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration INITIAL CONDITIONS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way the sun will slant Last Line: As you breathe, let your chest sag to feel bone Subject(s): Books; History; Restaurants; United States; Washington (state); Reading; Historians; Cafes; Diners; America INTIMACY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The woman in the cafe making my cappuccino -- dark eyes, dyed red hair Last Line: And our eyes meet for just a second, and our fingers touch Subject(s): Restaurants IT'S SWEET POTATO DAY AT THE SUNNYSIDE CAFE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I got the special of the day: the sweet potato pone Last Line: And dreamed I was a sweet potato %someone was digging up Subject(s): Restaurants JIM'S ALL-NIGHT DINER, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solemnity around the samovar Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners JOURNEY BY RAILROAD, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: I was on an express with no stops scheduled Last Line: And look: how the tracks shine up ahead %let's go Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Railroads; Restaurants LA TERRASSE DES MARRONNIERS, by ELIZABETH CLAMEN Poem Source First Line: We sit in the sudden rain, my hands spilling over Last Line: And the cafe windows reverberate Subject(s): Restaurants LANDRUM'S DINER, RENO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slouch, half-asleep on christmas day Last Line: What more we could want? Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Nevada; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners LAST NIGHT, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Last night I ate steak Last Line: I did not know left from right Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Restaurants; Women LINES WRITTEN BEFORE SEEING AN EX-LOVER WHO HAS BECOME A SEX THERAPIST, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: She's curious what advice %he gives his clients Last Line: And mouth the words good-night Subject(s): Farewell; Restaurants; Seduction; Travel LOSS OF APPETITE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When julia rang the dinner bell, I used to Last Line: Cabbage and a tart. Subject(s): Appetite; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Hunger; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners LUNCH IN HELL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't eaten flesh,' he said, and I Last Line: I miss the question mark), 'the usual.' Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Restaurants LUNCH WITH MY EX, by WENDY WILDER LARSEN Poem Source First Line: I know he will order Last Line: Their dark tails dipping with each cry Subject(s): Restaurants MACARONI, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis made of the flour of wheat, so they say Last Line: And don't you forget the chianti! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; Italian Americans; New York City; Pasta; Restaurants; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Spaghetti; Lasagna; Noodles; Macaroni; Cafes; Diners MAN FROM THE RESTAURANT, by JOAN ALESHIRE Poem Source First Line: The man watching her house is indistinguishable Last Line: In the vague shape that shines back Subject(s): Restaurants MANAGER, by GARY HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: Swaying through tables on tiptoes Last Line: To keep from falling through the ceiling's ragged hole Subject(s): Restaurants MEDITATION ON LLOYD'S DINER, by JON LAVIERI Poem Source First Line: Lloyd's old parking lot Last Line: And spilled warmth in the space between your hands Subject(s): Restaurants MELODY IN A RESTAURANT, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My errand is not so simple as it seems Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Restaurants MIDGET, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this cafe durruti Last Line: I sing lullaby, and sing Subject(s): Restaurants MOMENT IN A CAFE, by RUY CINATTI Poem Source First Line: The lovely hands I've seen leave me enraptured Last Line: And an air of enchantment, a quavering %heard from afar, as if in secret Subject(s): Restaurants; Time MONA'S TACO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mona, do you know Subject(s): Food & Eating; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners MOON'S REPORT ON THE STUBBORN STOVE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our stove has become very strange Last Line: And the burners play 'home on the range.' Subject(s): Restaurants MORNING AT THE CAFE DU MONDE, by CARLEN ARNETT Poem Source First Line: There is an endlessness here Last Line: And a pay phone rings back %wanting more Subject(s): Restaurants MOST, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dining room is empty at the country inn Last Line: A slow bright bomb. The mob in me sits still Subject(s): Restaurants MR. HO'S, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: Cheers from mr. Ho, who can't stand Last Line: But my pork, stale cookie and the check Subject(s): Restaurants MUSEUM GARDEN CAFE, by LAURA MULLEN Poem Source First Line: Even from this side of the glass the way Last Line: This paradise anytime I choose Subject(s): Restaurants NIGHT WAITRESS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reflected in the plate glass, the pies Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Music, Rock; Restaurants; Waiters & Waitresses; Rock & Roll; Cafes; Diners NIGHT WAITRESS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Reflected in the plate glass, the pies Last Line: In wrinkles, in every fault %of this frail machinery Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Music, Rock; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses NOBODY'S JEW, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: The chef of the restaurant was a big, bluff man Last Line: I'm not your jew. I'm nobody's jew Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Jews; Restaurants NORM, by JASON SANTERRE Poem Source First Line: Norm, the dishwasher where I used to work Last Line: I thought he said artistic Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Relationships; Restaurants OBSCURE PLEASURE OF THE INDISTINCT, by BIN RAMKE Poem Source First Line: Under light soft as seawater, sounds Subject(s): Pheasants; Restaurants OLD MILL TEA-ROOM, by FLORENCE CROW Poem Text First Line: They could not have imagined this when they came down in the mornings Last Line: The cool swift cut of the race? Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners ON THE BEARING OF WAITRESSES, by RODNEY JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always I thought they suffered, the way they huffed Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners ON THE BEARING OF WAITRESSES, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always I thought they suffered, the way they huffed Last Line: Chapters, filling the air with her glamour and her shame Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants OPERA BUFFA, by DIANE SHIPLEY DECILLIS Poem Source First Line: At la dolce vita, in the village Last Line: Snapped like a broken string %on a stradivarius! Subject(s): Food And Eating; Restaurants; Romance ORDERING, by JOHN CALVIN REZMERSKI Poem Source First Line: Here I am in the all-night restaurant again, sitting in a booth, just me Last Line: Are all regulars Subject(s): Food And Eating; Order; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses OZARK ODES: CAFE AT THE JUNCTION, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The way she sees him Last Line: Where oaks vault the road Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants PAMPLE MOOSE TELLS OF HIS ESCAPE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me a lasso! %bring me a noose! Last Line: Tell my master %I'm never coming back Subject(s): Restaurants PARIS PLAN IN HAND, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day you are one and I am, too. Paris city-plan in hand Last Line: Continuously, we are two Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Paris, France; Restaurants; Seine (river), France; Tourists; Travel PARTIAL EXPLANATION, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seems like a long time Last Line: On the conversation %of cooks Subject(s): Restaurants PATIENCE, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man raises his eyes from the table and gazes at the murals of women Last Line: How patient and unchanged the onlookers Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners PATIENCE, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man raises his eyes from the table and gazes at the murals of women Last Line: How patient and unchanged the onlookers Subject(s): Restaurants PLEASURE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of those times I knew even then Subject(s): Restaurants; Pleasure; Cafes; Diners POETS' CAFE, by ELLIOT FRIED Poem Source First Line: So I went down to the poets' cafe and the audience trickled in Last Line: On the spot. Being workshop student all, they formed %their firing squad into a circle Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Restaurants PRESSED DUCK, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caneton a la presse at the now extinct cafe chauveron Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners PRESSED DUCK, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caneton a la presse at the now extinct cafe chauveron Last Line: We're the world Subject(s): Restaurants QUEEN OF CHICKENS SURPRISES A FOX, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Foxy said to her highness for fun Last Line: Wings at all. I am twiddling my thumbs.' Subject(s): Restaurants READING SOMETHING IN THE RESTAURANT, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning I remembered the young man Last Line: You wanted to know Subject(s): Restaurants REDNECK RIVIERA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ate at a poor restaurant Last Line: Like ashes on the lips of the dead Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners REDNECK RIVIERA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ate at a poor restaurant Last Line: Like ashes on the lips of the dead Subject(s): Restaurants REGULARS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the colonial luncheonette on sixth street they know everything there Last Line: Sam, please, I'm in a hurry. No, hold on, just a second, loo Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Restaurants RESTAURANT, by MAXINE HONG KINGSTON Poem Source First Line: The main cook lies sick on a banquette, and his assistant Last Line: And wonder at the clean diners behind glass in candlelight Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Restaurants RESTAURATEUR WITH MUSIC, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knishes, kisses Subject(s): Restaurants; Jews; Cafes; Diners; Judaism RISTORANE VITTORIA, MILAN, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three baldheaded men at the next table Last Line: Of the whole charade Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners RISTORANE VITTORIA, MILAN, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three baldheaded men at the next table Last Line: Of the whole charade Subject(s): Restaurants SALLY GO ROUND THE SUN, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sally go round the chimney pots on a sunday afternoon Subject(s): Restaurants SATURDAY, J.'S OYSTER BAR, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Hearing there's no lemon pie Last Line: Theirs is the wilderness that can't be tamed Subject(s): Restaurants SECOND PERSONS: CAFE DE L'ABBAYE, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without quite knowing it, you sit looking for your past or future Last Line: If consciousness were able, finally, to hold all of this together, even not quite ever knowing why Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Restaurants SEVEN DOORS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waiter carries a white towel over Last Line: Now we can smile. Everyone eats tonight Subject(s): Restaurants SHOOFLY SALLY AND HER EVERYTHING DOG CLEAR THE TABLE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Table for two?' the sun inquired Last Line: And the snow threw down a clean one Subject(s): Restaurants SHOOFLY SALLY AND HER EVERYTHING DOG TAKE THEIR SHOW ON THE ROAD, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My name is shoofly sally, sir Last Line: The moon & riddles diner, sir, %and the sunnyside care.' Subject(s): Restaurants SHOOFLY SALLY MEETS BEAN-THREAD THE SPIDER, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the city of rolling scone Last Line: I can tell by the light in your eyes Subject(s): Restaurants SHORT ORDER COOK, BLUE MILL DINER, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: She slams down burgers Last Line: The passageway to monday next Subject(s): Restaurants SHORT-ORDER COOK, by JIM DANIELS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An average joe comes in Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cookery; Cafes; Diners SHORT-ORDER COOK, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An average joe comes in Last Line: Pressure; responsibility, success, %thirty cheeseburgers, thirty fries Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants SIGNS OF SIGNS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: To have been bitten once by a dog is quite enough Last Line: I look for signs of signs everywhere Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Restaurants; Signs And Signboards SMALL TOWN CAFE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Tonight, while the husbands have gone home to their wives and the Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Coffee; Restaurants SPILLED, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waiter dropped a tray of glassware and Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners SPILLED, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waiter dropped a tray of glassware and Last Line: Need not be red, if spilled as speech Subject(s): Restaurants SPOON BOY CALLS HIS FAMILY FOR DINNER, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When harry dewberry was two days old Last Line: And the dish ran away with the spoon Subject(s): Restaurants SUMMER STORM, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: The waitress props open her book Last Line: A farmer dreaming up a tree Subject(s): Restaurants SUNFLOWER ROCK, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners SUNNYSIDE ROAD, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six stone lions standing guard Subject(s): Restaurants; Love; Cafes; Diners TABLECLOTH EXPLANATION, by PETER SEARS Poem Source First Line: It's all because the round man with the pumpkin neck Last Line: Tableclothes. I was badly outnumbered Subject(s): Restaurants TEAPOT POURS OUT HER STORY, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lady dropped me crash! On the kitchen floor Last Line: You start out broken, you come out looking like new Subject(s): Restaurants TENDERLY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not a fancy restaurant, nor is it Last Line: Darling, touch me there, tenderly, one more time! Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners TENDERLY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not a fancy restaurant, nor is it Last Line: Darling, touch me there, tenderly, one more time Subject(s): Restaurants THE AVENUES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights when you're off Subject(s): Solitude; Night; Restaurants; City & Town Life; Love; Bedtime; Cafes; Diners THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A street there is in paris famous Last Line: -- here comes the smoking bouillabaisse! Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France; Restaurants; Travel; Cafes; Diners; Journeys; Trips THE BOHEMIANS OF BOSTON AND THEIR WAYS; A MEMORY OF THE JACOBEAN CRAZE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'orchids' were as tough a crowd Last Line: "this shocking outrage -- ""beacon h -- ll!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Boston; Clubs (associations); Evil; Police; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE DINER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I order a sandwich and get a plate of ham and eggs instead Last Line: Now when in hell did I buy this diner and who needs it Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE LOW BLACK SQUARE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is a table Last Line: They're just some flowers Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Restaurants; Tables; Visiting; Cafes; Diners THE MIDGET, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this cafe durruti Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE MOST, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dining room is empty at the country inn Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE PARTIAL EXPLANATION, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Seems like a long time Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE RESTAURANT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restaurant I walk into expects me to have the cash or credit Last Line: Excitement, combat, power and domination? Subject(s): Restaurants; Brotherhood; Disappointment THE TWO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he gets off work at packard, they meet Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants; Language; Past; Grief; Male-female Relations; Cafes; Diners; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness THERE IS WIND, THERE ARE MATCHES, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand times I have sat in restaurant windows Subject(s): Civilization; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THERE IS WIND, THERE ARE MATCHES, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand times I have sat in restaurant windows Last Line: Whistling bach and muczynski through the closed blinds Subject(s): Civilization; Restaurants THESE ARE THE STREETS, by MARK SOLOMON Poem Source First Line: These are the streets where I used to walk my rage once it woke Last Line: Open on my lap and bring my chair in close against the table Subject(s): Restaurants THEY EAT OUT, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In restaurants we argue Variant Title(s): Nine Untitled Poems: 2 Subject(s): Restaurants; Immortality; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners; Cafes; Diners THEY EAT OUT, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In restaurants we argue Variant Title(s): Nine Untitled Poems: 2 Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THEY EAT OUT, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In restaurants we argue Last Line: I liked you better the way you were, %but you were always ambitious Variant Title(s): Nine Untitled Poems: Subject(s): Restaurants TO A RED-HEADED DO-GOOD WAITRESS, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning I went to her charity and learned Last Line: A policeman and a wrong sonnet in fifteen lines Subject(s): Restaurants; Sonnets (as Literary Form); Cafes; Diners TO A RED-HEADED DO-GOOD WAITRESS, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning I went to her charity and learned Last Line: A policeman and a wrong sonnet in fifteen lines Subject(s): Restaurants TRAVELLERS, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the coffee shops and restaurants Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners TRAVELLERS, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the coffee shops and restaurants Last Line: Where all of us are strangers Subject(s): Restaurants TWENTY BLOCKS, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: The daughters of the rich Last Line: For my soul's quickening. ... Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Restaurants; Upper Classes; Cafes; Diners TWO RESTAURANTS: 1. THE TROUGH, by KURT BROWN Poem Source First Line: A place for gluttons, one big room gleaming with tile Last Line: Enters, lumbers across the room, and takes off his clothes Subject(s): Restaurants TWO RESTAURANTS: 2. THE GLASS CASE, by KURT BROWN Poem Source First Line: A place of orchids and marble, carpet that swallows Last Line: Hand and leads her out between the husky trunks of two royal Subject(s): Restaurants VANNA WHITE'S BREAD PUDDING, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: If not famous ourselves, oh let us Last Line: Into my heretofore but no more anonymous lap Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants WAITRESS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever with the compasses of his eyes Subject(s): Restaurants; Waiters & Waitresses; Women; Cafes; Diners WAITRESS, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a table in the back where she opens Last Line: Not to keep it, but holdit long enough to change Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners WAITRESS, by JASON SHINDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a table in the back where she opens Last Line: Not to keep it, but to hold it long enough to change Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants WHAT SHOOFLY SALLY WROTE WITH A CINNAMON STICK ON THE LAST SLICE OF, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let the pample moose grab my galoshes Last Line: Tickle us, pickle us, sweet potato sun Subject(s): Restaurants WHILE YOU WERE ABSENT IN THE LAVORATORY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Twitching his nose toward the crumbs Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Restaurants WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: Wished sunday's come: mirth brightens every face Last Line: So long, white conduit house, shall be thy fame.' Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Food & Eating; Houses; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses; Mobs; Crowds; Cafes; Diners WILL WATERPROOF'S LYRICAL MONOLOGUE; MADE AT THE COCK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O plump head-waiter at the cock Last Line: And one became head-waiter. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners WOMAN, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nobody here Last Line: The dark grows, and the time comes Subject(s): Restaurants WORKING BLACK, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The part of stockholm I saw at 22, I saw as an employee & thief Subject(s): Restaurants; Jobs; Immigrants; Cafes; Diners; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration YOUTH, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY Poem Text First Line: You say new york is lovelier than ever? Last Line: But, oh, how gay it was! What prophecies! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; New York City; Restaurants; Youth; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Cafes; Diners ZARZYSKI STOMACHS THE OXFORD SPECIAL WITH ZIMMER ..., by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Donning his bronc-stomper black hat, cock-eyed Last Line: These z-boys need 'em real awful bad Subject(s): Ranch Life; Restaurants |
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