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| Searching... Subject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS Matches Found: 111 A CHILD'S MINT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: When young, I kissed a miser man Last Line: Cry out for silver, and for gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Debt; Poverty; Social Problems A LETTER ON THE USE OF MACHINE GUNS AT WEDDINGS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the soldier, like the sailor Last Line: Who hasn't the guts to deal with sluts, guys like me and you. Subject(s): Social Problems A LETTER TO A POLICEMAN IN KANSAS CITY, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lot of men and armies stand to take Last Line: And any man can live on earth when we're through with it. Subject(s): Police; Social Problems A NEW TEMPERANCE POEM, IN MEMORY OF MY DEPARTED PARENTS, WHO WERE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My parents were sober living, and often did pray Last Line: And the people would have more peace in it to dwell Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Violence; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AFTER OUR WAR, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After our war, the dismembered bits Last Line: After our war, how will love speak? Subject(s): Asian Americans; Poetry & Poets; Scars; Social Problems; Soldiers; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Problems; United States; America ANY CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the staring street / she goes on her nightly round Last Line: The night with its pitiless stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Social Problems; Urban Life APRES LE METRO DERNIER, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: Who would you have been Subject(s): Social Problems AT 31 FLAVORS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: I wait with two other women Last Line: Leave, looking innocent. That's how all these things start Subject(s): Human Behavior; Ice Cream; Social Problems AXIOMATIC, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: The sage seems ridiculous Last Line: To theft and thuggery Subject(s): Social Problems BALLAD OF BALLYMOTE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We stopped at her hut Last Line: Cabbage and bones, she said. Cabbage %and bones Subject(s): Social Problems BATTLE-CRIES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, jim hez gone-ye didn't know? Last Line: Sick of his bloody spree. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Social Problems BEACH PARTY POST, by IVAN E. ROTH Poem Source First Line: Bless us oh mother liz taylor Subject(s): Social Problems BETTER OFF DEAD, by LINDA MONACELLI JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: What if I decided to kill myself? Subject(s): Social Problems BROTHER WOLF, by HAROLD JAFFE Poem Source First Line: When the mechanic on his back on the crawler Subject(s): Social Problems CAMP CEDAR GLEN, by WILLIAM HOPE HAWKES Poem Source First Line: Throughout the camp, of buzz of final abandon Subject(s): Social Problems CLEANING FISH, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: Dad, a little drunk, every summer sunday Last Line: I'd keep every single vow I made Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Children; Parents; Social Problems COLONIZED LEISURE, TRIVIALIZED WORK, by PAUL DRESMAN Poem Source First Line: The base substantiates the star atop the apex Subject(s): Social Problems COLORED BIRDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a highrise apt. Next door Subject(s): Social Problems DALLAS 1962, by ROGER SUVA Poem Source First Line: It must have been august Subject(s): Social Problems DEATH OF CHE, by MAGGIE (ARONOFF) JAFFE Poem Source First Line: On the day that %che guevara died Subject(s): Guevara, Ernesto (che) (1928-1967); Social Problems DINOSAURS, by CHRISTOPHER MILLIS Poem Source First Line: Evidence of their whereabouts Subject(s): Social Problems DOLLS, by CAROL BRIDGE WALKER Poem Source First Line: I make dolls Subject(s): Social Problems EATING, by CHRISTINE CHOI AHMED Poem Source First Line: Closet was full of belts Last Line: Bit at a time. Drip. Drip. Drip Subject(s): Child Molesting; Prostitution; Social Problems EL CAMINO REAL, by CHRIS HANSEN Poem Source First Line: In california nothing Subject(s): Social Problems ELEPHANT ROCK, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We take place in what we believe Last Line: Jesus saves Subject(s): Slavery; Social Problems; United States; Serfs; America EPISODE IN A CONTINUING SERIES, by LOVERNE WILSON BROWN Poem Source First Line: I wait for a bus Subject(s): Social Problems EUROPA, by ANATOL STERN Poem Source First Line: Abecedary of slaughter Last Line: This throng of raging bacchantes %is one centimetre of my skin Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Futurism (art); Social Problems EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing Last Line: So large, and strangely broken, and unforseen Subject(s): Politics; Social Problems; United States FIGHT GOES ON, by EDILBERTO COUTINHO Poem Source First Line: First half Last Line: It was such a pleasure baking it for you Subject(s): Fights; Human Rights; Mothers And Sons; Social Problems FIRST JAPANESE FOREIGN MALE, by VELINA HOUSTON Poem Source First Line: Hiroshi came from okayama Subject(s): Social Problems FOR KICKS, by MOIRA KYLE Poem Source First Line: Simpson's laid me off, and any other job Subject(s): Social Problems FOR MOMS, by LYNN MANNING Poem Source First Line: Somebody asked me the other day Last Line: She's doing 'reeeaal' good Subject(s): Homeless; Mothers; Poverty; Social Problems FOR THESE CONDITIONS THERE IS NO ABORTION, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say the tongue is only praxis Last Line: Not hangers and quinine and soda. Subject(s): Abortion; Slavery; Social Problems; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating FOUNDERED STAR, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little fevered island, blued to closing Last Line: About ourselves that aren't true. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Social Problems; Writing & Writers GENERATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People who are going to be Last Line: By their invisibility / denounce us Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Change; Social Problems GENERATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: People who are going to be Last Line: By their invisibility %denounce us Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Change; Social Problems GUILLMETTE, by GENEVE BALEY Poem Source First Line: Ma chere petite guillmette Subject(s): Social Problems HE IMAGINED THE GORGEOUS PATTERN OF THE NEW SKIN AND SETTLED FOR AMERI, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quiet which is my wife endures Last Line: Into the sunset of our bleeding children. Subject(s): Death; Slavery; Social Problems; Dead, The; Serfs HIBAKUSA, by MICHAEL DALEY Poem Source First Line: It is bright midnight. Heat Subject(s): Social Problems HIGH SCHOOL CLASS REUNION, by GENEVE BALEY Poem Source First Line: The immediate impression given to others listening Subject(s): Social Problems HIROSHIMA, by LINDA BROWN Poem Source First Line: The children of physics Subject(s): Social Problems I HAVE SEEN BLACK HANDS, by RICHARD WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am black and I have seen black hands, millions and millions of them Subject(s): African Americans; Social Problems; Negroes; American Blacks I HAVE SEEN BLACK HANDS, by RICHARD WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am black and I have seen black hands, millions and millions of them Last Line: Some day there shall be millions and millions of them, %on some red day in a burst of fists on a new Subject(s): African Americans; Social Problems IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are born with dreams in our hearts Last Line: So long gone from life itself, so many things have changed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Social Problems; United States - Race Relations IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are born with dreams in our hearts Last Line: So long gone from life itself, so many things have changed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Social Problems; U.s. - Race Relations IN CELEBRATION OF SPRING, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our asian war is over; others have begun Last Line: That we will be keepers of a garden, nonetheless. Subject(s): Decay; Social Problems; Soldiers; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Rot; Decadence IN MEXICO, by DIANA O HEHIR Poem Source First Line: I can be lonely on the edge of a riot Subject(s): Social Problems JAROSLAV, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: This evening frightens me Last Line: I shudder. Drink more wine Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Social Problems LITTLE FISH DEVOURS THE BIG FISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the troops Subject(s): Social Problems MAN'S WORLD, by HANK MALONE Poem Source First Line: It seems like a man's world Subject(s): Social Problems MCGONAGALL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou demon drink, thou fell destroyer Last Line: That the abolition of strong drink is the only home rule. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Sickness; Social Problems; Violence; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Illness NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS, by BARBARA LA MORTICELLA Poem Source First Line: In what the chief of police described Subject(s): Social Problems NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Those loafers, corner-boys, do-nothings, bums Last Line: To arrest the momentum of this gathering maelstrom) Subject(s): Social Problems NEWSPAPER FINDINGS: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet an' cozie, but an' ben Last Line: At the paris exhibition. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Newspapers; Politics & Government; Rome, Italy; Social Problems; English; Journalism; Journalists NIKOS OF CARAVY STREET, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nikos, she said, don't kill yourself Last Line: One minute left for dead, %the next putting on aftershave Subject(s): Life; Social Problems OCTOBER, 1973, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed I ran through the streets of new york Last Line: Brother? Brother? Subject(s): Chile; Dreams; Social Problems; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Nightmares; Feminism OLD WHITE MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was leaving the doctor's office Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Social Problems ON A PERFECT DAY IN DETROIT, by HANK MALONE Poem Source First Line: It is such a beautiful day in april Subject(s): Social Problems ON THE MEETING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN GLASGOW, 1860, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the west! We hail thee from afar! Last Line: To lead to heaven, and train for life on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Conventions; Glasgow, Scotland; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Social Problems; Assemblies; Meetings; Human Race ORTHODOXIES 5, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: It is an axiom. She made the wrong life's choice. The city Last Line: The he-aunt who embroiders a metamorphosis Subject(s): Gomorrah; Social Problems; Turkey OUR OLD CENTER-TOWN VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around our center meetinghouse Last Line: As our poor meetinghouse. Subject(s): Churches; Public Meetings; Public Worship; Social Problems; Vermont; Cathedrals; Church Attendance POVERTY OF IMAGINATION, by HANK MALONE Poem Source First Line: Prometheus %the giant Subject(s): Social Problems POWER, by HANK MALONE Poem Source First Line: Now that we are in a mansion Subject(s): Social Problems RAIDS, by MANUEL MANAZAR GAMBOA Poem Source First Line: The driver's cold, gray eyes search left Subject(s): Social Problems RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood. Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War RETURN TO EL SALVADOR, by DOREN RICHARD ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: I will come back first Last Line: Violently %over your graves Subject(s): Social Problems SALVOS FOR RANDOLPH BOURNE, by HORACE GREGORY Poem Source First Line: O bitterness never spoken, the death mask etched in Last Line: Or not to be Subject(s): Bourne, Randolph Silliman (1886-1918); Critics And Criticism; Social Problems; Social Protest SEAMSTRESS, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: Chimneys lowered the sky Subject(s): Social Problems SEARCHING FOR A NEW HOUSE, by GINA VALDEZ Poem Source First Line: We needed a new house Subject(s): Social Problems SEGREGATION, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: My mother, my two bothers, myself Last Line: We want only to disintegrate %into small pieces Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Prejudice; Social Problems SISTERS BENEATH THE CONCRETE, by CARLOS CORTEZ KOYOKUIKATL Poem Source First Line: I have never been on the streets of prague Last Line: To the follies and hopes %of our kind! Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Social Problems; Tyranny And Tyrants SITTING ON MY BED THINKING ABOUT THE RENT, THE BOMB, by GINA VALDEZ Poem Source First Line: I'm not sure how I'll Subject(s): Social Problems SNAPSHOTS OF THE E.R.A. MARCH, CHICAGO, MAY 10, 1980, by JANET RUTH HELLER Poem Source First Line: The rain stops at 9:30. People sprout Subject(s): Social Problems SOCIETY'S REVERSION, by TIM DIVITO Poem Source First Line: Your garbage is their food Last Line: Grunting and starting fires with two sticks Subject(s): Social Problems SOMEBODY AND SOMEBODY ELSE AND YOU, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, consider as you go your way Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Social Problems SOMEBODY AND SOMEBODY ELSE AND YOU, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, consider as you go your way Last Line: While crops in fields and faces in streets %go slowly empty and yellow Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Social Problems SONG OF THE SPIRIT OF POVERTY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song, a song, for the beldame queen Last Line: And my throne the prison cell. Subject(s): Poverty; Social Problems STILL LIVES WITH WHISKEY BOTTLE: 2. BROKEN PIECES, by PETER MARKUS Poem Source First Line: It happened that on one too many nights in a row his father had come Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Drinks And Drinking; Social Problems STILL LIVES WITH WHISKEY BOTTLE: 3. WHISKEY LOVE, by PETER MARKUS Poem Source First Line: One summer when he was twelve and his father was for a time not Last Line: Love Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Social Problems STOPPING AT TUCSON, by ELIZABETH+(1) HALL Poem Source First Line: I am related, but not to your mother Subject(s): Social Problems STORM, by JORGE J. RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO Poem Source First Line: I should face up to the problem Last Line: To bring an end to these conflicts Subject(s): Social Problems STRANGE BIRDS, by LINDA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I noticed them at once Subject(s): Social Problems STREET CORNER COLLEGE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Next year the grave grass will cover us Last Line: Cold stars and the whores. Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SUBWAY, by ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: I feel you stiffen Subject(s): Social Problems TANKA SEQUENCE FOR THE SIMPLE CREATURES OF HIROSHIMA, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: Movement of morning Subject(s): Social Problems TAXPAYER'S BLUES - I'VE GOT A RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES, by GLORY FOSTER Poem Source First Line: United states spreads like a giant oil slick Subject(s): Social Problems TESTAMENT FOR MY STUDENTS, 1968 - 1969, by KAY BOYLE Poem Text First Line: Each year you came jogging or loping down that hall Last Line: Their young arms cradling your bones. Subject(s): Literature; Oppression; Revolutions; Schools; Social Problems; Students THE BALLAD OF BALLYMOTE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We stopped at her hut Last Line: “cabbage and bones,” she said. “cabbage and bones.” Subject(s): Social Problems; Ireland THE COLORED BIRDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a highrise apt. Next door Last Line: He's one of the few real men around / here Subject(s): Social Problems THE LITTLE FISH DEVOURS THE BIG FISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the troops Subject(s): Social Problems THE OLD WHITE MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Was leaving the doctor's office Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Social Problems THE SPLEEN; AN EPISTLE TO MR. CUTHBERT JACKSON, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This motley piece to you I send Last Line: Life's voyage to the world unknown. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Religion; Social Problems; Spleen (organ); Theology THE VAGABOND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Tormented day and night by fleas Last Line: And eat up all the bloody food!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VIOLENCE OF PRONOUN, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loving came her way Last Line: "that makes us vicious." Subject(s): Marriage; Racism; Slavery; Social Problems; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs THE WRONG MAN, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wild-heaped rubble o'erpeers the pit-mouth black Last Line: A be t'roight mon for yo' an' no mistake.' Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Habits; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THEY ARE HONKING AT A WOMAN, by DOREN RICHARD ROBBINS Poem Source Subject(s): Social Problems THIRD EYE WORLD, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Faces in the street Subject(s): Social Problems TO ARMS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who can be dull or wrapped in unconcern Last Line: Out of this arrogant and blundering age. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Social Problems TO LABOR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall you complain who feed the world? Last Line: Believe and dare and do! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Social Problems; Work; Workers TO MARY ROCKWELL, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: They thought you'd finally killed yourself Last Line: A hollow ping; the room is dark Subject(s): Death; Social Problems; Suicide TRAVELIN ON THE GAVELSTON TOUR CAR TRACK, by GENEVE BALEY Poem Source Subject(s): Social Problems TWINS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The only feature june and jerry had in common Last Line: Echoed with their screams, until last %they were clean, and forgiven Subject(s): Social Problems UNDOMESTICATED ANIMALS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They cost a lot, they're a heap of bother Last Line: We're glad we've got them, because, you see— Subject(s): Boys; Social Problems UNHAPPY ENDINGS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In their first fight, collin jones, with his pale skin like mine Last Line: Bottles rain %on the ring: green vases exploding into white bouquets Subject(s): Fights; Social Problems; Social Workers VAPOR TRAIL REFLECTED IN THE FROG POND, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old watch: their Last Line: Seeing the drifting sun that gives us our lives. Subject(s): Social Problems; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War VISIT OF DIPLOMACY: CENTRAL AMERICA, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER Poem Source First Line: The wife of a visiting politician Variant Title(s): Gautemal Subject(s): Central America; Social Problems WANDERING MINDS: AFTER SEEING SUMIDAGAWA, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: Why am I remembering %the birds of hiroshima Subject(s): Social Problems WHEN THE POLICY CHANGES, by DOAN VAN MINH Poem Source First Line: Whenever the policy changes Last Line: Don't bother about the time being %no matter what kind of life we are living now Subject(s): Human Rights; Social Problems; Vietnam - Communist Regime WHERE WORK IS SCARCE, by KEVIN FITZPATRICK Poem Source First Line: It is not safe to be out of work around here Subject(s): Social Problems WHY DO I BEHAVE SO BADLY?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A good answer Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Self-righteousness; Social Problems |
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