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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VANDALISM Matches Found: 45 ABANDONING ALL PRETENSE, THE VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source Last Line: The blankets, play a game called %catch the vandal if you can Variant Title(s): Abandoning All Pretense, The Vandal Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism AFTER THE POEM WHO KNOWS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: And step into the future %hello? We're here. Is anybody home? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism AND YOU AND I, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem, words hide behind their letters %like little kids playing tag Last Line: Boom! %boom! Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism ANOTHER POEM ABOUT THE VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In another poem about the vandals, the vandals Last Line: You and me - did she see us? - %and turns her collar up against the night Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bars And Bartenders; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism APPEARANCES, THE VANDALS KNOW, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: Cock their opposable thumbs %bang! They say. You're history Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism AT THE CARWASH THE VANDALS SING, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: Toward home, the poem abandoned %as though they could go home Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism BEFORE THE VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about the vandals Last Line: About what they'll do with me, with you Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism BETWEEN POEMS THE VANDALS GO, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: Behind the iron bleachers %playing football in the snow Last Line: Dumb words, the vandals mutter %squeezing through and squeezing by Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism BUILDINGS TORN DOWN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A savage business! Ruin of the past Last Line: Because a sturdy vandal dared destroy Subject(s): Buildings; Vandalism CHANSON (OU SONT LES VANDALS?), by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: Pretty pretty pretty lies the day %in its banality, as les pensees Last Line: Where are those vandals %my porcupine, my potted fern? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism EVEN OLDER, THE VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: Fill their bodies with their ghosts Last Line: They whisper to each other. %it's only a poem, it's only a poem, it's only poem Subject(s): Aging; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism FOUNTAIN, THE FOUNTAIN, THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: All the dead scattered in-between %(they sink and float and soar and Subject(s): Fountains; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism GOD OF THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: The god of the vandals is a vandal %he taketh many forms Last Line: And the tears of the jellyfish %were for you, for me Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism GROUP PORTRAIT WITH VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about the photograph Last Line: Embrace of old upholstery %that's you, I say. That's me Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism IN ABUNDANCE THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: We huff, as the last line arrives %a bear! A real live bear! Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism IN THE ABANDONED MINE THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: Down for fun. Fun! %(and the batteries in the lights run out Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism IN THE PRE-DAWN LIGHT WHICH IS THE POEM, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: Too easily, as some poems do %with the bear, the girl, me and you Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism IN THE WRONG POEM THE VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source Last Line: And the wrong poem %ends wrong Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism MADMEN, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say you can jinx a poem Last Line: Staring down at me with tiny illuminated eyes Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Vandalism ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (1), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So then - the vandals of our isle Last Line: The burning of his own. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (2), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wit and genius meet their doom Last Line: The honey on his tongue. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE LIBRARY WINDOW, by NICOLE CUDDEBACK Poem Source First Line: Coy, novel vandalism, ghost Last Line: Kiss me. Let me out. Stay Variant Title(s): Kiss On The Library Windo Subject(s): Kisses; Vandalism ON THE TURNPIKE THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: And a poem has no future, the vandals drive %and drive and drive and drive and drive Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism ONLY VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem with only vandals in the poem Last Line: Of whatever, and the vandals %smush their faces on the glass Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism PHILOSOPHY, THE VANDALS SAY, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source Last Line: Gone, inscrutable, that blur beyond %the legible, within the trees' mad alphabet Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism PRACTICING THEIR DIFFIDENCE, THE VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source Last Line: They whisper to each other %it's only a poem, it's only a poem, it's only a poem Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism SIGNATURE OF LOVE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In missoula, someone has punched Last Line: Beneath the signature of love on the ceiling. Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Sex; Vandalism; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THERE IS ANOTHER YOU, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: Must I tell you, angeline? %by another just like you, another you Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism UNDER THE BIGTOP THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: Resigned to pace their lives like %words inside a poem, like me, like you Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDAL, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: What have you got %asks the stranger in town Last Line: The road from here %he's already been gone years Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Danger; Vandalism VANDAL SEX, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about vandal sex %the vandals tarry, naked in the van Last Line: Unbutton our top buttons %say a little prayer. We're next Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about the vandals, the vandals Last Line: And the vandals stomp inoutinoutinoutinout Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDALS AND THE LAW, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about the vandals and the law %the vandals lock the door Last Line: Upon their organized but messy desks %in the purr of machines, machines Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDALS AND THE MOON, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: They have been waiting, these vandals %for someone to come and rescue them Last Line: And the moon, the moon %tangles itself in your hair Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDALS AND THE PHILISTINES, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about the vandals and the philistines Last Line: With band-aides, wiping %noses on each other's sleeves Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDALS DYING, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about their dying %the vandals bellow for their nurses Last Line: Someone, anyone, even god above %who's busy in another poem, busy dying Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDALS IN THE GARDEN, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: A riot of forsythia, six-pack %of bougainville, a giggle of pansies Last Line: O lie with me, the vandals sing %the war is wine Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDALS, BEES, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about the vandals and the bees Last Line: (yarrow, thistle, wheat, whatever.) %look at me, they yode. Beebeebee! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Vandalism VANDALS, BEES, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about the vandals and the bees %the vandals don their padded suits Last Line: (yarrow, thistle, wheat, whatever %look at me, they yodel. Beebeebee! Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDALS, HORSES, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: The vandals are dreaming, wolves are dreaming Last Line: (soft, our poem begins as vandals dream Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism VANDALS, NOISE, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: The vandals' friday afternoon is full of noise %the znnznnznn of the tablesaw Last Line: (a fly rhymes buzz with does %the only rhyme it knows Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism WAKING FROM ANOTHER DREAM, THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: (powdered sugar on a paper plate %go nowhere, fixed upon the sky Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism WITH VENGEANCE AND DESIRE, THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: They sneer. Watch the fingers %never leave the hand Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism WITHOUT THE VANDALS, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In this poem there are no vandals %there is no history, no pin-pricked map Last Line: (in the darkness of the poem %we whisper to each other soothingly Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism WORK, THE VANDALS SAY, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source Last Line: Woah, the vandals snort %'tis a pity, the vandals agree Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Vandalism |
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