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| Searching... Subject: WOMEN - ABUSED Matches Found: 48 AFTER THAT, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every story has its lean meat Last Line: I've kissed her fright. Subject(s): Rape; Revenge; Slavery; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating ALCHEMY OF DAY, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Let no girl wait on you on that day when you bind your wild Last Line: Called for a second time, day rises in words like huge poppies %exploding on their stems Subject(s): Women - Abused ARRAIGNMENT OF THE MEN, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Males perverse, schooled to condemn Last Line: Or the creatures of your use! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Guilt; Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused AT THE BACK OF PROGRESS ..., by TASLIMA NASRIN Poem Source First Line: The fellow who sits in the air-conditioned office Last Line: Over a couple of green chilis or a handful of cooked rice Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women - Abused BECAUSE: TWO LITANIES. 1. WHY HE BEAT HER, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Because the sun was in the sky Last Line: Because - why else> - he loved her Subject(s): Women - Abused BOYFRIEND, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: He was ugly as a troll and sturdy as a troll. His stubby arms and legs Last Line: Think of how beautiful we all were once and how we learned to love the beast Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Women - Abused BREAD IS BORN, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: How do you make bread talk, this old treasure all wrapped Last Line: The festival and the frunkenness that morning catches us %in. And daylight straddles the world Subject(s): Women - Abused CICADA, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Strident %with just one note Subject(s): Women - Abused CLOSED ROOM, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Who led me here? Last Line: And let your heart and flesh ripen: %sad mates sliced and lost Subject(s): Women - Abused CROWN OF HAPPINESS, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Death, become a shewolf Last Line: The poem on the summit of a high head %crown of happiness Subject(s): Women - Abused DAN'S WIFE, by KATE TANNATT WOODS Poem Text First Line: Up in early morning light Last Line: Dan's wife. Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating FIVE FRIVOLOUS SONGS: 2. LIP-STICK LIZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lip-stick liz was in the biz Last Line: Oh lip-stick liz! Subject(s): Murder; Prostitution; Women - Abused FIVE KIDS SLEPT IN THE CAR ON THE LONG HIGHWAY TO L.A. THEIR MOTHER,, by SESSHU FOSTER Poem Source Last Line: From the snack bar. It's hotter than shit today Subject(s): Children; Poverty; Women - Abused 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 FURY; FOR MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember this Last Line: For this woman's sake. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Obedience; Women - Abused; Black Heritage; Wife Beating GREAT FOUNTAINS, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Better not go to these deep woods Last Line: My old patience %keep intact %eternal solitude water solitude Subject(s): Women - Abused HOME CARE, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: The woman from home care is late. She apologizes, but she had a hel Last Line: So that's a lot of lookin' Subject(s): Women - Abused HOME MAINTENANCE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin, she says, is the natural order Last Line: As she raises a glove full of roses. Subject(s): Marriage; Ruins; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER, by SHAO YANXIANG Poem Source First Line: Thirty-three tribunals of public censure Last Line: Let's cast a contemptuous look %on those who stratagems all l came to naught Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Human Rights; Women - Abused IF YOU'RE UNHAPPY, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Close the sea like a bed Subject(s): Women - Abused IMAGINARY ANCESTORS: THE GIRAFFE WOMAN OF BURMA, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their voices reach us as if from the shaft Last Line: Lies close to you as air. Help me to hold up my head. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Variant Title(s): The Giraffe Women Of Burma Subject(s): Burma; Women - Abused; Wife Beating INVENTORY, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: In a hiding place Last Line: On a table without legs %our own gnawed face - %we threw it right out Subject(s): Women - Abused JERRY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine Subject(s): Women - Abused; Marriage; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Wife Beating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts LANDSCAPE, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Happed in my rage Subject(s): Women - Abused LIFE IN THE CASTLE, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: It is a castle of forbears Subject(s): Women - Abused LIGHTNING, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: The whole world caught fire Subject(s): Women - Abused LITTLE TOWNS, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: I shall give you some little towns Last Line: I give you some strange, sad little towns, %for your dream Subject(s): Women - Abused MORE AND MORE NARROW, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: The woman at her window Last Line: To damn her veins that freeze each time he breathes %his slow, cold and immobile breath Subject(s): Women - Abused MY FATHER SOLD ME TO PAY THE DEBTS, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I lacked beauty, the graces Last Line: I fell alive into the flames. %still struggling Subject(s): Household Employees; Pregnancy; Rape; Women - Abused NAKED GIRLS IN THE FORESTS OF BARBED WIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: At times I dressed up as a priestess, and went leaping through air Last Line: Clear that never had we known how to see ourselves Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Nudity; Pornography; Prostitution; Women - Abused OFFENDED, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: The needy were lined up by order of famine Last Line: That the cry fire burst from its heart %as its speech Subject(s): Women - Abused OUR HANDS IN THE GARDEN, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: We had this idea Subject(s): Women - Abused PAGE 5, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun goes on shining Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating QUIET MENTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He bullied her for years Last Line: She didn't win and yet she won Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Solitude; Women - Abused ROUNDELS, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Foolish men, who accuse woman without reason Last Line: The world, the flesh and the devil! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused SAFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones Subject(s): Women - Abused; Death; Wife Beating; Dead, The SKINNY GIRL, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: I am a skinny girl Last Line: And weird and childlike dreams %sir %like green water Subject(s): Women - Abused SMALL DEAD GIRL, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: A small dead girl Last Line: Bathes herself blue in moonlight %while her heady perfume rises Subject(s): Women - Abused SOMEONE IS BEATING A WOMAN, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Her grief-fevered forehead Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Women - Abused ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night her soul is alive Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall. Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating THE FARMERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth full of wet bandanna bound Last Line: Down the steps, back to the fields and the reaping. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rape; Women - Abused; Agriculture; Farmers; Wife Beating THE GHOST, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stands a city, - neither large nor small Last Line: That mrs. Mason used a cushion in her chair! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Women - Abused; Ghosts; Wife Beating THERE IS CERTAINLY SOMEONE, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source Last Line: Who forgot to close my greedy eyes %and allowed my wasted passion Subject(s): Women - Abused TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Range / a rest / face off Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Range %a rest %face off Last Line: I sought the wild animal %salamat jalan Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused TOMB OF THE KINGS, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: My heart is on my fist Last Line: And turn its punctured eyeballs %toward the morning? Subject(s): Women - Abused UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My husband,' sighed the weeping wife Last Line: "sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore." Subject(s): Marriage; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating WITH NO IMMEDIATE CAUSE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every 3 minutes a woman is beaten Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating |
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