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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WOMEN - CAPTIVES Matches Found: 68 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER ARGUING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Lavender snow, night tilts beyond Last Line: All the wings I've hidden in the lake Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives AFTER TWENTY-ONE YEARS, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Home is a fortress where your name Last Line: Hands flutter, shrink a powdery farewell Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Protestantism; Trials; Women - Captives ALICE IN THE HALLWAY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I've got a golden key, and hands Last Line: It's sugar on top for those flowerbeds Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALICE WRITES A LETTER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Dear me - ! Last Line: I am no longer one of you Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALICE WRITES HER MEMOIRS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Begin with taken, meaning; distance Last Line: Of all want, my fists tight in prayer Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALICE, FALLING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What edges the world has! Last Line: I'm beyond punishment Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALMIGHTY FIREBALL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I won't go shopping. I won't visit friends Last Line: Will scatter them without care, perfumes, or rites Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives BEREAVEMENT ROOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I've left my fingertips on fence posts Last Line: On a shelf, lips in a jar Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives BITTER END, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Bird, if you start now Last Line: To make yellow happen Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives BRIGHT WAITING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Birds return early, hunger Last Line: You ribbon and tendril Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The light like a feeble hostage Last Line: Eyes, from the blindfold slashed and sullied from lonely times and prisms Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women; Women - Captives CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am a shadow visiting Last Line: I learn to see myself Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Women - Captives CHIMNEY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Forget birds, rain in winter Last Line: Your ruined waist Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives CRACKED ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Baby tooth, I finger Last Line: New best friend Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DASH, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Consider dash, to break Last Line: The dash says %hurry up! %no, %wait Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What a dinghy I am! Oarless Last Line: The ouch! Was mine and not the tree's Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DEVILKIN, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: My dolls lock themselves in their house Last Line: His clumsy hands curled about his head Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What noise in her throat %another trick must be trapped there Last Line: The clapping's stopped, he's had %enough, he wants her now Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL EXPLAINS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Not so dark back here: voices Last Line: Clutching my pretty bird Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL RETURNS HOME, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: There's the tree I dared to drop me Last Line: Practicing my graceful exit? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL'S HOMEMADE MAGIC SHOW, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Mirror, mirror, am I silk Last Line: Begging as I go: silence, please Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL'S MOTHER REMEMBERS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: All knees and elbows, silly bird Last Line: My girl, thrown and twirling? Variant Title(s): Her Mother Remember Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING WOMAN, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Mission padres, only the sailors saw me rise Last Line: For the sake of decency, you said. %I had a language Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Native Americans; Women - Captives DISPLAY CASE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I am small but not precious Last Line: Asked the glass, is this in or out? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ENOUGH, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Holding nothing, your stomach Last Line: Sequin, you grow exquisite Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FEMINISM, THE BODY, AND THE MACHINE', by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Scrap of paper, little pencil Last Line: (do you understand now?) %this plunder Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FEMME FATALE ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Little noose, little loop Last Line: Rabbit hole waiting to happen? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FIFTH REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS A CHOICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: O sack of cash! O prayer! Last Line: Insatiable, I rant: my portion's too small: suffering hand to mouth Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FIRST REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS AN OMEN, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: The gray, the blank Last Line: Them. I do not know their names Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FOURTH REMOVE: IN WHICH WHAT HOLDS GIVES WAY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I'm a good prisoner Last Line: To redeem or fetch me now Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives GOTHIC ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I expect everything bottomless Last Line: Let the shutters bang Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives GRETEL: A CASE STUDY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I'm all right in a small place %as long as I can turn around Last Line: No, not that %listen harder Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives HER SISTERS AGREE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: We called her kite, a bird of prey Last Line: We longed to believe %were protests Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives HIS BAG OF TRICKS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the playing cards' Last Line: He's almost got now %his white rabbit Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives INTERVIEW WITH ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: How did you fall? Last Line: Do you have any advice for the other girls? %I suppose Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives INTO CAPTIVITY, by ALEXANDER BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair maiden, with the meek blue eyes Last Line: The longer that it doth endure. Subject(s): Women - Captives KIM'S STORY, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: One hundred and sixteen blew up %above the andaman sea. The bomb Last Line: With a pearl, touching up my mouth, %inventing my perfections Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Danger; Prisons And Prisoners; Terrorism; Women - Captives LAKE BOTTOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Surely someone pouts there Last Line: The grasses that rush the shore Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives LESSONS IN THE INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Not flame but %red in the trees and burning Last Line: My once round mouth an echo, hardened Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives LISTENING ROOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Snap and gleam, buck teeth Last Line: Its dark legs, its fierce and eager grin Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MAGICIAN AS A BOY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Good with his hands and fond Last Line: Would want him now tender Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MAGICIAN EXPLAINS HOW, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Think of corsages saved Last Line: Remember her lovely neck %and where you put her Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MESMERIST, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Enough to watch one gloved hand, white Last Line: Which veins are roads and how far back? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives METHOD, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I use a little brush Last Line: At last, this plumage Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MOCKINGBIRD PIE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Measure the slick of their voices Last Line: And think they're you Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MY HEART BEATS IN WILD RAPTURE FOR YOU: COME PREPARED TO STAY FOREVER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Like explorers following a trade route Last Line: What china blue eyes you have Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives NATURE EXHIBIT, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: In the museum of drawers Last Line: Or want of such attention Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ONE THING OR ANOTHER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Behind the sky: another, bluer Last Line: Scars, musical in water Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives PARTS OF A FLOWER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: A small village Last Line: The tiny pinup sun Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives PLANETARIUM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Gibbons moon, night clicks Last Line: My hair at last come loose Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives PRIVATE SHOWING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I lock his hat in its tall box Last Line: Then give to him, shining Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives RAISED IN THE DARK, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What wood can do - what curves! Last Line: I like to think I've come this far Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives REALITY TRICK, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Keep is the room I know Last Line: To hush! The thrill %and quiet after Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ROSE DOLORES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moan of rose dolores, she made Last Line: "I know whose kiss was in the windo jailer, set me free!" Subject(s): Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Women - Captives; Sorrow; Sadness SECOND REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS AFFLICTION, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I study weather: %fingertip, storm Last Line: And sometimes with nothing but frowns Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SHEEP AND FODDER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Here's a prayer from a spry old tit Last Line: We were better than none Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives SHORT HISTORY OF ANXIETY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Consider dresses: the shapes Last Line: So, what is your particular purpose? %what is your urgent need? Subject(s): Anxiety; Frontier And Pioneer Life; History; Women - Captives SIXTH REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS CONCLUSION, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Listen, providence: %deliver me Last Line: (are there wounds? I cannot say Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SORCERESS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Where are my affections Last Line: Now I'm a dull myth Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SPOILED ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: O pout! %o fuss and bother Last Line: I do not arch or shiver Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SUFFRAGE, 1917: IMPRISONED FOR OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I could not sleep thinking of the girl Last Line: Cell by cell, line by line, the voiceless and the free Subject(s): Fights; Labor Unions; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Strikes; Women - Captives THE WOMAN IN MY ARMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As the soft white down of the wild duck's wing Last Line: As tribute to womanhood's worth. Subject(s): Women; Women - Captives THIRD REMOVE: IN WHICH ATTEMPTS ARE MADE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Attic attic. %every room is a high perch Last Line: There is no applause, no good reason Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives THOROUGHLY MODERN ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I've shed my petticoats, I've unbuckled Last Line: Girl, this defunct alice Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives TROMPE POEIL IN WINTER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Everything white, the lake's cheek, turns Last Line: Beyond the moon and past the frigid stars Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives WATCH BOOK, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I was beautiful when it was summer Last Line: Cutting capers. It is eight o'clock. Time for bed. %that is all, is all Subject(s): Courthouses; Guard Duty; Kidnapping; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives WHEN I WAS AN EGGSHELL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: The garden earth too hard to dig Last Line: And watched me eat from a bowl on the floor Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Justice; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives WOMAN LOCKED IN A MEMORIAL MUSEUM, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her lips remain sealed as the walled south face Last Line: Comes finally to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Women - Captives |
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