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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: YESENIN, SERGEI (1895-1925) Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LETTERS TO YESENIN: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would surely be known for years after as the day I shot Last Line: Be trailed, got in my car and drove to new york nonstop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 11; TO DIANE W., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No tranquil pills this year wanting to live peeled as they Last Line: From want of her, cut off well past our prime. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 12, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was proud at four that my father called me little turd of misery Last Line: And builds a noose. It works too well. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Excrement; Memory; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 13, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All of those little five-dollar-a-week rooms smelling thick of Last Line: Blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 14, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine being a dog and never knowing what you're doing. You're Last Line: Groin hopes. You pray not to see her again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Desire; Dogs; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 15, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of water. The most involved play. She wonders if she Last Line: It's over. But wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Longing; Relationships; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 16, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today we've moved back to the granary again and I've anointed Last Line: Could be made a dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 17, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind my back I have returned to life with much more surprise Last Line: Pier. You might want her even in your ghostly form. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poverty; Travel; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Journeys; Trips LETTERS TO YESENIN: 18, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus the poet is a beached gypsy, the first porpoise to whom it Last Line: Smell of bacon. Wise souls move through the dark only one step at a time. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Songs LETTERS TO YESENIN: 19, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth Last Line: Shedding tunics in my path, all dead friends come to life again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Miracles; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 1; TO D.G., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This matted and glossy photo of yesenin Last Line: Years before the articulate noose. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Memory; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 20, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mushrooms helped again: walking hangdoggedly to the granary Last Line: Skips in the noose like a marlin bait. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin LETTERS TO YESENIN: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To answer some of the questions you might ask were you alive and Last Line: Like it and should I put it off for a while? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These last few notes to you have been a bit somber like biographies Last Line: His deathless lines commemorating your last leningrad night. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 23, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to bother you with some recent nonsense; a classmate dropped Last Line: Ropes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 24, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend. It rained long and hard after a hot week and when I Last Line: Getting brainy and sad, to avoid leaving this physical world. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Food & Eating; Imaginary Conversations; Sickness; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Illness LETTERS TO YESENIN: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An afterthought to my previous note; we must closely watch any self-pity Last Line: Those others. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Memory; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 26, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going in the bar last sunday night I noticed that they were having Last Line: The pasture. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 27, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I won my wings! I got all a's! We bought fresh fruit! The toilet Last Line: Before those final minutes you didn't find out something new. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 28; TO ROBERT DUNCAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O to use the word winged as in bird or victory or airplane for Last Line: Flapped your arms madly, unwinged but craving a little flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 29, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're nearing the end of this homage that often resembles a Last Line: Single green month to go from the closest to so far from death. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 2; TO ROSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't have any medals. I feel their lack Last Line: Steam pipes running along the ceiling. The rope. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Regret; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to feel exalted so I picked up Last Line: Stop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Martyrs; Regret; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last and I'm shrinking from the coldness of your spirit: that Last Line: With faithfully until they cast you out. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Despair; Imaginary Conversations; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am four years older than you but scarcely an unwobbling Last Line: I fed my dying dog a pound of beef and buried her happy in the barnyard. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Desire; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 5, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lustra. Officially the cold comes from manitoba Last Line: With endless thirst. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Wine; Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 6, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fruit and butter. She smelled like the skin of an apple Last Line: All must pass as a monk's tale, a future lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Sex; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Wine LETTERS TO YESENIN: 7, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death thou comest when I had thee least in mind said everyman Last Line: Who turns out to be a mermaid. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Vision; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 8, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cleaned the granary dust off your photo with my shirt-sleeve Last Line: Years of seconds. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; Writing & Writers; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 9, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if I own more paper clips than I'll ever use in this Last Line: Beautiful duck and my time is free again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Poverty; Property; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Possessions POSTSCRIPT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 8:12 a.M. All of the watches in the world are being wound Last Line: Decided to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Despair; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The |
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