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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ANTIN, DAVID Matches Found: 93 Antin, David Poet's Biography 21 poems available by this author 6TH SEPARATION MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: It appears whole ALLEGORY Poem Text First Line: That it was an allegory of his life is incontestable CONSTRUCTIONS AND DISCOVERIES First Line: Morning and the jib of a crane CURRENCY OF THE COUNTRY First Line: I only came in for this particular occasion Last Line: Retired with a headache DEFINITIONS FOR MANDY, SELS. First Line: Loss is an uintentional decline DETERMINATION SUSPENSION DIVERSION DIGRESSION DESTRUCTION First Line: 1. Determination %when you say that someone is determined its not immediately Last Line: And she doesnt say another word DIALOGUE First Line: Ill explain something about this piece Last Line: I like shows like that ENDANGERED NOUNS First Line: The other day I looked out of the window and saw a Last Line: And I'm not sure how long she was prepared to wait Subject(s): Language GAMBLING First Line: Im really glad it was the music department that invited me Last Line: Into the hospital - they operated - and now hes dead HOW LONG IS THE PRESENT First Line: Since I knew that I was coming to a bookfair I brought along a book Last Line: But then I woke up and found it wasn't true LIST OF THE DELUSIONS OF THE INSANE WHAT THEY ARE AFRAID First Line: The police %being poisoned Last Line: That they have committed suicide of the soul NOISE OF TIME First Line: I suppose most people know that when I come to a place I have Last Line: Their attempt to recuperate losses from the noise of time PASSENGERS First Line: Who are they Last Line: A window an orange a shadow of an odor PRIVATE OCCASION IN A PUBLIC PLACE First Line: I consider myself a poet but im not reading poetry Last Line: Any poet - or as much as you can believe your wife - or your child - or yourself RADICAL COHERENCY First Line: Don wellman wrote asking me if I would write REAL ESTATE First Line: While I believe that what im doing depends essentially upon the event here Last Line: Has been trying to protect from her all of this time THE MARCHERS Poem Text First Line: By walking together THE SECOND HUNDRED: FOR SID LUFT Poem Text First Line: There are two sides to every story and to abbreviate one side is to diminish a side of a TUNING First Line: And you probably have no very good idea of what im going to talk about Last Line: And I took the train back to new york VALUE OF THE REAL THING First Line: I suppose its appropriate for me to talk here in front of these paintings Last Line: I was certain she had driven those horses WHO LISTENING OUT THERE First Line: This is not really the first time ive done a radio piece Last Line: And she probably listening to this progam right now Constantine, David 72 poems available by this author ADAM CONFESSES AN INFIDELITY TO EVE First Line: I dreamed you were stolen from my left side ANEMONES First Line: Back here the anemones had died in my big room Last Line: That is how I found the anemones when I came back APHASIA First Line: He never said much. Less and less in there Last Line: Seely the two in silence like before they knew their names ASHES AND ROSES First Line: She is size 10 again like the girl under her banns Last Line: To your empty house. He is more there than here BIRDSONG First Line: Most are sleeping, some CATACOMBS, PARIS First Line: Collecting the photos at the counter next to where Last Line: One of his several million sperm went home CHRIST TO LAZARUS First Line: They faltered when we came there and I knew very well CLARE LEAVES HIGH BEACH First Line: Others also were muttering and went Last Line: And must crawl after now on hands and knees Subject(s): Depression, Mental COMMON AND PARTICULAR First Line: I like these men and women who have to do with death Last Line: It is common. You are particular CREM First Line: This is a ragged place. Nothing fits Last Line: Lift up your eyes to the hills and the empty sky DARK ROOM First Line: Black-out and a red light. Safe light Last Line: I'll dip and bath to life again my lives DEAR READER First Line: His first morning, theirs together the first Last Line: As far as the hills that lay apart, shining DOMINION First Line: Dear god, if you can imagine us, man Last Line: A dodo, for example, a booby, a diplodocus DRAMATIS PERSONAE: 1. CHORUS First Line: Not much of a role, on the sidelines Last Line: And 'when in doubt, do nowt' DRAMATIS PERSONAE: 2. SERVANT First Line: What happened any fool could see it would Last Line: Has made me mad. Some god, my arse DRAMATIS PERSONAE: 3. MESSENGER First Line: Spare a thought for me. I brought the news Last Line: I have it all by heart still, every line DRUNK LOCKED IN MUSIC ROOM WRECKS GRAND First Line: The five holes of his sometime face had run Last Line: Our brass was in his hand. He wanted out ELDON HOLE First Line: They fastened a poor man here on a rope's end ENCOURAGEMENTS First Line: One devoted lunatic, I forget who Last Line: The smile. The 'how about this?' and gone ENDANGERED SPECIES First Line: No wonder we love the whales. Do they not carry Last Line: Down, down, into an infinite pacific Subject(s): Environment FIELDS First Line: On cruthers, seaward abandoned %so long drenched with salt Last Line: Sols, avalanches, paper whites %mostly for funerals FINE SOIL First Line: I've come looking for that unwarlike man Last Line: Ash whose every mote ws body once FULMARS First Line: I go there most days for a look at mastery Last Line: Every atom hearkening %I could summon them up GIRLS IN THE EAST First Line: These girls in their bits of bright skirt Last Line: The dead in this place will have to bury themselves GORSE First Line: Keeps with its dead Last Line: Aquarius and pisces %amazed GRIEF COMING OUT First Line: I heard this from the mother of my dead friend Last Line: This strange effusion happen to a statue HALLOWE'EN First Line: Small cluster of our dead Last Line: And hooks the heart %fast HOIST First Line: The hoist was strange. Going up, the nurse said Last Line: Going down, and settled him in the chair and wheeled him off HOLDERLIN First Line: Why? Because after you, what you had said Last Line: Emptily, like grief, like vain revolt HOUSE First Line: You won't forget the house Last Line: That was surely the house %except for her and me' HOUSE CLEARANCE First Line: When you were gone, widow in a childless house Last Line: Now you are gone, was the house haunted? Yes, by love IMMORTALS OF LANDEVENNEC First Line: Ripe with years and over-ripe Last Line: And down their margins sprouted lines %on lovers wanting bed J First Line: J has been studying the tyranny Last Line: Who thinks he knows JAZZ ON THE CHARLES BRIDGE First Line: Go on, go on, I believe you, I believe Last Line: And death, their eyes in one another, laughing LAZARUS TO CHRIST First Line: You are forgetting, I was indeed dead LEGGER First Line: Casting him off from the sympathetic horses Last Line: Grinning with horror, rictus of the bad old days LLANDUDNO TOWN BAND First Line: High water behind them the town band Last Line: It's cold, the wheelchairs speed away LOCAL HISTORIAN First Line: Come in for a reference he lay down MAN AND WIFE First Line: He wakes like someone shouted for, she lies Last Line: Against house and home he will side with the wind MARY MAGDALENE AND THE SUN First Line: Hugging her breasts, waiting in a hard garden Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MEL First Line: Mel wants to be an actress Last Line: One saturday afternoon, with lidless eyes MISTRESS First Line: Women whose hands know the feel of a baby's head Last Line: Then he closed my hands into a fist and held them shut Subject(s): Love MONOLOGUE OR THE FIVE LOST GERICAULTS First Line: Commander olleranshaw at number 33, %with him it's dogshit, he's out every day Last Line: Sweat, scratch and itch,' he said, 'until I'm dead' MOSAICS IN THE IMPERIAL PALACE First Line: Maximianus with eyes of marble oversees Last Line: For man the maker to record that it was so MYNYDD MAWR First Line: All night sopping up rain NEW YEAR BEHIND THE ASYLUM First Line: There was the noise like when the men in droves Last Line: That I should know how much love would be needed NUDE First Line: How simple it is: day knocks Last Line: And easy feeling both ON THE CLIFFS, BOSCASTLE First Line: The bulk, thin flora, hunched here like a crow Last Line: To practise, practise, practise the kiss of life ORANGERY First Line: The trees are coming in down the long aisle Last Line: And her open torch will see them through any winter PEACOCK First Line: A man's fist may be very gentle Last Line: Eyes in the dark. The man has her in his head Subject(s): Environment PITY THE DRUNKS First Line: They drank their hats and coats a week ago Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism POEM ON MY BIRTHDAY FOR IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA First Line: We have the day in common, also verses Last Line: Courage, %sister. Good courage, my white sister Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Human Rights PORTHLEVEN MAN First Line: That porthleven man keeps coming back to me Last Line: Because of your horizons, because of your western sea RED FIGURE VASE First Line: Black where he is now who drew them, lightless Last Line: Were they living they would sleep as we do %sightless, enfolded warm, on black RIDDLING THE STRATA First Line: Terra nova, so what jigged on the grille Last Line: Safely chambered in a propelling-pencil ROOM FACING CYTHERA First Line: Because she has a horror of lifts I ascended alone Last Line: Like oars they struck in time towards a certain landfall SCHOOL PARTIES IN THE MUSEUM First Line: Daily the boroughs, hopeful as a flood tide Last Line: Future present, with questions, against the kings SENATOR First Line: Sleepless, he asks for the car and an exeat Last Line: Senator, live for ever,' the girl-crone says SHABBESGOY First Line: Daylight still, a green sky. At lighting-up time Last Line: How quick and simple were your offered hands SHED First Line: I fixed a good long splinter to a gun of wood Last Line: Everything whirls in luck, the bad, the good SHOES IN THE CHARITY SHOP First Line: It can't be helped, the way our minds turn Last Line: No feet on earth after theirs would have fitted them SKYLIGHT OVER THE BATH First Line: Starlight is good and a voyeuse moon Last Line: Longship, cuttlefish, speck in the salt foam SKYLIGHT OVER THE BED First Line: The two stars in the skylight must be gemini Last Line: I'm pretty sure those two stars must be gemini SLEEPWALKER First Line: I watched her window from a vantage point Last Line: That I would quit and be gone back into hiding %before any strangers came SOMETHING FOR THE GHOSTS First Line: Here's something for the ghosts who are Last Line: Who were you and who did you think I was? STREETS First Line: Twenty-seven from waterloo street Last Line: Hellblast corner %and dead man's dump TOWN CENTRE First Line: Some drunks upset me, it's the way they sit Last Line: That wants filling in, and what with? TWO-SEATER PRIVY OVER A STREAM First Line: All work, hitting at the buckled hills Last Line: Like boiling quartz) and downstream not their worry Subject(s): Rivers VISITING First Line: In broad daylight going back again Last Line: As negatives. But I, %thinnest letter, is an infinity WASPS First Line: The apples on the tree are full of wasps Last Line: I bless my life: that so much wants in Subject(s): Environment WATCHING FOR DOLPHINS First Line: In the summer months on every crossing to piraeus Subject(s): Travel WHAT WE REMINDED YOU OF YOU ARE ALREADY FORGETTING Last Line: In your sleepless nights we will help you to let go Subject(s): Clouds; Riddles |
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