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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AFRICAN AMERICANS - ALABAMA Matches Found: 34 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COUNTERS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My uncle fred has a slash Last Line: It made him Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama COUNTRY GIRL, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Had this cousin that was a black Last Line: Could be mad as hell with the world Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama CRAZY, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: You'd have to be Last Line: Crazy Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama CROATAN, by CHAPMAN JAMES MILLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Addressed as mister; neither white nor red Last Line: That day the man from hartsville called him nigger. Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; Racial Equality DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Me and kesha cousins used to dance to hip-hop music Last Line: More than once heaven was closed to her Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama DEATH CHEST, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Last year, in the last field out of shorter Last Line: I always lock the bathroom doors in hotels though Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama GETTIN' OLD, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: One day I figured I'd get old Last Line: T. Fanny said, 'see?' Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama GHOST HOUSES, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Already tearing down some of the old houses Last Line: No more shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama GRANDMAMA, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My grandmama says there's no place like shorter Last Line: She just looks at the old packard and remembers Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama HIDING PLACE, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Yesterday found the old shack by line creek Last Line: To face the reality of shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama HORSES, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mr. John jacobs used to sit me on the old carousel Last Line: And I wondered if he'd ever fly again Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama INTO THE LIGHT, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: There is a picture of Last Line: The light Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama LOOKS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I stood on the curve in the road by my grandmama's Last Line: If nothing else of this town %existed Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama MISS ANNIE MORGAN, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I waved to miss annie morgan this morning Last Line: That's why I waved at miss annie Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama MISS PEARL, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: She told immigrant stories Last Line: Up in shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama NEW HOUSE, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Two years before we moved to ohio Last Line: And not going back to grandmama's house Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama NINETIES, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Had to leave the south Last Line: But would never live in %mine Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama ON THE STEPS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Had never seen a crack pipe till Last Line: All couldn't do any better Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama OTHER SIDE, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I used to stand on top of the shed in the back of my Last Line: Where I stood for a long time Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama PARTY, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Carla jackson threw me a party before I went north Last Line: I could never really come back Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama PIANO LESSONS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It's hard growing up in a family that Last Line: Then dragged me forever away from culture in shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama POLITICS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My mama's best friend in high school Last Line: Shorter being unforgiving of that kind of thing Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama PULLIN' SHORTER DOWN, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Got the letter yesterday Last Line: And now they're pullin' it all down Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama RED DIRT, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Got me some red alabama dirt I keep Last Line: Red, red dirt of alabama Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama SHORTER, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Got to shorter and saw it all Last Line: You can't Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama SIRENS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Red lights in the cold night Last Line: Never be warm again Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama SMOKING WITH T. FANNY, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: T. Fanny moved in next door to us when I was eight Last Line: Cigarettes on her birthday every year Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama VOTING, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: In conversation my grandmama calls them good-looking boys Last Line: In dresses Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WALTER, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Me and walter used to go skinny-dipping Last Line: In line creek Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WAR, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Every day after school I used to run into town to listen Last Line: Office up in birmingham Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WAR II, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My daddy had vietnam dreams Last Line: To shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WASH-A-TERIA, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Used to go to the wash-a-teria off the atlanta highway Last Line: Alabama afternoon Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WHERE YOU BEEN, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Grandmama says Last Line: The red, red dirt of alabama Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WORKING THE ROOTS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Secretly, it was said, my great-great-grandmama, who looked Last Line: Cause no family or neighbors had the nerve to touch 'em Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama |
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