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Subject: AIR TRAVEL Matches Found: 133 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A STORY FOR ROSE ON THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT TO BOSTON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Until tonight they were separate specialties Subject(s): Air Travel; Theology AERIAL VIEW, by ALEXANDRA GRILIKHES Poem Source First Line: The island spreads itself out Last Line: In the sun of late afternoon, fog at night Subject(s): Air Travel; Islands AIR TRAVEL IN ARABIA, by CHARLES+(2) JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Then petra flashed by in a wink Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabia AIRBORNE, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: In the racetrack parking lot, just a few spaces down from 'the tent Last Line: Or the whistles or the screaming engines Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Air Travel; Balloons; Tourists AIRPLANE IN STORMY PASS, by CORNELIA DODDS Poem Text First Line: The wind is tearing through the pass tonight Last Line: The guiding light of christ will never fail. Subject(s): Air Travel; Faith; Belief; Creed AIRPORT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Palace of unreality, where the place Subject(s): Air Travel AIRPORT, EVENING, by JESSIE YOUNG NORTON Poem Text First Line: The looms of twilight weave across the west Last Line: We find it hard to travel roads of clay! Subject(s): Air Travel AT LEAST THAT ABANDON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I watch at the long window Subject(s): Air Travel AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the terminal: the light Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake. Subject(s): Air Travel; Language; Words; Vocabulary AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the terminal: the light Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake Subject(s): Air Travel; Language AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT AN AIR-STATION, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delay, well, travellers must expect Last Line: So much on this assumption. Now it's failed Subject(s): Air Travel AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT AN AIR-STATION, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delay, well, travellers must expect Last Line: Begins to ebb outside, by fear; I set %so much on this assumption. Now it's failed Subject(s): Air Travel BALANCE, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the arctic landscape from above Subject(s): Air Travel; Landscape BIG-LITTLE TOWN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Next time you ride to the airport Last Line: So much, learned so much, done %so much for others? Rejoice. Subject(s): Air Travel; Commuters; Nome, Alaska; Towns; Travel BUSINESS CLASS, by RICHARD COLE Poem Source First Line: The flight attendants maneuver their way Last Line: A life or a living. Tell me what it all %doesn't count Subject(s): Air Travel COCKPIT IN THE CLOUDS, by DICK DORRANCE Poem Source First Line: Two thousand feet beneath our wheels Last Line: Down there, we're just another noise Subject(s): Air Travel COMING IN AT KENNEDY, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: We are circling, circling Last Line: Slamming concrete, we become one tapestry Subject(s): Air Travel CONNECTING FLIGHT, by JOSHUA WEINER Poem Source First Line: Late to my gate, still Last Line: Locked on leather handles %still moist from those hands... Subject(s): Air Travel CROSSING THE ATLANTIC BY PLANE, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST Poem Source First Line: The man-made wonder soared Last Line: And which named the more awesome - %the waters, the clouds, or the plane? Subject(s): Air Travel; Atlantic Ocean CUSTOMS, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: A small airport. A plane Last Line: The grass growing under his feet Subject(s): Air Travel DELTA FLIGHT 659, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm writing this on a plane, sean penn, Subject(s): Penn, Sean; Air Travel; Iraq War DEPARTURES, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: How many thousands of years ago it left (or tried to leave; Last Line: You protest, squinting at your own face. - but it is Subject(s): Air Travel; Dinosaurs; Fossils DEPLANING, & GETTING LEARNT, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Shaving lotion fresh Last Line: Airport in the universe Subject(s): West (u.s.); Air Travel; Southwest; Pacific States DREAMS OF FLIGHT, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: It started with the cardboard wings my brother built, wings with Last Line: Studying the pure gliding principle Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Dreams; Flight EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh dear, / the plane is so small the baggage Subject(s): Air Travel EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh dear, %the plane is so small the baggage Last Line: Us like an afterbirth Subject(s): Air Travel FIRST FLIGHT, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY Poem Source First Line: Here is the perfect vision: in the dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of Subject(s): Air Travel FIRST NIGHT-FLIGHT, by MARGARET BODEN Poem Text First Line: Space inconceivable Last Line: Gaily, to die. Subject(s): Air Travel FLIGHT, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the half-dark cabin of air lanka flight 5 Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Air Travel; Ceylon FLIGHT OUT, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Buckling yourself into your aisle seat Last Line: And at last your own aircraft begins to roll Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Nome, Alaska FLIGHT PLAN, by JANE MERCHANT Poem Source First Line: Of all the ways of traveling Subject(s): Air Travel; Machinery And Machinists FLIGHT TO LIMBO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line didn't move, though there were not Last Line: That some secrets are hidden from health Subject(s): Air Travel FLIGHT TO LIMBO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line didn't move, though there were not Last Line: While ill-paid wraiths mopped circles of night %into the motionless floor Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING AT NIGHT, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING AT NIGHT, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations Last Line: All night, the cities, like shimmering novas, %tug with bright streets at lonely lights like this Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING FRIENDLY SKIES, by TURNER CASSITY Poem Source First Line: Our left and right show red and green: mute phonics Last Line: Her reading light. I? I fall in between Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING HOME, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down milk-bright colonnades Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING HOME FROM UTAH, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forests are branches of a tree lying down Last Line: A leaf within a wilderness of worlds Subject(s): Air Travel FOR D., by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The plane whumps down through rainclouds, streaks Subject(s): Absence; Air Travel; Separation; Isolation FREQUENT FLIER II, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How delicious, to step into this new skin! Last Line: His wife in chagall's the kiss! Subject(s): Air Travel; Marriage FROM ABOVE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pink-white acres of overcast Subject(s): Air Travel FULL DAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pilot on the plane says Subject(s): Air Travel; Progress GATE A-4, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering around the albuquerque airport terminal, after learning Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabic Language; United States; America GOING TO CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 22,000 feet over hazed square vegetable planet floor Last Line: By man poet's eyes astounded in the fire haze, / carbon gas aghast Subject(s): United States; Air Travel; America GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america Last Line: Age after age, the uninstructing dead Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States HEADING FOR NANDI, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of honolulu Last Line: Or would be, but for me Subject(s): Air Travel HEADING FOR NANDI, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of honolulu Last Line: Or would be, but for me Subject(s): Air Travel HOLDING PATTERN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intermittent wet under Last Line: Between your knees Subject(s): Air Travel HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 1. HIS SMILE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over peoria we lost the sun Last Line: When I was a boy I had a wart on the fight finger Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 1. HIS SMILE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over peoria we lost the sun Last Line: When I was a boy I had a wart on the right forefinger Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 2. THE WART, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 38,000 feet you had better Last Line: At 38,000 feet that is hard to remember Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 2. THE WART, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 38,000 feet you had better Last Line: At 38,000 feet that is hard to remember Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 3. THE SPIDER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider has more eyes than I have money Last Line: All you have to do it not argue Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 3. THE SPIDER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider has more eyes than I have money Last Line: All you have to do is not argue Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 4. ONE DRUNK ALLEGORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not argue, unless, that is, you are the kind Last Line: To my right, far over kentucky, the stars are shining Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 4. ONE DRUNK ALLEGORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not argue, unless, that is, you are the kind Last Line: To my right, far over kentucky, the stars are shining Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 5. MULTIPLICATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the christmas tree at rockefeller center were Last Line: In a room, somewhere, a telephone keeps ringing Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 5. MULTIPLICATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the christmas tree at rockefeller center were Last Line: In a room, somewhere, a telephone keeps ringing Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 6. WIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind comes off the sound, smelling Last Line: The wind gouges its knuckles into my eye. No wonder there are tears Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 6. WIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind comes off the sound, smelling Last Line: The wind gouges its knuckles into my eye. No wonder there are tears Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 7. DOES THE WILD ROSE?, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you reach home tonight you will see Last Line: Is it merely a delusion that they seem about to smile? Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 7. DOES THE WILD ROSE?, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you reach home tonight you will see Last Line: Is it merely a delusion that they seem about to smile? Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) I CAN TELL YOU, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: I can tell you about airplanes Last Line: To walk away alive Subject(s): Advice; Air Travel I LOVE TO FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I am making phone calls to dozens of airlines Last Line: And I love to fly Subject(s): Air Travel IN AN AIRPLANE, by YAN YI Poem Source First Line: Ascending, I left noisy earth behind Last Line: Surpassing what's in the sky, more beautiful than dreams Subject(s): Air Travel IN AN AIRPLANE, by YAN YI Poem Source First Line: Ascending, I leave noisy earth behind Last Line: Surpassing what's in the sky, more beautiful than dreams Subject(s): Air Travel IN AN AIRPLANE I'M SUPPOSED TO, by SARAH KIRSCH Poem Source Last Line: I climb out there Subject(s): Air Travel ISLAND CITIES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands Last Line: Dewdrops of longing, jewels boxed in these blocks Subject(s): Air Travel ISLAND CITIES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands Last Line: Dewdrops of longing, jewels, boxed in these blocks Subject(s): Air Travel KEY WEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I feel sad, I thank god I don't have tiny lizards crawling under my Last Line: The shivering of this airplane's unpredictable wing Subject(s): Air Travel; Key West, Florida KRAL MAJALES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism KRAL MAJALES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses Last Line: Thus I have written this poem on a jet seat in mid heaven Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism LAMENT OF PROFESSOR TURBOJET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why vainly do I hither fly Last Line: But does it matter what I say? Subject(s): Air Travel LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip Last Line: Unpreaching stony water. Whumppf; we're down Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip Last Line: The world's fair globe, a toy. Shea stadium. %upreaching stony water. Whumpff: we're down Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City LINES TO MISS F., by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "forbear, sweet girl; your scheme forego" Last Line: But keep their sister angel there Subject(s): Air Travel;angels;balloons;beauty;faces;women LONDON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic Last Line: & took a 9:06 train up to cambridge Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Air Travel; London LONDON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Air Travel; London LUNARDI'S SECOND FLIGHT FROM GLASGOW DESCRIBED, by ROBERT GALLOWAY Poem Source First Line: The hardy seaman, when ashore Last Line: And then he's sure to get his pakes, when on his bum Subject(s): Air Travel; Glasgow, Scotland MAN'S PLANS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat beside me by the fire, and chattered Last Line: "abroad,"" and didn't need to take his wad." Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Urban Life MASTER OF NONE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plastic safety card Subject(s): Air Travel; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MATCHMAKER IN FLIGHT, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Until I saw the stewardess's legs Last Line: The fuel is low, you've got to land %on solid ground. That's all your fare is worth Subject(s): Air Travel MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over Last Line: I am one small woman in a great space, %temporarily free andclear. %I am by myself, climbing into my Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women NEAR THE AIRPORT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleek, keen, so now - superbo jets that go Subject(s): Air Travel NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet fish tinned in the innocence of sleep Last Line: Dim swimmers borne toward the touchdowb spank Subject(s): Air Travel NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet fish tinned in the innocence of sleep Last Line: Dim swimmers borne toward the touchdown spank Subject(s): Air Travel ODE TO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, by JOSHUA BECKMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melbourne, perth, darwin, townsville, / belem, durban, lima, xai-xai planes Last Line: Do please please circle Alternate Author Name(s): Beckman, Joshua Saul Subject(s): Air Travel ODE TO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, by JOSHUA BECKMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melbourne, perth, darwin, townsville, %belem, durban, lima, xai-xai planes Last Line: Tiny planes please circle oh tiny planes %do please please circle Alternate Author Name(s): Beckman, Joshua Saul Subject(s): Air Travel ON SEEING MY BIRTHPLACE FROM A JET AIRCRAFT, by JOHN SLEIGH PUDNEY Poem Source First Line: The nursery boast Last Line: Imagine that your cap's on back to front Subject(s): Air Travel; Children ON THE 747, by MALENA MORLING Poem Source First Line: As soon as I sat down Last Line: Returning to what she said %she could not imagine Subject(s): Air Travel; Children ON THE AISLE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye to maui - to orchids on our plates Last Line: And he runs for it Subject(s): Air Travel; Farewell; Parting ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS: 97, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These days, one must fly - but where to? Last Line: Transformed in the end into poppies Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Air Travel ORGASM OVER MT. ARARAT, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: I don't suppose our stars are crossed Last Line: We fly. Bumper to bumper. Backseat to the sky Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Sex; Superman OUR GROUND TIME HERE WILL BE BRIEF, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue landing lights make Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Air Travel PARTITIONS: THE LOT OF BEING COMMON TO ALL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the windowless west wall Subject(s): Air Travel; Women POWER OF DREAMS, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: You probably don't know this Last Line: Destinations Subject(s): Air Travel; Dreams PREPOSITIONS OF JET TRAVEL, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: In a dawn so clear Last Line: From my left eye %it is fifty below Subject(s): Air Travel READING MOBY-DICK AT 30,000 FEET, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this height, kansas / is just a concept Last Line: Where are we going now? Subject(s): Air Travel READING MOBY-DICK AT 30,000 FEET, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this height, kansas %is just a concept Last Line: Oh captain, captain! %where are we going now? Subject(s): Air Travel SALT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one woman has been sobbing Subject(s): Air Travel; Family Life; Love - Loss Of; Relatives SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities; Urban Life SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Last Line: As if these were ruins, as if we were ghosts Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities SHUTTLE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting airborne on the %new york-to-boston shuttle Last Line: And the shuttle is always crowded Subject(s): Air Travel; Capp, Al (1909-1979); Cartoons And Cartoonists SMALL PLANES NEAR NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: For fifty years Last Line: Who boards that plane %will never return Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Eskimos; Loss; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska SONGLINE OF DAWN, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are ascending through the dawn Subject(s): Air Travel; Religion; Ancestors & Ancestry; Theology SONIC BOOM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the living room Last Line: I shant look up to see it drop Subject(s): Air Travel SONIC BOOM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the living room Last Line: And if it does, with one more pop, %I shan't look up to see it drop Subject(s): Air Travel SPIDERWEBS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man sitting next to me on the airplane pulled our Subject(s): Air Travel; Computers; Eccentrics & Eccentricites TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first the fences are racing under. Horses and men Last Line: That later you remember was your own Subject(s): Air Travel TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first the fences are racing under. Horses and men Last Line: That later you remember was your own Subject(s): Air Travel TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick Last Line: Vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Journeys; Trips TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick Last Line: Throbs within them, under cashmere and cambric: %'vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel THAT OTHER WORLD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as the plane was ready to Last Line: I went on alone %back ot my own Subject(s): Air Travel THE AIR MAIL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No stunting's allowed in the service Last Line: We're carrying uncle sam's mail! Subject(s): Air Travel; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States; America THE STEPHENSON OF THE AIR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where lives he? - that inventive one Last Line: Has learned to struggle and to win! Subject(s): Air Travel; Inventions And Inventors; Stephenson, George (1781-1848) THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you danced from midnight Last Line: With their lucifer kicking Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Air Travel THIN AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By holding one's head stock-still and measuring Last Line: Murderously fast. Oh, we would die, %squashed snails, were the world one shade more solid Subject(s): Air Travel THOUGHTS AT THIRTY-THOUSAND FEET, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The penny holds out its little promise Last Line: So keep the whole mess from exploding Subject(s): Air Travel THREE PERFECT DAYS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle seat of an airplane, Subject(s): Air Travel; Wishes TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to you o moon Last Line: Lo! The quiet moon in the sky—yet to a child it has cold its secret. Subject(s): Air Travel; Astronomy & Astronomers; Moon; Science; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Scientists; Opera Glasses TRAVELING MAN, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Where were you born? %I was born in puerto rico Last Line: Charter and I have many wonderful holidays. Just the two of us Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Passports; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TRINIDAD, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: This I have often been Last Line: In which the three of us will meet %in the form %of one Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Tourists; Travel; Trinidad And Tobago UTTAR PRADESH, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dozing over uttar pradesh Subject(s): Air Travel UTTAR PRADESH, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dozing over uttar pradesh Last Line: Ah, yes, and a most memorable hasenpfeffer Subject(s): Air Travel VIEW FROM A PLANE TO GUATEMALA, by IRENE BARNARD Poem Source First Line: I look out the window of the plane Last Line: I begin to understand Subject(s): Air Travel; Guatemala VIEWS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fly all the time, and still I'm afraid to fly Subject(s): Air Travel; Fear WAITING FOR MY WIFE'S COMMUTER FLIGHT, 45 MINUTES LATE, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: When a convulsive boom shakes Last Line: Like a top. A screw needed tightening, %chuck said. Such a little thing Subject(s): Air Travel; Airplane Accidents; Marriage; Waiting WE DEFINITIONS, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Air Travel WHEN I LOVE YOU, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I get on the plane, alone again Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation WHERE THE WHITE BIRD FLIES, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The white bird fallen? The white bird lost? Last Line: Only heroes follow where the white bird flies. Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Sky; Wings YOU WERE LOCKED IN AN AIRPLACE, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source Last Line: Or you put one letter in front of another %like an excuse. %so long Subject(s): Air Travel |
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