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Subject: AIRPLANE ACCIDENTS Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOVE THE CITY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know our office on the 18th Last Line: True relationship Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Empire State Building, New York City AFTER THE CRASH, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: They laid out the wreckage of our disaster Last Line: There were no survivors Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Death AFTER THE PLANE CRASH, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: My second day in the hospital Last Line: I thought, and looked harder, %taking every little last thing in Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Healing; Hospitality; Miracles; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival ARCTIC SEAS, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The arctic seas %hanging from the sunset Last Line: I search for the lark which flew from my breast Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Arctic; Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Flight; Wings BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests Last Line: See the cities beneath them glitterring like the gold of the goths Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Travel; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests Last Line: Will see the cities beneath them glittering like the gold of the goths Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Death; Travel BLACK BOX, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: If the black box is the only thing that Last Line: Listen to you talk to me all night Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Boxes; Death; Love - Loss Of; Widows And Widowers BOEING CROSSING, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My head is in the clouds Last Line: Lose our heads in the clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Clouds; Disasters; Sky BRAIN BRUISED, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Like gray space, or lake confused Last Line: Ah, to be a cat, you think. %to experience, and shed, this life too Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Bruises; Dreams; Nome, Alaska CHAVEZ, by MILDRED MCNEAL SWEENEY Poem Text First Line: So hath he fallen, the endymion of the air Last Line: His spirit heed, still winged with golden prophecies. Subject(s): "airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Chavez, Jorge (""geo"") (1887-1910);" Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions CONCUSSED, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: There was no oh god, oh shit Last Line: That makes us human reentered %and found me brain-bruised survivor Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Bruises; Nome, Alaska; Survival CRASH, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the last woman off of the plane Last Line: With gravy and rice, to celebrate Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions IN THE ANCHOR TAVERN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: That next week, when I stopped in the anchor Last Line: Crashed into a hill. Walking dead man. %nome's walking dead man. There he goes' Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Life; Nome, Alaska; Survival LOCKERBIE, by WILLIAM CORBETT Poem Source First Line: Stoned on xanax Last Line: Innocents unaware %blown out of this light Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Lockerbie, Scotland LOCKERBIE, by CHARLES MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I have never understood %how zeno's famous paradox could twist Last Line: For a wind of treetops, weeds between the trees, and a space of %white rocks Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Lockerbie, Scotland; Terrorism LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: You are afraid Last Line: Will crash or glide across the sky %as if the sky knows what is written underneath its skin Subject(s): Aids (disease); Airplane Accidents; Danger; Health; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Travel MUTED GOLD, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: My father died just as my plane touched down Last Line: My father died just as my plane touched down Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Death; Memory; Tragedy; Travel NOME CELEBRITY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Two years writing, teaching Last Line: How others watched, and whispered. %I let drunks touch me for luck Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Nome, Alaska; Survival; Writing And Writers OBJECT SET IN MOTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pilots believe bad crashes Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): The Flying Dutchman (1 Subject(s): Airplane Accidents PLANE WRECK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mine was this easy. Flying Last Line: My plane wreck was this easy. %his illness and fear were not Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Fear; Flight; Friendship; Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska POST-CRASH PAPERWORK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, when asked Last Line: I answered, 'publisher %or muse, your choice' Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival TAKE OFF, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: From one dot %on the map %to the other %the airplane clocks Last Line: And fly incrementally %towards fire Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Sky; Tourists; Travel TERROR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not pinics nor pageants or the improbable Subject(s): Terror; War; Airplane Accidents; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions 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 |
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