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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOTANICAL TROPE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elliptical regrets figure the nights Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Children; Death - Babies A POEM ABOUT GEORGE DOTY IN THE DEATH HOUSE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lured by the wall, and drawn Last Line: Crumbled his pleading kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death ACCIDENT, by GEORGE+(3) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Driving the old wagon Last Line: And how I will pay for all this Subject(s): Automobile Accidents ACCIDENT, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are the cars slowing up? Last Line: It's either pointing at the sky %or falling off an edge into space Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Traffic AGAINST CONSOLATION, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lecturer is talking Last Line: Beautifully innocent of any meaning Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death; Reality; Weil, Simone (1909-1943) ALONE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One evening in february I came near to dying here Last Line: Everyone is queuing at everyone's door %many %one Subject(s): Automobile Accidents APRIL, SEATTLE TO MISSOULA, by CARMEN GERMAIN Poem Source First Line: When the doe stepped out Last Line: And said, wait for me Subject(s): Automobile Accidents AUTO WRECK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quick soft silver bell beating, beating Subject(s): Automobile Accidents AUTO WRECK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quick soft silver bell beating, beating Last Line: And spatters all we knew of denouement %across the expedient and wicked stones Subject(s): Automobile Accidents BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 3. AMPUTATION, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: Happened because he wanted to move forward Last Line: Or else it was the bone that held us both %(and no one) Subject(s): Amputees; Automobile Accidents CALM, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: The sun-bleached cornfield stretches toward the horizon, and Last Line: Else in the distance, it became part of the blurred horizon Subject(s): Automobile Accidents CASUALTY REPORT, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car coming on, then crossing the divide Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Guilt; Memory CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 2, by HUGH HENNEDY Poem Source First Line: It took a while but then Last Line: He'd found himself reliving %after crossing the bridge Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Bridges CRUSHED FENDER, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It happened in milan one summer night Last Line: My face averted to conceal my shame. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Religion; Theology DRIVING LESSONS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Before our town dump became first a landfill then a waste transfer Last Line: Pine tree, my glasses fly off my face and manny utters the one word %he's never said in front of me Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Driving And Drivers; Learning; Teenagers DROPPING THE NAMES, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alps, island, jet, crest, logo - barnum's own Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Automobile Accidents; Male-female Relations ELEGY 1, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fell from the bouncing tailgate to roll in traffic Last Line: Till all my tears had whispered 'make me whole' Subject(s): Automobile Accidents ELEGY 3. CAVALCANTE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was cavalcante,' my mother said, 'killed you father' Last Line: I stood in the wreck of the death that had been my blood Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Fathers FOR H., DEAD IN A CAR AT THIRTY-EIGHT, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I blessed every little thing in the world Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Mortality HER CHERRY-TREE ABLOOM, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: I mind the jauntin'-cars a jinglin' Last Line: Roun' my lone, wee room! Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cherry Trees; Driving & Drivers; Memory IRONING, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: The pattern flows. Leaves and flowers blend, a river spinning over the Last Line: -gle pink and blue. Green. I am ironing her blouse. Only this motion is %left Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Blood; Hospitals; Mothers And Daughters MANITOWOC, by CAROLYN AHRENS Poem Source First Line: I did what my father told me to do Last Line: I was going, asked %if I wanted the meat Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Animals; Deer MICHEL'S WINE, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter again and we want Last Line: This moment in my glass Subject(s): Wine; Automobile Accidents MOONLIGHT: CHICKENS ON THE ROAD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Called out of dream by the pitch and screech Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Chickens; Grief; Ozarks (mountains); Sorrow; Sadness OBITUARY, by KENNETH FEARING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take him away, he's as dead as they die Subject(s): Automobile Accidents OBITUARY, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take him away, he's as dead as they die Last Line: They lived with him, in the same old world. And they're good men, too Subject(s): Automobile Accidents ON AN ACURA INTEGRA, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Please think of this as not merely a piece Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life PETROL, by KATHLEEN JAMIE Poem Source First Line: Sketch in the background: pre-dawn Last Line: As figures etched in petrol Subject(s): Automobile Accidents POEMS OF THIS SIZE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: In poems of this size, so little Last Line: Most closely, at how quick and full an end can be Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Children; Mortality PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAR, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it happened Last Line: Was quiet, in need of no other Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Geese PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAT, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it Subject(s): Death - Animals; Automobile Accidents; Storms RACER'S WIDOW, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elements have merged into solicitude Last Line: As he lies draining there. And see %how even he did not get to keep that lovely body Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Automobile Racing; Widows And Widowers ROAD RONDEL, by NICOLE SARROCCO Poem Source First Line: Nothing quite like the force of a near-fatal car crash Last Line: To cement a relationship, that other force, the one that takes life away Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Life; Roads ROADBLOCK, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call me the bee buzzing in the museum. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents SMALL FROGS KILLED ON THE HIGHWAY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, I would leap too Last Line: Of the moon, they can't see, / not yet Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Frogs; Automobile Accidents SOLITUDE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right here I was nearly killed one night in february Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right here I was nearly killed one night in february Last Line: Millions. %one Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Solitude SOME OTHER TIME, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told him we our game would play Last Line: Some other time that never came. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Play; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Last Line: The siskiyou mountains divide up ahead, %waiting to swallow us whole Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women SUMMER MORNING, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: I saw a person get hit in traffic today Last Line: Clearing throats, making %any kind of noise Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Death; Noises; Streets; Traffic THE CURVE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Missed / due to alcohol it was Last Line: On the other side of the ditch Subject(s): Automobile Accidents THE WRECK ON THE A-222 IN RAVENSBOURNE VALLEY, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where the car hit him, fireweed sprang with Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death; Youth; Dead, The THIRD STREET, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: A sign of my own past's big wreck Last Line: Then raise a cigarette butt %to her shadowy lips Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cold; Death; Nome, Alaska TO MY ACADEMIC FRIENDS WHO SIT TIGHT ON THEIR DOCTORAL THESE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who will drive forward Last Line: Again and again with fresh wares Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Streets; Traffic TO THE DOE LAST SEEN RUNNING UP THE SOUTH EXIT RAMP TOWARD WAL-MART, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Through rearview mirrors %you promise her Last Line: Be the whisper that tells her %wait steady now go run Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Driving And Drivers; Roads TORN-UP ROAD, by RICHARD SIKEN Poem Source First Line: There is no way to make this story interesting Last Line: And velocity, not all of us bracing ourselves for impact Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Love WRECK, by GAIL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: That old man was too far gone Last Line: Of a five year old adds one shoe %to greater losses Subject(s): Automobile Accidents |
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