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Subject: AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DRIVE IN THE COUNTRY, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the ditch by the dirt back road
Subject(s): Country Life; Automobile Drivers


CLUTCHES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father was an expert automobilist
Last Line: My father explained, of the expert driver
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


COMING HOME, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we're driving, in the dark
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Homecoming


CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 9. TRAFFIC HEAVY AND VERY SLOW, by GILBERT SORRENTINO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The stars are being pitched into
Last Line: Of vast machines always alert
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Baseball; Games; Sports; Traffic


DAYS OF PIE AND COFFEE, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A motorist once said to me
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Conduct Of Life; Salespersons; Selling


DIFFICULT BODY, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Death - Animals


DISTANCE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've begun to acquire a taste
Last Line: One that I dwell on and now give back
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Cities; Travel


DRIVER EDUCATION, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I must have been the only boy
Last Line: On the road ahead
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Driving And Drivers; Learning; Roads


DRIVER SAYING, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, hold your horses, sit down in your seat
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Distraction


DRIVEWAY, by JEREMY CLUCHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He said it reminded him of a race track
Last Line: Travelled here %so gracefully
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


DRIVING HOME, by LAURIE SHECK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in this decentered light, this sizzling, reeling hum
Last Line: Their blameless light so far from here, so wordless, unconstrained
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Recessions; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete
Last Line: He flies so easy, when he sings
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


DRIVING LESSON, by MICHAEL PETTIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beside him in the old ford pickup
Last Line: Was to scatter everywhere, everywhere
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


DRIVING LESSONS, by NEAL BOWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I learned to drive in a parking lot
Last Line: Trying hard to smile, waiting for me %to steer my way across this emptiness
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Southern States


EBENEZER-GRAMS: 2. UNKEL EB IS SPEEDIN', by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unkel eb is now a speedin'
Last Line: Wher weery peeple pass.
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


FREEWAY, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: An infected vein %carrying filth to and from the city
Last Line: To enclose the view %and muffle the screams
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Berkeley, California; Cities


IN A CAB, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain-and the lights of the city
Last Line: The desolate rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Taxis; Travel; Journeys; Trips


IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something dangerous and dull
Last Line: My hands shaking on the wheel, %driving straight through america
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Travel


INTO THE STONE, by PAMELA STEED HILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then I have wanted nothing more in my whole life
Last Line: Its signature is the tail of a blithering ford - %so fallible, but cutting its way into the stone
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Sculpture And Sculptors


IOWA CITY TO BOULDER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take most of the drive by night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


JIM THE CAR, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sputters his lips with a guttural rumble
Last Line: He's a 440 hemi with a glass-pack exhaust
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


LA/DRIVING POEMS #1, by EILEEN MYLES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the emerging
Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Automobile Drivers


LEARNING THE AUTO, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm learning the automobile; as, trembling, I
Last Line: "oats!"
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Dreams; Nightmares


LEARNING TO DRIVE, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My daughter swerves, then struggles with
Last Line: Not even on those routes you know the best
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Driving And Drivers; Learning


LONG ISLAND, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As cars drive by on southern state parkway
Last Line: Speeding apart
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Long Island (n.y.)


MEDITATION ON THE A30, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man on his own in a car
Last Line: As he clenches his pipe, his moment is ripe %and the corner's accepting its kill
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


MY CAR SLIDES OFF THE ROAD, by SARAH GORHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first there's a lizard, cradled
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


NIGHT DRIVING, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through patches of ground fog late at night
Last Line: Are the eyes, hesitating, waiting to come out
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Driving And Drivers


PARABLE OF MY RENAULT 4 DRIVER, by JACK A. MAPANJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's like the story of any driver
Last Line: The parable of the driver of my renault 4 still muddles
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


PSALM, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So many cars have driven past me
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


SEVEN AFTERNOONS: PARKING LOT, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All of a snow
Last Line: Humility: evening comes
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Travel


SPEEDING, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friends and I wanted to drive fast
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Speed


STEERING WHEEL, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rear-view mirror I saw the veil of leaves
Last Line: Things in the world, you must believe me
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Leaves


STEERING WHEEL, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rear-view mirror I saw the veil of leaves
Last Line: Things in the world, you must believe me
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Leaves


STOPPING ALONG THE WAY, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heading south toward campus, my car
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Possums


THE DANGER CAR, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to
Last Line: Banker, and maimed an auctioneer.
Subject(s): Accidents; Automobile Drivers; Crime & Criminals; Death; Murder; Tragedy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


THE FRONT SEAT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was but a little lad I always liked to ride
Last Line: No matter what the car may be, close by the driver's side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


THE SAFE DRIVER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the street I drive my car, my rate of
Last Line: "gets it in the neck, is he who swears by safety first!"
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Roads; Paths; Trails


THINKING AHEAD TO POSSIBLE OPTIONS AND A WORST-CASE SCENARIO, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I swerved to avoid hitting a squirrel
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Animals


THOMAS HILL POWER PLANT CAR POOL, by WALTER BARGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold rain explodes into slush
Last Line: The pop-tops fire %indiscriminately
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


THOSE RICHES, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The week after your father left
Subject(s): Poverty; Automobile Drivers


TUESDAY MORNING, by MARLENE MULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stood in the road I think
Last Line: Of what I'd done to end
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR, by WALTER BARGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the ramp of the freeway
Last Line: Lot where after work it starts %right up
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers


WIDOW DISCOVERS HER TIRES ARE BALD, by PERIE LONGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just days before he slipped off, he asked
Last Line: Maybe he travels while she sleeps, letting the good times roll
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Travel