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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOMBS Matches Found: 36 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SERENE HEART AT THE MOVIES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She strode to her car and turned the key and Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Car Bombs; Movies; Cinema ALERT, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: Midnight %in the garden Last Line: How can the stars in the pond be put out Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Bombs; Danger; Paris, France ALL THE WIDE GRIN OF HIM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is hovering in the air, there, in the highest Last Line: Soft, unsuspecting, milk rimming its grin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Cats; Smiles; Teeth; Toothaches ANNIVERSARY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Boom! 'what's that?' Last Line: Ten years -- come sunday Subject(s): Bombs;veterans;veterans Day;war;world War I; First World War ARMY CATS, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over by the cemetery next to the cp Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Bombs; Cats BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mother dear, may I go downtown Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Bombs; Church Burnings; Civil Rights Movement; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother dear, may I go downtown Last Line: But baby, where are you? Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Bombs; Church Burnings; Civil Rights Movement; Racism BILL THE BOMBER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-wolly mist Last Line: "for me bombs they wasn't wasted, though, you might say, ""thrown away." Subject(s): Bombs; War; World War I; First World War BOMBSHELTER, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: First, the metagon flashbulb, stronger Last Line: Through mushroom clouds %to someplace we couldn't name Subject(s): Bombs; Nuclear War BOTTLES IN THE BOMBED CITY, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They gave the city a stroke. Its memories Last Line: When the stroke came, every bottle winked at its neighbour Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bombs; Bottles; Manchester, England; Stroke CHRONICLE, by JURGEN BECKER Poem Source First Line: Today the sky is clear. A weather for Last Line: With sea charts on the passenger seat Subject(s): Bombs; War FEAST OF SAN SILVESTRO, by V. PENELOPE PELIZZON Poem Source First Line: All week, the explosions have increased Last Line: The celestial %shards sodden in the street Subject(s): Bombs; Fear FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Last Line: That too is a game, made heavy %with what is to come Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; War GATHERING BLACKBERRIES: AUG. 6, 1988, FORESTVILLE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I wish I could spend three days grieving Last Line: One blackberry for each thousand [a-bomb] deaths Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Grief; Hiroshima, Japan GHOSTS (THREE YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night bomber pilot, just a fraction drunk Last Line: "they say, they say they do. ..." Subject(s): Air Warfare; Bombs; Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War LIVING BY I-5, AUGUST 6, 1995, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: No, not the 100,000 year-old ice dam Last Line: Each car has an aura of blue flame Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Fire; Graves; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Radiation And Radiation Sickness ON THE PLATFORM, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The omen I didn't know I was waiting for Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Bombs PHOTOGRAPH, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: We lost the picture Last Line: Even childhood is curable Subject(s): Bombs; Childhood Memories; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; War PICTURE FROM THE BLITZ, by LOIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: After all these years Last Line: A shock-frozen woman trailing khaki wool Subject(s): Bombs; War POETRY AND THE WAR, by JOHN KOETHE Poem Source First Line: The bombs bloom in the same green light Last Line: Done in my name. I feel ashamed and numb Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Poetry And Poets; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors SAVING AMERICA, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I was twelve, we were at war %in korea. I did my part, climbing Last Line: And in the birdsong dawn, flying away, my fear Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Bombs; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; United States SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: After the first a-bomb test,' Last Line: After a shit and a coffee break Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bombs; Missiles; Nuclear Accidents; Science SOME BOMBS; AFTER REVERDY, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One goes by like some oafs Last Line: Lash larue is rio grande and tristan comma a bully fardle Subject(s): Bombs; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960) SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 14. BOMBING, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: You time a bomb the way you do a car Last Line: The shards of my life like a prophecy Subject(s): Bombs SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 3. THE AIR BRIDGE, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: We bombed %until the enemy was immortal Last Line: Tripwired to return our fire? Subject(s): Bombs; War THE ANGELS AT HAMBURG, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In caves emptied of their workers, turning Last Line: Rides over his city like a star Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Bombs; World War Ii - Germany THE BOMBARDMENT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city Last Line: Roars and mutters. Boom! Subject(s): Bombs; Rain; Storms THE BOMBER, by BEATRICE RUTH GIBBS Poem Text First Line: White moon rising and red sun setting Last Line: To eyes of men new-raised from the dead. Subject(s): Bombs THE CHILDREN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first wednesday of a scarcity of candles Last Line: That evening in a coffin. Variant Title(s): Psalm 23 Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Family Life; Horses; Sweden; World War Ii; Relatives; Second World War THE FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; War; Dead, The; Ocean THE SOLDIER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The large report of fame I lack Last Line: Across my brow the leaves of life. Subject(s): Bombs; Scars; Soldiers; Thunder THE UNEXPLODED BOMB, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two householders (semi-detached) once found Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Bombs UNEXPLODED BOMB, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two householders (semi-detached) once found Last Line: If x. And y. Are too daft to unfuse me, %how the devil intends to use me Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Bombs WARSAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in warsaw when the first bomb fell Last Line: Or -- would you curse and spit into my face? Subject(s): Bombs; Warsaw, Poland; World War Ii WATCHING THE BOMBER PASS OVER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can we speak of eyes and seasons Last Line: Not one of us escapes some little happiness! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Bombs; War; Airplanes; Air Pilots |
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