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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BUSES Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLADE OF AN OMNIBUS, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some men to carriages aspire Last Line: An omnibus suffices me. Subject(s): Buses BUS DRIVER ON MADISON AVENUE, by MICHAEL STEPHENS Poem Source First Line: I hate 57th and madison Last Line: And the sunshine poking through %the low gray clouds Subject(s): Buses; Madison Avenue, New York BUS NORTH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw him looking, I held myself in Last Line: And we are honoured you see to travel so far Subject(s): Buses; Guests; Hotels; Tourists; Travel BUS STATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those bus station bathrooms are bad Subject(s): Buses BUSES HEADED FOR SCRANTON, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buses headed for scranton travel in pairs Last Line: That the buses headed for scranton travel in pairs Subject(s): Buses BUSES LONG TO GO HOME, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source Last Line: Of lualalambo, nkongsamba, and of calabar, %and female hippos sleeping under peppertrees Subject(s): Buses; Roads; Travel CITIES: 1. LONDON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a shawl of fog thrown over her shoulders Last Line: Remembering her youth, in the rain. Subject(s): Buses; Fog; London; Rain; Haze COMMUTING, by JULIE DEARBORN Poem Source First Line: Get back on the muni. Don't forget your umbrella, it looks like rain. If Last Line: Gently back towards the window Subject(s): Buses; Commuters COUNTRY BUSES, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stolid london buses roll down the cars between Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Buses CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a taxi at port authority Last Line: X-rays, so it’s cancer Subject(s): New York City; City Traffic; Taxis; Buses; Democracy; War; Politics & Politicians; African Americans; Racism; Nightmares ENTROPY DRAG, by BOB JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: On the last bus from hackensack Last Line: With snoring %sour melody %and me Subject(s): Buses; Melodies; Travel FREEDOM RIDE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As if, after high street Last Line: Or a mosque adrift on a milk-fed pond Subject(s): Buses; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Civil Rights Movement GETTING THERE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a man who carries roses, a bundle of cut Last Line: As we ride in silence the rest of the way home Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Flowers; Love; Roses GOOD GREEN BUS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rumbling and tattly good green bus Last Line: And never guess that they have us %for audience in the good green bus! Subject(s): Buses I COULD NOT TELL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not tell I had jumped off that bus, Subject(s): Mothers; Suicide; Buses I STARTED SUBSCRIBING, by TRISH REEVES Poem Text First Line: To the christian science monitor Subject(s): Buses; Capital Punishment; Gays & Lesbians; Photography & Photographers; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty IN THE COACH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, comin' home from the north sea fishin'. Last Line: "jus' a lil dunkey." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Buses; Yarns LAGOS -- IBADAN ROAD BEFORE SHAGAMU, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bus groaned uphill. Trapped Last Line: Are looking for the driver %who escaped unhurt Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Buses; Driving And Drivers; Prisons And Prisoners; Roads; Travel LEAVING SARAJEVO, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The bus driver stops to pick plums Last Line: Our hearts are no longer our own Subject(s): Buses; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Tourists; Travel LINE 471 DOWNTOWN LA, by SUE CAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Her breasts %were inverted Last Line: The jingle of bus money %in my pocket Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Los Angeles; Travel NAPPING ON THE GREYHOUND, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's christmas eve in texas Last Line: "from planet zizz. ""very tasteful antennae." Subject(s): Buses; Greyhounds; Texas; Travel; Journeys; Trips NIGHT BEFORE THE SENTENCE IS CARRIED OUT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A woman is riding a bus Last Line: The bottom falls out of the sack. %she leaves the apples scattered in the aisle Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Buses; Introspection; Prisons And Prisoners ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought a book to make the time pass Subject(s): Buses; Human Behavior; Books; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading ON THE M104, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The longing we know that does not have a name Last Line: Their appearances so short, their bodies so small Subject(s): Buses ON THE MOTOR BUS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this that roareth thus Last Line: Contra hos motores bos! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Variant Title(s): The Motor Bus Subject(s): Buses OSLOBODJENJE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The first year of the siege Last Line: And there were many days without bread Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Tourists; Travel PAYSAGE TRISTE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl who mounted in the omnibus Last Line: Who had your opera-glasses in his care Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Buses RIDING THE BUS IN MIDWINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If a barn could loosen itself Subject(s): Buses; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ROOM FOR ONE MORE, by LAURIE ANN BLAUNER Poem Source First Line: The peculiar air of morning. The attention Last Line: Themselves out of their bodies with syllables Subject(s): Buses S .. TALK ON THE VENICE BLVD. BUS HEADING EAST ONE SUMMER, by AKILAH NAYO OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Bus stop one I am on the bus Last Line: And tapped the briefcase %he did own Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Travel THE BUNNY BUS, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All aboard the bunny bus Last Line: Rabbit transit gets you there Subject(s): Buses; Rabbits THE FLAMES, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1972 I crossed kansas on a bus Last Line: A speechless church out of your dark / and invisible face Subject(s): Buses; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE OMNIBUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the 'bus, the 'bus, the omnibus!" Last Line: While I am snugly seated in thee Subject(s): Buses;streets; Avenues THE TROLLEY FROM XOCHIMILCO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The late-afternoon rain stopped. The electric trolley Last Line: The plaster rosettes of the ceiling. Subject(s): Accidents; Buses; Death; Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954); Mexico City; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957); Dead, The TOUCHSTONE ON A BUS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I rode with touchstone on a bus Last Line: He burst into this bunch of mad-cap rhymes: -- Subject(s): Buses; Plays & Playwrights TWO POEMS ON URBAN BUSES: 1., by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The august dame of the middle class Last Line: Bottle endowed with a rag fuse lit for the occasion Subject(s): Buses; Cities TWO POEMS ON URBAN BUSES: 2. ELEMENTAL MARXISM, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is an idealist who defines a bus as an automotive vehicle Last Line: Has on things and their human uses Subject(s): Buses; Cities; Communism TWO WOMEN ON THE POTOMAC HIGHWAY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On tuesday's bus I heard the man from state Last Line: It made me sick, if you must know. Subject(s): Buses; Conversation; Disdain; Human Abnormalities; Violence; Scorn; Deformities WAITING FOR THE BUS, by KATALIN MEZEY Poem Source First Line: Hanging over the railing of the park Last Line: And I resent it if anyone says %ultimately Subject(s): Buses; Travel |
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