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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CAMBODIA Matches Found: 18 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBROSE: NAM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudgatherer %with muscularf tautness Last Line: How many people were killed in the war, both sides Subject(s): Cambodia; Communism; Poetry And Poets; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War BLIND, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some can make out shadows Last Line: The light. People go by without faces Subject(s): Blindness; Cambodia; Women CAMBODIA, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One man shall smile one day and say goodbye Last Line: And still they die. And still the war goes on Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War CAMBODIA, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Peace now,' the leaves clattered Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAMBODIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son gabriel was born on may 14, 1970 during the vietnam war, a Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnam CAMBODIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son gabriel was born on may 14, 1970 during the vietnam war, a Last Line: What does this have to do with cambodia? Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnam CHOEURK'S EYES, by BRITTON GILDERSLEEVE Poem Source First Line: She had no choices. %always and forever Last Line: Until it is all her eyes will see %forever Subject(s): Blindness; Cambodia; War; Women DEAD SOLDIERS, by JAMES FENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When his excellency prince norodom chantaraingsey Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEAD SOLDIERS, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When his excellency prince norodom chantaraingsey Last Line: Either the lunches or the dead soldiers Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the rats came Last Line: For a face to match her mirrors'. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cambodia; Children; Desertion; Childhood MUSEUM IN KAMPUCHEA, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: We went into a museum that use to be a high school Last Line: The young women who passed by on the street %looked like pagodas Subject(s): Cambodia; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Torture ONE AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One came home from forced labor to Last Line: The fields of where we all are one. Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Graves; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SAND, FLIES, AND FISH, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: I take a glass of the expiring sun, sipping it Last Line: Born, where he died. It was probably best that %he didn't see anything else but this sun Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Life; San Francisco; Sea; Vietnam SECONDS OUT, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: After humpty dumpty fell apart Last Line: And at the speed of light %sons are older than their space-men fathers Subject(s): Cambodia; Fathers And Sons; Men SURVIVORS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came up to her, strangers in the street Last Line: Mirrors, for bargirls who ask no questions. Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Vietnam; Dead, The THE CAMBODIAN BOX, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver betel box is formed by two geese Last Line: Mated perfectly as these shining geese. Subject(s): Cambodia; Carving (arts) TUOL SLENG: POL POT'S PRISON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like photographs of dutch schultz which show a slick Last Line: But all I can do is make them into words. Subject(s): Cambodia; Photography & Photographers; Prisons & Prisoners WALL, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I trace the black marble wall of weeping once again Last Line: They took to howling and tearing at their flesh Subject(s): Cambodia; Students, Foreign; Suicide; Terror |
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