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Subject: CHILD ABUSE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BORN THAT WAY, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As far as possible, she strove
Last Line: In the wallpaper
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Child Abuse


ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was named eleutheria
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


FOR THE TAKING, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: And always, the damp blonde curls
Subject(s): Child Abuse


FOUR HOURS, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister picks up her daughters at the bus stop
Last Line: Who love small animals and only want to help
Subject(s): Child Abuse


GUS, by RUTH STONE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It would usually happen at dinner
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Child Abuse


NEAR YOU ARE HEAVENLY BODIES, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I adapt the rhythms of my actions to the affairs of the earth
Last Line: Natch! I'm just going out for a moment
Subject(s): Change; Child Molesting; Child Abuse


RITUAL THREE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is quiet for me, now that I have buried the child
Last Line: For her to live is to act in terxms of death
Subject(s): Child Abuse; Murder; Torture


THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me
Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin.
Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE INQUEST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I took my oath I would inquire
Last Line: Perhaps my mother murdered me.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Abortion; Child Molesting; Murder; Child Abuse


THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was biting cold, and the falling snow
Last Line: A bright reward for all the hardships she suffered here.
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Child Abuse; Suffering; Misery


THE MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't remember the name of the story
Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents; Caverns; Child Abuse; Relatives; Heroes; Heroines; Parenthood


THE VICTIM, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could remember cause? Both
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Child Abuse


THE WHIPPING, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old woman across the way
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Hate; Child Abuse


WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath
Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war!
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness


WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He tells me his mother carries his father's ashes
Last Line: The relative comfort of silence.
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cremation; Forgiveness; Legacies; Child Abuse; Clemency