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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FILM, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strangely like a man
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


A FILM FROM THE SIXTIES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This adult male. This person on earth.
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


A SERENE HEART AT THE MOVIES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem 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


AFTER A MOVIE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The last small credits fade
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Imagination; Movies; Cinema; Fancy


AGAINST THE FALSE MAGICIANS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poem must not charm us like a film [or, play]
Last Line: The rituals of our humanity
Subject(s): Humanity; Lies; Magic; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


AMBER ALERT, by JORDAN DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Having a child changes you. For example,
Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Steven Spielberg (b. 1946); Childhood; Movies; Cinema


AN AMERICAN IN HOLLYWOOD, by FRANK BIDART            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


ARS POETICA: OR: WHO LIVES IN THE IVORY TOWER?, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps you'd like a marching song for the embattled proletariat ...
Last Line: Your feet are muddy, you son-of-a-bitch, get out of our ivory tower
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Poetry & Poets; South Sea Islands; Movies; Cinema


AT A MOVIE THEATRE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How well he spoke who coined the phrase
Last Line: Of shadow, cast upon a screen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


AT THE MOVIE: VIRGINIA, 1956, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is how it was:
Subject(s): Racism; Southern States; Motion Pictures; Youth; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.); Movies; Cinema


AT THE MOVIES, by FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They swing across the screen in brave array
Last Line: Then I remember, and my heart grows cold!
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women And War; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War


AT THE PICTURE-SHOW, by KARLE WILSON BAKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits with eyes intent upon the screen
Last Line: But all the heroes have some trick of his. . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


AVE MARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mothers of america
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures; Work; Workers; Movies; Cinema


BLACK NARCISSUS, THE MOVIE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadow of the bell
Last Line: On squat gray donkeys.
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


BLUE MOVIE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no cause for love in such a script
Last Line: The disassembled gestures of the dead
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pornography; Movies; Cinema


BRESSON'S MOVIES, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A movie of robert
Subject(s): Bresson, Robert (1907-1999); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


CHINESE GRANDMOTHER, by LLOYD STONE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calmly she sits in the darkened movie house
Last Line: And politely watches.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Motion Pictures; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Movies; Cinema


COME WITH ME, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was on the verge of the actual genuine
Subject(s): Tourists; Motion Pictures; Man-woman Relationships; Movies; Cinema; Male-female Relations


CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights; Movies; Cinema; Feminism


DAFFY DUCK IN HOLLYWOOD, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


DEPRESSION DAYS (2), by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought the dark with my last fifteen cents
Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and skin and names.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Motion Pictures; Theater & Theaters; United States - Race Relations; Recessions; Movies; Cinema; Stage Life


EARLY CINEMA, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: According to mister hedges, the custodian
Last Line: No movies for months after
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; School; Movies; Cinema


EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes
Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday


ENDINGS: 2, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Setting the v.C.R. When we go to bed
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


FILM AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was watching a movie / about myself
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures; Actresses; Movies; Cinema


FILM NOIR (THE CHASE), by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't have a rat's chance
Last Line: Her snuffed, stubbed out / lipstuck cigarette
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


FILM NOIR (THE SET-UP), by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snake oil sales
Last Line: Home, humming gumshoe blues
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


FOR LAUREL AND HARDY ON MY WORKROOM WALL, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They're tipping their battered derbies and striding forward
Subject(s): Comedy; Hardy, Norvell (oliver) (1892-1957); Laurel, Stan (1890-1965); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


FRENCH MOVIE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was in a french movie
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


GRAND ILLUSION, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not 1937 for long. A clump of ash trees and a walk
Last Line: Their uncle still casting images of animals for them...
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Violence; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War


HAIR, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a scene in the film
Subject(s): Hair; Motion Pictures; Concentration Camps; Movies; Cinema


HAND-ME-DOWNS: THE MOVIES, by SUSAN WHEELER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Power schmauer. The trees glinting their crystal boughs beyond the breakfront
Last Line: The sparkling allure of the wager and the winning streak? On your mark, go
Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


HEROIC SMILE, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the swordsman fell in kurosawa's seven samurai
Last Line: There are limits to imagination
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


HOME MOVIE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the other end of a telescope, a long way
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Family Life; Movies; Cinema; Relatives


I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first dream with open eyes
Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs


IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl
Last Line: Watch o'er the happier of his lives: say, does he ewake, or sleep?
Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures; Reading; Movies; Cinema


JACK WARDEN, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a woody allen film
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Warden, Jack (1920-2006); Movies; Cinema


JOHN WAYNE'S PERFUMES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 'cast a giant shadow', john wayne wore claiborne sport;
Subject(s): Wayne, John (1907-1979)' Perfume; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


MAE MARSH, MOTION PICTURE ACTRESS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The arts are old, old as the stone
Last Line: Tomorrow's years of yesteryear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Marsh, Mae; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


MAIN CHARACTER, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to see
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; West (u.s.); Movies; Cinema; Southwest; Pacific States


MATINEE, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve years old, two silver quarters singing
Last Line: Just reach out and take them into my arms.
Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Sexual Harassment; Childhood; Movies; Cinema


MIDWEEK, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plentiful people went to the cadillac drawing
Subject(s): Lotteries; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel; Movies; Cinema; Journeys; Trips


MOVIE ACTRESS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shal sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses


MOVIE STAR IN THE PROJECTION ROOM, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her clothes lean forward in the chair
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses


MOVIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roosevelt, renaissance, gem, alhambra
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures; Negroes; American Blacks; Movies; Cinema


MOVIES FOR THE TROOPS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In hollywood the pale white stars
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Soldiers; War; Movies; Cinema


OLD MOVIES, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fueled with violins, the luscious soundtrack
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


ONE REASON I LIKE OPERA, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In movies, you can tell the heroine
Subject(s): Opera; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


POPULAR REVIVALS 1956, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thylacine, long thought to be extinct
Last Line: And in the films, co-starred with stewart granger
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


REDEMPTION, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The extra well movie ups and outs
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


REDS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There isn't much to say to marxists in nicaragua witth .45s
Last Line: Peter orlovsky laughed.
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't
Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics & Government; Popular Culture - United States; Movies; Cinema


SEPPUKU, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming out of it, a curious
Subject(s): Japan; Motion Pictures; Japanese; Movies; Cinema


SEVENTEEN QUESTIONS ABOUT KING KONG, by JANE COOPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If so, what does it tell us about ourselves?
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


STUMPTOWN ATTENDS THE PICTURE SHOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Word has come and martha the ticket girl
Last Line: Moving in a cloud of dust toward the theater marquee.
Subject(s): Canton, Georgia; Motion Pictures; Police; Racism; Southern States; Movies; Cinema; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For centuries only painters, poets, and sculptors
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Time; Immortality; Actresses; Movies; Cinema


THE BLUE ANGEL, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marlene dietrich is singing a lament
Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE COWBOY, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me, that I was
Subject(s): Practical Jokes; Imagination; Motion Pictures; Pranks; Fancy; Movies; Cinema


THE DRINK, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am always interested in the people in films who have just had a drink
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Drinks & Drinking; Movies; Cinema; Wine


THE FLIRT, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the play approaches its climax
Last Line: On the other side of him.
Subject(s): Flirtation; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE HEREAFTER, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the gates to the hereafter
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE HUMAN FACE, by MARY KINZIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A film of green, unfocused plush, of fantasy
Last Line: This is a being. The one nobody dares portray
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Hauser, Kaspar (1812-1833); Faces; Movies; Cinema


THE JAMES BOND MOVIE, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The popcorn is greasy, and I forgot to bring a kleenex
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE LAST MOVIE, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Death; Conduct Of Life; Movies; Cinema; Dead, The


THE LOST WORLD, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On my way home I pass a cameraman
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Children; Movies; Cinema; Childhood


THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes
Last Line: Like young seals around our rock.
Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life


THE MAGIC CARPET, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every american is a movie critic
Last Line: "and ""siponelle,"" large worm."
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Movies; Cinema


THE MOVIE PICTURE COWBOY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cowboy game is busted 'cuz the cattle biz dead
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Cowboys; Movies; Cinema


THE MOVIE QUEEN, by MYRTES-MARIE PLUMMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Majestically she sweeps upon the scene
Last Line: Reality gives way to glamorous lore.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE MOVIES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to watch a movie tonight
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE NEW CHINESE FICTION, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although the depiction of living forms
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Motion Pictures; Wit & Humor; Movies; Cinema


THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the end a / 'the prisoner of zenda'
Last Line: Is also stewart granger
Subject(s): Granger, Stewart (1913-1993); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE REELING BRAIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is a movie film
Last Line: Will applaud ironically.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Reason; Movies; Cinema; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boing, boing, boing
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Astaire, Fred (1899-1987); Rogers, Ginger (1911-1995); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THIS MINNUTE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The videotape runs
Last Line: Watching.  and here it starts over
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


TO NORMA SHEARER AS JULIET, by OTTO FREUND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sword-rasp of the quick, fierce duel is dead
Last Line: And always your white beauty in my heart.
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Shearer, Norma (1900-1983); Movies; Cinema


TRYING TO HELP, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On another planet, a silvery starlet is brooding
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


WANTED, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A white bull, a cassock, an antique mirror
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


WARBLER AT HOWELL'S DRIVE-IN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You might come here now
Last Line: Or gone into briars, pine needles, air?
Subject(s): Adolescence; Aging; Decay; Motion Pictures; Teen Agers; Rot; Decadence; Movies; Cinema