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Subject: CITIES Matches Found: 1177 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` #2, SHOES, by ELIZABETH KRAJECK COHEN Poem Source First Line: You could cry Last Line: They are getting somewhere Subject(s): Cities 3 DAY NEW YORK BLUES, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's tuesday night Last Line: Hopping skippin jumpin flyin %back home to me Subject(s): Cities 50, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Poem Source First Line: Down the long avenues the north wind Last Line: Begins to fall, and places it - heavy %as marble suddenly - behind his head Subject(s): Cities 5:00 PM, EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NOVEMBER, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing opposes Last Line: Such a meager beacon Subject(s): Cities 64 PANORAMIC WAY, by CAROL MOLDAW Poem Source First Line: Like easy conversation Last Line: Three bridges and san francisco %shrugging off her damp negligee Subject(s): Cities; San Francisco 74TH STREET, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Hey, this little kid gets roller skates Last Line: Sticks out the other foot %again Subject(s): Cities A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee, dick, where I have been Last Line: With bridget and with nell. Variant Title(s): A Wedding Subject(s): Cities; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song; Urban Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium A BUSY STREET, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All up and down the busy street Last Line: And that is why they hurry so. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; February; Streets; Traffic; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues A CITY DWELLER, by JACQUES REDA Poem Text First Line: The street I walk along I often see Last Line: Magazine. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A CITY ECLOGUE, by W." "J. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "'twas sunday morning, quite serene the air" Last Line: "let us poor cits do whatsoever we may, / our headstrong spouses still will have their way!" Alternate Author Name(s): "j., W.; Subject(s): Cities;marriage;old Age; Urban Life;weddings;husbands;wives A CITY FLOWER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To and fro in the city I go Last Line: That had settled over my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A CITY GARDEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hid in a close and lowly nook Last Line: God grant some day your dreams come true. Subject(s): Cities; Gardens & Gardening; Urban Life A CITY GARDEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-warmed, where hudson meets the sea Last Line: My suzeraine -- the faery queen. Subject(s): Cities; Fairies; Gardens & Gardening; New York City - Colonial Period; Urban Life; Elves A CITY VOICE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside here in the city the burning pavements lie Last Line: And god's green trees and god's blue skies above me for a space. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Nature; Urban Life A DAY IN THE CITY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dismounting from stools and benches, pouring through bars Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A HILL OF BEANS, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One spring the circus gave Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A LAZY THOUGHT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There go the grownups Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race A MAN AGAINST TIME, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Names of vast cities off beyond your years Last Line: But for my faith in my abandoned peers. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life A MUNICIPAL REPORT; DEDICATION TO 'THE SEVEN SEAS', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cities are full of pride Last Line: And mine I hold at her hands! Variant Title(s): To The City Of Bombay Subject(s): Bombay, India; Cities; Urban Life A NOCTURNE AT GREENWICH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out, beyond my window, in the gloom Last Line: Out yonder in the gloom. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Rivers; Ships & Shipping; Urban Life; Bedtime A REMOVAL FROM TERRY STREET, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a squeaking cart, they push the usual stuff Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STRANGE CITY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A wondrous city, that had temples there Last Line: As I do now, in these dear months I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STREET, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two narrow files of houses scowl Last Line: The sweetness here of any rose. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STREET SCENE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The east is a clear violet mass Last Line: Turns back, and looks again. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rhone and rhine they run so free Last Line: My mortal part in hampton gay! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Cities; Oxford University; Urban Life A'VITO, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Now, as I move Last Line: Why do the trees conceal %their splendor? Subject(s): Cities; Moving And Movers; Travel AARON LOUDERMILK (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Figured on droppin' outta school Last Line: And a whole lotta cows.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AARON LOUDERMILK (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father and I have never talked much Last Line: I'd like to show him my farm Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AARON LOUDERMILK: MICHAEL PERRIN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Great dance, wasn't it? Last Line: I got some beer in my truck %you drink? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ABANDONED CITIES: ASUNCION, PARAGUAY, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Back of the adobe haciendas are reed huts Last Line: Moltavis rock which stands in the square below Subject(s): Cities; Paraguay ABANDONED CITIES: BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: There are no suburbs Last Line: Trooper's headlights vanish down highway 27 Subject(s): Cities; North Dakota ABANDONED CITIES: ECBATANA, IRAN, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: There are two cities here, neither of which exists Last Line: Your way home victorious from the battle of moltavis rock Subject(s): Cities; Lithuania ABANDONED CITIES: KAUNAS, LITHUANIA, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: The walls and windowpanes are so clean people forget they are there Last Line: And I went home with her and paid her hamdsomely Subject(s): Cities; Lithuania ABOUT CITIES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: About cities Last Line: You loved %in them Subject(s): Cities ACROSS THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I stood upon a dizzy roof which towered Last Line: Reveals but mounds of vanished majesty. Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues AD ASTRA: 33, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then cities shall arise, both sweet and fair Last Line: Health the handmaid of peace and child of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Environment; Health; Urban Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ADULTERY -- KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN 1996, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way they died for love Last Line: Is the edge %in the curve Subject(s): Cities ADVICE TO A CITY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O city, cage your poets! Hem them in Last Line: The savage, sweet, unpalatable truth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life AEROGRAMMES, by RUSSELL CHARLES LEONG Poem Source First Line: Par avion via airmail Last Line: Of the next %immutable %aerogramme Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; China; Cities; Travel AFTER A CITY WINTER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill tops are forms of silence Last Line: And the blue curve of a wing. Subject(s): Cities; Winter; Urban Life AFTER HOURS, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Poem Source First Line: The man who mops the floor of the lunchonette Last Line: The subway on which his heavy boots do not make a sound Subject(s): Cities AFTER THE 11TH, by BRENDA COULTAS Poem Source First Line: Were they ever visible from this street? Does it matter if I say they Last Line: President and a flag (november 7, 2001) Subject(s): Cities AFTER THE NEWSCAST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past tribal heart's rusty twists Last Line: It's time Subject(s): Cities; Democracy; News; Urban Life AFTER THE VERDICT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: When the verdict was read Last Line: Flashing their blood-stained %teeth %in the photos %of lynchings Subject(s): Cities; Homeless AFTERTUNE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been alive since thirty-four Last Line: And singing %and singing Subject(s): Cities AIN'T THIS PLACE A BITCH?, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They have nothing better to do Last Line: & abduct homeless people %from shopping malls! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless AIR-CONDITIONED AIR, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Of windows closing on muslin curtains Last Line: Of water through the earthly dark %over the old slave route Subject(s): Cities ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: All those wishing to spend a weekend in Last Line: Stereotypes at the door. Refreshments will %be served Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am not burning out Last Line: Thus my northern adventure Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Just talk into the camcorder, kwame Last Line: The world awaits your words Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was in school myself Last Line: Anyone seen kwame? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Officer erikson? Last Line: Can I see him now? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALBERT AYLER'S FLOWERS, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Albert, the flowers Last Line: The music took us %all on Subject(s): Cities ALBERT GOODSON, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 5 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I must respectfully disagree with the good doctor Last Line: If not, we stand adjourned Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALBERT GOODSON, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 5 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Duly noted, oliver Last Line: Good night, lady and gentlemen Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALCHEMIST IN THE CITY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My window shows the traveling clouds Last Line: And pierce the yellow waxen light %with free long looking, ere I die Subject(s): Cities ALGIERS, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Gold-vestured suns and silver-fretted nights Last Line: Algiers!inch' allah!sleeping! Subject(s): Algiers; Cities; Urban Life ALIBIS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They'll tell you %'I wasn't there %when he perished' Last Line: On my way %home from %work Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ALL SHOOK UP, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: Baby don't do it Last Line: Ain't doin too bad Subject(s): Cities ALL THE BEAUTIFUL DAYS, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I left you today I came to a Last Line: Once again %back to us Subject(s): Cities ALONE WITH THE OLD FARMER'S WIFE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: By the doorway I hear him Last Line: To hold %each blossom Subject(s): California; Cities ALONG MAIN STREET, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Did you hear 'bout the dance? Last Line: Keep this under your hat, no sense spreading stories. %you bet Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALONG MAIN STREET 2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Can you believe it? Last Line: You're about the only one Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMARANTH AND MOLY, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night we bailed out jolene from riker's island Last Line: And jolene was not only amaranth and moly, she was poetry %leaping the turnstiles of another century Subject(s): Cities; New York City AMBULANCE, by KARL KIRCHWEY Poem Source First Line: The caduceus flies past, with serpents wrought Last Line: Watches forgotten, walkmans, or keychains %that respond to a human voice Subject(s): Ambulances; Cities AMONG THE MISSING, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AMONG THE MISSING, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier Last Line: Disclosures of the kind I do so well, %I with the other ghosts am laid at last Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Cities; New York City AMONG THE STONES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And there Last Line: The silence %of god Subject(s): Cities AMSTERDAM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Everyone comes to visit Last Line: I could see the face of my mother Subject(s): Cities AMY SWINTON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: While my friends can't wait to leave town Last Line: Modeling just for me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That's my mother Last Line: My mother will have no time to reach me %then Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother outmaneuvers martha stewart Last Line: It's a wonder to see how she covers everything up Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON: JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Tc erickson? %hope I'm not bothering you Last Line: I see that hat practically every day in town Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON: KATIE FUNG, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: See this camera? Last Line: In its proper focus Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AN ABIDING CITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My city walls are builded sure Last Line: Pass in a dream of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; God; Walls; Urban Life AN ENGLISHMAN VISITS PHILADELPHIA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have seen your city Last Line: "I shall remember its chaste dignity." Subject(s): Cities; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast Last Line: Of the dream is place. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.) AN ORDINARY MORNING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man is singing on the bus Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Urban Life AN URBAN ECLOGUE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: How favoured are we, phyllis Last Line: A million years ago! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life ANGIE PERRY (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Most people in school don't know Last Line: And find a real family of my own Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGIE PERRY (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm sittin' on the bus Last Line: To experience the luxury of complaint Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGIE PERRY (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Z., what do you mean, I can't see him? Last Line: Man, what they're doin' to him is an american tragedy Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGIE PERRY: BECKY BEAUCLAIRE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You eat like that all the time?' Last Line: I'll take my chances.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGRY FROM ON HIGH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And we climbed up to the cities Last Line: Of the journey of the stones Subject(s): Cities ANIMA URBIS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, city, by two rivers made an isle Last Line: Since I have so loved you -- do you love me? Subject(s): Cities; Life; Love; Nature; Soul; Urban Life ANIMAL MIMICRY, by ROBERT POLITO Poem Source First Line: The sun is setting in another part of the city Last Line: We see you around Subject(s): Cities ANNAPOLIS AT EVENING, by IVY LINDSLEY Poem Text First Line: Across the restless waters of the bay Last Line: Leave her in vanished glory, proud, devout. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Night; Seashore; Urban Life; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I just got tenure Last Line: This is my northern adventure Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let's go, hornets, let's go! Last Line: Let's go, hornets, let's go! Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Do not go to italy, my friends warned me Last Line: I wish I had given my dream lover more to %apologize for Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother believes in total honesty Last Line: I wish she were a little more dishonest Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: How wonderful you all look tonight! Last Line: And may you remember this night for a long, long time Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm young, but I'm old inside Last Line: And dance the night away under the roman stars Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTHONY LA BLANCA (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'll score in the nba Last Line: With my dreams Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTHONY LA BLANCA (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Friday nights I cruise the avenue Last Line: Puttin' my car and my body into overdrive Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTHONY LA BLANCA: BUDDY ERIKSON, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Boy, this schmuck's a loser; he never says a word Last Line: What can you tell me about her?' %not much.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTIPOVERTY ANTIPOETRY, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: You shouldn't be surprised %to catch a whiff %of me Last Line: Like a crooked picture %from your present past Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ANY CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the staring street / she goes on her nightly round Last Line: The night with its pitiless stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Social Problems; Urban Life APARTMENT DWELLER, COUNTRY BRED, by KATHERINE R. MARSH Poem Text First Line: I want a row of hollyhocks and spotted tiger lilies Last Line: To go back home again! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Homesickness; Urban Life APOLOGY TO VALLEJO, by BERNARD JANKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Dear vallejo Last Line: And I spent all day %absorbed in my own Subject(s): Cities; Letters APPROPRIATION OF A BILLY JOEL CLASSIC, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Don't go changin %your drawers %to try and %please me Last Line: Take you %just the way %you are Subject(s): Cities; Homeless APRIL IN NEW YORK, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Poem Source First Line: Vapor is curling from the manhole Last Line: As if her life depended on it Subject(s): Cities; New York City ARGUMENT RESUMED; OR UP THROUGH TRIBECA, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: It may not be forever Last Line: Glows among other peaches in the fruitbowl. %such and no other is the soul Subject(s): Cities; New York City ARRHYTHMIA, by AMANDA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Brown street signs mean change Last Line: Are you still alive out there? Subject(s): Cities; Family Life ARRIVAL AT KENNEDY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reduce the supply while the demand stays constant and the Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ARRIVAL AT KENNEDY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reduce the supply while the demand stays constant and the Last Line: When freedom meant driving a car over a cliff & jumping out at the last possible moment Subject(s): Cities; New York City AS IF, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were here, as if I cared Last Line: Her head %on my shoulder Subject(s): Cities ASCENSION OF A CITY FOG, by FRANCES COFFIN BOAZ Poem Text First Line: The avaricious sun dripped no gold Last Line: In the ascension of a shimmering, city fog... Subject(s): Cities; Fog; Urban Life; Haze ASHES TO ASHES, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source Last Line: I'm ashes, %remember? Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ASIAN ZODIAC, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Love in the twelfth sign Last Line: So surely %past our possibility Subject(s): California; Cities ASPHALT AND CHROMIUM GLORY, by MARGARET LATHROP LAW Poem Text First Line: Go, build your sky-scrapers higher and higher Last Line: Beauty shall drape the mildewed bone. Subject(s): Cities; Heaven; Life; Sky; Urban Life; Paradise AT DAYBREAK, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the train window at daybreak Last Line: The train picking up speed Subject(s): Railroads; Cities; Desolation ATLANTA DEATH 1981, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This green ribbon I wear Last Line: While she dies Subject(s): Cities AUGUST IN THE CITY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brooding hours, through the dull afternoon. Last Line: Where the glad, fresh rain beats!) Subject(s): August; Cities; Urban Life AUNT LIZZIE'S PICTURES, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Aunt lizzie's mantel is like a museum Last Line: Where family ends and pride begins Subject(s): Cities AUSCHWITZ, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And there we were Last Line: Into the dark florescence of fear itself Subject(s): Cities AVENUE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stack bright pyramids of goods and gather Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life AVENUE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stack bright pyramids of goods and gather Last Line: Capering, on fire, they cleave to the riven hub Subject(s): Cities AVENUES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights when you're off Last Line: Smoke as the trucks leave their alleys and loading %chutes -looking for breakfast, or a little peace Subject(s): Cities BACHELOR'S UNWRITTEN LETTER TO JAPAN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The old man feels lucky tonight Last Line: Through the dark to his home Subject(s): California; Cities BACK TO THE LAND!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Acres out of cultivation! Last Line: Peace in her imperial eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Urban Life; British Empire; England - Empire BACKYARDS, BROOKLYN, by ELINOR NAUEN Poem Source First Line: Spring tears %the slush Last Line: Throws up such %reminders of the dead Subject(s): Cities BAGHDAD, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In a baghdad amputated Last Line: Death's plumes Subject(s): Cities BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After you finish your work Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Urban Life BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you finish your work Last Line: Pouring orange into grape and grape into orange forever Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City) BALLADE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY; TO C.H. ARKCOLL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them boast of arabia, oppressed Last Line: With the smell of bog-myrtle and peat! Subject(s): Arabia; Cities; Patriotism; Urban Life BARE HANDS, by ALICE G. HARVEY Poem Text First Line: A lad with eager, anxious eyes Last Line: To pay for a place to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BEA THE BEAUTICIAN, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: I think the beautician Last Line: Oh, the tricks bea can do Subject(s): Cities BEAUTIFUL CITY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city, the centre and crater of european confusion Last Line: Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life BECAUSE THE RHYTHM OF THE BALLAD DEPENDS ON THE BASS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: More than ever I hear a slow bass line Last Line: After all is only a man Subject(s): California; Cities BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've known the same group of kids for so long Last Line: I figure it's time for me and my friends to check %her out Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Nothin' to do in this town Last Line: There's got to be more to life than screwin' around Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: After buddy erikson, my one true love Last Line: When he realizes he ain't gonna find nobody better Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Was who at the dance? Last Line: Personally I couldn't care less Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BEFORE BRUCE LEE THERE WAS TOSHIRO MIFUNE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Toshiro, you were so much more to me Last Line: In your every step -- no one came close Subject(s): California; Cities BEGGAR GETS TOO PREACHY, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: If I can't make %this park bench Last Line: Like the rich sayz: %it's all or nothing! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BEGGAR IS A VEGETARIAN, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: If %it %wasn't %for the %fact Last Line: I would %eat my %shoes Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BEGINNER ON PAPER, by RUTH KRAUSS Poem Source First Line: On paper %I write it Last Line: I write my name Subject(s): Cities BEHIND THE CLOSED EYE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk the old frequented ways Last Line: On the city's strife and din. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life BEING FROM ST. LOUIS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the nickel-gray bridges Last Line: Its name on our knees. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Railroads; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips BELLY BREATHS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The belly of the world Last Line: Breath close %to the core Subject(s): California; Cities BELLY BUTTON, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: What was it about the belly button that connected it to the old country? Last Line: At that knotted opening that promised to lead inward, but never did Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Ghettos BIG HOUSE REVISITED, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Bigger thomas %wasn't suppose Last Line: Without strings %attached %bein everybody's %big tom Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BILL PAXELL, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My friend ollie, you should stay in your store on %main street Last Line: White bread only. %I vote yes Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BIRTHDAY PRESENTS 1989 (FOR JOYCE JOHNSON), by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lost 1970 woolworth earring Last Line: Rush through the rain Subject(s): Cities BLAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Don't blame the city, she said Last Line: And who do you blame, good sir, %for the poisoned irish sea? Subject(s): Anger; Cities; Ireland BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Last Line: And papers blow down the street Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude BOBBACK DUKE, by ROGER SEDARAT Poem Source First Line: Cousin bobback watches too much dukes of hazzard Last Line: And the state of texas gets his goat Subject(s): Cities BOMBAY, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here nothing seems new: the rising Last Line: In the wake of an empress now slut Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bombay, India; Cities; Poverty BONE FLUTE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: First there were flutes & drums Last Line: From one low quiver rising Subject(s): California; Cities BONWIT TELLER, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who says the light doesn't breathe Last Line: Will the change come? %into a speechless mannequin Subject(s): Change; Cities; Imagination BORDER TALLIES: STILL CLIMBING GOLD MOUNTAIN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: It's a little known fact Last Line: 1.2 billion sets of teeth to shine Subject(s): California; Cities BOSTON, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: At night Last Line: Of a roof over our heads Subject(s): Cities BOWLING GREEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pleasant breadth of open space Last Line: The city's heart is bowling green. Subject(s): Bowling Green, New York City; Cities; New York City - Colonial Period; Peace; Urban Life BRACE YOURSELF, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: To keep from catching 22 colds Last Line: But brace yourself! %nothing's permanent Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BRIAN PAXELL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Got my first brother when I was eight Last Line: Anyone or anything %to get Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I love the smell of manure in the morning Last Line: And perfectly pick them all off, one by one Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother drags me to box socials Last Line: Another box soial in my life %sorry, mom Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Did I see her at the dance? Last Line: Could have been anyone Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL: TOMMY LA BLANCA, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, tommy, don't this dance suck? Last Line: I just feel like shooting something. Or someone Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIDGES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We built Last Line: And wise sailors Subject(s): Cities BROADWAY, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault Last Line: The jewel of love for us Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple BROADWAY, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault Last Line: Are replenishing the jewel of love for us Subject(s): Cities; New York City BROADWAY'S CANYON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is like the nave of an unfinished cathedral Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities BROKE MIRROR IMAGE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Those that murder me %say that I'm responsible Last Line: Plasters %onto the back %of their minds Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BROOK AVENUE, THE BRONX (1998), by ANGELO VERGA Poem Source First Line: I walk off for coffee and a corn Last Line: I know. Beauty is what I live for Subject(s): Cities BROOKLYN BOUND, by BARBARA ELOVIC Poem Source First Line: As if posed for a picture called 'restless youth' Last Line: As the flight of any bird, away from the water Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Cities BROOKLYN BRIDGE CLIMBS ON BONES OF BRICKLAYERS, by SHARON MESMER Poem Source First Line: The brooklyn bridge climbs on bones of bricklayers Last Line: A last thought in the brain's multiple pathways picking bones %splash Subject(s): Cities BROOKLYN BRIDGE THE OTHER WAY, by ROBERT MYLES HERSHON Poem Source First Line: I am walking over the bridge Last Line: And now I'm almost home Subject(s): Cities BROWNSTONE, by ROD MCKUEN Poem Source First Line: Birds and butterflies Last Line: Is unconcerned %as night begins Subject(s): Cities BUDDY ERIKSON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was ten Last Line: It's gonna be some time before you're a man,' he said Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BUDDY ERIKSON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father is the town constable Last Line: I know I would Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers & Daughters; Urban Life BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Last Line: Behind bar blinds we were caged, %some motes of sunlight cathedrally beaming Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers And Daughters BUILDING A STAIRCASE BY HAND, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: In our brooklyn backyard, a mexican Last Line: And we're in the front hall waving %playfully at him Subject(s): Cities BUILDING OF THE CITY, by ISA CRAIG-KNOX Poem Source First Line: Behold the city is building! Last Line: And christ is in the midst of us Subject(s): Cities; Jesus Christ BURIED CITIES; FATHER CHARLES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No paler monk than father charles, and none so gaunt or lean Last Line: With thirty buried cities upon his reverend pate. Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Clergy; Death; Monks; Urban Life; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The BURNT OFFERING AT THE BABALAO, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: He committed suicide Last Line: That he was just %a janitor Subject(s): Cities; Homeless BUYING AND SELLING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way across the bay bridge I sang Subject(s): Cities; Salespersons; Urban Life; Selling BUYING AND SELLING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way across the bay bridge I sang Last Line: Themselves, who having been abandoned believe %their parents will return before dark Subject(s): Cities; Salespersons BY A SMALL RIVER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: A man chooses to build his house Last Line: The rain and long after Subject(s): California; Cities BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A highway. Night. Passing Last Line: Under the weight of them Subject(s): Cities C'EST PLUS QU'UN CRIME, C'EST UNE FAUTE', by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the small hours, several rounds Last Line: The night sky briefly flared %into a brilliant shade of red Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles CAGE WALKER, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He shoves the .38 Last Line: They say august is a good time %for a man to go crazy Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Cities CALIFORNIA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I've seen the world, I've traveled far Last Line: My heart doth yield to thee. Subject(s): California; Cities; Home; Roads; Travel; Urban Life; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips CALIFORNIA PLUSH, by FRANK BIDART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He only thing I miss about los angeles Subject(s): Cities And Towns; Los Angeles, California CALLIGRAPHER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: He stoops on the sandy ground Last Line: And never went back Subject(s): California; Cities CAN ODOR POLLUTION MAKE YOU SICK?, by NATHAN WHITING Poem Source First Line: Where eastern parkway turns Last Line: Decorated to hold love Subject(s): Cities CANDELABRAS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother Last Line: Under her bleeding %skirt Subject(s): Cities CANVASES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And on the threshold of dreams Last Line: The shadows Subject(s): Cities CARDBOARD BOX, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: What can you do with a cardboard box? Last Line: Save it to jazz up a rainy day Subject(s): Cities CARRYING THE BANNER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: (which is tramp-argot for walking the street / all night) Last Line: And I said 'thank god' with all my heart, for it was day again! Subject(s): Cities; Night; Solitude; Walking; Urban Life; Bedtime; Loneliness CATCHING QUIET, by MARCI RIDLON Poem Source First Line: It's hard to catch quiet %in the city Last Line: It's a but of blue Subject(s): Cities CAVE CALL, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The caves of manhattan call out to me Last Line: Once more in those siren streets and afternoon! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Cities; Times Square, New York CEDAR ROAD (2), by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: The dead buildings have names and dates of birth inscribed in stone Last Line: Only wooden windows to mark their passing Subject(s): Inner Cities CENSUS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven cities have been excavated Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CENSUS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven cities have been excavated Last Line: No one knows what he does in his spare time Subject(s): Cities CENTRAL PARK WEST, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Shakes the pavement, city traffic Last Line: The avenue its long, cold face Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Cities; Traffic CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I cherish %public displays %of affection Last Line: A broken jaw %and caved in chest Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CHASING THE HOLY GHOSTS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Religion wasn't enough Last Line: For him; so he began %drinking heavily Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CHEMISTS, by GARY LENHART Poem Source First Line: In the laundromat we discuss student unrest in israel Last Line: Who has an apartment in the village, %that the upper west side has the cleanest young men Subject(s): Cities CHOCOLATE BUDDIES, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: We take a break from kickball Last Line: As we chill out on the stoop Subject(s): Cities CHRISTENING, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: From our bed we take time Last Line: Body embracing its own Subject(s): California; Cities CHRISTMAS, BOSTON 1989, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: This is how I know god exists Last Line: Across the parched milky sky, %electric lights bloom Subject(s): Boston; Christmas; Cities CITIES, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took my staff and wandered o'er the mountains Last Line: The martyr died, denying: and I wondered Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Cities CITIES, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: As there are books on beehives Last Line: A book indeed Subject(s): Boston; China; Cities; London; New York City; Paris, France CITIES, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can we believe - by an effort Last Line: Await the new beauty of cities? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Cities; Urban Life CITIES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: San francisco ss Last Line: New york p Subject(s): Cities; Geography; Travel CITIES, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are a way of keeping grass Last Line: That darken spread and flake %like ringworm in green hair Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Cities CITIES, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem is like a tower in the east Last Line: Accursed of all the ages -- kerioth. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITIES OF ELD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the orient uplands afar Last Line: And even their gods unknown. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Dancing & Dancers; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Destiny CITIES OF GOLD, by MICHAEL BOWDEN Poem Source First Line: At an edge of sleep the sentences in a reporter's head begin to fracture Last Line: Fuck you at the stars and her old man over and over Subject(s): Cities; Retrospection; Revolutions CITIES OF STONE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Because she loved and died Last Line: Of the wind and silence %said Subject(s): Cities CITIES OF THE LIVING, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Curfew, %a perverse silence Last Line: Of somber %nights Subject(s): Cities CITIES OF THE PLAIN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the cabalists, the insidious committees Last Line: We wish we had our little sodom back! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITIES: THE LAST LIGHTS OFF THE WEST, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In darkness a paperweight Last Line: Are these? (curtains.) Subject(s): Cities; West (u.s.); Urban Life; Southwest; Pacific States CITY, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You said, I'll go to another shore, I'll go to another land Last Line: A mess of your life, in all the world it stands in ruin Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Cities CITY, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: At night I leave the windows open to get a better view of the Last Line: Sleep truly consoles us Subject(s): Cities CITY, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I set out through september, on the road to the splendor of Last Line: Loved to place a diadem upon its head Subject(s): Cities; Commuters; Love; Travel CITY, by ANGEL GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Things glisten. Roof tiles rise Last Line: Grinder in which everything is done Subject(s): Cities CITY, by LAURENCE HARTMUS Poem Text First Line: Sullen city of motile skies Last Line: That is why I mock your law that says I should be as other men. Subject(s): Cities; Traffic; Urban Life CITY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning the city Last Line: About its head Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): Cities CITY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day we kept the dusty road Last Line: And centuries of fear and power and awe, %and all our children in the deadly wood Subject(s): Cities CITY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here men walk alone Last Line: What with hydrants for dogs, %and windows for wives Subject(s): Cities CITY, by EDDY VAN VLIET Poem Source First Line: The city is covered with places for you Last Line: I shall forget what was taken from me Subject(s): Cities CITY AFTER SNOWFALL, by JOSEPH M. DITTA Poem Source First Line: Some annoyances are trivial %and best forgot to smoothen your day Last Line: But the figure doesn't assuage %a mild vexation turned to rage Subject(s): Cities; Snow; Winter CITY AND THE TRUCKS, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: The city sleeps in its unconcern, but the highways are awake Last Line: The tail-boards slam, and the trailers ram - and the great trucks roll again! Subject(s): Cities; Trucks And Trucking CITY AND VILLAGE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again within the city, 'mid its multitudinous din Last Line: Or in my walks at night-time when the village is at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Cithern (musical Instrument); Cities; Railroads; Villages; Urban Life; Railways; Trains CITY AT NIGHT, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: It is raining softly. The night has come Last Line: I see the electric lights of the concession shrine Subject(s): China; Cities; Night CITY AT TWILIGHT, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: The swinging bells engrave in sunset golds Last Line: Faintly, the music of milleniums ...... Subject(s): Cities; Evening; Urban Life; Sunset; Twilight CITY BLOCKADES, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: I feel so small Last Line: From the light of the sky Subject(s): Cities CITY CHRISTMAS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time when the great urban heart Last Line: We hear too late or not too late Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Cities; Nativity, The; Urban Life CITY CHRISTMAS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time when the great urban heart Last Line: And twenty thousand doormen hourly grow %politer and politer and politer Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Cities CITY CONTRASTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A barefooted child on the crossing Last Line: Equality in the grave Subject(s): Cities;life; Urban Life CITY DUMP, by FELICE HOLMAN Poem Source First Line: City asleep Last Line: A carnival %on the garbage heap Subject(s): Cities CITY DWELLERS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: For all they see, the stars might never glow Last Line: Fragrance and light, and food for every sense! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY IMAGE, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: I saw a pike's head Last Line: When she ate of the grass %at the river's edge Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel CITY LEVITATES, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm back %in the unmade bed Subject(s): Arabs; Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine CITY LIGHTS, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God made, they say, the country Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Cities CITY MARKET, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: The city market's lively stalls Last Line: Above the buzz of crowded aisles Subject(s): Cities CITY MOON, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thin moon hurrying, blown from the sea Last Line: Leaps the last chimney-pot, hurries, and fades. Subject(s): Cities; Moon; Urban Life CITY NIGHTS: 1. IN THE TRAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train through the night of the town Last Line: The dazzling vista of streets! Subject(s): Cities; Railroads; Urban Life; Railways; Trains CITY NIGHTS: 2. IN THE TEMPLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grey and misty night Last Line: Neath the weeping moon! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY OF 12,000 BRIDGES, SUZHOU, by DANEEN WARDROP Poem Source Last Line: Who never thought to write to me Subject(s): Absence; China; Cities; Travel CITY OF DREADFUL THIRSTS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger came from narromine and made his little joke Last Line: That narrow-minded person on his road to narromine. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Rain; Thirst; Urban Life CITY OF SEVEN HILLS, by PATRICIA MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Imagine last night, cracking blue crabs Last Line: From row upon row of chaff Subject(s): Bodies; Cities; Women CITY OF THE LIGHT (1), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Hail the glorious golden city %pictured by the seers of old! Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of thr light Variant Title(s): The City Of Our Hop Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion CITY OF THE LIGHT (2), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the golden city %mentioned in the legends old? Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of the light Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion CITY PARK, by CHRISTINE CROW Poem Source First Line: In the shade of a plane tree with our shopping Last Line: And fly away almost anywhere Subject(s): Cities CITY RAIN, by JEAN-MARK SENS Poem Source First Line: Singe blue of the storm Last Line: Wriggled away in the meandering haze coils of hot tarmac Subject(s): Cities; Rain CITY ROOFS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roof-tops, roof-tops, what do you cover? Last Line: The driftwood of the town who have no roof-top and no home! Subject(s): Cities; Roofing & Roofers; Urban Life CITY SONG: 3, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She keeps one instant to herself Last Line: That was a child; and he was change Subject(s): Cities CITY SONGS: 1, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if the ways be stone Last Line: After we can do %with darkness, heart on heart Subject(s): Cities CITY SONGS: 2, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think no less of all his pain Last Line: That night is gone, but we have heard %eternal singing in a tomb Subject(s): Cities CITY SONNET, by FLORENCE DAVIDSON STROTHER Poem Text First Line: Watering plants from a wedgewood cup today Last Line: With a tear or two perhaps. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life CITY SQUARE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I had a diploma Last Line: Since they don't like diplomas, not anywhere there. Subject(s): Cities; Education; Job Hunting; Universities & Colleges; Urban Life CITY STREETS, by GERARD JOHN CONFORTI Poem Source First Line: Along the city streets Subject(s): Cities; Streets CITY STREETS AND COUNTRY ROADS, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The city has streets Last Line: Oh, take me away %to the country again! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life CITY SUNSETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Compassionately, tenderly, they throw Last Line: Bathed in light! Subject(s): Cities; Farewell; Travel; Urban Life; Parting; Journeys; Trips CITY SUPERMARKET, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: Not at all super Last Line: And is sold at usurious prices Subject(s): Inner Cities; Markets; Racism CITY THAT WATCHES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: More than monuments Last Line: But a naked body Subject(s): Cities CITY THOUGHT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is this my house, I ask? Last Line: Is it really my soul that keeps its undefiled windows lighted with so calm and patient a lamp? Subject(s): Cities CITY TREES, by VERE DARGAN Poem Text First Line: The trees along our city streets Last Line: Are lovely, gallant things. Subject(s): Cities; Trees; Urban Life CITY TREES, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees along this city street Last Line: I know what sound is there. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Trees; Urban Life CITY VIGNETTE: DAWN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greenish sky glows up in misty reds Last Line: And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY VIGNETTE: DUSK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city's street, a roaring blackened stream Last Line: And over all the pale untroubled skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY VIGNETTE: RAIN AT NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The street-lamps shine in a yellow line Last Line: By the tread of homing feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Rain; Urban Life CITY VISIONS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the blind milton's memory of light Last Line: And open unseen gates with key of gold? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY WAYS, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST Poem Source First Line: Just back %from the country Last Line: What psychiatrist %I needed Subject(s): Cities CITY-SCAPE, by ELENI Z. AUERBACH Poem Source First Line: The yellow-white of wheat fields Last Line: As large as a straight line %driven into sky Subject(s): Cities; Skyscrapers CIVIL WAR, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into my sister's kitchen Last Line: I am forever %committed Subject(s): Cities CLARA TO CLOE; EPISTLE FROM CITY LADY TO COUNTRY COUSIN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear cloe - I'm deeply your debtor Last Line: C. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CLEAN, by ANN TURNER Poem Source First Line: When I was small %like five Last Line: On those clean, %sweet streets Subject(s): Cities CLEARNESS OF MEMORY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And in vain she remembered Last Line: Of those ancestral jews Subject(s): Cities CLOUDS (AGRO ROMANO), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the dead cities Last Line: In the heights of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Heaven; Rome, Italy; Urban Life; Paradise COFFEE SHOP TALK, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Of course he did it Last Line: Of course he did it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COME!, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us blow up the whole business Last Line: But let us wipe out a few hundred millon Subject(s): Cities COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Last Line: The twisted river stopped at the cover of iron. %we burn this city every day. Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor And Laborers COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Do you know me? %I'm that smell Last Line: Hasn't fought %for me Subject(s): Cities; Homeless COMMUTERS, by BETSY GOULD HEARNE Poem Source First Line: Like the city skyline they Last Line: To swaying from straps Subject(s): Cities COMPOSED NEAR THE BAY BRIDGE (AFTER A WILD PARTY), by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amerigo has his finger on the pulse of china Last Line: A few geese winging south; minor officials return home Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Cities COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English COMPOSITION #1, by EULA BISS Poem Source First Line: To be recorded in the morning on a hand-held cassette recorder Last Line: Coney island at night, in the winter, with snow on the wonder wheel Subject(s): Cities CONFESSIONS OF A FLAGELLANT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %my own %body odor Last Line: Guard %hose me %down %good Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CONFESSIONS OF A URINAL, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: One of the worse feelings %besides eating Last Line: Is when your %socks %fall Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CONNIE DEANOVICH, by CONNIE DEANOVICH Poem Source First Line: I am a woman in a red blouse Last Line: A temperamental crystal in the %temperamental sunshine Subject(s): Cities; Self CONSEQUENCES OF WAKING, by VICKIE KARP Poem Source First Line: From a fish store window, on their deathbed of ice Last Line: That falls like bait, like a hundred vowels %in search of a language Subject(s): Cities; Fishing And Fishermen CONSTRUCTION, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: And every time I pass %the building grows up Last Line: Grows this building Subject(s): Cities CONTENTION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I'm content with the sky being blue Last Line: I'm content with the rain & the grave off my back Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CONTRASTES / CONTRASTS, by GLORIA ALVAREZ Poem Source First Line: Interminables, interminable silver gray cylinders Last Line: Of its inhabitants, it's said Subject(s): Cities CONVERSATION WITH MYSELF ON THE CURB, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It's not that I loathe %posturepedic beds Last Line: Of neighborhood youth %setting my clothes on fire Subject(s): Cities; Homeless CONVERSATIONS WITH JOB, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Jobs? %we all have jobs Last Line: You feel %uncomfortable Subject(s): Cities; Homeless COOKIE MALDONADO (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Is the camera on? Last Line: Would you like a cookie from cookie, mr. Ziegel? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOKIE MALDONADO (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I think I see her! Last Line: Would anybody like a cookie? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOKIE MALDONADO (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kristen, kristen, %where are you? Last Line: I don't think he's your type Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOKIE MALDONADO: KRISTEN CLARKE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Girl, you think you're fat? Last Line: What's the matter with you, girl? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOL POOL, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: The park pool %is an isle of cool Last Line: We bask in golden sun Subject(s): Cities COOPER'S HILL, by JOHN DENHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Sure there are poets which did never dream Last Line: And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life COQ D'OR, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain is frozen in the plaza Last Line: Will be tumbling about us. Subject(s): Cities; News; Newspapers; War; Urban Life; Journalism; Journalists CORLETT AVENUE, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: The closed school Last Line: People light fires in barrels and attempt to ward off winter Subject(s): Inner Cities CORN SEED, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: This angle of moon Last Line: Then we greet each other, this old woman and me, %while we listen to %all the movement in my house Subject(s): California; Cities COYOTEPEC, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The women potters Last Line: Is a gesture of woman Subject(s): Cities CRACK, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're more jive than pigmeat Last Line: Sky, but there's no one left %to love you back to earth Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Cities CROSSING OVER, by FRANK MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Nobody walks on the water to get to bklyn Last Line: Stop treating us like we lived in staten island Subject(s): Cities CUENCA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We cities of the river Last Line: Of leaves and trees Subject(s): Cities CUTOVER COUNTRY, by S. C. HAHN Poem Source First Line: Southwest of town, where the montreal river rushes black and cold Last Line: Of earth and darkness and death Subject(s): Cities; Montreal, Canada; Travel DAVID KHALIL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When we lived in the islands Last Line: Maybe then I can heal the hole in my heart Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DAVID KHALIL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Before we arrive, they have asked us Last Line: Just a family atlas? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DAVID KHALIL: JOHNNY NESBITT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My host, johnny, seems nice enough Last Line: Or must I cover my eyes while he drives himself %to drink? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DAWN SONG, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city lifts toward heaven from the continent of sleep Last Line: And the footsteps of early workers are building the streets to the river Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Urban Life; Sunrise DAY AT A TIME, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the line in front of me Last Line: Wheeling, and eating Subject(s): Cities DAY IN THE CITY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dismounting from stools and benches, pouring through bars Last Line: But who now heap under the raised lids, our old lives %before they are cold Subject(s): Cities DAY IN THE COUNTRY, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: The attraction's undeniable. The haystacks lined up Last Line: Find the right distance to see Subject(s): Cities; Country Life DAY OF THE DEAD, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: Here is brooklyn Last Line: Happy for the privilege Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Cities DEAD OF TEGUCIGALPA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And the dead of tegucigalpa Last Line: Of the living Subject(s): Cities DEDICATION, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am irreverently Last Line: The military Subject(s): Cities DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebbs and flows Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel; Urban Life; Avenues; Journeys; Trips DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebb and flow Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel DEPTHS OF YOUR EYES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And in the depths of your eyes Last Line: A weaver %of words Subject(s): Cities DESIRE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not turner's venice Last Line: Abating in the huge green hesitations of the trees Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Urban Life DESIRE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not turner's venice Last Line: The rare acres of stars, the thin wind %abating in the huge green hesitations of the trees Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania DESTINATIONS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark highway is lighted Last Line: Where there is only you. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Love; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips DICTIONARY OF TERMINOLOGY, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It's got to help you out %a bit Last Line: W/ a squeegee %creating my own %job Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DIET TO DIE FOR, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I live on air %and ashes Last Line: Of dirty needles %drinking %my %tears Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DINNER PARTY, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: Ah, life is a reassuring dream that is vivid but comfortably mundane Last Line: Eating a free meal? What are you, some kind of shnook?' Subject(s): Cities DIRE REAR, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I've been rejected %and evicted so many Last Line: Times, I shit doorknobs Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DISCOURSE ON SANITY &WELL BEING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I'm on edge %because I'm on the ledge Last Line: And what I need %to keep on breathing Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DISCOVERING THE PHOTOGRAPH OF LLOYD, EARL, AND PRISCILLA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the great discoveries of my middle age Last Line: Its separate ghost Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cities; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Urban Life DISCOVERING THE PHOTOGRAPH OF LLOYD, EARL, AND PRISCILLA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the great discoveries of my middle age Last Line: Its separate ghost Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Cities DISCOVERY, by MARY D. SPENCE Poem Text First Line: Crowded city streets I trod Last Line: Breathes of immortality. Subject(s): Cities; God; Immortality; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues DISTANCE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I've begun to acquire a taste Last Line: One that I dwell on and now give back Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Cities; Travel DO WHAT YOU CAN, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the church of I am she hears there is a time to heal Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life DO WHAT YOU CAN, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the church of I am she hears there is a time to heal Last Line: The judge, looking down, will smile and say, %'then do what you can.' Subject(s): Cities DOING TIME IN BALTIMORE, by JUDITH BAUMEL Poem Source First Line: In the south of the city on a cold rainy february day Last Line: Our bodies pushing out while the clocks pull in %in a struggle that becomes our dream of days Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Cities DOOMED BRIGHT CITY, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Remembering I had sold the sight Last Line: No epitaph is needed for the race. Subject(s): Apples; Cities; Flowers; Fruit; Urban Life DOORMAN, by PAMELA SUTTON Poem Source First Line: The doorman tries to hail a cab for me. He waves Last Line: For hours; that I will see this the rest of my life Subject(s): Cities; Life; Taxis DOORWAYS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The widows Last Line: Without trails, without graves: %doorways Subject(s): Cities DOWN CENTRAL AVENUE, by MARK COLASURDO Poem Source First Line: The ghosts wail fast and furious here Last Line: Down central avenue Subject(s): Cities; Commuters DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 4 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let's be practical here, folks Last Line: Before we show it off to the world. %I vote no Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 4 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I walk the streets at night Last Line: And walk with me late at night back to my office Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 4 (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The boy? %nothing serious, a sprained wrist Last Line: Who did not find a home in our town Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New york a grey haze with flights of Last Line: Across immeasurable distance Subject(s): Cities; Dragons; Unicorns DRASTIC DARK, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The bureaucracies of monopoly capitalism Last Line: That's trying %to keep %beating Subject(s): Cities; Homeless DREAMING OF FIRE ON THE NIGHT IT RAINED, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I am trapped in a house owned by strangers with white skin. I do not Last Line: Watering the dry, dry wood. For now it is all I can do Subject(s): California; Cities DREAMS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have our dreams; not happiness Last Line: Nor care a penny what we dream Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Urban Life; Nightmares DRESSES: FOUR OF MINE FOR NAIMA BALAHI, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So narrow they seem sewn Last Line: Unable to wear them, unable to part with them Subject(s): Cities DRIFT, by MARY BONINA Poem Source First Line: Tonight the streets are dead Last Line: He is sorry I'm out in the storm Subject(s): Cities DRIFTER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Home is where my harley roars Last Line: I can take yu away from all this.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DRIVE-BY SHOOTING, by ELIZABETH KRAJECK COHEN Poem Source First Line: By the time you read this Last Line: From los angeles, a supernova %will be born Subject(s): Cities DROPOUT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You don't want to know my name Last Line: Nobody knows my name %I'm nobody Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DYSENTERY FOR BEGINNERS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Just as bowls %evict shit Last Line: Like capitalism %is a brutal %motherfucker Subject(s): Cities; Homeless EARLY MORNING IN MIDTOWN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: You can't get me Last Line: No, you can't get me Subject(s): California; Cities EAST OF THE LIBRARY, ACROSS FROM THE ODD FELLOWS BUILDING, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That bummy smell you meet Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life EAST OF THE LIBRARY, ACROSS FROM THE ODD FELLOWS BUILDING, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That bummy smell you meet Last Line: Or the elderly couple from zurich %leafing coolly through their guidebook Subject(s): Cities EAT AT MOE'S, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Crispy, crunchy, golden brown Last Line: As folk chow down at the greasy spoon Subject(s): Cities EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh! Last Line: But that you are the grandest city in scotland at the present day! Subject(s): Cities; Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips EDITH FROMER, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 3 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Whether we like it or not Last Line: Of course I vote yes Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns EDITH FROMER, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 3 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Do I have any doubts? Last Line: We aren't animals, no doubt about it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns EGYPT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And though he will never Last Line: On dangerous journeys Subject(s): Cities ELEGY FOR ALLEN, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue light at eight Last Line: Enter with grace Subject(s): Cities ELEGY FOR MADRID, by CATHERINE RUFFING Poem Source First Line: I carry a city of five million on my back: I'm learning Last Line: My goodbyes before I left. I say them now, a few each day Subject(s): Cities; Spain; Travel ELKHORN CITY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O elkhorn city, little town! Last Line: Around and over you. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Love; Urban Life EMINE AND HAMIDE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have this feeling you were beaufiful Last Line: Of every size and shape and shade Subject(s): Cities EMPTY NEST SYNDROME, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone again Last Line: And I too do %float away Subject(s): Cities ENCHANTED CITY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: When you seek Last Line: Like a remembrance Subject(s): Cities ENFLEURAGE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from a water lily, periplum Last Line: Unconsciously - and, white birds casting a dark shadow, fly out of themselves. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life ENVOI: WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Wind in the park %and the children swing Last Line: In the world of the green Subject(s): Cities EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some fond virgin, whom her mother's care Last Line: Look sow'r, and hum a tune -- as you may now. Variant Title(s): Epistle To Miss Blount, On Her Leaving The Town;to A Young Lady On Her Leaving The Town Subject(s): Absence; Cities; Separation; Isolation; Urban Life ESSAY: THE HANGING PARADOGS SLIP, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an octave between us Last Line: To this you, you take it Subject(s): Cities; Essays; Retail Trade; Urban Life; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers EVEN AFTER SHE LEAVES, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Light has been carried into this house Last Line: To the same dark soil Subject(s): California; Cities EVENSONG, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song is of no importance Last Line: The perfect quiet that comes after rain. Subject(s): Cities; Singing & Singers; Urban Life; Songs EVERYBODY'S READING LI PO' SILKSCREENED ON A PURPLE T-SHIRT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Li po who? Last Line: What a diamond-studded %garter looks like? Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Cities; Li Po (701-762) EXAMPLES, by MARY BONINA Poem Source First Line: Pressed to explain the word 'philosophy' Last Line: He shook my hand' Subject(s): Cities EXPATRIATE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: City towers that have prisoned me Last Line: It will not be a dream! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life EXTENDED REMIX, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They follow you %to the grave Last Line: Which neglected %to pay back %your loans! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FACE TO FACE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long weeks I walked the city's crowded ways Last Line: I meet you, face to face! Subject(s): Cities; Faces; God; Urban Life FALLEN CITIES, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gathered with a careless hand Last Line: By silent hill and idle bay! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FAR AWAY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is weeping as is customary and good Last Line: Lover no children no poetry Subject(s): Cities; Grief; New York City; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FAT-FREE SUGGESTIONS FROM THE STATE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Wash the soot off your rusty ass Last Line: Strain the fat from your water %shower %shit %shave Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FATE OF A WOULD-BE FEMINIST OBSERVED FROM A STREET CORNER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: She was abducted %by traffic cops Last Line: For pronouncing %menage a trois %mangy twat Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FATHER'S STORY, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Each night the boy cries. The next morning a tiny white stone Last Line: One stone our name Subject(s): California; Cities FIAT LUX, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Static from the radio stippled gray as anesthesia dream Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FIAT LUX, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Static from the radio stippled gray as anesthesia dream Last Line: The city floated %distant and celestial, brutal in its own rung music Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities FIELD I STAND BEFORE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I spent so many years crouching Last Line: In this wet, sore skin Subject(s): California; Cities FIELD TRIP, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: Downtown, on the precinct wall Last Line: A policeman, here a crook. Here's a picture %of where I live, my street, my red dress. %our planet, Subject(s): Cities FINALLY NARCISSA, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl has found herself Last Line: Her thoughts like wild vines Subject(s): Cities FINIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the torch-lit city of finias that flames on Last Line: Here! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Fire; Immortality; Laughter; Secrets; Urban Life FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE LASTING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: You see me as %a puddle of piss Last Line: That says %this could %be %you Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FISH, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I enter %to know the sound Last Line: But is hardly spoken %out loud Subject(s): California; Cities FISH IN CHAINS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the hudson across manhattan to the triborough Last Line: It nearly rained that's what people had to say Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Love - Unrequited; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FIVE NIGHTS OF RAIN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Open-throated, %wanting more Last Line: Hear me, so %relentless the rain Subject(s): California; Cities FLASH, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Signs on 42nd street %flash Last Line: Fighting hard %to explode Subject(s): Cities FLATLANDERS, by MONICA YOUN Poem Source First Line: Here the sky's all spreading belly Last Line: Trying to shoot the fireworks out of the sky Subject(s): Cities; Sky FLOOD, by FRANCESCA ABBATE Poem Source First Line: Here is the city of desire, city without roofs Last Line: The dark sky marked by thin, white clouds. %the geese climbing Subject(s): Cities; Floods FLORENTINO DIAZ, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Has already figured out Last Line: A greeting nobody else could see Subject(s): California; Cities FLOWER DAY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: On flower day the gardens came Last Line: On flower day. Subject(s): Cities; Poverty; Urban Life FOGHORNS, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: The foghorns moaned Last Line: Crying in its sleep Subject(s): Cities FOR MY DAUGHTERS, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They call each other Last Line: See we tender %women %live %on Subject(s): Cities FOR POETS WHO WANNA BE COMEDIANS WHEN WE DYIN &AIN'T A DAMN THING...., by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Oh ha ha hee hee %hoo hoo ho ho Last Line: -ha-ha-ha- %ain't that a bitch %we dyin Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FOR THAT DAY ONLY; NEW YORK, JUNE 11, 1883, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: Daybreak, and she left her poppy-seed roll Last Line: The next day and the next one and the next Subject(s): Cities; New York City FOR THE NEW WORLD, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Last Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Chicago; Cities; Urban Life FOR THE NEW WORLD, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Last Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Chicago; Cities FOREBODING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why do these tragic fancies throng Last Line: The way is pity, margaret. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; God; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FORECAST, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In my youth %I aspired to be %a weatherman Last Line: From head to toe %in skin flakes Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FORGETTING, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Exiled brutally Last Line: For the returns home Subject(s): Cities FORGIVING THE TRAVELER, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every five years his love Last Line: Sometime I'll be real Subject(s): Cities FORTUNE COOKIES FOR THE RICH, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: After every meal %may you be overcome Last Line: & see things %from my %perspective Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FOUR HAIKU (AFTER TALKING WITH DAVID), by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: It begins here -- %young men vanish in the night Last Line: It commands no one Subject(s): California; Cities FOURTEEN, by NORA LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: Shouting back at the macho men Last Line: But the bullshit excited me anyway Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers FRAGMENT (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of a city, how awful at midnight! Last Line: Of her huge temples. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A SUBTERRANEAN CITY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I followed once a fleet and mighty serpent Last Line: Whose earthquake-shaken leaves bore graves for nests. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FRANK AND MARILYN LANGER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Honey, I know you're tired Last Line: Picking up our package marked 'special delivery.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns FREDDIE, IN MEMORIAM, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to know a man Last Line: The way I never did %before Subject(s): Cities FREEWAY, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: An infected vein %carrying filth to and from the city Last Line: To enclose the view %and muffle the screams Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Berkeley, California; Cities FRIENDSHIP, by RICHARD LOURIE Poem Source First Line: Ron and gary have aids - gary will die Last Line: So good-bye gary - here's a kiss on the cheek Subject(s): Cities FROM AN AIRPLANE, SELS., by HARRY BEHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night settles on earth Last Line: A nest of fireflies Subject(s): Cities FROM FOUR HETTIES, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is for hettie barnes Last Line: Forty years later I send the same Subject(s): Cities FROM THE CITY, by ALLAN UPDEGRAFF Poem Text First Line: On every side the endless, hurrying press Last Line: And yet not all; one lacking -- can you guess? Subject(s): Cities; Yale University; Urban Life FROM THE TRAIN WINDOW, by GRACE MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Lost children, and hurt dogs Last Line: The great dumps of the city! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FUEGO, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where this train stops not even the engineer Last Line: Tenuous glow in the caldron of its calloused hands Subject(s): Cities FURTHER COMPLAINTS FROM AN UNGRATEFUL TENANT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Eviction %eviction %what's your %prescription Last Line: Except for dogs %they always leave %something Subject(s): Cities; Homeless FURTHER DELIBERATIONS ON DEATH, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: All rise! %this court is now in session Last Line: At a later date %if need be %order in the court! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless GABRIELA'S ELQUI, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And on heavy Last Line: And she is singing Subject(s): Cities GARDENIAS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And first comes a fragrance wafting Last Line: Wild, abandoned %love Subject(s): Cities GATHERING OF OLD WINOS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: -my first wife %was a pack of pall malls Last Line: She got her own self pregnant %and delivered the baby as well Subject(s): Cities; Homeless GEBIR: 5, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a fair city, courted then by kings Last Line: "take this,"" she cried, ""and gebir is no more." Variant Title(s): Masar Subject(s): Cities; Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Urban Life; Dead, The GEORGE AND EMILY GIBSON, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Honey, I know you're tired Last Line: It'll be all right, you'll see Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns GHAZAL FROM THE DROWNED CITY, by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: A map of the stars is an icon Last Line: Of waiting, the purple-robed advent of cold Variant Title(s): Another Ghazal From The Drowned Cit Subject(s): Cities; Drowning GHAZAL FROM THE DROWNED CITY: LINES WRITTEN UNDER THE GILT AND ...., by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: I set myself adrift under the piecemeal, puzzled Last Line: Who can keep strict account of all the tides have taken and given %these days? Subject(s): Cities; Drowning; Water; Weather GIFT AND COUNTRY IN THE FALL: A LONG-DISTANCE ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morrison. Hello! Hello! Is that you, wetherbee? Last Line: Later, you'd better look for us in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Country Life; Seasons; Fall; Urban Life GLASGOW, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, poet, 'tis a merry world Last Line: Dwells in thy noise and smoky breath. Subject(s): Cities; Glasgow, Scotland; Urban Life GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Fascism is a virtual reality Last Line: To be so %unfortunate Subject(s): Cities; Homeless GOOD FRIDAY. DRIVING WESTWARD, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain. Rain that will not end Last Line: This endless road with all the others. %night and night's eternity coming on Subject(s): Cities GOOD OLD PAINT, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car shows my hand Last Line: And me %I burn rubber Subject(s): Cities GOOD SHEPHERD: ATLANTA, 1981, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I lift the boy's body Last Line: Only god is never satisfied Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Cities GOOD THIEF SPEAKS AGAIN, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I guess you're wondering %what I'm doing Last Line: But from here on end: %consider me a political prisoner Subject(s): Cities; Homeless GRAFFITI, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I read a sad poem %on the wall Last Line: Who has to use a wall %to write a poem Subject(s): Cities GRANADA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I too went Last Line: In an eclipse %of poetry Subject(s): Cities GRAVEL PATHS, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: I feel crinkled when I walk on gravel paths Last Line: And sneaker-shod %up many gravel paths Subject(s): Cities GREEN PLACES IN THE CITY, by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye fill my heart with gladness, verdant places Last Line: We, by these glimpses, may remember thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth Subject(s): Cities; Gardens & Gardening; Urban Life GREETING, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The boy with yellow hair Last Line: Pleased as he calls out, 'tonto.' Subject(s): California; Cities GROTESQUE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city has tits in rows Last Line: Against her stomach. Subject(s): Cities GROWING ROOM, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: My room is small Last Line: A room to grow %in love and grace Subject(s): Cities HALT ON THE CANAL, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Now, -- passing the place where old men and women congregate Last Line: Dim earth of the fields of colzas shine like blows of light Subject(s): Canals; China; Cities HAND DANCING, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Friday nights, my parents Last Line: I bet they were really something Subject(s): Cities HAND-ME_DOWNS RIGHT OVER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I often wear %dead people's clothes Last Line: In exchange %for a %quarter Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HANDOUTS FROM THE CHURCH, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It must be sobering %to know that Last Line: It must be sobering %not having to see me Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HANDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In your hands Last Line: The flesh of desire Subject(s): Cities HARBOR LIGHTS, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm coming home through the red lacquered lobby Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HARBOR LIGHTS, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm coming home through the red lacquered lobby Last Line: Of appearances behind her window, %her glaze of rain, her veil Subject(s): Cities HARD DRIVE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday the stuffed bears were up again Variant Title(s): Untitled (teddy Bears On The Highway) Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HARD DRIVE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday the stuffed bears were up again Last Line: To drive my car in any direction Variant Title(s): Untitled (teddy Bears On The Highway Subject(s): Cities HARE KRISHNA HAUTE COUTURE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hare krishna hang their robes Last Line: Of those of us who offer up our %bloomers to the city Subject(s): Cities HARLAN JONES, EDITOR, HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Editorial: %at last week's town council meeting, we noted with inter Last Line: Have much to show and tell them. We hope it will be a week- %end they never forget Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HARLAN JONES, EDITOR, HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Editorial %one death, %one life Last Line: The one that did not take care of its children Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HARLAN JONES, EDITOR, HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Editor's note Last Line: Named 'the a tones' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HAVING BEEN HER, by HETTIE JONES Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the bus Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HAVING BEEN HER, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the bus Last Line: Having been her %befriend her Subject(s): Cities HEAD DOWN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He knows he can't play the flute Last Line: He'll have enough to pay for bite and bed Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Cities; Homeless; Music And Musicians HEADLIGHTS, by NORA LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: The lights from the fdr drive streak by Last Line: They're not thinking about me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 6, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then up the ladder of the earth I climbed Last Line: Cleansing the lonely precinct of the stone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Cities; Mountain Climbing; Stones HENRY MADDOX, PASTOR, NEW DELIVERENCE CHURCH (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: God loves a cheerful giver.' Last Line: He should be made of whole cloth Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HENRY MADDOX, PASTOR, NEW DELIVERENCE CHURCH (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've come down to the jail to see Last Line: I got a few vcrs to fix, winter's comin' soon Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HICKS MANOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I sit just north of town Last Line: You can hear me breathing Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HIGHLIGHTS OF A BEGGAR'S RESUME, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: His high school %senior class Last Line: Bottles %to make %a full beer Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HILL OF BEANS, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One spring the circus gave Last Line: Beyond the tracks, the city blazed %as if looks were everything Subject(s): Cities HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 1, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are fighting this morning Last Line: In the small deserted pool Subject(s): Cities HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 2, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture this Last Line: In that green %country Subject(s): Cities HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 3. JUSTICE IS JUST ICE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in a silent house Last Line: Freedom from fear Subject(s): Cities HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 4. ALPHA AGAINST APARTHEID, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A for the thing itself and its antithesis anc Last Line: Z azania, who still a again and again allow it Subject(s): Cities HISTORY OF WAR IN FIVE ACTS: 5. SARAJEVO 1995, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's warm here in the sun Last Line: Their fading, year-old traces Subject(s): Cities HOBOKEN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: In the middle %of the jersey junction viaduct Last Line: Like he owned the empty, sleeping city %in his head Subject(s): Cities HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, / california: / a summer afternoon Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Gays & Lesbians; Lakes; Los Angeles; Urban Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Pools; Ponds HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, %california: %a summer afternoon Last Line: Snaps a photograph %of the splash Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Homosexuality; Lakes; Los Angeles HOMAGE TO FRANK O'HARA'S PERSONAL POEM, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over and over the mind returns Last Line: Over and over Subject(s): Cities HOME: DEEP, TO THE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All the way home. Home at last. Home free Subject(s): Cities HOMELESS SUE COPS FOR KIDNAPPING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In the wealthiest cities %in the richest country Last Line: Abduct rich people %off downtown streets Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HOMING INSTINCT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There we see him, driving Last Line: And mix it with his nerves, %and make it honey Subject(s): Cities HONOLULU, by ROBERT MAZZOCCO Poem Source First Line: There are quays here Last Line: In plumeria leaves and red chiffon %waves a farewell and a huge black taxi departs Subject(s): Cities; Honolulu HORIZONS, by CHRISTIE JEFFRIES Poem Text First Line: Where canyon walls of cities rise Last Line: Immeasurable and limitless. Subject(s): Cities; Walls; Urban Life HORIZONTAL SNAPSHOTS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A big %buzz %w/ propellers Last Line: Snapshots %from an epileptic %eyelash Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HOT THOUGHT, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: The idea that something called Last Line: Before they both melt Subject(s): Cities; Ponce De Leon, Juan (1460-1521); Puerto Rico; West Indies HOTTER THAN JULY, 1982, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the messengers and me Last Line: Lookin good and movin fast Subject(s): Cities HOUDINI HOLDS THE WORLD, by BECKY RODIA Poem Source First Line: When he'd screwed the last Last Line: On the backs of his hands %they floated willfully into the palms Subject(s): Cities; Hallucinations And Illusions; Magic HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Body found in lake Last Line: Down a ravine, killing three and injuring ten Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Manager of grand royale set to leave Last Line: Manager until a replacement for mr. Clarke can be found Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INSERT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Antiques and christmas shop Last Line: It hasn't been made yet.' %lake st Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HUNGER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Each day my shadow %loses weight Last Line: With little %or no choices Subject(s): Cities; Homeless HURON AVENUE, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: In the lenghtening shadows of the downtown skyscrapers and early evenings Last Line: The season souvenir sellers that have sprouted, weedlike, on the sidewalk Subject(s): Inner Cities I CREATE MY OWN JOB, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I collect tips %at atms Last Line: Hey, dude, %all life does %is prolong death' %and slaps me five Subject(s): Cities; Homeless I DO TOO, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I know some of you %would like %to throw Last Line: For something %I do too Subject(s): Cities; Homeless I NEVER HEAR MYSELF SLEEPING, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Never know what triggers Last Line: My tiny jagged grin Subject(s): California; Cities I SAW THREE TEMPLES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three temples, dead and desolate, Last Line: And all about them blooms the flower of death! Subject(s): Cities; Paestum, Italy; Temples; Urban Life; Mosques I SEE A TRUCK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a truck mowing down a parade Last Line: Working for a living Subject(s): Cities; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers I SEE A TRUCK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a truck mowing down a parade Last Line: It is a holiday called %'working for a living' Subject(s): Cities; Labor And Laborers I SOUGHT A GARDEN OF BONES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I've come seeking these Last Line: Give me my bones, my captain Subject(s): Cities I WENT AMONG THE MEAN STREETS, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beware. There will be judgment, %with witnesses Subject(s): Cities IDEAL CITY, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Set in the silence of pure perspective Last Line: With the scarlet graffiti of laughter Subject(s): Cities; Italy; Pleasure IN A CITY PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stretch of lawn as smooth as happiness Last Line: A beauty, and a promise, and a dream. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Parks; Sin; Urban Life IN A ROOM NAMED SHIMMER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The woman folds underwear Last Line: And longing more insistent Subject(s): California; Cities IN A STRANGE CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk-and a hunger for your face Last Line: And I am lonelier than ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness IN AMERICA YELLOW IS STILL AN INSULT, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I want to know why cowards are called yellow Last Line: And know the legacy of insult Subject(s): California; Cities IN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write a hall Last Line: And I write with time in my one %good hand Subject(s): Cities IN CITIES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cities you watch the way of wind with smoke Last Line: Delights deeper than any a city divines. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Hearts; Memory; Trees; Urban Life IN CITY PENT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, sweet at this sweet hour to wander free Last Line: Dancing and prancing in mad caprioles. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN DUBROVNIK, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In dubrovnik Last Line: In windstorms Subject(s): Cities IN HEAVEN'S ALLEY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tap the double drop Last Line: The limb of a birch %stitch another white sail in the rain Subject(s): Cities; City Traffic; Escapes IN MEMORIAM, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, my heart burned Last Line: Eyeing its own horizons Subject(s): Cities IN OAXACA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And though you weren't with me Last Line: And silver wedding rings Subject(s): Cities IN OTHER NEWS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source Last Line: Clarence thomas declares: %'I'm no uncle tom!!!' Subject(s): Cities; Homeless IN PRAISE OF CITIES, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indifferent to the indifference that conceived her Last Line: Extreme, material, and the work of man Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Cities IN PRAISE OF NEW YORK, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: As we rise above it, row after row Last Line: Where for weeks they will dream of our faces %drenched with an unbelievable light Subject(s): Cities; New York City IN THE CITY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away from the silent hills and the talking of Last Line: And under her shadowed hair the gardens of paradise. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN THE DARK CITY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a harper plays Last Line: The passion and sorrow of the eternal doom? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight she brings Last Line: Her shining %black eyes Subject(s): Cities IN THE FIRE LANE, by THULANI DAVIS Poem Source First Line: We are deadly decadent anarchists Last Line: To move up the street %that goes there Subject(s): Cities IN THE INNER CITY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like we call it %home Subject(s): Cities; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE METRO, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Around here %you don't know %what will take %you out Last Line: In this life %death has %many dis %guises Subject(s): Cities; Homeless IN THIS CITY, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: This city has even got the machine Last Line: Or elsewhere. Come, the switch is on Subject(s): Cities IN TOWN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toiling in town now is 'horrid' Last Line: Toiling in town now is 'horrid.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN TOWN, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: We dwellers on the city street Last Line: Or roof of thatch. Subject(s): Cities; Towns; Urban Life INCISORS OF DAWN, by VICKI HUDSPITH Poem Source First Line: Hello darkness %I wake to sleep Last Line: By not even trying to blend in %with their surroundings Subject(s): Cities INLAND CITY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lies far inland, and no stick nor stone of her Last Line: Moor in my little boats vigilantly! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life INLAND CITY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lies far inland, and no stick nor stone of her Last Line: But ye walls and gateposts, and ye halls and gardens, %moor in my little boats vigilantly! Subject(s): Cities INSCRIPTION FOR A CITY'S GATE OF WARRIORS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not the shadow! Open, lofty gate Last Line: Stains of clear blood from sandals steeped in red. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Kisses; Lips; War; Urban Life; Dead, The INSIDE THE CITY, by AMY KENNA Poem Source First Line: You wake up one morning %you realize that you are in a city. The sprawl Last Line: And then you %stop worrying Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE GUILLOTINE FOR THOSE WHO CRAVE NICOTINE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They got a %cure & a pill Last Line: Capitalism is more hazardous %to your health any day Subject(s): Cities; Homeless INVESTIGATING 1: JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I didn't see her all night.' Last Line: Maybe her father picked her up.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns INVESTIGATING 2: JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: So what do I have? Last Line: I'll be right down, you just stay put Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns INVISIBLE BODIES, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: Turning the corner of the street Last Line: To the girl under the twirling parasol Subject(s): Cities; Life IRMA MULLER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Irma muller Last Line: In a bed %of flowers Subject(s): Cities ISLA NEGRA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: On isla negra Last Line: To the origin of things Subject(s): Cities IVORY, by MARIO LUZI Poem Source First Line: The ever-dark cypress is alive Last Line: Never to be heaped with flowers Subject(s): Cities; Travel IVY LANE (A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LOVE SONG), by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivy lane in devon Last Line: That's the place for me! Subject(s): Cities; Devonshire, England; London; Love; Urban Life J'S THE JUMPING JAY-WALKER, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the traffic into jam Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities JANUARY IN DETROIT OR SEARCH FOR TOMORROW STARRING KEN & ANN, by KEN MIKOLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: I think it is interesting Last Line: Though not exactly amusing Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan JASON PALMER (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've known the same group of kids for so long Last Line: I figure it's time for me and my friends to check %her out Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JASON PALMER (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kwame? %what kind of name is that? Last Line: Not that there's anything wrong with that Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JASON PALMER (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The train track Last Line: And he takes the next train back home? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JAZZ FAN LOOKS BACK, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crisscrossed with monk Last Line: Jazz at the philharmonic Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music And Musicians JERUSALEM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem, %city with her Last Line: Dreams of peace Subject(s): Cities JERUSALEM II, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Wake up Last Line: Bound returns Subject(s): Cities JERUSALEM OF THE SILENCES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In an old worn silence Last Line: Behind the stones Subject(s): Cities JESUS TURNS ASPHALT INTO BREAD, by HAYAN CHARARA Poem Source First Line: Interstate 94, at milepost 210 Last Line: I've been doing this my entire life Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan JEWS OF DUBROVNIK, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The twenty - two jews of dubrovnik Last Line: And embracing they remain forever in the fire's %silence Subject(s): Cities JOE FROMER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Happened like this, john Last Line: You gonna arrest anybody soon, john? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHANNESBURG JACARANDA, by MARY FERRARI Poem Source First Line: The city of johannesburg violently rejects Last Line: Of numerous sons and daughters %beneath fading jacarandas Subject(s): Cities JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My name is john erikson Last Line: But now we are fully awake, screaming bloody murder Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Ziegl, annie Last Line: You have a good time, you hear? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yes? %yes, ned Last Line: Everything'll be all right Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Guess I'll head over to the school Last Line: Wonder if they remembered to turn off the lights in the gym Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Look, I can hold the boy for twenty-four hours Last Line: You better go, ollie. I got work to do Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I don't know if we're speaking the same language Last Line: We got all the time in the world Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (7), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Son, %listen, I have a boy of my own Last Line: He doesn't speak to me either Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (8), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You hear on the news whenever they catch a murderer Last Line: It can't be you, oliver, can it? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (9), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kwame, you can go home now Last Line: Kwame, you aren't guilty of anything. %we are Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE: DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER 4, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Evening, doc Last Line: And see to my new patients Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Ms. Gardiner, I really can't take yur history test Last Line: Maybe they should just bring back prohibition Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father used to take me fishing Last Line: He doesn't have the time for it anymore Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My parents split up 'bout three years ago Last Line: It's the first thing we've done together in years Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Well, it's me and mom here Last Line: Hey, I think I can see the bus coming in now Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOLENE HANKS, OWNER, HUDSON HARDWARE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: To the summer people, looking for the simpler life Last Line: This time they're real Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOLENE HANKS, OWNER, HUDSON HARDWARE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: We knew about %the stories that hover over this town like a fog Last Line: And turned the other way Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOTTINGS: THE EDGE OF THE POSSIBLE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vast is the city, concealing fires behind its walls, its Last Line: Tripping along, breathless, on the edge of the possible. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life JOURNEY, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: Day after day %the caravans move through the hot sun Last Line: As if ahead somewhere near destination; %and somewhere stillness Subject(s): Caravans; Cities; Roads; Travel JOY OF SOCKS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I once gave %a pair of socks Last Line: To put them on %his burning bleeding feet Subject(s): Cities; Homeless JUBILEE SONG, by JAMES NORTH Poem Text First Line: All hail to atlantic! This festival 'wakens Last Line: Move to the strains of the glad jubilee. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean JUDGMENT & CRITICISM, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I know, I know: %my reputation precedes me Last Line: Take your time, %I don't mean to pester you Subject(s): Cities; Homeless KARMIC NEWS FLASH, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A twins tower %five alarm fire Last Line: &roasting marshmellows %with rodents %in their mouths Subject(s): Cities; Homeless KATHMANDU, by SAMRAT UPADHYAY Poem Source First Line: 2 a.M. When the city streets Last Line: We are beautiful, they think Subject(s): Cities; Morning; Streets KATIE FUNG (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That's my mother Last Line: Just let my mother try to reach me %there Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KATIE FUNG (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father thinks I am a china star Last Line: There are a lot more stars visible, %shining brilliantly Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KEEP DRIVING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Atsuko / steering her smooth burgundy car Last Line: Leave. Subject(s): Cities; Driving & Drivers; Japan; Streets; Urban Life; Japanese; Avenues KEYS TO THE CITY, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fascinating compelling Last Line: In the harmattan %of your head Subject(s): Cities KRISTEN CLARKE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I was eight when I lost Last Line: Pick me, pick me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, %I think I hear footsteps Last Line: Do you think im being paranoid? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, daddy, you were worried? Last Line: Oh, daddy, you were worried? %that's so silly Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I chase the horizon once more Last Line: And not limp back, ashamed, to hudson landing, %after nightfall Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: There's not much to do in hudson landing Last Line: Their fragile, sad messages to the world Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When my boyfriend and me make love Last Line: Maybe there'll be a couple of cute guys on it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KUMQUAT SEED DANCER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Last night I saw Last Line: My own face %recognized in gesture Subject(s): California; Cities KWAME RICHARDS (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I bury my head in my studies once more Last Line: And not crawl back, ignorant, to the projects %after nightfall Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I was eight when the fire Last Line: We moved to the projects the next month Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: From the window in my building, high up Last Line: The view from my window, high up Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am not a slave on the niger Last Line: I really hope he is color-blind Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Ja... %son Last Line: Me... %please Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What's up with this? Last Line: I didn't do anything, %I swear it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (7), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Ziegel, you know me, you taught me Last Line: You think I need a lawyer? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (8), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I can go home now? Last Line: I can't wait Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS: JASON PALMER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was in the ninth grade Last Line: Black and white Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LA NOCHE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind let loose in the dark Last Line: For the long journey across a room Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life LAST NIGHT IN ELVISVILLE, by LYDIA TOMKIW Poem Source First Line: Even memphis smells pretty Last Line: So much wanting whatever we can get Subject(s): Cities; Memphis, Tennessee; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) LAST PASSENGER PIGEON IN THE CINCINNATI ZOO, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: An annulment of a species is as keen Last Line: Case of an unfolding species unwinding, beautifully Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Cities; Zoos LAST REQUEST, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In the event %that I shit Last Line: Off my feet %on the white house lawn Subject(s): Cities; Homeless LATER, by BRENDA COULTAS Poem Source First Line: Thought I'd never 'look like money.' (august 1, 2001) Last Line: Table in trash can and walked away. (september 4, 2001, houston & %elizabeth) Subject(s): Cities LATIN MUSIC IN NEW YORK, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poet's Biography First Line: Made me dance with you Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans; Urban Life; Latinos LATIN MUSIC IN NEW YORK, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Made me dance with you Last Line: You %and %you Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans LATIN NIGHT AT THE PAWNSHOP, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The apparition of a salsa band Last Line: Like the city morgue ticket %on a dead man's toe Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans LAUNDROMAT, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: When the laundromat opens %at seven-thirty Last Line: I were still three months old Subject(s): Cities LAW, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I can't panhandle in the subway Last Line: Nor can I %afford %to die Subject(s): Cities; Homeless LAZY RUSS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I've walked %through %many rooms Last Line: Open wound %of street graters Subject(s): Cities; Homeless LAZY THOUGHT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There go the grownups Last Line: Of slow %to grow Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Cities LECTURE ON ART & EATING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In the new york winter %which lasts 12 months Last Line: It beats eating %glass Subject(s): Cities; Homeless LESSONS, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At park place you make out Last Line: And the whole future of the race Subject(s): Cities LESSONS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Always start with the male children Last Line: And shoes for their feet Subject(s): California; Cities LETTER FROM A CITY DWELLER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only from islands can you shape a city Last Line: When you haven't caught sight of a smile in ages, %don't hestitate. Take passage for the city Subject(s): Cities LETTER FROM NEW YORK, by JOANNA FUHRMAN Poem Source First Line: Black buckets of frogs absorb Last Line: Green jell-o into the emerald city mold Subject(s): Cities LETTER TO A GHETTO BOY THREE THOUSAND MILES AWAY, by ANNIE LEE Poem Source First Line: I tried to forget you, boy Last Line: Love of my innocence, even after I left, flew away like you said and tried to forget Subject(s): Cities; Ghettos; High School Students; Letters; Teenagers LEXICON, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Try not to be insulted Last Line: Don't expect them to ask us our real names. %don't even try Subject(s): California; Cities LIE-AWAKE SONGS: 2, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: The city is so kind to me Last Line: Or is it just -- the city? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life LIES AND LONGING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women; Urban Life; Greeks LIES AND LONGING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor Last Line: It's thirtieth street and hot and no sun Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women LIGHT LUNCH, by ROSALYN STEWART Poem Source First Line: The city is rouged with roses Last Line: Leaving its film on my fingers Subject(s): Cities; Lunch LIKE CITIES, LIKE STORMS, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A foot off the ground, / but holding Subject(s): Cities; Music & Musicians; Memory LINE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Packages under her arm Last Line: Is coming and every step is taking %her deeper into the new world Subject(s): Cities LINES TO ACCOMPANY FLOWERS FOR EVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea Last Line: Though once we lay and waited for a death. Subject(s): Cities; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Flowers; Hospitals; Women; Women's Rights; Urban Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Feminism LINES WRITEN IN A PITTSBURGH SKYSCRAPER, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: It has taken me three years Last Line: Carnal, mute, wholly flowing, %unburdened toward a distant shore Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania LITTLE L. A. VILLANELLE, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: I drove home that night in the rain Last Line: After months of drought, the old refrain Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles LITTLE LIGHT VERSE FOR HELENE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was the first verse about us Last Line: We take hold %take the light %heart Subject(s): Cities LIVING ALONE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: You take the homeless guy Last Line: Cooking as you climb the stairs Subject(s): Cities; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LOLITA ROSENBAUM (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It's been a bad week Last Line: I wonder, did thoreau ever have to take the sat's? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LOLITA ROSENBAUM (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I first saw valerie van garp Last Line: I think we're gonna get along just great Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LOLITA ROSENBAUM: VALERIE VAN GARP, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Val, let me tell you about the city Last Line: Sometimes I feel I'm just full of crap Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LONDON, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let shepherds carol of the pearly mead Last Line: The human soul not yet regenerate. Subject(s): Cities; London; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Urban Life LONDON BY LAMPLIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There stands a singer in the street Last Line: That throngs the shameless song this night! Subject(s): Cities; London; Singing & Singers; Urban Life LONELINESS IS..., by BRITTANY BRUCE Poem Source First Line: Cold like wet sand Last Line: Loneliness is Subject(s): Cities LONG WAY FROM HERE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Two boys sleep %by the trunk of a banyan tree Last Line: Fall asleep in each other's arms, %lightheaded and full Subject(s): California; Cities LOOK AT HOW WE LIVE, LOOK AT HOW WE DIE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't happen that death's door Last Line: And he was only one, only one Subject(s): Cities LOS ANGELES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that city we were perfect Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles; Urban Life LOS ANGELES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that city we were perfect Last Line: At times, we hover over, knowing, %helpless, looking on Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles LOSS AND WASTE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up to far osteroe and suderoe Last Line: To see the lost things found, and waste things used. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Loss; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean LOTTIE AND OSCAR, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to think of them dancing Last Line: Can I forgive them their battle Subject(s): Cities LOU'S BARBERSHOP, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Inside the storefront, snake plants thrive Last Line: I feel as if I'm a prince on a throne Subject(s): Cities LOVE AND HATE, by CRISTINA FELIPE Poem Source First Line: Oh hate! Last Line: Oh how I wish it were over Subject(s): Cities LUCILE SWINTON, PARENTS' COMMITTEE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The students from tower will have a good time Last Line: Too many choices confuse people Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LUCKY NUMBERS, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Before uncle zeke rises from bed Last Line: Wonder if that means I'll get 100? Subject(s): Cities LUNCH POEMS: 1, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The departed ad exec has left Last Line: The past retreating %flies %living %dying Subject(s): Cities LUNCH POEMS: 2. GRAY DIRECT, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Striated clouds Last Line: A slow, continous %pace Subject(s): Cities MADAME LA GRIPPE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the seas meet the land, and the land quits the seas Last Line: So providence shield us from madame la grippe! Subject(s): Cities; Sickness; United States; Urban Life; Illness; America MAKING A LIVING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When a man lives in a city addicted to lies,' he said Last Line: Out of the eternal verities Subject(s): Cities; Lies; Truth MAN ON A FIRE ESCAPE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He couldn't remember what propelled him Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life MAN ON A FIRE ESCAPE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He couldn't remember what propelled him Last Line: Like a warning-icy, long-forgotten- %while he turned back to an empty room. Subject(s): Cities MAN WITH THE SAXOPHONE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york. 5 a.M. Last Line: Each note a black flower, %opening, mercifully opening %into the unforgiving new day Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music And Musicians MAN'S PLANS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat beside me by the fire, and chattered Last Line: "abroad,"" and didn't need to take his wad." Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Urban Life MANHATTAN LULLABY, by NORMA FARBER Poem Source First Line: Lulled by rumble, babble, beep Last Line: Lulled by rumble, babble, beep Subject(s): Cities MANHATTAN SPECIAL, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tracking this afternoon's last Last Line: Windfall %new year %blowing Subject(s): Cities MAP OF THE CITY, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand upon a hill and see Last Line: I would not have the risk diminished Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Cities MARGIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the city of caricature and mocking distortion Last Line: Mortal and venial sin Subject(s): Cities; Homeless; Religion MATINAL SURVEY OF THE CITY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: O justly made divine, unclose thy hands, sweet dawn, those fingers Last Line: Sweet to me, against white walls the sound of all these shutters blue! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Cities; Spring; Urban Life MEADOW, by MARIANNE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: This evening the meadow seems the essential thing Last Line: It is a meadow %true, but there's a city on top of it Subject(s): Cities; Politics MELINDA KURTZ (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Well, well, will you take a look at that? Last Line: Maybe she's got a secret like mine Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I hate the cold Last Line: Maybe my baby will look like kristen Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I meet stella Last Line: Forever in hudson landing Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Thank you for the chair, miss carter Last Line: I can't wait to get out on that floor Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ: STELLA CHURCH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, this is so lovely Last Line: Hurry, I don't wanna have this kid in the bathroom Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MEMORIES OF EATING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Once for lunch %I mauled %a lady's %shoe Last Line: Leafing through %for wall street journal Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MESSAGE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: City toilers in tumult and noise Last Line: See, you have missed all the daisies! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips METAPHYSICIANS OF SOUTH JERSEY, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because in large cities the famous truths Last Line: About this place and what a world it was Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Physicians MICHAEL PERRIN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother knocks on my door Last Line: You will never know where the road will take you.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MICHAEL PERRIN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Ziegel, I'm having second thoughts about this trip Last Line: Maybe something interesting will happen Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MIDDLEBROOK, by EDWARD C. JONES Poem Text First Line: The lowly huts of middlebrook Last Line: Nor by their sons be lost. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life MIRAGE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a city islanded in light Last Line: Clear to the eyes, lost to the feet of men. Subject(s): Cities; Mirages; Urban Life MISPLACED SYMPATHY, by ZOE H. FELDWISCH Poem Text First Line: Poor city man! I pity you Last Line: Your unseeing eyes need my sympathy! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Sympathy; Urban Life; Empathy MOMENT OF TRUTH, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pure poetry of paranoia was his as he emerged Last Line: Of the cause: the die of a board game lost in a grate Subject(s): Cities MONMOUTH, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, in silks and laces Last Line: Wander awhile with me. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life MONOTONY OF A HUNGER ARTIST, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Playing my ribcage like a xylophone for quarters Last Line: I work my way from subway car to subway car Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MOONRISE ON MANHATTAN; FOR LOUIS H. WETMORE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Out in the harbour, silence and the moon Last Line: In coronation on manhattan's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cities; Moon; New York City; Night; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Did you ever %ride an elevator %with piss %in it Last Line: Staring outside the window %of your favorite restaurant %at me Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MOTHER AMERICA (FOR CHUCK WACHTEL), by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If two strong women in lycra tights Last Line: O mother america, find %the grace %to instruct us Subject(s): Cities MOTHER MOON, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother moon surfs the sky Last Line: Mother moon rides high %we too %we change Subject(s): Cities MOTHER'S DAY POEM TO MYSELF, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Your cord took ten days to fall off Last Line: Finally feel the cut Subject(s): California; Cities MOTOR CITY TIRADE, by DAWN MCDUFFIE Poem Source First Line: Send us your homeless, your crazy Last Line: When the load just gets too heavy Subject(s): Cities; Poverty; Streets MOUTH OF PAVEMENT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Poetry shouldn't %lobotomize you %like marlpan Last Line: Something to count on Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MUCHAS GRACIAS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Just about everyone in california Last Line: Being in love with the wrong man, %muchas mucha-kucha Subject(s): California; Cities MUERTES, by ROBERT MAZZOCCO Poem Source First Line: The event's already happened Last Line: Till we touch earth and the soul is set free Subject(s): Cities MURIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunken city of murias Last Line: In the city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Love; Sea; Youth; Urban Life; Ocean MY DIAMOND STUD, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He'll be a former cat burglar Last Line: That wasn’t once alive Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life MY DIAMOND STUD, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He'll be a former cat burglar Last Line: Let anything touch him %that wasn't once alive Subject(s): Cities MY GRANDMOTHER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother Last Line: Is unable to say Subject(s): Cities MY LADY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady has returned to town Last Line: The love that warms my formal phrases. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Fashion; Man-woman Relationships; Urban Life; Male-female Relations MY MOTHER COOKING SQUASH IN THE KITCHEN, by HAYAN CHARARA Poem Source First Line: Bob told me about the restaurants %on atlantic avenue where he Last Line: My mother weep over a plate of squash Subject(s): Cities MY MOTHER'S EYES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: My mother's eyes Last Line: In the cities of love Subject(s): Cities MY MOTHER? I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT MY MOTHER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: One day %she opened %the freezer Last Line: She died %of lone %li %ness Subject(s): Cities; Homeless MY SISTERS, THE OYSTERS, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I feel like the striped pacific bonito that can't stop swimming Last Line: Cantilevered into the cliffs of monterey Subject(s): California; Cities; Oysters; Pacific Ocean; Sea MY SON'S FACE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: My son's face Last Line: Become %heroic Subject(s): Cities MYTHICAL FOUNDING OF BUENOS AIRES, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And was it along this torpid muddy river Last Line: Hard to believe buenos aires had any beginning. %I feel it to be as eternal as air and water Subject(s): Argentina; Cities; History; South America NATA NATAL, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE Poem Source First Line: I forgive you, lima, for having bred me Last Line: That we've never known Subject(s): Cities; Patriotism; Peru; Travel NATIONAL ASSESSMENT, by CONNIE DEANOVICH Poem Source First Line: By the light of a femal impersonator Last Line: While at the same time to smile and to try and copy the moves Subject(s): Cities NATURAL DEATH, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: La lupe on the click cavett show Last Line: And the rhythm %of your heartbeat Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities NATURAL HISTORY, by KARL KIRCHWEY Poem Source First Line: The jewelers' windows have been muted with Last Line: They are trying to drive their shadows from the wall. %by dawn, with filthy tears, they will succeed Subject(s): Cities NECESSARY STORY, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Take two people. Any two people Last Line: Thing, a broken shadow dragging a %man along a street of imaginary sorrow Subject(s): Cities NECKLACE OF GESTURES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: They hauled themselves out of Last Line: A necklace of birds Subject(s): Cities NED M. CLARKE, MANAGER, GRANDE ROYALE SUPERMARKET (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me to calm down Last Line: And then I'm gonna kill her Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns NED M. CLARKE, MANAGER, GRANDE ROYALE SUPERMARKET (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yes, I know one day you'll leave for college Last Line: Knowing that you are home, sweet home? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sold my brownstone windows full of leaves Last Line: Their clopping rhythm muffled in fresh snow. Subject(s): Cities; Moving & Movers; Winter; Urban Life NEW YORK, by EDWIN DAVIES SCHOONMAKER Poem Text First Line: Sea - rimmed and teeming with millions poured out on Last Line: Till the new day quenches the lamps and flares over tyre. Subject(s): Cities; Immigrants; Labor & Laborers; Mysticism; New York City; Urban Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, by ANNEKE VAN ZINDRAN Poem Text First Line: My city, maligned and found wanting Last Line: We shall go wandering. Subject(s): Cities; Wandering & Wanderers; Urban Life NEW YORK IN SUMMER: INSOMNIA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath trees whose leaves Last Line: I must try to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Insomnia; Nicaragua; Travel; Urban Life; Sleeplessness; Journeys; Trips NEW YORK LOVE SONG (PART 1 - LOWER EAST SIDE), by LYDIA TOMKIW Poem Source First Line: Here I am again, doubled over, I'm here, pretending I know what I'm doing Last Line: I don't know how to make it stay Subject(s): Cities; New York City NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1), by JOHN YAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acton town manufacturing Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1), by JOHN YAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acton town manufacturing Last Line: Zanzibar courier service Subject(s): Cities; New York City NEW YORK NEW YORK, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Snow covered garbage heap belly stuffed in %a black leather jacket Subject(s): Cities NEW YORK NOTE, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caught on a side street Last Line: He replied, %I should have been a doctor Subject(s): Cities NIGHT SCENE AT THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Last Line: A crumbling mass of ruin and decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cities; Death; Freedom; Night; War; Urban Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Bedtime NIGHT SOLITUDE, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: Far down the dark avenue of trees Last Line: Toys. . . . Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life NIGHTPIECE, by ELIZABETH ANTALEK Poem Source First Line: The radiators simmer and night-flags Last Line: Into your half-open ears Subject(s): Cities; Night NIGHTSCAPE, by DONNA MASINI Poem Source First Line: It's not only my lights that hum in this city Last Line: As though night itself were a big house Subject(s): Cities NOISE METER, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: So open out and hear Last Line: That sound that seems enough then %then is not enough Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Noises; Traffic; Violence NOISE OF THE CITY, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text Last Line: And the beating of my heart. Subject(s): Cities; Human Behavior; Laughter; Men; Noises; Urban Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NOT BRUEGHEL BUT BRUTAL, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Judging from the portraits %they paint Last Line: I was made %of air Subject(s): Cities; Homeless NUKE CITY BALLAD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: My home is rattlesnake mountain Last Line: I'm a nuke city boy! Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bars And Bartenders; Cities OBAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Beautiful oban with your lovely bay Last Line: And feast my eyes on your beautiful scenery, enchanting and gay. Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips OCEAN GROVE HYMN, by ELWOOD H. STOKES Poem Text First Line: God of the grove, where leaves of green Last Line: And all be pure at ocean grove. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life ODE TO CHICAGO, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my city Last Line: We remember our origins Subject(s): Chicago; Cities ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD [TO HASTEN HIM INTO COUNTRY], by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, spur away, / I have no patience for a longer stay Last Line: To civilise with graver notes our wits again. Variant Title(s): Ode On Leaving The Great Town;an Ode To Mr Anthony Stafford To Hasten Him Into The Country Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life ODE TO MY CAR, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not as if you were the first Last Line: Because of you we can, and we do Subject(s): Cities ODESSA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And when I say your name Last Line: With war in her eyes of a wise maker Subject(s): Cities OF THAT CITY, THE HEART, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You lived here once. City -- remember? -- Last Line: Noteless now; of tracks whose end is here Subject(s): Cities OIL SLICK, by JUDITH THURMAN Poem Source First Line: There, by the curb Last Line: Its flashy colors %with a stick Subject(s): Cities OLD NASSAU, by H. P. PECK Poem Text First Line: Tune every heart and every voice! Last Line: Long life to old nassau! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Well, I think it's a bad idea Last Line: It' s a bad idea any way you look at it. %I vote no Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Before we adjourn for the evening Last Line: He has kept us out of harm's way Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Attention, shoppers: %have your purchases in one hand Last Line: Or I'm bound to be devoured %wholesale Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Heard you got him locked up, john Last Line: Or transfer him over to saratoga? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: John, you want to know why? Last Line: When everything was white? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 - JOHNNY NESBITT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What dance, where? Last Line: Dad, you're just goin' out to get drunk again Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ON A MANHATTAN ROOF, by ANNETTE WILCOX Poem Text First Line: I've been on a sea voyage Last Line: Of car and voice and feet. Subject(s): Cities; Life; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON AN ACURA INTEGRA, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Please think of this as not merely a piece Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life ON BELMONT, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: Watch it! Brother, he said, who had come up beside me without my Last Line: Everybody like me Subject(s): Cities; Commuters; Danger; Streets ON CITY STREETS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: There have been times when on a city street Last Line: We fear to change the old, established way. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life ON MARRIAGE & LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Like you %I too %would like %to get married %and settle down Last Line: An annulment %from my previous %relationship Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ON THE CORNER, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: The shoeshine man pops a cloth Last Line: Be careful crossing the street, honey' Subject(s): Cities ON THE FIFTH OF DECEMBER A ROSE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bitter cold %wind streaming Subject(s): Cities ON THE RISE OF THE POLICE FORCE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They put a uniform %on any old psychopath Last Line: A couple of bullets %in your mouth Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ON TO THE EAST, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your loins let girt be Last Line: March to zion! Ye brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism ONCE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The moon and my body Last Line: Their longing into the bleeding ground Subject(s): California; Cities ONE DAY WHEN I AM BOSS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Maybe one day %I will end up Last Line: Or the model t %or even the capitalist himself! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless ONE HUNDRED LOVE POEMS FOR LISA, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There goes adam purple Last Line: Fills with its own %mysterious light Subject(s): Cities ONE RED CENT, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: On the pavement, there's a penny Last Line: I'll make that penny mine Subject(s): Cities ORAL HISTORY, by GARY LENHART Poem Source First Line: The old lady grabbed my arm Last Line: And I'm going to tell you everything' Subject(s): Cities ORCHID, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: So stark %in the way it opens itself Last Line: The place where it bleeds Subject(s): California; Cities ORDINARY MORNING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man is singing on the bus Last Line: In detroit, city of dreams, %each on his own black throne Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan ORLANDO FURIOSO: CANTO 34. ASTOLFO VISITS THE MOON, by LUDOVICO (LODOVICO) ARIOSTO Poem Source First Line: Twere infinit to tell what wondrous things Last Line: As that one substance all the other past Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel OTHER WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Who turns in the street Last Line: I never lie Subject(s): Cities; Insanity OUR CITY, by FLOSSIE FAITH SAWINGS Poem Text First Line: I looked upon our city and her people Last Line: Despair grow deeper on our city's face. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life OUR WORLD, by SALVATORE GALIOTO Poem Source First Line: Inside %hundreds of ghettos Last Line: Follow the sibyls out into the streets Subject(s): Inner Cities OUT OF NECESSITY, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Waking up alone %has become my new year's Last Line: I've just seen angels Subject(s): California; Cities OUTING IRANIANS, by ROGER SEDARAT Poem Source First Line: Andre agassi. %he likes to stand close Last Line: He'll just smile and give you a free doogh Subject(s): Cities OVER TEA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: How to have a conversation with a torturer Last Line: On the threshold of his imprisoned soul? Subject(s): Cities PALEFACE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am driving down the connecticut turnpike Last Line: On the connecticut turnpike in the land of the pequot, 1966 Subject(s): Cities PALM READING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source Last Line: It's empty Subject(s): Cities; Homeless PANDAVAS' GAMBLE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Returning from the capitol Last Line: To go now meant take nothing Subject(s): Cities; India; Travel PARIS SOUS LA PLUIE (AN EARLY BONNARD), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each has his france; and mine's three feet by two Last Line: From their talk, in that café, in its smoke-loud air. Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Cities; Paris, France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips PASSING, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Passing on the bus Last Line: Is looking to see %who looks at that bar Subject(s): Cities PASSING BY THE JUNKYARD, by CHARLES J. EGITA Poem Source First Line: Heaps of headlights Last Line: Car-ride %again Subject(s): Cities PAUSE THAT REFRESHES / OR CLIMBING BACK ON THE ROOF, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was forty-five Last Line: Honey it's never that easy Subject(s): Cities PBS, by ROBERT MAZZOCCO Poem Source First Line: The ferries go out with the bodies from the morgue Last Line: Whirling about low in the darkening air Subject(s): Cities; Funerals PEACE NOT PERMANENT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great cities seldome rest; if there be none Last Line: T'invade from far: they'l finde worse foes at home. Subject(s): Cities; Peace; Urban Life PENNY MARSDEN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kristen clarke does not have to work Last Line: Or giving it away for free? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns PERMANENT COLLECTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rich provincial city there is a museum as imposing and quite as Last Line: With their faces shining? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cities; History; Museums; Tourists; Travel PICKING HIS WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: James joyce walks down a laneway Last Line: Blind stylish man Subject(s): Aging; Change; Cities; Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Walking PICTURES OF BROKE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The great poet %william carlos %williams Last Line: No %place %like %home Subject(s): Cities; Homeless PIGEONS, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: Pigeons are city folk Last Line: Oh pigeon, what a waste of wings? Subject(s): Animals; Cities PIGEONS AT CANNON STREET, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ye pigeons of the station with your loveliness of hues Last Line: Lost the verdant county acres and the freedom of the blue! Subject(s): Cities; London; Pigeons; Urban Life PINES OF ROME, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: If you haven't seen the pines of rome Last Line: Sing them Subject(s): Cities PIO BAROJA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In london or madrid, geneva or rome Last Line: He's seen the last petal linger and crash Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cities; Geography; Travel PIRANESI IN L.A., by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: And packing sketches, ink, knife, and quills Last Line: Reversed, he spoke to the plate %the anthology of decay Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles PLACE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: How did we get here? My ankle in your hand Last Line: As in the equation for the rest of our lives Subject(s): Cities; Driving And Drivers; Streets; Travel; Washington, D.c. PLAZA AND THE BURNING ORANGE TREES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: See roaming through these old streets Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cities; Memory; Streets; Travel POEM FOR RASHID, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a man's house who is cleaning his drums Last Line: His drums are in detroit he plays for me Subject(s): Cities POEM: 2, by KEITH ALTHAUS Poem Source First Line: Distance dwarfs mementos Last Line: The sound of typewriter keys %finding their first words Subject(s): Cities; New York City POEMA DEL CITY, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live in the city Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POEMA DEL CITY, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live in the city Last Line: Silent gray wisps rise from the smouldering campfires Subject(s): Cities POEMA DEL CITY 2, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light chill on the knees Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POEMA DEL CITY 2, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light chill on the knees Last Line: This living, to make you cry, or rise %& sneeze, and douse the light Subject(s): Cities POEMS (7), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase Last Line: Now leading to the empty room of night Variant Title(s): The House-wrecker Subject(s): Cities POET FLAYS TEMPTATIONS OF CITY LIFE, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, abominable city! Last Line: -- but at times I wonder how they found it. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POETIC EXCHANGE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Q. You grow dreads? Last Line: A. The only thing I grow %is hungry Subject(s): Cities; Homeless POETRY SPEAKS TO ME, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Packed in snow %like fish %in a korean market Last Line: Walking walking %on you grave %face Subject(s): Cities; Homeless PORPHYROGNE, by JUDITH JAMES Poem Text First Line: The moon tonight is like a tarnished crown Last Line: We can remember, we can build as well! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POSTCARD FROM TORTOLA, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've never been to tortola Last Line: That there's singing in the streets Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Absence; Cities; Travel PRAISE PSALM OF THE CITY-DWELLER, by APRIL BERNARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift your heads, all you peoples, to the wet heat rising Last Line: In the heat of further days Subject(s): Cities PRAISE YOU HARRY GORDON, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source Last Line: Shirt, shoes, trousers, underpants, teeth Subject(s): Cities; Long Island (n.y.); Mankind; Suburbs PRAYER, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: There are words that refuse me Last Line: Down on my knees or down on my luck. %lord, oh lord, deliver me Subject(s): Cities PRAYER, by JASON SHINDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After jack paces in circles, head down, decides to say Last Line: After bobbie is drawn so close to murder it holds her before she speaks Subject(s): Cities PRAYERS OF STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me on an anvil, o god Last Line: White stars. Subject(s): Cities; Skyscrapers; Steel; Urban Life PROCESSIONS, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Monotonies of my retinas Last Line: Seem to me just so many monkeys, just so many monkeys Subject(s): Cities; Sao Paulo, Brazil PROGRESS ALLEY, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How did I miss this isthmus of old bricks between the shelter-workshop ... Last Line: The left-handed spirits. I will dance in this sacred alley of the protestants Subject(s): Cities PROMETHEUS AT CONEY ISLAND, by QUENTIN ROWAN First Line: Up over the swell of hot sugar Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers; Urban Life PROMETHEUS AT CONEY ISLAND, by QUENTIN ROWAN Poem Source First Line: Up over the swell of hot sugar Last Line: As was life in the old country Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I have to %bottle my %burps Last Line: When I had %food Subject(s): Cities; Homeless PSALM FOR DISTRIBUTION, by JACK AGUEROS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life PSALM FOR DISTRIBUTION, by JACK AGUEROS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord Last Line: Lord, %you have to fire the angel %in charge of distribution Subject(s): Cities PUBLIC EXECUTIONS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Like jesus %who died %for our sins Last Line: I am %always persecuted Subject(s): Cities; Homeless QUARTIER, by MARK HALLIDAY Poem Source First Line: You go straight ahead for about ten blocks Last Line: Wandering nearly into %the fascinating friendly shops Subject(s): Cities; Travel QUESTIONS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: They asked me Last Line: In order to bury them Subject(s): Cities QUIET HOUSE IN CH'ANG-LO WARD, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor's city, a place of fame and profit Last Line: A few stalks in the background, one pot of brew Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Cities RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS 2/1/80, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave you this morning Last Line: Now I'm here Subject(s): Cities RACE & CLASS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: There was a time %when I had Last Line: What they call %progress? Subject(s): Cities; Homeless RACING WITH THE MOON, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In slow traffic Last Line: To take one %breath %at %a time Subject(s): Cities RAIN IN THE CITY, by ANNETTE TEMIN Poem Text First Line: There is abroad this night in every place Last Line: Walk sleepless now and troubled in the rain. Subject(s): Cities; Rain; Urban Life REAL NEW YORKERS, by ROBERT MYLES HERSHON Poem Source First Line: Did you get vomit on your shoes? No, I think it's pizza. Looks more Last Line: It was pizza. Yeah, pizza, I don't know, some kind of crap Subject(s): Cities REAR-PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT-BUILDING, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sky that has never known sun, moon or stars Last Line: On brick walls. Subject(s): Cities; Poverty; Urban Life REBIRTH OF VENUS, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's knelt to fish her face up from the sidewalk Last Line: Envisioning faces where the streets have parted Subject(s): Cities; Literary Form RECIPE FOR MURDER, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In this racket %you can't lose Last Line: Like your %life %depends %on it Subject(s): Cities; Homeless RED CLIFF, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Gently, gently as you can Last Line: You'll be a church. You'll be cloth. It's how you are Subject(s): Cities RED FLOWER, by ANN TURNER Poem Source First Line: I went by this building Last Line: And a red flower blooming Subject(s): Cities RED PENS, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: The little hispanic girl at the stationer's %on park avenue south just now Last Line: I had been about to say, %to show that I too was a native Subject(s): Cities RED-DRESS GIRL, by ANN TURNER Poem Source First Line: The rope swings in %and out, sister dances Last Line: That red dress %flying Subject(s): Cities REMOVAL FROM TERRY STREET, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a squeaking cart, they push the usual stuff Last Line: Come up cracks in concrete yards in moonlight. %that man, I wish him well. I wish him grass Subject(s): Cities RESURRECTION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I was evicted %from my grave Last Line: Upon my name %&lifelong %ending day Subject(s): Cities; Homeless RETURN, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then he entered the city: in the old stories Last Line: I touch each faceless face, like frost Subject(s): Cities RETURN TO SEATTLE: BASTILLE DAY, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: No difference in the gray gulls, sobbing Last Line: Years before she could blame %herself for everything Subject(s): Cities; Seattle, Washington RETURNS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Did I close the windows? Last Line: And will the door still be open for my return? Subject(s): Cities REVIVAL COMES TO KNOXVILLE, 1970, by PARKS LANIER Poem Source First Line: On a warm evening, the city is the new jerusalem Last Line: Unto caesar what is caesar's, and unto god very little at all Subject(s): Cities; Knoxville, Tennessee; Life; Travel RHYTHM CITY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Winter salt stains white on the sidewalk Last Line: It is this, he admits, looking down %can't dance Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Cities; New York City; Orphans; Poetry And Poets; Winter RISK MANAGEMENT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Relentless escalators bore us Last Line: Before they're caught Subject(s): Cities; Conventions; Urban Life RISK MANAGEMENT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Relentless escalators bore us Last Line: That soar, catch the light and twirl %before they're caught Subject(s): Cities RISTORANTE SAN MARCO, by MARY FERRARI Poem Source First Line: We are sitting here at a corner table at the Last Line: It looks like the piazza di spagna Subject(s): Cities RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the secret map the assassins Subject(s): Separation; War; Cities; Urban Life ROAD BLOCK: SANTE FE, NEW MEXICO, by CONNIE DEANOVICH Poem Source First Line: I had good manners Last Line: A pushed-back policeman's hat radioing in, %the red flashlight waving us on Subject(s): Cities; Police; Sante Fe, New Mexico ROAD LAW, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drive a ford or a packard six Last Line: "a load of stone has the right of way." Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Traffic; Cars; Urban Life; Paths; Trails ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From this moorish city %behind the old walls Last Line: Oh, I can no longer walk with her! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cities; Roads; Travel ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four. Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers ROBBEN ISLAND, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: On robben island Last Line: Is a beautiful love poem Subject(s): Cities ROGUE HYDRANT, AUGUST, by KARL KIRCHWEY Poem Source First Line: Morning. The sun gleams wickedly on chrome Last Line: He wakes, stands, and vaguely wanders away %just as the water-blue squad car arrives Subject(s): Cities ROMANCE OF THE POOR, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The poor people in springfield go to dayton to be miserable in style Last Line: Next to his own, give him that much. Leave him to his joy Subject(s): Cities; Poverty ROMARE BEARDEN RETROSPECTIVE AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: Opera! All that cardboard Last Line: The headlines of a world %that threatens to rip open Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Cities; Museums ROOM TEMPERATURE, A MORE PERSONAL MORAINE, by JOANNA FUHRMAN Poem Source First Line: Sitting on the promenade not eating Last Line: An empty stroller over wet leaves Subject(s): Cities RUBBER-TIRE GARDEN, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: A rubber tire yields surprise Last Line: Such sweet perfume Subject(s): Cities RUBY MY DEAR, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman in the red car has a hand Last Line: Her hand's on the wheel, her hand's %in the air Subject(s): Cities RULE NO. 1 ON WHAT NOT TO SAY WHEN PANHANDLING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I just need %some money Last Line: Sticking out %of my forehead Subject(s): Cities; Homeless RUMBLE, by VIRGINIA SCHONBORG Poem Source First Line: They roar %out of the river tunnels Last Line: Part of %a rumble of trucks Subject(s): Cities RUMORED CONVERSATION WITH ONESELF CONTINUES IN PITTSBURGH, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And also a city with quiet pockets Last Line: Across from a city whose incandescence %obscures even the most frantic stars Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania RUN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I enter again %through this sleeve Last Line: Here, close to the water's edge Subject(s): California; Cities SALADIN CROSSING THE DESERT, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You go, like in the movies one arm Last Line: Everyone out %on avenue b is amazed Subject(s): Cities SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities; Urban Life SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Last Line: As if these were ruins, as if we were ghosts Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities SANCTUM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On top of a hill near the lebanese border Last Line: And trust it to bear our weight %a little longer Subject(s): Arabs; Cemeteries; Cities; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Sculpture And Sculptors SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the house in detroit Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the house in detroit Last Line: With cousin and brother %against the stranger Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social SANTIAGO I, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: To encounter Last Line: Of the wind Subject(s): Cities SANTIAGO II, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In this city that can't find itself Last Line: The splendid city Subject(s): Cities SATISFACTION COAL COMPANY, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What to do with a day Last Line: To stand for a while, and get warm Subject(s): Cities SAY GOODBYE TO THE LITTLE YELLOW BUILDING, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Say goodbye to the little yellow building Subject(s): Cities SCENES FROM THE PEOPLE'S COURT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: What a homeless woman %told the judge at her hearing Last Line: Call your %next witness! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SCRAPS, by MICHAEL BOWDEN Poem Source First Line: On a morning like any other the apple tree appears unbalanced now Last Line: Sharpened! Subject(s): Cities; Morning SECOND THOUGHTS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Maybe I %would've been %better off Last Line: A simple scratch %in the memory %of her uterus Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SELF-PORTRAIT, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There it is Last Line: In various mirrors Subject(s): Cities SEMIPERMANENT GATE LIST, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Blowing up a long empty hill Subject(s): Cities SEPARATION, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Tonight I didn't expect that familiar pain Last Line: And I know I am part of the betrayal Subject(s): California; Cities SERMON ON THE MOUNT, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: One day %the rich were bored Last Line: With a year's supply of toilet paper Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SET OF MOON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The archeress had gone Last Line: The city of the gods that never sleep. Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Cities; Moon; Urban Life SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On monday he died %on tuesday they folded up his bones Last Line: He went back to work again Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SEVEN SONGS AT SIXTY, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Begin %where the end begins Last Line: If you want to know me %you better hurry Subject(s): Cities SEVERAL SKYLINES, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: The city adored the radmap Last Line: Where a sister dies her hair, and dies her hair, to wear whatever crown %there is Subject(s): Cities SHAPE OF ONE MAN'S BREATHING: SAXOPHONE MAN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: A woman who can't stop Last Line: As we improvise together -- %stretching the riff Subject(s): California; Cities SHE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is getting over divorce Last Line: Wet with rank summer. Sweet jesus, she %pulls him down Subject(s): Cities SHOPPING BAG LADY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You told people I would know easily what the murdered Last Line: And fading in the most important place we have yet devised Variant Title(s): The Shopping-bag Lad Subject(s): Cities; Greece SHUTTLE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is making stuffing for the turkey Last Line: As he watches the snow fall and fall. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life SIDEWALK CHALK, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Big and bold now, write your name Last Line: Keep the score for sidewalk games Subject(s): Cities SIDEWALK MEASLES, by BARBARA M. HALES Poem Source First Line: I saw the sidewalk catch the measles Last Line: The rain-rash slowly dried away Subject(s): Cities SILENCE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the city streets Last Line: There is nothing else beside Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Cities; Silence; Streets SILENCE, by ? LYNCH Poem Text First Line: In silence mighty things are wrought Last Line: Is strengthened silently. Subject(s): Cities; Silence; Urban Life SILENCE, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Silence walks through the city Last Line: How beautiful she was. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Silence; Urban Life SIN SONGS: 1. COMPLACENCY, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun slanting Last Line: Cups like suddenly burning planets Subject(s): Cities SIN SONGS: 2. ENVY, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Easy to say you'd never Last Line: Harder still to calm the wicked rise Subject(s): Cities SIN SONGS: 3. AVARICE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cunning mother money Last Line: Humps her money cunnie Subject(s): Cities SIN SONGS: 4. MENDACITY, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To find in the mirror Last Line: Tell me a lie of your own and see if I'll bite Subject(s): Cities SKETCH: EPISODE B AT GOLD CITY, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an aid / for apprehending the vanishing point Last Line: You Subject(s): Cities; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Urban Life SKY SCRAPE/ CITY SCAPE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Sky scrape, %city scape Last Line: Hurry up, %hurry down Subject(s): Cities SKYSCRAPER, by DENNIS LEE Poem Source First Line: Skyscraper, skyscraper Last Line: Scrape me some sky Subject(s): Cities SKYSCRAPERS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do skyscrapers ever grow tired Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Skyscrapers; Urban Life; Fancy SKYSCRAPERS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do skyscrapers ever grow tired Last Line: And never get up at all? Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Skyscrapers SLEEP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city sleeps; the fierce metallic roar Last Line: They sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Corpses; Dreams; Moon; Sleep; Urban Life; Cadavers; Nightmares SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have imagined all this Last Line: When my father and mother made love above rothko %who lay in the day thinking roses, roses, roses Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970) SMALL-CITY PEOPLE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They look shabby and crazy but not Last Line: No one would choose that chose you, %flatteringly Subject(s): Cities SMOKING IN AN OPEN GRAVE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bury ourselves to get high Last Line: So much of us already geared for the journey. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Urban Life; Dead, The; Work; Workers SNAPSHOTS OF A BEGGAR'S DIFFICULT LIFE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A blind man %was leading %a blind dog %by the nose %bleeding Last Line: On a bed %of nails %dreaming of food Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SO MANY FAITHFUL, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: So many churches- %storefronts, stone Last Line: On bended knee %so deep in prayer Subject(s): Cities SOLEA, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are rapists / out there Last Line: Anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rape; Urban Life SOMEONE IS TRYING TO WARN YOU, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: And the whole world is talking about the japanese Last Line: You still haven't won the war Subject(s): California; Cities SON WITH BLUE SHAVEN HEAD, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The woman who stands Last Line: Never too far from the river Subject(s): California; Cities SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While a thousand fine projects are planned every day Last Line: Contrive that the poor may have something to eat Subject(s): Cities;england;free Trade;markets;poverty; Urban Life;english;supermarkets SONG OF THE SAD GUITAR, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the bitter year of 1988 I was banished to san diego, california Last Line: May truly be dead and waiting to be summoned by the sound of the sad guitar Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Asian Americans; Cities SONNET, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love never held my hand Last Line: But I've always wondered Subject(s): Cities SONNET FOR THE #6, by JACK AGUEROS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The subways are full of smoke and acrid mists today. In this Last Line: Like a magic carpet over the bronx to pelham or parnassus Subject(s): Cities SONNETS: CITY CHILDREN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale flowers are you, that scarce have known Last Line: O little flowers that blossom but to fade! Subject(s): Children; Cities; Childhood; Urban Life SOUNDS OF THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: From where I sit the city's ceaseless roar Last Line: Whose every hour a tragedy reveals. Subject(s): Cities; Fights; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers SPARROW, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When august hangs the bough with plums Last Line: For men and birds of wit and taste. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): August; Cities; Country Life; Sparrows; Urban Life SPARTA, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of sparta...Of the withered hill Last Line: On athens of the everlasting light. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Sparta, Greece; Towns; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 12. DRIVE-BY, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: In this city everyone wants a pice Last Line: Making or settling a score. You forget Subject(s): Cities; Crime And Criminals SPRING DAY: NIGHT AND SLEEP, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Electric signs gleam out Last Line: . . . I smell them in the air. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Sleep; Spring; Urban Life; Bedtime SPRING MEAL, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I sit at the table Last Line: To see what the heart remembers Subject(s): California; Cities SPRING STREET GIRL FRIEND POEM: 8, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the snug harbors, helicopter and electric eel Last Line: Where the fish smell like fish and the cheese like cheese Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Cities; Friendship STAG AT BAY, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: Oh, how I long for the things Last Line: A drab world at bay. Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Urban Life; Fancy STATE CERTIFICATION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They stalk you %with pencils %and ball-point pens Last Line: And every day %is a drag Subject(s): Cities; Homeless STELLA CHURCH (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm glad I'm away on this trip Last Line: For the next few days Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STELLA CHURCH (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I meet mel Last Line: My new home on the range Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STELLA CHURCH (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Before the dance melinda took me to her favorite store Last Line: Isn't that store simply beautiful?' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STEREOTYPES 1, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Country kids? They milk cows Last Line: And tell them hicks how city kids live Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STEREOTYPES 2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: City kids? %they rob people Last Line: And tell those burn't-out losers how real kids live Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STEREOTYPES 3, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The city the country Last Line: Copper white Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STILL LIFE WITH WHITE TABLECLOTH, by MARY FERRARI Poem Source First Line: The tablecloth has a life of its own Last Line: Table. Sun light. No shadows. %no tablecloth Subject(s): Cities STILL-LIFE IN THE COAT FACTORY OFFICE, by VICKIE KARP Poem Source First Line: What did you think would happen Last Line: He's been looking straight at you for years, %waiting to take your order Subject(s): Cities STORM, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: It's been raining for hours Last Line: Growing in the dark Subject(s): California; Cities STORY, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: There is a bar I go to when I'm in chicago Last Line: Whoever you are, this poem is for you Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Chicago; Cities; New York City STRAY CAT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just an old alley cat Last Line: Beauty, come in Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cities STRAYS, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Hazel harris lives alone Last Line: Her backyard gate's a welcome mat Subject(s): Cities STREAM STRUCTURE, by NATHAN WHITING Poem Source First Line: Where saddle river reaches lodi Last Line: Ocean will run away from Subject(s): Cities STREET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick Last Line: Dangerous %gray bark of the street Subject(s): Cities; Streets STREET SONGS: 1. THE PIGEONS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the houses and into the sky Subject(s): Cities; Pigeons; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 1. THE PIGEONS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the houses and into the sky Last Line: And into their airy home Subject(s): Cities; Pigeons STREET SONGS: 2. THE BEGGAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet in this morn there is a darkest night Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cities; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 2. THE BEGGAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet in this morn there is a darkest night Last Line: The place, pass on. It is a place to beg Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Cities STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing Subject(s): Cities; Statues; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing Last Line: Then goes his way with all his fancy free Subject(s): Cities; Statues STREET SONGS: 3. THE MINSTREL, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The streets lead out into a mist Last Line: From out among the heather bells Subject(s): Cities; Minstrels STREETCLEANER'S LAMENT, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: Dirt and %clean them clean them clean them Last Line: Remove them %dirt and dirt and dirt forever Subject(s): Cities SUBWAY, by GARY STEIN Poem Source First Line: When cities swell Last Line: Of the tunnel %space between darkness Subject(s): Cities; Subways SUBWAY CAR SEMINAR, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Don't take offense %if I don't smile Last Line: You don't %take me %home Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SUBWAY GRAFFITI: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S IMPRESSIONS, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day-glo signs of survival Last Line: Parngs of hair, toenail, %spirit and song Subject(s): Anthropology; Cities; New York City; Subways; Travel SUBWAY IN MARCH, 5:45 P.M., by MAGGIE NELSON Poem Source First Line: I take the long way home, knowing Last Line: It's the light of early spring Subject(s): Cities SUBWAY POEM, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yo, spring Last Line: And your sweet ass Subject(s): Cities SUBWAY TRAIN, by LELAND B. JACOBS Poem Source First Line: The subway train, the subway train Last Line: Is deep, deep, deep, deep, underground Subject(s): Cities; Machinery And Machinists SUICIDE, by KATHLEEN DE AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: As his pink feet cling to the granite ledge of the state building Last Line: He is starting over Subject(s): Cities; Suicide SUICIDE IS A LUXURY I COULD DO WITHOUT!, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Some people ask me %how I do it Last Line: Let alone %doing it Subject(s): Cities; Homeless SUMMER IN THE CITY, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When he finished with her and the afternoon Last Line: His hands clean, smelling of soap and cigarettes Subject(s): Cities; Hopper, Edward (1882-1967); Man-woman Relationships; Sex SUMMER MORNING, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: I saw a person get hit in traffic today Last Line: Clearing throats, making %any kind of noise Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Death; Noises; Streets; Traffic SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is the city's disease Last Line: Looking for children to sing to. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities; Injustice; Urban Life SUMMONS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: We say we aren't the believers Last Line: Right out of our dreams Subject(s): California; Cities SUNRISE IN THE CITY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrise over the houses! Last Line: And the christ-light shining in ' Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Religion; Urban Life; Sunrise; Theology SWEET DISTURBANCE OF THE PEACE, by STACEY FRUITS Poem Source First Line: I like it best when love forgets itself, when love is loud Last Line: Window box and watch me bloom inside the dead of winter Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Noises; Poetry And Poets SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 2. A SKIRMISH AT EL-NEJD, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: War to extinction against a country we've never seen Last Line: And the dazzling heat of el-nejd? Subject(s): Cities; War SYMPATHY FROM THE DIARY OF A HUNGER ARTIST, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I should've left you %to your book Last Line: I'm not the one %holding your soul %for ransom Subject(s): Cities; Homeless TALKING ABOUT CITIES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And when she talked about cities Last Line: Of those imaginary %faces Subject(s): Cities TAXI TO THE FLAME, by VICKIE KARP Poem Source First Line: Halloween, I ride the subway to an early evening class Last Line: And where, in tonight's sunset, %is the piece of that flame? Subject(s): Boston; Cities TEN COMMANDMENTS OF A STREET POET, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Let all books be remaindered for a dollar Last Line: Don't let the 20th century end with a panel discussion Subject(s): Cities; Homeless TEN MILLION FLAMES OF LOS ANGELES, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I've always been afraid of death by fire Last Line: Angelita, do not run from the flame.' Subject(s): California; Cities TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: ENTERING THE CITY WITH BLISS-BESTOWING HANDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have come to the gates Last Line: They tremble as they rise Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Oxen; Urban Life TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: ENTERING THE CITY WITH BLISS-BESTOWING HANDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have come to the gates Last Line: They tremble as they rise Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Oxen TEN YEARS OLD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A city child, rooms are to him no mere Last Line: "richard! Get through! And put your stockings on." Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Children; Cities; Childhood; Urban Life TENOCHTITLAN, by CARLOS CORTEZ KOYOKUIKATL Poem Source First Line: Tenochtitlan, %it has been so long that I have not seen you Last Line: I want to see the mountains! Subject(s): Cities; Mexico TEOTIHUACAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In teotihuacan Last Line: Play at love's intrigues Subject(s): Cities THE 'FRISCO EARTHQUAKE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the earth shook and trembled and hungry Last Line: Sad, ah, sad was their fate! Subject(s): Cities; Death; Disasters; Earthquakes; Urban Life; Dead, The THE AERIAL CITY, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But proffers no pinions to fly. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE AVENGER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a smile that was ecstatic billings Last Line: And the people made him mayor of the town! Subject(s): Cities; Mayors; Urban Life THE BALLADE OF DEAD CITIES; TO ANDREW LANG, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the cities of the plain? Last Line: Where are the cities of old time? Subject(s): Cities; Jews; Urban Life; Judaism THE BEAUTIFUL CITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful city! Forever Last Line: And loosen the trump at the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Fantasy; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE BEAUTY OF A CITY, by ELIZABETH DAWSON Poem Text First Line: The beauty of a city seems to be Last Line: In the rain; and smiles on passing faces. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE BIRD BATH, by EDITH HARRIET JONES Poem Text First Line: He paused without surprise / upon the verge Last Line: Sophisticated city ways. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE BIRTHDAY, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees were dripping, dank and still Last Line: And thoughts to linger in. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Cities; Fire; Rites & Ceremonies; Childhood; Urban Life THE CALL OF THE COAST, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Let the roar go up from the city! Last Line: Shall strew the earth with flowers. Subject(s): Cities; Freedom; Urban Life; Liberty THE CHICAGO POEM; FOR TED BERRIGAN AND ALICE NOTLEY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridges of chicago / are not the bridges of paris Last Line: Modern times Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Chicago; Cities; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Urban Life THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Much have we cursed the city. It has been Last Line: By secret acts of broad humanity. Subject(s): Cities; Humanity; Urban Life THE CITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shining city, one Last Line: With happy wayfaring. Subject(s): Cities; Science; Urban Life; Scientists THE CITY, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a crown upon her brow that seems Last Line: Dancing in all her jewels before the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What domination of what darkness dies this Last Line: By the thronged gods, tall, golden-coloured, joyful, young. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cities; God; Science; Urban Life; Scientists THE CITY, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What structures here among god's works appear Last Line: More wealth provided, and more high. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the country harden to a town Last Line: Far in the golden city of the skies. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY AND THE SEA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To none the city bends a servile knee Last Line: But her sweet soul is god's. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Cities; God; Mankind; Sea; Urban Life; Human Race; Ocean THE CITY AND THE SEA, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struck like a blur of gold across the night Last Line: The thunders of his old unconquered might. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE CITY AT NIGHT, by MARGUERITE AVIS WHITCOMB Poem Text First Line: With light on light the city streets now blaze Last Line: We babel view, and feel our earthborn might. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CITY AT THE END OF THINGS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the pounding cataracts Last Line: Is deathless and eternal there. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Soul; Time; Urban Life; Bedtime THE CITY CALLS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little garden wall is gray Last Line: With watching the wild birds fly. Subject(s): Cities; Traffic; Urban Life THE CITY DWELLER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These things I cannot forget: far snow in the night Last Line: The motion of men resounds like the thundering sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Thunder; Wind; Urban Life THE CITY IN THE SEA, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne Last Line: Shall do it reverence. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE CITY OF DESPAIR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn comes not: / and I have waited Last Line: Above the sodden citadel of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Despair; Evil; Urban Life; Sunrise THE CITY OF LAISH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read of the orient people of / laish in the olden time Last Line: Christ came and his presence declared it, so the dream may not utterly die. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Death; Dreams; Jesus Christ; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE CITY OF MY YOUTH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The town I knew is sunk from sight Last Line: Thy happiness my tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cities; Youth; Urban Life THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day. Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE CITY OF SALT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sun-drenched Last Line: And sweet to taste. Subject(s): Cities; Mothers; Salt; Urban Life THE CITY OF THE GILDED TEAR, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Babylon, o babylon Last Line: City of the gilded tear? Subject(s): Babylon; Cities; Judgments; Urban Life THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CITY REVISITED, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grey gulls drift across the bay Last Line: We have our heaven on earth -- sometimes! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY [OF THE DEAD]., by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do neither plight nor wed Last Line: For the lie at ease and know that life is done. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Death; Life; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Urban Life; Dead, The; Songs THE CITY'S CROWN, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Text First Line: What makes a city great? Huge piles of stone Last Line: Till every stone shall be articulate. Subject(s): Cities; Religion; Wealth; Urban Life; Theology; Riches; Fortunes THE CITY: 1. VILLAGE FANTASY - THE QUEST, by STIRLING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Outside we heard the january wind Last Line: So happy as to wake in tim's back room. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY: 2. THE CITY, by STIRLING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: And now I roam the wide and thronging square Last Line: One listening, for what no one can say. Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness THE CONTRAST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With ripples of blinding fire all broadway / wavered ashine Last Line: He tossed me a silver coin ... I let it lie in the street ... Subject(s): Cities; Class Struggle; Taxis; Urban Life THE COTTAR'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Here the birds still chirp and twitter Last Line: Of a world supine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Nature; Urban Life THE COUNTRY TOWN IN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town has grown here, angular Subject(s): Cities And Towns THE DEAD CITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I rambled in a wood Last Line: And I straightway knelt and prayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cities; Death; Fear; Forests; Grief; Urban Life; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEMONS OF THE CITIES, by GEORG HEYM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wander through the cities night enshrouds Last Line: About their hooves, where flint-struck fires rise. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE DESIRE FOR STRANGE CITIES, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each street means something other than it says Last Line: Rio, buenos aires, haifa, hong kong, prague. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone? Last Line: The city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians THE DOOMED CITY, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne Last Line: Shall give his undivided time. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New york a grey haze with flights of Subject(s): Cities; Dragons; Unicorns; Urban Life THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dreadful city's roar Last Line: Far from these clattering stones. Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds THE FOUNDERS, by DAVID MACLURE Poem Text First Line: Here where a giant city's pulses throb Last Line: Proud of his home, the city beautiful. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GREAT CITIES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How wonderful are the cities that man hath builded Last Line: And in the heart of man I have set the city. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE GREAT CITY, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The great city / stretches out huge steel claws Last Line: The souls of the young. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Soul; Youth; Urban Life THE HERETIC: 3. MOCKERY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, I return to you on april days Last Line: For this, o god, my silence -- and my doubt. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE HOMING INSTINCT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There we see him, driving Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE HUDSON, by STARR HOYT NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: With tranquil majesty our river flows Last Line: As souls melt theirs in death's infinity. Subject(s): Cities; Hudson River; Hudson Valley, New York; Urban Life THE IDEAL CITY, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O you whom god hath called and set apart Last Line: To serve. Subject(s): Cities; Worship; Urban Life THE LAST MAN: SUBTERRANEAN CITY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can it then be, that the earth loved some city Last Line: Yet legible? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE LITTLE TOWN O' TAILHOLT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You kin boast about yer cities, and their stiddy growth and size Last Line: But the little town o' tailholt's good enough fer me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Towns; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; SUNG BY MR. MATTHEWS FOR THE SPRING MEETING, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How well I remember the ninth of november Last Line: All, all to see the lord mayor's show. Subject(s): Cities; Festivals; Mayors; Urban Life; Fairs; Pageants THE MADONNA OF THE CURB, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the curb of a city pavement Last Line: Madonna of the curb! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Children; Cities; Poverty; Childhood; Urban Life THE MAID SUBURBAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I must confess that I'm afraid Last Line: Give me the sweet suburban! Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Women; Urban Life; Male-female Relations THE MAN WITH THE SAXOPHONE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poet's Biography First Line: New york. 5 a.M. Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Urban Life THE MARSHES, by MABEL WARD RUDD Poem Text First Line: Where, through rank thatch, the grasping sea has put Last Line: To see the last trace of the marshes pass? Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Native Americans; Swamps; Urban Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MIGRATION OF CITIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love paris Last Line: Ports where the red flag has secretly flown for years. Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Communism; Florence, Italy; Paris, France; Socialism; Urban Life THE MOMENT OF TRUTH, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pure poetry of paranoia was his as he emerged Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn, tremble at honk Last Line: To where road starts again Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cities; Future Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Work; Workers THE PASSING OF SPAIN FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The lord communed with his heart in heaven Last Line: The passing away of spain. Subject(s): Cities; Messages & Messengers; Spain; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE PASSING SHOW, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if it was a dream. I viewed Last Line: A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE PEACE OF CITIES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrible streets, the manichee hell of twilight Last Line: An blew the bolt from everybody's door Subject(s): Cities; Air Raids THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 220, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as I stay in the village Last Line: And sparrows will dance like lords Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cities; Villages; Urban Life THE POET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You would procure the oil of forgiveness from the angel Last Line: With great humility, bathed in tears and barefoot. Subject(s): Americanization; Cities; Decay; Modern Man; United States; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; America THE POOR MAN'S AUTOMOBILE, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day's stint is finished, and master and man Last Line: But I doubt if a nabob is gayer than we. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Travel; Wheels; Cars; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE RETURN, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then he entered the city: in the old stories Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE RUSH AND WHIRL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The rush and whirl of urban ways Last Line: The rush and whirl! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE SATISFACTION COAL COMPANY, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What to do with a day Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE SHOPPING BAG LADY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You told people I would know easily what the murdered Variant Title(s): The Shopping-bag Lady Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Urban Life; Greeks THE SHRINE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon the veiled woman sat and wailed on the curb Last Line: Intentions and goals Subject(s): Women; Cities; Grief; Childhood Memories THE SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have imagined all this Last Line: Who lay in the dark thinking roses, roses, roses Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen Last Line: To seek the happy isles! Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si THE STRAY CAT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just an old alley cat Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Urban Life THE STREET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues THE STREET BEHIND YOURS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night droops down upon the street Last Line: And the gutter grumbling down! Subject(s): Cities; Night; Urban Life; Bedtime THE STREET LAMP, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homes stand in slumber. Sleep broods shadowingly Last Line: Sadly you wane. How sad, and oh, how wise! Subject(s): Abandonment; Cities; Grief; Homeless; Poverty; Desertion; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness THE TEA-TABLE; A TOWN ECLOGUE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint james's noon-day bell for prayers had tolled Last Line: And all again that night at ombre met. Subject(s): Cities; Food & Eating; Tea; Urban Life THE TRAMP, by ROSALIND TRAVERS Poem Text First Line: I have turned my face away from the city Last Line: Away from sight and life; o, take me in! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life THE TREES OF HADDONFIELD, by THOMAS J. MURRAY Poem Text First Line: I sing of haddonfield, west jersey's town Last Line: The starry banner and the union jack. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Trees; Urban Life THE TRUTH ABOUT SMALL TOWNS, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cities And Towns THE UNDERGROUND, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cities arise Last Line: The glaciers have set up their tents Subject(s): Cities; Glaciers; Hallucinations And Illusions; Sex; Violence; Urban Life THE UNDERWORLD, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cone of flurried light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have buried the city Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WHITE BONE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw the city lone Last Line: With the white bone. Subject(s): Cities; Civilization; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hallucinations And Illusions; Urban Life THE WIND'S MESSAGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a whisper down the bland between the dawn and dark Last Line: And strike once more the bridle-track that leads along the bland. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Life; Trees; Voices; Wind; Urban Life THE WRECKAGE ENTREPRENEUR, by ALICE FULTON Poet's Biography First Line: It takes faith - this tripping through the mixed bessings Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THERE I AM AGAIN, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see it again, half darkness in its brown light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THERE I AM AGAIN, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see it again, half darkness in its brown light Last Line: Angry, ashamed, and proud as the poor with whom he deals Subject(s): Cities THERE'S A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL CITY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bright and beautiful city Last Line: For they never, never die. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Urban Life THESE LACUSTRINE CITIES, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These lacustrine cities grew out of loathing Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THEY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: There they are, the indolent ones Last Line: With their hands hidden Subject(s): Cities THEY'RE NOT HEAVY, THEY'RE MY SISTERS, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits on her porch Last Line: As I climb the stairs Subject(s): Cities THINGS (FOR AN INDIAN) TO DO IN NEW YORK (CITY), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walk down the avenue of the americas Last Line: She loves me, she loves me [or, she loves me, of course, she's my wife] Subject(s): Cities THINGS TO DO IF YOU ARE A SUBWAY, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Pretend you are a dragon Last Line: Make as much noise as you please Subject(s): Cities THIRD POEM, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone words Last Line: Tomorrow, the dark %music Subject(s): Cities THIS IS A WONDROUS CITY, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Source Last Line: Behold the city street Subject(s): Cities THIS JUST IN: THE MAYOR HANDS OUT $100 FINES FOR ANYONE CAUGHT ......, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I'm always %on the outs %it seems Last Line: Getting used to %the tar &feathers Subject(s): Cities; Homeless THIS KIND OF KADDISH, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight aunt fan I mended Last Line: Aunt fannie frankle kaplan %amen Subject(s): Cities THIS MAN I MET, HE SAID, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That are usually warm Subject(s): Cities THIS SHAME CALLED JOY, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Hand squeezed, %thick with a pulp which clings Last Line: The tenacity of my desire Subject(s): California; Cities THREE AMORETTI: 2. ON CANAL & BROADWAY, by RICK BAROT Poem Source First Line: Since you came back I've been all rhymes Last Line: Here,' you say - word enough for me for now Subject(s): Cities; Friendship; Streets; Walking THREE CITIES: 2. CITY OF THIEVES, by JOHN VOIKLIS Poem Source First Line: You must unlearn those cities known before Last Line: They've been forewarned: this city never lies Subject(s): Cities THREE CITIES: 2. TURIN, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: I'll return to your mountains' sociable circuit Last Line: I'll seek the garage where he works, growing old Subject(s): Cities; Travel THREE CITIES: 3. NEW CITY, by JOHN VOIKLIS Poem Source First Line: I've built this town at least one hundred times Last Line: A city: righteous, shiny, new again Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Cities THREE LITTLE LOVE SONGS, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unexpected's not un Last Line: Than I ever %would have %expected Subject(s): Cities THREE VIEWS OF THE YOKOHAMA LINE, by JOEL FRIEDERICH Poem Source First Line: Dwelling in corners, in the ashes Last Line: Of the world's unattainable contours Subject(s): Cities; Commuters; Travel THROUGH THE CLEAR GLASS, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The clink of glass %through windowpane Last Line: &write it off %on your taxes Subject(s): Cities; Homeless THUMBS UP, by JUDITH BAUMEL Poem Source First Line: On certain fall mornings it is possible to walk eighteenth Last Line: Go past, and be finally as brilliant, seen backward, as plato taught Subject(s): Cities TIME #2, by ESTHER IVEREM Poem Source First Line: I do know this Last Line: Never run %quite like before Subject(s): Cities; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania TIME FOR BUILDING, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: A dozen machines Last Line: To another place in town Subject(s): Cities TIMES SQUARE, by MAGGIE NELSON Poem Source First Line: Joy got lost, so lost %she couldn't find the sky Last Line: The train doesn't stop here %anymore. Howdy, stranger Subject(s): Cities TIMGAD, by ELLEN VINTON Poem Text First Line: A forest of pillars in a barren plain Last Line: Reaching so far into this desert land. Subject(s): Cities; Rome, Italy; Urban Life TO & FROM SONNET, by CHUCK WACHTEL Poem Source First Line: Cab leaving the lower east side stops beside Last Line: Keep rising, slowly, until they're too high to see Subject(s): Cities TO A BIRD IN THE CITY, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bird! I bless thee in my heart; god knows I love to see Last Line: Such things speak plainer far to me than all that man can say. Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Urban Life TO A FRIEND SETTLED IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, the lot which fate to thee has given Last Line: Sweet solace to the wearied soul can yield. Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; Country Life; Fate; Soldiers; Urban Life; Destiny TO CELIA, by HENRY FIELDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the town and all its ways Last Line: Since she possesses all I love. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life TO GET TO THE CHILD, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I have to set just one free man Last Line: I inflict now, all by myself Subject(s): California; Cities TO TALK ABOUT A RIVER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I remember a time before speaking Last Line: A river that never knew we left it Subject(s): California; Cities TO THE GLORY OF JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful height! O joy! The whole world's Last Line: Than honeythe earth of thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism TO THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No permanent possession of the sky Last Line: Your rusting, huddled, fragmentary bones. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life TO THE METROPOLIS OF GREAT BRITAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As perhaps I am the first who ever presented a work of this nature to the Last Line: Men, so is by none more passionately desired than by %the greatest of your admirers, %and most humbl Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain; Nations; Praise; War TO WOMEN WHO SLEEP ALONE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: My mother doesn't understand a world with no man in it Last Line: A woman opening to the sound of rain Subject(s): California; Cities TO WOUNDED FRANCE, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of my birth, basket laden with all the fruits of life Last Line: Fragrance dissolved, your shattered diadem! Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Cities; France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips TOMMY LA BLANCA (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother put us in the same clothes Last Line: Without his freakin' shadow behind me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns TOMMY LA BLANCA (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My brother, anthony, left me holdin' the bag Last Line: I'll bust your head wide open Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns TONY WENT TO THE BODEGA BUT HE DIDN'T BUY ANYTHING, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tony's father left the family Last Line: Today tony lives on tremont street %above the bodega Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans TORY SITTING ON A COUCH IN A COFFEE SHOP ON THE CORNER OF NINTH STREET, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: With a coffee that she announces will make her hands shake later Last Line: And she says %'my hands were shaking' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers TOURING THE SOUTHWEST, by KATHERINE MERCURIO GOTTHARDT Poem Source First Line: The drive from santa fe Last Line: Lifting dust from mouth to tongue, sitting as time permits Subject(s): Cities; Roads; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.) TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They's a predjudice allus 'twixt country and town Last Line: Fer theyr gran'pap to waller 'em round! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Forests; Prejudice; Urban Life; Woods; Bias; Intolerance TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've thought, my cousin, it's extremely queer Last Line: And mean to come again another year. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life TRAFFIC REPORT: THIS IS PALE OTIS IN THE CHOPPER, by RONALD ERNEST OVERTON Poem Source First Line: Paul, we're bumper to bumper on the l.I.E. Last Line: Paul, we're bumper to bumper forever on the l.I.E. Subject(s): Cities TRAVEL, by JULIO CORTAZAR Poem Source First Line: When famas go on a trip, when they pass the night in a Last Line: Never take the trouble Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel TRAVELOGUE, by AMY GERSTLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetheart, I wish you could tour my native land Last Line: Landscape, forming lakes in almost every %depression Subject(s): Cities TREPIDATION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I'm afraid %of being %afraid Last Line: To not be %afraid Subject(s): Cities; Homeless TRIALS OF A SPRING POET, by JULIAN FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text First Line: I sat me down beneath a tree Last Line: In safety in the city. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Creative Ability; Urban Life; Inspiration; Creativity TRIBE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: A tribe, an insufficient velvet, borders Last Line: The water is a guillotine. I am the food of great masses Subject(s): Boundaries; Cities; Nations TRIP TO FOUR OR FIVE TOWNS, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: The gold-colored skin of my lebanese friends Last Line: Seemed like the right time %to disappear Subject(s): Cities; Towns TWO CITIES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with the river's silver zone Last Line: Upon the old foundations, build! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871); Cities; Corruption In Politics; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 2. CITY OF EVENINGS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is still too early for evening, and the smoke of early september is gath Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Cities; Venice, Italy; Urban Life TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 2. CITY OF EVENINGS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is still too early for evening, and the smoke of early september is gath Last Line: Covered the true shape of evening, and now it is almost evening Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Cities; Venice, Italy 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 PORTRAITS, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower felix put in my hair on sunday Last Line: Isn't she beautiful, the children used to say Subject(s): Cities TWO VOICES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the lanes and the hedges, the fields made red with the clover Last Line: And the sun of freedom shall shine across our graves to the ages!' Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Freedom; Socialism; Urban Life; Liberty TYRONE (1), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this day %the buffalo soldiers Last Line: Will sink the city %seek the city Subject(s): Cities UMBRELLAS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's raining in the city Last Line: The flowers have come up Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Cities UNDERGROUND (BLACK CAT), by CONRAD KENT RIVERS Poem Source First Line: Under bright city lights Last Line: I swing through the city full of blues Subject(s): Blues (music); Cities; Jazz; Music And Musicians UNDERWORLD, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cone of flurried light Last Line: On the shimmering, mingled throngs of the poor Subject(s): Cities UNTIL THE DAY BREATHES AND THE SHADOWS FLEE, by KATHLEEN HALME Poem Source First Line: Miniature stone mansions line a sighing town Last Line: Forgivable half-souls swallowed whole Subject(s): Cities; Day UP FROM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Up from the steets thrills her voice Last Line: Why won't he open the window? Subject(s): Cities; Flirtation UPTOWN LOVE POEM, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind it so much any more Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life UPTOWN LOVE POEM, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind it so much any more Last Line: And the open window slides quietly shut in its swollen, sweating frame Subject(s): Cities URBAN EXPERIENCE: PART ONE, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI Poem Source First Line: Bobbing with the crowds Last Line: Where he could not spread his arms %their full length. He did not try Subject(s): Cities URBAN EXPERIENCE: PART TWO, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI Poem Source First Line: Flying horse was in jail Last Line: He dreamed the midnight dancers %buried him head down Subject(s): Cities VALERIE VAN GARP (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In the living room, we will welcome my guest Last Line: Divorce is not a spectator sport, even for %honored guests Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns VALERIE VAN GARP (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I first saw lolita rosenbaum Last Line: I think we're gonna get along just great Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns VALERIE VAN GARP (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Who the hell does she think she is? Last Line: Who the hell does she think she is? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns VALPARAISO, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In valparaiso Last Line: Loves on a wild spectral wandering night Subject(s): Cities VENICE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In venice Last Line: Life's thresholds Subject(s): Cities VIRGINIA CITY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The wind like an enraged Last Line: Like bewitching, seductive bells Subject(s): Cities VISION OF A CITY, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: At the hour when, urged by an exalted forboding Last Line: Thus one evening a solitary city appeared for an instant before me Subject(s): Cities VISIT, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Marla gets off the plane and I see her walking fast, toward me, dressed Last Line: Coffee to lean down and rub my leg until I can stand on it Subject(s): Cities; Guests; Travel WALL, EARLY, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: It's just a brick wall lining the alley Last Line: Another local hero is dead. A plane hums closer Subject(s): Cities; Life; Walls WALLINGTON, N. J., by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Night factory hearths glow on the passaic's banks Last Line: And all this at the end of a good day's work Variant Title(s): Wallington (north Jersey Elegy Subject(s): Cities WANDERING, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little man of sorrows, whither would you wander? Last Line: "I am going to the country where my fathers ruled of old." Subject(s): Cities; Grief; Homecoming; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism WANTED: THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: My face %is on %an id card %in the post office Last Line: But here %even death %evicts me Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WASH AND WAX, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Saturdays, soap bubbles Last Line: Ladies take a shine %to a fine ride' Subject(s): Cities WASHINGTON, by EVALYN TERRY BROOKS Poem Text First Line: O washington, the beautiful, our city glorious Last Line: Salute our washington! Subject(s): Cities; Love; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect WATCHING BOXES, by MATT GIULIANO Poem Source First Line: I wish I could %watch this world Last Line: Trust your mind's camera,' %and he drifts past my ear Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Eyes WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is very cold! Last Line: "follow the wind!" Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean WAYS OF SEEING & SAYING ON WAYS OF BEING, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Uno: my calling card %I subscribe to Last Line: Until it pushes %something up Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WELCOME TO OUR CROWD, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've slept %in every room except Last Line: Into all our arms, live again %gone soon Subject(s): Cities WELL-TO-DO BARBECUE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I feel like %my plane crashed Last Line: Dental insurance %is a bitch %in this motherfucker! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WELL: IMAGINE A MOUNTAIN WHOSE NAME IS HEART, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: At the throat of the mountain Last Line: Interned at heart mountain, wyoming Subject(s): California; Cities WHAT ARE CITIES FOR?, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows Subject(s): Cities; Time; Urban Life WHAT ARE CITIES FOR?, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows Last Line: Be the poorer by many beautiful agonies Subject(s): Cities; Time WHAT I BURNED, by JACQUELINE LYONS Poem Source First Line: Girls at the rusted barrel Last Line: That I ate and did not share Subject(s): Cities; Lesotho WHAT MORE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: First we allow %the taking of children Last Line: What more can be taken Subject(s): California; Cities WHAT MY UNCLES TAUGHT ME, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was ten Last Line: Until then, never again Subject(s): Cities WHAT SCHOOL CHILDREN TELL ME AS THEY WATCH PEOPLE STEP OVER ME...., by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They'll acknowledge %the toilet Last Line: Before they %acknowledge %you' Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WHAT THE CITY WAS LIKE, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city was full of blue devils Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WHAT THE CITY WAS LIKE, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city was full of blue devils Last Line: You could set their hair on fire and, sure enough, they'd start screaming Subject(s): Cities WHAT WAS YUGOSLAVIA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Empty, dispossessed Last Line: Legends carried off on nights of bleeding love Subject(s): Cities WHAT WE OWE WE OWE TO SCIENCE, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: In this world %you have %bomb threats Last Line: What %you %pay for Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE TODAY?, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: If by chance %a fortune 500 corporation Last Line: Look out down below %or carry a good umbrella! Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE BODIES, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: I listen to my radio not for music, but the news Last Line: Whatever dies returns to be retold Subject(s): Cities; Travel WHEN A MAN LEAVES HIS WIFE FOR AN OTTOMAN, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I want to talk plainly %about a man Last Line: And hit his drawers %and be happy Subject(s): Cities; Homeless WHEN SKYSCRAPERS WERE INVENTED IN CHICAGO, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it as a large moment with shadows Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Skyscrapers; Urban Life WHEN SKYSCRAPERS WERE INVENTED IN CHICAGO, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it as a large moment with shadows Last Line: Even as houses, american houses, were growing on the prairie Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Skyscrapers WHEN YOU WALK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you walk in a field Last Line: The beautiful clouds go by! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Walking; Urban Life WHEN YOU WRITE ME, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: When you write me Last Line: Coming to light Subject(s): Cities WHERE I LIVE, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Where I live %there are no trees Last Line: And my branches %lift the sky Subject(s): Cities WHERE THE SKY AND GROUND ARE WHITE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I press my lips together slightly Last Line: Too furious to ignore Subject(s): California; Cities WHERE YOU WANT TO BE, by KEVIN PILKINGTON Poem Source First Line: You wake early again Last Line: Her hungry and ready %to eat the sky Subject(s): Cities; New York City WHITE CENTER, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Town or poem, I don't care how it looks Last Line: And why do I feel no shame kicking the loose gravel home Subject(s): Cities; Washington (state) WHITE NOISE, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faces are lifted up into the jumpy light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WHITE NOISE, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faces are lifted up into the jumpy light Last Line: When I suffer, I cannot forget that I am, nor fail to know that I am nothing Subject(s): Cities WHO HAVE BEEN SAD EVEN BEFORE THEY COULD LEARN, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Where do they come from Last Line: Can last a girl her entire life Subject(s): California; Cities WHY WE GAVE UP ON PUNCH LINE DRAMATICS, by WASHINGTON JACKSON Poem Source First Line: From there we could hear %the shots Last Line: Because tombstones are the credits %in gods directorial debut' Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Cities; Motion Picture Directors WIND RIVER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: It is just a matter of relocation Last Line: Of 1985, near the wind river reservation, wyoming Subject(s): California; Cities WINDOWS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're livin' out here in the country now Last Line: Where I watched as the world went by. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; Streets; Windows; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues WISE WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Fully aware Last Line: Was ever really %ours Subject(s): Cities WITH A CALLIGRAPHER, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: He writes every morning with a fat ink brush. His fingers slicing Last Line: All the power in his hands, which he holds onto with his life Subject(s): California; Cities WITH LEE REMICK AT MIDNIGHT, by RON PADGETT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lights shoot off the windows at the plaza Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WITH LEE REMICK AT MIDNIGHT, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lights shoot off the windows at the plaza Last Line: As evening settles down in its glorious space %and I shoot down the slide and up, and out Subject(s): Cities WITNESS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: The first time I looked up Last Line: Know how much I was loved Subject(s): California; Cities WOMAN IN THE GREEN CAR, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman in the green car does Last Line: Leave it %in mamaroneck Subject(s): Cities WOMAN NAKED, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And amid the thick Last Line: Knocks on the doors Subject(s): Cities WOMAN NAMED MATSU/PINE, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: I wait here before our children Last Line: Fire in the dawn's %stillest hour Subject(s): California; Cities WOMAN ON THE DUMP, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She sits on a smoldering couch Last Line: In the background unexhaustedly %burning, burning, burning Subject(s): Cities WOMAN WHO FORGOT, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a woman must go Last Line: She had never left it behind Subject(s): California; Cities WORDS, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are keys Last Line: Though it dreams of leaving Subject(s): Cities WORDS READ BY LIGHTNING, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big silver raucous stem Last Line: Already full %with what is Subject(s): Cities; New York City WRECKAGE ENTREPRENEUR, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It takes faith - this tripping through the mixed bessings Last Line: Nakedness. How small she looks %beside what she has saved Subject(s): Cities WRESTLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sky, cloud, seagull, sparrow, men in blue Last Line: Immaculate won, hands down. Bob scaled a rusty gate Subject(s): Cities; Religion; Spring; Wrestling And Wrestlers WRITTEN IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dictate, o mighty judge, what thou hast seen Last Line: While talbot tells the world, where montaigne erred. Subject(s): Cities; England; France; Judges; Wisdom; Urban Life; English YELLOW COIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the only changes are Last Line: The only wall that holds my history. Subject(s): Change; Cities; Memory; Urban Life YELLOW LIGHT, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One arm hooked around the frayed strap Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles; Urban Life YELLOW LIGHT, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One arm hooked around the frayed strap Last Line: Covers everything, everything in sight, %in a heavy light like yellow onions Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, by HETTIE JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a plant could be Last Line: Manna in my mouth Subject(s): Cities YOU COULD BELIEVE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could believe the city is more than you Last Line: Everything in this place does what it can Subject(s): Cities; Imagination YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT, THEY TELL ME!, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Imagine %being in heaven %with a cup Last Line: Helps you %costs you %your life Subject(s): Cities; Homeless YOUR TURN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dewdrop ode sweet licks Last Line: Make neurons dance in world muse impulse book Subject(s): Cities; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Urban Life YVETTE RONDEAU, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When brian paxell was through with me Last Line: I can find a job in the next town over Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ZEBRA, by JUDITH THURMAN Poem Source First Line: White sun %black %fire escape Last Line: Outside my window Subject(s): Cities ZOO NATION, by TONY MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They feed me %through these %bars Last Line: Shoe heels %ignore %my grief Subject(s): Cities; Homeless |
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