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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HAITI Matches Found: 18 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLACK ISLAND, by CHARLES PRESSOIR Poem Source First Line: Women of my country, black and barefoot girls Last Line: What is this island but a part %severed from the continentalhomeland? Subject(s): Haiti; Negritude (literary Movement) DUST ANGELS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Roaring back into town after all night desert Last Line: Upon her spirit of pauseless %offerings Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Dust; Haiti; Holidays; New Year; Poverty; Race Awareness; Religion ETHIOPA, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O minstrel lyre of ancient ethiop Last Line: Throughout the world his fellows of the dusk. Subject(s): Africa; Ethiopia; Haiti; Slavery; Serfs HAITI, by NAOMI AYALA Poem Source First Line: She reaches for her eyes Last Line: There is nothing else to report Subject(s): Haiti HAITI, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bare, utilitarian lobby of my building, Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Haiti; Disasters HAITI, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the future these sounds are seeds of Subject(s): Haiti; Politics & Government HAITI, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the future these sounds are seeds of Last Line: The boundless, and the maize amaze the sky upon waking %for as long as humanity is Subject(s): Haiti; Politics HAITI, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: It's 4 a.M. On her birthday Last Line: Again. She watches her mother turn into the horizon Subject(s): Haiti; Travel HAITI, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The leopard, sun and shade, crouches and speeds Subject(s): Haiti HOMAGE TO HENRI CHRISTOPHE, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the silent vibrations of silent snow Last Line: Dark land in the blue sea, be free in him Subject(s): Christophe, Henry (1767-1820); Haiti - Revolution (1804); Homage & Respect IN HAITI: 1. SUNSET AT DESCHAPELLES, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the houses of american engineers Last Line: Red ants gather on a lizard's eye. Subject(s): Evening; Haiti; Sunset; Twilight IN HAITI: 2. AT THE SPRING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy perched in the high Last Line: Thigh-deep in a limestone cliff. Variant Title(s): Haitian Suite Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Haiti; Spring; Youth IN HAITI: 3. BOY ON THE REEF/INFINITY OF DESIRE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three feet below his belly, the reef's Last Line: Sea fans, past conchs pink as cunts. Subject(s): Coral; Desire; Haiti; Sea; Ocean IN HAITI: 4. THE PALACE OF SANS SOUCI, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mapou's massive trunk Last Line: I call and call. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Haiti IN HAITI: 5. HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER; DESCHAPELLES, HAITI, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the old beggar who sits Last Line: Of haiti under my small straw hat. Subject(s): Death; Haiti; Mothers; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness MIRROR IMAGE: PORT-AU-PRINCE, by BARBARA HOWES Poem Source First Line: Au petit Last Line: Drawing-room of %hairdresser! Subject(s): Port-au-prince, Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nside the car Subject(s): Haiti; Duvalier, Jean-claude VINCENT OGE, by GEORGE BOYER VASHON Poem Text First Line: There is, at times, an evening sky Last Line: Will live, the sinking soul to cheer! Subject(s): Haiti; Oge, Jacques Vincent (1750-1791); Slavery; Serfs |
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