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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIFEGUARDS Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUGUST MORNING, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The sun beats the water to hammered aluminum Last Line: Of ancient urns come to us dancing, hand the invisible line along Subject(s): Drowning; Lifeguards; Saint Kilda (scotland); Survival EXCAVATION, by C. KUBASTA Poem Source First Line: At church camp, the summer before high school, the lifeguard Last Line: His hands on my back again Subject(s): Lifeguards JUNIOR LIFESAVING, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Class, I say, this is %the front head release Last Line: I tell you what I know: %go down to save Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Learning; Lifeguards; Survival; Swimming; Teaching And Teachers; Water JUNIOR LIFESAVING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a high school math teacher, during the winter Last Line: Geometry and algebra, 4th period, he was mr. Bliss Subject(s): Adolescence; Lifeguards LIFE'S WORK, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth chewed but I was doing laps Last Line: King of the eels and the eel's wife Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Labor And Laborers; Lifeguards; Swimming LIFEGUARD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a stable of boats I lie still Last Line: And hold in my arms a child %of water, water, water Subject(s): Lifeguards; Sports LIFEGUARD: 1, by JACK DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: She knows men like drowning Last Line: Is reaching down to kiss them %with her last held breath Subject(s): Lifeguards LIFEGUARD: 2, by JACK DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Underwater, she remembers her father Last Line: As she waded the deserted aisles, his eye bloodshot, %his white shirt soaked in the late afternoon Subject(s): Lifeguards LIFEGUARD: 3, by JACK DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Even in winter %they listen for the silver whistle Last Line: When she wakes %tasting the last scream %of every man she has ever saved Subject(s): Lifeguards LIFEJACKETS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Tied into their chilly embrace Last Line: Those jackets %that never dried through Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Lifeguards; Water THE CASE OF EDGAR ABBOTT AND PHILIP RIDD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was edgar alvin abbott, who had Last Line: "leaping bravely to her rescue, cried: ""I'ii save you!"" and he did." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Lifeguards; Seashore; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore; Swimmers THE LIFEGUARD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a stable of boats I lie still Subject(s): Lifeguards; Sports THEM, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That summer they had cars, soft roofs crumpling Last Line: Have it, we could reach right down into their %bodies and steal it back Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Lifeguards; Sex; Teenagers; Virginity; Women |
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