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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MUSIC, ROCK Matches Found: 150 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER SUPPER, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: In the last light I drove Last Line: Chocolate, and then, insistent, 'well, %do you got any at your house?' Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Music, Rock ALL SHOOK UP', by DAN SICOLI Poem Source First Line: In there these short hairs Last Line: Start counting backwards %from 10 Subject(s): Music, Rock AMERICAN BANDSTAND, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boy rehearsing the continental stroll Last Line: Forever awkward, %each partner dreaming of grace Subject(s): Music, Rock ANCESTRAL ECHOES / RAP MUSIC, by CHARLES LYNCH Poem Source First Line: Sunk in slate-gray plastic panels Last Line: Mixes, cuts, and scratches, %sand-dances electric chakere Subject(s): Music, Rap; Music, Rock AUDUBON DRIVE, MEMPHIS, by JAMES SEAY Poem Source First Line: There's a black and white photo of elvis Last Line: The photo is 1034 audubon drive, memphis, %and then it's hollywood, %still waiting for the pool to f Subject(s): Music, Rock; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) BACK-UP SINGER, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The father of the stethoscope Last Line: The first notes of the treble world %break from my throat %over the heads of everyone listening but Subject(s): Music, Rock BETTY, by PAUL MARIANI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the fumbling. Oh blessed lord the fumbling Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Music, Rock; Rock & Roll BETTY, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the fumbling. Oh blessed lord the fumbling Last Line: & kissed her lips & dear god tasted woman once again Subject(s): Erotic Love; Music, Rock BO DIDDLY AT THE CRYSTAL LAKE BALLROOM, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: A spear of lightning five miles long Last Line: Any music lover might follow %to the edge of the knowable world Subject(s): Diddly, Bo; Music, Rock BRYAN FERRY, by B. D. LOVE Poem Source First Line: And as the world turns, so turns the light Last Line: And as the heart turns, so turns the light Subject(s): Music, Rock BUDDY HOLLY, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What there's been of winter moves away Last Line: The dead are breathing, their hands cupped gently %to whisper again, their names into our ears Subject(s): Holly, Buddy (1936-1959); Music, Rock BUDDY HOLLY WATCHING REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 1956, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's played hookey to see the flick again, Last Line: Some of us, he thinks, will never get it right. Variant Title(s): Buddy Holly Watching Rebel Without A Cause, Lubboc Subject(s): Holly, Buddy (1936-1959); Music, Rock BURDEN LIFTERS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At least you left me the green Last Line: Gentle fingers upon %my godforsaken shoulders? Subject(s): Music, Rock CALIFORNIA, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My last night in california Last Line: Of that fortress where lips of ice have sinned Subject(s): California; Music, Rock; Rock & Roll CALIFORNIA, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My last night in california Last Line: The world holds many dreams at least %one of them holds you Subject(s): California; Music, Rock CALIFORNIA DREAMING', by ROCHELLE NAMEROFF Poem Source First Line: I don't believe in anythin Last Line: Drink the proper snobby wines %and live forever Subject(s): Music, Rock CHALLENGE TO THE READER, by TAD RICHARDS Poem Source First Line: Chapter x: you're probably wondering why I called you all here Last Line: Bumped off and dumped in an alley, but that %would be another story Subject(s): Music, Rock CHOSEN TO BE WATER, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Across the field the gret willow rocking its head Last Line: She will go see, and pushes herself up %from a table already wet with her judgment Subject(s): Music, Rock CHUCK BERRY, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: Hamburger wizard, %loose-limbed instigator Last Line: Surrounds the joint, waits for their opportunity %to break in Subject(s): Berry, Chuck (b. 1931); Music, Rock CHUCK BERRY, by B. D. LOVE Poem Source First Line: Some critics wail and moan that you rewrote Subject(s): Berry, Chuck (b. 1931); Music, Rock CLASS BULLY, by THOMAS REITER Poem Source First Line: Pursued by one nun or another Last Line: Crossing guard, your white belt and raised hand %keeping us from going under the wheels Subject(s): Music, Rock CONSOLATION, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is none. And this means today Last Line: I have to listen - like a heartbeat after an accident, %racing, racing Subject(s): Music, Rock CRUISING WITH THE BEACH BOYS, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So strange to hear that song again tonight Last Line: Bringing on tears shed only for myself Variant Title(s): Cruising With The Beachboy Subject(s): Adolescence; Music, Rock CURES, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The part of the soul that doubts, again and again Subject(s): Music, Rock; Rock & Roll CURES, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The part of the soul that doubts, again and again Last Line: Like stardom %in america, or now this silence between songs Subject(s): Music, Rock DANCING AT THE TRACK SINGERS AT THE NIGHTCLUB, by JUDITH BERKE Poem Source First Line: A plastic freezer bag filled with cocaine, worn Last Line: And a bass: what's there, and what isn't %there, in the music Subject(s): Music, Rock DEAF DANCING TO ROCK, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eardrums of the deaf are already broken; they like it loud Last Line: Waving arms signal the sea and pull its great waves ashore Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Music, Rock DEATH OF JANIS JOPLIN, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Because she was a white girl Last Line: Part of something at last Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock DECRESCENDO, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is only one world, it is this one Subject(s): Music, Rock; Rock & Roll DECRESCENDO, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is only one world, it is this one Last Line: Hoping to fix up, a little, this world Subject(s): Music, Rock DREAM LOVER', by MARK DEFOE Poem Source First Line: Once they stood tiptoe, dewy, poised Last Line: We were elected king and queen of something Subject(s): Music, Rock DUCKLING, SWAN, by JIM ELLEDGE Poem Source First Line: In bunches bright as marigolds Last Line: Can I pet your leather? Subject(s): Music, Rock EIGHT BALL, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I tried to put the eight ball in a corner pocket Last Line: The holy electrons, the lost worlds, all of them going on Subject(s): Music, Rock EIGHTIES MEDITATION, by KAY ANN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: This picnic table's carefully etched Last Line: Fresher, deliberately deep, these three scars %sprawl over the others: fuck the world Subject(s): Music, Rock ELEGY FOR BOB MARLEY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an elegy for a musician Last Line: Could be used of our lives and bodies %and all that we hope survives them Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Marley, Robert Nesta (bob) (1945-1981); Music, Rock ELEGY FOR ELVIS, by RICHARD A. BLESSING Poem Source First Line: Elvis lay cool in his thick shadow Last Line: I twist the dial and you are everywhere Subject(s): Music, Rock; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS PRESLEY, by ROCHELLE NAMEROFF Poem Source First Line: I want to get the streams in here Last Line: As we shook free of their world, the new %holy rollers, and they knew it Subject(s): Music, Rock; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ENCLOSURE, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Mad daddy like mule Last Line: His only closeness. Trance-blue %breath, the drifter's home Subject(s): Music, Rock EPITHALAMION, by NANCY SCHOENBERGER Poem Source First Line: Let the cruel spring begin, sweeney Last Line: No altar, and one in this picture %to declare that beauty Subject(s): Music, Rock; Wedding Song EVERLY BROTHERS, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: My brother thought they were freaks Last Line: Harmony. The song did not %have to be about faith in love Subject(s): Music, Rock FANS, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: When janis joplin died Last Line: We are still listening, but life is like death, %so strong it doesn't have to explain Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock FATHER OF THE MAN, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Your daughter, fifteen, has drunk a half bottle Last Line: You'd never have trusted when you were your age Subject(s): Music, Rock FIFTIES ROCK PARTY, 1985, by JUDITH BERKE Poem Source First Line: The big living room is crowded Last Line: Thought she was singing only %for heaven Subject(s): Music, Rock FIRST PERFORMANCE OF THE ROCK 'N' ROLL BAND PUCE EXIT, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: If puce were sound not color Last Line: In puffs of dust, and neither of us %in a hurry to leaven this sweet bouquet Subject(s): Music, Rock FIRST RADIO, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: A plastic transistor from japan Last Line: Better than any answered prayer Subject(s): Music, Rock; Radio FOR THE LAST SUMMER, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That summer with a thousand julys Subject(s): Music, Rock; Youth; Summer; War; Desire; Rock & Roll FOR THE LAST SUMMER, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That summer with a thousand julys Last Line: For him, in the only hours of his life he ever knew %as his own, was music, music, music Subject(s): Music, Rock FORGETTING THE SIXTIES, by MARK DEFOE Poem Source First Line: Recall how she lolly-gagged beneath Last Line: Can you see? Can you see? Can you see? Subject(s): Music, Rock GIRL WITH THE BAD REP, by KAY ANN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Flay the square with crowds Last Line: We danced like fools through the ancestors Subject(s): Music, Rock HANOI HANNAH, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ray charles! His voice Last Line: As though the airways are %buried under our feet Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Music, Rock HEARTBREAK HOTEL PIANO-BAR, by RICHARD SPEAKES Poem Source First Line: Okay. We're stuck with our lives and those Last Line: That's why I come here, for the music Subject(s): Music, Rock HEAT, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the electric dusk your naked lover Subject(s): Music, Rock; Rock & Roll HEAT, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the electric dusk your naked lover Last Line: The bogus moon of tenderness and magic %you hold out to each prisoner like a cup of light? Subject(s): Music, Rock HEAVEN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Scott and I bent Last Line: But still singing, %'baby, baby, o baby.' Subject(s): Music, Rock HOMAGE TO LESTER FLATT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five seasons without traveling to a festival, without walking Last Line: Rattling the bank echoes the tenor of our lives. Subject(s): Fame; Festivals; Flatt, Lester; Future Life; Music, Rock; Homage & Respect; Reputation; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Rock & Roll HOMAGE TO ROBERT JOHNSON, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the moon Subject(s): Music, Rock; Rock & Roll HOMAGE TO ROBERT JOHNSON, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the moon Last Line: Salvations setting like a moon in its ladt black %spiraling range of sky Subject(s): Music, Rock HONKY-TONKY BLUES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shoving another quarter home to make Last Line: Her spun silk rope one night %and slid out of his arms forever Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Music, Rock HOURS MUSICIANS KEEP, by ALEDA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: They were gestures out of a movie, I tell you Last Line: I keep going because I refuse to stop Subject(s): Music, Rock HOUSEHOLD GODS, by JIM ELLEDGE Poem Source First Line: Tuned to 104.6 on the fm Last Line: Here, friends, be dragons Subject(s): Music, Rock HOW GARNETT MIMS AND THE CHANTERS CAME INTO YOUR LIFE, by BRUCE SMITH Poem Source First Line: The scent of pencil, a house full Last Line: You'll say to her, 'garnett mims %and the enchanters' Subject(s): Music, Rock HOW IT COMES, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the small sound Last Line: In the backseats of the great, generous %muscle cars of the sixties Subject(s): Music, Rock HOW NEAR VIETNAM CAME TO US, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: The id bracelet I never did give Last Line: A red, white, and blue %united world or I could ever give from going under the wheels Subject(s): Music, Rock HULLY GULLY, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Locked in bathrooms for hours Last Line: Above the exhausted chenille %in bedrooms upstairs everywhere Subject(s): Music, Rock HURLEY HIGH, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Though the nuns had dubbed us crusaders Last Line: For 18 pm a friday night in 1966, %when friday night meant living, %and living meant sinning till da Subject(s): Music, Rock I WANNABE YOUR QUEEN, by SUSAN SWARTWOUT Poem Source First Line: Elvis, king of ptl tv Last Line: Take me, elvis, make me queen %of I saw elvis magazine Subject(s): Music, Rock; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) IN 1969, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: What were the secrets that we didn't tell? Last Line: What hurt. We lied: there was no other way Subject(s): Music, Rock IT WAS FEVER THAT MADE THE WORLD, by JIM POWELL Poem Source Last Line: Till all five lanes of their sharp reds merge %toward the city's bright towers Subject(s): Music, Rock JAMES BROWN, by LENARD DUANE MOORE Poem Source First Line: The funky beat Last Line: Peeling back a song %of unspirited years, %crying %another river turning %back muddy waters %in %sid Subject(s): Brown, James (b. 1933); Music, Rock JAMES BROWN, by LINWOOD M. ROSS Poem Source First Line: There were summers Last Line: A cockroach scales my ghetto wall %I hear %they'll survive %a nuclear war Subject(s): Brown, James (b. 1933); Music, Rock JERRY LEE LEWIS'S SECRET MARRIAGE TO THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD..., by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dumb career move, killer. The irs is on your case Last Line: Your ass is grass, and where's my ten percent? Subject(s): Lewis, Jerry Lee (b. 1940); Music, Rock JESUS NEVER SLEEPS, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Downstairs neighbors quicken Last Line: Nonbelievers into their own %bodies' good news? Subject(s): Music, Rock JOHNNY B. GOODE, by JAMES SEAY Poem Source First Line: You couldn't count the times Last Line: Through the tinted glass: the one we're cheering for %and the one we're asking why can't she be true Subject(s): Music, Rock JONI MITCHELL, by JOSEPH HUTCHINSON Poem Source First Line: Waters falls white on the white Last Line: Collapsing on empty beaches, sliding %back helpless and rising again Subject(s): Mitchell, Joni (b. 1943); Music, Rock JUAN ANGEL, by RANE ARROYO Poem Source First Line: Lately I've been trying to visualize Last Line: The use. See you on an album cover %near you. Hello, I'm juan angel Subject(s): Music, Rock JUNGLE MUSIC, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: My father yelled,'turn that damn thing down!' Last Line: Someone yelled come home, but we were dancing in the night Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Music, Rock LATE AFTERNOON AT THE ARBORETUM, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lilacs are in bloom Last Line: I say her words, to you Subject(s): Music, Rock LATE SUMMER NEWS, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down this red clay route Last Line: Over hundred-year pines, %all the bright strings attached Subject(s): Music, Rock LETTER TO RUSSELL BARRON, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Most likely whatever glimpse we caught Last Line: Skinny margie stulginski, %and I'd most likely do so again Subject(s): Music, Rock MAMA LOVES JANIS JOPLIN, by RICHARD SPEAKES Poem Source First Line: It turns out you can have a daughter selling Last Line: You find the harmonies, and you sing along Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock MAN WHO KNEW THE WORDS TO LOUIE, LOUIE, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Impossible, the way one black walnut, fallen Last Line: Seems frightened. How pleased her new parents are Subject(s): Music, Rock MARY'S DREAM, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: I was living in new york Last Line: So I came Subject(s): Music, Rock MATINS: JAMES BROWN & HIS FAMOUS FLAMES TOUR THE SOUTH, 1958, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Please, please, please' on the charts permits Last Line: A billy club, a face, the windshield breaks Subject(s): Brown, James (b. 1933); Music And Musicians; Music, Rock MEET THE SUPREMES, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poet's Biography First Line: When petula clark sang 'downtown,' I wished I could go there with her Subject(s): Music, Rock; Nostalgia; Supremes, The (singing Group); Rock & Roll MEET THE SUPREMES, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When petula clark sang 'downtown,' I wished I could go there with her Last Line: Begins the long and painful process of letting go Subject(s): Music, Rock; Nostalgia; Supremes, The (singing Group) MICK JAGGER, by B. D. LOVE Poem Source First Line: Byron delayed above the wreck of rome Subject(s): Jagger, Mick (b. 1943); Music, Rock MIDNIGHT REPORTS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That's how billboards give up their promises Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Music, Rock; Rock & Roll MIDNIGHT REPORTS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That's how billboards give up their promises Last Line: Blue the color of bruises, of minor regrets Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Music, Rock MONDAY, MONDAY, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Radio's reality when the hits just keep happening Last Line: Realized those songs %were no longer my feelings Subject(s): Music, Rock NECROMANCY: THE LAST DAYS OF BRIAN JONES, 1968, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hair fanning out, he'll float upside down Last Line: Hair fanning out, he'll float upside down Subject(s): Jones, Brian (1943-1969); Music, Rock; Necromancy NIGHT WAITRESS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reflected in the plate glass, the pies Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Music, Rock; Restaurants; Waiters & Waitresses; Rock & Roll; Cafes; Diners NIGHT WAITRESS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Reflected in the plate glass, the pies Last Line: In wrinkles, in every fault %of this frail machinery Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Music, Rock; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses NINE OF CLUBS, CLEVELAND, OHIO, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now I know there are bored, beautiful people everywhere Last Line: The glimpse of smokey, downturned faces - %you, me, in ritual greeting to our neatly razored lines Subject(s): Music, Rock NURSING THE SUNBURN, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Only here that I roll my dope Last Line: Where everything is quiet: %only smoke & the small gray city outside Subject(s): Music, Rock ON LIVING WITH A FAT WOMAN IN HEAVEN, by SIDNEY BURRIS Poem Source First Line: The point is not that troy Last Line: Arms balances the weight- %less shadows of our fate Subject(s): Music, Rock ON THE ELVIS MAILING LIST, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source First Line: It started with the greatest hits album Last Line: By two men who would laugh at anyone %wailing 'don't be cruel' Subject(s): Music, Rock; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ON THE OTIS REDDING BRIDGE, by JUDSON MITCHAM Poem Source First Line: This morning, when a woman walks home Last Line: As an old pain deep in her lungs; this woman %who spits off the bridge and goes on Subject(s): Music, Rock; Redding, Otis (1941-1967) ONE WHITE FACE IN THE PLACE, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So often true back then Last Line: White face in the place %and will Subject(s): Music, Rock OVER VOICE OF AMERICA, by DENNIS FINNELL Poem Source First Line: Some nights the quiet is all wrong. A tape Last Line: Sounds of dead stars. Tell me we call them back %since they call us and we can hear, once again Subject(s): Music, Rock PAINKILLERS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king of rock 'n roll Last Line: If not the ultimate pain %of feeling no pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Music, Rock; Painkillers; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) PATSY CLINE, by RICHARD SPEAKES Poem Source First Line: Much of what moves us is wrong, our hearts Last Line: We watch people %we could be, and we are moved Subject(s): Cline, Patsy (1932-1963); Music, Rock PAUL BUTTERFIELD, DEAD AT 44, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: So the blues are again requiem Last Line: And we dance, together, in time Subject(s): Music, Rock PENALTY FOR BIGAMY IS TWO WIVES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't understand how janis joplin did it, how she made her voice Last Line: My arms are easily as my body will hold forever the silence for which the mouth opens slowly Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock PEOPLE ARE DROPPING OUT OF OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joplin's voice, edged like a crack Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock; Rock & Roll PEOPLE ARE DROPPING OUT OF OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joplin's voice, edged like a crack Last Line: Go higher, the hands go %capo up my neck Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock PERFORMANCE, by PAUL MCRAY Poem Source First Line: She came to this local bar Last Line: Had kissed her lilting, sinking life even once, %and meant it Subject(s): Music, Rock PLAYLAND, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: The 8-track clicked through tunes as we two Last Line: Everywhere were phosphorescent fish, %a thousand up-turned saintly eyes Subject(s): Music, Rock PROPHECY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The minister's enunciations cut like knives Last Line: The searing violence of electric guitars, %behind which we wailed and sang Subject(s): Music, Rock PUREST RAGE, by CHARLES BAXTER Poem Source First Line: This thing happens in mid-summer Last Line: Right there, obedient, rooted, crazed %by simple loyalty to the ground it grew in Subject(s): Music, Rock ROCK N' ROLL, by PETER BALAKIAN Poem Source First Line: The groove in black plastic got deeper Last Line: Lord, lead me from hackensack new jersey %into the white streak of exhaust Subject(s): Music, Rock ROCKET TO RUSSIA (1), by ALISON STONE Poem Source First Line: I woke up with purple hair and paul Last Line: Mugged. Krazy kolor had run down my forehead %and become a wound Subject(s): Music, Rock SALAD DAYS, by BRUCE BERGER Poem Source First Line: Into the common bowl Last Line: Several hours a day, the rest of the band Subject(s): Music, Rock SECRET HISTORY OF ROCK & ROLL, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elvis presley, bo diddley, bill haley & the comets Last Line: Who lived for rock has seen the light %my brain was not my own. I renounce that boy Subject(s): Music, Rock SEIZING THE DAY, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: We are traveling within the boundaries of your time together Last Line: You have stolen their souls with your eyes Subject(s): Music, Rock SMOKING, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm holding my cigarette out the car window Last Line: Lighting me up again and again %every time I try to put them down Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Music, Rock; Smoking SONG OF THE BURNING, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted the heart to scream Last Line: I swear you'll never hear my voice again Subject(s): Music, Rock SOUL MUSIC, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The baltimore evening I saw Last Line: That sang of days %no ticket could touch Subject(s): Music, Rock SOUND SYSTEMS, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas, 1957. The dell-vikings and the diamonds Last Line: And then the music's over, %the old turntable rasping, around and around Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Music, Rock SPHINX, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: Driving west in the afternoon Last Line: Not caring what people would say, %should they study me Subject(s): Music, Rock SPOFFORD HALL, by ALISON STONE Poem Source First Line: It might be a university. They took the money Last Line: The lake is freckled with dead fish. %patients circle in pairs Subject(s): Music, Rock STRANGERS: AN ESSAY, by JIM ELLEDGE Poem Source First Line: Forget maps at 10f each. Those before Last Line: No grafiti or hymns for them %- only flowers, plastic or wilting Subject(s): Music, Rock SUMMER THE BEATLES WENT OVER SEVEN MINUTES ON A SINGLE, by DOYLE WESLEY WALLS Poem Source First Line: Death wasn't the only think aboveboard in new orleans Last Line: Going to be all right. All right. All right Subject(s): Music, Rock SUPREMES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In ball's market after surfing till noon Last Line: From that height they still look frail and frozen, %full of simple sweetness and repetition Subject(s): Music, Rock; Supremes, The (singing Group) TEMPTED BY THE CLASSICAL ON RETURNING FROM THE STORE ..., by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Weather in place of god Last Line: But I decline to brake %under the strait sharp sky Subject(s): Music, Rock THE COHERENCES, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For whom the Last Line: Speech Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Dancing & Dancers; Music, Rock; Travel; Rock & Roll; Journeys; Trips THE DAY LADY DIED, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 12:20 in new york a friday Last Line: Minneapolis, mn, www.Coffeehousepress.Com Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Men; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Singing & Singers; Rock & Roll; Songs THE DEAF DANCING TO ROCK, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eardrums of the deaf are already broken; they like it loud Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Music, Rock; Rock & Roll THE PENALTY FOR BIGAMY IS TWO WIVES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't understand how janis joplin did it, how she made her voice Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock; Rock & Roll THE PROPHECY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The minister's enunciations cut like knives Last Line: Behind which we wailed and sang Subject(s): Music, Rock; Rock & Roll THE SUPREMES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In ball's market after surfing till noon Subject(s): Music, Rock; Supremes, The (singing Group); Rock & Roll THEIR HATS IS ALWAYS WHITE', by JIM ELLEDGE Poem Source First Line: Just an hour before the hump of last night, when Last Line: Full moon rounded through clouds that got clean away Subject(s): Music, Rock TIME WITH STEVIE WONDER IN IT, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Winter, the empty air, outside Last Line: Of snow. The crystals show %a future happening with you in it Subject(s): Music, Rock; Wonder, Stevie (b. 1950) TO MARIE OSMOND, by JACK SKELLEY Poem Source First Line: There you are again Last Line: As priests and presidents wither into %indefinite night Subject(s): Music, Rock; Osmond, Marie (b. 1959) TU DO STREET, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Music divides the evening Last Line: Run into each other like tunnels %leading to the underworld Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Music, Rock TUMBLING DICE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought all your walled cities Last Line: Some rooftop we can drift on %to the roll of the tumbling dice, %sweet darling %the roll of the tumb Subject(s): Music, Rock UPON FINDING A BLACK WOMAN'S DOOR SPRAYED WITH SWASTIKAS, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: How to say hate was in rancorous bloom Last Line: Of forgiveness he knew more of than I Subject(s): Music, Rock; Racism VACATION, 1969, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers rolling around in the big back seat Last Line: Lashed to the wheel, %america, by god, filling the car windows Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Music, Rock; Women VENICE BEACH: BRIEF SONG, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe zizi is right Subject(s): Beiderbecke, Bix (1903-1931); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Rock & Roll VENICE BEACH: BRIEF SONG, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe zizi is right Last Line: To be truly blonde, and just once %blown away, flying and flying and flying Subject(s): Beiderbecke, Bix (1903-1931); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Music, Rock VERY TRUE CONFESSIONS, by SIDNEY BURRIS Poem Source First Line: Once, I grew long hair Last Line: Anywhere at all %was somewhere else instead Subject(s): Music, Rock VICTIM, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh dead punk lady with the knack Last Line: Poor girl, what was your name? Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Music, Rock VIDEO MAMA, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: My mother watches vidoes Last Line: Guitar strung across his thighs, %he watched her all day long Subject(s): Music, Rock; Springsteen, Bruce (b. 1949) W.C.W. WATCHING PRESLEY'S SECOND APPEARANCE..., by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tube Last Line: You don't know %a fucking thing %about cruelty yet Subject(s): Music, Rock; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) WAITING ON ELVIS, 1956, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This place up in charlotte called chuck's where I Last Line: Smiled at me and said, yeah honey I guess I sure am Subject(s): Music, Rock; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) WHAT'S SO FUNNY 'BOUT PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING, by ROBERT LONG Poem Source First Line: At the party she said Last Line: And the stars, %like push pins in really lovely material Subject(s): Music, Rock WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR THAT TURNS INTO A PLANE', by JAMES HARMS Poem Source First Line: My clothes are standing up without me Last Line: And wave past another bus. %I watch myself flicker in its windows Subject(s): Music, Rock WILDSISTERS BAR, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: How do you operate a jackhammer if Last Line: The face greeting us at the door %falling off its hinges Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Music, Rock; Women's Rights WOODY GUTHRIE VISITED BY BOB DYLAN, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He has lain here for a terrible, motionless Last Line: The nurse grits her teeth, stubs out the cigarette Subject(s): Dylan, Bob (b. 1941); Guthrie, Woody (1912-1967); Music, Rock WORLD WITHOUT END, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: Before my brother-in-law lost his telephone job Last Line: And hope, our sturdy friend, solid as two good mules Subject(s): Music, Rock YEAR THE SPACE AGE WAS BORN, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: That fall, when we shared a phonograph Last Line: That much behind ourselves. Only our %place of birth, the little space we shared Subject(s): Music, Rock |
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