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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PETROLEUM Matches Found: 11 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALIVE, I FLOURISH, by EDNA EGLINTON Poem Source Last Line: Your wealth comes from a rotted corpse Subject(s): Petroleum; Riddles DESERTED DERRICK, by MARY ELIZABETH BRANTLEY Poem Text First Line: Towering high above oil-stained lands Last Line: That cast its rays upon the derrick in an early year. Subject(s): Petroleum; Ruins; Wells; Oil HANDKERCHIEFS OF KHAIBAR KHAN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In nishapur did khaibar khan Last Line: With candor, quite diarmingly Subject(s): Iran; Petroleum IRON FEVER: DIESEL JUNKY, by STEPHAN TORRE Poem Source First Line: Drain oil drips down like sweet molasses Last Line: Gotta be some dope cookin %in that crankcase, pal... Subject(s): Automobiles; Petroleum OIL BURN, by ADAM BURHANS Poem Source First Line: When father told me to dump the oil Last Line: Or rivers turning back for bewginnings, %escaping its pull to live again Subject(s): Farm Life; Petroleum; Pollution OKLAHOMA, by STELLA B. REDDING Poem Text First Line: Oklahoma, youngest state of the west Last Line: Oklahoma. Subject(s): Greed; Oklahoma; Petroleum; Avarice; Cupidity; Oil PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: OIL, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL Poem Text First Line: Black smoke hides the sun Last Line: Such a hell as dante saw. Subject(s): Petroleum; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States PRE-HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: The dinosaur died, was consumed by the soil Last Line: May rise from their ashes in ten million years Subject(s): Automobiles; Dinosaurs; Petroleum SUPPRESSING THE EVIDENCE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Alaska oil spill, I edit you out Last Line: I must hold in my mind one small dead otter pup. Subject(s): Alaska; Escapes; Industrial Accidents; Petroleum; Women; Women's Rights; Fugitives; Oil; Feminism THE HANDKERCHIEFS OF KHAIBAR KHAN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In nishapur did khaibar khan Subject(s): Iran; Petroleum; Persia; Oil THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TEXAS GIRL, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a texas maiden, she came of low degree Last Line: Had rested there for ages above a flow of oil? Subject(s): Cowboys; Petroleum; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States |
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