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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POLICE Matches Found: 68 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HANGING, ZOMBA CENTRAL PRISON, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poet's Biography First Line: His pendulous body tolled Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Police States; Prisons & Prisoners; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Convicts A LETTER TO A POLICEMAN IN KANSAS CITY, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lot of men and armies stand to take Last Line: And any man can live on earth when we're through with it. Subject(s): Police; Social Problems AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BLUES (1993), by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right now two black people sit in a jury room Last Line: I am not a pinata, rodney king insists. Opw can't we all get along Subject(s): King, Rodney (b.1966); Trials; Racism; Language; Police Violence AG LEVY, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two troops from the ag levy section Subject(s): Military Police; Names AMONG STONES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sergeant kelly leans across the counter Last Line: Looks like he has nothing to hide Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Police; Seashore; Suicide APPREHENDEE THEN EXITED VEE-HICLE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorry, said the cop who had shot me Subject(s): Identity; Police; Wit & Humor BLANTYRE, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rusty grey roofs, stunted white-washed walls Last Line: Walled into personal prisons where fear rules Subject(s): Exiles; Police States; Scotland BOBBY BLUE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I have to cross the road Last Line: I always say as I go by, %'good-morning, bobby blue' Subject(s): Police BUSTED BOY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries; United States - Race Relations; Police CLANCY OF THE MOUNTED POLICE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little crimson manual Last Line: "when I go back to the old love that's waited so long for me." Subject(s): Canadian Mounted Police DEATH FOR THE DARK STRANGER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The knave of darkness, limber in the leaves Last Line: So again the miraculous thunder of discovering wings is heard Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Police; Punishment; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A firm there is, of civic fame Last Line: And spent their forty pounds at leisure. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Diamonds; Money; Police DOMESDAY BOOK: CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen twenty men hanged, hung myself Last Line: "I tell you what I said to her. It's this:" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Murder; Police; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements FAIR COP, by ROBERT GARIOCH Poem Source First Line: Castalian scots, nou may ye cry, allace! Last Line: The polis are maist eydent, I daursay, %but fancy fashin wi sic piddlan maitters! Subject(s): Police FORMER DISPATCHER'S COMMENT, by LAURIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: To the editor: %I had a problem which I needed to straighten out Last Line: I am thankful for your calls, which have been constant Subject(s): Police FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH YOU, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are on a primeval river in a repitilian den Last Line: The tree %not a true palm but of the palm family Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Murder; Police GOOD SAMARITANS, by JACK BERNIER Poem Source First Line: The headlines in the newspaper Last Line: Police are good samaritans.' Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Police HANDLE FOR THE FLUTIST, by ODIA OFEIMUN Poem Source First Line: You have heard it said before Last Line: They will not live with poets %in the people's republic Subject(s): Police States HANGING, ZOMBA CENTRAL PRISON, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His pendulous body tolled Last Line: Before the sandbags dragged his compressed body %into the dark hole, into total oblivion Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Police States; Prisons And Prisoners IN A FREE COUNTRY, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They ran out of cuffs, but Last Line: And sought the cloth of the winds to dry it Subject(s): Freedom; Police States IN FRONT OF SPOTLIGHTS AND POLICE FISTS, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even the starved seers don't know Last Line: And police fits Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Police IN YOUR CARE, by CHRISTINE DEAVEL Poem Source First Line: I'm not going to open my mouth to drink Last Line: No loop %but me, just me Subject(s): Credit Cards; Debt; Police INCIDENT AT THE POLICE STATION, WARRI, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stripped to his penis, the convict at %his lordship's command is shooed out Last Line: Asking the girls to more wine and song Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Police; Prisons And Prisoners INTERROGATIONS 1: ARGENTINA, TURKEY, TIBET ... THE PRISONER IS REVIVED, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: It is peaceful here in these mountains Last Line: What walls are these, bearing down on me? Subject(s): Police States JERSEY BLUE, by RICHARD HOWELL Poem Text First Line: To arms once more our hero cries Last Line: And dash to the mountains, jersey blue. Subject(s): New Jersey; Police JUSTICE, by W. R. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: A youth grabbed an old woman's purse fat with tissues and aspirin and Last Line: Plants she would get a ticket for littering I suppose Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Justice; Police LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In early morning twilight, raw and chill Last Line: And firesides buried under fallen thatch. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Landlords & Tenants; Orphans; Police; Poverty; Strikes; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings; Labor Disputes; Lockouts LETTER TO THE LOCAL POLICE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been enjoying the law and order of our Last Line: Respectfully yours Subject(s): Police; Roses LONDON BOBBY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The finest thing in london is the bobby Subject(s): Police LOVE POEM FROM MY COUNTRY, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have nothing to give to you, but my anger Last Line: Like the sun, blowing out these evil stars. Variant Title(s): A Love Poem For My Countr Subject(s): Police States MISERY: SORDID SCENE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' the thick vagueness of the vaporous night Last Line: To-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Murder; Police; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse MOUNTED POLICE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watchful, grave, he sits astride his horse Last Line: "say, that's a helva place to park your car!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Police MY POLICEMAN, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is always standing there Last Line: But I like mine best of course Subject(s): Police NIGHTFALL, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the sad hotel that drinks a swamp Last Line: The bitter cassava of tyranny %served to you at dagger-point Subject(s): Police States OFFICER BRADY; THE MODERN RECRUIT, by ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sez alderman grady Last Line: "like a loonytick goat! Whurroo!'" Subject(s): Justice; Police PIRON, AND THE JUDGE OF THE POLICE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Piron, a poet of the gallic nation Last Line: "so we are quits." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judges; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Police POLICE, by ANDREI CODRESCU Poem Source First Line: They are stripping the fur of the police Last Line: I like it that way Subject(s): Police POLICMAN'S LOT, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a felon's not engaged in his employment Last Line: Ah, take one consideration with another, %the policeman's lot is not a happy one! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Police PRESENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: His smile stresses his broken jaw Last Line: A christmas present %from the law. Subject(s): Christmas; Police; Smiles; Violence RAPE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a cop who is both prowler and father Subject(s): Police; Rape RAPE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a cop who is both prowler and father Last Line: Will you swallow, you will deny them, will you lie your way home? Subject(s): Police; Rape RETRIBUTION, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, you, policeman, just step inside Last Line: Well, let's go. Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg Subject(s): Murder; Police; Punishment 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 ROBBEN ISLAND, by MVULA YA NANGOLO Poem Source First Line: Just how far is robbin island from a black child at play? Last Line: And the warrior will take you there Subject(s): Police States; Prisons And Prisoners SEARCH WARRANT, by I. J. Poem Text First Line: From those clear eyes that quietly appraise Last Line: Knowing I hold your heart for advocate. Subject(s): Police SHE CALLED THE POLICE, by GARY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: She called the police the night peter disappeared, and the police Last Line: As a child. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine %arm: for love is strong as deat Subject(s): Murder; Police SINGING SCHOOL: 2. A CONSTABLE CALLS, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His bicycle stood at the window-sill Subject(s): Police SINGING SCHOOL: 2. A CONSTABLE CALLS, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His bicycle stood at the window-sill Last Line: Over the ledger. His boot pushed off %and the bicyle ticked,ticked, ticked Subject(s): Police SIRENS, KNUCKLES, BOOTS, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sounds begin anew Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Police States; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement SOLEDAD POEMS: UPSTAIRS IN THE EDUCATION WING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: They are mutant locusts %laying eggs in the dead Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Guard Duty; Police; Prisons And Prisoners SOLEDAD POEMS: ELEGY FOR GEORGE JACKSON, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: They say you died in a patch of sunlight Last Line: You enter the hour of myth Subject(s): African Americans; Blacks; Crime And Criminals; Ku Klux Klan; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Police; Racism SOLEDAD PRISON POEMS: FULL MOON OVER SOLEDAD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The light of a full moon Last Line: Like the wing of an owl Subject(s): Guard Duty; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude SONNET IN PRAISE OF TACT, by WILLIAM MCFEE Poem Text First Line: Earth hath not anything to show more fair,' said wordsworth Last Line: The trolley cars upon the jersey shore. Subject(s): Loitering; New York City; Police; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STUMPTOWN ATTENDS THE PICTURE SHOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Word has come and martha the ticket girl Last Line: Moving in a cloud of dust toward the theater marquee. Subject(s): Canton, Georgia; Motion Pictures; Police; Racism; Southern States; Movies; Cinema; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.) SUFFRAGE, 1917: IMPRISONED FOR OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I could not sleep thinking of the girl Last Line: Cell by cell, line by line, the voiceless and the free Subject(s): Fights; Labor Unions; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Strikes; Women - Captives THE BOHEMIANS OF BOSTON AND THEIR WAYS; A MEMORY OF THE JACOBEAN CRAZE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'orchids' were as tough a crowd Last Line: "this shocking outrage -- ""beacon h -- ll!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Boston; Clubs (associations); Evil; Police; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE DEPUTY, by KENNETH CARLYLE KAUFMAN Poem Text First Line: Leave him here at the canyon's head Last Line: With the grass waving round him. Subject(s): Cowboys; Police; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE IRISH NEW POLICEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "your pardon, gents and ladies all" Last Line: For don't myself get half the booty? Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;ireland;police;streets; Irish;avenues THE MERRY POLICEMAN, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was appointed guardian by Last Line: A job in hell to keep me hot! Subject(s): Police THE PAINTER OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone called in a report that she had Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Police THE PATROL WAGON, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the end of the wagon Last Line: In all this picture of woe. Subject(s): Police THE RATTLE-WATCH OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the rattle's discordant swell! Last Line: If our patrolmen were paid in coal! Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Police; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime; Seamen; Sails THE REPUBLIC, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight. For the past three hours Subject(s): Police; Truth THE RIDERS OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare Last Line: And they keep the peace of our people and the honour of british law. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Honor; North West Mounted Police (canada); Canadians; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire THE RUNAWAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Ya, I'm a runaway wife. God's truth, which I don't deny Last Line: I'll see you in hell before I'll go back—my girl is american born. Subject(s): Escapes; Peasantry; Police; Russia; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Fugitives; Soviet Union; Russians THE YOUNG OFFICER, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: A supple speckless figure in costly habilements Last Line: A world-wide exhibition of the tailor's art. Subject(s): Military Police; Youth THEY SAID, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said your footprints were stamped in blood Last Line: Say what hurts. Subject(s): Hospitals; Police; Regret; Violence WITH A BURNING THIRST, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In the back alley at daybreak Last Line: Long live democracy! Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Human Rights; Police; Politics; Prisons And Prisoners |
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