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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POLLUTION Matches Found: 27 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MAN GETS OFF WORK EARLY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And decides to snorkel in a cool mountain lake. Subject(s): Snorkeling; Death; Lakes; Pollution; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds AD ASTRA: 32, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tho' factory smoke and film of whirring loom Last Line: And nature's harness'd powers his will subserve. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Pollution; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation AIR, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the open window, a confusion Last Line: Is deeply inhaling, exhaling its doppelgänger breath. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Gasoline; Pollution; Sickness; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Illness CITY SMOKE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the smoke of the city Last Line: Over the city. Subject(s): Pollution; Smoke COUNTRY STARS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nearsighted child has taken off her glasses Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Pollution COUNTRY STARS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nearsighted child has taken off her glasses Last Line: The bright watchers are still there Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Pollution DHARMA: THE SUITCASE OF MANY MEANINGS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amid all the blood of illusion, eating roast chicken Last Line: But cuts across the reflex of a star Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Grief; Loss; Pollution EMISSION, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: The plant disperses plenty no good shit Last Line: Acidulate your long johns, jumpers, jeans Subject(s): Industry; Pollution ESSAY: DELICATELY, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father pollutes his body and Last Line: Or small, dark, and beautiful. Subject(s): Essays; Pollution FLASHFORWARD: GLOBAL WARMING, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: The warnings have ended,t he landfills full Last Line: A scrap book whose final chapter is ending %without us Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pollution JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 40, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rooted among roofs, their smoke among the clouds Subject(s): Factories; Pollution LANDSCAPE WITH ABANDONED TRASH, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: The washer stopped where it tumbled to, Last Line: & fanfare, the coronation %of a king. Subject(s): Decay; Pollution MOENKOPI, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father had gangrene and Last Line: Out of sand, barren sand. Subject(s): Poisons And Poisoning; Pollution 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 PERVERSITY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Once it was sweet when darkness veiled the hills Last Line: Missing life's comforts, we would just be bored. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Night; Pollution; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bedtime POLLUTION, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child visiting hampton beach, Last Line: Of mutant delicious ultraviolet apples Subject(s): Pollution POSSESSION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the shepherd in solitude crosses the deformed desert Last Line: Painted voices -- Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Pollution; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA CHASES THE WIND, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walk out into this industrial wind Last Line: The winds of angry angels Subject(s): Pollution SMOKE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Her hands are pasty and liver-spotted Last Line: Her native tongue: 'camels' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Pollution; Smoking SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the jurassic about 150 million years ago Subject(s): Buddhism; Pollution; Environment; Bears; United States; Buddha; Buddhists; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; America TANKER FOUNDERS, by PETER READING Poem Source Last Line: Oiled auks flacker Subject(s): Pollution THE DAY THE WINDS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day the wnds went underground I gasped for breath Subject(s): Breath; Wind; City & Town Life; Pollution THE FACTORY; 'TIS AN ACCURSED THING!, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There rests a shade above yon town Last Line: There is a curse on thee! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; Pollution TWO-RIVER LEDGER, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joke used to be: / if you don't like it Subject(s): Rivers; Pollution; Houses; Family Life; Relatives WANTED IN GLASGOW, by MARION BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Wanted a filter, to filter the clyde Last Line: By which all those wants can be quickly supplied, %that glasgow may flourish, her citizens' pride Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland; Glasgow, Scotland; Pollution WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness WHITE TRASH, by JIM HALL Poem Source First Line: Now it's styrofoam pellets Subject(s): Pollution |
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