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Subject: POLO
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASSASSINATION OF THE POLO CHAMP, by ALFONSO QUIJADA URIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They killed the polo champ
Last Line: And above all because he then started walking %as a poor man among the poor
Subject(s): Politics; Polo; Poverty


FURTHER TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You who would travel in my footsteps
Last Line: Have not told half of what I saw
Subject(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1324)


MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery
Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm
Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean


MARCO POLO, by KAPETANAKOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man going from discovery to discovery
Last Line: O marvellous destination
Subject(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1324)


MARCO POLO, by JOHN YAU    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Recently he has turned to us and said: 'it's bizzare to think about'
Subject(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1324)


MARCO POLO, by JOHN YAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Recently he has turned to us and said: 'it's bizare to think about'
Subject(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1324)


MARCO POLO REPORTS FROM BADAKHSHAN: 1218 AD, by ROBERT M. CHUTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: No birds fly here, it is
Last Line: Into kashmir where we hope our fires %will burn hot and red and bright
Subject(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1324)


MARCO POLO TRAVELLED FAR, by CLARENCE DAY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sailors And Sailing; Travel


OUT OF SIGHT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They held a polo meeting at a little country town
Last Line: For he was in the ambulance, and safely 'out of sight'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Polo


THE GEEBUNG POLO CLUB, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub
Last Line: He's been haunted by the spectres of the geebung polo club.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Clubs (associations); Horses; Polo