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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PRESLEY, ELVIS (1937-1977) Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1959, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Elvis was hot Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN: MY DATE WITH ELVIS, 1977, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, he doesn't own %a single sequin-studded jumpsuit Last Line: You'll never be a man, %I say, striding out Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977); Relationships ARLETTE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Arlette believes Last Line: And with a single swat, %send him flying Subject(s): Marriage; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) 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) 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, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead in the house Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS AT 60, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: He walks along the cuyahoga river Last Line: He's only in cleveland, only alive Subject(s): Death; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS ATE YOUR GRANDMA, by MICHAEL ALAN KASSEL Poem Source First Line: Elvis ate your grandma %but colonel parker got her purse Last Line: The 'king' is dead %and there'll be no second coming. %be thankful you ever came at all Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS FOR THE AGES, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What the billboard Last Line: The butterfly %in the leather purse damaged, but unmistakable Variant Title(s): An Elvis For The Eightie Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS IMPERSONATOR AT THE WORLD'S LARGEST OFFICE PARTY:..., by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: I never saw elvis, and now there are so many Last Line: Fading vibrations more like sighs %bounded by sadness and awful gravity Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS IS DEAD, BUBBA, by RICHARD DAVIGNON Poem Source First Line: He ain't comin' back Last Line: However, roy orbison %has been seen in memphis %at the blue magnolia %by people I trust Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS MOVING A SMALL CLOUD: THE DESERT NEAR LAS VEGAS, 1976, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stop this motherfucking limo,' says the king Last Line: Lo! Behold! Now watch that fucker move!' Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS PRESLEY, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two minutes long it pitches through some bar Last Line: It wars on, may be posture for combat Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): 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) ELVIS PRESLEY, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: Charlene, the oldest of your sisters Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS READS 'THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE', by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: During the first international elvis conference in oxford Last Line: Of the wilds, and the drum-beat of the human heart Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS SINGS GOSPEL, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: The picture of elvis late at night at the piano Last Line: Any more, doesn't have to, since it is home already Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) ELVIS'S TWIN SISTER, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) HE LIVES AMONG US, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Elvis lives Last Line: Among us, now and forevermore %amen Subject(s): Death; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) 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) JERRY LEE LEWIS AT THE GATES TO GRACELAND, by ROY BENTLEY Poem Source First Line: Jerry lee says he showed the guard Last Line: And tips. Whatever the people want Subject(s): Death; Lewis, Jerry Lee (b. 1940); Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) LAST NIGHT IN ELVISVILLE, by LYDIA TOMKIW Poem Source First Line: Even memphis smells pretty Last Line: So much wanting whatever we can get Subject(s): Cities; Memphis, Tennessee; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) NIXON NAMES ELVIS HONORARY FEDERAL NARCOTICS AGENT..., by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The king is thinking tricia's got nice tits Last Line: It means, sir, taking care of business with a flash' Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) 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) 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) THEM AND US, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something in their psyche insists on elvis Last Line: Death and elvis, but watching for marvin gaye. Subject(s): Death; Fame; History; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977); Dead, The; Reputation; Historians 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) WOMEN WHO LOVE ELVIS ALL THEIR LIVES, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: She reads, of course, what he's doing, shaking nixon's hand Last Line: With 'only the lonely,' trying his best to sound like elvis Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) |
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