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Subject: RADIO
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RADIO HYMN, by ALICE M. SHEPARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou who first didst use a sign
Last Line: Preserve our contact with thy throne.
Subject(s): Radio


AMARANTH, by RAFAEL OSES    Poem Source                    
First Line: A transistor radio is trapped in a vein of sardonyx
Last Line: If spoken, leave a sliver of metal or a flower in the mouth
Subject(s): Radio


AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight years behind a microphone -- blip
Last Line: Then bid farewell to normal speak
Subject(s): Microphones; Radio; Speech; Oratory; Orators


CIRCA 1861, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother? I'm here again to freshen the water - lots
Subject(s): :dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Radio


DON'T LOOK SO SCARED! YOU'RE ALIVE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who speaks? Now that the muses
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Radio; Truth


ELECTRIC ELEGY, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, german radio with your green eye
Last Line: When the next dictator-rooster crows
Subject(s): Radio


ELECTRIC ELEGY, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, german radio with your green eye
Last Line: When the next dictator-rooster crows
Subject(s): Radio


FIRST RADIO, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A plastic transistor from japan
Last Line: Better than any answered prayer
Subject(s): Music, Rock; Radio


FLOWER CAST, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A flower cast has taken place for three days
Last Line: Films in new york and a worldwide gold sealer %summed up that's one small step for %man one small st
Subject(s): News; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States; Radio


IN MEMORY OF RADIO, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of lamont cranston?
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Radio


IN MEMORY OF RADIO, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of lamont cranston?
Last Line: An evil word it is %this love
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Radio


KAY-YOU-ENN-AYE, by MICHAEL AUGUSTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the square
Subject(s): Radio


LISTENING TO A BROKEN RADIO, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night is / a black diamond
Last Line: Broken radio.
Subject(s): Poverty; Radio; Television; Tv


LISTENING TO HMONG RADIO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman sings intersection
Last Line: Grandfather, look at all %these other people %visiting the
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Radio; Singing And Singers; Sound Recordings; Tourists


NIGHT LINUS, by RAFAEL OSES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Celestial mechanic third-class atlas cappella
Last Line: The rko tower at the top of the world cowers
Subject(s): Night; Radio


PERHAPS, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: He spoke of sound-thin waves of sound
Last Line: The men of galilee!
Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Radio; Sound


PROOF, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If radio's slim fingers can pluck a melody
Last Line: Why should mortals wonder if god hears prayer?
Variant Title(s): God Hears Prayer
Subject(s): Prayer; Radio; Religion; Theology


RADIO, by LAUREL BLOSSOM    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No radio
Subject(s): Radio


RADIO, by HARRIET MONROE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught a fella night last in the south pacific
Last Line: "the other night. Say, but it's cold down there!"
Subject(s): Progress; Radio


RADIO ANNOUNCER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel conditioned to be mean
Last Line: That can fall apart decently
Subject(s): Radio


RADIO BLUES, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Try 5 on the dial, try 10, 15;
Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Radio


RADIO CHIME, by MARY P. DENNY    Poem Text                    
Last Line: In a glory line sublime.
Subject(s): Radio


RADIO STUFF, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I got los angeles--
Last Line: The radio gives me pain!
Subject(s): Radio


RADIO UNDER THE BED, by REED WHITTEMORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why was a radio sinful? Lord knows. But it was
Last Line: And will play me, %tum-te-tum, tum-te-tum, into my grave
Subject(s): Discipline; Radio


RADIO VOICE, by HELEN BRYAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: It sings of wonder and dawn and distant seas
Last Line: With arrows of sudden beauty?
Subject(s): Radio


RAGE RADIO!, by CARL STILLWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go do not go gentle into twilight prime time or the rush hour dawn!
Last Line: Into any dialogue with them. Rage, rage, rage!
Subject(s): Anger; Hate; Talk Radio


ROSE COLORED GLASSES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the
Last Line: The next number is ciao, ciao, bambina
Subject(s): Radio; Singing & Singers; Venice, Italy


ROSE COLORED GLASSES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the
Last Line: The next number is 'ciao, ciao, bambina'
Subject(s): Radio; Singing And Singers; Venice, Italy


SUNDAY RADIO, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From my husband's window I hear a woman
Last Line: To how his voice breaks, then goes on with the song.
Subject(s): Marriage; Radio; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


THE CHRISTMAS RADIO, by MARY P. DENNY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard the radio proclaim / the wonder of a
Last Line: The glory of a matchless name.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Radio; Singing & Singers; Sound; Songs


THE RADIO, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another morning I rose before work
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Radio; Imagination; Fancy


TOUR GUIDE, FALLINGWATER, by STEVEN REESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This could be the radio, droning
Last Line: Be both at home, when you get back, %and bewildered at belonging there
Subject(s): Radio


UMBILICAL, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You can take away my mother
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Radio


UMBILICAL, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You can take away my mother
Last Line: That sound that sound that sound that sownd
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Machinery And Machinists; Radio


VENICE: ROSE COLORED GLASSES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the
Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Music & Musicians; Radio


WAR OF THE WORLDS, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So many things happen %on trips yet all we
Last Line: On the view, pleased %with my insignificance %and sure no invasion is worth %such tears and foolishn
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Radio


WHEN JOHN TURNS ON THE RADIO, by GENEVA HARRIS SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When john turns on the radio
Last Line: When john turns on the radio.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Radio


WIND CHILL, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The voice on the radio is urgent. When you go outside, it says, exposed
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Cold; Radio; Weather; Wind


WIRELESS, by RODNEY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the wireless I can hear
Subject(s): Radio


WOLFMAN'S REPRISE, by JANA SALMON-HEYNEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere between
Last Line: Wailing white lines %and road kill
Subject(s): Radio; Wolves


WOODY WOODPECKERS THAT CALL TALK RADIO SHOWS FROM CAR PHONES, by ROBERT MICHAEL O'HEARN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let me assume
Last Line: Afterall, that's why you called in?
Subject(s): Talk Radio


ZENITH, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was part of her parlour's darkness
Subject(s): Grandparents; World War Ii; Radio; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Second World War