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Subject: SUBWAYS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMONG YOU, by MARIA TERRONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes the rain
Last Line: Into rivers, earth, the food you eath, %your own bloodstream
Subject(s): Rain; Subways


BEFORE I DIE (FOR JEANINE LAMBERT), by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to ride once more on
Last Line: Me and hold my hand
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Paris, France; Subways


BROOKLYN NARCISSUS, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straight rye whiskey, 100 proof
Subject(s): Subways


FACES: 1, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Subways


HERE I AM, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a subway station bench
Subject(s): Subways; Relationships


IN A STATION OF THE METRO, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The apparition of these faces in the crowd
Last Line: Petals on a wet, black bough.
Subject(s): Beauty; Imagism; Paris, France; Subways


IN THE METRO, by VU NGOC CHUC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Things appear, %then disappear
Last Line: This sadness still burning my heart
Subject(s): Subways; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


INCIDENT IN THE CHARLEVOIX METRO, by SONJA A. SKARSTEDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Solid the first thud
Last Line: I won't disappoint them next time
Subject(s): Subways


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 18, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walk about the subway station
Subject(s): Subways


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 52. WINTER SKETCHES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that black ground and bushes
Subject(s): Winter; Snow; New York City; Subways; Landscape; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


LEG IN THE SUBWAY, by OSCAR WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I saw the woman's leg on the floor of the subway
Last Line: And how birds dipped in chromium sang in the crevices of our deeds
Subject(s): Subways


MEDITATION ON THE BMT, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, at the beginning of the new season
Last Line: Nearly empty train / empty
Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Subways


MEDITATION ON THE BMT, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, at the beginning of the new season
Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Subways


NEAR KITAMI STATION ON THE ODAKYU LINE, by ITO HIROMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The odakyu line is always crowded I go on standing
Last Line: And soaked my panties
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Sex; Subways


NIGHT IN A SUBWAY STATION, by MARY LEONARD WEST    Poem Text                    
First Line: The train was late. He sat among the crowds
Last Line: He couldn't use the things.
Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Smoking; Subways; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


NURSING MOTHER ON THE DORCHESTER-HARVARD TRAIN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's good to leave the south end if only for a day. Good to trust where
Last Line: Rocking of the train?
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Roxbury, Massachusetts; Subways; Travel


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 17, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roots of words
Subject(s): Langauge; Subways


ON A SUBWAY EXPRESS, by CHESTER FIRKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I who have lost the stars, the sod
Last Line: Is this wild ride -- with god.
Subject(s): New York City; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ON THE IRT, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lily in a burdock nosegay
Last Line: Swarms fireflies in a jar sealed by aphasia.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Subways; Childhood


ON THE SUBWAY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boy and I faced each other
Subject(s): Subways; Race Awareness


ON THE UPTOWN LEXINGTON AVENUE EXPRESS: MARTIN LUTHER KING, by DURIEL E. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This moring/ there is a woman giving a sermon/ her voice trembling over
Last Line: To get off the train/ or scream/ but the doors and my throat are closed
Subject(s): African Americans; Subways


POEMS FROM SUBWAY TO WORK: 1, by PETER ORLOVSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There go adem & eve - I see
Last Line: & the single give them sharp fast looks
Subject(s): Subways


POEMS FROM SUBWAY TO WORK: 2, by PETER ORLOVSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let the subway be our greek meeting place
Last Line: No snow or yello leaves in the dark iron subway
Subject(s): Subways


POEMS FROM SUBWAY TO WORK: 3. FANTASY OF MY MOTHER ... ON WELFARE, by PETER ORLOVSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When ever minnerbia gets on the subway
Last Line: Her teeth brush dream is the one she loves most
Subject(s): Subways; Welfare


RIDING THE 'A', by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ride
Last Line: Is reached %too soon
Subject(s): Subways


RITUAL VII, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Subways; Desire


ROAD BLOCK, by IAIN DEANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is for the apple faced old lady
Last Line: You cracked all the machines perfectly
Subject(s): Subways; Traffic; Women


ROSES IN THE SUBWAY, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wan-cheeked girl with faded eyes
Last Line: My mother ... Stooping down.
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SPRING IN THE SUBWAY, by ELSA GILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In these dim corridors of shattering sound
Last Line: Of cotton buttercups upon her hat.
Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SUBWAY, by MARY HIGH GLADDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: She wore three bracelets that had once had stones
Last Line: Too blunt to kill.
Subject(s): Humanity; Subways


SUBWAY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There slouched the drunk, head fallen
Last Line: Really were bettered by my efforts %he could not deter me
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Subways


SUBWAY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes at night
Subject(s): Subways


SUBWAY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down between the walls of shadow
Last Line: Throw their laughter into toil.
Subject(s): Subways


SUBWAY, by GARY STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When cities swell
Last Line: Of the tunnel %space between darkness
Subject(s): Cities; Subways


SUBWAY BUILDERS, by LAWRENCE LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We heard them like besiegers down the street
Subject(s): Subways


SUBWAY GRAFFITI: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S IMPRESSIONS, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day-glo signs of survival
Last Line: Parngs of hair, toenail, %spirit and song
Subject(s): Anthropology; Cities; New York City; Subways; Travel


SUBWAY RUSH HOUR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mingled %breath and smell %so close
Last Line: So near %no room for fear
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Subways


SUBWAY THEOLOGY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bishop potter, finding hotter
Last Line: May, at will, get out.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Subways


SUBWAY TRACK-WALKERS, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are ye hopeless who go with dull faces
Last Line: That I may ride to my true love to-day?
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Railroads; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains


SUBWAY WIND, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far down, down through the city's great, gaunt gut
Last Line: And the trades float above them fresh and free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Subways


TENNESSEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Called death the sudden subway and now he has taken that train
Last Line: Until it is my turn to join him on the sudden subway
Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Kirstein, Lincoln (1907-1996); Subways; Taylor, Laurette (1884-1946)


THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Performances, assortments, resumes
Last Line: Gatherest --
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Class Struggle; Imagination; New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Subways; Vision; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE CURSE, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside, a delicate arch
Last Line: Their bright, unhollowed eyes
Subject(s): Subways


THE ESCAPE, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly in the subway
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Subways


THE FRANKLIN AVENUE LINE, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Subways


THE SWITCH YARD, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the glimmer of arc lights and spaces of shade
Last Line: Past the tall signal tower holding the void in survey.
Subject(s): New York City; Subways; Wheels; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE YAWN, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Subways; Yawns


THREE O'CLOCK: MORNING, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The jewel-blue electric flowers
Last Line: But time goes out in grey.
Subject(s): New York City; Railroads; Streets; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Avenues


TRACKS, by LAURIE SHECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone's been getting at these subway cars at night
Subject(s): Night; Paintings And Painters; Subways; Bedtime


TRACKS, by LAURIE SHECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone's been painting these subway cars at night
Last Line: They catch and glitter in her tangled hair
Subject(s): Night; Paintings And Painters; Subways


VULCAN, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harbors into harbor sand
Subject(s): Birth; Subways; Child Birth; Midwifery


WHEN I LOOK AT THE FACES THAT CONFRONT ME, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Working Class; Subways; Desperation