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Subject: SUBWAYS Matches Found: 52 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 |
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