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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TIANANMEN SQUARE INCIDENT, 1989 Matches Found: 91 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 7PM NEW YORK., by DAVID A. HALPERIN Poem Source Last Line: And then the sun set Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 AGEING AUSTRALIAN FEMALE PROGRESSIVE DREAMS, by HAL COLEBATCH Poem Source First Line: It was more than comforting to know history was on one's side Last Line: The people are still on the move Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 AT THE FLOWER STALL, by HENRY GILFOND Poem Source First Line: Now let us speak to wish and circumstance, to the music Last Line: And our will still coursed %to freedom Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 AT THE FLOWER STALL; TIANANMEN SQUARE, by JAN OWEN Poem Source First Line: In a tall glass jar Last Line: A flame, a red silk banner %in the always innocent air Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BALLADE VON DER HEXE HRDLICKAS, by FRITZ BRAININ Poem Source First Line: Wo argusaugen dir suchtgen wie hrdlickas schmerzen Last Line: Was bleibt ist des ubersetzers einsamkeit Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BEIJING, by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE Poem Source First Line: It is your blood again Last Line: To prevent the future from ever taking place Subject(s): Beijing, China; Human Rights; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BEIJING DIARY, by BARBARA LILEK Poem Source Last Line: But those who saw believed %broke down %and wept Subject(s): Diaries; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BEIJING MASSACRE, by PETER KOCAN Poem Source First Line: If only they had kept it out of sight Last Line: Their hideous miscalculation meant %we had no option but to disapprove Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BEIJING SPRING, 1989, by ERNEST M. SCHUTTENBERG Poem Source First Line: Wheels gleam in the spotlight as the young woman steers in a large circle Last Line: But the large black truck keeps coming Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BEIJING, 1988, by MARGARET BRADSTOCK Poem Source First Line: Outside the xingiao hotel Last Line: Out of the barrel of a gun Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BEIJING: JUNE 4, 1989, by PETER LUGG Poem Source First Line: Mrs wu is very worried and her daughter Last Line: It's after ten and jianhua has not returned Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 BITTER HARVEST, by DAVID COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The clouds still rise Last Line: Above the valleys and the waiting spring Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 CAI: MORNING IN BEIJING, by ELIZABETH CURRY Poem Source First Line: I search for feeling in my dreams Last Line: Not only blood %but also screams Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 CHINA, by SHANE MCCAULEY Poem Source First Line: The people are lava. They boil and flow Last Line: Save the frail human phoenix, hope Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 CHINA POEMS: IV PASSING, by FAY ZWICKY Poem Source First Line: Dreams are the suicides of the well-behaved Last Line: And walking, raise their caps slowly %without speaking Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 CHINA SYNDROME, by MARK SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Gravel, weeds, books - everything Last Line: Loosely held, driveways, downturns, write-offs, debt Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 CHINESE AVENUE, by MANFRED JURGENSEN Poem Source First Line: The trouble with 'eternal peace' is Last Line: Weighing like papyrus scrolls %on the shoulders of timeless rulers Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 CHINESE TALE, by MICHAEL HULSE Poem Source First Line: I dreamt I was the simple trusting boy Last Line: Today you died Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 CIRCLE DANCE, by VERA SCHWARCZ Poem Source First Line: Beyond the campus, martial law Last Line: Around a shy, uncertain hope Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 CLOUD HILL MANIFESTO, by MICHAEL SHORB Poem Source First Line: It's happened before Last Line: The monks of the new %are lowering themselves %down cloud hill Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 DRAGON'S CLAWS: 4TH JUNE 1989, by NEVILLE CAMERON Poem Source First Line: And for the non-survivors, those who joked Last Line: As long as there are stones there will be hope Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 DREAMERS OF TIANANMEN SQUARE, by NICHOLAS LANGTON Poem Source First Line: They are all dreamers Last Line: Wiped from history %for dreaming the wrong dream Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 DREAMING TIANANMEN, by BERT STERN Poem Source First Line: Of course I'm glad to be asked. So now I invite my fusty soul, wheezy, and Last Line: Right now, a crow beating his way over the crowd cries 'caw,' cries 'caw' Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 DREAMS FOLLOW NO PARTY LINE, by VERA SCHWARCZ Poem Source First Line: Rushing, as if to a tryst Last Line: Dreaming well done %is always pointless Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ELEGY FOR THE PEKING MARTYRS, by SUSAN RUEL Poem Source First Line: New photographs possess the gray solemnity of stone Last Line: What should be more pure %than the heart of youth? Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 EXPERIENCE OF DEFEAT, by FAN DUDLEY Poem Source First Line: The old men had told their lies about crimes Last Line: Tell them we will be free or die, tell them Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 FALLING ASLEEP READING THE NEWS FROM BEIJING, by JANICE FINNEY Poem Source First Line: In midnight %quiet Last Line: The body's clock preset %to forget Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 FEW NIGHTS ON NIGHTLINE, by NORMAN LEER Poem Source First Line: Say cheese ted koppel said Last Line: Want %my %van Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 FOR THE MARTYRS OF BEIJING, by CHARLES BOEBEL Poem Source First Line: They might have been our children Last Line: Wherever life has strength or tongue %over and over and over as one Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANISM., by VERA SCHWARCZ Poem Source Last Line: Unarmed, they face the humanism of tanks Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 FOR YANG FROM THE NOZ, by SANDY PRIMM Poem Source First Line: About 5 a. M. I thought of you and realize this is why I was willing to be Last Line: But he said he has given them all away and has nothing to exhibit. Another true craftsman Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 FUNERAL IN SERANGOON GARDENS, by SASCHA FEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Mrs lai has lost a son, his body Last Line: Before being told to come back %he yelled, dad, look. A parade Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 GHOST IN THE SQUARE, by HUM Poem Source First Line: I was one among them Last Line: Down goes the tough and big %up comes the tender sprig Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 GREEN TEA, by VIV KITSON Poem Source First Line: Snails close their shells with opaque Last Line: Surviving millennia, this calligraphy %this culture of surviving Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 HANGZHOU FAN TEXT, by KRISTEN STRUEBING-BEAZLEY Poem Source First Line: As a child I read the good earth Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 HUNDRED FLOWERS, by RIEMKE ENSING Poem Source First Line: The old men kept gardens Last Line: Before they had smiled %one day Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 IDEOGRAM OF WAR, by WALTER TONETTO Poem Source First Line: The sky was red tonight. Colour Last Line: The setting sun Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 II, by RIEMKE ENSING Poem Source First Line: You are in hangzhou where green is predominant Last Line: And quiet reflecting water %for longevity and peace Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 III. TAI CHI QUAN, by RIEMKE ENSING Poem Source First Line: If the space where they keep you Last Line: Into that darkness and the sun %gave back her life Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 INNER GARDENS; TO ZHANG WEIPING IN PRISON, by RIEMKE ENSING Poem Source First Line: Nine years is a long time Last Line: That way he kept life %with him for a very long time Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LEADERS, by LES WICKS Poem Source First Line: I could recall the tao, say Last Line: Images of tiananmen square - %there are no good metaphors for rape Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LETTER TO A CHINESE FRIEND, by RICHARD JOSEPH SCHOECK Poem Source First Line: Two years ago, my friend, we talked Last Line: Who doubtless wait under closed eyelids %while listening to restless birds Alternate Author Name(s): Schoeck, R. J. Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LIFE IN THE VALLEYS, SELS., by WALTER TONETTO Poem Source First Line: In the valley of flowing silk I first met you: you Last Line: And as we stared at our feet %the earth cleft open like an ancient wound Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LIKE DEAD FISHES: BEIJING, 1989, by NORMAN LEER Poem Source Last Line: To safety the man hustled %away by friends I cried %resistance like a flower in my throat Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LIKE HORSES WHO HAVE SHED THEIR RIDERS, by VERA SCHWARCZ Poem Source First Line: Two decades after mao stole their voices Last Line: Out of time, out of place - %an unspeakable dirge Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LOOKING UP FROM TWO RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS TO MASSACRE TIANANMEN SQUARE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fruit flies lift off the bowl of brown pears Last Line: Will drag over the ground. Subject(s): Irony; Paintings & Painters; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 LYCHEE TREE, by WALTER TONETTO Poem Source First Line: A tree in the south of china. Not the ashwattha Last Line: Of bitter memories when travellers pass this place by night Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 MEMORY AND THE ETCHING STUDIO, by SELWYN PRITCHARD Poem Source First Line: Waiting my turn at the press, stillness prints Last Line: Love language, nurture its nuances %the critical craft of its anarchic excess Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 NOTHING AND THE INCIDENT IN THE STREETS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing forced those kids Last Line: Will be their voice. Subject(s): Nothingness; Social Protest; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989; Universities & Colleges; Youth; Nihilism; Voids ON SEEING RED SORGHUM, JUNE 1989, by TIM THORNE Poem Source First Line: To survive would have been more than enough Last Line: Who have never shaped wet sand %or held a gun Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ON THAT NIGHT; FOR AI QING, by BEN SHOZU Poem Source First Line: On that night, who am I to make any indictment Last Line: On and on, the mourning of ai qing Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 PAIR OF SMALL SHOES, by MURRAY EDMOND Poem Source First Line: No no, they do not fit, they do not fit Last Line: The shoe will not fit, but you will wear it Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 PEKING OPERA, by VERA SCHWARCZ Poem Source First Line: A thin curtain covers the sleeping dragon Last Line: Symbols won out over reality Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 PERSPECTIVES IN FLUX, by MARGARET+(2) WALKER Poem Source First Line: Years ago I tentatively extended by hand Last Line: In the inflexible style of other old masters Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 PETRIFIED FISH, SELS., by JIANG HAICHENG Poem Source First Line: Too bad %so you you got caught up in the volcanic eruption Last Line: Your lost your freedom %buried in ash Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 PICKING MULBERRIES, JUNE 1989, by J. D. SCRIMGEOUR Poem Source First Line: After dinner, late spring Last Line: Having as few berries as possible %slip from our hands to the ground Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 POETRY, MAKING NOTHING HAPPEN, by JOHN ADLARD Poem Source First Line: In august in connemara Last Line: And the serviceability %of those whose pride is the prompt obeying of orders Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 POLITBURO OF ASSASSINS, by TARIQ ALI Poem Source First Line: The frightened old man in his hospital bed Last Line: The politburo of assassins will be at his side %and li peng will be at their head Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 PORTRAIT OF THE GODDESS OF COMPASSION, by WALTER TONETTO Poem Source First Line: Two rivulets - one from the west, the other Last Line: And growing leagues above earth's dried-up streams Subject(s): Compassion; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 PROPAGANDA, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: How quickly the victors Last Line: The truth ye know %and all ye need to know Subject(s): Human Rights; Propaganda; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 READING TIANANMEN SQUARE, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER Poem Source First Line: The text of tiananmen square, which is still being Last Line: And are, cast like ballots Subject(s): China; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 RETURNING FROM THE HAUNTED SQUARE OF HEAVENLY PEACE, by WALTER TONETTO Poem Source First Line: I fell asleep that night under the shade of the carapace Last Line: A dying man, and bid farewell to sleep forever Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 REVOLTING STUDENTS, by ROY MACGREGOR-HASTIE Poem Source First Line: Humanese!', said the very old man in the peace hotel. 'not long ago you got' Last Line: The boy had set up an impex firm for facsimile machines Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 RITUAL, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before, in the cluttered shop Last Line: And the elders, these new elders - what of them? Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 SALUTE TO JIANG LIANG, by WALTER TONETTO Poem Source First Line: Bold force carved into the rafters: I come before you Last Line: Our time is up. I bow again as I withdraw from you Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 SEVENTY YEARS ALREADY, by VERA SCHWARCZ Poem Source First Line: Loudspeakers belch languid waves Last Line: Because I heard my nation cry %and did not plug up my ears Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 SHAME, by JOHN VAN PEENEN Poem Source First Line: When the war of my youth ended Last Line: The slaughtered slave, the double axe %a universal emblem of our kind Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 SHOE REPAIR FREE, by VERA SCHWARCZ Poem Source First Line: How can you tell the tide has turned Last Line: Students fight for democracy Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 SITTING DUCKS IN TIANANMEN SQUARE - THE OFFICIAL VERSION, by ANDREW BROWN Poem Source First Line: An ancient man, head like a panda's skull, mops the flagstones, stops to Last Line: Even older than my brother the butcher. He owns a restaurant, makes the best peking duck in the whol Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 SMALL MIRACLES, by VERA SCHWARCZ Poem Source First Line: Out on the streets to look for a lost purse Last Line: No violence, nothing to show on tv yet Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 SQUARE, by LIZZ MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Violence brings retaliation Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 SQUARE IS FULL OF PEOPLE., by JILL JONES Poem Source Last Line: Pollution hovering above the city %above tiananmen square Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 STUDENT, by JEFF GUESS Poem Source First Line: Squatting in front Last Line: The coarse white tablecloth %for supper Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 STUDENT'S FRIEND: A LETTER, by IAN SAW Poem Source First Line: With our bright head-bands across our foreheads Last Line: The tanks in tiananmen square? %will you answer Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 THE RITUAL, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before, in the cluttered shop Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 THE YOUNG OF TIANANMEN, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had crimson I would write with it Last Line: What ink can inscribe them now / the young of tiananmen? Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 TIANANMEN, by VOLKER BRAUN Poem Source First Line: My place is a common-place Last Line: You seek this knowledge pulpy body Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 TIANANMEN SQUARE, by FAY ZWICKY Poem Source First Line: Karl marx, take your time Last Line: A story has to start somewhere Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 TIANANMEN SQUARE, 4TH JUNE 1989, by GWENDA R. WADDINGTON Poem Source First Line: The nightingales, whose voices sang Last Line: A world beyond the barricades will learn the forest songs Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 TIANANMEN SQUARE: LAMENT OF A STUDENT FROM A REMOTE PROVINCE, by DUNCAN BUSH Poem Source First Line: I hung in the crowd and Last Line: Blindfold and for ever %in an army truck Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 TO A CHINESE WORKER, by JIM BURNS Poem Source First Line: Watching you one night on tv Last Line: I hope you are still alive %and that your dream comes true Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 TO THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For many years I have had a dream Last Line: Your mask will find profound inscription: %yours will be the very stuff of remembrance Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 TWO SOLDIERS OF TIANANMEN, by ANNETTE R. CORKHILL Poem Source First Line: I am the soldier Last Line: For the winds of tiananmen %have swept %us both away Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 UPON TIANANMEN SQUARE, by RICHARD CORNISH Poem Source First Line: Put simply: %it's a question of whether Last Line: The pla to disband the chinese people %then, elect another Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 WALKING ACROSS TIANANMEN SQUARE, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER Poem Source First Line: I was walking across tiananmen square in the early Last Line: Found in china - a haunting presence Subject(s): China; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 WATCHING THE EVENING NEWS, by STUART J. SILVERMAN Poem Source First Line: One thing leads to another Last Line: Ashes darken the screen. One tank. No, two %one thing leads to another Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 WHAT SHALL WE TELL LI PO., by RIEMKE ENSING Poem Source Last Line: And the cinnabar sky flies %a torn black flag Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 WHAT THE TREES SAY, by LYNDON WALKER Poem Source First Line: Happiness? He spoke the word Last Line: The handle is one of us Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 YOUNG OF TIANANMEN, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had crimson I would write with it Last Line: What ink can describe them now %the young of tiananmen? Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 YU YUAN WOMAN, by JEAN R. WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Beneath gnarled magnolia Last Line: One spent bullet Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ZHONGGUO ZAI NAR?, by LISA MARIA BURGESS Poem Source First Line: Where is china? Last Line: I dream of china Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 |
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