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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WORLD TRADE CENTER TRAGEDY (9/11/2001) Matches Found: 168 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` *:48, by IRIS N. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: It was 9:08 when a coworker told me Last Line: The time: it was 8:48? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 10:45 A.M. SEPT. 11/WTC, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: Whywhy why...Whywhywhy Last Line: Whywhywhy...Whywhywhy..Whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 12-SEP, by CORY ELLEN NADEL Poem Source First Line: We had this language down there Last Line: From the night sky, lethal %as stars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 21ST CENTURY, by J. Y. HO Poem Source First Line: Sweltering sadness in this woeful world Last Line: Teamwork, so my shit might stop getting jacked Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 9.12.01 TWIN TOWERS, by LAURIE MCKENNA Poem Source First Line: Formal announcements %instructed people to stay put Last Line: Their %pocketbooks Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 911 WAKEUP CALL, by R. D. ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: The special effects merchants have been humbled Last Line: The chickens have come home to roost, baby Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) A STROKE OF SKY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Innocence; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 AFTER, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the towers fell %a conundrum Last Line: A last day; babylon %remembered Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AFTER THE TERROR, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: Everything has changed, though nothing has Last Line: The windows have been bolted just in case Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AMERICA ON TERRORISM, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I was a child %when I first saw the pictures Last Line: Against all terrorism for forever Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ARMENIAN PASTORAL, 1915, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If anoush were holding her child Last Line: Be cut from the same tongue Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AS THEY PASS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Red shout, hair %flaming, the wind cannot stop drilling holes Last Line: The stunned air now %unbearable Subject(s): Death; News; Terrorism; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ASH TUESDAY, by EILEEN MALONE Poem Source First Line: I think I recognize you Last Line: Hey, I always meant to tell you: %I love you Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ASK ME NOW, by JOHN SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: Standing at the finish line %of the boston marathon Last Line: When they founded this great nation Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY ALTER EGO, SELS., by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before our banana-shaped chopper %landed at cam ranh bay Last Line: & somewhere else among those %lost planets & dead stars Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BACK THE NIGHT BEFORE, by SKIP ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: I yearn for the huge silver airliners to pull backwards Last Line: Home again, that the only fires are in the fireplaces and in the stars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BALLAD OF SKANDAR, by PHILIP METRES Poem Source First Line: Unframed by any photograph, diminished by history Last Line: Where water flows from every spout- %or so the story goes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BE AFRAID, by JOHNNY GUNN Poem Source First Line: Doesn't look old enough to shave, this gun toting Last Line: Nothing to hide, I say, and he puts cuffs on me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BECAUSE, by DENNIS FRITZINGER Poem Source First Line: Because you can't see the bodies Last Line: And go to sleep. %because Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BELL TOLLS AGAIN, by GERALD NICOSIA Poem Source First Line: At the world trade center %the doormen working minimum wage Last Line: And who was also %blown away Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLACK DAHLIA, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: The cups we drink from are the skulls of %arabs Last Line: Rise %inside %of %us %? %(grahhr) Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLACK HAIR, by TRACI KATO-KIRIYAMA Poem Source First Line: Black hair %long %wavy %or maybe recently Last Line: Mirror %and see %that I am there Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLESSING FOR NEW YORK, by MARJ HAHNE Poem Source First Line: God bless this magic city Last Line: Bless this %bless them %bless us Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLESSING OF TERROR, by THEA HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: I am trying to write a blessing for today. I did think I might die today. I Last Line: One more day. I don't know how long I have left. I am blessed Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BOXCARS, NINES AND ELEVENS, by TODD EASTON MILLS Poem Source First Line: A numbered event, the numbering Last Line: Nines, elevens, and atomic boxcars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BURKA WOMEN, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Imprisoned behind adobe ruins Last Line: In public, walk to work %& our daughters to school' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CATHOLIC BISHOPS APPROVE BUSH'S WAR, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Lest I merge %with mountains that surely will fall Last Line: Not large, nor mine to choose)- %lest I Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CAVES, WAR, AND PEOPLE, by SHEPHERD BLISS Poem Source First Line: At ease,' %the young lieutenant barks at our rifle squad Last Line: How could anyone experience desire in such a hellhole? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CENTRAL PARK, CAROUSEL, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: June already, it's your birth month, Last Line: If I die leave the balcony open! Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Merry-go-rounds; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 COCKTAILS CELEBRATING VIETNAMIZATION, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: It's a wingdinger. We got spies Last Line: Too hard, like one of those concrete %jockeys who's lost his ride Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) COME REST WITH ME, O LORD!, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source Last Line: Onto the verdant fields %of transcendent history Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DAY AFTER THE CLEANUP ENDED, by JR. RADOMIR LUZA Poem Source First Line: The trees bent %in a sort of anguished manner Last Line: The kind ten lifetimes cannot hide Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DEAD HAVE STOPPED RUNNING, by MATTHEW MASON Poem Source First Line: They walk %through the air, now Last Line: Surprising us when they exit %on the floor where we live Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIE TODAY?, by GAIL FORD Poem Source First Line: If I knew we would die today Last Line: The rising %falling %sea Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DILEMMA, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: It is once again time to think of what we wish Last Line: And let song rise often from this site Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIMINISHING RETURNS, by CHARLOTTE MCCAFFREY Poem Source First Line: In the fall of 2001, %it seemed that sky and earth Last Line: The families %with urns %of dirt Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIRGE, by GARY MEX GLAZNER Poem Source First Line: There is always some right wing-nut with his hand on the kill button Last Line: Madness our only %music Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DOUBLE DRAM OF FALLING, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: And so we slept, %always an ocean or two Last Line: That now makes up our lives Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) EASY SERMON, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sermons are easy Last Line: When the highest powers fall Subject(s): Sermons; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 EQUATION, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: Horrific towers of flame over manhattan like nothing Last Line: Of course, %as the mangled dead aren't our own Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) EVEN NOW, by LEZA LOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Into my witches' brew, communal cauldron Last Line: Making of this meal a universe, %even now, %called 'home' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) EXCERPTS FROM SEPTEMBER 11,2001, by JEFF PONIEWAZ Poem Source First Line: I praise the firemen: truly as heroic as the antique gods Last Line: Shalom salaam! Salaam shalom!' %ah! Om! Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FALL, by MICHAEL CIRELLI Poem Source First Line: The flags were only able %to climb half way up their poles that day Last Line: I'd grab the oxygen mask %and inhale Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FALLEN TOWER-SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Images indelibly burned %into the silver coated mind Last Line: Between the present %and our children's future Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FOURTH OF JULY, by STEVE DALACHINSKY Poem Source First Line: We are on a friend's balcony Last Line: In a flock %of angels' %eyes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FRAG, THE MIDNIGHT BLOOM, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: El tee informs private buddha he will inspect Last Line: Find out which of you is the chicken? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FROM THE TOWERS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insanity is not a want of reason. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 FRONT ROW SEAT IN HEAVEN, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: The world trade center buried %in rubble Last Line: A front row seat %in heaven Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FULL FLIGHT, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I’m in a plane that will not be flown into a building Last Line: We’ve begun our descent, and then I sense the falling Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Airplanes; Air Pilots; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GATE 6A, by JUDITH TERZI Poem Source First Line: The danse macabre begins at dawn Last Line: By electronic wands of fairy god scanners %at the threshold of paranoia Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All turned to dust Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All the sad battles lost or won, %all turned to dust Subject(s): Politics; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HELD CAPTIVE, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: You come in on it early 5:48 pdt when Last Line: Out from under all your arab american friends Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HELLO, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hello %I'm looking into a mirror Last Line: You alone %are god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HIGH HAUNTS, by TISH EASTMAN Poem Source First Line: There are countless tales of structurally displaced spirits Last Line: Shadow moments repeating fiercely where only falcons fly? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: "fill the air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: Fill the air %everywhere Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOLY SMOKE, by IRA COHEN Poem Source First Line: Taking tuesday back %or removing the black figure Last Line: P.S. The money goes through switzerland Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOME, by CARLOS MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Twenty three years later and I'm walking down twenty eighth and Last Line: And how the water spouting from fire boats rose and rose Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOW DO I EXPLAIN THE HORROR?, by DIEGO DAVALOS Poem Source Last Line: Them in drum songs enveloped in your %prayers Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOW TO SURVIVE AN ELECTRICAL STORM, by SUSAN BIRKELAND Poem Source First Line: Electrical storms tire the blood- %nightly news Last Line: And then again, %the water loves itself Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) I DON'T KNOW, by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: When I hear the whistle for work Last Line: He do something I %don't know Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) I SEE AGAIN, by GAIL FORD Poem Source First Line: The sixty-year-old man %forty-eight hours tired Last Line: I drink him drink him in Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IF BIN LADEN READ DR. SEUSS, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: So then, bin laden, is this Last Line: My friend, his name is sam I am Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN AS MUCH AS IT IS ALWAYS ALREADY TAKING PLACE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Outside, smoke mushrooms with the ghosts of sarajevo Last Line: Alvalanche. Inferno. Nations buckling %with its roar Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN RUBBLE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IN THE AGE OF GRASSHOPPERS, by JANINE POMMY VEGA Poem Source First Line: A grasshoppers with a roomy apartment building Last Line: Because we let them, because they can Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN THE LAND OF HONEY AND DANGER, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Yeah, danger lurks Last Line: Need money %nothing too small %god bless!' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN THE NORTH, by ALISSA LEIGH Poem Source First Line: Winter came and went, spreading %its sober gospel: earth the color Last Line: Is rubbing its face raw. In trees %birds sing a song full of silence Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INTERIOR OF BEESWAX CHAMBER, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Stickled nectars seized in Last Line: Blossoms. The wind's %picking up Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INTO THE ARMS OF ANGELS, by TIMOTHY MICHAEL RHODES Poem Source First Line: From the terror of fire, %darkness and broken glass Last Line: Her arms reaching %for one final embrace Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INVITATION TO GROUND ZERO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the smouldering ruin now go down: Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IT MUST NOT HAPPEN, by SHARON OLINKA Poem Source First Line: My days like water. I clip the toenails Last Line: No more mass burials %by a harbor Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JERUSALEM DURING A SUICIDE BOMBING, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem strolled thru an outdoor market Last Line: Jerusalem's naked feet leave the scene of love, %nothing changes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JESUS POEM, by SUSAN BIRKELAND Poem Source First Line: If I'd been trapped in one of those towers Last Line: (from where we stand ) %intolerably bright Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JIHAD, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A contrail's white scimitar unsheathes Last Line: His wisdom watches for each sacrifice Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JUDGED WORTH EVACUATING, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vertical war, north of my early childhood Last Line: A hammer of impatiens flowers got him Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) KABUL 2002 (FROM DISLOCATIONS), by BRONWYN WINTER Poem Source First Line: Kabul seizes your eyes your throat Last Line: Peshawar is a gentler and safer place Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LAST THOUGHTS 9/11 VOICES, by OPAL PALMER ADISA Poem Source First Line: All memories %are piled on the pyre Last Line: Claims you %live without regrets Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LEARNING NOT TO CRY, by JACQUELYN MALONE Poem Source First Line: Smart tears, fleeing down her cheeks' Last Line: The channels-click click- %the chamber mapped and loaded Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LET THERE BE INFINITY, by DEBRA GRACE KHATTAB Poem Source First Line: Sept. 11 I was scared shitless Last Line: And I want infinity to become the universal count %just infinity Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LITTLE RAMSHACKLE SHACK, by ABD AL-HAYY MOORE Poem Source First Line: A little ramshackle shack on a hill Last Line: And the silence or the sound that follows it %is also part of it Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MAGICIAN IN MOURNING, by DONNA SUZANNE KERR Poem Source First Line: The first day of november Last Line: How we have defiled %such gifts Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MEETING OF THE POET AND THE PRESIDENT, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS Poem Source First Line: There is a passage in specimen days, august 12, 1863; here Last Line: The wit of their tails flicking blackflies Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MORNING RUSH HOUR, 9/28/01, by PATRICIA KELLY Poem Source First Line: The toddler cries 'I want mommy, I want mommy' Last Line: Of our stricken city, this looming grief %of the ages Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MY MOTHER IS PREPARED, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: She comes for a weekend %with bulging bags Last Line: Anything, she whispered %to me in polish, saying good-bye Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MY WIFE SAYS DON'T WRITE ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11TH, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: For three months, I have collected facts (elvis presley got a c in eighth Last Line: Sounds like static, a tv left on after every station's signed off Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NANJING, DECEMBER, 1937, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Thousands tethered like cattle, herded like sheep Last Line: And then it was the women's turn Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NASEEM, by JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Mommy, I'm scared Last Line: I prayed, my sweet. I prayed Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEW YORK MEMORIAL, by MEREDITH KAREN LASKOW Poem Source First Line: My world has become a moving collage Last Line: And writing a poem for every life lost Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEW YORK POEM, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I sit in the dark, not brooding Last Line: I'll kiss the sword that kills me if I must Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 1. LAST RITES, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: My ears are full %the building screeches Last Line: I'm going to die Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 2. RAY'S HOWL, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: My niece she was so young Last Line: Kill them kill them %kill you all Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 3. 911, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: 911 911 %nana is san francisco weeping Last Line: Needing to build again %911 %911 %911 Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 4. AFTERMATH, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Checking in %I am safe Last Line: Built on love %and memory Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS OF NOVEMBER 1,2001, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: The news is some maple leaves are still clinging Last Line: Was bearable. For once I went through life %uncomplaining Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Last Line: To place by the master's breakfast-the skin of days Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NO SUCH THING AS A PRECISION BOMB, by PAUL GANDHI JOSEPH DOSH Poem Source First Line: September 12th %the day after Last Line: We just grew a little more aware of how violent we %have become Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOCTURNES: 3, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The gods are fighting to stay awake Last Line: And white light, transfixing the northeast, is discord Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; New York City; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTE TO TONY TOWLE (AFTER WS), by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: One must have breakfasted often on automobile primer Last Line: Rather than attribute, towards the brush with open sea Subject(s): Business; Tourists; Trade; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTES ON OSAMA SPOTTINGS, by Q. R. HAND Poem Source First Line: Osama spotted like %victims of rocky mountain %tick fevers Last Line: All over like %the spanish flu Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Do they hate me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Strike & move on Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTHING IS THE SAME THE DAY AFTER, by ANN MARIE SAMSON Poem Source First Line: The gathering %they are gathering in the blackness Last Line: The eyes of allah %the eyes of god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) OFF THE AIR, by MATTHEW MASON Poem Source First Line: My first love was an am radio dj Last Line: On this gorgeous night of a blossoming autumn, %this final broadcast of summer Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON A ROADSIDE IN OHIO, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: The sign on interstate 271, right there Last Line: On the tripping tempest of these frightened times Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON BEING TRANSPARENT, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: If they raise a picture Last Line: Of its short but sacred flight Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by CARL STILWELL Poem Source First Line: I am with you, walt whitman Last Line: For more human sacrificial blood- %we the people Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON REPORTS OF THREATS AGAINST ARAB-AMERICANS, by NEELI CHERKOVSKI Poem Source First Line: News kiosk owner from %palestine, rabbi's son out of Last Line: Emptiness at the heart %of what we face tomorrow Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON T.V., by MARIAH ERLICK Poem Source First Line: Tuesday was the worst day of my life Last Line: I'm here. %I'm talking Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER SEPTEMBER 2001, by CATHY BARBER Poem Source First Line: I am am american, eyes drooping heavily Last Line: I am afraid for we are going to war Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON THE FALL OF THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source First Line: When hate crimes last in a bombscare loomed Last Line: Long day. The families wait Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONCE BY HANFORD REACH, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I cupped an explored milkweed pod Last Line: Dark seeds of death-light Subject(s): Death; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONE CAN MAKE FISTS, by JOE-ANNE MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: And fistfuls: one, two, three, even four Last Line: Though no president had proclaimed %we are at war Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONE DAY LAST WEEK, by C. B. FOLLETTE Poem Source First Line: The end of the world %rained from the sky Last Line: Empty, unclaimed %and at the airports Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONWORK, LUCK, ROOTS, DEATH AND OTHER DEBTS, by EUGENE RUGGLES Poem Source First Line: Don't give up on your blessings, %before they finish Last Line: The pacific takes both of them into its shadow Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PALMS AND HANDS, by HUGH SEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Larry shrugged, %jerked up his palms Last Line: Of the shock wave %of the fire storm Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PEACE INVOCATION AFTER 9/11/2002, by TERESA G. LEE Poem Source First Line: Peace did you shudder %when two airplanes Last Line: A amar nuestras diferencias Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PEACE STUDIES AT THE RHODE ISLAND AVENUE BARBERSHOP, by KENNETH CARROLL Poem Source First Line: No flags fly in this shop Last Line: Like clumps of black hair %blown by a wayward western wind Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SACRAMENT, by EVA YAA ASANTEWAA Poem Source First Line: Is it jihad? Is it crusade? Ashes to ashes Last Line: I try to wash that man right out of my hair %and send him on his way Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SALEM HILL HYMN SING, by MICHAEL SCHNEIDER Poem Source First Line: A screaming comes across the sky Last Line: Is me, and all the books are about revenge Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SAVAGE JETS SWORD THE SKY HUNGRY BOMBS TORTURE THE EARTH, by S. A. GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: As for myself %I choose not to believe in war Last Line: I am easy this way Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 21,2001, by KENNETH POBO Poem Source First Line: At our somerest motel, gary Last Line: They can't drive away as we do Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SHE SMILES ON THE TV SCREEN, by KAREN KARPOWICH Poem Source First Line: Looking like all those tough girls I knew in school Last Line: Working his beads, she said %till there was silence Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SIMPLE POEM FOR A DIFFICULT TIME, by JEFF KASS Poem Source First Line: I carry my daughter of six weeks Last Line: The thing her father once told her %being good matters Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SIX MONTHS AFTER, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: This is what it means Last Line: Some say the debris %also speaks Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SKYSCRAPER APOCALYPSE, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Two months before the terrorist attack Last Line: As the sunrise engulfs the world %in the light of another day Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SMALL SACRIFICES, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels' Last Line: So americans can continue life as usual, %go on another shopping spree Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SMALL TREASURES, by PAULA NEMEROFF WEISS Poem Source First Line: It rests in the hollow of her throat Last Line: Her hand returns to the pendant %covers it lovingly Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Last Line: And what's beyond the sky, and beyond that, ad infinitum Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOMEONE SAYS THEY LOOKED LIKE CARTWHEELING BIRDS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The quietest moments some %one will say are the worst Last Line: Red as if nothing %could stop them Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOUTH TOWER, 96TH FLOOR, CORNER OFFICE, by F. JOHN SHARP Poem Source First Line: Fresh air seduces me Last Line: I hope I have the courage %to choose to fly Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) STRANGERS, by LUCILLE DAY Poem Source First Line: I didn't know the man in black pants Last Line: Searching for something %irretrievable, precious, still there Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SURVIVING, by PAT PHILLIPS WEST Poem Source First Line: Special days-graduations, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries Last Line: To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THANKSGIVING EVE, 2001, by F. JOHN SHARP Poem Source First Line: Today %I sort ruin Last Line: I can't imagine where I will begin Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THAT TUESDAY NIGHT, by GEORGE HELD Poem Source First Line: That tuesday night, after the towers Last Line: Could ever make me %safe again Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THE TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such mourning as we Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THE WINDOW, AT THE MOMENT OF FLAME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And all this while I have been playing with toys Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THERE IS SILENCE, by CRAIG MOORE Poem Source Last Line: Through it, to the sun beyond the angry hellish plumes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THREE EGRETS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Seen from this unprotected openness, that summer morning Last Line: For something more %than what must simply be remembered Subject(s): Grief; Mortality; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIME AND PLACE: 11/11/01, by NEIL NAKADATE Poem Source First Line: At almost 88 my father finds the times Last Line: On any of these maps' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIME CHANGE, by CHARLES PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: Thoughts between after midnight and before dawn Last Line: Our world and peoples nearer harmony Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIME TO DIE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by KAREN ELIZABETH HARLAN Poem Source First Line: He called to say he was stuck at work Last Line: I'm sorry, I have to take time to die Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TOWERS DOWN, by CLIVE MATSON Poem Source First Line: I am crying. %I am putting on a black shirt Last Line: It is not enough Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TWIN, by HALEH HATAMI Poem Source First Line: In double-pained dread, I wait my turn. Doubly afraid Last Line: To one unfailing response. La ilaha illa allah, there is no god but %god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such mourning as we Last Line: Hanging in mid-air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNDER HEAVEN, by DIANE S. MEHTA Poem Source First Line: Time to rearrange heaven %or what goes under it Last Line: Every settlement sprawls %sideways, deserts are soul-shaped Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNDER THE CLOUD, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: We ran in all directions Last Line: And the radiance behind it Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNHARMED, by ROBYN SARAH Poem Source First Line: War has a long wake. Waves of two long wars Last Line: We are the writing that stayed dry, %and cannot read itself Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) VOLUNTEER, by KAREN KARPOWICH Poem Source First Line: The fires at ground zero stopped burning today Last Line: The folding chairs we sit on %have such hard backs Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WAR, by SCOTT WANNBERG Poem Source First Line: The war had its grandchildren over for the afternoon Last Line: Nobody should look that young. %nobody Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WEAVERS, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Afghan refugee %children hunch over looms Last Line: Plotting against freedom %& themselves Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS? APRIL 23, 2002, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Yet another birthday %to acknowledge the passage of time Last Line: We must take the leap from empire to love Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHEN MY BROTHER AND I BUILT AND FLEW THE FIRST MAN-CARRYING..., by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: How to name this horror %what language Last Line: Who died %and, dying, %live Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHEN THE TOWERS FELL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From our high window we saw the towers Last Line: Each life, put out, lies down within us Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 WHO WERE YOU?, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On september 11, a man and a woman jumped from one of the burning Last Line: And has not %landed yet Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WILL BOLAND & I WALK DOWN THE BEACH, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: Seething over this filthy war that every chest-thumping Last Line: The last of the light of this world setting behind them Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WINTER ELEGY (1998-99), by ALISSA LEIGH Poem Source First Line: A year of omens and predictions Last Line: The violinist's bow, thin antigone, %was tearing out its hair in a frenzy Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WINTER SOLSTICE--2001, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Sunder %and give, only towering shadows of buildings Last Line: Into trebles %of flame Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Memory; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORDS, LIKE SURVIVORS, by TOM GUARNERA Poem Source First Line: It's like the pearl harbor, some people say Last Line: I only believe the tears Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORLD HISTORY, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Better believe ten thousand angels Last Line: Are waiting to serve him supper and hear the news Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORLD TRADE CENTER, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: I am an old woman in a black dress Last Line: Dying soldiers kneel to me %and I smile Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WTC BOOM BOX: THE SUBWAY JOKE UNSOUNDED, by EUGENIA MACER-STORY Poem Source First Line: The room is empty except for the drums Last Line: Subway jokes unsounded in the midnight storm Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog Last Line: Long time night, the usual. So forth and so on Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) YOU ARE TOO HUMAN, by MIKI KASHTAN Poem Source First Line: You are sitting in the cockpit Last Line: What is the right thing to do? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) |
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