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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WORLD WAR II - ATROCITIES Matches Found: 58 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 18-OCT-77, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Land flows into her eyes through the record player in her cell Last Line: She's murdered in her cell or kills herself, which terrifies Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities A PLEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Pretty star / stay where you are Last Line: You fill me with delight. Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War AT THE NURSERY OF A LOCOMOTIVE PARTS PLANT NEAR BEIJING, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Huey newton and the other panthers stand around a sandbox Last Line: And the children are thankful for the visit Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities BABY MILK PLANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The night of desert storm I've put my daughter and love on a plane Last Line: Pilot lying in a pool of it, as it mixes with his blood and curdles Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BACCHAE ON THE DOCKS AT TENTH STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In a drizzle in the middle of a week of rain Last Line: Who, soaked by a sudden downpour, run for the tip of christopher %without a thought to thank the god Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: It's mount hope in the background, but comet lake up close Last Line: Otherworldly place where these laughing girls can't find me Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BRULE VILLAGE, WOUNDED KNEE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This is no forest primeval: badlands, black hills, a month Last Line: Beyond the breastworks of the cavalry, resistance of the ice is shale Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities BURIAL AT SEA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Forty knots, a bugle call - our heads bowed down in sorrow Last Line: We sleep above the restless graves tonight %and dream the day when the dead shall rise in laughter Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities CEAUSESCU'S POET LAUREATE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: You, paunescu, what love inspired your odes Last Line: Which of your words can be made back into flesh again Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities COCHITI LAKE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The desert around was as pre-cambrian sea Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities COLLABORATEURS, ST. TROPEZ, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Paraded up a boulevard of plane trees and umbrella pines Last Line: For the sake of those who stayed silent, or resisted Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DEAD GERMAN SS PRISON GUARD, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Under the blood-clogged waters and the river weeds Last Line: Were known and sung and loved for poetry Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DESTROYED FLYING FORTRESS (PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN), by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After the automatic eye clicks a frame Last Line: Just where we're left to brood and wonder Subject(s): Troy; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DUNKER CHURCH, ANTIETAM, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: For melville, on malvern hill the elms would speak Last Line: Greening in this page of sediments and sorrow Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities EARLY MORNING CALISTHENICS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: On daniel field, the civil war's a hundred years behind us now Last Line: Each swell and juming jack is one cadet, alive and full and sexual Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The FIGHT TO THE DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Across the steppes of kursk, kazakhstan, the army partisans Last Line: Of starlings tightens, lets go, and hastens skyward Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FIRING RANGE, ATLACATL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the boys, tin icons of the fmln, shot-gauge target practice Last Line: At journalists or poets who limp away from here towards home Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities FOR THE DARKLING THRUSH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This time we have to hope: green cockaigne and truck stops Last Line: Who snaps at flies but eats the sandfleas Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GOETHE'S OAK, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I stood in a fog before the pile of shoes in an exhibition hall Last Line: Could quiet the whey-crapped mouth of another dawn coming on Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GREGORIOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: My cousin does a wheelie in a muddied mustang, radish red Last Line: And each of our ancient maids and ministers is blessing us Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities GRIEF, KERCH, 1942, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A snow-bound road, high above the world of winnowers Last Line: On foot quite accidentally, like you and me, %and makes of this world a camera obscura Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities HEARTBREAK HOTEL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Here I sit, dumbfounded, at the old french jail in hanoi Last Line: To you and ask will you come? When will I be free? Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ILL-POLITICAL, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Is wind across the kansas prairie. The babyface mashes stiff potato Last Line: And disappearances, the glop of spuds now greening on his plate Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities IMPRESSION MADE IN THE GROUND AT BILLERICAY, BY..., by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Like susan rothenberg's horses, the image Last Line: Limbs the wings that take him farther, %farther than we ever want to go Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Ezekiel's bones, dried to dust beyond this cusp of hill Last Line: For the sun to rise upon another century Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities JOE LOUIS IN ITALY, 1944, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In his mouth is a wad of regulation wonder bread Last Line: Until one war is over and another starts Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities JULY TROUBLES IN PETROGRAD, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Like an oscillating wave that gathers its roll Last Line: Which the thousands plot their coming Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities KAGERA FALLS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Follow the white nile up seven cataracts, up the nyabarongo river Last Line: And picture to tie your shoe, as if it had nothing to do with you Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities MARCH TO CALUMNY, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Throckmorton's troops are already out of it -- even the segregated Last Line: So the chances of capturing her smile are next to nothing Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities MEMORIZING CHAUCER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: October leaves were falling Last Line: I run for a corner, %shivering from head to foot Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ON HEARING GEESE FLY OVER MANHATTAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Something close to chaos Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities ON NORTH BROTHER ISLAND, HALF-CRAZED SURVIVORS OF THE WRECK, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Beaux-art bas-relief in tompkins park commemorates the burning Last Line: Here, then rise, to where they can try to find some peace Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PARK SUICIDES, VIENNA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A clock has stopped at quarter to nine this morning Last Line: The shrill of a magpie by the river can be heard Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PHILOTHEOU, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The singing rocks are ravished by the currents of the gulf Last Line: Through other storms like this one I come in from now Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHING A DEAD HORSE, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I do not share your faith in the moral power of exacting Last Line: So alas, he tries to rescue his brain %through irony, by pushing the camera's button Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PLACE IN THE SUN OF THE SON OF HENRY CLAY, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This burnt plate is place in the sun of the son of henry clay Last Line: Rest in peace now, in the arms of an absent howling mother Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN SOLDIER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Giuseppe ugesi, prisoner at milowitz Last Line: For all of us who wait for him to speak Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities REISE IN DIE VERGANGENHEIT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Eyes agog in a gas mask, wrapped in burlap sacks Last Line: Of mortar, to find a flower still in bloom Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities RIPRENDE LA VITA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: For all the world, this is a man indifferent to all I do Last Line: And help stray silent black sheep from the fold Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SANTO DOMINGO, KILOMETRO OCHO, REPUBLICA DOMINICANA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Off the butt of a standard-issue rifle: the rose-blue swollen eye Last Line: For rum and coke, rare bright birds, and cane to suck on Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's / day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities; Italians SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's %day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities SHADOWS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: From the foothills, you can see traffic on nagasaki bay Last Line: Who linger offshore, waiting for us to brim the tide Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SIMONOPETRA, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Epiphany today. Three quarters moon over neponset bay Last Line: Waits for me; waves pull back and blink at the gathering black Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities SOWJETUNION, 1941, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Close as we are, what can we suppose of the midnight sky Last Line: Ox-bow of a river, when the men %can't rise and return to their homes Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities STALINGRAD, REVISITED, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Winterreise, storm and snow. U.S. Troops in bosnia tonight Last Line: By my bed and cried, wailing the city stalingrad, revisited Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities STALKING DRAGONFLIES ON MT. WASHUSETT, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: We hunt them Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities TENT CITY, HOMELESS SHELTER, HOOVERVILLES, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Corlears hook. Terns and cormorants stotter along the fuel dock Last Line: In starched white sheets on army cots and grope towards sleep Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities THREE PIKE STREET, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: End of century, february thaw, horse stalls of a delancey cul-de-sac Last Line: Rose grunts and pees in sawdust, turns to her curds and whey Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities TREES, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Text First Line: We marvel how the elms can grow Last Line: When dawn breaks cool and still. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War TULE LAKE LAVA BEDS, THE MODOC WARS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Time is motion, energy, stress, and speed, divided by the sun's Last Line: As the desert music wavers, unmetered and unspoke Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities VOLLEYBALL, MANZANAR, SIERRAS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Here's a still life set in apple orchards on the plains of uz Last Line: The earth to overlap a reeling and burgeoned moon Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WAR OF THE WORLDS, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After my shift at the foundling hospital, the moon is down Last Line: Shards of evil caught in the blinking retinas of every single child Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: This could be samothrace, 1440 b.C.E. This could be thebes Last Line: I sacrifice the origin of all ideals on earth to give this girl a drink Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WHERE LITTLE POND MEETS THE OCEAN, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Out early, in search of the last light Last Line: In smiling, her way to say %oh yes, this is where I want to be Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities WILLIAMS DREAMLAND THEATER, by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I passed through harlem sundays only as a child Last Line: With all the news from akron, memphis, and thermopylae Subject(s): Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities |
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