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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ACCIDENTS Matches Found: 211 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOTANICAL TROPE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elliptical regrets figure the nights Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Children; Death - Babies A CASUALTY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That boy I took in the car last night Last Line: "my feet, please wrap 'em -- they're cold . . . They're cold." Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Paris, France; Dead, The A FAVOR OF LOVE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for making this sacrifice,' Subject(s): Markets; Accidents; First Aid; Good Samaritan; Supermarkets A POEM ABOUT GEORGE DOTY IN THE DEATH HOUSE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lured by the wall, and drawn Last Line: Crumbled his pleading kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death A SCENE IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the highlands while taking a stroll Last Line: "a picture!—a bas-relief surely you mean!" Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Accidents; Sheep ABOVE THE CITY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know our office on the 18th Last Line: True relationship Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Empire State Building, New York City ACCIDENT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood in a green stand of corn Last Line: Of the dying animals strewn out behind them. Subject(s): Accidents; Cattle; Corn; Fathers & Daughters; Railroads; Railways; Trains ACCIDENT, by GEORGE+(3) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Driving the old wagon Last Line: And how I will pay for all this Subject(s): Automobile Accidents ACCIDENT, by LIA PURPURA Poem Source First Line: Patience turned too sharply from Last Line: I mean %the patience %came back in Subject(s): Accidents; Patience ACCIDENT, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are the cars slowing up? Last Line: It's either pointing at the sky %or falling off an edge into space Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Traffic ACCIDENTS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no infant Subject(s): Accidents; Hospitals AFTER THE CRASH, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: They laid out the wreckage of our disaster Last Line: There were no survivors Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Death AFTER THE DARK CAME, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the accident on the bricks we notice the underside Subject(s): Accidents AFTER THE PLANE CRASH, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: My second day in the hospital Last Line: I thought, and looked harder, %taking every little last thing in Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Healing; Hospitality; Miracles; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival AGAINST CONSOLATION, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lecturer is talking Last Line: Beautifully innocent of any meaning Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death; Reality; Weil, Simone (1909-1943) ALONE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One evening in february I came near to dying here Last Line: Everyone is queuing at everyone's door %many %one Subject(s): Automobile Accidents AN EXCURSION STEAMER SUNK IN THE TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on july the 14th day Last Line: And enjoy yourselves heartily during the holiday time. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The AN INCIDENT OF THE WEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: More annoyed than for many a week before Last Line: For the faults of the dead in the canyon Subject(s): Accidents;canyons;death;tragedy;war; "dead, The; ANOTHER KIND OF BURNING, by RUTH MARY FOX Poem Source First Line: The south wind's molded by a spine of hill Last Line: Of an infant now fatherless %in fact Subject(s): Accidents; Appalachia; Death APRIL, SEATTLE TO MISSOULA, by CARMEN GERMAIN Poem Source First Line: When the doe stepped out Last Line: And said, wait for me Subject(s): Automobile Accidents ARCTIC SEAS, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The arctic seas %hanging from the sunset Last Line: I search for the lark which flew from my breast Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Arctic; Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Flight; Wings ATOMIC PANTOUM, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a chain reaction Last Line: Blind to the end %split up like nuclei %we sing to jesus %ina chain reaction Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents AUTO WRECK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quick soft silver bell beating, beating Subject(s): Automobile Accidents AUTO WRECK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quick soft silver bell beating, beating Last Line: And spatters all we knew of denouement %across the expedient and wicked stones Subject(s): Automobile Accidents BAILING OUT-A POEM FOR THE 1970S, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The landings had gone wrong; white silk Last Line: I can't help you, help me. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): Bailing Out -- A Poem For The 1970s Subject(s): Accidents; Air; Storms BEHIND TIME, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More coal, bill,' he said, and he held his watch to the / light of the glowing Last Line: Feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests Last Line: See the cities beneath them glitterring like the gold of the goths Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Travel; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests Last Line: Will see the cities beneath them glittering like the gold of the goths Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Death; Travel BILL'S LENGTH, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On to bill's length,' said my mate to me Last Line: "we must signal to bill as we journey down." Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Brothers; Death; Railroads; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Railways; Trains BLACK BOX, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: If the black box is the only thing that Last Line: Listen to you talk to me all night Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Boxes; Death; Love - Loss Of; Widows And Widowers BODY IDENTIFIED, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: That thursday afternoon when I Last Line: In one paragraph of the newspaper Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Native Americans BOEING CROSSING, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My head is in the clouds Last Line: Lose our heads in the clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Clouds; Disasters; Sky BOUNTY TIME, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When victorio was killed accidentally Last Line: Who flew back to tejas to clean up the landscape Subject(s): West (u.s.); Accidents; Death; Southwest; Pacific States BRAIN BRUISED, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Like gray space, or lake confused Last Line: Ah, to be a cat, you think. %to experience, and shed, this life too Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Bruises; Dreams; Nome, Alaska BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 3. AMPUTATION, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: Happened because he wanted to move forward Last Line: Or else it was the bone that held us both %(and no one) Subject(s): Amputees; Automobile Accidents BREAKING MY FAVORITE BOWL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some afternoons / thud unexpectedly Subject(s): Accidents CALM, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: The sun-bleached cornfield stretches toward the horizon, and Last Line: Else in the distance, it became part of the blurred horizon Subject(s): Automobile Accidents CAR PLUNGES INTO SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, by GRANT CLAUSER Poem Source First Line: She screams she screams the water seeps Last Line: Sad the way her hair bobbed and flowed %in the silty current sad the river goes Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles; Rivers CASINO, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Escalator Accidents CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The casualties are not only those who are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Loss; War Injuries; Dead, The CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The casualties are not only those who are dead Last Line: The unforeseen camp-follower of not just our war Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Loss; War Injuries CASUALTY REPORT, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car coming on, then crossing the divide Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Guilt; Memory CHAVEZ, by MILDRED MCNEAL SWEENEY Poem Text First Line: So hath he fallen, the endymion of the air Last Line: His spirit heed, still winged with golden prophecies. Subject(s): "airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Chavez, Jorge (""geo"") (1887-1910);" Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions CHERNOBYL, by GRACE BUTCHER Poem Source First Line: At our table a world away Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents CHERNOBYL, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT Poem Source First Line: I am not a scientist Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents CHERNOBYL, by JOHN SOLENSTEN Poem Source First Line: Meltdown %the fumbled logos Last Line: The whitening; the whiteness-%the terror of the irreversible flux Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents CIRCLE OF TOTEMS, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: At saxman, the totems slash down Last Line: The carver's tools chant-- %remember. Remember. Remember. %prepare. Prepare. Prepare Subject(s): Accidents COLORLESS CLOUD VISITS US FROM CHERNOBYL, by JEFFREY SKINNER Poem Source Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents CONCUSSED, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: There was no oh god, oh shit Last Line: That makes us human reentered %and found me brain-bruised survivor Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Bruises; Nome, Alaska; Survival CRACKING UP, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: By far the most handsome of all the velasco boys, jesse got drafted in '68 Last Line: Waiting to be let back inside Subject(s): Accidents; Family Life; Miracles; Tragedy CRASH, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the last woman off of the plane Last Line: With gravy and rice, to celebrate Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 2, by HUGH HENNEDY Poem Source First Line: It took a while but then Last Line: He'd found himself reliving %after crossing the bridge Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Bridges CRUSHED FENDER, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It happened in milan one summer night Last Line: My face averted to conceal my shame. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Religion; Theology CUT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a thrill - / my thumb instead of an onion Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Accidents CUT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a thrill - %my thumb instead of an onion Last Line: Dirty girl %thumb stump Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Accidents DEATH OF ROBERT CREELY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Robert creely and I %were driving in a farm truck Last Line: Or he might have been whistling for me Subject(s): Accidents; Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Death DISLOCATION, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happens in an instant. Subject(s): Accidents DRIVING LESSONS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Before our town dump became first a landfill then a waste transfer Last Line: Pine tree, my glasses fly off my face and manny utters the one word %he's never said in front of me Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Driving And Drivers; Learning; Teenagers DROPPING THE NAMES, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alps, island, jet, crest, logo - barnum's own Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Automobile Accidents; Male-female Relations DUNCAN WEIR, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back on the wrong line, that was all Last Line: Came back on the wrong line and kill'd our mate. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains DYING MINE BRAKEMAN, by ORVILLE J. JENKS Poem Source First Line: See that brave and trembling motorman Subject(s): Accidents; Mines And Miners EJACULATORY SONNET, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy judgements god, are holy, right, and just Last Line: O grant me still to put my trust in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Accidents; Horseback Riding ELEGY 1, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fell from the bouncing tailgate to roll in traffic Last Line: Till all my tears had whispered 'make me whole' Subject(s): Automobile Accidents ELEGY 3. CAVALCANTE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was cavalcante,' my mother said, 'killed you father' Last Line: I stood in the wreck of the death that had been my blood Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Fathers ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Dead, The; Work; Workers ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Last Line: I, with no rights in this matter, %neither father nor lover Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Labor And Laborers; Youth EPISODE OF HANDS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unexpected interest made him flush Last Line: The two men smiled into each other's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Hands; Industrial Accidents; Pain; Suffering; Misery EPITAPH, by FRANCOIS MAYNARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time, which does all creatures kill Last Line: Twas because he knew him not. Subject(s): Accidents; Drinks & Drinking; Wine EPITAPH: THOMAS PORT (1805-1838), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bright rose the morn and vigorous rose young port Last Line: A mutilated corpse the sufferer lay Subject(s): Accidents;epitaphs EYE SHELF FLIES OPEN, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Its margin chair rusts smoke, %the floor zero Subject(s): Accidents FALLING, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The states when they black out and lie there rolling when they turn Variant Title(s): Fall Subject(s): Accidents FALLING, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The states when they black out and lie there rolling when they turn Last Line: Feels herself go go toward go outward breathes at last fully %not and tries less once tries tries ah Variant Title(s): Fal Subject(s): Accidents FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the days of self service Last Line: Is come close and touch me. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops FOR H., DEAD IN A CAR AT THIRTY-EIGHT, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I blessed every little thing in the world Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Mortality HER CHERRY-TREE ABLOOM, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: I mind the jauntin'-cars a jinglin' Last Line: Roun' my lone, wee room! Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cherry Trees; Driving & Drivers; Memory HISTORY OF MY HEART, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Mothers; Accidents; Sex; Coming Of Age; Relatives HOLUS BOLUS, by E. G. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: He lay in the hospital, pallid and weak Last Line: "for the blithering camel blew first!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower Subject(s): Accidents; Camels; Sickness; Illness HORROR STORY WRITTEN FOR THE COVER OF A MATCHBOOK, by CHUCK WACHTEL Poem Source First Line: In the dark naomi mistook a shard of broken light bulb for her contact lens Subject(s): Accidents HORSE CHESTNUT, by GARY MIRANDA Poem Source First Line: I fell from one once. Judy cole Last Line: No one I've ever loved has died, %exactly Subject(s): Accidents HUNGER TO THE TABLE (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A turned ankle is its own consequence. She hops about Last Line: Respond like any woman collecting rainwater to stay alive Subject(s): Accidents IN THE ANCHOR TAVERN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: That next week, when I stopped in the anchor Last Line: Crashed into a hill. Walking dead man. %nome's walking dead man. There he goes' Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Life; Nome, Alaska; Survival INTERNATIONAL METEROLOGICAL COMMITTEE REPORTS, by SUZANNE GARDINIER Poem Source First Line: The pripyat river flows on, we assure you Last Line: Chernobyl chernobyl chernobyl Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents IOWA & OTHER ACCIDENTS, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: There was snow that afternoon covering the road Last Line: Always there about to happen Subject(s): Accidents; Iowa; Middle West; Winter IRONING, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: The pattern flows. Leaves and flowers blend, a river spinning over the Last Line: -gle pink and blue. Green. I am ironing her blouse. Only this motion is %left Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Blood; Hospitals; Mothers And Daughters IT'S HERE IN THE, by RUSSELL ATKINS Poem Source First Line: Here in the newspaper - the wreck of the east bound Last Line: Closed dull. %the heap up twists %such %as to harden the unhard and unhard %the hardened Subject(s): Accidents JACK AND JILL (1), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack and jill / went up the hill Last Line: And jill came tumbling after. Subject(s): Accidents JACK AND JILL AND OLD DAME DOB, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack and jill / went up the hill Last Line: At see-saw across the gate. Subject(s): Accidents JIM DALLEY, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you knew dalley that used to drive Last Line: Dalley lay over the levers dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains JIM'S WHISTLE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, the railway wasn't a fitting place Last Line: Were with me, and I were talking to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Deafness; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains LAGOS -- IBADAN ROAD BEFORE SHAGAMU, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bus groaned uphill. Trapped Last Line: Are looking for the driver %who escaped unhurt Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Buses; Driving And Drivers; Prisons And Prisoners; Roads; Travel LATERNA MAGICA, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you remember Last Line: That rise like faces out of smoke. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Hospitals; Miracles LET THREE DAYS PASS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the one released from feeling Last Line: Showering every two hours and scrubbing their hair. Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island; Tv LIGHTNING SPREADS OUT ACROSS THE WATER, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI Poem Source First Line: It was already too late %when the swimmers began Last Line: The vacant imponderable sky Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Lightning; Nature; Sea; Swimming LOCKERBIE, by WILLIAM CORBETT Poem Source First Line: Stoned on xanax Last Line: Innocents unaware %blown out of this light Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Lockerbie, Scotland LOCKERBIE, by CHARLES MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I have never understood %how zeno's famous paradox could twist Last Line: For a wind of treetops, weeds between the trees, and a space of %white rocks Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Lockerbie, Scotland; Terrorism LOFTHOUSE COLLIERY, 1973, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Somebody yelled 'get out!' as the coal-face split Last Line: His lonely mind to whatever it meant to die %buried already in a violent grave Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Graves; Mines And Miners LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: You are afraid Last Line: Will crash or glide across the sky %as if the sky knows what is written underneath its skin Subject(s): Aids (disease); Airplane Accidents; Danger; Health; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Travel LUGUBRIOUS RISINGS, by TOM MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: As the airplane banks and curves Last Line: Over a trio of lububrious risings: %the deathcamp of three mile island Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Nazis; Nuclear Accidents MANITOWOC, by CAROLYN AHRENS Poem Source First Line: I did what my father told me to do Last Line: I was going, asked %if I wanted the meat Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Animals; Deer MASTER OF THE SITUATION, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Your bike's been taken Last Line: The mountainous weapon of its patience Subject(s): Accidents; Bicycles; Life; Mountains ME AN' BILL, by F. KENNA Poem Text First Line: We were sawin' a log was bill an' me Last Line: "have you got a match in your pocket, jim?" Subject(s): Accidents; Lumber & Lumbering; Trees; Woodsmen MICHEL'S WINE, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter again and we want Last Line: This moment in my glass Subject(s): Wine; Automobile Accidents MILL ACCIDENT, by KATHRYN BLACKBURN PECK Poem Text First Line: Bright burns the pain against his breast and throat Last Line: "he hears his comrades murmur, ""hell! He's done." Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Windmills; Dead, The MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER ACCIDENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse that carried miss kilmansegg Last Line: With singleton's 'golden ointment'. Subject(s): Accidents; Animals; Horses MONOLOGUE OF TWO MOONS, NUDES WITH CRESTS: 1938, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, lily and I fell from a ladder Last Line: Twigs, leaves, and an infinite black string. Subject(s): Accidents; Adolescence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Teen Agers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MOONLIGHT: CHICKENS ON THE ROAD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Called out of dream by the pitch and screech Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Chickens; Grief; Ozarks (mountains); Sorrow; Sadness MUTED GOLD, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: My father died just as my plane touched down Last Line: My father died just as my plane touched down Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Death; Memory; Tragedy; Travel MY SORE THUMB, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I jabbed a jack-knife in my thumb Last Line: In my poor thumb! Subject(s): Accidents; Children; Sympathy; Thumbs; Childhood; Empathy NEARING CHERNOBYL, by KATHERINE E. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Outside a village we stop by the road Last Line: In a ukrainian forest. I carry the dust %of the universe on my shoes Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Russia NEIGH, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The farrier drops the left hind hoof, Subject(s): Horses; Accidents NEW YORK CITY - 1935, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was 5 years old %it was new york december %horses pulling wagons Last Line: And it's driver %head bowed %walking slowly %like the sad italian peasant %he was Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Accidents; New York City; Poetry And Poets NOME CELEBRITY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Two years writing, teaching Last Line: How others watched, and whispered. %I let drunks touch me for luck Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Nome, Alaska; Survival; Writing And Writers NOT IN ANOTHER PHOTO, by DOUGLAS OLIVER First Line: Your photo in a newspaper. The hotel Subject(s): Accidents NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AT SL 1, IDAHO FALLS, 1961, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: My father remembers a nurse Last Line: She knows what she is doing. %she knows what she has to do Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Nuclear Accidents; Nurses OBITUARY, by KENNETH FEARING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take him away, he's as dead as they die Subject(s): Automobile Accidents OBITUARY, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take him away, he's as dead as they die Last Line: They lived with him, in the same old world. And they're good men, too Subject(s): Automobile Accidents OBJECT SET IN MOTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pilots believe bad crashes Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): The Flying Dutchman (1 Subject(s): Airplane Accidents OLD WYLIE'S STONE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You want to see wylie's stone - look here Last Line: Growing round it. We planted them there last year. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Graves; Railroads; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Railways; Trains ON AN ACURA INTEGRA, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Please think of this as not merely a piece Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life ON THE LATE SHIFT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven waggons to siding four, one to the buffer / end Last Line: For a mourning dress at dawn. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Disasters; Heaven; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Train Wrecks ON THE LOSS OF HIS FINGER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much more blest are trees than men! Last Line: And we in heaven shake hands again. Subject(s): Accidents; Fingers OUT, OUT -', by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard Last Line: Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Dead, The PERMANENT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: The wind blew me from the porch Last Line: That's going to be permanent Subject(s): Accidents; Children; Grandparents; Hair; Permanence PETROL, by KATHLEEN JAMIE Poem Source First Line: Sketch in the background: pre-dawn Last Line: As figures etched in petrol Subject(s): Automobile Accidents PICNIC, LIGHTNING, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is possible to be struck by a meteor Last Line: To burrow back under the loam Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Dead, The PLANE WRECK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mine was this easy. Flying Last Line: My plane wreck was this easy. %his illness and fear were not Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Fear; Flight; Friendship; Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska PLAYING WITH FIRE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends of little mary green Last Line: Again, before she died! Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fire; Girls; Play; Death - Babies POEMS OF THIS SIZE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: In poems of this size, so little Last Line: Most closely, at how quick and full an end can be Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Children; Mortality POET CHARGED IN SCRAPE, by JOHN+(2) MORGAN Poem Source First Line: As the ferry approached morse rock Last Line: The coast guard said Subject(s): Accidents; Ferry Boats; Sailors And Sailing POST-CRASH PAPERWORK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, when asked Last Line: I answered, 'publisher %or muse, your choice' Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAR, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it happened Last Line: Was quiet, in need of no other Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Geese PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAT, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it Subject(s): Death - Animals; Automobile Accidents; Storms PRETTY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: When charlene, my homely friend Last Line: Gathered up enough courage %to meet me Subject(s): Accidents; Beauty; Facades; Human Abnormalities; Survival RACER'S WIDOW, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elements have merged into solicitude Last Line: As he lies draining there. And see %how even he did not get to keep that lovely body Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Automobile Racing; Widows And Widowers RESPECTED, FEARED, AND SOMEHOW LOVED, by MARJORIE WELISH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the long run we must fix our compass Last Line: Shipwrecked icily, the windows called away? Subject(s): Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Disasters; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The RID OF HIS ENGINE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way that it came about was this Last Line: Bill had got rid of his engine at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains ROAD RONDEL, by NICOLE SARROCCO Poem Source First Line: Nothing quite like the force of a near-fatal car crash Last Line: To cement a relationship, that other force, the one that takes life away Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Life; Roads ROADBLOCK, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call me the bee buzzing in the museum. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents ROCHESTER'S CONFERENCE WITH A POST BOY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of a whore, god damn you! Can you tell Last Line: The readiest way, my lord's by rochester. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Accidents; Villains In Literature RUBY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor ruby is dead! And before her no more Last Line: When they look at thy hearthrug-'poor ruby is dead!' Subject(s): Accidents; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Murder RUN DOWN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grim dead end he lies, with passionless filmy / eyes Last Line: To a shift beyond the skies. Subject(s): Accidents; Cemeteries; Death; Fire; Graves; Tragedy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SATURDAY MORNING MISHAP, by VALERIE GILL Poem Source First Line: Without so much as an opinion Last Line: To many this will be a perfect day, %somewhat warm for april Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles SAVING A TRAIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor old woman lived on the line of the ohio railway Last Line: Which should be written on her tombstone in letters of gold. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Disasters; Heroism; Memory; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Train Wrecks SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: After the first a-bomb test,' Last Line: After a shit and a coffee break Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bombs; Missiles; Nuclear Accidents; Science SHINGLING THE NEW ROOF, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the roof of the garage my father was Last Line: A sharp impression deepening to a bruise. Subject(s): Accidents; Labor & Laborers; Mothers & Sons; Youth; Work; Workers SHORT ANSWER: MISHAP WITH A NAIL GUN, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something about the nail through my hand said jesus. Or was it shit? Subject(s): Tools; Accidents SIESTA, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father took me to one side Subject(s): Fathers; Accidents; Tools SINGING OF ANCIENT TIMES, by WU XIAO Poem Source First Line: Sublime was a certain prince of old, far beyond compare Last Line: He aimed at the wrong lookout and murdered the beautiful maids Subject(s): Accidents; Regicide SMALL FROGS KILLED ON THE HIGHWAY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, I would leap too Last Line: Of the moon, they can't see, / not yet Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Frogs; Automobile Accidents SMALL RAIN; MAY 1986: AFTER CHERNOBYL, by CHRISTINE EVANS Poem Source First Line: For weeks the wind strained from the east Last Line: And listening to our futures being fed Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents SOLITUDE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right here I was nearly killed one night in february Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Solitude; Loneliness SOLITUDE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right here I was nearly killed one night in february Last Line: Millions. %one Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Solitude SOME OTHER TIME, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told him we our game would play Last Line: Some other time that never came. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Play; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth SONG OF THE TERRIBLE, by HILDA MORLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally, the fine went up Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Accidents; Love SPILLED CUP, by SARAH GORHAM Poem Source First Line: She likes to catch her mother Last Line: For what might be %accidentally confessed Subject(s): Accidents STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Last Line: The siskiyou mountains divide up ahead, %waiting to swallow us whole Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women STOOD AT CLEAR, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is adams?' that was the cry Last Line: Might find heaven's signals clear to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains STREET, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Where's the file of good advice I've been Last Line: Sweat dripped on the street as my eyes %waved. I didn't want to get up Subject(s): Accidents SUDDENLY, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truck came at me, Subject(s): Accidents; Driving SUMMER MORNING, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: I saw a person get hit in traffic today Last Line: Clearing throats, making %any kind of noise Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Death; Noises; Streets; Traffic SUPPRESSING THE EVIDENCE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Alaska oil spill, I edit you out Last Line: I must hold in my mind one small dead otter pup. Subject(s): Alaska; Escapes; Industrial Accidents; Petroleum; Women; Women's Rights; Fugitives; Oil; Feminism TAKE OFF, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: From one dot %on the map %to the other %the airplane clocks Last Line: And fly incrementally %towards fire Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Sky; Tourists; Travel TAR, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first morning of three mile island: those first disquieting Last Line: Scribbled with obscenities and hearts. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Accidents; Nuclear Freeze; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island TERROR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not pinics nor pageants or the improbable Subject(s): Terror; War; Airplane Accidents; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions THE AMBULANCE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never see in our bustling town Last Line: For a breath of heaven in the darkest day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Accidents; Ambulances; Healing; Hospitals; Red Cross; Sickness; Cures; Illness THE BREAKAGE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey and dusty morn Last Line: I broke the china cup.' Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Accidents; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE BURNING OF THE SHIP 'KENT', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of high and low degree Last Line: And when their feet touched english soil their hearts felt gay. Subject(s): Accidents; Fire; Ships & Shipping THE CORN ON JOSIE'S TOE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The board walk, atlantic city Last Line: Tis a corn on josie's toe. Subject(s): Accidents; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Feet; Toes; Walking THE CURVE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Missed / due to alcohol it was Last Line: On the other side of the ditch Subject(s): Automobile Accidents THE DANGER CAR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to Last Line: Banker, and maimed an auctioneer. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobile Drivers; Crime & Criminals; Death; Murder; Tragedy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE FIRST BREAK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first break in our happy household hearth Last Line: Close by his rest, they thunder day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Railroads; Death - Babies; Railways; Trains THE GOANNA, by G. M. SMITH Poem Text First Line: On the castlereagh some years ago Last Line: That blooming black goanna. Alternate Author Name(s): Grey, Steele Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Lizards; Dead, The THE JOB; FOR TOBEY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my friend lost her little finger Last Line: To what's turning in the world. Subject(s): Accidents; Factories; Fingers; Touch (sense) THE KESSACK FERRY-BOAT FATALITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on friday the 2nd of march in the year of 1894 Last Line: While the storm fiend did laugh and angry did rave. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Storms; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The THE LATEST INJURY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my son comes home from the weekend trip where he Subject(s): Accidents; Injuries; Sons THE LOSS OF THE 'VICTORIA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Now o'er britannia there hangs a gloom Last Line: For the brave british tars that have been drowned. Subject(s): Accidents; Battleships; Death; Loss; Dead, The THE OBJECTION TO BEING STEPPED ON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the row Last Line: Turned into a weapon Subject(s): Accidents; Tools; Wit & Humor THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 10. THE DEATH OF HUSKISSON, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: The trains are stopp'd, the mighty chiefs of flame Last Line: But damped the joy that erst had crown'd the day. Subject(s): Accidents; Huskisson, William (1770-1830); Railroads; Railways; Trains THE STOLEN SHEEP, by TOM FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Say, mate, it's a tidy long stretch since we parted near old lambin' flat Last Line: And—well that was the end of old tommy; so here's to his ashes I say! Subject(s): Accidents; Butchers; Murder; Poverty THE TELEGRAPH CLERK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sitting here by my desk all day Last Line: With a smile and then a sigh Subject(s): Accidents;death;funerals;telegraph; "dead, The;burials;telegrams; THE TOILET OF CONSTANCE, by JEAN FRANCOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE Poem Text First Line: Haste, anna! Did you hear me call? Last Line: At the ambassador's of france. Alternate Author Name(s): Delavigne, Casimir Subject(s): Accidents; Dancing & Dancers; France; Youth THE TRAIN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Accident could be a god to little boys Last Line: We said, with intonation, what a shame. Subject(s): Accidents; Maine (state); Railroads; Rain; Strangers; Railways; Trains THE TROLLEY FROM XOCHIMILCO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The late-afternoon rain stopped. The electric trolley Last Line: The plaster rosettes of the ceiling. Subject(s): Accidents; Buses; Death; Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954); Mexico City; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957); Dead, The THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you should search all scotland round Last Line: May just help you to begin it. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds THE WRECK ON THE A-222 IN RAVENSBOURNE VALLEY, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where the car hit him, fireweed sprang with Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death; Youth; Dead, The THEIR BALLS WERE SO SWOLLEN THEY COLLIDED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With only momentary regret Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Accidents; Nature THIRD STREET, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: A sign of my own past's big wreck Last Line: Then raise a cigarette butt %to her shadowy lips Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cold; Death; Nome, Alaska THREE MILE ISLAND, by AGNES NASMITH JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Our daughter plucks her guitar Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents THREE MILE ISLAND, by MOLLY MCGRANN Poem Source First Line: Tricked on lines and a hook caught my voice Last Line: As our excuses thin as our yarns Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents THREE MILE ISLAND, by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't drink the beer that's brewed in pennsylvania Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Radiation And Radiation Sickness THREE MILE ISLAND SUITE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Two in the diner Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Nuclear War THREE RUTHLESS RHYMES FOR HEARTLESS HOMES: 1, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Billy, in one of his nice new sashes Last Line: I haven't the heart to poke poor billy. Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Variant Title(s): Tender-heartedness;billy Subject(s): Accidents; Cruelty TO MY ACADEMIC FRIENDS WHO SIT TIGHT ON THEIR DOCTORAL THESE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who will drive forward Last Line: Again and again with fresh wares Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Streets; Traffic TO THE DOE LAST SEEN RUNNING UP THE SOUTH EXIT RAMP TOWARD WAL-MART, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Through rearview mirrors %you promise her Last Line: Be the whisper that tells her %wait steady now go run Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Driving And Drivers; Roads TO WILLIAM CRAIG, ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas drear november; by the turbid tide Last Line: "to meet, and dwell with him in ""heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Heaven; Mourning; Sons; Tragedy; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement TO WORKMAN'S COMP, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: When asked for last words before the noose Last Line: Of how much my tail is worth Subject(s): Accidents; Business; Insurance And Insurance Agents; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets TOES, by FREYA MANFRED Poem Source First Line: A woman lost both her big toes Last Line: Beneath the brussel sprouts %seventy-two toes under Subject(s): Accidents; Self-doubt; Toes TORN-UP ROAD, by RICHARD SIKEN Poem Source First Line: There is no way to make this story interesting Last Line: And velocity, not all of us bracing ourselves for impact Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Love TRAFFIC, by SESSHU FOSTER Poem Source First Line: We look upon the surface of the ocean but neither of us sees Last Line: And our children can read our books as they burn Subject(s): Accidents; Streets; Traffic TRAFFIC WARNING, by RICHARD WARNER BORST Poem Text First Line: I saw the wreck a little after it happened Last Line: Drive carefully—for perilous is the highway! Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The UN PETIT ACCIDENT, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wintry, parisian sunset, a huge framework of sky in murky Last Line: Closed eyes, already resembles a mask Subject(s): Accidents UPON THE LOSS OF HIS LITTLE FINGER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arithmetic nine digits, and no more Last Line: How soon mischance hath made a hand of thee. Subject(s): Accidents; Fingers VIEWS OF THE GENERAL - THE PRIME MINISTER, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: I trained him to rampage Last Line: When she returns, he'll tell her %of my unfortunate accident Subject(s): Accidents VIGIL, by CAROL S. WESTBERG Poem Source First Line: I'll find no other life. This friday is no rehearsal Last Line: At this meal - so sweet and sharp, so fleeting Subject(s): Accidents; Change; Children; Family Life WAITING FOR MY WIFE'S COMMUTER FLIGHT, 45 MINUTES LATE, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: When a convulsive boom shakes Last Line: Like a top. A screw needed tightening, %chuck said. Such a little thing Subject(s): Air Travel; Airplane Accidents; Marriage; Waiting WORKER, by RICHARD W. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: My father lies black and hushed Last Line: Applauded him %lapping up his dripping iron %they couldn't stop Subject(s): Accidents WRECK, by GAIL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: That old man was too far gone Last Line: Of a five year old adds one shoe %to greater losses Subject(s): Automobile Accidents WRECK OF THE STEAMER MOHEGAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of high and low degree Last Line: And pray to god to protect him at night before ye sleep. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Sea; Steamboats; Survival; Dead, The; Ocean YEAST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning from the dim secrecy Last Line: To the oven. Subject(s): Accidents; Bakeries & Bakers; Bread; Schools; Students YOUNGEST / PURPLEST BUM, by STEVE EFFINGHAM Poem Source Last Line: Sparkled beneath the sunshine Subject(s): Accidents; Ambulances; Blood; Commuters |
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