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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AUTOMOBILES Matches Found: 149 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRACT FOR AUTOS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, all you little runabouts Last Line: Developed planes and flew! Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars AFTER THE CAR MUSEUM, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Really right after the eerie buzz of abstract %thinking Last Line: The cold, very cold air-conditioned atmosphere Subject(s): Automobiles; Museums APPROACHING THE BUDDHA, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Binoculars left in the backseat Last Line: In giant urns burnishing the air Subject(s): Automobiles; Buddhism ARS POETICA, by GARY ETTARI Poem Source First Line: Under the hung light, the hood angles Last Line: The cranked ignition, exhaustion's deafening woof Subject(s): Automobiles ARTIE BUCK'S MACHINE, by P. C. KIBBE Poem Text First Line: By intense toil a rig I wrought Last Line: And crush cold logic's steady light. Subject(s): Automobiles; Love - Materialism; Cars ASSEMBLY LINE, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: Henry had something on his mind Last Line: Beneath, the earth is six feet deep; %the grass is optional and spare Subject(s): Automobiles; Factories; Ford, Henry (1863-1947) AT THE CONTROLS, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: This guy I know owns Last Line: Corvette. At the controls %he feels invincible Subject(s): Automobiles AUGUST IN THE NEW ALL-GLASS GENERAL MOTORS PLANT, by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Poem Source First Line: This is the most modern of factories Subject(s): Automobiles; Factories AUTOBAHNMOTORWAYAUTOROUTE, by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Around the gleaming map of europe Last Line: No driver no steering wheel no windscreen no brakes no Subject(s): Automobiles AUTOMIBILES AT NIGHT, by CHRISTINE ROSE WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Like big black cats Last Line: Like big black cats. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars BOILING OVER, by E. J. MILLER LAINO Poem Source First Line: At rush hour, we are all cars Last Line: Trying to pay him back for everything Subject(s): Automobiles; Lies; Quarrels; Traffic; Truth BUICK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spine Subject(s): Automobiles; Love - Erotic; Cars BUICK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spine Last Line: And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep Subject(s): Automobiles; Erotic Love CAR AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: This is how it is done Last Line: Of the woods, left it there, and stayed Subject(s): Automobiles; Roads; Travel 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 CAR POOL, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: We are contained by these faithless pilgrims, the mobile Last Line: Fast with people in them, cars are pure denial Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers CAR RADIO, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An in-joke and the long days of faltering Subject(s): Automobiles; Radios; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips CAR TRIP, by RUSSELL SMITH Poem Source First Line: My mother keeps the windows rolled up Last Line: Where an outlaw or an orpahn %could hole up Subject(s): Automobiles; Mothers; Travel CAR WASH AT THE MALL, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even mud makes a halo of a steaning, still body Last Line: With a thirst so profound it brings joy Subject(s): Automobiles – Service Stations CARS, by PETER FINCH Poem Source First Line: They used to mend cars in our street Last Line: Are we rich - my son asks me - I tell him no - no no no yet Subject(s): Automobiles CARS, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: Evening. Everyone has left the market Last Line: Models whose names you have spoken, models %of your teeth in rust.... Subject(s): Automobiles CARS GO FAST, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Cars go fast along the street Last Line: If I should always run about Subject(s): Automobiles CARWASH, by LEANNE AVERBACH Poem Source First Line: It's a strange thing Last Line: Of guys and my own %unfathomable misfortunes Subject(s): Automobiles; Cleanliness CIRCLING IN FOR A LANDING, by PAUL KARAN Poem Source First Line: You lost the keys Last Line: So who helps you with your shoes? Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers COLOR OF DREAMS, by LENORA STEELE Poem Source First Line: My brother came home from Last Line: Pretty. How peaceful. City of cars the color %of dreams Subject(s): Automobiles; Colors; Dreams COMBUSTION, by PAUL KARAN Poem Source First Line: God it's cold Last Line: Do you want to go outside %and look Subject(s): Automobiles; Cold; Fire DECEMBER LOVE, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, as you will, you leave me in the dust Last Line: Give me the slip, black ice under my feet Subject(s): Automobiles; Cold; Frost; Hearts; Love DIVERSE SHADES: LIVERPOOL, by C. B. COX Poem Source First Line: Cathedral confronts cathedral Last Line: Transforming stranger into friend Subject(s): Automobiles; Churches DRIVING ALONGSIDE THE HOUSANTONIC RIVER ALONE ON A RAINY APRIL NIGHT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember asking Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Shadows; Automobiles; Cars DUET, WITH MUFFLED BRAKE DRUMS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where gray walks slope through shadows shaped like lace Last Line: Two gold and velvet notes – there rolls met royce Subject(s): Automobiles; Rolls, Charles Stewart (1877-1910); Royce, Frederick Henry (1863-1933); Cars DUET, WITH MUFFLED BRAKE DRUMS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where gray walks slope through shadows shaped like lace Last Line: I'd rather - much - make engineering history Subject(s): Automobiles; Rolls, Charles Stewart (1877-1910); Royce, Frederick Henry (1863-1933) EDDY-GRAMS: 3. EDDY PARKED HIS CAR, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy went ter turn around Last Line: Wuz in his car that day. Subject(s): Automobiles; Ford Motor Company; Cars EMIGRANTS, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Do we darken the night sky for you Last Line: We're trying in the next galaxy Subject(s): Automobiles; Continents; Exiles; Immigrants; Travel ENGINE WORK, by MORRIS CREECH Poem Source First Line: The afternoon rinsed in the scent Last Line: To fire the lonely engine of the heart Subject(s): Automobiles - Maintenance And Repair; Family Life; Photography And Photographers ERYK'S MOBIL, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes in the evening, the gulls come Last Line: Mondo oscenita ...The corruption of christina Subject(s): Automobiles; New Haven, Connecticut EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot Last Line: Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers %of necco wafers, nibs, and juju beads Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports 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 FENDER DRUMMING, by DAN MASTERSON Poem Source First Line: The unused lot behind the mall is lit Last Line: Their women who sense a final thunder Subject(s): Absence; Automobiles FIAT ODE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fiat! / you have freed us from our dusty dreadful past Last Line: Because they are dead! Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Fiat Automobiles; Poetry & Poets FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, but it is dirty! Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, but it is dirty! Last Line: Somebody loves us all Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations FINDING THE KEY, by JOSEPH CHANEY Poem Source First Line: First week in indiana Last Line: That tells you %yes Subject(s): Automobiles; Indiana FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T OPEN THEIR HOODS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some fat lady in a mink Last Line: I will drive away Subject(s): Automobiles - Maintenance And Repair FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: All the way in from the country Last Line: Littering the highway like glittering crumpled cans Subject(s): Automobiles; Refuse And Refuse Disposal; Roads FROM A CAR WINDOW, by LEONA BOLT MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Woodlands and prairies all rolling and green Last Line: Thus briefly our lives perhaps touch -- then they're gone. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars FROM AN ANTIQUE ISLAND: 2, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When is a buick not a buick? Last Line: I wonder how old he was Subject(s): Automobiles FROM THE ROAD, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What stops me is the big indifference Subject(s): Automobiles; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips GAS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That year, my mother was dying. And other things Last Line: Behind you say it's time to step on it buddy and go Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Memory GAS STATION, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I own a gas station. It's at the edge of the mojave desert. The only gas Last Line: To look like a glass of water Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Perseverance GETAWAY CARS, by ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Who is more hated than a meter maid? Last Line: They would grumble, %'who owns me?' Subject(s): Automobiles - Parking; Office Employees GLEAMS IN THE SNOW LANE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Around the mountain over there %also the radio reports ice Subject(s): Automobiles; Ice; Roads; Winter GREEN AUTOMOBILE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a green automobile Last Line: I'll return to new york Subject(s): Automobiles; Denver, Colorado HAZARDS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Whenever I walk in a new york street Last Line: The driving is safer there after it's dark. Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Cars; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HER BMW, by NEVA HERRINGTON Poem Source First Line: The mechanic who bought her '83 Last Line: To tell exactly how far she had come Subject(s): Automobiles HUNTING FOR A '55 CHEVY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My son wants a car with dents, rusted Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Automobiles; Fathers And Sons; Repairing I COULD BE DRIVING, by APRIL OSSMANN Poem Text First Line: I guess my mistake was going to a salesman Subject(s): Automobiles - Maintenance And Repair IRON FEVER: AFTER FIRE, by STEPHAN TORRE Poem Source First Line: Our towers of gears and hydraulics, chain sprockets Last Line: And black stone blade in a man's nervous hand %doing this? Subject(s): Automobiles; Repairing IRON FEVER: DIESEL JUNKY, by STEPHAN TORRE Poem Source First Line: Drain oil drips down like sweet molasses Last Line: Gotta be some dope cookin %in that crankcase, pal... Subject(s): Automobiles; Petroleum JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 42, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Permit me to warn you Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars JUMP CABLING, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our cars touched Subject(s): Automobiles - Mantenace & Repair JUNKYARD, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: I built this junkyard Last Line: After a light rain Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Junk And Junkyards LA NUIT AMERICAINE, by MARK SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: The american night throws shadows Last Line: A white lie, not fooling anyone Subject(s): Automobiles; Night; United States LAST THOUGHTS OF PIERRE LAPORTE, STUFFED & LEFT IN A CAR TRUNK AT ..., by CAROLYN MARIE SOUAID Poem Source First Line: Their jackal eyes, their jangling Last Line: Just wanting a pillow %& a last grab of air Subject(s): Automobiles; Death; Memory LAY OF THE MOTOR-CAR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're away! And the wind whistles shrewd Last Line: That stuff on the wheel? Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Cars; Paths; Trails LIFE ON EARTH, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ... Auto parks in layers show off the light Last Line: A power surges through everything, %no rest for the living, work barely begun Subject(s): Automobiles; Labor And Laborers; Life MADISON IN THE MID-SIXTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Names, can you talk without their mirage? Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving; Social Classes; Cars; Caste MAN STANDS IN HIS DRIVEWAY, by WILLIAM BORDEN Poem Source First Line: He stands at the edge of the driveway in a cold Last Line: Drift into a blue mirror Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers MAUD MULLER A-WHEEL, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Maud muller, on a summer's day Last Line: Be not allowed to block the way! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Household Employees; Social Classes; Wheels; Cars; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste MAXIMUS, LETTER 22, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trouble %with the car. And for a buck Last Line: To what a car %will do Subject(s): Automobiles MAY I DRIVE YOU HOME, MRS. MURGATROYD?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a statement that anybody who feels so inclined is welcome to make Last Line: Everybody in the car can drive better than the chauffeur Subject(s): Automobiles; Troy MESSAGE (2), by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Drinking diet rite Last Line: Didn't crash, but %I got the message Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Automobiles MOON OF HUNGER, MOON OF COYOTE HOWL, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heat waves rose with gas fumes from the pump Last Line: Earth this dark, dark star Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; African Americans; Family Life; Poverty; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives MOTHER IN THE PARK, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Her children could drown Last Line: At the corner of her badly %lipsticked mouth Subject(s): Automobiles; Children; Mothers; Parks; Summer MOTOR CARS, by ROWENA BASTIN BENNETT Poem Source First Line: From a city window, 'way up high Last Line: They grope their way through fog and night %with the golden feelers of their light Subject(s): Automobiles MY FATHER'S CAR, by JUSTIN BIGOS Poem Source First Line: Because it is winter rub out Last Line: In the usual folds and crevices %the same deep-seated pattern emerge Subject(s): Automobiles; Fathers; Home MY GRANDMAMMA'S SEDAN, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK Poem Text First Line: The ladies of st. James'' / went 'swinging to the play' Last Line: With skill and grace, comes on apace, my grandmamma's sedan! Subject(s): Automobiles; Grandparents; Cars; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NEIGHBORS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They yowl sometimes like cats at midnight Last Line: Joe roars as he backs out, shifts, %and burns rubber down the block Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Automobiles; Neighbors; Night NEW GUIDELINES WILL AT LEAST SEND STUDENTS TO OUTSIDE SOURCES..., by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love its smell. And I hope you understand Last Line: And what all of you stuck in your stupid dying lives %call the human condition Subject(s): Automobiles; Love NOD, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: In this mind %beyond dry cornstalks Last Line: If there's no solid place to go %no world called home Subject(s): Automobiles; Homosexuality; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NOT SO OLD, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Waiting for 6000-mile Last Line: Covers for my not so %old chevy pickup Subject(s): Automobiles OBSOLETE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to drive up Last Line: He can't make me obsolete Subject(s): Automobiles - Mantenace & Repair OLD SONG FOR THE BO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hip hop to the auto shop Last Line: Gonna be the king of the automobiles. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars ONLY CAR ON THE ROAD FOR MILES IS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER CAR, by LUKE WHISNANT Poem Source First Line: It blazes by, blurring, black with speed Last Line: This car keeps going, and maybe gets there Subject(s): Automobiles; Roads PARADISE LOST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I sat at the wheel of the fire chief's car Last Line: At the wheel of the fire chief's car. Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Firefighters; Labor & Laborers; Wheels; Cars; Work; Workers PARKED CARS AT NIGHT, by MARY C. SLEVIN Poem Text First Line: All night / every night Last Line: Pawing in the dark cars. Subject(s): Automobiles; Night; Cars; Bedtime PARKING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I live where I have always been Last Line: Lands, and coos like a fool in the dark Subject(s): Automobiles; Middle Age; Youth; Passion PARKING LOT FULL, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A much of motors Last Line: A total of exhausts Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Automobiles PAYMENT PLAN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clunker. Junker. The fizzlemobile. Everybody Last Line: And coaxing juice enough for the uphills Subject(s): Automobiles; Freedom; Money PLEASURES OF THE POOR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Oh, what I like's a touring car Last Line: The best of reasons why! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Automobiles; Poverty; Cars PLURALISM, by ARTHUR MADSON Poem Source First Line: I drive a boxy chevy sedan, four doors Last Line: Would I come for a ride? Subject(s): Automobiles; Language POEM FOR BOB, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Protected by a .357 / magnum out of sight Last Line: Cheap / no tricks!! Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops PORTRAIT OF A MOTOR CAR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a lean car - a long-legged dog of a car - a gray ghost eagle car Last Line: Gray-ghost car. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars PRE-HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: The dinosaur died, was consumed by the soil Last Line: May rise from their ashes in ten million years Subject(s): Automobiles; Dinosaurs; Petroleum PUMBERLY POTT'S UNPREDICTABLE NIECE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Automobiles; Food & Eating; Cars REAR VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cars in the mirror come swiftly forward Subject(s): Automobiles; Time; Cars REAR VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cars in the mirror come swiftly forward Last Line: The furies gather in a pack, &while all the sky above burns black, %unwinding still the darkening th Subject(s): Automobiles; Time REPRISE, by KATHY FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: I saw my mother on the road today Last Line: That only I could tell %only to her Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers; Mothers ROAD LAW, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drive a ford or a packard six Last Line: "a load of stone has the right of way." Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Traffic; Cars; Urban Life; Paths; Trails RUBBER TIRES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some soothing balm the soul requires, when Last Line: "as they leave, on learning bent, they whisper, ""what a sinful gent!" Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Work; Workers RUNNING ON EMPTY, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: As a teenager I would drive father's Last Line: At dawn the car and I both refilled. But, %father, I am still running on empty Subject(s): Automobiles RUSH HOUR, by BRUCE A. JACOBS Poem Text First Line: My honda drops Subject(s): Automobiles; Escapes; Family Life; Racism; Cars; Fugitives; Relatives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SACRED POLLEN ON THE HOOD OF MY '84 HONDA, by NANCY CORSON CARTER Poem Source First Line: Rub-a-dub at the jiffy wash Last Line: Come, enter the house of abundance! Subject(s): Automobiles - Maintenance And Repair 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 SCENT OF GASOLINE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: As a child I'd inhale deeply the scent of gasoline Last Line: Before the needle stops traveling backward-falls %unencumbered, empty, lost Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers; Gasoline; Roads; Travel SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations SIGNS, by JULIE DEARBORN Poem Source First Line: My ex-wife's in the trunk, 3-hour service, no extra charge. Custom book Last Line: -lems the brush. Honk if you're horny. It works every time Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers SILHOUETTE, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green evening drooped in silence to the street Last Line: A motor car—behind a high-peaked hat! Subject(s): Automobiles; Mexico; Cars SIX VARIATIONS ON A STATEMENT BY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, by GILBERT ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After the new puppy refused to hit Last Line: After the multiple warheads from sam's %wholesale club were safely on their way %to california Subject(s): Automobiles; Schwarzenegger, Arnold (b. 1947) SPEED, by GLORIA GODDARD Poem Text First Line: We glide along the glistening road that lies Last Line: On -- on -- Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 13. CARJACKING, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: It's americana with anti-lock brakes Last Line: Reliving the american story Subject(s): Automobiles; Crime And Criminals; United States STAR FOOD SONATA, by SUSAN BROWNE Poem Source First Line: I sit in my car in the star food parking lot Last Line: The ephemeral singing %one song, infinite movement Subject(s): Automobiles; Food And Eating; Shopping STEPPING ON IT, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: At a bad corner of the street Last Line: Honk! Brakes! Meet! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Streets; Cars; Avenues STILL START, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if engine / parts could be Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars STILL WEARING A SIZEABLE HANGOVER AT DUSK I FIND MYSELF AT A MARATHON, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: I stop for gas a fresh mountain dew Last Line: Of old overholt and challenge me - as I search %the cracked mirror of his face - to take the first d Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Automobiles - Service Stations STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten, Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops TAXI RIDE, by KEVIN PILKINGTON Poem Source First Line: I hop into a cab Last Line: Of gems whenever it dangles %from your wrist Subject(s): Automobiles; Taxis TEXACO, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nozzle of the gas pump Last Line: From some strange thirst Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops THAT'S THE SUM OF IT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car Subject(s): Automobiles; Marriage; Mourning; Cars; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THAT'S THE SUM OF IT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car Last Line: Without a car, I cannot find another woman. That's the sum of it Subject(s): Automobiles; Marriage; Mourning THE AUTO, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An auto is a helpful thing Last Line: The auto is a helpful thing. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars THE AUTOMOBILE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fluid the world flowed under us: the hills Last Line: The shrill, primeval hawk gazed down -- and screamed. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars THE CATALOGUE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I have a snappy picture book Last Line: We should have had one long ago. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars THE EGG AND THE MACHINE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gave the solid rail a hateful kick Last Line: Will get this plasm in it goggle glass Subject(s): Hate; Automobiles; Cars THE GREEN AUTOMOBILE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a green automobile Subject(s): Automobiles; Denver, Colorado; Cars THE HORSE - A CENTURY OF PROGRESS, by MAX GOODLEY Poem Text First Line: A thunderpulse of rhythmic speed encased Last Line: And pluck the insects from his radiator. Subject(s): Animals; Automobiles; Horses; Progress; Cars THE POOR MAN'S AUTOMOBILE, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day's stint is finished, and master and man Last Line: But I doubt if a nabob is gayer than we. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Travel; Wheels; Cars; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE STORM, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The italian police stopped us today Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Automobiles; Italians; Cars THE SUITOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My automobile loves the saintly wood Last Line: Against the woodland's closed, inviolate shrine? Subject(s): Automobiles; Forests; Cars; Woods THE WORM TURNS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can drive an old hunk of scrap-iron and junk Last Line: The bozos who yell at my ford! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Ford Motor Company; Cars THERMODYNAMICS AT 90, by JEREMY COUNTRYMAN Poem Source First Line: When you roll your crown Last Line: Compression. %power. %exhaust Subject(s): Automobiles THESE HEADLIGHTS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The seine of falling snow Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers; Nature; Snow THOMAS DIVIDE, by DEBORA KINSLAND FOERST Poem Source First Line: We used to sit at thomas divide Last Line: And through our windshield Subject(s): Automobiles; Traffic; Travel THOUGHTS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, by ROD MCKUEN Poem Source First Line: There ought to be capital punishment for cars Last Line: Should await the driver %driving over a beast Subject(s): Animal Rights; Automobiles THREE ELEGIES: 3., by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: Under the live oaks along rt. 41 Last Line: How surely their chassis bear the light Subject(s): Automobiles TRUNK, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: There is what is Last Line: Still and yet %be light Subject(s): Automobiles TURNED BACK, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: So hot at the filling station Last Line: Someone bringing the sunglasses back down Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please be the driver bearing down behind Last Line: And see you face to face, and say, 'my lord!' Variant Title(s): Please Be The Driver Bearing Down Behin Subject(s): Automobiles; Racing UPWARD MOBILITY, by KATHY FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: How the best bash Last Line: Out for a drive in the old nash Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers VALENTINE'S JANE, by CATHY EISENHOWER Poem Source First Line: To steal a hubcap that %a cat swallowed whole, and Last Line: Can be capped with the %odd, unpredictable hunger of cat Subject(s): Animals; Automobiles; Cats VERNISSAGE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the opening day of the automobile show Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Automobiles; France; Cars WHAT I'VE BELIEVED IN, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Propped on blocks, the front half of a packard car rides the hillside Last Line: Waited years to be asked Subject(s): Automobiles; Junk & Junkyards; Rust; Cars WHERE TO PUT THE LAST TIRE?, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: He's not sure. Maybe I'll just Last Line: Last week. Now I've got this one to deal with. %any bright ideas? Subject(s): Automobiles WILLIAM'S VISIT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came like a slipknot his car Last Line: Pretend it's paris june light until eleven o'clock Subject(s): Automobiles; Guests; Travel; Cars; Visiting; Journeys; Trips WILLIAM'S VISIT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came like a slipknot his car Last Line: Pretend it's paris june light until eleven o' clock Subject(s): Automobiles; Guests; Travel WINDSHIELD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are supposed to roll your windows up Last Line: Of yours, man, right in his bones Variant Title(s): Windowglass Subject(s): Automobiles; Windows; Cars WINDSHIELD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are supposed to roll your windows up Last Line: Of yours, man, right in his bones Variant Title(s): Windowglas Subject(s): Automobiles; Windows WOMAN WITH A FULL TANK, by THOM WARD Poem Source First Line: Of super unleaded cares little Last Line: Can't predict her next move Subject(s): Automobiles; Gasoline; Women |
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