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Subject: BALKAN CONFLICTS (YUGOSLAVIA)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APPRENTICE, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have spent half of my life looking for a vocabulary of beauty
Last Line: Supposed to be more beautiful than a rose
Subject(s): Apprentices; Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Serbo-bosnian Conflict


APPRENTICE, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half a lifetime I've been looking
Last Line: And the lime-flower is more beautiful than the rose
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


ARRIVAL OF THE WOLF, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Welcome wolf among our bloodthirsty sheep all smiling
Last Line: Which does not resemble those you have passed through
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Serbo-bosnian Conflict


ARRIVAL OF THE WOLF, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sheep are smiling as they welcome the wolf
Last Line: Smiling, smiling, smiling as they welcome the wolf
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


AT THE BEGINNING, AFTER EVERYTHING, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: After I bury my mother and run from the graveyard being shelled
Last Line: Why do you write poems which resemble newspaper reports?
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


BALKANS OF THE HEART, by EARL COLEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rude graffiti of the black hand
Last Line: Conjuring the force I'd need to break us out of there
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


BEGINNING AFTER EVERYTHING, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: After I buried my mother
Last Line: Why do you write poems like newspaper reports?'
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


BOSNIAN CADENCE, by REEVES M. MARCUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a sad little brunette
Last Line: A sad little wife
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Bosnia


BRIDGE, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: One morning, a week or two before
Last Line: Before anyone had called 'action'
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


CALENDAR, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard the fall of a leaf from a calendar
Last Line: All I heard was the fall of a leaf from a calendar
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


CHRISTMAS, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm blind,' I say. I don't speak again
Last Line: She could understand the half of what I say
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


COMMON STORY, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sarajevo, january 1993. %my friend put his wife and children on the bus
Last Line: By whoever cleans the shit and snow off buses
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


CONSEQUENCES, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fly on the tv screen dots the president's eye
Last Line: And a warning of the terrible days ahead
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


CURTAINS, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wake you in the middle of the night. I say
Last Line: Had kept me from sleeping
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


DECORATIONS, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he came back from the war, my grandfather
Last Line: By the beams in the attic
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


DOGS AND BONES, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: After a few days of war
Last Line: Of the can-opener on its chain %around her neck
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


DREAM, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Asleep -- dreaming %that you are asleep and dreaming
Last Line: On the pillow, sketched in blood
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


FACE OF SORROW, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know how the face of sorrow looks
Last Line: To watch my neighbor standing by the window %night after night looking at the dark
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


HAVING A WORD WITH GOD, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: It started out as a quarrel
Last Line: The fool on the up and up
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


IMAGINATION LOST, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: God, %my imagination is wearing out. My fervor is fading and acid
Last Line: From a tree you are approaching. My god
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


IMAGINATION LOST, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen, god, %my imagination is wearing out
Last Line: Into the tree, the very %tree you mean to fell
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


IN ROUND THE BACK, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've got one eye on the front door
Last Line: Enter someone. %someone should enter
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


LAMENT FOR VIJECNICA, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: The national library burned for three days last august and the
Last Line: How they'd taken ten tons of clinker from the deepest cellar national library
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


LEJLA'S SECRET, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doctor lejla from the department for corpse identification went mad
Last Line: They sleep peacefully. At night, we still hear the sound of lejla's piano
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


LEJLA'S SECRET, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dr. Lejla, of the department for corpse
Last Line: To the sound of lejla's piano
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


LOVE STORY, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: The story about bosko and amira, who tried to cross the bridge out of
Last Line: Stench of their decaying bodies. No newspapers wrote about that
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


LOVE STORY, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last spring, the story of bosko & admira
Last Line: Whenever the light spring breeze %blew in his direction
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


LUKA FILIPOV (INCIDENT OF MONTENEGRIN WAR OF 1876-78), by ZMAI IOVAN IOVANOVICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One more hero to be part
Last Line: Luka filipov.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brankovichera, Vidosava
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


MICE OF WAR, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the second summer of the war
Last Line: Just scraps, and the wide eyes of the mice
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


MORNING AWAKENING, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morning,--I greet you when you open the door
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Love - Erotic; Morning


MOSAIC OF THE NATIVITY: SERBIA, WINTER, 1993, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the domed ceiling god
Last Line: Lodges and begins to grow
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Christmas; Serbia; Nativity, The; Servia


MOSAIC OF THE NATIVITY: SERBIA, WINTER, 1993, by JANE KENYON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the domed ceiling god
Last Line: Of christ, cloaked in blood, %lodges and begins to grow
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Christmas; Serbia


MULTIPLICITY, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: An opposing force nestles closer
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


NEXT STEP, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: It took three years of war
Last Line: The tree the tree the tree %is the safest place to be
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


OLD ONES, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old ones of sarajevo are disappearing
Last Line: In the silent airwaves, the empty %diary, the letters to no
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


ON THIS VERY STREET IN BELGRADE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your mother carried you
Subject(s): Belgrade, Serbia; Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


ROMANCE OF PARCELS, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before long, the city was one vast lock-up
Last Line: Why her husband won't clear the blocked-up kitchen sink
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


RUZA AND THE TRAMS, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that ruza left behind was
Last Line: Honest to god, I do not know how to think about that %after a year of war
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia)


RUZA AND THE TRAMS, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that remains of ruza
Last Line: Know how to think about that %after a year of war
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


SARAJEVO, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that a revolution really is needed, those who once were
Last Line: What will strike them ripens in themselves
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Bosnia; Indifference; Sarajevo, Bosnia


SARAJEVO, by ART NAHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here, daybreak %will be a slow rain
Last Line: The city like a plague
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


SARAJEVO SPRING, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is spring again. The spring is coming
Last Line: Is coming, hobble- %clop, hobble-clop, hobble-clop
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


SHORT LECTURE ON LIFE, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: He comes in to the room at a run
Last Line: Why does he give me such grief
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


SORROW OF SARAJEVO, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sarajevo wind %leafs through newspapers
Last Line: Who stands by the window to watch the dark
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


STORY OF BESO, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: After a year in the aussie cane-fields
Last Line: Has already lasted a year
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


THE SARAJEVO ZOO, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men had used up their hands, men had
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia; Zoos; Death - Animals


VICTORY, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was passing through a country
Last Line: Yelling, 'victory! Victory! Victory!'
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia


WHAT'S LEFT?, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's left of our rebellion
Last Line: Putting the sparrows to flight
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia