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Subject: BALKAN CONFLICTS (YUGOSLAVIA) Matches Found: 48 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 |
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