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Subject: CHILD MOLESTING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANIMAL OF WORDS, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He searched for words, his hands groping in the night
Last Line: Spread out. On the grassy fields of june
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Solitude


BELFAST, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You lick her diamond and kiss her pearl
Last Line: This is how you throw her, %you think you know her
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Girls


BORN THAT WAY, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As far as possible, she strove
Last Line: In the wallpaper
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Child Abuse


BORN THAT WAY, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As far as possible, she strove
Last Line: Fingers counting the roses %in the wallpaper
Subject(s): Child Molesting


CARLOS FONSECA, 3-19-67, by SESSHU FOSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: For how long has the rain fallen
Last Line: When it touches you, having %fallen so long?
Subject(s): Capitalists And Financiers; Child Molesting; Nicaragua; Revolutions


CHAIN, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faces surround me that have no smell or color no time
Last Line: How do I learn to love her %as you have loved me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Child Molesting; Incest


CHILD ABUSE, by CAROL ANN FRIGES    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're guilty of child abuse'
Last Line: The child with the welts ... You see %was me ... (and my son
Subject(s): Child Molesting


CONFESSION, by ALICE LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember %my first confession
Last Line: A heat in my hand
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Confessions


EATING, by CHRISTINE CHOI AHMED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Closet was full of belts
Last Line: Bit at a time. Drip. Drip. Drip
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Prostitution; Social Problems


ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was named eleutheria
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


END OF A MARRIAGE, by JOANNE SELTZER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three years after the death
Last Line: How to divorce a man %who has been dead three years?
Subject(s): Absence; Child Molesting; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women


EXAMINATION I, by LARS LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw her
Last Line: An unreality with the scent of a camellia
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Detective Stories; Murder


GUS, by RUTH STONE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It would usually happen at dinner
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Child Abuse


GUS, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It would usually happen at dinner
Last Line: Wet like the cum of a father
Subject(s): Child Molesting


LISA'S RITUAL, AGE 10, by GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Afterwards when he is finished with her
Last Line: It is tall like a promise %only better
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Child Molesting; Exiles


MR MACANDREW WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have put aside all thoughts of helping these people
Last Line: Servant, reverend george macandrew of dumblane
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Clergy; Irish Language; Prayer; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland)


MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't remember the name of the story
Last Line: Crying my name among blind fish, %wanting so much to come home
Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents


NEAR YOU ARE HEAVENLY BODIES, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I adapt the rhythms of my actions to the affairs of the earth
Last Line: Natch! I'm just going out for a moment
Subject(s): Change; Child Molesting; Child Abuse


OATS OF WRATH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You want cash in a trust?'
Last Line: Hair laid flat by the gust, %a boy waits out the storm
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Farm Life; Homosexuality; Parents


PAPA LOVE BABY, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother was a romantic girl
Last Line: I could not grieve %but I think I was somewhat to blame
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Child Molesting


ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'ANNABEL LEE': HORROR, by RICHARD LAMB    Poem Source                    
First Line: She unruffled, stunning, young, unscathed
Last Line: A childish veneer. (did she ever conceive - %that I was a child molester?)
Subject(s): Child Molesting


ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'ANNABEL LEE': ON HORROR, by RICHARD LAMB    Poem Source                    
First Line: I tried to tell you about it using
Last Line: Sade and masoch provide its fission. %-- dynamos of impositiion
Subject(s): Child Molesting


SILENCES, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The three-year-old seemed puzzled
Last Line: Your teeth are clenched
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Grief; Silence; Speech Disorders; Tragedy


SNAPPING TURTLE, by JEFF OAKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A shape was crawling through the pipe
Last Line: That none of us was ever safe, %no matter what she did
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Lakes; Turtles


SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 10. CHILD ABUSE, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You end up in a place without parents
Last Line: Do not argue or lay a hand on you
Subject(s): Child Molesting


SUDBURY, CANADA, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I skid down slag, run to ruin
Last Line: Going down daily into the mines
Subject(s): Child Molesting


THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me
Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin.
Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE INQUEST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I took my oath I would inquire
Last Line: Perhaps my mother murdered me.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Abortion; Child Molesting; Murder; Child Abuse


THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was biting cold, and the falling snow
Last Line: A bright reward for all the hardships she suffered here.
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Child Abuse; Suffering; Misery


THE MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't remember the name of the story
Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents; Caverns; Child Abuse; Relatives; Heroes; Heroines; Parenthood


THE VICTIM, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could remember cause? Both
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Child Abuse


THE WHIPPING, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old woman across the way
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Hate; Child Abuse


TINY MODEL, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had the impression that the study was empty. It seemed like
Last Line: Being that gruesome preacher's muse!'
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Children; Despair


VICTIM, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could remember cause? Both
Subject(s): Child Molesting


WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath
Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war!
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness


WHAT I HEARD AT THE DISCOUNT DEPARTMENT STORE, by DAVID BUDBILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't touch that. And stop your whining too
Last Line: You know you can't do that with me. %you're with your mother now
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Men; Mothers


WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He tells me his mother carries his father's ashes
Last Line: The relative comfort of silence.
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cremation; Forgiveness; Legacies; Child Abuse; Clemency


WHIPPING, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old woman across the way
Last Line: Avenged in part for lifelong hidings %she has had to bear
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Hate


WING, by SUSAN LANDGRAF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tufts of my mother's hair
Last Line: Like the bird through a closed window
Subject(s): Child Molesting