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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FOOT-NOTE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walk on the delicate parts
Subject(s): Communism; Poetry & Poets


A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider that instant of anger when to the blow
Subject(s): Anger; Russia; Communism; Politics & Government; Soviet Union; Russians


A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The boss came around at christmas
Subject(s): Charity; Communism; Economics; Irony; Labor Unions; Socialism; Philanthropy


AFTER A FRUITLESS AGRUMENT, by ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: What we read and what we argue over
Last Line: Crashes it on the table %and shouts v narod
Subject(s): Communism


AMBROSE: NAM, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cloudgatherer %with muscularf tautness
Last Line: How many people were killed in the war, both sides
Subject(s): Cambodia; Communism; Poetry And Poets; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War


BALLAD OF LENIN'S TOMB, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the yarn he told to me
Last Line: To figger out how far
Subject(s): Communism; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia


BLUES FOR WARREN, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The beasts in the schoolroom, whose transparent faces
Last Line: Are beached the spring-tide flowers of our hopes
Subject(s): Communism; Death; North Sea; Politics & Government; Socialism; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War


BRITISH LEFTISH POETRY, 1930-40, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Auden, macneice, day lewis, I have read them all
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Communism; Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry & Poets


BRITISH LEFTISH POETRY, 1930-40, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Auden, macneice, day lewis, I have read them all
Last Line: You cannot light a match on a crumbling wall
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Communism; Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry And Poets


COMMUNISM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my blood flows calm as a purling river
Last Line: That is raging in my soul?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Communism


CULTURAL EVOLUTION; AFTER POPE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When from his cave, young mao in his youthful mind
Last Line: Marx and confucius turned out much the same.
Subject(s): China; Communism; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


CULTURAL NOTES, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Professor burke's symphony, colorado vistas
Last Line: The question is, what about karl marx?
Subject(s): Communism


CULTURAL NOTES, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Professor burke's symphony, colorado vistas
Last Line: Shut your trap, you. The question is, what about karl marx?
Subject(s): Communism


DISTANCES, by OTTO-RENE CASTILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1935 hitler said
Last Line: The important thing: %to give it as it must be given!
Subject(s): Communism


FAREWELL BEFORE DAWN, by NAKANO SHIGEHARU    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have our work
Last Line: All, at once, savagely
Subject(s): Communism


FOR ETHEL ROSENBERG, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Europe 1953: / throughout my random sleepwalk
Last Line: With secrets she has never sold
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Capital Punishment; Communism; Mccarthyism; Rosenberg Case; Nuclear Freeze; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius


FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the corn singing millennium!
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Communism


GARLAND FOR A PROPAGANDIST, by TED PAUKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In good old stalin's early days
Last Line: Whichever way its line may twist %I'll be a party hack, sir!
Subject(s): Communism; Russia - Stalin Era


GOODBYE CHRIST, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, christ %you did alright in your day, I reckon --
Last Line: To a king, or a general, %or a millionaire
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Communism; Racism; Religion


GROUP CHANT AGAINST COMMUNISM, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down %down
Subject(s): Communism


HARRY POLLITT WAS A BOLSHIE, ONE OF LENIN'S LADS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: He's just been made the people's commissar of soviet hell
Subject(s): Communism; Pollitt, Harry (1890-1960)


HEADACHES, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is beautiful to be communist,
Subject(s): Communism


HEART OF DARKNESS ADAPTED FROM JOSEPH CONRAD, by HEINER MULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the hard-currency-bar of the hotel metropol
Last Line: The horror the horror the horror
Subject(s): Communism; Germany


HISTOIRE, by HARRY MATHEWS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tina and seth met in the midst of an overcrowded militarism
Subject(s): Communism; Love - Erotic; Fascism & Fascists


HISTOIRE, by HARRY MATHEWS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tina and seth met in the midst of an overcrowded militarism
Last Line: Until, gasping with appreciate racism, both together sink into the revealed glory of sexism
Subject(s): Communism; Erotic Love; Fascism And Fascists


I AM A RED SLOGAN, by RICHARD WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All power to the soviets!
Subject(s): Communism; Social Protest


IMAGERIE D'EPINAL, by ALEKSANDER WAT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The executioner yawned. The blood was still dripping from his axe
Last Line: Happiness for all--to enemies death.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Communism


JOE HILL LISTENS TO THE PRAYING, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the steady rifles, joe
Last Line: To make songs with.
Subject(s): Communism; Hill, Joe (1879-1915); Labor Unions; Social Protest; Hillstrom, Joseph; Hagglund, Joel


KENNEDY, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One late afternoon I hitched from galway down to kinvara on the edge
Last Line: The sunlight, and holy ireland all all asleep, while the grand brave %light of day held darkness bac
Subject(s): Communism; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


KRAL MAJALES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses
Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism


KRAL MAJALES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses
Last Line: Thus I have written this poem on a jet seat in mid heaven
Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism


LITTLE CHILDREN, by MICHAEL GOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sadly through the factory doors
Subject(s): Communism; Labor And Laborers; Religion


LURID LIVES: A CHICAGO RED (IN A GRAIN ELEVATOR), by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've got the sack, have I, and I can go?
Last Line: So bloated with the fat of food and fortune!
Subject(s): Communism; Money; Nations


MARX AND ENGELS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Them two panacea guys
Last Line: At the time of his debut
Subject(s): Communism; Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895); Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


MARX AND ENGELS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Them two panacea guys
Last Line: Maybe none but you and me
Subject(s): Communism; Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895); Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


MY NEIGHBOR, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has a rather plain wife
Last Line: Now he's in prison: %he's also a communist, so they say
Subject(s): Communism; El Salvador


MY TRIBE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My tribe %does not hear
Last Line: Turns around %and falls asleep
Subject(s): Communism


ODE TO WALT WHITMAN, by MICHAEL GOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walt whitman loafed under the trees
Last Line: Where walt whitman's america %arches, to be born
Subject(s): Communism; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


ON COMMUNISTS; EPIGRAM, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a communist? One who hath yearnings
Last Line: To fork out his penny, and pocket your shilling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Communism


PALACE BURNER (PARIS, 1871); A PICTURE IN A NEWSPAPER, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She has been burning palaces. 'to see
Last Line: A being finer than my soul, I fear
Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah
Variant Title(s): The Palace-burne
Subject(s): Communism; Paris, France


PLANNERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plough, star, sickle, hammer
Last Line: Five men plan damage
Subject(s): Communism; Drinks And Drinking; Protest, Social


PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, MILITANT COMMUNIST, by JORGE TEILLIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On winter afternoons %when a mistaken sun gropes
Last Line: In towns that look like pebbles or flushed quail
Subject(s): Communism; Heroism; Memory; Military; Revolutions


PROGRESS, by GEORGE ROBERT ACWORTH CONQUEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a great marxist called lenin
Last Line: That grand old marxist stalin did ten in
Subject(s): Communism; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


SONG TO FIDEL, by ERNESTO GUEVARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You said the sun would rise
Last Line: Nothing more
Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Communism; Cubism; Guerrillas; Latin America - History; Militarism


SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE, by RAFAEL ALBERTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the old families close the windows
Subject(s): Communism; Europe


STATE WILL BE SERVED EVEN BY POETS, by JULIAN BECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The breast of all the women crumbled like gas bags when
Last Line: Even to death
Subject(s): Communism; Poetry And Poets


STRANGE FUNERAL IN BRADDOCK, by MICHAEL GOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen to the mournful drums of a strange funeral
Last Line: Listen to the story of a strange american funeral
Subject(s): Communism; Labor And Laborers; Poverty; Social Protest


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#14), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under communism, the dead man's poems were passed around hand-to-hand
Last Line: You have only to believe in the past
Subject(s): Death; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-18665); Communism


THE MIGRATION OF CITIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We love paris
Last Line: Ports where the red flag has secretly flown for years.
Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Communism; Florence, Italy; Paris, France; Socialism; Urban Life


THE OLD CHIMAERAS, OLD RECEIPTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By my old master's feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Communism; Social Commentaries


THE SOVIET, by LOUISE WINDSOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: They say the state is all
Last Line: The state, their all in all.
Subject(s): Communism; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THINGS THEY SAY, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marxismo-leninismo is a rock
Subject(s): Communism


THIRD DEGREE, by MICHAEL GOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Five strong detectives are in a cell
Subject(s): Communism; Labor And Laborers


TROUT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ate trout in ohrid, then squatted
Last Line: Then sun shines at the head of the table %directly into the face of gods and animals
Subject(s): Communism


TWO POEMS ON URBAN BUSES: 2. ELEMENTAL MARXISM, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is an idealist who defines a bus as an automotive vehicle
Last Line: Has on things and their human uses
Subject(s): Buses; Cities; Communism


WALLED IN ALIVE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Communists use the same chairs, the same
Last Line: This were the same sort of death as ours
Subject(s): Communism


WHERE ENGLES FEARS TO TREAD (THIRTIES POETRY), SELS., by CYRIL VERNON CONNOLLY                       
Subject(s): Communism


WHY I CHOOSE BLACK MEN FOR MY LOVERS, by LA LOCA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Acid today is trendy entertainment
Last Line: No wonder malcolm called them devils
Subject(s): African Americans; Communism; Growth; Guevara, Ernesto (che) (1928-1967); Youth


YOU'LL DRINK YOU'RE ORANGE JUICE AND LIKE IT, COMRADE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a cyprus citrus surplus
Last Line: Now on cyprus they're all reading %victory, by joseph comrade
Subject(s): Communism; Cyprus; Russia