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| Searching... Subject: COMMUTERS Matches Found: 65 A RAILROAD YARD AT NIGHT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Faint forms of giant buildings in the night Last Line: Gleaming of silver underneath the stars. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Traffic; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips AETHER, by MALENA MORLING Poem Source First Line: On the train home at dusk Last Line: A dream that takes no room %unfolds on this earth Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads AT THE INTERSECTION, by ANDREA HENY Poem Source First Line: At seven, the all-night greyhound reaches the city Last Line: Would it surprise you if she broke out laughing? Subject(s): Commuters; Greyhounds; Traffic; Travel BIG-LITTLE TOWN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Next time you ride to the airport Last Line: So much, learned so much, done %so much for others? Rejoice. Subject(s): Air Travel; Commuters; Nome, Alaska; Towns; Travel BUSINESS GIRLS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the geyser ventilators Last Line: Trolley-bus and windy street! Subject(s): Commuters; Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips CITY, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I set out through september, on the road to the splendor of Last Line: Loved to place a diadem upon its head Subject(s): Cities; Commuters; Love; Travel COMMUTER, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many times have I traveled Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Railways; Trains COMMUTER, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many times have I traveled Last Line: Into the dark station Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads COMMUTER, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Commuter - one who spends his life Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; United States; Railways; Trains; America COMMUTER, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Commuter - one who spends his life Last Line: And rides back to shave again Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; United States COMMUTER'S LOG, by ART HOMER Poem Source First Line: Eighty miles of fog and moonlight Subject(s): Commuters COMMUTERS, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's that vague feeling of panic Subject(s): Commuters COMMUTERS, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's that vague feeling of panic Last Line: Seem to float under green water %and the streets fill up with sea lights Subject(s): Commuters COMMUTERS, by ADELE M. RYERSON Poem Text First Line: They faintly smile or weakly grin Last Line: "of knowing they have to return on the ""5:15"" train." Subject(s): Commuters; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips COMMUTING, by JULIE DEARBORN Poem Source First Line: Get back on the muni. Don't forget your umbrella, it looks like rain. If Last Line: Gently back towards the window Subject(s): Buses; Commuters CONSECRATION, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man in the yellow hard hat, Subject(s): Cranes (machines); Home; Commuters; Nostalgia DEEP IN THE WESTERN SUBURBS, by JOEL FRIEDERICH Poem Source First Line: Autumnal moths rose Last Line: A collection of raw thirsts Subject(s): Commuters; Railroad Stations; Travel DOWN CENTRAL AVENUE, by MARK COLASURDO Poem Source First Line: The ghosts wail fast and furious here Last Line: Down central avenue Subject(s): Cities; Commuters DRILL, by MARK TAKSA Poem Source First Line: A protester shoves a pamphlet Last Line: You stare as if he were a sliver %you must throw into the furnace Subject(s): Commuters; Life EARLY MORNING WEATHER, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The rain makes me conjure a lover Last Line: Jubilant in wet edge light Subject(s): Commuters; Love; Railroads; Romance; Travel ENCRYPTED, by ANTHONY SEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I find myself each evening, while commuting on the freeway, or when the blue Last Line: Parties and diners, their salesmen crying hysterically in motel rooms, the deafening %hiss of prayer Subject(s): Commuters; Conversation; Neighbors FAR-AWAY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When seated in my easy chair Last Line: Lost in the southern sea. Subject(s): Commuters; Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Parting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips FEBRUARY THAW, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: A cabbie gets out of his cab in the breezeway at penn Last Line: Today, and the police are using grappling hooks in &hopes of finding the bodies Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Travel GETTING THERE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With a man who carries roses, a bundle of cut Last Line: As we ride in silence the rest of the way home Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Flowers; Love; Roses GOD SHED HIS GRACE, by PHILIP STEPHENS Poem Source First Line: I struggled to read homer in translation Last Line: But faintly, I could hear a woman humming Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Religion HOT DAY, by STEVE EFFINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Downtown l.A. 5th street off main back behind greyhound station Last Line: Cop car moves slowly down street Subject(s): Commuters; Greyhounds; Los Angeles; Travel JERSEY TRANSIT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That black woman with the extraordinary earrings Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Social Commentaries; Railways; Trains KETCHIN' RIDES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm awful fond of ketchin' rides Last Line: A place fer ketchin' on behind. Subject(s): Children; Commuters; Childhood LATE NIGHT BUS TO SILVER SPRING, by SUNIL FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: Any closer and I'd be nuzzling her breasts Last Line: Half-blush-then look away Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Commuters; Night LINE 471 DOWNTOWN LA, by SUE CAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Her breasts %were inverted Last Line: The jingle of bus money %in my pocket Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Los Angeles; Travel METRO, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: There are platforms platforms all over the earth Last Line: They come from one planet, one planet, one. %slappity-slap. Over and out Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Commuters; Prisons And Prisoners; Railroads; Travel NATURALIZED CITIZEN, SELS., by CAROL J. PIERMAN Poem Source First Line: You take the e train uptown to the modern. You are metinlg your lover Last Line: Marks time. The kid stands there, his back to you. If he comes, you can't %tell Subject(s): Commuters; New York City NURSING MOTHER ON THE DORCHESTER-HARVARD TRAIN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN Poem Source First Line: It's good to leave the south end if only for a day. Good to trust where Last Line: Rocking of the train? Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Roxbury, Massachusetts; Subways; Travel ON BELMONT, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: Watch it! Brother, he said, who had come up beside me without my Last Line: Everybody like me Subject(s): Cities; Commuters; Danger; Streets OSLOBODJENJE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The first year of the siege Last Line: And there were many days without bread Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Tourists; Travel PASSENGER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This one on the platform Last Line: She boards with an assault motion. Subject(s): Commuters; Travel; Journeys; Trips PRAIRIE GREYHOUNDS; C.P.R. 'NO. 1, WESTBOUND', by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I swing to the sunset land Last Line: That open alone to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Commuters; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains RAINY SUNDAY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft, grey garment of the rushing rain Last Line: The mother throned serene amid the rest. Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Rain; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues RECEPTIONIST'S COMMUTE, by JODY ZORGDRAGER Poem Source First Line: Sheer without fear %is what the nude Last Line: Believe that it's you %he sees straight through Subject(s): Advertising; Commuters; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); Roads; Signs And Signboards ROSES IN THE SUBWAY, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wan-cheeked girl with faded eyes Last Line: My mother ... Stooping down. Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple RUSH HOUR, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That tall, shapely blond standing at her husband's side Last Line: We will not talk to one another. Subject(s): Commuters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RUSH HOUR, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Odd, the baby's scabbed face peeking over Last Line: Its motion that would begin like a blessing. Subject(s): Commuters; Travel; Journeys; Trips S .. TALK ON THE VENICE BLVD. BUS HEADING EAST ONE SUMMER, by AKILAH NAYO OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Bus stop one I am on the bus Last Line: And tapped the briefcase %he did own Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Travel S/HE, IN THE MIRROR, by RACHAEL BECK Poem Source First Line: Waiting for the elevator, polishing my pear Last Line: Make our bows to each other, %head our separate ways Subject(s): Commuters; Fruit SAIDA, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Your body, turning lightly in bed Last Line: A unicorn cutting his flesh on the coral Subject(s): Commuters; Sea; Ships And Shipping; Tourists; Travel SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: This lonely angular man in railway stations Last Line: And the catch of the station clock flips over Subject(s): Commuters; Florence, Italy; Railroads; Tourists; Travel STAYING, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: Wherever night overtakes her Last Line: Migrating through the balckened keys Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Travel SUBWAY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There slouched the drunk, head fallen Subject(s): Commuters; Surprise SUBWAY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sorry, she would say Last Line: In the sober spirit of the ride. Subject(s): Commuters; Surprise SUBWAY TRACK-WALKERS, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are ye hopeless who go with dull faces Last Line: That I may ride to my true love to-day? Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Railroads; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains THE 5:42, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilac, violet, and rose Last Line: The conjoined beatitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Commuters THE COMMUTER, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would enjoy the mornings bright Subject(s): Commuters THE GATEWAY, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: What rome in sheer abandonment of pride Last Line: Glad millions press to life's exultant noon! Subject(s): Commuters; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THREE VIEWS OF THE YOKOHAMA LINE, by JOEL FRIEDERICH Poem Source First Line: Dwelling in corners, in the ashes Last Line: Of the world's unattainable contours Subject(s): Cities; Commuters; Travel TRAIN, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Train skims fields like a low-flying Last Line: As weeds beside the rail bed Subject(s): Commuters; Home; Railroads; Roads; Travel TRAIN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: He was never really sure why he had taken that train. He Last Line: And along with the hangover would come the certainty that no station %would ever be his Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Commuters; Grief; Railroads TRAIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I take a trip Last Line: We're gone in a flash! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Commuters; Love - Complaints; Railroads; Women TRAIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On any trip I take Last Line: We streak in a lightning bolt! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Travel TRAIN TRAVEL, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Early morning rises off the fields Last Line: Where in the end are the worlds we leave behind Subject(s): Commuters; Explorers; Railroads; Travel TRAIN WILL BE AT LEAST AN HOUR LATE, by SANDRO PENNA Poem Source Last Line: Are sole masters of the hour Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Travel TRAIN WINDOW GOING AND COMING, SELS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ride backwards to see what I'm missing Last Line: I look forward to going back, either way Subject(s): Commuters; Fields; Nature; Railroads; Tourists; Travel UNION PACIFIC, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: They've promised me Last Line: And he will again feel on his skin, %on his tongue, %in his throat, %the sweet ashes %of the union p Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads VESPER SONG FOR COMMUTERS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are kind to marathon Last Line: On time, at 6:15! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Commuters WOMAN WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FACE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: She begs in the bus station Last Line: To persuade her to move away Subject(s): Commuters; Geography; Pain; Travel YOUNGEST / PURPLEST BUM, by STEVE EFFINGHAM Poem Source Last Line: Sparkled beneath the sunshine Subject(s): Accidents; Ambulances; Blood; Commuters |
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