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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's that vague feeling of panic
Subject(s): Commuters


COMMUTERS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There slouched the drunk, head fallen
Subject(s): Commuters; Surprise


SUBWAY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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