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Subject: DANGER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing happened after. For three days
Subject(s): Danger; Escapes; Fugitives


ALERT, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midnight %in the garden
Last Line: How can the stars in the pond be put out
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Bombs; Danger; Paris, France


CLIMBING A TREE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter's red-winged kite is stuck in the branches
Last Line: Begins down here on dangerous grassland
Subject(s): Danger; Trees


CLIMBING A TREE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter's red-winged kite is stuck in the branches
Last Line: Begins down here on dangerous grassland
Subject(s): Danger; Trees


CROSSING THE BAR', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the moaning bar
Last Line: Returning safe from sea
Subject(s): Sea; Danger; Survival


ESSAY: THE EARLIEST WORLD, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the tired drones of tv sit
Last Line: The snakes? These are all worlds, gone.
Subject(s): Danger; Mankind; Human Race


HELL 2, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing %can you believe here
Last Line: Oh! These silent streets
Subject(s): Danger; Hell; Human Rights; Silence; Streets; Tyranny And Tyrants


IN THE QUIET AND SOLEMN NIGHT, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bids startled virtue own its power!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Night; Danger


KILLING THE SNAKE ON SUMMER'S CUSP, by CATHRYN HANKLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A thin, spotted teenager-still, the copperhead's
Last Line: I pretend holds back the beasts
Subject(s): Animals; Danger; Poisons And Poisoning; Reptiles; Snakes


KIM'S STORY, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One hundred and sixteen blew up %above the andaman sea. The bomb
Last Line: With a pearl, touching up my mouth, %inventing my perfections
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Danger; Prisons And Prisoners; Terrorism; Women - Captives


LESSON, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I go out to the bars
Last Line: Says you almost %got us killed. Then slaps me, hard
Subject(s): Danger; Fear; Hitchhikers; Learning


LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are afraid
Last Line: Will crash or glide across the sky %as if the sky knows what is written underneath its skin
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Airplane Accidents; Danger; Health; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Travel


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


NIGHTFALL IN SOWETO, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nightfall comes like %a dreaded disease
Last Line: Why can't it be daytime? %daytime for evermore?
Subject(s): Danger; Human Rights; Night; Soweto, South Africa


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


OUR HILL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Teddy and jock and I play on a hill all day
Last Line: But it wouldn't be safe for you!
Subject(s): Children; Climbing; Danger; Mountains; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PERIL AS A POSSESSION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As clean as fire
Subject(s): Danger


PERVERSITY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doctor says that pies are harmful, I
Last Line: Takes a pride in scorning all sorts of danger signs.
Subject(s): Contrariness; Danger


PLAYING IT SAFE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sail not too far to be safe, o licinius!
Last Line: Close to your chest.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Danger; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


SHELTERED FROM HARM, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: With what word should I begin, with what disorder? The
Last Line: The boy, accomplice to the wind, moves on, sheltered from harm
Subject(s): Danger; Houses; Storms; Wind


SNAKES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Knowing nothing about snakes, I fear them all
Last Line: Can easily overwhelm us. %costa rica
Subject(s): Animals; Danger; Death; Poisons And Poisoning; Reptiles; Snakes


STORMING TOWARD A PRECIPICE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A diesel freight truck
Last Line: Is a precipice, no mirage
Subject(s): Trucks & Truckers; Danger


THE MANEATER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: James jimpson has a savage pup, and
Last Line: Or this old world in which we dwell will furnish rocky sledding.
Subject(s): Animals; Danger; Dogs


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 SWORD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A keen-edged sword in somebody's hand
Last Line: For man till he reaches the utmost—god.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Danger; Life; Swords; Weapons; Ammunition


TYPICAL, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Incidents along the way
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Danger; Insects; Travel


VANDAL, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What have you got %asks the stranger in town
Last Line: The road from here %he's already been gone years
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Danger; Vandalism