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| Searching... Subject: DRIVING & DRIVERS Matches Found: 44 A CAPPELLA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five days of driving with no voices Last Line: Earth to the contour of its eloquence. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips AFTER TWELVE DAYS OF RAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't name it, the sweet Last Line: And smiled back. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Self-reliance; Solitude; Loneliness BLIND CURSE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You could drive blind Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Nature BOB CRUIKSHANKS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is what bob cruikshanks said Last Line: As he leant against the driving-wheel. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Railroads; Railways; Trains DESPERADOS, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were desperate. No, we were beyond desperation Subject(s): Driving & Drivers DIRECTIONS FOR CARRYING EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR WASTES THROUGH ..., by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the long island expressway at brookhaven Last Line: And look out for the crazies. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Nuclear Waste; Trucks & Trucking; Nuclear Freeze; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight DRIVING HOME, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wheels keep pulling Last Line: It may not carry me much longer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Night; Roads; Bedtime; Paths; Trails DRIVING INTO LARAMIE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out here sheer force of sky bearing down Last Line: That god is impressed above all by defiance Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Oregon; Religion; Dead, The; Theology DRIVING NORTH FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We cross the sleeping water onyje san rafael bridge Subject(s): Driving & Drivers DRIVING THROUGH OHIO, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We slewpt that night in delaware, ohio Subject(s): Driving & Drivers DRIVING TOWARD THE LAC QUI PARLE RIVER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am driving; it is dusk; minnesota. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Minnesota; Rivers DRIVING WEST IN 1970, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear children, do you remember the morning Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Memory; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States ENCOUNTERING THE DEAD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With my father it happened driving Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Fathers; Death; Dead, The EVERYBODY AND HIS UNCLE, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was waiting to happen. Subject(s): Family Life; Driving & Drivers; Relatives FINDING WHAT'S LOST, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the poem my daughter reminds me Last Line: Like an orange flower over the gravel street. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Loss; Mothers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets HAZARDS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Whenever I walk in a new york street Last Line: The driving is safer there after it's dark. Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Cars; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HER CHERRY-TREE ABLOOM, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: I mind the jauntin'-cars a jinglin' Last Line: Roun' my lone, wee room! Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cherry Trees; Driving & Drivers; Memory HOW THE WINNING FOUR WEST HOME, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Superb in pride we strained upon the golden chariot-pole Last Line: Though slumber takes us—still they talk low-whispering in the ilex walk! Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Collective Behavior; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Games; Victory; Mobs; Crowds; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements I KNOW A MAN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As I sd to my Subject(s): Friendship; Driving & Drivers JOSEPH'S REFORM (A TALE OF THE HOT DOG TAVERN), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was just a gay young buck, I piloted a heavy truck Last Line: "I never use such language, but it warms my heart to hear it." Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Reformation; Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight KEEP DRIVING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Atsuko / steering her smooth burgundy car Last Line: Leave. Subject(s): Cities; Driving & Drivers; Japan; Streets; Urban Life; Japanese; Avenues LAY OF THE MOTOR-CAR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're away! And the wind whistles shrewd Last Line: That stuff on the wheel? Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Cars; Paths; Trails MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 5. SPEAKING OF DRIVING, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not mind your telling me Last Line: Damn it, my dear—as well as you can. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers MAUD MULLER A-WHEEL, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Maud muller, on a summer's day Last Line: Be not allowed to block the way! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Household Employees; Social Classes; Wheels; Cars; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste PARADISE LOST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I sat at the wheel of the fire chief's car Last Line: At the wheel of the fire chief's car. Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Firefighters; Labor & Laborers; Wheels; Cars; Work; Workers PROMISING AUTHOR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Driving on the road to stinson beach Last Line: Who wept for mercy as you died. Subject(s): Disappointment; Driving & Drivers; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism ROAD LAW, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drive a ford or a packard six Last Line: "a load of stone has the right of way." Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Traffic; Cars; Urban Life; Paths; Trails SECOND DIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet's Biography First Line: In savoy heights, two dark men stand, faced Last Line: The only eyes that see her stare back in the rearview glass Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Night SINGING BACK THE WORLD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember how it began Last Line: The trouble I've seen. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Forgetfulness; Music & Musicians STEPPING ON IT, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: At a bad corner of the street Last Line: Honk! Brakes! Meet! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Streets; Cars; Avenues STRIKE OF THE LONDON CABMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Here's a great and glorious row Last Line: All through the strike of the cabmen Subject(s): Driving & Drivers;labor Unions;london;strikes; Labor Disputes;lockouts THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE ROAD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are roads to take when you think of your country Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Travel; Roads; Journeys; Trips; Paths; Trails THE HIGHWAY DEATH TOLL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The highway's edge / of unmalicious deaths Last Line: If I'd turned it off before I might have heard. Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Fathers; Popes; Dead, The; Papacy THE HONKER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pests among drivers are many and various Last Line: Honking his damnable horn! Subject(s): Driving & Drivers THE POOR MAN'S AUTOMOBILE, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day's stint is finished, and master and man Last Line: But I doubt if a nabob is gayer than we. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Travel; Wheels; Cars; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE RACING CARS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great cars careening come roaring round the curve Last Line: Throbbed away through chaos that claimed the dragon breed! Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Sports; Race Car Driving THE VISION TEST, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My driver's license is lapsing and so I appear Last Line: For normal people who know where they want to go Subject(s): Literary Form; Examinations; Vision; Driving & Drivers THE WORM TURNS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can drive an old hunk of scrap-iron and junk Last Line: The bozos who yell at my ford! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Ford Motor Company; Cars TRAFFIC, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON Poem Text First Line: The cyclops blinks - his eye glows red Last Line: Eye looks down! Subject(s): Driving & Drivers WHAT COULD HAPPEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noon. A stale saturday. The hills Last Line: Beyond that shadowy nest of red madrones. Subject(s): Decay; Driving & Drivers; Towns; Women; Rot; Decadence WHEN PAPA DRIVES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old sorrel straightens up her ears Last Line: When papa takes the reins! Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Fathers WHEN THE FOLKS COME ALONG, by FREDERICK L. ALLEN Poem Text First Line: I like to go driving alone in the flivver Last Line: -- oh, why must my folks come along. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Parents; Parenthood WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO WARM, THE BOYS DRIVE SHIRTLESS, by MARY JO BANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their cigarettes wasting to nought Last Line: And trembling, death and the endless expanse Subject(s): Change; Driving & Drivers; Weather WHILE DRIVING NORTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet's Biography First Line: Note: when I drive alone Last Line: Literature the same Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Solitude; Poetry & Poets |
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