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Subject: DRIVING & DRIVERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Note: when I drive alone
Last Line: Literature the same
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Solitude; Poetry & Poets