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| Searching... Subject: DRUGS & DRUG ABUSE Matches Found: 52 A POEM FOR VIPERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in lees. At 11:40 pm with Last Line: Under the coats of their tongue Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse A SONNET TO OPIUM; CELEBRATING ITS VIRTUES, by ORESTES [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Soul-soothing drug! Your virtues let me laud Last Line: When maddening rapture goads to my vice my throbbing sense Alternate Author Name(s): Orestes Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse;poetry & Poets AN OPIUM FANTASY, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft hangs the opiate in the brain Last Line: "ring into golden bowls." Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Fantasy; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin AUDEN, by TONY HOAGLAND Poet's Biography First Line: Nicotine, caffeine, amphetamine - these Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin BROKEN GIRL, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seconal and wine I lived on the street Subject(s): Alcoholics & Alcoholism; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Substance Abuse Recovery; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin CANARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday's burned voice Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Songs COCAINE, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For I have seen love Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin COCAINE LIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Did you ever hear about cocaine lil? Last Line: "on her headstone you'll find this refrain: / 'she died as shelived, sniffing cocaine'" Variant Title(s): Cocaine Lil And Morphine Sue Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse COOPER SQUARE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother on long island buys her son Last Line: And beg beyond all affluence. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple CRUELTY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Text First Line: Because we were all sweaty Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Cruelty; Death; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Impotence; Dead, The DESTINY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am eating cold chinese Last Line: I love you. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts DIGGER, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you believe I went to college? Yeah, Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Prisons & Prisoners; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Convicts ELVIN'S BLUES, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet's Biography First Line: Sniffed, dilating my nostrils Last Line: With only itself to love Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Sex; Jones, Elvin (1927-2004); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin GREEN SEES THINGS IN WAVES, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin HELLO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello, drug addict, can you become a poem of perfect form? Last Line: Your napalmed brain and drug-addicted body Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries; War; Drugs & Drug Abuse HEROIN, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine spring's thaw, your brother said Last Line: To the strenuous work of vanishing Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Hallucinations & Illusions; Needles; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin HISTORIOGRAPHY, by LORENZO THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The junkies loved charles parker and the sports Last Line: 1974). Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin IN PRAISE OF LAUDANUM, by WILLIAM HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel, o laudanum, thy power divine Last Line: And everything but mira is forgot. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Pleasure; Praise; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin JEREMIAD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After a night of opium and alcohol, edgar poe Last Line: As they sometimes will in baltimore. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating; Hallucinations & Illusions; Parks; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin LAUDANUM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where somnus' temple rises from a ground Last Line: "and lest, great sirs, to you it should extend, / command your sleepy poet to descend" Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse;orphans;poetry & Poets; Foundlings LETTERS TO YESENIN: 20, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mushrooms helped again: walking hangdoggedly to the granary Last Line: Skips in the noose like a marlin bait. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin LINES TO ACCOMPANY FLOWERS FOR EVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea Last Line: Though once we lay and waited for a death. Subject(s): Cities; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Flowers; Hospitals; Women; Women's Rights; Urban Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Feminism LUNAR BAEDEKER, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A silver lucifer Last Line: Waxes and wanes Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nightmares; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin MOTHER JUNKIE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has the shakes, thinks she's gonna die Last Line: To the east river, five blocks away Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Medicine; Substance Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Drugs, Prescription; Addictive Behavior NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SAINT-CLOUD; AFTER ROUSSEAU, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A swollen infant under a tree, rose petals Last Line: Equal to childhood, throughout the kingdoms of the east. Subject(s): Babies; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Paintings & Painters; Rousseau, Theodore (1812-1867); Infants; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin NEEDLE THREADER IN NEED OF A NEEDLE, by DARA WIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tincture of morphine, tincture of so-forth blue hazarding Last Line: To wear, nearby a llama stepping into its pajamas Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse O.D., by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was surprised to find them Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Music & Musicians; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin OPIUM HARVEST, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High up in hollow valleys where dim lakes Last Line: Round the wide world in bales of solid sleep. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin PIPE DREAMS: 1, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Admit me, wah, and light at least three lamps Last Line: Your shelter, wah, ere he could get me jailed! Subject(s): Dreams; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nightmares PROLOGUE, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In winter’s spider-eyed light strung through steam grates, the Last Line: Lover boy & philly boy. Wanna-be’s and gonna-be’s Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature RED HILLS AND SKY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother is dirt and I am desert Last Line: Tell me who has not been quieted by this. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Deserts; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating RIGHT NOW, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mind assumes the position Last Line: You could lose in a heartbeat Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin ROOM 7: THE COCO-FIEND, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look at no one, me Last Line: Cocaine! . . . Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Paris, France SILVER SLUR, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing stays attached to what I saw Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Sex; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin SLEEP, by VIRGINIA MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is quick-sand in sleep, and quick-silver Last Line: In a coffin of temporal sand. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Sleep; Dead, The SOMEWHERE HOLY, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are places in this world where Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin SUMMER WORDS FOR A SISTER ADDICT, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first day I shot dope Last Line: And we all sing Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Drugs & Drug Abuse THE ADDICT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepmonger / deathmonger Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; God; Religion; Suicide; Theology THE BLACK RIVIERA, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There they are again. It's after dark. Last Line: So insular, so quiet, it enters the earth Subject(s): Youth; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE BUS STOPPED IN FIELDS OF MISDEMEANOR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know why they turn the irrigation Last Line: And I am of the enemy. And we are legion. Subject(s): Death; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE CALIFORNIA CRACK, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She didn't know he was so shook Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE GARLAND OF SLEEP, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wreath of poppy flowers Last Line: As if it were a tomb. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Poppies; Sleep; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE HASCHISH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all that orient lands can vaunt Last Line: Is powerless to our western cotton! Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Slavery; Serfs THE OPIUM-EATER (AFTER TAKING A DOSE), by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Now I sit in bowers of bliss Last Line: I know I'll never weep again! Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE OPIUM-EATER (BEFORE TAKING A DOSE), by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life's pathway to me is dreary Last Line: A moment's rest, and peace of mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE OPIUM-SMOKER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am engulfed, and drown deliciously Last Line: This soul at pawn and this delirious heart. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse THE STORY OF RICHARD MAXFIELD, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He jumped out of a window Subject(s): Maxfield, Richard (1927-1969); Composers; Suicide; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE THREAT, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother pushed my sister out of the apartment door with an empty Subject(s): Family Life; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Relatives; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin TO OPIUM, by MARIA LOGAN Poem Text First Line: Let others boast the golden spoil Last Line: Admiring, own thy pow'r! Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin WHITE LADY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wants my son Last Line: To own our own at last Variant Title(s): White Lady; Street Name For Cocaine Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin WILLIE THE WEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Listen to the story of willie the weeper Last Line: "and dreaming he's dead, he'll forget to wake" Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse WITH A BOTTLE OF BLUE NUN TO ALL MY FRIENDS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters, / the blue nun has eloped with one Last Line: It's that simple. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Change; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nuns; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin |
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