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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GENOCIDE Matches Found: 15 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARMENIA, A.D. 1894-5, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead by their ravaged fields Last Line: And make the desert blossom as the rose! Subject(s): Armenia; Genocide COUNTRY OF DUST, by VAHAN TEKEYAN Poem Source First Line: Small. Miniaturized, yet you insist Last Line: Rises like the sun. Accumulate. Dust consolidates into stone Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918 DANCE, by ADOM YARJANIAN Poem Source First Line: In a field of cinders where armenians Last Line: And asked: 'how can I dig out my eyes, %how can I dig, tell me? Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918 DREAM, by VAHAN TEKEYAN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed the heavy sky suddenly opened a gate Last Line: A wolf slinking off, surprised, to see his victims again Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918 ELEGY TO THE SIOUX, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vase was made of clay Last Line: Out of the sky into montana... Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America EXPLICATION, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Waiting behind barbed wire Last Line: Smoke above the arms of trees Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Czechoslovakia; Genocide FORGETTING, by VAHAN TEKEYAN Poem Source First Line: Forgetting. Yes, I will forget it all Last Line: Or should I say good dark? Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918 GENOCIDE, by LOIS DELEON-MILLER Poem Source First Line: Black men %white women %mismatched children Last Line: Black women %white men %planned parenthood Subject(s): Genocide GRIEF, by ADOM YARJANIAN Poem Source First Line: You, stranger, soul-mate Last Line: Will be extinquished %by the whisphers of your clear soul Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918 IN PRAISE OF NECESSITY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nostalgia of old men Last Line: That makes dead meat of the years Subject(s): Genocide; Native Americans; Progress; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MEASURES TAKEN, by ERICH FRIED Poem Source First Line: The lazy are slaughtered Last Line: The world grows good Subject(s): Genocide PRAYER ON THE THRESHOLD OF TOMORROW, by VAHAN TEKEYAN Poem Source First Line: Look. New sprouts push through the fields Last Line: No single branch fall Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918 THE DESERT DEPORTATION OF 1915, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our dead fathers came down to us in the river Last Line: From the dead. Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918; Death; Funerals; Girls; Graves; Salvation; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones VIET-NAM ADDENDA, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genocide doesn't only mean bombs Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Genocide VIET-NAM ADDENDA, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genocide doesn't only mean bombs Last Line: To turn their hands %against us Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Genocide |
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