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Subject: GENOCIDE
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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