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Subject: GRAFFITI
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOUT GRAFFITI, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Graffiti is the writing on the wall
Last Line: Soon garffiti will wade into jo'burg %unhampered by the tourniquet of influx control
Subject(s): Graffiti; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


APHRODITE METROPOLIS (1), by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Myrtle loves harry' - it is sometimes hard
Last Line: They live somewhere
Subject(s): Graffiti


APHRODITE METROPOLIS (1), by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Myrtle loves harry' - it is sometimes hard
Subject(s): Graffiti


EDEN SAYS NO; GRAFFITI IN EDEN VILLAGE, COUNTY ANTRIM, by ROBERT JOHNSTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a people favoured by the almighty
Last Line: Within these walls fruit shall never grow %because eden will always say no
Subject(s): Civilization; Graffiti


GRAFFITI, by JUDITH BARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Warm rain light in my face and
Subject(s): Graffiti


GRAFFITI, by BEN BELITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There, in my vandal's dream
Last Line: Savannahs, the alexandrian libraries re-arise from the flames %and the whole of the canon be one
Subject(s): Graffiti


GRAFFITI, by SUKANTA BHATTACHARYA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On wall after wall, %as I please
Last Line: The wick, %sobbing, %says to the dark: %I am no longer %for burning
Subject(s): Graffiti


GRAFFITI, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The new york public library at one's back
Subject(s): Graffiti


GRAFFITI, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rock 'n roll
Last Line: Be artistic %fuck you
Subject(s): Graffiti


GRAFFITI, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near the dayton avenue signal tower
Last Line: Three smooth strokes and he's gone.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Graffiti


GRAFFITI, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tend to the underground, the underworld
Subject(s): Graffiti


GRAFFITI, by PHILIP R. ST. CLAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meant to be seen from a moving train, these starbursts on urban landscapes
Last Line: On our brief aliases, order the rest of our lives
Subject(s): Graffiti; Railroads


GRAFFITI, by DOUGLAS M. TEDARDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stop the violence %in day-glo paint
Last Line: I too am opposed %to violence
Subject(s): Graffiti


GRAFFITI IN TIMES SQUARE SUBWAY, by HELEN BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: They won't last, as those in %pompeii did
Last Line: At the train's passing, simply said %manandgod
Subject(s): Graffiti; New York City


IN DEFENSE OF GRAFFITI, by JASON LABBE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You don't see them glide cool nights across a sidewalk, along a
Last Line: Kalamazoo, and paris, for true fame: a self-given name popping %out of the backdrop
Subject(s): Colors; Graffiti; Paintings And Painters


KILROY WAS HERE, by PETER VIERECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Also ulysses once - that other war
Subject(s): Graffiti; World War Ii


LEGENDS OF LOCAL GRAFFITI, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even now I expect reason when I say
Last Line: Name them the names that soothe our constricted animal hearts
Subject(s): Graffiti


MEN'S ROOM IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in the most unchristian basement
Last Line: Returning, masterless and twisting
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Graffiti; Hate


MESSENGER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone has been painting
Subject(s): Advertising; Graffiti; Letters; Messages & Messengers; Paintings & Painters


OBSERVING A VULGAR NAME ON THE PLINTH OF AN ANCIENT STATUE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Barbarians must we always be?
Last Line: Let britons paint their bodies blue %as formerly, but touch not you
Subject(s): Graffiti; Sculpture And Sculptors


SUNNY PRESTATYN, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to sunny prestatyn
Subject(s): Graffiti


SUNNY PRESTATYN, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to sunny prestatyn
Last Line: Very soon, a great transverse tear %left only a hand and some blue. %now fight cancer is there
Subject(s): Graffiti