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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MARKETS Matches Found: 70 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` #3, BEHIND CHATHAM'S SUPERMARKET, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the alley behind chatham's Last Line: What could be a rat moves through the picture Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Markets A FAVOR OF LOVE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for making this sacrifice,' Subject(s): Markets; Accidents; First Aid; Good Samaritan; Supermarkets A GHETTO CATCH, by LELAND DAVIS Poem Text First Line: In forsyth street the peddlers sell you peaches for a Last Line: In forsyth street where peddlers sell you peaches for a penny! Subject(s): Ghettos; Markets; Supermarkets A SELLER OF HERBS (A RHYME OF A BALTIMORE MARKET), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black, comely, of abiding cheer Last Line: And just as full of bees! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Markets; Poetry & Poets; Supermarkets A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets A SUPERMARKET IN TEXAS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have mated an apricot / with a plum, they have cloned Last Line: As god is my witness, or these witnesses my god Subject(s): God; Markets; Miller, Arthur (1915-2005); Supermarkets AIRLINE BREAKFAST, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: For the family, my mother Last Line: I was pleased to arrive still hungry Subject(s): Food And Eating; Guests; Markets AT THE MARKET, by OLIVIER BEETSCHEN Poem Source First Line: The young friday prostitute Last Line: The burnt girl reappears even blacker Subject(s): Markets AUTUMN MARKET, by JEAN V. GIER Poem Source First Line: This market welcomes young and old Last Line: Stored in the market of your mind! Subject(s): Autumn; Markets; Seasons CAULIFLOWER, by JOAN JOBE SMITH Poem Source First Line: At the farmers market yesterday Last Line: Cauliflower. I am too ordinary %for such power Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Markets; Vegetables CHINOOK SQUAW, by BLANCHE DEGOOD LOFTON Poem Text First Line: She stands at sundown, there upon the mountain Last Line: Who buys her wares, buys not alone red berries. Subject(s): Markets; Supermarkets CITY SUPERMARKET, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: Not at all super Last Line: And is sold at usurious prices Subject(s): Inner Cities; Markets; Racism DAYS WITHOUT ALLOY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I sit on market-days amid the comers and the goers Last Line: Then you pull'e haul'e, pull'e haul'e, yoy! Heave, hoy! Subject(s): Markets DELIKAT-ESSEN, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: At the far right of the superstore Last Line: Staining their elegant tuxedoes Subject(s): Grocers; Markets DINAKDAKAN, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: This could be %the supermarket of your dreams Last Line: Shallots for the evening meal Subject(s): Markets FARMER'S MARKET, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Men and women Last Line: Already their hands %turn into vegetables Subject(s): Farm Life; Markets FARMER'S MARKET, by MARILYNNE THOMAS WALTON Poem Source First Line: Outside, back of the mall Last Line: Eat, to take back what the earth gave Subject(s): Farm Life; Markets; Vegetables FISHERMEN, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: In the mantle of dawn dreamy boats Last Line: Branches that flash like a forest Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Markets; Sea FLEA MARKET, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Records freed from their jackets Last Line: How much my mother left me. And how little Subject(s): Flea Markets FLEA MARKET BLUES, by SANDRA MARSHBURN Poem Source First Line: After 3 p.M. We didn't sell much Subject(s): Flea Markets FLEA MARKET IN AUGUST, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the things you don't need Last Line: A little of this, then way too much %of that. Shop till you die Subject(s): Flea Markets FLEAMARKEY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A display of padlocks on a blanket on the sidewalk Last Line: The eye that surveys the dark and sees only itself Subject(s): Flea Markets FOLLIES BURLESQUE, MARKET STREET, KANSAS CITY, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The marquee flashed, the illuminated runway of joy Last Line: And lifting market street into an illuminated runway of joy Subject(s): Kansas; Markets FREE TURKEY-RALPHS SUPERMARKET, NOVEMBER 16, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Is this american, or what? Last Line: Holidays. Twelve pounds of meat and bone: my just reward Subject(s): Americans; Grocers; Holidays; Markets; Thanksgiving Day; Turkeys FROM THE FAIR LAVINIAN SHORE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Though you are threescore years old. Subject(s): Gold; Markets; Retail Trade; Salespersons; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Selling GOD'S ECONOMY, by KARY WAYSON Poem Source First Line: The fish are horrible: %burnt by forst, exhausted with shipment Last Line: The window makes flight %look easy like snow Subject(s): Economics; God; Markets HANDLING FRUIT AT A CALCUTTA MARKET, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: You might have been here before Last Line: The size of a cat for the first time in your life Subject(s): Calcutta, India; Markets IDOLS OF THE MARKET-PLACE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: The pure ideal lives, though vision fail Last Line: The gilded idols of the market-place. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Markets; Supermarkets IN THE LITTLE OLD MARKET-PLACE (TO THE MEMORY OF A.V.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rains, it rains Last Line: From wet dawn to wet dawn... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Markets; Rain; Supermarkets IN THE SUPERMART', by MELISSA HUSEMAN Poem Source Last Line: I fluttered my skirts like the sea Subject(s): Food And Eating; Markets; Sex INARTICULATE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Touching your face, I am like a boy Last Line: In the moment, fulfilled but unable to speak Subject(s): Markets; Shopping; Speech Disorders LET THE MARKET DECIDE, by CARL STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: The market dictates %you to maximize profits Last Line: For the market %to tell you what to do Subject(s): Markets MADONNA OF THE MARKETPLACE, by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Sweet lavender - pray who will buy?' Last Line: Madonna of the marketplace. Subject(s): Markets; Peasantry; Supermarkets MARASCHINO CHERRIES IN THE A&P, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Were in squat, glass bottles, round and red Last Line: And the world was in the reach of my hand Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Markets MARKET, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I have come to the south of france to return Last Line: Demented mists %that I am painting Subject(s): Forests; France; Insomnia; Markets MARKET, by THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS Poem Source First Line: Our parents were thrilled when it reopened Last Line: From our mouths into theirs like snow Subject(s): Markets MARKET DAY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have travelled all this way Subject(s): Markets; France; Supermarkets MEMORY OF DUST AND LIGHT, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: The sun comes up: a day in june. Time sinks Last Line: In the scorching sun %one day in june Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Labor Unions; Markets; Memory; Riots; Strikes MRS. BARKS, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On market days we always call Last Line: And says, 'good-morning, love.' to me Subject(s): Markets MY EXCHANGE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still, the path of the tango was not strewn Last Line: The fallen orders, vermillion petals at my feet Subject(s): Markets MY TEST MARKET, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's fly off to finland, far Last Line: We won't come back. You come too Subject(s): Markets NEWS OF A BULL MARKET, by CLAUDIA GARY ANNIS Poem Source First Line: A financial adviser ot pfizer Last Line: Every man will pop pills as he plies her Subject(s): Capitalists And Financiers; Markets ODE TO THE ADVOCATES FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O philanthropic men!- / for this address I need not make apology Last Line: And that most rare of shows -- a show of gratitude! Subject(s): Markets; Supermarkets PUSHCART ROW, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In rain or shine; in heat or snow Last Line: With selling their wares in shine or snow %on the cobblestones of pushcart row Subject(s): Markets SALESMEN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the town my wares I holler Last Line: There's something lacking in his make-up, he cannot make a sale. Subject(s): Business; Markets; Merchants; Salespersons; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Supermarkets; Selling SATURDAY MARKET, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury your heart in some deep green hollow Last Line: On the top of the kind old tree Subject(s): Markets SELLING SPIEL ON MAXWELL STREET, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This blanket is a tough weave, sir Subject(s): Markets; Supermarkets SELLING SPIEL ON MAXWELL STREET, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This blanket is a tough weave, sir Last Line: Accidental-looking blood spots took ten years, sir Subject(s): Markets SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While a thousand fine projects are planned every day Last Line: Contrive that the poor may have something to eat Subject(s): Cities;england;free Trade;markets;poverty; Urban Life;english;supermarkets STREET CHILD'S SONG, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who'll buy my valley lilies? Last Line: Who'll buy my daffydillies? Subject(s): Child Labor; Markets SUNDAY, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Fruit-vender church Last Line: Comes scampering out of church Subject(s): Churches; Markets; Merchants; Sabbath SUNDAY AT THE APPLE MARKET, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apple-smell everywhere! Last Line: And happy as people must have been meant to be Subject(s): Markets SUPERMARKET, by ELIZABETH BERRY Poem Source First Line: Being beautiful never used to matter Last Line: A leg or a heart ocsts the same, %my lamb Subject(s): Life; Markets SUPERMARKET, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My supermarket is bigger than your supermarket. That's Last Line: My dear friends, the supermarket is now open. Let us begin Subject(s): Markets SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Last Line: Bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe? Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SUPERMARKET IN TEXAS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have mated an apricot %with a plum, they have cloned Last Line: As god is my witness, or these witnesses my god Subject(s): God; Markets; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915) THE CHILD READS THE ALMANAC, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near her egg-basket, the child is reading the almanac Last Line: They're weighing coffee, salt, and consciences. Subject(s): Almanacs; Books; Constellations; Markets; Zodiac; Reading; Supermarkets THE COTTAGER'S COMPLAINT, ON .. ENCLOSING SUTTON-COLDFIELD, by JOHN FREETH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly did the moments glide Last Line: Who murders my content. Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John Subject(s): Business; Markets; Retail Trade; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE MARKET, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The riveted rafters drip the rain and the twilight pave Last Line: Mother, that your strange heart might know you are the fount of a future race! Subject(s): New York City - Markets; Poverty THE MARKET, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man said to me at the fair Last Line: With the sixpence -- dirty lout! Subject(s): Markets; Supermarkets THE MARKET TOWN, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ill in the long ago Last Line: "for the skill of your hands and eyes." Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Markets; Supermarkets THE OLD WAGON-MARKET, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: When came I first to paterson Last Line: I left them all unsung . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Markets; Paterson, New Jersey; Supermarkets THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 29, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silver stars dot the beam Last Line: Up your butt he'll stick a broom Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Markets; Salespersons; Buddha; Buddhists; Supermarkets; Selling THE VICTORIA MARKETS RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds are bleak, stars are bright Last Line: Apples, ripen for the dray! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Markets; Victoria, Australia; Supermarkets TIMES SQUARE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day fell here: %like a drift of dead leaves Last Line: Elephant trumpet and chorus of locust Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Markets; Peaches; Times Square, New York TO BUS NO. 12, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bus no. 12 / take my nostalgia Last Line: My lover! Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Bus Terminals; Markets; Travel; Supermarkets; Journeys; Trips TO MARKET (1), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To market, to market, to buy a fat pig Last Line: Home again, home again, jiggety-jog. Subject(s): Markets; Supermarkets TONE PICTURE (MALIPIERO: IMPRESSONI DAL VERO), by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the hot square, where the barbaric sun Last Line: Aloof and silent. Subject(s): Markets; Mystery; Sun; Supermarkets TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A TRADE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little stinking shop, hardly seven feet square Last Line: "with my wife now. She's a regular bad 'un!" Subject(s): London; Markets; Trade; Supermarkets ZONA VIVA: MEXICO CITY MARKET, by PEGGY PENN Poem Source First Line: Something about the day of the night-before-leaving Last Line: Where it is written: in this place of accidents, %we are innocent. Inhale Subject(s): Markets; Mexico City |
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