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| Searching... Subject: NARCOTICS Matches Found: 35 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 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 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 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 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 ODE ON THE FACELIFTING OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by EDWARD DORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: America is inconceivable without drugs Subject(s): United States; Narcotics; America 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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