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Subject: STROKE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOTTLES IN THE BOMBED CITY, by LES A. MURRAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They gave the city a stroke. Its memories
Last Line: When the stroke came, every bottle winked at its neighbour
Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan
Subject(s): Bombs; Bottles; Manchester, England; Stroke


STROKE, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the lilac light, in the lengthening pulse of a sorrow
Last Line: Singing through the stream on its way to the brain
Subject(s): Stroke


STROKE, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the lilac light, in the lengthening pulse of a sorrow
Last Line: There is a bubble in the blood, tiny and clear, %singing through the stream on its way to the brain
Subject(s): Stroke


STROKE, by MIKE LOWERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clock stops ticking
Last Line: I ask for pillows %the nurse brings pudding
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Stroke


STROKES, by TIM ROBBINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A few weeks after my grandmother's stroke
Last Line: And when I break her heart by ignoring her %it's not me
Subject(s): Grandparents; Poetry And Poets; Stroke


STROKES, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The left side of her world is gone
Last Line: The birthdays of the old require such candles
Subject(s): Stroke