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Subject: TEENAGERS Matches Found: 229 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (FRENCH) PUBLIC TRANSIT, by ERIC WUBBELS Poem Source First Line: You carried your hair like a blanket Last Line: Light-giving pears that dangled from the boxcar roof Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers 1920, by KATINA ANTONIADES Poem Source First Line: In a blue and white dress Last Line: The rain %and the night as soft as a dog's ear Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers 1950S TELEVISED A-BOMB DRILL AIRED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, by LAUREN BROZOVICH Poem Source First Line: In the camera's field of view Last Line: In which no seed could grow Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers 4.5.199-235 (EXEUNT OPHELIA AND GERTRUDE), by REBECCA SCHONBERG Poem Source First Line: She would've regretted the step she took the second after she took it Last Line: Their crazy fish souls, all but lost %in the ripples she shed Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AENEAS LEAVING HIS DIDO, by SARAH NOOTER Poem Source First Line: Inside his head %these words melted %then thickened like Last Line: And, really, had %never been like %pie to any man Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AFTER RUMI, by NADJA BLAGOJEVIC Poem Source First Line: Have you seen the girl? %hands like sparrows, perfect pitch, capricious eyes Last Line: We want nothing more than a glance, and %a few wise words Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AFTER SHE WAS A GIRL, by AMARA DANTE VERONA Poem Source First Line: The boy's hands move up her back Last Line: (she is only being irrational) he says: you've always been a girl Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AFTERMATH, by CAITLIN DOYLE Poem Source First Line: When I grow up %I want to specialize in aftermath Last Line: Seems like furniture, %or family Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AIDS, by IAN DEMSKY Poem Source First Line: Then all at once a wrinkle somewhere in blood Last Line: As the caissons go rolling along Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AMERICAN MANHOOD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dull ache that is midnight for a boy Subject(s): Teenagers; Boys; Night; Coming Of Age; Bedtime AMISH ADOLESCENT, by ANNE-RUTH EDIGER BAEHR Poem Source First Line: He stands by the corral Subject(s): Amish; Teenagers AMY, by WILLIAM LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: Amy is a tiny woman Last Line: Know why he likes it Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers; Women AS IF LOVERS, BY VIRTUE OF WHAT THEY ARE CALLED, ARE MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN HUSBANDS OR WIVES OR HOW, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I still remember john nickels poking me Last Line: He must have thought he'd turn into a frog or something if he'd admit it Subject(s): Teenagers AS THE CHILD PRODIGY GROWS UP, by GEMMA COOPER-NOVAK Poem Source First Line: He wonders about his children Last Line: At the moment of climax %instead of her name? Subject(s): Children; Growth; High School Students; Teenagers ASSEMBLING BODIES, by AMARA DANTE VERONA Poem Source First Line: So you work assembling dolls?' he says Last Line: And that-that-is when they really start to look human' Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ATTIRE, by RYAN HAGAN Poem Source First Line: I remember %the tweed jacket Last Line: And attire became %unimportant Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BEGINNING, by JULIE ANNE SCHARPER Poem Source First Line: Of spring - wild Last Line: It is night. This %changes everything Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BICYCLERS, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: I saw them today, two of them, seven to nine, I'd venture to guess Last Line: In the attic with all the rest Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BIG BANG, by BENJAMIN LERNER Poem Source First Line: A fourth grader %touches the sticky stuff of creation Last Line: He mouths the words like a sacred obscenity %'cock...Pussy...Big bang' Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BLACKOUT SONNETS, by JOAN LARKIN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Teenagers; Sex; Abortion BLISS, by EMMA STRAUB Poem Source First Line: These shit-covered lakes, empty driving ranges Last Line: Strike me down now if this isn't perfectly lovely Subject(s): High School Students; Nature; Peace; September; Teenagers BOXING THE FEMALE, by NATASHA LE BEL Poem Source First Line: I saw myself inside again I saw Last Line: Myself I am the naked light inside Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BRAMBLES, by WILLIAM LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: Rough brambles in the yard Last Line: Shoving through the brambles, rough %and veteran Subject(s): High School Students; Nature; Teenagers BRIGHT SNOW COLD, by MARK TANNO Poem Source First Line: Out into the bright snow cold Last Line: The mouth of night swallows me whole Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CASEY, by BETH KINDERMAN Poem Source First Line: She hasn't said three words to me yet Last Line: Her whole boys stretched toward the ceiling lights, %poised and hollow, not ready to fly Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CHESTNUT, by JENNY JONES Poem Source First Line: You've got your cheek pressed to the window. The twentieth of Last Line: There in vinegar and leave it out to dry and wrinkle in the closing of %the sunshine Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CIRCUITRY, by SAMARA ADSIT HOLTZ Poem Source First Line: The dress made of poppies Last Line: Skin reflects green as heat collects between %the floor and my spine Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers COLD, by CAROLINE HAGOOD Poem Source First Line: It was a window of a conversation because they both leaned out of it Last Line: Always, but she thought it would be more refreshing to want Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers COLLAGE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Jb, %well--you've %asked for one Last Line: Just for your to %remember me by. %mae jean Subject(s): Art And Artists; Autographs; Friendship; Teenagers CONFESSIONS FROM GILCREASE, by ELIZABETH BEAR Poem Source First Line: Sitting on the steps of the museum porch Last Line: How long will we regret that? Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CONSIDERATIONS, by JEFFREY CHIU Poem Source First Line: Let's sit under that tree,' suggests joe Last Line: That what is nameless will always exist Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CONVENTIONALIST, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote Last Line: I giggle and dote in season Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Teenagers CORE, by CAROLINE HAGOOD Poem Source First Line: The way I want that which is clutter and that which is emptiness Last Line: The official spot of the in-between %the unsteady Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers COUNTRY, by CHRISTOPHER LEW Poem Source First Line: On sunday mornings, dad %puts on country music Last Line: And listens to that song about %old love Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CRUSH, by BOB MEYER Poem Source First Line: Her nervous eyes %reflect warm water Last Line: And see the jungle %not the furniture Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DAMAGE, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard to tell in this abandonment what was what Subject(s): Teenagers DANCING BOOTS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: The screen door slams against the concrete wall of the house as I run out the Last Line: To the sideline, my brother and I Subject(s): Adolescence; Dancing And Dancers; Family Life; Teenagers DEAD MOTHS, by JESSICA BULMAN Poem Source First Line: There are dead moths in the bathroom Last Line: And then as I turned the faucet %one flew away Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DEAR TONY, by ERICA MAGREY Poem Source Last Line: I choked anyway %instinctively, I guess Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DESTINATION, by ERICA EHRENBERG Poem Source First Line: Back east %I ask about evangelists Last Line: It is only in the car %you are moving Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DREAMING GRANDFATHER'S FUNERAL, by SARA A. NEWLAND Poem Source First Line: We thought she'd be the first to go Last Line: The mouse in her hand is squeaking %but none of them faint Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DRIVING HOME AT NIGHT AFTER PICKING UP THE MILK, by ELIZABETH BEAR Poem Source First Line: A heron flew over the road and the car Last Line: One more unknown in the rearview mirror Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DRIVING LESSONS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Before our town dump became first a landfill then a waste transfer Last Line: Pine tree, my glasses fly off my face and manny utters the one word %he's never said in front of me Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Driving And Drivers; Learning; Teenagers DRIVING MISS DAISY (PG 13), by JULIA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: We were on a date and I'd never been on one before Last Line: Movie theater. We knew they'd let us in to see joe versus the volcano Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DUEL, by AMY KENNA Poem Source First Line: Roughly three-quarters crazy %you face me Last Line: And everything %is in pieces again Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DURING THIS MOVIE, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: Here I am at this movie someone said I should watch Last Line: Clutching an armrest instead of a hand Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers EAST JORDAN, by DAVID J. KONIECZKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: When my father would fly out of hopkins airport with me sitting Last Line: And here we soar above them Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers EIGHTEEN, by MARIA BANUS Poem Source First Line: Wet streets. It has rained drops big as silver coins Last Line: I am eighteen Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Teenagers END OF OUR MANIFEST DESTINIES, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: This land of course was once like a galaxy Last Line: Our eyes brisk with fear's milky ways Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed Subject(s): Air Warfare; Labor & Laborers; Teenagers; World War I; Work; Workers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN), by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed Last Line: Childlike, with childish things not put away Subject(s): Air Warfare; Labor And Laborers; Teenagers; World War I EVERY MOVIE, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, you say, as though an actor Last Line: It streaked my hand, admittance, the color of my ticket stub Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Teenagers EXPERT, by NADJA BLAGOJEVIC Poem Source First Line: I am an expert Last Line: Cuticles %tendons and %small bones Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FACULTY CHRISTMAS PARTY AT WEBSTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, by CHRISTOPHER LEW Poem Source First Line: Mr. Davids, 7th grade english, stands before the bowl of nachos Last Line: Mr. Lebowitz, 8th grade english, wants to get crazy drunk %forget christmas, new year's is coming Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FARMACY, by MATTHEW MOSES Poem Source First Line: Down on the farmacy Last Line: The farmacies are the backbone of %this beautiful nation Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FIDA FIDA FIDA FIDA, by ROBERT ELSTEIN Poem Source First Line: They say that firemen are good chefs Last Line: Some rookie must have burned the muffins Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FIELD, by SAMARA ADSIT HOLTZ Poem Source First Line: Wind moved through %the field like flood Last Line: Land. Grass blew against %it, brittle and even Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FIFTEEN, SHE LEARNS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: That summer I grew two inches and stood Last Line: When I turned 15, I learned to fly, %and finally learned how not to die Subject(s): Girls; Prostitution; Teenagers FIGURE IT OUT, by DREW TARLOW Poem Source First Line: I remember she told me %you just stick out your %tongue Last Line: As we rolled around %on the wooden floor, %exploring Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FINDING THE BODY, by SARA A. NEWLAND Poem Source First Line: We found them under the furniture Last Line: As small as the mice the cats spent all night killing %then placed at my sleeping feet Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FINDING THE SKY, by VANESSA KOGAN Poem Source First Line: I've found that small piece of sky between %the two roofs -- I've needed it Last Line: And I can't see far enough down my back %to lock the strands together Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FINGERPRINTS, by ALEXIS KIELB Poem Source First Line: He ended up coming to dinner %it wasn't exactly as I had planned Last Line: Inching toward my place %and retreating Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FIRST PASSION, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Running there I am at fourteen Last Line: Golden gossip of the afternoon Subject(s): Teenagers; Family Life; Relatives FIRST TIME, by ERICA MAGREY Poem Source Last Line: Of taste buds %in bittersweet exchange Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FLASHBACK, 1973, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: When the car breaks down Last Line: Seat of that hurt %all the way downtown Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Love; Retrospection; Teenagers FOOT FIRE BURN DANCE, by NATASHA LE BEL Poem Source First Line: I do the black boot stomp Last Line: Hard breaking %the angry night Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOR DAN, by JENNIFER BONHOMME Poem Source First Line: He was confused. %callus-fingered, nostrils ripe red Last Line: Begging him to hold me %on top of the plastic sheets Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOR JOHN, WHO DID NOT CHOOSE BASEBALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Because I loved the bone-white hardness of the ball Last Line: I smile and open my hands to you Subject(s): Baseball; Boys; Sports; Sports - Arenas And Stadia; Teenagers FOUR PIECES OF TRANSITION: 1. DREAMING IS A SPECTATOR SPORT, by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: I had a dream the other night Last Line: I've found there are very few soliloquies in my subconscious Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOUR PIECES OF TRANSITION: 2. BEING NECESSARILY DISTRACTED, by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: So, my mom an dad were yelling at each other Last Line: And still not knowing what to do Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOUR PIECES OF TRANSITION: 3. SENSELESS VIOLENCE OR RECCURING THEMES, by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: The dream progressed, and it was nearly time to eat Last Line: Any mature person takes responsibility for their geese still running around the house Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOUR PIECES OF TRANSITION: 4. NEGATIVE GRAVITY AND OTHER FORCES, by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: I used to have a lot of those falling dreams Last Line: What is the opposite of falling, is it flying? Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOURTEEN, by NORA LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: Shouting back at the macho men Last Line: But the bullshit excited me anyway Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers GET A JOB, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just over 16, a cigarette smoking boy and a bit Last Line: A bright one, I'm told, but less bright than its new brother Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Appalachia; Teenagers GINGER ALE, by JAIME HALLA Poem Source First Line: Dozing in the corner of your love seat Last Line: I'll be with you to find out Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers GLIMMERER, by JULIA KATE JARCHO Poem Source First Line: You'll meet him soon Last Line: Who brings night on Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers GROUND SWELL, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen, Last Line: Where things began to happen and I knew it Subject(s): Teenagers; Sports; Surfing HANGING FIRE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fourteen / and my skin has betrayed me Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Teenagers; United States - Race Relations HANGING FIRE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fourteen %and my skin has betrayed me Last Line: And momma's in the bedroom %with the door closed Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Teenagers; U.s. - Race Relations HEADLIGHTS, by NORA LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: The lights from the fdr drive streak by Last Line: They're not thinking about me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers HEAT, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: Hot boys, she says, are sweet in the summertime Last Line: Sweat gleaming just beneath their skin Subject(s): Heat; High School Students; Passion; Teenagers HIGH WAY, by OLIVIA OPHELIA HARMAN Poem Source First Line: Plain talk he said Last Line: And gassed the pedal, %merging lanes Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; High School Students; Roads; Teenagers HUSTLER LEAVES AT DAWN, by PHILIP CLARK Poem Source First Line: Some days I want Last Line: Begging the city %to swallow my steps Subject(s): Dawn; High School Students; Teenagers HYPER-, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then a stillness descended the blue hills. Subject(s): Sickness; Teenagers; Illness I HAD TO STOP, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: I had to stop today, on the way home from school, and check my reflection Last Line: Perhaps the guise of maturity disappeared when I lied about my age Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers I LOSE CONSTELLATIONS IN FOREIGN CITIES, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source Last Line: You map laid of true-blood stars? Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ICONOGRAPHY, by JULIA KATE JARCHO Poem Source First Line: At night the supermarket Last Line: Sophie, or violet Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IMAGE RETENTION, by JENNY JONES Poem Source First Line: She had turned her head away, but I could still see the distant look Last Line: She put down the mug Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN MY EIGHTEENTH YEAR, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having measured the years today by the calendar Last Line: Shine from the perverse beauty of the dead Subject(s): Time; Teenagers IN MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, by BENJAMIN LERNER Poem Source Last Line: But the thin jacket she brought with her from phoenix Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN MY UNCLE'S KITCHEN, by PHOEBE PRIOLEAU Poem Source First Line: You wipe your hands on the apron Last Line: But say nothing. It's not my turn %to talk Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN THE BASEMENT, by RACHEL SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Under the kitchen floor Last Line: Just enough so they can't see Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN THE GIRLS' DRESSING ROOM BEFORE THE GULLING OF BEATRICE SCENE..., by LAUREN BROZOVICH Poem Source First Line: ...Does anyone have a %hair band? Bobby Last Line: Bowls of freezing water Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN THE TEENS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies, and treasure Last Line: June—july—nineteen. Subject(s): Teenagers; Youth INSIDE THE CITY, by AMY KENNA Poem Source First Line: You wake up one morning %you realize that you are in a city. The sprawl Last Line: And then you %stop worrying Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers IS BURNING, by MIKE LIVSHITS Poem Source First Line: Tonight I sit on the kitchen %table, the lightbulb's warm breath Last Line: The light is burning the hair %on the back of my neck Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers JAKE, by EMILY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Can't leave for school without me when it's colder Last Line: I say to him you watch it he's my brother Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Family Life; High School Students; Teenagers JOBS AND MONEY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: By the time manny graduates high school, he will have passed a dozen Last Line: Job so I can pay reant, hiet, phone, for the house. I have to have a nouf %money to biy gas for my t Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Money; Saving And Thrift; Teenagers; Unemployment JOURNEY, by HAN-YEH KATHARINE LO Poem Source First Line: A proud trumpet slices through the air. I turn left onto foothill Last Line: Chord. I turn right. Towards home Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers KITE, by SHANNON HUGHES Poem Source First Line: She stretches him across over the wooden frame. His tense bare back Last Line: And waits for wind Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers L'EAU DORMANTE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curled up and sitting on her feet Last Line: For lydia will be seventeen. Subject(s): Growth; Teenagers LANGUAGE BARRIER, by F. J. BERGMANN Poem Source First Line: I used to be ashamed of not being in touch with popular culture. It Last Line: Well-prepared individuals are chaining themselves together across %the exits Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Language; Teenagers LAUNDRY DAY, by ELIZABETH HAZEN Poem Source First Line: You had method %more meticulous than a maid Last Line: Expectant fingers in soapy water %was enough Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers LEAVE-TAKING, by KAREN EMMERICH Poem Source First Line: There is the creak Last Line: Hallelujah %I am forsaken Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers LEMONADE, by WILLIAM LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: There is a wing in my mouth Last Line: Always catches %the eye Subject(s): Birds; High School Students; Teenagers LEMONS, by MIA ALVAR Poem Source First Line: A little taste of lemon, %like honey Last Line: Like sparks %again Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers LETTER FROM THE ARTIST, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: There it is: a square Last Line: Yourself a mirror of the page Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers LETTER TO A GHETTO BOY THREE THOUSAND MILES AWAY, by ANNIE LEE Poem Source First Line: I tried to forget you, boy Last Line: Love of my innocence, even after I left, flew away like you said and tried to forget Subject(s): Cities; Ghettos; High School Students; Letters; Teenagers MA MELTS THINGS, HAS AN ORGASM, by MIKE LIVSHITS Poem Source First Line: Ma takes the soldering iron by the %power cord. She swings it in Last Line: Mishandled by men of eighteen years, %her first orgasm Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MARROW, by ZOE KONOVALOV Poem Source First Line: All you've got is a bowl of blackberries like blood Last Line: A long kiss, and worth exactly nothing Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MARVIN, by DAVID J. KONIECZKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Marvin never talked about what had happened to him in vietnam Last Line: I know you remember that Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MILLSTONE, by JENNY JONES Poem Source First Line: The air smothered me. The bus home was hot and I felt like I wasn't Last Line: Stone around your neck weightless Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MISHIMA ON A PLATE, by JOEY ROTH Poem Source First Line: I found a small version %of yukio mishima, %on a plate Last Line: And he said something vague %about japanese nationalism Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MISSILE, by CHRISTOPHER LEW Poem Source First Line: There was a crash and an explosion %said the reporter in iraq. No one cared Last Line: In the ground like the zinfandel bottle %I found on the beach Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MOMENTARY MASTICATION, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: In one fleeting moment Last Line: And it scares me out of my mind Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MONSOON, by REBECCA CIRALSKY Poem Source First Line: What do you think about sex Last Line: Within my dad's colored sock drawer Subject(s): High School Students; Sex; Teenagers; Youth MONTANA STORM, by ERICA EHRENBERG Poem Source First Line: When the first lightning struck Last Line: Wet and silent she wanted me to tell her %he would live Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MOON, by GRACE LORENTZ Poem Source First Line: A full blue moon floats in my open mouth Last Line: Explore its salty craters Subject(s): High School Students; Mouths; Teenagers MORNING RUN, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Oak pine oak %a grayness in my eyes Last Line: Smelling the acorn %while I breathe by Subject(s): High School Students; Morning; Teenagers; Track Athletics; Trees MORNING THOUGHTS: 1. AT THE BEACH, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: I opened my eyes to grains of sand Last Line: Sand mixing in with all the others Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MORNING THOUGHTS: 2. THE ALONE CHILD, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I was the moon in cold thought Last Line: I walked from her unconscious body until it was a distant speck Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MORNING THOUGHTS: 3, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: Awake with me on the ground Last Line: I will be like a passing dream Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MOTHER'S RITUAL, by PHOEBE PRIOLEAU Poem Source First Line: You wear an old black flannel blouse Last Line: I want to know now %whether you looked like me Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MY COUSIN AGATHA, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: My godmother invited my cousin agatha Last Line: On the ebony of an age-old wardrobe Subject(s): Children; Fear; Solitude; Teenagers MY WOUND, by NINA E. CROWLEY Poem Source First Line: Teen age is a fleeting open wound Last Line: To pick off the scab, %accepting all germs Subject(s): Growth; Teenagers NC17, by SHARON ZETTER Poem Source First Line: The first time, when I was young Last Line: In the front row, %watching Variant Title(s): Nc-1 Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers NINE MONTHS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 4, 1977, by JULIA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: This had nothing to do with me Last Line: Heartbeat wrapped in tissue paper Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers NORA, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: If my eyes were as bright Last Line: How the sun shines off a leaf, %the last leaf of fall Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers NORTH WIND TESTAMENT, by IAN DEMSKY Poem Source First Line: The dusty spoor of a comet unwads Last Line: It's best she never gave birth to a boy Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers NOV-63, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: We had always relied Last Line: Faint in the fold of the drape Subject(s): Children; Teenagers OCTOPUS, by REBECCA CIRALSKY Poem Source First Line: A tame ride,' my boy friend Last Line: Metal like coins falling from a pocket Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ODE TO THE STOVE, by NADJA BLAGOJEVIC Poem Source First Line: Like the pupils of a cougar %hungry and lean Last Line: Defined as an oboe, %haughty and godly Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers OF ETERNITY, by SCOTT KEENEY Poem Source First Line: On a warm summer night, a teenager smoking a joint sits alone with his Last Line: Mosquito pinching his forearm, he laughs. And something is multipled in %his eyes Subject(s): Friendship; Smoking; Teenagers ON HANDS & KNEES, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: When I was 17 Last Line: Eyes squeezed shut %I crawled across Subject(s): Teenagers ON THE CORNER OF FULTON AND LIBERTY, by PHOEBE PRIOLEAU Poem Source First Line: The woman in the %contact-lens blue Last Line: Lucky! She %didn't want %anything more Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ONE MORE PAGE IN INSINCERITY, by LAUREN ARGINTAR Poem Source First Line: Could I be read if I was see-through Last Line: It was the metaphor you always missed Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ORIGINAL GAITHER FARMHOUSE, by LAUREN BROZOVICH Poem Source First Line: The tartness of fruit is gathered Last Line: Until the land is thick with them Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers OTHER SIDE, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: Hoods were the ones who knew Last Line: Trapped behind the window glass Subject(s): Children; Teenagers; Youth OUR MERCURIAL BODIES MAKE THEIR OWN GRIEF, by SAMARA ADSIT HOLTZ Poem Source First Line: Fed by the blazing Last Line: Tongue. Grasses hooked together %like vertebrae Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers OUTCROP, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Red-tinged rock outcrop Last Line: Through millions of years %recording these secrets Subject(s): Fossils; High School Students; History; Teenagers PARENTS OF POETS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: You imagine them on pillows, wondering %about these children, unexpected Last Line: Figures maybe it's all about poetry, and wonder Subject(s): Children; Parents; Poetry And Poets; Teenagers PASSAGE, by MATTHEW JAMES BABCOCK Poem Source First Line: When I hear that over the last three months Last Line: Head a purple menagerie of fourteen new finches Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Ecuador; Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Maturity; Teenagers PASSAGE, by ALISON STINE Poem Source First Line: They say that my generation Last Line: Begging %for forgiveness Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PEARS OF THE WORLD, by SARAH NOOTER Poem Source First Line: We, the pears of the world Last Line: And too dry. %no, really Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PERCEPTION, by KAREN EMMERICH Poem Source First Line: A boat slides %along the horizon Last Line: Into the froth, and how %quickly the sea recovers Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PERFECT PITCH, by JEFFREY CHIU Poem Source First Line: This talent for perception %for effortless familiarity Last Line: Perfection unrecognized %is just another noise Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PETAL, by LINDSAY WASHICK Poem Source First Line: There was some sort of music playing against some sort of background Last Line: There was nothing there all along Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PHONE BOOTH, 10 P.M., by KAREN EMMERICH Poem Source First Line: Last night you called Last Line: Monday, I said, and no Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PICASSO WAS A FLY, by ERIC WUBBELS Poem Source First Line: Picasso was a fly Last Line: But the welts remained and remain Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PICASSO'S PAINTING, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: There is a total of three things Last Line: A woman, what measure of love Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PICAYUNES, by MICHAEL CASPER Poem Source First Line: Causally thinking of you & new york city Last Line: I'm contentedly offended %by everything you say Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PINEAPPLE DAYS OF SUNSHINE, by ANNA SOO-HOO Poem Source First Line: Ai caramba! It's so hot! Last Line: It's 'honey, don't push your luck' Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PISTACHIO DRESS, by LAUREN BROZOVICH Poem Source First Line: It was pistachio %green like lady bird Last Line: The effect of the preservation %of fabric on men Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers POEM IN THE WAVE, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Beams of sunlight %penetrate clouds Last Line: Kaleidoscope of fascinations %from the sea Subject(s): High School Students; Light; Sea; Teenagers; Waves POEM TO A QUARTER TO SIX, by KATINA ANTONIADES Poem Source First Line: My mind %winds rope Last Line: To keep them together Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers POET AT SEVENTEEN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My youth? I hear it mostly in the long, volleying Last Line: And sat so rigidly, although the land was theirs Subject(s): Teenagers POISED, by EMILY PARKER Poem Source First Line: Poised is a word often synonymous with Last Line: Until people say you have the body of a dancer Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PORN, by GEMMA COOPER-NOVAK Poem Source First Line: For now, imagine I am isadora duncan: %then I can do anything, rip off the red Last Line: And there is nothing %like being bare and knowing you are safe Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers POULSBO, by ERIN BEACH Poem Source First Line: On highway 305 the busy street %shines like a wet seal Last Line: To coast? I wouldn't know. All I know is %that the road looks like a wet seal Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PROMETHEUS AT CONEY ISLAND, by QUENTIN ROWAN First Line: Up over the swell of hot sugar Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers; Urban Life PROMETHEUS AT CONEY ISLAND, by QUENTIN ROWAN Poem Source First Line: Up over the swell of hot sugar Last Line: As was life in the old country Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers QUEEN OF HEARTS, by RENADA RUTMANIS Poem Source First Line: Not all kings have crowns Last Line: To the keeping of secrets Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RAIN, by DREW KREWER Poem Source First Line: The kids throw rocks at each other, waiting for rain Last Line: Which the clouds and air of heaven will never provide-can float them back home Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RAIN, by JULIE ANNE SCHARPER Poem Source First Line: Tell them it's a potato' Last Line: And sprout white eyes Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers REGAL-CONCUBINE, by ANNIE LEE Poem Source First Line: They say I am the delilah of the t'ang dynasty Last Line: They say I am the delilah of the t'ang dynasty Subject(s): China; High School Students; Teenagers REGARD TO MY PARENTS' WEAKNESS, by KATIE NICHOL Poem Source First Line: And I remember %my father Last Line: Purifies what remains neutral or delicate %in our lives Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RENASCENCE, by SARA A. NEWLAND Poem Source First Line: She lay in a blue wool suit, %the grandmother I hardly know Last Line: Then watched fly %through my open window Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RENTAL, by JAIME HALLA Poem Source First Line: A white dodge infinity, %smeared with old snow Last Line: Inside of the house %that used to be his Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RESIDENTIAL WHISKEY IN HAND, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Foggy cobbles under heavy waders Last Line: Only color sun paint overhead Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; High School Students; Teenagers REVELATION, by JR. BRUCE A. MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Are you pulling the limestone brick yourself Last Line: Know that you don't have to be popcorn Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers REVELATON, by JESSICA BULMAN Poem Source First Line: It was not the place Last Line: And the voices %remembered to clash Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RIB, by SASHA HAINES-STILES Poem Source First Line: You're the only man who knows Last Line: How could you not love your child? Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RUNAWAY TEEN, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Any cold night I am hiding. Some people Last Line: It's hard being a person. %we all know that Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Teenagers SAGE, by RINA NILOOBAN Poem Source First Line: Tea leaves crushed gingerly %on the jellied toast Last Line: I found my home in %a bed of mango peels Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SCHUYLKILL VALLEY PARK, by SHAYNA STROM Poem Source First Line: Willows weep %at the pool Last Line: As if the mower %has just passed Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 3. BIRTHDAY GREETING, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to hunt; and my brothers Last Line: Today I am fourteen years old Subject(s): Birthdays; Growth; Teenagers SERENDIPITY, I THOUGHT, by RYAN HAGAN Poem Source Last Line: And produce is never nepenthe enough Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SEVEN VEILS, by SARA A. NEWLAND Poem Source First Line: Most accounts agree %john's voice cooled their fetid souls Last Line: They weren't %the ones %who died Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SEVENTEEN, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That june before the judge gave %rennie dodd his choice jail or joining Last Line: That, this time, the skyline was inviting %us, and eager to go, ready %to be recruited by the night Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Teenagers SEVENTEEN, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a fair and gentle friend Last Line: I feel not free to tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Teenagers SEVENTEEN YEARS, by JAN HARDY Poem Source First Line: I never thought I'd find a soul-mate, partner, spouse Last Line: Of waves crashing and breaking against the shore Subject(s): Adolescence; Teenagers SEX, by REBECCA ALSON-MILKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm going to see him for the weekend Last Line: It is what you should worry about Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SHALIMAR DINER, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: I used to think it was the most luxurious place in the world Last Line: Except %at the shalimar diner Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SHOES, by GRACE LORENTZ Poem Source First Line: Old grey shoes lie on the floor Last Line: He would smile at her Subject(s): Feet; High School Students; Shoes; Teenagers SHOOTING THE RAT, by GEMMA COOPER-NOVAK Poem Source First Line: It was a simple action: %one twitch of a finger and blood and fur Last Line: Out of bullets when the mice came in through the ceiling Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SIXTEEN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose your hand with power supplied Last Line: And suffer back to where I stand. Subject(s): Teenagers SO HERE'S THE POEM I PROMISED, by ROB GRIFFITH Poem Source First Line: To your neck and to that tufted mole behind your left ear Last Line: I should talk about the moon Subject(s): Love; Teenagers SO NATURAL, by ERIN HOOVER Poem Source First Line: In the nyu dorm, %students are throwing Last Line: Bent back %even farther Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SPOON, by JULIA COHEN Poem Source First Line: Even before I met you, I wanted Last Line: Than your acidic aftertaste Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers STRANGER, by ALISON STINE Poem Source First Line: Someday %I will be free and loud Last Line: Still searching myself %for some sign of recognition Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SUMMER AT BROOKE'S, by ERIN WALSH Poem Source First Line: In early june %we lay on the side porch Last Line: Our toes pointed like angels %at the moon Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SUMMER CRUSH, by SASHA HAINES-STILES Poem Source First Line: We sat together for a month Last Line: And I just couldn't bring myself to tell him %it was fall Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SUNDAY NIGHT, by LINDSAY WASHICK Poem Source First Line: 10:48 %the hot water hit my skin and washed away tonight's dirt. I loved it Last Line: 12:00 %I wonder if he's working today Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SUPERVISOR, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Hungover, at seven Last Line: I am eighteen, and can %still get out of here Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Teenagers SWEET SIXTEEN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen a winsome girlie with eyes of limpid blue Last Line: Is graven everywhere. Subject(s): Adolescence; Girls; Teenagers; Teen Agers TEENAGE ADMISSION, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: At fourteen she says her basic need Last Line: I am like her parents, %unteachable Subject(s): Teenagers THE NIGHT AT THE PALAIS, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just fifteen, we had to lie to get in there Last Line: Still and watched they fly like crazy angels Subject(s): Night Clubs; Manchester, England; Teenagers; Dancing & Dancers; Friendship; Innocence THE POET AT SEVENTEEN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My youth? I hear it mostly in the long, volleying Subject(s): Teenagers THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She must have been thirteen or so, her nascent breasts Subject(s): Teenagers; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE RIVER-MERCHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by LI PO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Last Line: As far as cho-fu-sa. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Variant Title(s): Cathay: The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter Subject(s): Absence; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Men; Teenagers; Separation; Isolation; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SUMMER I WAS SIXTEEN, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, Subject(s): Teenagers; Children; Growth; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Childhood; Swimmers THEM, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That summer they had cars, soft roofs crumpling Last Line: Have it, we could reach right down into their %bodies and steal it back Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Lifeguards; Sex; Teenagers; Virginity; Women THERE IS A GIRL IN THE CAFETERIA, by DAN GRUENBERG Poem Source Last Line: So I can go to sleep too Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers THERE IS WATER HERE THAT BURNS, by DAVID J. KONIECZKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Jesus rode into cleveland once in the diesel room of an ore boat that Last Line: Burning the color of sunsets Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers THESE OCCURRENCES, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Harold is just 16 Last Line: Rite of passage %for our youth Subject(s): Teenagers THIRTEEN YEARS, by ERIN MOURE Poem Source First Line: I am in a daydream of my uncle Last Line: Who in the hell did my cousin marry. %I tell you Subject(s): Marriage; Teenagers THIS DAY WAS A POEM, by MATTHEW MOSES Poem Source First Line: Even before I got to your house Last Line: I wish I was less than that, %but it was more Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers THREE NOTES ON A KITCHEN TABLE, by JEFFREY CHIU Poem Source First Line: Sipped on some ice yesterday morning, stumbled over the heavy Last Line: You're really just a habit Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers TO A DEBUTANTE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: You trip, o youth incarnate, down the stairs Last Line: With cheery gusto into supper thrice! Subject(s): Debutantes; Teenagers TO MY FATHER, by TALIA NEFFSON Poem Source First Line: Today I saw the storm sweep in Last Line: That I will remember this forever Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers TORY SITTING ON A COUCH IN A COFFEE SHOP ON THE CORNER OF NINTH STREET, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: With a coffee that she announces will make her hands shake later Last Line: And she says %'my hands were shaking' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers TWIST OF HER HEAD, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source Last Line: I saw it only once %on the outbound train Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers TWO-DOLLAR BILLS, by MATTHEW MOSES Poem Source First Line: When you had to sit %on the hall steps to read Last Line: They're a piece of history now Subject(s): Grandparents; High School Students; Teenagers UNEARNED CHANCE, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: Last night I dreamt you came back Last Line: I leaned over my balcony %and said yes Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers VIOLET: 5. AT SEVENTEEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a child, and liked me, yesterday Last Line: Fearing to meet the woman of your eyes. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Maturity; Teenagers VIVIAN, by JULIA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Vivian is 77 and beginning to wilt Last Line: But I'm going back for another on tuesday' Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers VOICE OF ROBERT DESNOS, by ERIC WUBBELS Poem Source First Line: So much like the flower and the current of air Last Line: She I love does not answer me Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WATERMELON, by GRACE LORENTZ Poem Source First Line: As a watermelon leaked into a bowl beside us Last Line: Flowers blossomed from my navel Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers; Watermelons WAY SHE BURNED, by SARAH NOOTER Poem Source First Line: He caught her by a sleeve Last Line: Burned and %kept burning Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WELCOME, by SUSAN CURRIE Poem Source First Line: She watched the circus burn that day Last Line: As she came into adulthood flaming Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WERE THERE CHILDREN?, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: Before I was born were there children who gathered their tears Last Line: As passing cars move a window of light across white walls Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WHAT PROTECTS, by SAMARA ADSIT HOLTZ Poem Source First Line: This time we waited for her Last Line: For her rescue %and would never escape Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WHEN THE WOMAN IS CONTEMPORARY, AND THE KITCHEN BELONGS TO SOMEONE...., by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: 1. Every day, I would ponder the dangers in being a cook. It's not so Last Line: Because it is what I imagine older men to taste like Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WHY I DIDN'T VISIT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE, by RINA NILOOBAN Poem Source First Line: I never completely understood Last Line: He had reached the bottom of the bag Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WINDSOCK, by KATINA ANTONIADES Poem Source First Line: You are a windsock in a trailer park Last Line: The last number counted between thunder and lightning Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WINTER ROCKS, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: In winter, on rocks, %I have painted red houses Last Line: They splash like a water drop %rippling a pond Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WRIST, by ANNIE LEE Poem Source First Line: Your wrist speaks to me Last Line: To sleep at the nape of my neck Subject(s): Bodies; High School Students; Love; Seduction; Teenagers YOUTHFUL GODS FLIRTING, by GRACE LORENTZ Poem Source First Line: At midnight I wake from a nightmare. My eyes are luminous spots of white Last Line: A bit after midnight, I close my eyes in bed Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ZIPPER, by DREW KREWER Poem Source First Line: It was the night of the sixth grade dance Last Line: Where I had come from, where I could go Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers |
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