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Subject: TELEVISION Matches Found: 66 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FIRST ON TV (FOR WALTER CRONKITE), by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the twentieth century / you are there Subject(s): Apathy; Cronkite, Walter (b. 1916); Men; Television; Tv ANCHORS WEIGHED, by PETER AIDAN MCMILLAN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Brokaw's enunciation Subject(s): Television BATMAN IS DEPRESSED (1), by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The truth is that during the last seven years Last Line: And we don't even see it Subject(s): Television BATMAN IS DEPRESSED (2), by GILLA NISSAN Poem Source First Line: The last seven years, I've rarely watched t.V., but yesterday my children Last Line: Right now, and we don't even know it Subject(s): Television BLANCHE MORTON, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: Being neighbors with gracie Subject(s): Television CAMPAIGN PROMISE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the great debates, he tried a joke Last Line: Which, had it been alive, he would have killed Subject(s): Elections; Hate; Kennedy-nixon Television Debates, 1960 CARRYING FLOWERS IN A DOWNWARD POSITION, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source Last Line: Like a rose %drifting into a lily's ear Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Television CARTOONS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife rises every few hours to nurse our infant, so these Last Line: Robots with powerful beams of light Subject(s): Television; Fathers & Daughters; Religion; Censorship; Cartoons & Cartoonists DOCUMENTARY, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: I watch your hospital tv as you sleep Last Line: His face flushed, bursting like a match Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Television; Youth ELECTRIC COP, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: This guy on t.V. Last Line: Window of lies %& true stories of the empire/the end for instance Subject(s): Television FAMINE: ETHIOPIA HITS THE TV NEWS AGAIN, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Bituminous eyes starestruck Last Line: Turn the channel. Now %they're gone Subject(s): Ethiopia; Famine; Television FIRST ON TV (FOR WALTER CRONKITE), by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the twentieth century %you are there Last Line: Will be to remain calm Subject(s): Apathy; Cronkite, Walter (b. 1916); Men; Television FUTURE, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the afternoon talk shows of america Last Line: On the stove, right now will ever need Subject(s): Future; Television GHOSTS, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: You'll see them if the medium's conducive Last Line: Could they have lost the signals, or have we? Subject(s): Television GOING HOME TO MAYO, WINTER, 1949, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source First Line: Leaving behind us the alien, foreign city of dublin Last Line: In the wide, wide cemetery of the boy's childhood Subject(s): Television GOODNIGHT, GRACIE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home very late from a hollywood party, george and gracie Last Line: Of the author. Subject(s): Acting And Actors; Actors & Actresses; Allen, Gracie (1906-1964); Television; Tv GROWING UP, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am reading li po. The t.V. Is on Last Line: Then turn it off and go on reading Subject(s): Television; Maturity; Books HEAD TO TOE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: We turn on the tube-what words do we hear? Last Line: Now, slipping a bit, just examine our boot Subject(s): Television HOT CLUB DE FRANCE 'REPRISE ON MTV', by VINCE GOTERA Poem Source First Line: A rock video, and there you were Last Line: A blossom of flame blooming from a gypsy caravan Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Reinhardt, Django (1910-1953); Television I FEEL LIKE FRANKFURT, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: Well I feel like frankfurt and tranquility base Last Line: The idiot is beautifully covered with moons. %the teenage writer can see the stars and stripes Subject(s): Armstrong, Neil (b. 1930); Astronauts; Moon; Pictures; Space And Space Travel; Television I LIKE PERRY MASON BEST IN BLACK AND WHITE, by DENISE NOE Poem Source Last Line: For it was a world the principle of uncertainty had yet to amend Subject(s): Mason, Perry (fictional Character); Television I SHUT OFF TV TALK', by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source Last Line: Were heard on this spot %two hundred years ago Subject(s): Television IN THE FUGITIVE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard kemble kept insisting Last Line: Oddly resembles low german Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Innocence; Television; Tv IN THE FUGITIVE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard kemble kept insisting Last Line: Oddly resembles low german Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Innocence; Television IT'S NOT THAT I'M AGAINST THE SYSTEM, by BRUCE ISAACSON Poem Source First Line: It's just ted koppel's face Last Line: Hurry, please, because %we've got to break for commercial... Subject(s): Koppel, Ted (b. 1940); Television JEOPARDY, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I phoned Subject(s): Television; Mothers; Aging; Tv JIMMY JET AND HIS TV SET, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you the story of jimmy jet Last Line: And now instead of him watching tv %we all sit around and watch him Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Television LESSONS FROM TELEVISION (SELECTION), by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You must laugh at yourself, laugh and laugh. Subject(s): Television; Social Commentaries; Tv LET THREE DAYS PASS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the one released from feeling Last Line: Showering every two hours and scrubbing their hair. Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island; Tv LISTENING TO A BROKEN RADIO, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is / a black diamond Last Line: Broken radio. Subject(s): Poverty; Radio; Television; Tv LOST REMOTE SUPPORT GROUP, by THOM WARD Poem Source First Line: Meets twice a month in the basement Last Line: So well - %menu -- rewind -- pause -- play Subject(s): Television METAPHYSICAL SHOCK WHILE WATCHING A TV CARTOON, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE Poem Source First Line: Things come from nothing Last Line: Of this poem; itself, especially, suddenly, %from nothing Subject(s): Television MOUSEMEAL, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son invites me to witness with him Subject(s): Television MUNICH COURIER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Linz (dpa) - a 13 year old schoolboy has killed Last Line: Not know how to turn it on Subject(s): Suicide; Television NIGHTLINE: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GENERAL, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The retired general is talking about restraint Last Line: The general's retired all talk of restraint. %he aligns himself with god. And god's no saint Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Generals; Television NOME NEWSPAPERMAN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: From across the street, I raise my camera Last Line: About-face, pulls open the door, and disappears %inside to report the latest casualty Subject(s): Newspapers; Nome, Alaska; Television - Interviewing; Writing And Writers OLD MOVIES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Television is a hereafter Last Line: The code was handed down Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Television PLATO'S CAVE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blood is red. They say napalm Last Line: In the fire a day before my eyes. Subject(s): Television; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Tv PORTRAIT OF A POET WITH A CONSOLE TV IN HAND, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought that tv at john's tv Last Line: That it must have to do with an odd madness Subject(s): Television; Bus Terminals RALPH KRAMDEN EMERSON TONIGHT, by STEPHEN PAUL MILLER Poem Source First Line: One day ed norton returns from walden pond Last Line: And decides to cast them in a revival of the odd couple %starring goetz as felix and james ramseur a Subject(s): Television REMOTE CONTROL, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A presidential motorcade sponsored by nabisco Last Line: Every hour on the hour the energizer bunny Subject(s): Television RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: WEATHER, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It had its own channel now, like rock music. But it was more like an Last Line: Taken a turn for the better or the worse Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Television; Weather SCREENING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A society intent on living in the present tense Last Line: Of moonlessness overlooking a sea? Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Television; Tv SOAP, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Joey is outraged at pacey's advance Last Line: Ends in a welter of puke, shite and claret Subject(s): Human Behavior; Television SOMETIME TODAY, OR YESTERDAY, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source Last Line: Of news from so long ago %amplified by hard surfaces Subject(s): Birds; News; Nightingales; Television TELEVISION SPEAKS, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Buy “burgers” and sticky sweets Subject(s): Television; News THE PARTY TURNS FIFTY, by TONY TRIGILIO Poem Text First Line: One room Subject(s): Television; Tv THE PRICE IS RIGHT: A TORTURE WHEEL OF FORTUNE, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The show did not start off Subject(s): Television; Tv THE WESTERN JOURNALIST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a wonderful town,' said the newspaper Last Line: "nor climate a career." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Newspapers; Television - Interviewing; Travel; Work; Workers; Journalism; Journalists; Journeys; Trips THERE'S A BUTTON ON THE REMOTE CONTROL CALLED FAV, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Television; Aging; Transience; Tv; Impermanence TV BLOOPER SPOTTER, by JACK SKELLEY Poem Source First Line: In this very special, final mod squad episode Subject(s): Television TV BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, by VIRGINIA HAMILTON ADAIR Poem Source First Line: Poor julia, reaching Last Line: Of each installment. Deo gratias Subject(s): Television; Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) TV MELEE, by PAT D'AMICO Poem Source First Line: Caught up in a heavy drama Last Line: The man of the house with a clicker! Subject(s): Television TV MEN: LAZARUS, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I admit a degree of unease about my Last Line: Of the vermin in his ten fingers and I stand back to wait for the miracle Subject(s): Motion Pictures, Documentary; God; Television; Names TV NEWS: DETOX CLOSED, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: No comment, just image after image Last Line: Now tell me you wouldn't go Subject(s): News; Story-telling; Television; War Correspondents TV ONE, by RICHARD RED HAWK Poem Source First Line: In every classroom it clicks on Last Line: As they are being consumed Subject(s): Schools; Television TV: 1, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For he is ishi the last of his tribe' Last Line: Is yours and mine and it is late Subject(s): Television; Tv TV: 2, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Funny / nazis! Last Line: More funny nazis! Subject(s): Nazis; Television; National Socialism; Tv UTOPIA TV STORE, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amid rows of tvs, screens blank as postcards from cemeteries Last Line: Knowing we owe it our lives, more hazy and blurred %with each day Subject(s): Television VIDEO RAIN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am flown to your good side now Last Line: Sunsets outside quiet silent towns. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Materialism; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction; Tv WATCHING JOANN CASTLE PLAY, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Saturday nights before mom and dad Last Line: Shes even been to new orleans Subject(s): Entertainers; Family Life; Television; Welk, Lawrence (1903-1992) WATCHING TELEVISION, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds are heard too high for ears Subject(s): Television; Tv WATCHING TELEVISION, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds are heard too high for ears Last Line: The spirit breaks, a puff of dust floats up, %like a house in nebraska that suddenly explodes Subject(s): Television WHAT'S HECUBA TO HIM? A ONE-MINUTE CLOSE-UP, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a tv roving reporter named goucher bumpus Last Line: Many previous interviewees had told him where to go, but this time is was for real Subject(s): Television - Interviewing WONDERAMA, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever became of those local tv has beens Last Line: Carted off, stashed away in a place %where no children can applaud Subject(s): Television ZING, by DONALD LEVERING Poem Source First Line: The body electric Last Line: I'm networked and chorused, fedback and sung Subject(s): Television |
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