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Subject: TERRORISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TERRORIST IS WATCHING, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bomb will go off in the bar at one-twenty
Subject(s): Terrorism


AND THE SORROW, by MIRIAM A. COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here! Any to be my sons so a scream spears me
Last Line: What must a jew train so for not sports?
Subject(s): Jews; Olympic Games; Terrorism


AS THEY PASS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red shout, hair %flaming, the wind cannot stop drilling holes
Last Line: The stunned air now %unbearable
Subject(s): Death; News; Terrorism; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001)


KIM'S STORY, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One hundred and sixteen blew up %above the andaman sea. The bomb
Last Line: With a pearl, touching up my mouth, %inventing my perfections
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Danger; Prisons And Prisoners; Terrorism; Women - Captives


LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Albeit nurtured in democracy
Last Line: Or murder with his silent bloody feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Terrorism; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians


LOCKERBIE, by CHARLES MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have never understood %how zeno's famous paradox could twist
Last Line: For a wind of treetops, weeds between the trees, and a space of %white rocks
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Lockerbie, Scotland; Terrorism


OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bodies decomposing %rescue workers with masks
Last Line: Looking for more pins %to strike
Subject(s): Terrorism


TERROR, by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dream of the jews
Subject(s): Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Mysticism - Judaism; Terrorism; Judaism; Arab-israeli Conflict


TERRORIST IS WATCHING, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bomb will go off in the bar at one-twenty
Last Line: The bomb goes off
Subject(s): Terrorism


TERRORIST, HE WATCHES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bomb will go off in the bar at one twenty p.M.
Last Line: The bomb, it goes off
Subject(s): Terrorism


TERRORIST, HE WATCHES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bomb will explode in the bar at twenty past one
Subject(s): Terrorism


TERRORIST, HE'S WATCHING, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bomb in the bar will explode at thirteen twenty
Last Line: Yes, now. %the bomb, it explodes
Subject(s): Terrorism


THE TERRORIST, HE WATCHES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bomb will explode in the bar at twenty past one
Last Line: The bomb, it explodes
Subject(s): Terrorism


THE TRAVELLER, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As she rides to the station
Last Line: She gives no answer
Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Money; Terrorism


THREE OF FOUR SHADES OF BLUE, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These days in europe no one is safe
Last Line: Move to mexico before the next night rain
Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians; Terrorism


WELTSCHMERZ, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I look upon this world with deep despair
Last Line: And who will then inherit all earth's wealth?
Subject(s): Terrorism