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| Searching... Subject: TORNADOES Matches Found: 93 AFTER THE RANDOM TORNADO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Harvest won't save our barn from twisters Last Line: Send riders to warn our cousins %beware of angels seeking work Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Tornadoes AFTER THE TORNADO, by JOHN C. COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The hoop is already sagging from years Last Line: The roofs wrinkled like tired skin, %the barn next door sunken, leaning westward Subject(s): Tornadoes AFTER THE TORNADO, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last eve the earth was calm, the heavens Last Line: Glares the red sunrise, blurred with mists of fire! Subject(s): Tornadoes AFTER THE TORNADO, by JAMES HAZEN Poem Source First Line: Our power failed, started Subject(s): Tornadoes AFTER THE TORNADO, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anyone driving by ridge and swamp pike this morning Last Line: Handing the red purse %back to the housewife Subject(s): Tornadoes ANT IN THE TORNADO, by MICK VRANICH Poem Source First Line: Lots of talk about Last Line: Grows our of the ground Subject(s): Tornadoes BEFORE THE TORNADO TORE THROUGH TAZEWELL COUNTY, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Beyond the senior high school Subject(s): Tornadoes ELEGY FOR A LATE TORNADO, by E. M. SCHORB Poem Source First Line: No, nature has no wrath, no, none at all, and you Last Line: The injured creatures of the planet as they struggle, %not merely struggle--stronger, propagate--o w Subject(s): Tornadoes FEAR OF TORNADOES, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: When she awakes, %the air seems too alive, the fan Last Line: She pulls on arms, %dresses herself in children Subject(s): Tornadoes FROST TEXAS TORNADO BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I was sitting looking: way out across the world Last Line: Does it seem like hell was broke out: in this place below Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Tornadoes GREAT PLAINS TORNADO, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty miles away %it stands still, Last Line: Artifacts hammered %to useless seed. Subject(s): Tornadoes GREEK WEEK TORNADO, by MARTHA GREENWALD Poem Source First Line: Wrested from sleep, the students, hung-over %rush onto their balconies Last Line: Realize, her collarbone a perfect crosshow Subject(s): Tornadoes LIP-BALM TELEPHONE TORNADO MOTORCYCLE, by M LONCAR Poem Source First Line: Your body rhymes %with her body like mine Last Line: Tornado motorcycle %prosthetic-limb Subject(s): Tornadoes LOVE AND TORNADOES, by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: By the time I meet up with michael lee Last Line: To flood our clouded souls %with his heavy, searching light Subject(s): Tornadoes MICKEY CONWAY: TORNADO WARNING, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Tornado warning! %I snatch my shoe box of gum-dusty Last Line: I'm getting a bit tired of hearing %tornado warning Subject(s): Tornadoes MID-PLAINS TORNADO, by LINDA LOUISE BIERDS Poem Source First Line: I've seen it drive straw straight through a fence post Last Line: In an oak tree, like a flurry of leaves %drawn back again Subject(s): Tornadoes NEW ST. LOUIS BLUES: TORNADO BLUES, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black wind come a-speedin' down da river from de kansas plains Subject(s): Tornadoes NEWARK BOY ASSESSES TORNADO DAMAGE, WEEKS REMOVED, by KYLE G. DARGAN Poem Source First Line: These trees bent like gleaners over the road Last Line: Where city and country disagree Subject(s): Tornadoes NOT A TORNADO WARNING, by DEREK MILLER Poem Source First Line: In the event of a tornado Subject(s): Tornadoes ONE SUMMER HURRICANE LYNNE SPAWNS TORNADOS AS FAR WEST AS..., by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm with my name dragged one Last Line: Boot waiting to kick us open like a clay pot Subject(s): Tornadoes ONE SUMMER HURRICANE LYNNE SPAWNS TORNADOS AS FAR WEST AS..., by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The storm with my name dragged one Last Line: The whole city of grief rose up to face that black %boot that waited to kick us open like a clay pot Subject(s): Tornadoes SADDLING THE GODS (OR HOW TO LIVE THROUGH A TORNADO), by PAMELA STEED HILL Poem Source First Line: By noon we'll know Last Line: And go bucking our way %into the night Subject(s): Tornadoes SULTRY WEATHER (OR, TORNADO WATCH), by ROBERT MCGOVERN Poem Source First Line: Yes, we all know why Last Line: To the chill of stormy weather Subject(s): Tornadoes SURVIVING THE TORNADO: POLITICS, by BERNARD GERSHENSON Poem Source First Line: Hear it touch down what do we see Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am running; it is night, Last Line: The light comes from me. Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by EDWARD BYRNE Poem Source First Line: I think of that one word learned Last Line: He has not yet gotten to know Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That time when %the senator noticed that Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Tornadoes TORNADO, by LEO DANGEL Poem Source First Line: Aunt cordelia was a tough old lady Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by CHARLES DE KAY Poem Source First Line: Whose eye has marked his gendering? On his Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Privets rustle Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by JAMES HEARST Poem Source First Line: The cornfield felt a need to write Last Line: Into one blotted garbled word %only an idiot could read Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by ROBERT HEDIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had seen ferris wheels before, but this one Last Line: Looking down from those intricate spokes of light Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by ROBERT HEDIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last time any of us saw gustafson's prize sow Last Line: The empty swill pail still vibrating in his hands Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by ROBERT HEDIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever he was, he was holding Last Line: Of his hat as if tipping it Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid shambles blown, blown pages of a gideon Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amid shambles blown, blown pages of a gideon Last Line: About the swindging tail of the dragon that snapped Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think of that one word learned long ago Last Line: We value; and now my son naps in my lap, %tired of this term he has not yet gotten to know Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY Poem Source First Line: Downstairs, a frieze of naked women %wearing wide black sombreros Last Line: Flies in the fake ice cubes %looking so poor? Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by MARY QUADE Poem Source First Line: We have practiced crouching for disaster- %the siren echoing down an empty hall Last Line: When things stop falling, %that means it is over Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First the soul of our house left, up the chimney Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: Wind went by with people falling out of it Last Line: His legs reaching skyward, %and growing longer Subject(s): Tornadoes; Wind TORNADO, by ELAINE TISE Poem Source First Line: A voice calls from the other room while hail Last Line: The lights go out and death-like darkness looms Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO, by JOAN YEAGLEY Poem Source First Line: Loosed from coiling braids Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO ALERT, by JIM HEYNEN Poem Source First Line: That night %against a copper sky there rose Last Line: The haughty, grunting, earthy sow Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO AT NIGHT, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE Poem Source First Line: They ran out in nightgowns to seek the protection Last Line: Shirtless, as when gods were men Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO AT THE DOOR, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: I read about a gale at sea Last Line: But every time I shut the door Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO BLOWS MOTHER SEVEN MILES, by DOUGLAS GRAY Poem Source First Line: Dinner was a little late Last Line: I don't think %I'm in kansas anymore Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO BLUES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I uster own the chickabee farm Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Tornadoes TORNADO CHASING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night the cb crackles Last Line: In flashes. They gasp like me %and breathe the name of god Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Tornadoes TORNADO CHILD, by KWAME DAWES Poem Source First Line: I am a tornado child Last Line: Streaked with my many songs Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO DAYS, by ELEANOR LERMAN Poem Source First Line: Up early in the raw morning, the dog and I go out to hunt the day Last Line: Whose riddles must be answered before he dreams us all again Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO DREAMS, by FRED HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Surrounded by night Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO OF BRILLIANCE, by ALICE OLDS-ELLINGSON Poem Source First Line: You skim along the roof Last Line: Any felony committed on the apartment street, just south %ofsan francisco Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO SEASON, by MICHAEL CAREY Poem Source First Line: Funny thing was Last Line: All the way %to oblivion Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO SEASON, by CHRISTOPHER S. FUQUA Poem Source First Line: Always late, beyond bedtime Last Line: And the cats prowl the %kitchen for food Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO SOUP, by A. K. REDWING Poem Source First Line: The wino was eating soup Last Line: A bank president on his lunch break,' I said Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO SUNDAY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: The winds sweetly sung Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO SURVIVOR, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said the people come inside Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO SURVIVOR, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said the people come inside Last Line: It was over for maybe minutes %then it was never over Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO SYMPTOMS, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As you step outdoors you'll enter a hot barn Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WARNING, by AMY LEVIN Poem Source First Line: It's spring on the silver screen Last Line: A leaving song, trailers and bassinets Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Tornadoes TORNADO WARNING, by JAMES MCKEAN Poem Source First Line: Because it's not nine o'clock Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WARNING, by DARYL ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Sparse raindrops like grains Last Line: Work in concert %life is good Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WARNING, by KARL SHAPIRO Poet's Biography First Line: It is a beauteous morning but the air turns sick Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WARNING, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a beauteous morning but the air turns sick Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WARNING, by GEORGIA SINE Poem Source First Line: It was his mid-western sensibilities which first Last Line: Taste the pears and pomegranates Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WARNING, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: That is not the country for poetry Last Line: In its fury, %as any blind heart knows Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WARNINGS, by WAYNE HOGAN Poem Source First Line: They don't give %good tornado warnings Last Line: Fear tornados more Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WARNINGS, by JEFF MOCK Poem Source First Line: If, as always, then the perverse disappointment of rain Last Line: Stupidity that memory will not make it beautiful Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Nine at night pounds %too dark to watch, to see Last Line: Into the first acre %we ever owned %or thought we did Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder / more thunder Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder %more thunder Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH, by APRIL LINDNER Poem Source First Line: When skies engorged with rain Last Line: And teeter on the headlong edge of smash Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH, by SARAH LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: In the gray-green evening, per breehagen Last Line: Or choose one peanut and go Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Biblical, we said, as if we knew what that meant Last Line: The next door's amplified needle-stuck drum solo %which changed forever %your notion of pulse and ar Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who was it I was saving my white kisses for Last Line: On the pane, nothing like real weather Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH, by PAUL SHUTTLEWORTH Poem Source First Line: Lightning slices above texas city Last Line: A violence of separation. %a window flies across a pasture Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WATCH, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, by GARY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The sky, reading our thoughts Last Line: Begins his hoarse song and I go on %living in the durable world Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WEATHER, by TANIS MACDONALD Poem Source First Line: She fills her lungs with close %air, humidity drowns her with Last Line: Lose each other, looming in and out of sight, %ghosts, an arm's length away Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WEATHER, by EUGENIA MACER-STORY Poem Source First Line: Many voices on the electronic list %cry out separately as tornados hit Last Line: Bright love growing somehow secretly %within the darkness of the storm Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WEATHER, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This evening in the settling dark Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WEATHER, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This evening in the settling dark Last Line: June bugs rattle the screen, annoying as ever, %like the song he murmured that would not let me slee Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WEATHER, by S. FRANCES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: The weeping willow brances slowly sway Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO WEATHER, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We arrive %this town hot as a dime Last Line: & skies always calm %unchanging, crazy clear Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO-DRAWER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sit for the portrait and the painter says Last Line: He disappears every time Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO: FOUR YEARS AFTER, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: The edge of a twister Last Line: He does the same, lefts her hand %and places it on his red handkerchief Subject(s): Love; Tornadoes TORNADOES KILL 8 IN ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE, by PATRY FRANCIS Poem Source First Line: A photograph taken from the air shows us %what remains Last Line: Of vast and random darkness Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADOS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truth is, I envy them Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADOS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Truth is, I envy them Last Line: Tornado alley where it intersects memory lane. Smoky spirit-%clouds, shadows searching for what cast Subject(s): Tornadoes TRIBUTE TO FRECKLES AND TORNADO, by JON BOWERMAN Poem Source First Line: There's a lot of tales in history about the west Subject(s): Cowboys; Tornadoes UNDER VAST TORNADO SKIES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We pan the dust like gold Last Line: The same tornado skies Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Tornadoes UNDERSTANDING TORNADOES, by CAROL ANN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: In time, I will climb the stairs Subject(s): Tornadoes WHITE TORNADO, by MARK COX Poem Source First Line: In commercials it spirals from room to room Subject(s): Tornadoes |
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