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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TRUCKS & TRUCKING Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRUCKER BREAKS DOWN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering himself pulling onto a highway Last Line: Flowing down through absolute darkness into a pool of rising vapor. Subject(s): Georgia (state); Solitude; Southern States; Trucks & Trucking; Loneliness; South (u.s.); Teamsters; Truckers; Freight A TRUCKER DRIVES THROUGH HIS LOST YOUTH, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Years ago he drove a different route Last Line: Him backwards as far as his mind will haul. Subject(s): Ford Motor Company; Southern States; Temperance; Trucks & Trucking; South (u.s.); Prohibition; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight AFTER THE TRUCKERS' RESTURANT, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men look at curves in the dark Last Line: She can hear it (sleeping). Subject(s): Slavery; Trucks & Trucking; Serfs DIRECTIONS FOR CARRYING EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR WASTES THROUGH ..., by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the long island expressway at brookhaven Last Line: And look out for the crazies. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Nuclear Waste; Trucks & Trucking; Nuclear Freeze; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight HOW THE FIRE QUEEN CROSSED THE SWAMP, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flood was down in the wilga swamps, three feet over the mud Last Line: "him through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Devil; Floods; Horses; Swamps; Trucks & Trucking; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Bogs; Fens; Marshes JOSEPH'S REFORM (A TALE OF THE HOT DOG TAVERN), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was just a gay young buck, I piloted a heavy truck Last Line: "I never use such language, but it warms my heart to hear it." Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Reformation; Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight MCCARTHY'S BREW: A GULF COUNTRY YARN, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS Poem Text First Line: The teams of black mccarthy crawled adown the norman road Last Line: Gulf whisky kills at twenty yards, but this stuff kills at sight! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Trucks & Trucking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight ON WIRRABO ROAD, by ERNEST ROBIN Poem Text First Line: Gone are now old coaching ways Last Line: On the road to wirrabo. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roads; Trucks & Trucking; Paths; Trails ROUND THE BEND, by WILL LAWSON Poem Text First Line: Round the bend where the pungas grow Last Line: And his was an easy mind. Subject(s): Banjos; Idleness; Musical Instruments; Trucks & Trucking; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight SALT, by A. S. ALLISON Poem Text First Line: I crossed the bogong plains that night on the box of a cobb and co. Last Line: But only I and the horses heard jim's cry from the depths below. Subject(s): Cattle; Salt; Story-telling; Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight THE CARTER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, I be a carter wi' my whip Last Line: The heavy lwoad do slowly ride. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Trucks & Trucking; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight THE LIGHTS OF COBB AND CO., by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men Last Line: A hundred miles shall see tonight the lights of cobb and co! Subject(s): Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight THE TEAMSTER, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With slow and slouching gait sam leads the team Last Line: Is little may. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight THE TRUCK DRIVER, by EDITH HARRIET JONES Poem Text First Line: He came out from the house Last Line: American. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Trucks & Trucking; Work; Workers; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight THE WORKING BULLOCK'S REPRIEVE, by FRANCIS HODGSON NIXON Poem Text First Line: I'm a poor old working bullock Last Line: To 'scape the driver's blow! Subject(s): Animals; Cruelty; Disease; Escapes; Horses; Pain; Trucks & Trucking; Fugitives; Suffering; Misery WHEN THE TEAMS BROUGHT IN THE WOOL, by BARNEY O'TOOLE Poem Text First Line: I loaded at george elbourne's some thirty bales of wool Last Line: He simply took the good with the bad, and brought the wool-clip down. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Nostalgia; Trucks & Trucking; Wine |
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