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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ALABAMA Matches Found: 58 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALABAMA, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alabama, here we rest Last Line: On alabama soil to rest. Subject(s): Alabama ALABAMA, by MAUD LINDSAY Poem Text First Line: Sun-magic, hill-magic Last Line: All in one word. Subject(s): Alabama ALABAMA EARTH (AT BOOKER WASHINGTON'S GRAVE), by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in alabama earth Last Line: Love -- and chains are broken Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Alabama; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) ALABAMA SONG, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Oh, show us the way to the next whisky-bar Last Line: Oh! You must know why Subject(s): Alabama ALABAMA: 9/15/63, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard the one about Last Line: Is still too bright to hear them play? Subject(s): African Americans – Alabam ALABAMA: 9/15/63, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard the one about Last Line: Is still too bright to hear them play? Subject(s): Alabama BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mother dear, may I go downtown Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Bombs; Church Burnings; Civil Rights Movement; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother dear, may I go downtown Last Line: But baby, where are you? Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Bombs; Church Burnings; Civil Rights Movement; Racism BEFORE THE CRASH, by LINDA LEE HARPER Poem Source First Line: You are a flapper Last Line: Exotic as gardenias on hot, august nights Subject(s): Alabama BIRMINGHAM, by IDA DREAM SCHWARTZ Poem Text First Line: The yellow streams / remember their crystal Last Line: "watch me grow." Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama BIRMINGHAM, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the last whippoorwill call of evening Last Line: Carved out of rock with shooting stars to fire %the forge of bitter hate Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Civil Rights Movement BIRMINGHAM 1963, by RAYMOND RICHARD PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: Sunday morning and her mother's hands Last Line: Alone amid the rubble, amid the people %who perish, being innocent Alternate Author Name(s): Patterson, Ray Subject(s): African Americans; Birmingham, Alabama; Social Protest CAHABA, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the banks of the cahaba Subject(s): Cahaba River, Alabama COUNTERS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My uncle fred has a slash Last Line: It made him Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama COUNTRY GIRL, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Had this cousin that was a black Last Line: Could be mad as hell with the world Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama CRAZY, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: You'd have to be Last Line: Crazy Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama CROATAN, by CHAPMAN JAMES MILLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Addressed as mister; neither white nor red Last Line: That day the man from hartsville called him nigger. Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; Racial Equality CROON, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't give a damn Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Alabama; Negroes; American Blacks CROON, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't give a damn Last Line: For alabam' %even if it is my home Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Alabama DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Me and kesha cousins used to dance to hip-hop music Last Line: More than once heaven was closed to her Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama DEATH CHEST, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Last year, in the last field out of shorter Last Line: I always lock the bathroom doors in hotels though Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama GETTIN' OLD, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: One day I figured I'd get old Last Line: T. Fanny said, 'see?' Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama GHOST HOUSES, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Already tearing down some of the old houses Last Line: No more shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama GRANDMAMA, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My grandmama says there's no place like shorter Last Line: She just looks at the old packard and remembers Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama HIDING PLACE, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Yesterday found the old shack by line creek Last Line: To face the reality of shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama HORSES, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mr. John jacobs used to sit me on the old carousel Last Line: And I wondered if he'd ever fly again Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama INTO THE LIGHT, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: There is a picture of Last Line: The light Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama KEARSARGE AND ALABAMA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it was early sunday morning, in the year of sixty-four" Last Line: "hoist up the flag, and long may it waive, / god bless america, the home of the brave!" Subject(s): "alabama (ship);american Civil War;cherbourg, France;kearsarge (ship);sea Battles;u.s. - History;winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873);" Naval Warfare LOOKS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I stood on the curve in the road by my grandmama's Last Line: If nothing else of this town %existed Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama MISS ANNIE MORGAN, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I waved to miss annie morgan this morning Last Line: That's why I waved at miss annie Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama MISS PEARL, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: She told immigrant stories Last Line: Up in shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama NEW HOUSE, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Two years before we moved to ohio Last Line: And not going back to grandmama's house Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama NINETIES, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Had to leave the south Last Line: But would never live in %mine Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama ON A HIGHWAY EAST OF SELMA, ALABAMA; JULY 1965, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the sheriff remarked: I had no business being there. He was Last Line: And still he refuses to swallow. Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi; Prisons & Prisoners; Racism; Selma, Alabama; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ON THE STEPS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Had never seen a crack pipe till Last Line: All couldn't do any better Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama OTHER SIDE, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I used to stand on top of the shed in the back of my Last Line: Where I stood for a long time Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama PARTY, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Carla jackson threw me a party before I went north Last Line: I could never really come back Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama PIANO LESSONS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It's hard growing up in a family that Last Line: Then dragged me forever away from culture in shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama POLITICS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My mama's best friend in high school Last Line: Shorter being unforgiving of that kind of thing Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama PULLIN' SHORTER DOWN, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Got the letter yesterday Last Line: And now they're pullin' it all down Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama RED DIRT, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Got me some red alabama dirt I keep Last Line: Red, red dirt of alabama Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama SELMA, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sanitary woolworth's luncheonette Last Line: I bask in it. The bloodbath, a steamy pot above the meal Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Selma, Alabama SHORTER, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Got to shorter and saw it all Last Line: You can't Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama SIRENS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Red lights in the cold night Last Line: Never be warm again Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama SMOKING WITH T. FANNY, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: T. Fanny moved in next door to us when I was eight Last Line: Cigarettes on her birthday every year Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama SOLITARY CONFINEMENT; HAYNEVILLE, ALABAMA, 1965, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as the last bars clang Last Line: In the magnolia across the moonlit road. Subject(s): Alabama; Prisons & Prisoners; Solitude; Loneliness TENTH AVENUE, NORTH BIRMINGHAM, by ALBERT A. ROSENTHAL Poem Text First Line: The illinois central run their tracks into the dawn Last Line: Rattle into eternity .... Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE ALABAMA, by MAURICE BELL Poem Text First Line: She has gone to the bottom! The wrath of the tide Last Line: And the brave ship that bore him to glory! Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare THE EAGLE AND THE VULTURE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cherbourg roads the pirate lay Last Line: "and for heroes like winslow is shouting, ""thank god!" Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Cherbourg, France; Kearsarge (ship); Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873); Naval Warfare THE ROAD TO SELMA, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her birthplace, she's a tourist in the shrine to martyrs Last Line: Prisoners of starvation, their hungry mouths chew the bloody word, / arise Subject(s): Selma, Alabama; Civil Rights Movement VOTING, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: In conversation my grandmama calls them good-looking boys Last Line: In dresses Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WALT WHITMAN IN ALABAMA, by JAKE ADAM YORK Poem Text First Line: Maybe on his way to gadsden Subject(s): Alabama; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALTER, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Me and walter used to go skinny-dipping Last Line: In line creek Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WAR, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Every day after school I used to run into town to listen Last Line: Office up in birmingham Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WAR II, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: My daddy had vietnam dreams Last Line: To shorter Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WASH-A-TERIA, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Used to go to the wash-a-teria off the atlanta highway Last Line: Alabama afternoon Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WHERE YOU BEEN, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Grandmama says Last Line: The red, red dirt of alabama Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama WORKING THE ROOTS, by ANGELA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Secretly, it was said, my great-great-grandmama, who looked Last Line: Cause no family or neighbors had the nerve to touch 'em Subject(s): African Americans - Alabama; African Americans - Children; Alabama |
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