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Subject: HONOLULU
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HAWAII BOUND: 2. POETRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once more the sun is shining
Last Line: Defy the sea again!
Subject(s): Guests; Harbors; Honolulu; Islands; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


HONOLULU, by ROBERT MAZZOCCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are quays here
Last Line: In plumeria leaves and red chiffon %waves a farewell and a huge black taxi departs
Subject(s): Cities; Honolulu


HONOLULU, RESTAURANT ROW, by WILLIAM LINVILLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cannery %puts up
Last Line: Keeps us alive %in paradise
Subject(s): Honolulu; Restaurants


LINES FROM HONOLULU, by WILLIAM LINVILLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life is hard
Last Line: Or has our voice faded?
Subject(s): Honolulu


MARGINALIA: HONOLULU, 1970, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The teacher kept saying, 'pay %attention,' and I had been, only
Last Line: Thick clouds were gathering over punchbowl
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Honolulu; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


WAIKIKI, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the famous beach in honolulu a small japanese girl cried and cried
Last Line: Made and funneled up the billion particles into a mound.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Honolulu; Seashore; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


WHAT'S HERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Idaho potatoes have made it to honolulu
Last Line: I'll go soon. And, don't remember me.
Subject(s): Honolulu; Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips