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Subject: KIEV, UKRAINE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` KIEFF, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O kieff! Where religion ever seemeth
Last Line: "and thou alone, by these still gray walls, o river! / murmest, dnieper, still, and flow'st for ever
Subject(s): "dnieper River, Russia;kiev, Ukraine;russia;" "dnept River, Russia;soviet Union;russians;


MAY DAY 1986, by KIM MATTSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything on the outside is the same this morning. On the outskirts of kiev
Last Line: Into day and I have forgotten everything. The air is blue: stalks of poison
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Kiev, Ukraine


POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: KIEV, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clutching his cross, st. Vladimir
Last Line: With gilt above the purple parks
Subject(s): Kiev, Ukraine


POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: KIEV, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clutching his cross, st. Vladimir
Last Line: Where peasant women supplicate
Subject(s): Kiev, Ukraine


THERE IS ONE SYNAGOGUE EXTANT IN KIEV, by WILLIS BARNSTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They do not talk of loss at babi yar
Last Line: So long ago their queen of sabbath fled, %all that's left is kaddish for the dead
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Kiev, Ukraine; Synagogues


THROUGH KIEV, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through kiev, through the streets of the monster
Last Line: Don't worry, we'll be back!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich
Subject(s): Human Rights; Kiev, Ukraine; Russia - Army-military Life


TWO SCENES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time mag's central american expert sd
Last Line: Inhale their steaming bowls of mushroom barley soup.
Subject(s): Haig, Alexander; Kiev, Ukraine