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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOS ANGELES Matches Found: 43 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APOLLO AT LAX, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At lax, wandering among lost luggage Last Line: In wreaths of another god. Subject(s): Los Angeles; Love Affairs BAGPIPES AT THE BILTMORE, by GEORGE ROBERT ACWORTH CONQUEST Poem Source First Line: Downtown los angeles: %in the huge baroque lobby Last Line: (and it's pleasant to do it %in the solemn old biltmore), %'oh belt up, you buggers!' Subject(s): Biltmore Hotel (los Angeles); Los Angeles BANAL EL DORADO, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The same pain as always Last Line: Sister, we have arrived at this boulevard %in los angeles to stay Subject(s): Los Angeles; Memory; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BLUE KASHMIR, '74, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: L.A. Spring, our boulevard of flowering jaca Last Line: I begged off. Eyes, eyes, the color of the dogs', crosses Subject(s): Los Angeles; Spring C'EST PLUS QU'UN CRIME, C'EST UNE FAUTE', by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the small hours, several rounds Last Line: The night sky briefly flared %into a brilliant shade of red Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles CALIFORNIA PLUSH, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He only thing I miss about los angeles Subject(s): Cities And Towns; Los Angeles, California CONTEMPLATING HELL, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Contemplating hell, as I once heard it Last Line: Than the inhabitants of the barracks Subject(s): Hell; London; Los Angeles DOWNTOWN L.A., by NANCY BABKA Poem Source First Line: Darkness beautifies me Last Line: Of an all-night dance hostess %on spring street Subject(s): Los Angeles DOWNTOWN L.A., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throwing your shoe at 3 a.M. And smashing the window, then Last Line: Going / nowhere Subject(s): Los Angeles DOWNTOWN L.A., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throwing your shoe at 3 a.M. And smashing the window, then Subject(s): Los Angeles EARTH AS DESDEMONA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Unerringly, %let us talk of graves Last Line: A zone of no %destruction Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Graves; Los Angeles; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Pacific Ocean; Prejudice; Sin; Women EMPTY SILHOUETTES, by SUE CAYLOR Poem Source First Line: The wind whips around skyscraper exteriors Last Line: I wait for my name to appear Subject(s): Los Angeles HITTING THE MOON, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: Hitting the moon and the soviet photograph Last Line: Joint efforts made a snow letter and russia would not forget Subject(s): Biltmore Hotel (los Angeles); Tourists; Travel HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, / california: / a summer afternoon Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Gays & Lesbians; Lakes; Los Angeles; Urban Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Pools; Ponds HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, %california: %a summer afternoon Last Line: Snaps a photograph %of the splash Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Homosexuality; Lakes; Los Angeles HOT DAY, by STEVE EFFINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Downtown l.A. 5th street off main back behind greyhound station Last Line: Cop car moves slowly down street Subject(s): Commuters; Greyhounds; Los Angeles; Travel I REMEMBER LOS ANGELES, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the pacific electric train passing Last Line: Many a muggy afternoon and wondering %where to find the real life of los angeles Subject(s): Los Angeles IF YOU SEE ME IN L.A. IT'S BECAUSE I'M LOOKING FOR AIRPORT, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Even without hollywood Last Line: Beholding the distance %of the smog Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Los Angeles; Mexico City; Travel; West Indies L.A., by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, at its center one can find oneself Last Line: To this waste of angels, of ever-widening gaps Subject(s): Los Angeles L.A., by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, at its center one can find oneself Last Line: To this waste of angels, of ever-widening gaps Subject(s): Los Angeles LA BREA, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles. So just / guess what I saw: not the dust Subject(s): La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles LINE 471 DOWNTOWN LA, by SUE CAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Her breasts %were inverted Last Line: The jingle of bus money %in my pocket Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Los Angeles; Travel LITTLE L. A. VILLANELLE, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: I drove home that night in the rain Last Line: After months of drought, the old refrain Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that city we were perfect Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles; Urban Life LOS ANGELES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that city we were perfect Last Line: At times, we hover over, knowing, %helpless, looking on Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles LOS ANGELES NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: It looks like the streets are flowing sweetly in the night Last Line: And when they sleep they will not dream of angels but of mortals Subject(s): Angels; Desire; Los Angeles; Love Affairs; Romance MOON OVER L.A., by MARTHA RONK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon moreover spills onto Last Line: We've seen it all and don't mind Subject(s): Los Angeles; Moon NEW MEXICAN CEMETERY: LOS ANGELES, by KURT LELAND Poem Source First Line: Don't look for us in concrete form Last Line: We thrum: %no end's our only plan! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Los Angeles PEOPLE OF WATTS, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where we come from, sometimes, beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Los Angeles; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks PIRANESI IN L.A., by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: And packing sketches, ink, knife, and quills Last Line: Reversed, he spoke to the plate %the anthology of decay Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles RANCHO LA BREA, by ROY WALTER JAMES Poem Text First Line: The air slips through the pepper boughs Last Line: She quickly covers death and sings of life. Subject(s): La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles RETURN TO MARSH STREET, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twice, now, I've gone back there, like a part-time ghost Last Line: Bearable Subject(s): Bohemians; Easter; Holidays; Los Angeles; The Resurrection STRAVINSKY IN L.A., by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In white pleated trousers, peering through green Last Line: Watts, los angeles, aspiration Subject(s): Watts Towers, Los Angeles (1921-1955) SUMMER STORM IN LOS ANGELES, by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW Poem Text First Line: When a july storm sweeps down the blue black Last Line: "diverting." Subject(s): Los Angeles; Storms; Summer SURFACE AND STRUCTURE: BONAVENTURE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four black glass silos Last Line: Broken from a necklace. Subject(s): Decay; Hotels; Los Angeles; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE MOON OVER L.A., by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon moreover spills onto Subject(s): Los Angeles; Moon THINKING OF THE LOST WORLD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This spoonful of chocolate tapioca Last Line: Nothing: nothing for which there's no reward Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Los Angeles, California TOWERS OF SIMON RODIA; FOR HOWARD W. SWENSON 1903-1081, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trapped in a tunnel Last Line: The day he locked the door on eden. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rodia, Simon (1875-1959); Watts Towers, Los Angeles (1921-1955); Work; Workers WHERE I LIVE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the lip of a big black vagina Last Line: Named black los angeles Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Los Angeles; Night Clubs; Violence WHERE I LIVE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the lip of a big black vagina Last Line: She's the baddest piece of ass on the west coast %named black los angeles Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Los Angeles; Night Clubs; Violence WINTER, LOS ANGELES, by HENRY J. MORRO Poem Source First Line: After a rain I can smell the city on my skin Last Line: For the odors of 10 million people %to seep into my body Subject(s): Los Angeles YELLOW LIGHT, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One arm hooked around the frayed strap Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles; Urban Life YELLOW LIGHT, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One arm hooked around the frayed strap Last Line: Covers everything, everything in sight, %in a heavy light like yellow onions Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles |
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