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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA Matches Found: 43 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APPRENTICE, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Half a lifetime I've been looking Last Line: And the lime-flower is more beautiful than the rose Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia ARRIVAL OF THE WOLF, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: The sheep are smiling as they welcome the wolf Last Line: Smiling, smiling, smiling as they welcome the wolf Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia BEGINNING AFTER EVERYTHING, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: After I buried my mother Last Line: Why do you write poems like newspaper reports?' Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia BRIDGE, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: One morning, a week or two before Last Line: Before anyone had called 'action' Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia CALENDAR, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I heard the fall of a leaf from a calendar Last Line: All I heard was the fall of a leaf from a calendar Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia CHRISTMAS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I'm blind,' I say. I don't speak again Last Line: She could understand the half of what I say Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia CHURCH IN SARAJEVO, by ERNEST BAYER Poem Source First Line: Just another church Last Line: Pleading for shalom to conquer time Subject(s): Churches; Sarajevo, Bosnia COMMON STORY, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Sarajevo, january 1993. %my friend put his wife and children on the bus Last Line: By whoever cleans the shit and snow off buses Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia CONSEQUENCES, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: A fly on the tv screen dots the president's eye Last Line: And a warning of the terrible days ahead Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia CURTAINS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I wake you in the middle of the night. I say Last Line: Had kept me from sleeping Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia DECORATIONS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: When he came back from the war, my grandfather Last Line: By the beams in the attic Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia DOGS AND BONES, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: After a few days of war Last Line: Of the can-opener on its chain %around her neck Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia DREAM, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Asleep -- dreaming %that you are asleep and dreaming Last Line: On the pillow, sketched in blood Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia HAVING A WORD WITH GOD, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: It started out as a quarrel Last Line: The fool on the up and up Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia HEAT, 1994, by CHRISTINE E. MONTROSS Poem Source First Line: In sarajevo they are burning books Last Line: Offering herself instead, wishing she could burn Subject(s): Books; Heat; Sarajevo, Bosnia IMAGINATION LOST, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Listen, god, %my imagination is wearing out Last Line: Into the tree, the very %tree you mean to fell Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia IN ROUND THE BACK, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I've got one eye on the front door Last Line: Enter someone. %someone should enter Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia LAMENT FOR VIJECNICA, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: The national library burned for three days last august and the Last Line: How they'd taken ten tons of clinker from the deepest cellar national library Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia LEAVING SARAJEVO, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The bus driver stops to pick plums Last Line: Our hearts are no longer our own Subject(s): Buses; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Tourists; Travel LEJLA'S SECRET, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Dr. Lejla, of the department for corpse Last Line: To the sound of lejla's piano Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia LOVE STORY, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Last spring, the story of bosko & admira Last Line: Whenever the light spring breeze %blew in his direction Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia MICE OF WAR, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: By the second summer of the war Last Line: Just scraps, and the wide eyes of the mice Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia NEXT STEP, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: It took three years of war Last Line: The tree the tree the tree %is the safest place to be Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia OLD ONES, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: The old ones of sarajevo are disappearing Last Line: In the silent airwaves, the empty %diary, the letters to no Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia ON PHOTOGRAPHING THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Dramatic staircases leading nowhere Last Line: Some rubbing of the unreal remains Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Travel OSLOBODJENJE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The first year of the siege Last Line: And there were many days without bread Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Tourists; Travel ROMANCE OF PARCELS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: Before long, the city was one vast lock-up Last Line: Why her husband won't clear the blocked-up kitchen sink Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia RUZA AND THE TRAMS, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: All that remains of ruza Last Line: Know how to think about that %after a year of war Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia SARAJEVO, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bosnia. November. And the mountain roads Last Line: A village like an instinct left to rust, %composed around the echo of a pistol-shot Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia SARAJEVO, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Himzo babic %roams thru blasted Last Line: I've burned my books Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia SARAJEVO, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that a revolution really is needed, those who once were Last Line: What will strike them ripens in themselves Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Bosnia; Indifference; Sarajevo, Bosnia SARAJEVO, by ART NAHILL Poem Source First Line: Here, daybreak %will be a slow rain Last Line: The city like a plague Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia SARAJEVO, by FRANK ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: The shot was, first, an echo in the dinaric alps Last Line: In the annals of everything %love laughter carpets tobacco machine-tools the winter olympics Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia; World War I SARAJEVO, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: I have a taste for burnt, crusty things: food brittle and carboned to black Last Line: Of what I cannot leave, a body awakening in the contours of waste and disease Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia; Travel SARAJEVO SPRING, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: It is spring again. The spring is coming Last Line: Is coming, hobble- %clop, hobble-clop, hobble-clop Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia SHORT LECTURE ON LIFE, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: He comes in to the room at a run Last Line: Why does he give me such grief Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia SORROW OF SARAJEVO, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: The sarajevo wind %leafs through newspapers Last Line: Who stands by the window to watch the dark Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia STORY OF BESO, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: After a year in the aussie cane-fields Last Line: Has already lasted a year Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia THE DANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Omer's court is near to sarajevo Last Line: "wherefore didst thou bloom so fair, so lovely, / and I never can enjoy, nor wear thee?" Subject(s): "sarajevo, Bosnia; THE SARAJEVO ZOO, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Men had used up their hands, men had Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia; Zoos; Death - Animals VICTORY, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: I was passing through a country Last Line: Yelling, 'victory! Victory! Victory!' Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia WHAT'S LEFT?, by GORAN SIMIC Poem Source First Line: What's left of our rebellion Last Line: Putting the sparrows to flight Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia YARDS OF SARAJEVO, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time of day: a dim dream, probably Last Line: The station loud. All rebuilt %and modern. Only the lighting bad Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia; World War Ii |
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