|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: THAILAND Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADAM AND HIS FATHER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adam's father, always a good provider Last Line: "perhaps what I have always wanted is to want." Subject(s): Desire; Fathers & Sons; Thailand; Travel; Journeys; Trips ALIEN WOMEN; SONGKHLA, THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-blind in the pharmacy's dim light Last Line: Back into the sun's fistful of blades. Subject(s): Intermarriage; Marriage; Shopping; Thailand; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN AMERICAN IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps the polluted air Last Line: Still he's optimistic. Subject(s): Americans; Culture Conflict; Ignorance; Thailand; Dullness; Stupdity BACKGROUND AND DESIGN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On tv in a bangkok shop window Last Line: From fiend to lover and back. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Music & Musicians; Thailand FISHERMAN IN SONGKHLA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His mirror shines back with approval, god's Last Line: Palms open in the gesture of forgiveness. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Thailand FOOD STALL, BANGKOK, by ALOHA DIAO LAVINA Poem Source First Line: On dishwater wet concrete, crouched Last Line: Through which we see, through which we wade Subject(s): Bangkok, Thailand GETTING A PURCHASE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoring? I guess I thought it was part Last Line: I can send a small check from time to time. Subject(s): Love; Prostitution; Thailand; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 3. THAILALND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes were made green in Last Line: His within this citadel. Subject(s): Children; Thailand; Childhood PARADYS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of paradys ne can not I speken propurly Last Line: If ever we desire to enter. %chiang mai thailand Subject(s): Museums; Thailand; Tourists; Travel POLYGAMY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When an official goes upcountry Last Line: His name green as unreaped fantasy. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Polygamy; Thailand; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards STEPS IN COMPOSITION: FOUR STUDENTS, by DIANE AVERILL Poem Source First Line: I %three years I spend in thailand refugee camp Last Line: Now, see if you can start a new paragraph Subject(s): Grammar; Refugees; Schools; Thailand THE GHOST, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woodsmoke guides us through the mist Last Line: Wept as though he'd met his future's ghost. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Thailand; Tourists THE GUIDE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He leads us to our village destination Last Line: The culture with the most things wins. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Thailand; Tourists THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because, separated from us by a language Last Line: From samsara to nirvana. Subject(s): Hotels; Landlords & Tenants; Thailand; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THREE SILENCES IN THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the mekong's silt-thick flow Last Line: I bear no offering but the abstinence of silence. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Silence; Thailand TREKKING THE HILLS OF NORTHERN THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The english girl is being sick in the bushes Last Line: That there always be other hills. Subject(s): Thailand; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips |
|