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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE RANDOM TORNADO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harvest won't save our barn from twisters
Last Line: Send riders to warn our cousins %beware of angels seeking work
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Tornadoes


AFTER THE TORNADO, by JOHN C. COLEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hoop is already sagging from years
Last Line: The roofs wrinkled like tired skin, %the barn next door sunken, leaning westward
Subject(s): Tornadoes


AFTER THE TORNADO, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last eve the earth was calm, the heavens
Last Line: Glares the red sunrise, blurred with mists of fire!
Subject(s): Tornadoes


AFTER THE TORNADO, by JAMES HAZEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our power failed, started
Subject(s): Tornadoes


AFTER THE TORNADO, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Anyone driving by ridge and swamp pike this morning
Last Line: Handing the red purse %back to the housewife
Subject(s): Tornadoes


ANT IN THE TORNADO, by MICK VRANICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lots of talk about
Last Line: Grows our of the ground
Subject(s): Tornadoes


BEFORE THE TORNADO TORE THROUGH TAZEWELL COUNTY, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond the senior high school
Subject(s): Tornadoes


ELEGY FOR A LATE TORNADO, by E. M. SCHORB    Poem Source                    
First Line: No, nature has no wrath, no, none at all, and you
Last Line: The injured creatures of the planet as they struggle, %not merely struggle--stronger, propagate--o w
Subject(s): Tornadoes


FEAR OF TORNADOES, by RODNEY TORRESON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she awakes, %the air seems too alive, the fan
Last Line: She pulls on arms, %dresses herself in children
Subject(s): Tornadoes


FROST TEXAS TORNADO BLUES, by TEXAS ALEXANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was sitting looking: way out across the world
Last Line: Does it seem like hell was broke out: in this place below
Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Tornadoes


GREAT PLAINS TORNADO, by JIM BARNES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty miles away %it stands still,
Last Line: Artifacts hammered %to useless seed.
Subject(s): Tornadoes


GREEK WEEK TORNADO, by MARTHA GREENWALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wrested from sleep, the students, hung-over %rush onto their balconies
Last Line: Realize, her collarbone a perfect crosshow
Subject(s): Tornadoes


LIP-BALM TELEPHONE TORNADO MOTORCYCLE, by M LONCAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your body rhymes %with her body like mine
Last Line: Tornado motorcycle %prosthetic-limb
Subject(s): Tornadoes


LOVE AND TORNADOES, by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the time I meet up with michael lee
Last Line: To flood our clouded souls %with his heavy, searching light
Subject(s): Tornadoes


MICKEY CONWAY: TORNADO WARNING, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tornado warning! %I snatch my shoe box of gum-dusty
Last Line: I'm getting a bit tired of hearing %tornado warning
Subject(s): Tornadoes


MID-PLAINS TORNADO, by LINDA LOUISE BIERDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've seen it drive straw straight through a fence post
Last Line: In an oak tree, like a flurry of leaves %drawn back again
Subject(s): Tornadoes


NEW ST. LOUIS BLUES: TORNADO BLUES, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black wind come a-speedin' down da river from de kansas plains
Subject(s): Tornadoes


NEWARK BOY ASSESSES TORNADO DAMAGE, WEEKS REMOVED, by KYLE G. DARGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These trees bent like gleaners over the road
Last Line: Where city and country disagree
Subject(s): Tornadoes


NOT A TORNADO WARNING, by DEREK MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the event of a tornado
Subject(s): Tornadoes


ONE SUMMER HURRICANE LYNNE SPAWNS TORNADOS AS FAR WEST AS..., by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm with my name dragged one
Last Line: Boot waiting to kick us open like a clay pot
Subject(s): Tornadoes


ONE SUMMER HURRICANE LYNNE SPAWNS TORNADOS AS FAR WEST AS..., by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm with my name dragged one
Last Line: The whole city of grief rose up to face that black %boot that waited to kick us open like a clay pot
Subject(s): Tornadoes


SADDLING THE GODS (OR HOW TO LIVE THROUGH A TORNADO), by PAMELA STEED HILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: By noon we'll know
Last Line: And go bucking our way %into the night
Subject(s): Tornadoes


SULTRY WEATHER (OR, TORNADO WATCH), by ROBERT MCGOVERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes, we all know why
Last Line: To the chill of stormy weather
Subject(s): Tornadoes


SURVIVING THE TORNADO: POLITICS, by BERNARD GERSHENSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hear it touch down what do we see
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by JIM BARNES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am running; it is night,
Last Line: The light comes from me.
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by EDWARD BYRNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think of that one word learned
Last Line: He has not yet gotten to know
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That time when %the senator noticed that
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Tornadoes


TORNADO, by LEO DANGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aunt cordelia was a tough old lady
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by CHARLES DE KAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whose eye has marked his gendering? On his
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Privets rustle
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by JAMES HEARST    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cornfield felt a need to write
Last Line: Into one blotted garbled word %only an idiot could read
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by ROBERT HEDIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had seen ferris wheels before, but this one
Last Line: Looking down from those intricate spokes of light
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by ROBERT HEDIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The last time any of us saw gustafson's prize sow
Last Line: The empty swill pail still vibrating in his hands
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by ROBERT HEDIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherever he was, he was holding
Last Line: Of his hat as if tipping it
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by JACK HIRSCHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid shambles blown, blown pages of a gideon
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by JACK HIRSCHMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid shambles blown, blown pages of a gideon
Last Line: About the swindging tail of the dragon that snapped
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by LINDA MCCARRISTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of that one word learned long ago
Last Line: We value; and now my son naps in my lap, %tired of this term he has not yet gotten to know
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Downstairs, a frieze of naked women %wearing wide black sombreros
Last Line: Flies in the fake ice cubes %looking so poor?
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by MARY QUADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have practiced crouching for disaster- %the siren echoing down an empty hall
Last Line: When things stop falling, %that means it is over
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First the soul of our house left, up the chimney
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind went by with people falling out of it
Last Line: His legs reaching skyward, %and growing longer
Subject(s): Tornadoes; Wind


TORNADO, by ELAINE TISE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A voice calls from the other room while hail
Last Line: The lights go out and death-like darkness looms
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO, by JOAN YEAGLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Loosed from coiling braids
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO ALERT, by JIM HEYNEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That night %against a copper sky there rose
Last Line: The haughty, grunting, earthy sow
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO AT NIGHT, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They ran out in nightgowns to seek the protection
Last Line: Shirtless, as when gods were men
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO AT THE DOOR, by DEBORAH WARREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I read about a gale at sea
Last Line: But every time I shut the door
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO BLOWS MOTHER SEVEN MILES, by DOUGLAS GRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dinner was a little late
Last Line: I don't think %I'm in kansas anymore
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO BLUES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I uster own the chickabee farm
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Tornadoes


TORNADO CHASING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night the cb crackles
Last Line: In flashes. They gasp like me %and breathe the name of god
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Tornadoes


TORNADO CHILD, by KWAME DAWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a tornado child
Last Line: Streaked with my many songs
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO DAYS, by ELEANOR LERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up early in the raw morning, the dog and I go out to hunt the day
Last Line: Whose riddles must be answered before he dreams us all again
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO DREAMS, by FRED HOFFMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surrounded by night
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO OF BRILLIANCE, by ALICE OLDS-ELLINGSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You skim along the roof
Last Line: Any felony committed on the apartment street, just south %ofsan francisco
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO SEASON, by MICHAEL CAREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Funny thing was
Last Line: All the way %to oblivion
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO SEASON, by CHRISTOPHER S. FUQUA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always late, beyond bedtime
Last Line: And the cats prowl the %kitchen for food
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO SOUP, by A. K. REDWING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wino was eating soup
Last Line: A bank president on his lunch break,' I said
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO SUNDAY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The winds sweetly sung
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO SURVIVOR, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said the people come inside
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO SURVIVOR, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said the people come inside
Last Line: It was over for maybe minutes %then it was never over
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO SYMPTOMS, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As you step outdoors you'll enter a hot barn
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WARNING, by AMY LEVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's spring on the silver screen
Last Line: A leaving song, trailers and bassinets
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Tornadoes


TORNADO WARNING, by JAMES MCKEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because it's not nine o'clock
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WARNING, by DARYL ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sparse raindrops like grains
Last Line: Work in concert %life is good
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WARNING, by KARL SHAPIRO            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a beauteous morning but the air turns sick
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WARNING, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a beauteous morning but the air turns sick
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WARNING, by GEORGIA SINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was his mid-western sensibilities which first
Last Line: Taste the pears and pomegranates
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WARNING, by JOYCE SUTPHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That is not the country for poetry
Last Line: In its fury, %as any blind heart knows
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WARNINGS, by WAYNE HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They don't give %good tornado warnings
Last Line: Fear tornados more
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WARNINGS, by JEFF MOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: If, as always, then the perverse disappointment of rain
Last Line: Stupidity that memory will not make it beautiful
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WATCH, by JULIE FAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nine at night pounds %too dark to watch, to see
Last Line: Into the first acre %we ever owned %or thought we did
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WATCH, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thunder / more thunder
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WATCH, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thunder %more thunder
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WATCH, by APRIL LINDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When skies engorged with rain
Last Line: And teeter on the headlong edge of smash
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WATCH, by SARAH LINDSAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the gray-green evening, per breehagen
Last Line: Or choose one peanut and go
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WATCH, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Biblical, we said, as if we knew what that meant
Last Line: The next door's amplified needle-stuck drum solo %which changed forever %your notion of pulse and ar
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WATCH, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who was it I was saving my white kisses for
Last Line: On the pane, nothing like real weather
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WATCH, by PAUL SHUTTLEWORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lightning slices above texas city
Last Line: A violence of separation. %a window flies across a pasture
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WATCH, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, by GARY YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky, reading our thoughts
Last Line: Begins his hoarse song and I go on %living in the durable world
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WEATHER, by TANIS MACDONALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She fills her lungs with close %air, humidity drowns her with
Last Line: Lose each other, looming in and out of sight, %ghosts, an arm's length away
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WEATHER, by EUGENIA MACER-STORY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Many voices on the electronic list %cry out separately as tornados hit
Last Line: Bright love growing somehow secretly %within the darkness of the storm
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WEATHER, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This evening in the settling dark
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WEATHER, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This evening in the settling dark
Last Line: June bugs rattle the screen, annoying as ever, %like the song he murmured that would not let me slee
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WEATHER, by S. FRANCES WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The weeping willow brances slowly sway
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO WEATHER, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We arrive %this town hot as a dime
Last Line: & skies always calm %unchanging, crazy clear
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO-DRAWER, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sit for the portrait and the painter says
Last Line: He disappears every time
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADO: FOUR YEARS AFTER, by JULIE FAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The edge of a twister
Last Line: He does the same, lefts her hand %and places it on his red handkerchief
Subject(s): Love; Tornadoes


TORNADOES KILL 8 IN ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE, by PATRY FRANCIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A photograph taken from the air shows us %what remains
Last Line: Of vast and random darkness
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADOS, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truth is, I envy them
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TORNADOS, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truth is, I envy them
Last Line: Tornado alley where it intersects memory lane. Smoky spirit-%clouds, shadows searching for what cast
Subject(s): Tornadoes


TRIBUTE TO FRECKLES AND TORNADO, by JON BOWERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a lot of tales in history about the west
Subject(s): Cowboys; Tornadoes


UNDER VAST TORNADO SKIES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We pan the dust like gold
Last Line: The same tornado skies
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Tornadoes


UNDERSTANDING TORNADOES, by CAROL ANN RUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In time, I will climb the stairs
Subject(s): Tornadoes


WHITE TORNADO, by MARK COX    Poem Source                    
First Line: In commercials it spirals from room to room
Subject(s): Tornadoes