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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ACTIVITY Matches Found: 42 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (BLINDED BY GIANT LEAPS), by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blinded by giant leaps, we've met, travellers through mirages Last Line: That, as I lie close to you, changes its color Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Activity; Blindness ACTS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shape our deeds and then are shapen by them Last Line: Were they born fair, hell can defile them not. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Activity; Exercise AGENDA AT 74, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tap barometer, burn trash Last Line: Tap the fucking barometer... Subject(s): Activity; Life; Old Age; Exercise ALL EARFTH'S DEVIDED, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All earth's divided in two parts Subject(s): Activity; Thought; Exercise; Thinking ALL TRAINS ARE GOING LOCAL, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowing down your body enough to feel Last Line: Slowing down your body enough to feel Subject(s): Bodies; Activity CALISTHENICS, by LOLLY WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Your soul / is a little stooped Last Line: Now, touch a star.... Subject(s): Activity; Exercise CLUTTER, by JAMES NEYLON Poem Source First Line: It starts with the first Last Line: Because there are those who know %things and those who wonder Subject(s): Activity; Success CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 6. HEALTH AND STRENGTH, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Books say everybody can live forever Last Line: Fog the smog to life without end! Subject(s): Activity; Health; Life DO IT NOW (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you've got a job to do Last Line: You hit up a faster gait -- / do it now! Subject(s): Activity; Exercise DON'T SIGN ANYTHING, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Riding the horse as was my wont Subject(s): Activity; Exercise DUMB-BELLS; A GYMNASIUM SONG, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dumb-bells, silent though ye be Last Line: Ring the bells of health for me! Subject(s): Activity; Exercise EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 15. RATHER DEEDS THAN WORDS, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say you love, but I had rather see't Last Line: But doing, doing, that's the proving part. Subject(s): Activity; Language; Love; Exercise; Words; Vocabulary EXERCISE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear this touch: grass parts Last Line: Fire selects new wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Activity; Change; Nature; Relationships; Exercise EXERCISE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A good long walk each day is wise, but as Last Line: "degeneration fatty!" Subject(s): Activity; Health; Exercise EXERCISE (1), by PAT NOLAN Poem Source First Line: Just as I stood up Last Line: What I stood for Subject(s): Activity EXERCISE (2), by PAT NOLAN Poem Source First Line: Get loaded Last Line: Into the tub Subject(s): Activity EXERCISE IN REMEMBERING, by DANIELA CRASNARU Poem Source Last Line: Geometric locus of %the most brightly glittering cruelty Subject(s): Activity; Memory FABLE: THE SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labour entitles man to eat Last Line: Instruct vain supercilious man.' Subject(s): Activity; Animals; Cats; Fables; Reason; Scholarship & Scholars; Virtue; Exercise; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals I COME THE WAY THAT', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Want to see it, I want to Subject(s): Activity; Change IF THIS IS PARADISE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this is paradise: trees, beehives Last Line: A bowl full of fire and pretend that it's magic? Subject(s): Activity; Heaven; Progress; Exercise; Paradise KWANNON , by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hypervigilance such that Last Line: In her terrible estuary of lamentations? Subject(s): Women; Activity LAMENT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We may well ask now: 'where are the lilacs?' yes Last Line: For the guerilla entering the plaza where defeated generals wait Subject(s): Activity; Chile; Guerrillas; Politics & Government; Socialism; Spain; Exercise METAPHOR TO ACTION, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether it is a speaker, taut on a platform, Subject(s): Activity; Exercise MR. GETTHINGSDONE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phil ossifize is a very big man Last Line: We need mr. Getthingsdone. Subject(s): Activity; World War I; Exercise; First World War NOW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise! For the day is passing Last Line: You may wake to find it past! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Activity; Courage; Time; Exercise; Valor; Bravery SAYING AND DOING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the talk that will count, boys Last Line: But the end of the talking, -- the deed! Subject(s): Activity; Exercise SERIES OF ACTIONS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like someone who has given Last Line: The door opening as the palm of an eye Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Activity; Motion SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 90, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetheart, sweetheart, delay no more Last Line: Now what can all the world avail? Subject(s): Activity; Procrastination SPENDING THE UNSPENT, by JANE FRANCIS MAYHALL Poem Source First Line: Jerking alive there is temerity in Last Line: Neighboring signals out of %our unspent isolation Subject(s): Activity SPIRITUAL EXERCISES, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knees up! Sophie shouts. We're jogging in place Last Line: Beach towel, heavenly clothes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Activity; Exercise SPORTS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Manny loves the gear. The cleats and shin pads, the balls and bats, clubs Last Line: Rink music, weaving through the fabric of slower couples like a tailor's %needle. There's a pretty g Subject(s): Activity; Adolescence; Boys; Skiing; Sports TEA FOR TWO, by PAT NOLAN Poem Source First Line: If I'm not too quiet Subject(s): Activity THAT BRIGHT GREY EYE, by Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grey sky, lighter & darker Last Line: Is a munificence now, / is justified Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Activity THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 3. EXERCISE, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Through various toils the adventurous muse has pass'd Last Line: And other themes invite my wandering song. Subject(s): Activity; Health; Exercise THE HOUR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark, thick branch in the last light is like Last Line: Go fireflies striking their soft, yellow lights. Subject(s): Activity; Dusk; Escapes; Evening; Hope; Exercise; Fugitives; Sunset; Twilight; Optimism THE PREFACE TO DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS, by ANNE COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Being through weakness to the house confin'd Last Line: Will his and all their works for him defend. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, An Subject(s): Activity; Evil; Grief; Reason; Exercise; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PRESSURE OF THE MOMENT, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pressure of the moment can cause someone to kill someone or something Subject(s): Activity; Exercise THINK AND DO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always have to be doing something, accomplishing some- Subject(s): Activity; Exercise TOM TWIST, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom twist was a wonderful fellow Last Line: Where it still continues to spin. Subject(s): Activity; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Exercise; Seamen; Sails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TWO BATHS: 2, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light roused us from the depths of our separate longings Last Line: Past the horizon, writing you out of existence. Subject(s): Activity; Baths & Bathing; Loss; Love - Complaints; Memory; Exercise UNABLE TO FIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The right way to get out of bed Last Line: Make plans for summer -- winter even. Subject(s): Activity; Fate; Future Life; Longing; Morning; Exercise; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WALKING MANTRA, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Walking laps at highland's Last Line: But soon give it up. %too presumptious Subject(s): Activity; Walking |
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