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Subject: BREATH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MATHEMATICS OF BREATHING, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think of any of several arched
Last Line: Is how it starts
Subject(s): Breath


A SONG OF BREATH, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the song of breath
Last Line: I wondered that I still breathed
Subject(s): Breath


AGAIN-NOW, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This vague surreal cityscape, / not get-at-able; neither clear
Last Line: Even dreaded and unwanted quick.
Subject(s): Breath; Summer


AIR I BREATHE OUT STAYS COLD, by SIMON PERCHIK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Never again so blue %and looking for flowers
Subject(s): Breath


BEN, BREATHING, by STEVEN REESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For the lighter birds, the twitchy ones, the dawn-heralds
Last Line: Afraid you wouldn't hear his
Subject(s): Breath


BREATH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She took his breath away
Last Line: Equipped, he set out
Subject(s): Breath; Love - Marital


BREATH, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's rolled again onto his cracked rib
Last Line: And as he leans his weight %I feel that lightness now
Subject(s): Breath; Weariness


BREATH, by VERONICA SHANTZ PATTERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where from the clay pot a fountain of leaves erupts
Last Line: They are not stirred by your breath
Subject(s): Breath; Life


BREATH COMMINGLED LIKE FRIENDS, by IRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breath's labored natural
Last Line: Commingled like %friends
Subject(s): Breath; Friendship


BREATH CONTROL, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who wouldn't want a good girl, a soft hand?
Last Line: It's just breath control
Subject(s): Breath; Girls; Love; Man-woman Relationships


BREATHING, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night I scared awake in my sleep I rose
Last Line: The sound of air erasing itself, %a car radio entering a tunnel
Subject(s): Breath; Dreams; Sleep


BREATHLESS, by JAY ROGOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed I brought you back from underground
Last Line: Jacket, ever the dirty adulteress
Subject(s): Breath; Memory


BUSINESS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no money in breathing
Last Line: Breathing doesn't give enough %of a return
Subject(s): Breath


EVERYTHING; FOR MY MOTHER, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this all life is then
Last Line: Everything were under water.
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Life; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness


HAD I NOT GROWN SUDDENLY SHORT OF BREATH, by LEO YANKEVICH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A fawn in a laughing hyena's hold
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Dreams


LAST BREATH, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breathe! I demanded, like when you had your babies
Last Line: Breathe, it's up to you to keep her alive
Subject(s): Air; Breath; Life; Travel


MATHEMATICS OF BREATHING, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think of any of several arched
Last Line: Breathe in, %breathe out %is how it starts
Subject(s): Breath


NAME OF THE AIR, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It could be like that then the beloved
Last Line: Ask and then standing there without asking
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Animals; Breath; Dogs


OLFACTORY UTILITY, by ERIKA MIKKALO    Poem Source                    
First Line: But suicides have a special language
Last Line: Sniff the undersides of their wings
Subject(s): Breath; Poetry And Poets; Smells


ON JULIA'S BREATH, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathe, julia, breathe, and I'll protest
Last Line: Are circumfused there.
Subject(s): Breath


POEM, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your breath was shed
Subject(s): Sleep; Breath


PRAYER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Choked we live, and choked we die
Last Line: Death!
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Life; Prayer; Dead, The


SLIPPING INTO BED, by MICHAEL HETTICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I listen to my heartbeat, to my breath, to my wife's breathing beside
Last Line: Emembers, as though you were going anywhere at all
Subject(s): Breath; Marriage; Sleep


SNORKELING, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because I want the coral's
Last Line: So volnerably -- and follow them
Subject(s): Breath


SONG OF BREATH, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the song of breath
Last Line: My voice was numb in my ears, %I wondered that I still breathed
Subject(s): Breath


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 23, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain, alas! Poor strephon tries
Last Line: But, amoret, in thee.
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea
Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me?
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean


THE DAY THE WINDS, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day the wnds went underground I gasped for breath
Subject(s): Breath; Wind; City & Town Life; Pollution


YOUR FECUND BREATH, by HARVEY C. GRUMBINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A kiss that is blown to the wind, a quirk ...
Last Line: Can crush the blooms that grow in me from your fecund breath.
Subject(s): Breath; Kisses