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Subject: CREOLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1724, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As she told her beads
Last Line: Creoles. %gens de couleur. %libres
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


AMERICAN SOUTH, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Banana plantains, crepe myrtle
Last Line: Forgiven? Will this south ever, %ever be reconciled
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


APRES LE BAL DU CORDON BLEU, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did the sun come up
Last Line: To flesh the eternal savage %lust of men
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


AT LAFAYETTE, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Creole cowboys with their
Last Line: We dance, we dance, we dance
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


AT TOWAN OAK, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within earshot below
Last Line: Emerge from that sweet bosom of the night
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


BAYOU BALLAD, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, have you heard
Last Line: Of cajun zydeco? Ahieeeeeeeeee
Subject(s): Bayous; Creoles; Louisiana


COINCOIN, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: 1786. %you were finally free
Last Line: Or does my soul lie grieving %in this fevered mud
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


CREOLE, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Names; Ancestors & Ancestry; Language; Creoles; Heritage; Heredity; Words; Vocabulary


DIASPORA AND THE REVOLUTION, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Run, run across %to freedom; all
Last Line: Final oneness of all
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


FIDDLER'S SONG: AFTER A FLOGGING, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing in the moon
Last Line: Dead around my feet
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


FROM THE FRENCH MARKET, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cinnamon ladies %in gingham bonnets
Last Line: Or something unexplained and in the very air
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


GHOSTS, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They raged reason against
Last Line: Dominion over the oneness of all souls
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


GOMBO YA-YA, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: New orleans. %there's no mystery here
Last Line: Are always in bloom like there is no tomorrow
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


HOMAGE TO MARIE LAVEAU, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Isis of the south
Last Line: Us from doubt and fear
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


L'ENFANT PERDUE, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What must be done
Last Line: It is too much
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


LA LUMIERE, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the moon is full
Last Line: And know that I was there
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


LAFCADIO HEARN'S DREAM OF A QUADROON MISTRESS, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your wish? %to touch the light under my skin
Last Line: And this night envelops us in the softness of stars
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


LEGACY, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father's hands were rough
Last Line: Nothing more is needed
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


LES SOEURS DE LA SAINTE FAMILLE, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the civil war
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


LES VAGABONDS, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Etienne: %sailing to france, enfin
Last Line: The pelt of fear
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


LETTER TO ALICE RUTH MOORE, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The grief of spring's upon us as I write
Last Line: Be well and if you can, remember me
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


LULLABY, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beautiful dreamer: %night after storm
Last Line: And breathe him this song
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


MADAM BOUCARD TO HER MULATTO DAUGHTER, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some unnamed thing
Last Line: Coldness. Make us love
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


MADAM BOUCARD'S ASSIGNATION, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stand in my rose
Last Line: Mirabilis for his bastard babes
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


MALA, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, she's a strange lot
Last Line: Sty amid the pink and lifeless corpses strewn within
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


ON WATCHING ZELIME BEING SOLD, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monsieur charpentier's words
Last Line: They quickly lead away
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


PERE DUVENY RUMINATS AMONG THE NATCHEZ, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love is a mystery
Last Line: Sleepless in this lavish %woodland of war
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


PORTRAIT OF MADAM BOUCARD, WITH PEARLS, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are alone
Last Line: He dare not touch me
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


SIBLINGS: THE MALATTO SLAVE, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why she drive me so
Last Line: Sought and won; I'll pay the price
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


SONG OF THE OLD VENDOR, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because my heart is mournful
Last Line: Twenty-five cents for men, %fifty cents for women
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


SONS OF FREEDOM, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With an eagle in their caps
Last Line: By the victory shouts for old glory
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


SOULANGAI, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a house by the river
Last Line: A house that sang with the rising of soft morning
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


SPELLS, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alcide raped ursule's girl
Last Line: Coiled up on her bed and died
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


SUZETTE, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if a sorcerer struck a flame
Last Line: One dusky night throwing all her stars
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


SWAMP LEGEND, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was a tall
Last Line: Until her eyes %bled like fire
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


THIBODAUX, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surely there was also the warmth
Last Line: Who fear the present past may breathe free and %for a while, forgive
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


TI MALICE, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trapped like a beaten dog
Last Line: I leave with silence inside my eyes
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


TOUCOUTOU, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pale. - pale beyond relief
Last Line: This infinite untouchable %privilege of being %white
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


VIEW FROM THE RAMPARTS, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carmelita pena %quarteronne and mistress
Last Line: And go abroad, unbound
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


WILD IRIS, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soft measured rain at dawn
Last Line: Whose indigo blossoms slowly %break and fall
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


ZALLI, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She grows pale in that house
Last Line: Balancing movement with fear
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana


ZELIME, by SYBIL KEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were it not for your eyes, zelime
Last Line: Where are you now as the curfew booms? Where are %you now, as my heart grows dark?
Subject(s): Creoles; Louisiana