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Subject: DESSERTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APPLE SAUCE!, by EDITH GRACE BERKNESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: John peter said at supper
Last Line: If dessert's just apple sauce!
Subject(s): Apples; Desserts; Fruit


AT THE BOMB TESTING SITE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At noon in the desert a panting lizard
Last Line: The hands gripped hard on the desert.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Desserts; Nuclear Freeze


BAKER OF PIES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: This trip rose bakes pumpkin pies
Last Line: As we sail out of the twentieth century
Subject(s): Bakeries And Bakers; Cooking And Cooks; Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit; Pies


BENEATH A BLUE UMBRELLA, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That the melon seller had
Subject(s): Desserts


BERRIES ON THE BUSHES, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's blackberry ink
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Desserts


CASSIE PICKETT'S MOLASSES COOKIES, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One half-cup sugar
Last Line: Quicker than without, so I use 350 %and watch them
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Desserts; Food And Eating


CHOCOLATE, by KARLA KUSKIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Then I will fall down on the floor
Subject(s): Desserts


CHOCOLATE-COVERED SALAMI, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then it is a snack made for me
Subject(s): Desserts


DECISIONS, DECISIONS, by CECILY MOPSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What kind of dessert
Last Line: It's a nutritious %juicy treat
Subject(s): Desserts


EVENING IN THE PANTRY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's lots more fun to eat a pie
Last Line: For now and for to-morrow too!
Subject(s): Children; Desserts; Food & Eating; Childhood


FORTY PERFORMING BANANAS, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're forty performing bananas
Last Line: You are in town
Subject(s): Desserts


FRUIT SALAD: 1. PEACH, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's not much point in trying
Last Line: Starts to wrinkle like a passion fruit
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit; Peaches


FRUIT SALAD: 2. STRAWBERRY, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strawberries with whipped cream
Last Line: Lazy as the cream dripping from the whisk
Subject(s): Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit; Strawberries


GRANDMA LOUISE'S GINGERBREAD, by CRESCENT DRAGONWAGON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandmama made gingerbread
Last Line: I eat her gingerbread
Subject(s): Desserts; Food And Eating


I DID NOT EAT YOUR ICE CREAM, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We look a lot alike
Subject(s): Desserts


ICE CREAM, by CARY CROCKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Be it cone
Last Line: To get the mop
Subject(s): Desserts


ICE-CREAM PAIN, by JEFF MOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the back of my throat meets the bottom of my brain
Last Line: With that (oooh! Owww!) incredible ice-cream pain!
Subject(s): Desserts; Ice Cream


ICE-CREAM STOP, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The circus train made an ice-cream stop
Last Line: (fifty-three with ice-cream man)
Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel
Subject(s): Desserts


LOULOU AND HER CAT, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good pastry is vended
Last Line: I'm giving to you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Desserts


MENU, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mommy goes for veggies
Last Line: And see how sweet I am
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Desserts


MICKEY JONES, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mickey jones
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Desserts


MILK-SHAKE CAFE, by BRIAN PATTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went into the milk-shake cafe
Last Line: By the rspca
Subject(s): Desserts


MOON IN YOUR LUNCH BOX, by MICHAEL SPOONER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a moon
Last Line: Just for you
Subject(s): Desserts


MY BROTHER'S REALLY STINGY, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unless he licks them first
Subject(s): Desserts


NO DYSPEPTICS NEED APPLY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it's late, perhaps, for cherry pie"
Last Line: And sweeter far is mary in the kitchen making pies
Subject(s): Desserts;food & Eating;pies


ON A TRIP THROUGH YELLOWSTONE, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Desmond's now their favorite flavor
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Desserts


POP, POP, POPCORN, by CECILY MOPSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you have nothing to do
Last Line: As you end up eating some
Subject(s): Desserts


SNACK ATTACK, by BOBBYE S. GOLDSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you have a snack attack
Last Line: Chocolate is the choice for me
Subject(s): Desserts


SOMEONE SWIPED THE COOKIES', by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My luscious chocolate chips
Subject(s): Desserts


SONG FOR TITUS WHEN HE ASKS FOR A SECOND DESSERT, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Toward something sweet the berry grows
Last Line: Delighted captives to the last
Subject(s): Blueberries; Desserts; Food And Eating; Fruit


TRIFLES, by FREDERIC S. GOLDSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trifles %and %truffles
Last Line: So fattening it could split a seam
Subject(s): Desserts