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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DUTCH EAST INDIES Matches Found: 10 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ISN'T IT ROMANTIC, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The guide book promised birds of paradise Last Line: Whirl me from this place I most wanted to be. Subject(s): Disappointment; Indonesia; Tourists; Dutch East Indies MANOKWARI, IRIAN JAYA; IN MEMORIAM, ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dangling rainbows of skipjack swing Last Line: Of notes, a little twilight music. Subject(s): Evolution; Indonesia; Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913); Dutch East Indies MEDIAS RES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The middle's where I wonder why as I wake Last Line: Imagination, I wonder knowing why. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Indonesia; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips MISSIONARIES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rusted helmets, dog tags in the garden Last Line: How to iron their new white shirts. Subject(s): Civilization; Indonesia; Missions & Missionaries; Dutch East Indies NO EXEMPTION FOR TOURISTS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A foreign family -- mother, father Last Line: To the bright ribbon of river. Subject(s): Indonesia; Suicide; Tourists; Dutch East Indies ORANGUTAN REHAB, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A circle of unbarbered redheads round Last Line: Limb toward a cultivated taste for freedom. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Freedom; Indonesia; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Liberty; Dutch East Indies STALKING LEMURS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 4 a.M., the moon down world is dark Last Line: Into leaves and dawn. Subject(s): Hunting; Indonesia; Hunters; Dutch East Indies THE BALINESE WITCH DOCTOR, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sits in the circle of his simmering Last Line: Baby chicken stirs in moonlight's shadows. Subject(s): Indonesia; Religion; Dutch East Indies; Theology THE BRACELET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days I bargained over this brass round Last Line: "not at least the way we would mind, for sure." Subject(s): Indonesia; Jewelry & Jewelers; Tourists; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips WEDDING BED IN MANGKUTANA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the village guesthouse Last Line: From the same soil. Subject(s): Indonesia; Marriage; Sex; Dutch East Indies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives |
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