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Subject: HIKING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DAVID, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: David and I that summer cut trails on the survey
Last Line: That day, the last of my youth, on the last of our mountains.
Subject(s): Hiking; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EXODUS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are coming down the pike
Last Line: As you come down the pike?
Subject(s): Hiking; Walking; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


HAIKU, by GARRY GAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hiking
Last Line: The view within
Subject(s): Hiking


HIKERS, by JOHN+(1) DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seven women continue
Subject(s): Hiking


HIKING HIGH IN THE SAN JUAN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Coiling over and out around the mound
Last Line: To strike the neck behind the nibbling teeth
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Hiking


HIKING IN THE TOTSUGAWA GORGE, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pissing / watching
Subject(s): Hiking


HIKING WITH AARON PAST SUGAR HOLLOW RESERVOIR, by MILES G. WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This creek's low enough %in october to hike zigzag upstream
Last Line: A hudred circles schooling past, %shaking into rainbows
Subject(s): Brooks; Hiking; October


JOURNEYS, by BARBARA CROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: My husband wants difficult things
Last Line: The poem I was going to write today
Subject(s): Hiking; Maps; Roads; Travel


NORTH HILLOCK, by P'EI TI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On north hillock of south mountain
Last Line: Bright like fire against the green grove
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Hiking; Zen Buddhism


RAVINE PATH, by MAUD LUDINGTON CAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is not a path for heedless going
Last Line: Healing and peace toward the unwished-for tomorrow.
Subject(s): Hiking; Wilderness


SEDGE-CROWN COURTYARD, by WEN CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Invisibly trailing %sedge clumps and spreads
Last Line: Naturally crisscross
Subject(s): Hiking; Zen Buddhism


SPECIALLY FOR YOUR EYES, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Calm the torrent of breathing
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Hiking; Loss


STATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two boards with a token roof, backed
Last Line: At first light would get up and go on
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Hiking; Statues; Stones; Travel


STICK THAT MEASURES HOW WE LAST, by ROBERT HILL LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A taper of gray cedar
Last Line: Sometimes still be reached
Subject(s): Hiking; Sticks


TANKA DIARY (1), by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hiking up topanga canyon
Subject(s): Hiking; Lizards


TANKA DIARY (8), by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Hiking; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE PATH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The path we planned beneath october's sky
Last Line: To bar the ways for mutual succor made!
Subject(s): Hiking; Nature


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 213, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hiked yesterday to the summit
Last Line: Is now a pile of ashes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hiking; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THREE OF A KIND, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three of us without a care
Last Line: Leave the gods to rule the rest, %and good-by, sorrow!
Subject(s): Hiking; Maine (state)