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Subject: MOUTHS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN-ATOM-ME, by SHELLEY LESSIN STOCKWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mouths; %open caverns wet
Last Line: Us and %whee!
Subject(s): Mouths


BLANCHE, by A. BERNARD MIALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: God did not make her very wise
Last Line: All good — yet she is scarcely fair.
Subject(s): Faces; Mouths; Scars; Tragedy; Ugliness


CEREMONY OF OPENING THE MOUTH AND THE EYES, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, for instance, in the after-storm sheen
Last Line: Finer, while I wheel toward your awakened face, the waterfall of your word
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Mouths


COMPLAISANCE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mrs. B -- , when she sat for her picture
Last Line: "without any mouth, ma'am, at all."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Mouths; Paintings & Painters; Portraits


CORNER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the corner of her mouth
Last Line: Guarantee %mischief and beauty
Subject(s): Mouths; Wrinkles


DO LOVERS' TONGUES, by GRACE BAER HOLLOWELL    Poem Text                    
Last Line: The faster?
Subject(s): Mouths


ENGLISH FLAVORS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to lick english the way I licked the hard
Last Line: Flavored and sharp -- to the ambiguities of meaning.
Subject(s): English Language; English Language; Language; Mouths; Nuns; Pleasure; Taste (sense); Words; Vocabulary


HERE IS MUSIC: LIP-SERVICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In shocked surprise
Last Line: At peace, long since, with god.
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mouths; Protestantism; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators


I KNOW YOUR MOUTH BETTER, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mouths


IMITATOR OF BILLY SUNDAY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Billy sunday, the fear-inspiring preacher
Last Line: Sweating and waving his arms, in his baseball sermon
Subject(s): Mouths; Preaching And Preachers; Speech; Sunday, William A. (billy) (1862-1935)


LET MY MOUTH TAKE YOU, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Resilient and coarse as a marigold
Last Line: Like a gulp of velveteen
Subject(s): Mouths; Reproductive System; Sex


LINES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lines at the corners of her mouth
Last Line: In one so young?
Subject(s): Mouths; Strength; Wrinkles; Youth


LITTLE MOUTHS, LITTLE GHOSTS, by JOHN FULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mouths make shapes like ghosts
Subject(s): Mouths


MOON, by GRACE LORENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A full blue moon floats in my open mouth
Last Line: Explore its salty craters
Subject(s): High School Students; Mouths; Teenagers


MOUTH, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mouth tells the whole story, that psychic
Last Line: It doesn't get much better than this
Subject(s): Mouths


MOUTH, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is larger than our lives and always feeding
Last Line: To stall our slow wonder of being devoured
Subject(s): Mouths


MOUTH AND OTHER FORMS OF GRAVITY, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: So much is known of the physical lives of rivers
Last Line: Down to percussive water
Subject(s): Mouths


MOUTHS, by DOROTHY ALDIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I had two little mouths
Subject(s): Mouths


MOUTHS, by LOUIS DUDEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pendulous mouth, you flap in a wind
Subject(s): Mouths


NAVIGATION, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evergreens have reasons
Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON MOUTHS, by VERONICA SCHUDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: That her mouth is shaped
Last Line: Stand up in counterpoint, o the o %of her mouth
Subject(s): Mouths


ONE SPEAKS, by KATHARINE A. JENKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To you - someone to pass you a book
Last Line: You would pass me by unknowing.
Subject(s): Conversation; Love - Beginnings; Mouths; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators


PORCH OF TEETH, by SANDOR WEORES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The place you entered is called
Last Line: Are you at peace?'
Subject(s): Happiness; Mouths; Peace; Smiles; Teeth


RIDDLE: 10, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If the rope is folded
Subject(s): Arms;mouths;riddles


RODIN, by BARBARA A. ROUILLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight I know I'll never be kissed again
Last Line: Arena %to be my mouth
Subject(s): Kisses; Mouths


ROSINA: SONG, by FRANCES (MOORE) BROOKE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her mouth, which a smile
Subject(s): Mouths; Beauty


STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious
Last Line: For the body to blossom into speech
Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women


THE CEREMONY OF OPENING THE MOUTH AND THE EYES, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, for instance, in the after-storm sheen
Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Mouths


THE ROSE OF THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark rose of thy mouth
Last Line: Kiss me, imperishable fire, dark rose, o rose of my desire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Immortality; Mortality; Mouths; Reincarnation; Roses; Transmigration; Pretas


THE STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious
Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women; Stuttering; Muteness


UNTITLED, by ANDRE PAKOSIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just a moment
Last Line: Teeth and tongue are going to fight
Subject(s): Mouths; Teeth


VOICES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are voices that come from the beyond
Last Line: Of god's eternity.
Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Mouths; Voices; Paradise


WHAT I PUT INTO MY MOUTH, by LOIS MARIE HARROD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I woke one morning %like a snake unable
Last Line: The bruised mouth, %the thorny spiel
Subject(s): Mouths


WHITE-HANDS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O where in the north, or where in the south
Last Line: O, come to me, honey-mouth! Bend to me, honey-mouth! Give me thy kiss!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Hands; Kisses; Love; Mouths; White (color)


WORDS, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always departing, or waiting to arrive, as inclining, rapture
Last Line: Dusk-lit, the trees seem ancient with their epic wings
Subject(s): Emotions; Language; Mouths


YOU ARE RIGHT NOT TO KISS ME, by A. MARY MURPHY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A man can get lost in there
Subject(s): Kisses; Mouths


YOUR MOUTH 'APPEARED TO ME', by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your mouth 'appeared to me'
Last Line: Transparencements of every hand and mouth
Subject(s): Mouths