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Subject: NUMBERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 6825, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A young black man came
Last Line: Like last time he %did a good job
Subject(s): Houses; Numbers


ARITHMATIC LESSON: INFINITY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Picture a parade of numbers: 1
Subject(s): Numbers


BASIC ALGEBRA, by RICHARD JACKSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What does it matter if six is not seven?
Last Line: Thinking of eleven, which is also a lovely number
Subject(s): Numbers


CANZONE: ONES AND ZEROS, by PETER JACOBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've all gone made. Binary. In this virtual
Last Line: And make us one when life flickers out to zero
Subject(s): Life; Numbers


IDEA: 18. TO THE CELESTIAL NUMBERS, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To this our world, to learning, and to heav'n
Last Line: Makes every one of these three nines a ten.
Subject(s): Numbers


INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet
Last Line: Here: in america. In america.
Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration


LISPING IN NUMBERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We' got a' uncle writes poetry
Last Line: "it's a purty good little poetry-piece!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Numbers; Poetry & Poets; Speech Disorders; Uncles; Stuttering; Muteness


MANGO, NUMBER 61, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pescado grande was number 14, while pescado chico was number 12
Last Line: Number 61s, mangos, here in number 87, america
Subject(s): Language; Mango Trees; Numbers; Spain


MR. ANGSTROM COMES ACROSS PRIMES OF THE FORM X2+NY2, by RON STARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the bookstore
Last Line: Could let go of some secret kept in its numeric heart gives mr. Angstrom hope
Subject(s): Numbers


NO LONGER A NAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's no longer a name, she's a number
Last Line: The number's eyes are a laughing blue
Subject(s): Memory; Names; Numbers; Prisons And Prisoners


NUMBER, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the circle of the zero
Last Line: Nothing in the world exists
Subject(s): Numbers


NUMBER MAN, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was born to wonder about numbers.
Subject(s): Numbers


NUMBERS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Numbers are the queerest things!
Last Line: Look at 5 and see him wink!
Subject(s): Children; Mathematics; Numbers; Childhood


NUMBERS, by JENNIFER SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Numbers are villages
Last Line: To gallop is to live %in a crime of tenderness
Subject(s): Numbers


NUMEROLOGY OF THREE, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The originality of the number one
Last Line: Waving goodbye, counting woefully to three
Subject(s): Death; Holy Ghost; Numbers


PARAGRAPHS: 16, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the rights of each to zero. No. I mean the only
Last Line: Thus, living light cast back from a burnt-out star
Subject(s): Freedom; Numbers; Liberty


PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 4. C7OUNTING BACKWARDS, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: 05181261 %the tall08 grass p5rairie states
Last Line: 73548768095909 %1173929274 %1705
Subject(s): Counting; Mathematics; Numbers; United States


PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 6. 015RANDOM N6UMBER...., by JESSICA GOODFELLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: 8.13399e+59
Last Line: Br12eathe
Subject(s): Numbers


SONNET, by PALMER. MICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I see them sitting me before a mirror
Subject(s): Fathers; Numbers


THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: How strange it was to hear the furniture moved around in the apartment upstairs
Subject(s): Relationships; Ooetry And Poets; Love - Erotic; Time; Numbers; Conduct Of Life


TO LADY B- W-, PRESENTING THE AUTHOR WITH A MOIETY OF A LOTTERY TICKET, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This ticket is to be divided;' - well
Last Line: Nor blanks the grateful sentiments efface.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Lotteries; Money; Numbers


UP AWAY FROM AROUND HERE, by ANDREA HOAG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prefabricated fuchsia nails
Last Line: Impersonality %for the %21st century
Subject(s): Future; Life; Numbers