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Subject: PENTASTICHS
Matches Found: 29

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALL GOOD THINGS PASS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The girl at the order desk of the university
Last Line: My neck and I imagined she was tara of cos
Subject(s): Pentastichs


CRANE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go away, crane! Leave the garden
Last Line: Go away, crane! Leave the garden
Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Love; Pentastichs


EXQUISITE LIFE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robert montesquiou, the exquisite model
Last Line: With a different suggestive perfume
Subject(s): Pentastichs; Perfume


FANTASIST, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ronald firbank the decadent novelist liked
Last Line: Pea, which he sent back because it was cold
Subject(s): Fantasy; Firbank, Ronald (1866-1926); Pentastichs


GOD OF THE SUN AND FIRE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory to agni, the high prietg of the sacrifice
Last Line: The constant illuminator, be as a father to us
Subject(s): Pentastichs


GOOD PHILOSOPHY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I give you an apple, if you love me
Last Line: And reflect on how short - lived is beauty
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Pentastichs; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Transience


HETAERA, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ani laesca, a greek cocotte who worked zurich
Last Line: Me with the kinks of the richest men in europe
Subject(s): Pentastichs


HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way
Last Line: For money you have a sharp sting
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs


I TRAVEL YOUR BODY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I travel your body, like the world
Last Line: My glances cover you like ivy
Subject(s): Bodies; Pentastichs


IMMEASURABLE BOUNDARIES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heraclitus wrote that we would not discover
Last Line: The boundaries of the soul are immeasurable
Subject(s): Pentastichs; Soul


INVITATION TO MAKE LOVE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Show her drawings of animals making love, then
Last Line: Dreams about her. Tickle her toes with your finger
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Pentastichs


LINES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dhammapada it is written
Last Line: Pride, deceit, decay and death
Subject(s): Bodies; Pentastichs


LIVING BRANCH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I existed as a tree
Last Line: From the living branch
Subject(s): Pentastichs; Trees


LOCUST, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Locust, beguiler of my loves and persuader of sleep
Last Line: Green leek and drops of dew sprayed from my mouth
Subject(s): Locusts; Love; Pentastichs


LONG FEET PEOPLE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pliny relates in his natural history that
Last Line: Their feet to shade themselves from heat
Subject(s): Feet; Pentastichs


MAGIC FLUTE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That summer in munich we were papageno and papagena
Last Line: In love. Beautiful days and now happy memories
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Pentastichs


PENELOPE TO ULYSSES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Penelope to the tardy ulysses
Last Line: Are not worth the price I've paid for victory
Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Pentastichs


PISSING OF THE TOADS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Concerning the venomous urine of toads, conceptions
Last Line: In other parts, as the learned scalinger observed
Subject(s): Excrement; Pentastichs; Toads


RESCUE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From new orleans tenn wrote me a wonderfully
Last Line: Very sexy girl; she soon had me on my back
Subject(s): Pentastichs; Williams, Tennesssee (1911-1983)


RIGHT GIRL, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rufinus advised thelon to beware a girl who seems
Last Line: As too much. Best, he said, never to run to excesses
Subject(s): Moderation; Pentastichs


SCULPTOR, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brancusi didn't have much to say but he
Last Line: Phonograph blared out ravel's bolero
Subject(s): Brancusi, Constantin (1876-1957); Pentastichs; Sculpture And Sculptors


SNAKE GAME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Henry looked like a shoeclerk but was a spellbinder
Last Line: Had to take her to the hospital emergency room
Subject(s): Animals; Miller, Henry (1891-1980); Pentastichs; Snakes


TENDER LETTER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: C'etait a paris. She was jeanine, young, pretty and
Last Line: Maitresse. In three months she was dead of cancer
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Paris, France; Pentastichs


THE HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE LOCUST, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Locust, beguiler of my loves and persuader of sleep
Subject(s): Locusts; Love; Pentastichs


TWO FOR ONE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The painter schiele knew he was two people
Last Line: Harms married him. Adele became his model
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Pentastichs


UNUSUAL GIRL, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In lucerne beautiful birgita liked to circle
Last Line: The phonograph played schubert's trout quintet
Subject(s): Pentastichs


WORD SALAD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neurologists call the babbling
Last Line: Good examples of 'word salad'
Subject(s): Pentastichs; Poetry And Poets


WRITER AT WORK, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On opening night of his play under milk wood
Last Line: Sill for the fishwife gulls in donkey street
Subject(s): Pentastichs; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)