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Subject: SKIING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SKIER, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind-blown hair about your face
Last Line: You vanished in a swirl of snow.
Subject(s): Skiing


NIGHT BELOW ZERO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 3 am, the night is absolutely still
Subject(s): Night; Skiing; Speculation; Bedtime


NIGHT BELOW ZERO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 3 am, the night is absolutely still
Last Line: Locked between the mountains
Subject(s): Night; Skiing; Speculation


NIVE CANDIDUM SORACTE, by JACK MERTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are those who laugh for the winter
Last Line: Which persists in chattering and shivering outside.
Subject(s): Cold; Mountain Climbing; Skiing; Winter


ONE DEGREE SHY OF SNOW, by CAROL KIVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stumble over half frozen earth
Last Line: It is one degree shy of snow
Subject(s): Frost; Skiing; Snow; Winter


SCHSSSSSSSSS, by MARTIN STEINGESSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Schusssssssss %swoop %-steel %edge/to/ice/edge
Last Line: Across the blue %snow mountain %air
Variant Title(s): The Skibombe
Subject(s): Skiing; Sports


SIMILE, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when her friend, the crack austrian skier, in the story
Subject(s): Skiing; Fear; Mothers; Death; Dead, The


SKI TRAIL, by SAMUEL ALLEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say %did you see that magnificent blond beast
Last Line: He used to be swoopinaroundhere all - %- of the time
Alternate Author Name(s): Vesey, Paul
Subject(s): Skiing


SKI TRAIL, by MAUDE BLIXT TRONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: So suddenly he left that those who came
Last Line: They saw his fresh ski-trail across the sky.
Subject(s): Skiing


SKIER, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He swings down like the flourish of a pen
Last Line: Unfalling, trailing white foam, white fire
Subject(s): Skiing


SKIER, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The eye hails its friends far off: the cone
Last Line: With breath and the shaking out of hair. %we take her in, asdesire, out of the cold
Subject(s): Skiing


SKIING WITHOUT SKIS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of my favorite dreams
Last Line: Yes, in my beautiful dream I can ski without skis
Subject(s): Skiing


SPORTS, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Manny loves the gear. The cleats and shin pads, the balls and bats, clubs
Last Line: Rink music, weaving through the fabric of slower couples like a tailor's %needle. There's a pretty g
Subject(s): Activity; Adolescence; Boys; Skiing; Sports


T-BAR, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Relentless, black on white, the cable runs
Last Line: Etching the sky-line, obdurage and slow %the spastic t-bars pivot and descend
Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K.
Subject(s): Skiing


THE SKI-RUNNER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above you burns a molten - copper sun
Last Line: Then out! Into a wilderness of light!
Subject(s): Games;ice;skiing; Recreation;pastimes;amusements


TRANSIT, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I meet the skier she is always
Last Line: And the cripple must decide %to recognize each other?
Subject(s): Skiing


TSOKADZE O ALTITUDO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tsokadze leans unknowlingly
Last Line: Ah, c'est bon, when tsokadze skies
Subject(s): Skiing


WITH GRAVITY, by ROBERT HILL LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Easy to remember, the blue-black shine
Last Line: And begin our long glide down, against it
Subject(s): Skiing


ZENITH: WALKER CREEK 8. SKIING BY MOONLIGHT, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orion reclines on his hip
Last Line: Before they wade toward the rick %to steal some hay
Subject(s): Skiing