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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SKIN Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BATH, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother might have drowned me Last Line: A moon shines in every window, wanting. %each night I hold a different woman in my arms Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Skin BENHAM'S DISK: 3. CHROMATOPHORE, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Beside an abandoned mine Last Line: Salt, tenderness, heat, and insubstantial light: %the skin's vocabulary Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Identity; Skin BOIL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night the white skin Last Line: Undoubted through the infection Subject(s): Boils (skin Swellings) BOIL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night the white skin Last Line: Undoubted though the infection Subject(s): Boils (skin Swellings) BOOKBINDER, MARY L. REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: ONION SKIN & SPINE, by GLORI SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: She maps his death in the unhinged streets Last Line: The meeting %of two hands. Skin Subject(s): Hands; Skin DANCE OF THE SKIN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over your flesh the skin dances Last Line: And fell it move. Just lie still Subject(s): Love; Skin ECZEMA, by MARYANN FRANTA Poem Source First Line: That miserable itch of the skin Last Line: That needs to be touched Subject(s): Eczema; Self; Skin FOUR VIEWS OF FEVER: IV., by KAREN D. SKOLFIELD Poem Source First Line: She discovered the thinness of skin Last Line: There was no coming back Subject(s): Sickness; Skin LIFE IN THE TWISTS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bare freckled skin under black cloak Last Line: "or vice versa..." Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Skin; Male-female Relations MOLES, by IBN HAIYUN Poem Text First Line: My white, my shining girl Last Line: My cheeks with ink was sprinkling!' Subject(s): Mole (skin Growth) NOISE FROM THE SEA, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her skin was the shore Last Line: Father than she could hold Subject(s): Sea; Skin; Women PAGE 34, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If your complexion is a mess Subject(s): African Americans; Skin Color; Negroes; American Blacks POEM WITH SKIN, by OCTAVIO ARMAND Poem Source First Line: Share fear. Repeat with one lip what Last Line: Open it, touch, and the world will be yours %or you Subject(s): Bodies; Poetry And Poets; Skin SCAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will learn %to live together Last Line: And I will not fall off Subject(s): Scars; Skin; Surgery SKIN, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obedient daily dress Last Line: Till the fashion changes Subject(s): Skin; Clothing & Dress SKIN, by ANN SPIERS Poem Source First Line: Through a plastic tube Last Line: Only then are we sorry we came Subject(s): Animals; Growth; Skin; Snakes SKIN DIVING, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snorkel is the easiest woodwind. Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Skin Diving SKIN DIVING IN THE VIRGINS, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alfonso was his name; his sad cantina Last Line: Another floating off, his big pouch full Subject(s): Skin Diving SKIN HUNGER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: You hold me like you'd clutch Last Line: We lie in the simmering confusion %of wasps Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Skin SUNBURN, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A friend compares it to a sunburn Last Line: Please -- don't %dare touch me again Subject(s): Skin; Sunbathing THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 3. ON WASHING, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Against the rigours of a damp cold heaven Last Line: To lose a husband's than a lover's heart. Subject(s): Blood; Bodies; Health; Love; Skin THE BATH, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother might have drowned me Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Skin; Showers & Showering THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Click the grief castanets. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Skin Condition; Grandparents; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE LAWNE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wo'd I see lawn, clear as the heaven, and thin? Last Line: The blush of cherries, when a lawn's cast over. Subject(s): Skin THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where once I loved my flesh Last Line: I find it was always here Subject(s): Skeletons; Skin; Soul TWO COUNTRIES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skin remembers how long the years grow Subject(s): Gratitude; Skin UPON A MOLE IN CELIA'S BOSOM, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely spot which thou dost see Last Line: Of the bee's honey and her sting. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mole (skin Growth); Beekeeping; Bugs UPON THE THEME OF LOVE: THE BODY, A FANCY, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nerves are france, and italy, and spain Last Line: Where life, which passes through, great danger finds. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Bodies; Heads; Humanity; Life; Skin |
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