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Subject: SURFING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HANDBOOK OF SURFING, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is time to find the peak the rosy trimmings are climbing up
Subject(s): Surfing


DING REPAIR, by PETER GIZZI            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are too many skateboards here, too many waves
Subject(s): California; Conduct Of Life; Surfing


GROUND SWELL, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen,
Last Line: Where things began to happen and I knew it
Subject(s): Teenagers; Sports; Surfing


GROUND SWELL, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen
Subject(s): Sports; Surfing


GROUND SWELL, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen
Last Line: Where things begin to happen and I knew it
Subject(s): Sports; Surfing


MELVILLE ON THE BEACH, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pounding, again, assurances of the surf
Last Line: And the sea is full of syllables
Subject(s): Seashore; Surfing; Waves


NIGHT SURF, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of tomorrow I have nothing to say
Last Line: After dark the surf roars on the cliffs
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Surfing


RECKONINGS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God, what a feeling! We declared
Last Line: The waves were bigger now: one carried a contestant %miles down the beach, then left him churning in
Subject(s): Competition; Elections; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves


REGATTA, by IVAN SWIFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have heard the roll of the signal - gun!
Last Line: We've heard our signal-gun!
Subject(s): Competition; Surfing; Track Athletics; Waves; Wind; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles


SURF, by MARGERY A. JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In one caught moment, in one breath of time
Last Line: Await the silver of the crest... %anticipating foam
Subject(s): Surfing


SURF, by LILLIAN MORRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Waves want %to be wheels
Last Line: Foam fingers %reaching
Subject(s): Surfing


SURF, by ISRAEL NEWMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sea-ache, and sea-scent, and the welter of white
Last Line: Of wave-heaps trailing tresses drowned in green!
Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


SURF CASTER, by SUSAN SNIVELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again and again you cast into the sea
Last Line: The long wait for a grateful rapture
Subject(s): Surfing


THE SURF, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day's wild ocean sings and thunders
Last Line: On hour in restless monotone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis
Subject(s): Floods; Seashore; Surfing; Thunder; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SURF RIDER, by ALBERT YAMASAKI    Poem Text                    
First Line: He is up, aslant on the wave
Last Line: In advance of the tumbling sea.
Subject(s): Surfing


THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 2. SURF, by WINIFRED WALDRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wild white legions of foam!
Last Line: Ever the living pursuing the dying.
Subject(s): Seashore; Surfing; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore


WATER & LIGHT, by NOAH BLAUSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was too soon %to think of her passing
Last Line: Let the wind mix the salt into my brow
Subject(s): Sports; Surfing