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Subject: TATTOOS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ART'S MARTYR, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He said, the china on the shelf
Last Line: Are not æsthetic blacks!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Colors; Tattoos


BODY ART POSES RISK OF INFECTION, by ALISON WELSH KOLODINSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tattoos and pierced body
Last Line: And shoving it %into your skin
Subject(s): Tattoos


EMERALD TATTOOED ON MY ARM, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tattoos are taboo %in the bourgeois white world
Last Line: Always a little taboo %on a white arm
Subject(s): Tattoos


FINDING THE TATTOOED LADY IN THE GARDEN, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Circus runaway, tattooed from head to toe in yellow
Subject(s): Tattoos


FINDING THE TATTOOED LADY IN THE GARDEN, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Circus runaway, tattooed from head to toe in yellow
Last Line: From the silvered curve of her brilliant hip?
Subject(s): Tattoos


FIRST POEM FOR YOU, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like to touch your tatoos in complete
Last Line: So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Permanence; Tattoos


OH, TO WRITE JUST ONE POEM, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tattooed on he butt!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets; Tattoos


PRAISE TO THE TATTOO MISTRESS, by MRIRIDA N'AIT ATTIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Afakem! Afakem! Lalla taouchamt!
Last Line: May you remain forever in his grace!
Subject(s): Tattoos


SKIN GIRL'S TATTOO, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wanting it dark, it deep, it blue
Last Line: Burning in our sleep to the real %enfolding darkness
Subject(s): Girls; Tattoos


TATTOO, by HARRY STURGIS CROSBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the criminal whose chest is tattooed with a poinard
Last Line: Let each tattoo a rising sun on our heart
Subject(s): Sun; Tattoos


TATTOO, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a tattoo of a tiny gun on my hand symbolic of the tiny wars I
Last Line: My other hand until I fall asleep
Subject(s): Self-criticism; Tattoos


TATTOO, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a tattoo of a tiny gun on my hand symbolic of the tiny wars I
Last Line: Bed, where I stare at the tiny doorknob tattooed on my other hand %until I fall asleep
Subject(s): Self-criticism; Tattoos


TATTOO, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Tattoos; Old Age


TATTOOS, by GLOVER DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After our first %liberty half of the
Last Line: Like mirrors where %his face comes back %from my foot
Subject(s): Tattoos


TATTOOS, by ROBERTO TINOCCO DURAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tattoo madness
Subject(s): Tattoos


TATTOOS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: How can I draw a beautiful woman on your chest,' asked the
Last Line: Drawing to assassinate, as it did, its owner
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Tattoos


TATTOOS, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Floating carp, %rampant dragons, tigers that ripple
Last Line: They are hard appetites %of bitterness
Subject(s): Tattoos


TATTOOS, by VERONICA SHANTZ PATTERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: If tattoos were bruises
Subject(s): Tattoos


THE EMERALD TATTOOED ON MY ARM, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tattoos are taboo / in the bourgeois white world
Subject(s): Tattoos