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Subject: TURTLES Matches Found: 299 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` :THREE POEMS ON DEMAND: TURTLES GENERATE POEMS, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Turtles; Writing & Writers; Tortoises A JOURNEY WITH WOMEN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Floating in turtle blood, going backward and forward Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises A.D., by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The new dimension is a throat surviving the cost of stepping into the new Last Line: Your lowered head healing and letting the horns lead the way into the rocks Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AFTER EFFECTS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: So there are tickets %I have grown as flowers Last Line: I give it a second chance at love Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AGAINST THE RUNNING WHITE MEADOW OF HANDS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Escaping his nourished frame Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AGUACATE EYES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: He saw her standing in the doorway and he recalled the green light in his Last Line: His eyes to a new smell of green, cut aguacate that filled the room with things %he wanted to taste Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ALL I SAW WAS THE RIVER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Water opened my eyes and water fed me until I cried Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ALL RIVERS ROTATE AGAINST THE DARKNESS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ALPHABESTIARY: T, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: T, the turtle, has been a long time coming Last Line: Armor is its own species and survives Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Turtles ALWAYS WHEN I THINK OF THE COTTONWOOD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The arrival of speech, nothing else I need Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ANOTHER HEADLINE: HISPANICS URGED TO HOLD ONTO POLITICAL GAINS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: This is the one we are looking for. The summer before the '96 election and Last Line: The hispanic gain. The hispanic pain. The chicano tortuga party Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AS IF SOME BIRD WAS RECOGNIZED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Survives the battle %without flying away Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AS IF THE MONSTER IN THE PHOTO WAS ALIEN AND NO ONE HAD TO BELIEVE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: A perfect son who would always pray and be loyal and know when to leap off the toilet Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles AT THE TOP OF CONSCIENCE IS A VOID, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Waiting for this nightmare to finally end Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BABY TORTOISE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know what it is to be born alone Last Line: Invincible fore-runner. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises BACK IN THE ROOM THE DRAPED WOMAN DESIGNS YOUR FATE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Back in the room the silence turns to magic Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BASKETS OF STARTLED HANDS, BROKEN ELBOWS RAISING THEIR ENERGY TO THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When the earthquake passes beyond their lives and becomes something else in %the history of loss Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BENT OVER THE BORDER, THE SHAMAN STEALS THE MOON, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The horizon with a silent scream that does nothing Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BIOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When we move, the glands in the throat originate a liquid that is richer than Last Line: To greet whatever %his fingertips %touched Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BLACK JALAPENOS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The passion of speech becomes the stem at the end of the bite when the black Last Line: Hot mouth, the stirring water that glistens in the black glasses of quenching thirst Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BLACKFOOT FLUTE MAN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: His face, painted red, streaks tears into white lines transforming color, mov Last Line: The second instrument invented across the rolling hills Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BODY OF ALL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The body of all - a frozen pair of scissors - a withered blackberry bush, the Last Line: Latina, hispanic, chicana or other.' Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BORDER EXCLUSION, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: For the hungry and the dead Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BORDER PATROL AGENT RIPPED HER DRESS OFF AND FUCKED HER FROM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Shiny brown ass quivered and leaped as their partner showed them how to do it with glee Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BORDER WAS CLOSED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BOY HAD SEEN THE TRAFFIC IN THE DISTANCE. HE KNEW IT WAS COMING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Knew it. He could feel it moving under the ground. He waited for it to emerge Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BOY WHO TOLD STORIES BURNED HIS TOAST EVERY MORNING. HIS MOTHER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His mother's hair stuck on a nice, thick line of butter. After that day, he never ate burned toast a Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BROKEN OVAL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: He looked up toward heaven without knowing what he was looking for. He Last Line: Of his ear as if it was nothing. Broken oval. What he never told his son Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BROKEN STICK, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When grace was a rattle a stick Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BURNED TORTILLA TEXT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Belinda cooked the tortillas and saw several faces on them that day. She Last Line: Smell of fresh beans and more tortillas pulling belinda away from the sight Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles BURYING THE TOAD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: It came out from under the root of the old cottonwood, a fat yellow toad with Last Line: Me as it trembled and died Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CARVED GOD DID NOT BELIEVE IN PEACE. HE SHOOK HIMSELF. IT WAS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: It was something hard for him to accept. He stepped out into the street and %headed toward the river Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CASKETS THONGS SLIPPERS T-SHIRTS SHIELDS FLOWERS CANDLES WAX FROM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Pedes a fat cardinal nickels dimes postage stamps Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CAST OF MOTION OUT OF THE VESPER DANGLING DOWN TOWARD THE VINE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Frying lying dying defying devouring what enables him to speak Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CAUGHT WITH FLOWERS IN MY HAND, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Settling down into the valley to wait for the rock carving to sing Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CHE GUEVARA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When they cut off his hands to prove it was really him, the soldiers heard the Last Line: Big x drawn across his face, the outline of two hands traced in pen under the beard Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CLOSING TIME AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The keepers / walk among galapagos turtles Last Line: In the san diego dusk. Subject(s): Caregivers; Galapagos Islands; Turtles; Zoos; Tortoises COCORIMA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The first street belongs to you Last Line: Cocorima insisting the captured ear belongs to the fields of corn Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles COME CLOSER. YOU ARE A DENSE FABRIC. YOU BELONG WITH ME BECAUSE I AM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Perhaps, those are the only words that need to hear the oral rope of calibers %and energetic confusi Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles CREATION WAS A WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T COME NEAR ME. I LOVE TO DRAW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To the world, yet the world refuses to see you because it does not acknowledge walls Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DARK BROTHER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Smoking paper cloth reappearing with the image of christ burnt and woven Last Line: And his brother are the same Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DIEGO RETURNS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Diego returns and paints turtles on his cheeks, one tiny green one on each fat Last Line: Like himself any longer Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DOMINGO'S STORY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: We lived in the fourth house by the river. It was hot most of the year, but Last Line: Always had to watch what I did, so she would be happy and want to be with me Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DON'T TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE DOING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Reminds us we are already electric and drowning Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DREAM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Two men and I stumbled through the vines of the jungle and came to the great Last Line: Bright suns across the deep valley floor Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles DRIVING SOUTH PAST ALBURQUERQUE THROUGH SIXTY MILES OF FOG, THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When I believed the highway home was pure exhaustion, each road a scar over my left shoulder Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles EARTHWORMS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I knew the earthworms when I was ill Last Line: And tried to get away from the man coming through Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ELECTRIC EYE OF TRANSFORMATION, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: If the season when I finally got up and ran Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ELEGY FOR THE GIANT TORTOISES, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let others pray for the passenger pigeon Last Line: Our holy and obsolete symbols Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises ELEGY FOR THE GIANT TORTOISES, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let others pray for the passenger pigeon Last Line: The relics of what we have destroyed, %our holy and obsolete symbols Subject(s): Turtles EVERY NIGHT HE STARES AT THE CROSSES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Crying brightly on both sides of the bed Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FACE I SAW WHEN I WAS LEFT ALONE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: One streetlight burned two thousand years before its invention Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FIELDS HAVE HIDDEN SECRETS AMONG THE ROWS OF CORN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The fields have nests hidden among the grapes Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FIFTY-THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YARD. IT IS COSTING FTFTY-THOUSAND, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Up to it and touch the solid steel black bars. Solid border Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FINALLY GETTING TO THE POINT OF HAVING TO DEFINE WHAT IT IS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The continent has not been notified of the galaxy Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FIVE ASKINGS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: It was a place where lizards stepped on waxen ground and trees grew tortillas Last Line: Size of my head changed and I woke up healthy as a crow Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FRAME FOR A TIRED PAINTING: 1, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Asking for the relief of a spinal dance Last Line: Manners. %hands. %signs. %limits Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FRAME FOR A TIRED PAINTING: 2, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Read this: %I was alone when I woke and the truth had already started pouring Last Line: The passage where it disappeared Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles FRIJOLE ARCHIVE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I try to think of history Last Line: The amphibian has already crossed the stream Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GET THE FETISH TO DO SOMETHING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Get it to arrive with the correct message Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GHOST OF HIS FATHER BELIEVES IN COMING BACK WITH GIFTS. THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Would never harm each other Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GIANT TORTOISE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am related to stones Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises GIANT TORTOISE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am related to stones Last Line: The hard crust getting harder Subject(s): Turtles GOD'S HAND IS CUPPED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the crickery heart of the turtle Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): God; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Turtles GOLOXINA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The great man with long hair and red bandanna knew what we wanted Last Line: Had always been longer than the hair of the great man Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GRAFFITI CLAWS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: They found the painted walls and doors and cars and streets and did not know Last Line: Light to a neighborhood that always gave in to the darkness of unpredictable brief weather Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GRAY, ALLOW ME. BLUE, TAKE THE LONG HAIR FROM MY WISH. WHEN THE SONG, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Past can have a garden to dry its itching pollen, a place torn out of the thick %grass that has no b Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles GREY, OR TURTLE, SONG, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE Poem Source First Line: There are just so many ways a sea-turtle can show affection. Or, for that Last Line: And the one across species Subject(s): Marine Animals; Turtles HABITATION, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Small day lying down on the floor Last Line: The breath headed for the belly without the stomach for silence Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: EELS AND TORTOISES, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange the formation of the eely race Last Line: To the loathed duties of an hated bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian Subject(s): Courtship; Eels; Fish & Fishing; Reproduction; Turtles; Mating; Tortoises HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: THE LOVES OF THE TORTOISE, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Justly might female tortoises complain Last Line: But secret ties the passive couple bind Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian Subject(s): Turtles HE CAME BACK TO ASK FOR MORE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He came back to speak Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE CONVINCES THE MOJADOS TO CROSS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To keep it beating and tame Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE EXISTS FOR MERCY AND THE VOWEL OF THE TURTLES. HE HAS TRAVELED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Because it is the water that brings hosts and sounds and the strength to go on Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE IMAGINED WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO MOVE UNDER THE BLANKET AND FIND THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: See how they changed when the morning light came and dried his paint into hard profiles Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE SAYS HIS KNEES ARE FUELED BY WONDERFUL FIREFLIES AND HE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His brain dives into the flower Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE SAYS, 'THE ORIGIN OF WATER IS THE ORIGIN OF THE CLAWED MIND.', by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE STARTED PLAYING THE MUD ON HIS FINGERS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He sat down and bowed his head and gave in to the mud Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE STOOD UP TO THE OFFICER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: A single tv camera in sight Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE WAKES TO THE SHADOW OF THE TARANTULA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To make sure he would never forget Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HE WROTE THIS UPON SEEING HOW THE WHITE TERRAIN GREW CLOSER TO HIS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Before water dried into patterns that spelled Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HERITAGE MOMENT #1, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Rosa martinez, controller, los angeles, california: 'the latino heritage that Last Line: Out for the dog shit on the sidewalk!' Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HIDDEN IN THE MUSEUM, THE BOWLS OF THE FIRST PEOPLE SIT ON METAL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Appearing into the history of stone, dry blood the color of twelve thousand clay bowls Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HIDDEN INSIDE THE WRIST OF A THIEF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Turtle ideas where the green surface of a cloud is the bestowed oven of the mind Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HIS FACE WAS COVERED BY SNOW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He waited for the first green buds and never left Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HIS GUITAR, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: He was strong and finished. He was available. He gave speeches and saw the Last Line: Wood and take their own shape Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HIS LANGUAGE DEPARTS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He had to start somewhere Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles HOLY GARCIA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Holy garcia stood on the edge of the desert and prayed that he was okay. He Last Line: The rows of young boys receiving their first holy communion in the crowded and silent church Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I ALMOST CROSSED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: And let me drown on my own Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I AM OLDER THAN THE THORN AND THE COTTONWOODS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When I allowed them to return, I loved them Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I AM WALKING INSIDE A JOSEPH CORNELL BOX, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I am walking inside a joseph cornell box and the plastic dolls and watches Last Line: Receiver on the pay phone that has been ringing and ringing Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I DIDN'T LET YOU IN ON THE SECRET OF THE HEAT IN THE MATTRESS, THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: For the man who wished his morning of birth had been postponed for years Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I ENTER THE WALLS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: West of my body Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I GO OUT BEYOND THE SAFEST LIGHT AND FILL MY STOMACH WITH THE LAST, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Alone on the table when the voices pushed me away Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I HAVE A NAME FOR MYSELF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Up there to brush syllables out of memory Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I HUDDLE THE IMPOSSIBLE RIVER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I huddle the impossible river and let go Last Line: I huddle the impossible lover who loved me and watched me grow old Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I LEARNED TO SHOUT ABOVE THE WALL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I followed myself out through a man size hole in the wall Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I LIVED THERE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I left before the river became a simple line in the dirt Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I NO LONGER WAIT FOR THE SUN. IT COMES UP ON ITS OWN. I FORGOT THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Have another year without sacrifice Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I PASS THROUGH TIME AND FOUNTAINS OF MADMEN FOLLOWING ME. THEY HAVE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Slower turtles, when all I have to do is leap and open my eyes Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I SAVED THE SACRED MOUNTAIN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When I was a boy Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I SPEAK TO THE VOICE THAT LEFT ME YEARS AGO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: And giving away what we have forgotten Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I SWAT THE FLY AND MISS. THERE ARE PONTIFICATIONS WE ARE SUPPOSED TO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: New swatter fluttering like a butterfly in his hands Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I THINK SOMEONE WILL TELL ME IT IS TIME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: By telling a story that has no ending Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I WAS HERE BEFORE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Back in the mountain star a child loves you and waits Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles I WAS SURPRISED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I was the one who called and the one who never answered Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IF I LIVED THERE, I REMEMBER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I found a way back Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ILLEGAL IN THE DESERT PASSAGE: JORNADO DEL MUERTO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Brown wings soar into the twilight above the canyon. They remove the magic Last Line: Settling before the morning sun can ignite the waterfall in curious light Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IMAGINED STARLIGHT IS THERE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: There are places to go where heaven has been Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IN THE GRIEF OF BROKEN EGGS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Men walk and stare at their feet Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IN THE MOMENT OF THE WINDOW, WE ARE REMINDED WE HAVE NOT STRAYED FAR, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Miles and streets and handclaps Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles INSIDE THE SYMBOL, THE BOY GAINS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Inside the window, there is time Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IT COULD HAVE ENDED AT THE EDGE OF THE CANYON, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: It could have unfolded into tiny wishes tempting the brain to grow %it kept silent instead Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE TREES I NOTICED ONE DAY WHEN I STEPPED OUT OF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Not recalled in the millions of moments when I hated everyone around me Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles IT WAS IMAGINATION FORESTED IN A CUP OF ONIONS CRYING TO SING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Basking in the thumb gift of exported fire spelling its own name Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles JALAPENO PLANT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Is the man whose tongue burned with the truth long ago Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles JOHN'S GIFT TO ME, by DARA WEIR Poem Source First Line: Red-bellied turtle moving from forest Last Line: John opened his hinged mouth to collect a few tears Subject(s): Turtles JUAN OF WANDS BELONGS TO AMERICA. HE IS THE NEXT BOY WHO WILL GAIN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Because he knows, someday, the stick will not be enough Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles JUST IN TIME TO SEE THE SUN HIT THE RED PEAKS OF THE SANGRE DE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Sadness, a fast mourning toward what will never be. Celebrate, but don't ask Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles KILLER BEES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Everything is composed of unwanted fire like the young boy killed by the Last Line: Where we swell up and don't even scream Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles LET HIM LIVE IN THE DREAM OF THE TURTLES, SO HISTORY CAN BEGIN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles LET US REMEMBER WHERE WE CAME FROM, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Burns like a child excited that everyone has returned Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles LIGHT GREEN FLAPS THAT EXTEND TO THE SKY, ALLOWING THEIR ENORMOUS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Stands forever and gets all the water it needs Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of ickley Last Line: That moony old person of ickley Subject(s): Old Age; Turtles LOOK AGAIN: THAT'S NOT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But the breastplate from a turtle Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turtles MAN COULD SAY, 'THE MAYA HAUNTED ME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The day the museum of the forehead burned down Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MAN CRAWLING TO FIND TRUTH LEAVES TRACKS IN THE MUD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MAN INSIDE HIS SHELL CAN'T GO TO HIS GOD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MAN STEPPED ON SOMETHING LIMP. IT SET OFF AN ENERGY THE AT GREW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Est road where he last spoke his poem, indistinguishable from the white haired chests of men Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MANO NOVA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The man extends his palm to shake your hand Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MEANDERING, VAGRANT LINE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: In which strength arrives from all directions Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MEN WALKING ACROSS THE WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Everything in the world belongs to him Last Line: The only marks left in the shattered world Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MIRACLES INSIDE THE PICTURE FRAME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I believe in the moving visions and the hidden messages, the collection of cal Last Line: Slowly emerging through the ink stains left behind the photos stuck on walls for ninety years Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MOANS OF THE RIVER WOMAN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: She arrives with a pine come between her breasts Last Line: Who knew me and threw me across the current without letting go Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MORNING WITH PEOPLE ON THE WAY TO THE STORY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Fresh smells of the earth return them to their houses Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MOUNTAIN IN MY HANDS BELONGS TO PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP MOUNTAINS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Lie. They just fit nicely on my ring finger Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MR. & MRS. TURTLE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: What is that bobbing Last Line: Why are the shadows %asleep in the meadows? %mr. Turtle is mending the moon Subject(s): Turtles MUD TURTLE, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earth beneath the water Last Line: Beneath the earth beneath. He takes %a secret wound out of the world Subject(s): Turtles MUD TURTLES, by GRACE TABER HALLOCK Poem Source First Line: On the rock the turtles get Last Line: When they are tired of being dried Subject(s): Animals; Turtles MY HANDS ARE DUSTING THE LORD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: My hands were larger than the last sound Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MY SORROW EMBEDDED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Slowly into my cupped hands Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles MY VOICE CAME FROM PARADISE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When any man receives himself as the true sadness trembling in the fist Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NEST IS GONE, SHELL EMPTY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His manner of knowing what moved over the sand Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NEWSPAPER HEADLINE IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, MARCH 1995: HISPANIC, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The story says that with federal budget cuts, more hispanic professionals will Last Line: Take him out of the hall in san antonio, where garcia spoke, and invite him %to the party? Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NO HOST, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Condemned men he prayed for Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NO IT IS NOT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The purple stems break Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NO ONE TOOK IT AWAY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When everyone saw what it was, they became themselves Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles NOT TORTILLAS THIS TIME, BUT LATINO YUPPIE FOOD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Recipe for a snack, 1996 election night tv watching Last Line: Each tortilla into three wedges and drizzle with one tablespoon caramel sauce. %makes four servings Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles OLD CHICANO POET DRINKING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Coming back to destroy the haunted heart Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles OLD WOMAN PUSHING A GROCERY CART ACROSS THE STREET GOING TO THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The day turning brighter with the black figure Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ON SLOW LEARNING, by SCOTT CAIRNS Poem Source First Line: If you've ever owned Last Line: Or, looking up with tiny, wet eyes, might offer %an honest shrug. Forgive him Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Turtles ON THE SHOULDER, THE TURTLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the end of a stick Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turtles ONCE THE BAREFOOT MAN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Came to the edge of the village, crying since birth and war Last Line: And he had no reason to use his feet Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONCE WHEN JUAN SAID THE GUITARS WERE MOANING IN THE PAWN SHOPS, NO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Tillas burning slowly to reassure us the roads we walked were already marked Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONCE YOU WERE SUSTENANCE IN THE HAND, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Mistake you for a burning piece of paper Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONE LONE HORSEMAN BELIEVES THE ROAD IS TURNING YELLOW AND WANTS TO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: And touch the ground to make sure he is riding in the direction his grandfather told him to go Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONE NIGHT, IN THE BITTER COLD OF JANUARY, ONE OF THEM KNOCKED AT MY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Fought the wind and the uncontrollable shadows of a moving land Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles ONE VOICE SITS DOWN TO EAT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Two voices devour the meal Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles OUT OF NOWHERE, HE CAPSIZES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: He finds in the middle of nowhere Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles OWL AND THE PANTHER ARE TRYING TO INTERRUPT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The owl and the panther are trying to interrupt Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles PASTORALE, by VALERIE MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Now the turtle comes up from the pond, snapping Last Line: Moves forth and the tongue indulges %its mottled message Subject(s): Swamps; Turtles PHASE FOR THE RED TURTLE THAT SUDDENLY APPEARS, LUCID AND LONG, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Lie down to sleep on each word Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Webs of misery spread in the brain Last Line: Of ten thousand thousand years Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Turtles PICKING THE SORROW OUT OF THE EYES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Opens its mouth %closes its umbilical cord Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles PONDER THIS: WHEN THE TRUMPET PLAYED, IT WAS A BAREFOOT JAZZ, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: From the running remains of a gift, he knew he had emerged from the sea Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles PRELUDIO PROYECTO LATINO: THE CUBAN JAZZ PIANIST GONZALO RUBALCABA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To heal all wounds. Trumpets Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles PROVINCE OF ARROYO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When the earth opened, something came to me Last Line: I walked between the arms of heaven, saw it was only mud Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles REMEMBER REXROTH TELLING THE TRAIN WORKERS TO LIE DOWN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The bottles blinded him with their furious light Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles REPORTER WENT WITH THE BORDER PATROL AGENT ONE NIGHT. THE AGENT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Had not been able to penetrate Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles RHYTHM FLAG, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Vindicated when the rhythm vote destroyed the world Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles RHYTHM FLAG, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Red truck passing down the street Last Line: This is going to become a lark Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles RIO GRANDE IS FULL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The rio grande is empty Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles RIVERTHOUGHT, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: The turtle with eyes Last Line: Call out, finally waking us Subject(s): Turtles SAN JACINTO PLAZA, 1960, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The fountain in the plaza cascaded dirty water, rose above the crowd watching Last Line: Settle onto their moving mouths Variant Title(s): San Jacinto Plaz Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SEA TURTLE, by ELLEN KORT Poem Source First Line: Tonight she lumbers up from the sea as though she knows I am wait Last Line: Morning Subject(s): Marine Animals; Seashore; Turtles SEARCHING FOR SIGNS OF THE GREEN CARS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When no one returns to their country without forgetting its name Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SELECT THE SPOT IN THE SAND, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: I can't see because it is too dark Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SENSITIVE, BALD MAN BOWED DOWN TO PRAY AND HATE THE BROKEN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SHE LEFT ME A SHIELD ORANGE AND LIGHT BROWN ROUGH CIRCLE WITH TINY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Is always there to shave the truth out of the boy Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SHE MOANED AND CALLED THE TURTLES. NO ONE BELIEVED IT BECAUSE THEY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: One looked when she gathered huge, heavy things in her arms and staggered away Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SHELL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When cortez burned mexico city, the stars glittered black in the sky before Last Line: The other survivors of the great change Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SIGNS ON THE BORDER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When you are caught, please come back Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SILENCE AS THEY CROSS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: It was leaving some behind, never to hear from two sons again Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SMALL BOY WATCHES AS THE MOON BECOMES A COIN IN THE NIGHT SKY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His years of walking through the desert in search of the coin he saw plunging toward earth Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SMELL OF OIL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The old woman said she made the world and wanted him to believe each and Last Line: Into the dry husks of the winter tree opening above him in search of other smells Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SNAPPING TURTLE, by JACK MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I guess god must believe in me otherwise how would I breathe? Last Line: Bicycle watching I find her welling in my wife's love for me she is %gentle and sometimes wears her Subject(s): God; Turtles SNAPPING TURTLE, by JEFF OAKS Poem Source First Line: A shape was crawling through the pipe Last Line: That none of us was ever safe, %no matter what she did Subject(s): Child Molesting; Lakes; Turtles SO WHAT IF HIS FAMILY ORIGINATED AS A BUNCH OF UGLY TURTLES WITH, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Allowed before it dried up and kissed sand? Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SOMEONE IS MISSING FROM THE TRIBE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His feet twitched and the dawn came Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SOMETIMES YOU ARE NAKED AND THE FLOSS ON YOUR SKIN BECOMES A GOLD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Clothes back on without sending a prayer into the water for you and anyone that looks like you Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SONG CAME EASY FOR SOME OF US, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To shape the easy song, %build the stronger wall Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles STONE BRIDGE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: With an egg %clutched in its claws Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles STORY OUT OF THE DAILY TORTUGA TIMES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The virgin mary did not show up when she was wanted one night. Lencho Last Line: Munity. I'll tell you this, the friday night crime rate in this area was down dramatically.' Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles SUDDENLY, 4,812 CUBAN 'BOAT PEOPLE' APPEAR ON THE HORIZON, TWO MILES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: They are getting closer. What does this have to do with chicanos or turtles? Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TAIL: THE STORY IS IN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: It is over without reason - captured dimension implied and planted Last Line: When the elegant country no longer existed, the tale was lost Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TAIL: THE STORY IS OUT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Once you were sustenance in the hand Last Line: Twisted parlors become closets for the last man who stood up Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TASTE OF DESIRE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: And there is no brain Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TEN HORIZONS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The music in this long trance has value when the flowers take hold of my arms Last Line: Here, as the huge leaves dry into a parchment he can't read or understand Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE; OR, THE AMERICAN ST. GEORGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard of philip slingsby Last Line: All in pennsylvanian bonds!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); Fights; Turtles; Tyler, John (1790-1862); United States - Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Tortoises THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Once on a time a memorable race Last Line: "the race is not gainedalwaysby the slow." Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Turtles; Victory; Hares; Tortoises THE LITTLE TURTLE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little turtle Last Line: But he didn't catch me. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THE LORCA VARIATIONS (28) 'FOR TURTLES', by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THE PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Webs of misery spread in the brain Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Turtles; Tortoises THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 38, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two turtles aboard an ox cart Last Line: Acting kindly they got stung Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hospitality; Punishment; Turtles; Tortoises THE POND, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snapping turtles in the pond eat bass, sunfish Last Line: And the steel hook wrenched straight as a pin. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Turtles; Pools; Ponds; Tortoises THE THEORETIC TURTLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The theoretic turtle started out to see the toad Last Line: "the easiest way, my friend,"" said he, ""is to walk around the pole." Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THE TORTOISE IN ETERNITY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within my house of patterned horn Last Line: Square on my scornful back. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THE TURTLE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THE TURTLE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The turtle's always been inclined Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THE TURTLE (1), by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain lifts the lake level, washing the reeds Last Line: The turtle's head rises outnover the water Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THE TURTLE (2), by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shiny the turtle is, coming out Last Line: Lying inland on the floor of the old sea Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THE TURTLE AND SPARROW, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Behind an unfrequented glade Last Line: And knaves and prudes are six times married. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Fables; Grief; Sparrows; Turtles; Dead, The; Allegories; Sorrow; Sadness; Tortoises THE TURTLE AND THE FLAMINGO, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lively young turtle lived down by the banks Last Line: The green, but a very mock turtle! Subject(s): Flamingos; Turtles; Tortoises THE TURTLE EGGS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing on shore to give her brood a home Last Line: Find their way to the protective sea Subject(s): Turtles THE TURTLE SHRINE NEAR CHITTAGONG, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humps of shell emerge from dark water Last Line: Or say, this is water, that is land. Subject(s): Reptiles; Turtles; Tortoises THERE ARE MANY FLAGS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THERE ARE THREE WORDS - CONDITION, AVOCADO, BESTOW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: There is one filament - electric line fusing the dream Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THERE IS A PLACE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: In the middle of the water Subject(s): Native Americans; Riddles; Turtles THERE IS THE COAST AND THERE IS THE DESERT. THEY WERE THERE ALL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THERE WAS NO ONE THERE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: No one waited for the first man to come across Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THEY WERE WATCHING ON RADAR, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Entering without a place to land Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THINK OF THE GREEN STEM AS A NECKLACE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Without looking for rescue or myth Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THREE TURTLES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The vato musicians are playing together again. They can't decide if they want Last Line: The sky is a raging, silent purple Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles THREE TURTLES: CHUY CHAMUCO CERVANTES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Chuy came to the party first. He actually set it up. Brought his drum, too. Red Last Line: Used car lot of his asphalt dreams Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TINY MAN WITH A LONG, BROWN BEARD LAYS THE SITAR AND WONDERS WHY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His feet, a few feathers floating in the air to bend themselves around the sharp notes of instrument Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TO A BOX TURTLE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Size of a small skull, and like a skull segmented Last Line: But nature’s tumults pool to form a giant peace Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TO A BOX TURTLE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Size of a small skull, and like a skull segmented Last Line: But nature's tumults pool to form a giant peace Subject(s): Turtles TO MY TORTOISE ANANKE, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Say it were true that thou outliv'st us all Subject(s): Turtles TO MY TORTOISE CHRONOS, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou vague dumb crawler with the groping head Last Line: Spurned earth for ever and its wingless things. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TO THE MAMMOTH-TORTOISE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monster chelonian, you suggest Last Line: And mend its ways ... At last! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TO THE MAN HOPING THE MASK FALLS OFF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Look at the kneeling man and how he finally moves Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TONIGHT ABOVE THE HATED RIVER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: To protect the brown lines on my forehead Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TORTOISE, by TONY+(1) CURTIS Poem Source First Line: They bought you a tortoise and every autumn Last Line: Finished, and what it was always growing %towards Subject(s): Turtles TORTOISE, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: A grove Subject(s): Turtles TORTOISE, by VENETA LEATHAM NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: His shell a nail-hard house Last Line: Where lives the myriad turtle %to re-mind the drift %becausebecause because Subject(s): Turtles TORTOISE, by THOMAS RABBITT Poem Source First Line: I guess today's another day among the days Last Line: And take this as their loss. Yes, I can lie. %yes, I will tell them what I do not know Subject(s): Turtles TORTOISE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tortoise, when it makes its rounds Last Line: Sets out again. And on it creeps Subject(s): Turtles TORTOISE FAMILY CONNECTIONS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On he goes, the little one Last Line: And biting the frail grass arrogantly %decidedly arrogantly st my eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Turtles TORTOISE GALLANTRY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Making his advances Last Line: We will go on to the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TORTOISE SHELL, by JACK HAND Poem Source First Line: There is little to ponder here but absence Subject(s): Environment; Turtles TORTOISE SHELL, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cross, the cross goes deeper in than we know Last Line: This slow one. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TORTOISE SHOUT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought he was dumb Last Line: That which in part, finding its whole again throughout the universe Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Turtles TRUE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Green arms of a long banded thing - perhaps fish or reptile coming across the Last Line: Before anything else comes apart Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Last Line: I think it clever of the turtle %in such a fix to be so fertile Subject(s): Turtles TURTLE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The turtle's always been inclined Last Line: You'll find the turtle home Subject(s): Turtles TURTLE, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who would be a turtle who could help it? Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TURTLE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Turtle alone can with its poisonous Last Line: Only turtle erupts memory Subject(s): Memory; Turtles TURTLE, by DENNIS SAMPSON Poem Source First Line: I had immediate compassion Last Line: And wait, some ways off, to let you pass %into the shadow beside the pool Subject(s): Compassion; Turtles TURTLE, by VINCENT STARRETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queer, tessellated, tardy snuff-box, you Last Line: I have met turtles all along the way. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TURTLE (1), by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain lifts the lake level, washing the reeds Subject(s): Turtles TURTLE (2), by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shiny the turtle is, coming out Last Line: Lying inland on the floor of the old sea Subject(s): Turtles TURTLE CHRIST, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: He came out of the water and looked at me. There was a glow I recognized as Last Line: And rose through the bubbles of mud Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLE HAS JUST ONE PLAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At a time, and every cell %buys into it Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turtles TURTLE IS INNOCENT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: What is left is myth Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLE MONUMENT WAS GLOWING WHEN THE CENTURY DIED, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: It is proper to go back to the egg without a fight Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLE SIGHING TREE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Eons swallowed whole. Your reptilian unease Last Line: Remnants. The undoing %that heals Subject(s): Evolution; Healing; Reptiles; Turtles TURTLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Orrick, poet-laureate of st. Louis Last Line: Is it feet carry them? Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Turtles; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tortoises TURTLES ARE FOUND INSIDE THE HUMAN BODY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Waking in the bowels of a dream and flying out Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLES AT THE END OF THE WORLD, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those paddling in ponds make a little 'pffff,' Last Line: Then gray ashes sprinkling on earth's flattened shell Subject(s): Turtles TURTLES DROPPED LIKE RAIN, COVERED HIS DESIRES WITH THE GRANITE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: A sky that had quit raining turtles and was now prepared to let him live Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles TURTLES OF SANTA ROSA, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Haul their leathery, pock-marked backs Last Line: Might then remember me Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Reptiles; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Turtles; Zoos TWO MEN CROUCH NEAR THE ELECTRIC FENCE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: They are sinking rapidly toward the other side Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles UNGUARDED LION STANDS THERE AND WATCHES ME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: At the foot of my bed Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WE TALKED ABOUT THE CHILDREN CRYING ALONG THE RIVER, THE BORDER, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Had never met and could never allow into my dreams again Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WELDON KEES CROSSES THE STREET IN EL PASO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: No one knows he came down here, his clothes still wet from the day. He hid Last Line: Gulls waving white bodies over large waves of scorched water Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The chicano tortuga party is a mass gathering of people who don't know each Last Line: In the barrios. Just pull the nailed boards off the windows and climb in Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: EIGHT TONS OF TORTILLAS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I have dreamed of the river often, but have not wanted to write that much Last Line: To do with its changing course Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: ELEVENTH BEAN PLUCKED FROM A PILE OF, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: How could I ask myself those questions when I must prepare myself to speak Last Line: Part of the family was all it took to survive the church Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: FIFTH BEAD OF THE ROSARY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When lucha prayed hard, small miracles appeared in her dreams. Sometimes Last Line: Been, but she thought she heard his first footsteps approaching her bedroom door Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: FIRST TORTILLA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: We were talking about carlos and how he wound up in prison for killing jimmy Last Line: Shit out of all their brothers Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: FOURTH CALENDAR PHOTO OF LA VIRGEN DE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The howling coyotes came back last night. They circled the adobe house and Last Line: Pay attention to what they were doing. The coyotes keep howling Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: NINE BOWLS OF MENUDO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Kind speech is a slow flowing spring discovered by anselmo, a barefoot boy Last Line: Lennium ends the dark party Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: SECOND TACO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Freddie and his band got busted last night. They are in jail for selling weed Last Line: Can happen. I think I'm scared, dios mio! Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: SEVENTH BITE OF THE TACO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I don't know how it happened, but tony quit speaking spanish. One day he Last Line: And make him ask for it back in spanish Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: SIXTH ROLL OF THE TACO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: They keep naming their babies after selena. Since the tejano singer was mur Last Line: Something to dream for Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: TENTH BEAD OF THE ROSARY (BROKEN BUT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: There was a time when I thought I cold hide in the ground and be mistaken Last Line: I know it before she dies? Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: THIRD BOWL OF BEANS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: There is no use in thinking the family will stay together. Ramon is dead. Maria Last Line: Before he died. He must be crazy like all the others Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: THIRTEENTH HELPING OF HABANERO SAUCE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Tired of describing what it means to come back and be able to register the Last Line: Something that is here Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: TWELFTH AVOCADO CUT BY A KNIFE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I visit my uncle after thirty years. He looks like my father. It is the closest Last Line: Which one will know who I am the last time he closes his eyes Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WERE YOU INVITED TO THE PARTY?: WE FORGOT WHY WE EVEN SERVED THE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Chew it slowly and taste the oil from your grandmother's hands - the slap Last Line: Corn god stepped on long ago. Eating them off the floor of the earth Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHAT IF I WAS AFRAID, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Would anyone care or would they let me repeat what happened Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHAT TIME WILL YOU CROSS?, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: How many do you want in tomorrow's count?' Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN ARE THE MEN WHO COULD HAVE TAUGHT ME THE MIRROR IS ALWAYS IN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN HE DISAPPEARED AT THE EDGE OF THE SKY, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Someone was there waiting for him Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE FAITHFUL WANTED TO PRAY, THEY ASKED HIM IF THEY COULD GO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: His dreams for days before they came to speak to him Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE GLEAMING MAN EXTENDS HIS FLAME, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The creation of the gleaming man Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE SIXTEEN BODIES WERE FOUND IN THE RAILROAD BOXCAR, THE HEAT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Grande river glowed in the night Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE TIRED MASKER BESTOWS HANDS AND SHELLS AND THE FASTING, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Hair, two white haired turtles demanding power, with lifetimes of nothing but silence Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THE TORTUGA PARTY ENDED, THERE WERE TOO MANY PEOPLE LEFT IN, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Whose polluted water killed off the snapping turtles many years ago Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN THERE IS TIME, HE RISES LIKE A PRIEST AND ASKS THE TUNNELS TO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Sustenance no one foreshadowed or believed could exist Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN YOU FAST ON THE TWIG YOUR FATHER BEHAVES LIKE A DREADED ANGEL, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: When you fast on the water your feet behave like a dreaded angel with power Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEN YOU LOOK DOWN, THE SLOW MEMORY OF SOMETHING CRAWLING TOWARD, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: This has something to do with moving mouths Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHEREVER HE GOES, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: In order to prosper and survive Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WHITE TURTLE MET THE RED TURTLE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Their entire lifetimes to have been green Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WITCHI-TAI-TO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Witchi-tai-to from across the room Last Line: From burned tortillas across your face Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles WOMAN WALKING SLOWLY IN A DARK BLUE COAT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: The same thing %the same food Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles YOU DON'T KNOW THIS TEMPLE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Once, a torrid rain washed your face Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles YOU IMAGINE YOUR TRUE HOME IS A METAL CHAMBER MADE OF FLOWERS, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Confident period of your life Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles YOU'RE IN HEAVEN NOW, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: Has stolen your face Subject(s): Chicanos; Turtles |
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