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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 gained—always—by 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