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Subject: VEGETABLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMAZING FACTS ABOUT FOOD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I yearn to bite on a colloid
Subject(s): Food & Eating;soul;vegetables;waiters & Waitresses


AN EPISTLE TO J. BL-K-N, ESQ.: ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The point mr. Bl-k-n, disputed upon
Last Line: And rejoice in the health of its master;—adieu!
Subject(s): Food & Eating; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Locusts; Vegetables


ARTIFACT: TWO INK ON POTTERY FRAGMENTS: 7TH-8TH C.A.D., by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ...Behold, another 4
Last Line: Fireworks out on the river
Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Salads; Vegetables


ASPARAGUS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This afternoon a man leans over
Last Line: You're very lucky
Subject(s): Asparagus; Love - Nature Of; Vegetables


ASPARAGUS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This afternoon a man leans over
Last Line: Listen, I say to him, %you're very lucky
Subject(s): Asparagus; Love - Nature Of; Vegetables


ASPARAGUS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I saw the asparagus stand up in one bunch
Last Line: Have to watch where we're going or simply make do
Subject(s): Arabs; Asparagus; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Vegetables


ATTACK OF THE SQUASH PEOPLE, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And thus the people every year
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Vegetables


BROTH, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some days we cannot help
Last Line: Place to exact the cure
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Soup; Vegetables


CAULIFLOWER, by JOAN JOBE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the farmers market yesterday
Last Line: Cauliflower. I am too ordinary %for such power
Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Markets; Vegetables


CLOTHES-BRUSH TREE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This most useful natural production does not produce many clothes
Last Line: Unnecessary to be diffuse upon
Subject(s): Trees; Vegetables


EARTH POEMS: 3, by JAVIER HERAUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want two geraniums
Last Line: For my own vegetables
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring; Vegetables


EATING FOR GOOD HEALTH: GREEN REVOLUTION BREAKFAST, by JENNIFER MOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother had a cook book
Last Line: While the spears of bright grass %grew as tall as my eyes
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Mothers; Vegetables


FARMER'S MARKET, by MARILYNNE THOMAS WALTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside, back of the mall
Last Line: Eat, to take back what the earth gave
Subject(s): Farm Life; Markets; Vegetables


FOOD NOTES, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Asparagus is back in all its glory
Last Line: Asparagus is here in all its glory
Subject(s): Asparagus; Vegetables


FOR INSTANCE, by ROBERT MCALMON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vegetables / and jewelry, rightly displayed
Subject(s): Vegetables


GLISTEN, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not forgive you, but I will grow in your house
Last Line: Of nurseshark and trembling
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Vegetables


LATCH IS OFF: SUMMER SQUASH WITH ZUCCHINI, by JENNIFER MOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red placecloths and blue china
Last Line: On the underside of my elbow
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Summer; Vegetables


LETTUCE, by WILLIAM A. FAHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lettuce, now that's a poser
Last Line: Not for us this green plumosity
Subject(s): Colors; Vegetables


MY GARDEN, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I see the sun ashining
Last Line: It's enough to make you laugh!
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Soil; Spring; Vegetables


NAMING COLORS', by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A perfect cream its middle reaches up
Last Line: And become the pink and the lighter blue
Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Vegetables; Wheat


NONSENSE BOTANY: 3, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Armchairia comfortabillis bassia palealensis
Last Line: Puffia leatherbellowsa queeriflora babyoides
Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Nature; Plants; Vegetables


PRAISES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vegetables please us with their modes and virtues
Last Line: Flowers, love's language, love, heart's ease, poems, praise
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Plants; Praise; Vegetables; Planting; Planters


RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If we could only spin a top
Last Line: Till I can raise a hubbard squash.
Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Plantation Life; Vegetables; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


SEDUCTIVE PRODUCE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine peaches, %the fine hair of their navels
Last Line: Into the under-tofu of your flesh
Subject(s): Grocers; Seduction; Sex; Vegetables


SUNDAY DINNER, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year we became vegetarians, we fixed meat only for the cats
Last Line: Over the corpses and into the water
Subject(s): Vegetables; Vegetarians


THE GARDEN-MAKER, by L. D. MORSBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: An old slat bonnet hid her face
Last Line: Gave gladly back the smile of god.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Plants; Vegetables; Planting; Planters


VEGETABLE EMERGENCY, by MAXINE CHERNOFF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is something new among the vegetables in my garden this morn
Last Line: The head has vowed silence
Subject(s): Leaves; Plants; Vegetables


VEGETABLE LOVE, by DIANE LOCKWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She bought the eggplant because her lover
Last Line: Told herself it was just beginning to work
Subject(s): Love; Vegetables


VEGETABLE MEDLEY, by STEVEN ALBERT BAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like vegetables - %carrots and string beans
Last Line: Eat them or you'll die
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Vegetables


VEGETABLES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carrots (raw) 2b
Last Line: Lettuce p
Subject(s): Dieting; Food And Eating; Vegetables