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Author: RAS, BARBARA Matches Found: 35 Ras, Barbara Poet's Biography 35 poems available by this author A BOOK SAID DREAM AND I DO Poem Text First Line: There were feathers and the light that passed through feathers Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A WIFE EXPLAINS WHY SHE LIKES THE COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Because those cows in the bottomland are black and white, colors Subject(s): Country Life; Likes & Dislikes ALL THIS AND HEAVEN First Line: I was telling you about the unfortunates Last Line: As they appear in the south, large and fluffy CHILDHOOD First Line: Driving the last stretch before the home stretch, past the lake Last Line: When children owned the streets CORRECT ANALYSIS First Line: The day began simply, about nothing Last Line: The sugar will be taken from you right hand DAMAGE Poem Text First Line: Hard to tell in this abandonment what was what Subject(s): Teenagers DOGS First Line: Across the street, chained to the back porch and intent on %barking Last Line: And I'll tilt my head back and howl EARLY MORNING First Line: Before the moon goes down behind the jagged line of trees Last Line: That will consecrate the moment, give us over to here, now, yes GHOST WEATHER First Line: Now the sky is the color of absinthe Last Line: And then the thunder GIRL IN THE WIDOW'S WALK First Line: She sits above the house in a room on the roof Last Line: Of her damaging, and she will look away HISTORY First Line: Of course wars, of course lice, of course limbs on opposing sides Last Line: That had come up to lean against your side %like a rock IN THE NEW COUNTRY First Line: I love america. Ham bones and shoes Last Line: We'll feed to the pig in the cellar Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LETTER TO THE FRONT, 2 Poem Text First Line: When it is still, I listen for your voice. Subject(s): War - Home Front; Absence; Longing; Family Life; Letters; Separation; Isolation; Relatives LETTING GO OF LAND First Line: Like some animals, seals, snails, so full LOW PLANES First Line: From the freeway, at first just a single low fat Last Line: Who are arriving to a new language, one they're relearning every day, %with new sounds to speak hell MARGIN OF ERROR First Line: If it's true, wrong action can lead to salvation, then no need to fix Last Line: The promise of good hands on its good head MOVING WITH CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Should you prepare them for homesickness? Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Children; Homesickness; Childhood MOVING WITH CHILDREN First Line: Should you prepare them for homesickness? Last Line: You will see that they are happy too, %happy enough MY TRAIN First Line: Just a few of us here at midday Last Line: To get my earring, I jumped down to get my earring NO ONE ARGUED ABOUT WHAT TO CALL THE BIRDS First Line: A night sky with pain in it poured its dark Last Line: All looking the same way in the rain PREGNANT POETS SWIM LAKE TARLETON, NEW HAMPSHIRE First Line: You dive in, head for the other side, sure Last Line: The dark water that draws light down to life RHAPSODY TODAY First Line: Maybe today will be the day you wake and for the first time watch the full Last Line: In a whisper, and overhead the fabulous wingspan of new birds, %already laughing SADNESS OF COUPLES First Line: After the chemistry that made their atoms wobble Last Line: Will stay up there %this time SADNESS OF FAILURE First Line: Maybe the dwarf is dreaming Last Line: Or a failure of sleep to wake yourself out of a dream, laughing softly SADNESS OF KIDS First Line: No archaeology. No ladders. Our bodies smooth Last Line: The pumpkins wait and wait SADNESS OF MEMORY First Line: Like bees aftering being out in the world, gathering and sucking up their lot Last Line: The junkyard dog, the coyote, the wolf SADNESS OF PARENTS First Line: The sadness of fruit is like the sadness Last Line: To live with less THE SADNESS OF PARENTS Poem Text First Line: The sadness of fruit is like the sadness Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness THE SADNESS OF PUPPIES Poem Text First Line: Up there, squirrels, teasing and clacking Subject(s): Grief; Dogs; Sorrow; Sadness TOP DOG First Line: If I could, I would take your grief, dig it up Last Line: Using truth as a weapon TROPICAL LIGHT First Line: No matter that it doesn't penetrate the sugar cane Last Line: Brushes your open face WASHING THE ELEPHANT Poem Text Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Circus; Confession; Religion; Family Life; Elephants; Theology; Relatives WHERE I GO WHEN I'M OUT OF MY MIND First Line: Leaping out of the barn dance of my brain, where everyone else Last Line: Stretching ahead like some infallible sentence YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ALL Poem Text First Line: But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands Subject(s): Carpe Diem YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ALL First Line: But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands Last Line: It will always whisper, you can't have it all, %but there is this |
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