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Subject: BAMBOO
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BAMBOO, by CHU TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sketch bamboo with cinnabar,
Last Line: Dragonflies, and rosy clouds
Subject(s): Bamboo; Nature


BAMBOO, by FRANK GRAZIANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the flutes
Last Line: Bamboo with its bones %guards winter
Subject(s): Bamboo


BAMBOO, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something straight growing on the ground
Subject(s): Bamboo


BAMBOO, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In clumps like grass
Subject(s): Bamboo


BAMBOO, by CARL KIKUCHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bamboo, a dusty green all through
Subject(s): Bamboo


BAMBOO, by KUSANO SHINPEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: 1000 bamboo trees
Last Line: 1000 bamboo trees. %rainbow
Subject(s): Bamboo


BAMBOO, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I have spent hours face to face with a single stalk
Subject(s): Bamboo


BAMBOO, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I have spent hours face to face with a single stalk
Last Line: Down the lines of verse, and with one final, half-dry flourish: %signs my name
Subject(s): Bamboo


BAMBOO GROVE, by P'EI TI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come humbly to the bamboo grove
Last Line: The bright moon, how we shine together
Subject(s): Bamboo; Leaves; Nature; Pandas; Zen Buddhism


BAMBOO GROVE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit alone in the secluded bamboo grove
Last Line: The bright moon comes to shine on me
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Bamboo; Solitude


BAMBOOS GROW WELL UNDER GOOD RULE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dry in the sun by corner of k'I
Last Line: As he were a tiger %with velvet paws
Subject(s): Bamboo


DARK BAMBOOS, by CLIFFORD GESSLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark bamboos against the sullen sky'
Last Line: And dark bamboos against the sullen sky.
Subject(s): Bamboo; Winter


EATING BAMBOO SHOOTS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This province is truly a land of bamboo
Last Line: Eat while you can, don't hestitate, %soon south winds will blow them into bamboo
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Food And Eating; Vegetarians


EATING BAMBOO-SHOOTS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My new province is a land of bamboo-groves
Last Line: For each breath of the south-wind makes a new bamboo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Food & Eating


INSCRIBED ON MY OWN PAINTING OF BAMBOO, by GUAN DAOSHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I returned home after the banquet before the sun had set
Last Line: For tall, slender bamboo soughs, soughs, producing tender coolness
Subject(s): Bamboo


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 35, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The uguisu sleeps in the bamboo grove
Last Line: Now she sleeps in a bamboo cage
Subject(s): Bamboo


NEW BAMBOO IN THE NORTH GARDEN AT CH'ANG-KU, by LI HO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've peeled off the shiny green bark
Last Line: And the mist shreds tears
Subject(s): Bamboo


ON AN INK BAMBOO SENT TO ZI'ANG, by GUAN DAOSHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the day milord left, the bamboo was first planted
Last Line: Unlike a flower which dies to bloom again
Subject(s): Bamboo


PAINTING BAMBOO, by HSU WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cheap silk %from eastern wu
Subject(s): Bamboo


PAINTING BAMBOO: A SONG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the plants, bamboo is the most difficult to paint
Last Line: From now on such bamboos will be the hardest to find
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Bamboo


PLANTING BAMBOOS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not suited for service in a country town
Last Line: To hear in their branches the sound of the autumn wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Bamboo; Nature


POETIC GIFT FOR SOMEONE VIEWING BAMBOOS AFTER RAIN, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In southern clime and spring rain times
Last Line: Its joints both hoary and sturdy
Subject(s): Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REGRETS OF THE MOTTLED BAMBOO, by HO NANSOLHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the two concubines long ago mourned emperor shun's death
Last Line: Which moves endlessly and will never return
Subject(s): Bamboo


RHYME-PROSE ON TALL, SLENDER BAMBOO, by GUAN DAOSHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leafy, leafy, tall, slender bamboo
Last Line: From these I perceive a gentleman's virtue
Subject(s): Bamboo


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 9. BAMBOO SEPARATED FROM A PAVILION, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Exuberant growth, newly planted
Last Line: Over the jadelike hall
Subject(s): Absence; Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 35, by KENNETH REXROTH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The uguisu sleeps in the bamboo grove
Subject(s): Bamboo