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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MODEST MOUND OF BONES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That short-sleeved man, our
Last Line: It sags! What buntingis flesh to be hung from such ele- gant balconies?
Subject(s): Bones


A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children picking up our bones
Subject(s): Bones


ABSOLUTELY UNTITLED, by BELLE WARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the boney marrow
Last Line: In the marrow of my bones %the internal ocean
Subject(s): Bones


AFTER LOOKING UP INTO ONE TOO MANY CAMERAS, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the bones of my arm were emptied I began
Last Line: Dangerous words are the ones we never hear
Subject(s): Self; Bones; Secrets


AFTER X-RAY, by LINDA PASTAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To shine somewhere like strung beads of coral
Subject(s): X-rays; Bones


ANIMAL SKELETON, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whatever was inscribed in me is now revealed
Last Line: Until I make no sense, %and, senseless, I await you
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Skeletons; Writing And Writers


ANTHEM, by GAVIN EWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our bones will all be built into the runway
Subject(s): Bones


ASHFALL FOSSIL BEDS, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once, long ago, in what is now idaho
Last Line: Needed only to die down for it to fall
Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Fossils; Skulls


BEAUTIFUL MATH: XY, by AMY NEWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: About this time, the world reduces like a sauce
Last Line: The greatest length away, in a windmill arc %of force and velocity
Subject(s): Bones


BELLS, by KARY WAYSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She gets up, goes to the telephone, lifts it and listens
Last Line: Can't feel her feet and wonders how she got these broken bones
Subject(s): Bells; Bones; Women


BODY, REASSEMBLED, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Traffic and people return to the marketplace
Last Line: To wander the afterlife, slick in their tendons and skin
Subject(s): Bodies; Bones; Future Life


BONE, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An erratic, complicated shape, like a tool for some obsolete task:
Last Line: Maman, please... % it's filthy. Drop it. Drop it! Drop it! Drop it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K.
Subject(s): Bones; Tools


BONE FRAGMENTS, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stray frays of virga. In the wood grain: line graph of annual rainfall
Last Line: Or perhaps a gray fox’s or a dog’s? The cracked femur spills sand
Subject(s): Bones; Knowledge


BONE THOUGHTS ON A DRY DAY, by GEORGE STARBUCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking to the museum
Last Line: There, on a squared stone, some cast-up keels beach. %here, a dark sea speaks with white hands
Variant Title(s): Bone Thoughts On A Dry Day: Chicag
Subject(s): Bones


BONES, by GEORGE BURNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If there were a law
Last Line: After you were away, %my earth
Subject(s): Bones


BONES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some think we make too much %of bones
Last Line: You and I are only %an attractive tapestry %our bones flaunt
Subject(s): Bones; Humanity


BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 4. WITHSTANDING, by PIMONE TRIPLETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the sketch, here's where his angel can't stop %remembering
Last Line: The branches, up into that sky going the color of bone
Subject(s): Bones; Memory


CASUALTIES: 18. DIRGE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Show me a house where nobody has died
Last Line: But let us not cut down the clan
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Bones; Children - Lost; Death; Funerals; Sons


CASUALTIES: 20. ABURI AND AFTER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With old faces in my mind
Last Line: A prayer in his heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Prayer


DEAD PINES, by DANE ZAJC    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were shrunken from fear
Last Line: Close the doors of your hearing %before our silence
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Funerals; Silence


DEATH, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the bones of animals
Last Line: Pomona %naked and laughing
Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Statues


DISCOVERIES OF BONES AND STONES, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Certain bones are from other bones distinquished
Subject(s): Bones; Travel


DISLOCATION, by WILLIS FREDERICK OSTRANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can articulate this skeleton
Last Line: And incessant shores are the only buffer
Subject(s): Bones


ELEGY, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through air beaten back, beaten
Last Line: Begin their lonely dissolve %into swans
Subject(s): Absence; Bones; Love - Loss Of; Solitude


ELEMENTAL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I open my door to a glassy white world
Last Line: I walk stiffly back to the house %to think blue thoughts till spring
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Graves; Prairies


ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The bears are kept by hundreds within fences, are fed cracked / eggs
Last Line: Every inch of you, a terrible vision, not bear, but virgin!
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Bones; Christmas; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nativity, The


ESSAY: 13 PRESSURE POINTS INSIDE THE SKULL, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: (I was) (previously) incapable of establishing a link between one phenomenon &
Last Line: I wrote recognition to perform in
Subject(s): Bones; Essays; Skulls


EUMARES, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tumultuous sea, whose wrath and foam are spent
Last Line: For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos
Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monuments; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


EXPULSION, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The brief upholstery of bone and muscle
Last Line: Each alone in its dark tent
Subject(s): Bodies; Bones


EXTRA RIB, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I worry that it's calcified cancer
Last Line: A bit of mud and breath %what could lie beyond these gates?
Subject(s): Bones


GILES'S HOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Rise again with all one's bones?
Last Line: To go without my rib.
Subject(s): Bones


HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My bones migrate in
Last Line: They strean white ashes
Subject(s): Bones


HOLLOW FLUTE, by AVNER STRAUSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a dream bone
Last Line: Dry bones make good flutes
Subject(s): Bones


ILSAN POEMS: 5, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flesh %on my body has departed
Last Line: Where a new heaven and earth grows
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Poetry And Poets; Prisons And Prisoners


IN THE DARK, by LAJOS KASSAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've swallowed the poison of sadness
Last Line: And I can't speak your name %any more
Subject(s): Absence; Bones; Death


LADY'S-MAID SONG, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When adam found his rib was gone
Last Line: For though we throw the dog his bone %he wants it back with interest
Subject(s): Bones; Hate


LEARNING ANATOMY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My son must learn the bones of the body, their articulations
Last Line: Crumble into dust, bones pass time in the urn of earth
Subject(s): Bones; Corpses; Skeletons


LINES INSPIRED BY AN ANCIENT BONE FOUND AT THE ROMAN CAMP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bonus! Bona! Bonum! Which means, you know
Last Line: So I'll betake me to mine ease again, %restrain the muse, and lay aside my pen
Subject(s): Bones


LOSS, by PATRICIA ZONTELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Digging up the bones. Reburying them
Last Line: In a place where even I can't find them
Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Loss


MAKING FACES, by MARY LYDIA CARPENTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How little we think, as we go our way
Last Line: We need fear no tales that our faces tell.
Subject(s): Bones; Faces


MAKING INSTRUMENTS FROM BIRD SKELETONS, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: What better bones for wind to pass through
Last Line: Jays will hear your breath stir the song of dead things %and if birds don't know anger they will inv
Subject(s): Birds; Bones; Whistles And Whistling


MARGERY'S SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a jill-whisper
Last Line: With hawthorn in my hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Bones; Hunger; Poverty


MEDITATION ON A BONE (A PIECE OF BONE FOUND AT TRONDHJEM), by ALEC DERWENT HOPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Words scored upon a bone
Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D.
Subject(s): Bones; Hate


MEDITATION ON A BONE (A PIECE OF BONE FOUND AT TRONDHJEM), by ALEC DERWENT HOPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Words scored upon a bone
Last Line: And thinks: when I am dung, %what bone shall speak for me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D.
Subject(s): Bones; Hate


MODEST MOUND OF BONES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That short-sleeved man, our
Last Line: Is flesh to be hung from such elegeant balconies?
Subject(s): Bones


MOON'S WALTZING ALONE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In deserted kitchens
Last Line: Only their love, like a thing never done, burns through %into morning
Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Death; Love - Loss Of


NEAR A BUILDING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That sad summer, the loneliest thing
Last Line: Bone emphasising perfect bone
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Solitude; Summer


NIP AND TUCK, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Both nip and tuck are spaniel pups
Last Line: Or bones beneath the ground!
Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Dogs


O HADA CIBERNETICA: 2, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fine that so much heaven for so many
Last Line: Strip off my skin my bones %even my marrow
Subject(s): Bones; Death


OLD BONES, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard them talking, muttering and mouthing
Last Line: I'll be going gayly in my sweet, young flesh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs.
Subject(s): Aging; Bones


ON A DEAD SWALLOW, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here you are, grounded in road gravel
Last Line: To raise up gloriously from your bones
Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves


ON THE REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS OF CALDERON; 1840, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unto a tomb more splendid than was thine
Last Line: For lo, thy tomb is portugal and spain!
Subject(s): Bones; Calderon De La Barca, Pedro (1600-1681); Dust; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones


ORACLE AT DELPHI, by ELENI Z. AUERBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I keep writing about bones as if
Last Line: The stones are full of buzzing %in this heat
Subject(s): Bodies; Bones


PENCILLED IN A BOOK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here lies old jones, %who all his collected bones
Last Line: Boned old jones so neat and tidy, %that he lies all bona fide
Subject(s): Bones


POEM FOR DOROTHY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No shape in darkness single stands
Last Line: From ruin moving amends our peace
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory


POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children picking up our bones
Last Line: Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun
Subject(s): Bones


RELIC, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found this jawbone at the sea's edge
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Bones; Time


RELIC, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found this jawbone at the sea's edge
Last Line: In the sea. This curved jawbone did not laugh %but gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Bones; Time


REQUIEM TO THE DINOSAURS AND MASTODONS, by UBADAH IBN MA' AL-SAMA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here roots a glebe of rough mesquite
Last Line: Was dear to her who sleeps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ubada; Ubada, Muhammed Ibn
Subject(s): Amphibians; Bones; Dinosaurs; Skeletons


RIME OF THE PALMERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, and in the morning
Last Line: Thus, lest the land repent
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Hunger


RITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Short for el rito. The town dog
Last Line: For rito, the town dog - a free spirit!
Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Graves


SECOND SNOW, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trees grow wild in the pasture
Last Line: Lanterns, light calling %'come home'
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Memory; Winter


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO THE PALEONTHOLOGY CLASS: BEFORE ... BONE, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was 510 million years ago today
Last Line: This oburdate life of bone
Subject(s): Bones


STONES, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small yellow stones
Last Line: Of an unfoaming far unvisioned sea.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore


SUNSHINE: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet and merry sunshine makes the very churchyard fair
Last Line: Though it plays upon a grave-stone through the gloomy cypress tree.
Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Coffins; Thought; Thinking


SYLLABUS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steering between %scylla and charybdis
Last Line: Marking time till it turn: %lamb. Lamb. I am
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Love


THE BONE THAT HAS NO MARROW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Confronting us again!
Subject(s): Bones


THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in
Last Line: That vampire conger eel.
Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean


THE COURSE OF TIME: PROXIMITIES, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The memphian mummy, that from age to age
Last Line: The clown that long had slumbered in his arms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Subject(s): Bones; Dust; Egyptology; Mummies; Mystery


THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dreadful city's roar
Last Line: Far from these clattering stones.
Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds


THE LADY'S-MAID SONG, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When adam found his rib was gone
Subject(s): Bones; Hate


THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The humming sea is full of dirges
Last Line: Who have passed into repose!
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Life; Loss; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean


THE MARRIAGE (3), by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tons of suicide rock hauled away
Last Line: Tons of suicide rock hauled away
Subject(s): Honeymoons; Bones


THE PIONEER, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a servant boy, and he
Last Line: The tale of the early pioneer.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Pioneers; Dead, The


THESE BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, by MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho, pines, black pines, walk 'round, walk 'round
Last Line: That the old lost dreams were right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Douglass, Marjorie Stoneman
Subject(s): Bones; Trees


UNSTRUNG, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a jeweled tapestry
Last Line: A face so like its own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Birds; Bones; Death; Dead, The


VILLANELLE FOR MY SPINE, by ENID SHOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O chain of bones, o venomous snake
Last Line: Pain is the only truth when my backbone aches
Subject(s): Bones; Pain


VIVA LA MUERTE, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Viva la muerte
Last Line: Of salt cod and catastrophe
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Love; Widows And Widowers


WATER LACE AND WHITE EYES, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the mist rising
Last Line: In the northern dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Bones; Frost; Ice; North, The; Snow


WHILE WALKING THROUGH THE CHURCHYARD, by KENNETH O'KEEFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The amber air of summer paints the stones
Last Line: My soul in peace beyond the grief it knows
Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Death


WRECK, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Although the preparation was so long
Last Line: Would say to the very end refused rest
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks


X-RAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: What truth the doctor reads
Last Line: And breath.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Medicine; Physicians; Skeletons; X-rays; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors