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Subject: BUTTER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VERMONT BUTTERY, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Us children liked the kitchen room
Last Line: Behind the buttery door.
Subject(s): Butter; Vermont


BUTTER, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother loves butter more than I do
Last Line: Out, one hundred megawatts of butter
Subject(s): Butter; Family Life; Relatives


BUTTER, by STEFANIE MARLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go figure. The day lilies' yellow deepens gloriously
Last Line: It may be years later that you learn enough and soften
Subject(s): Butter; Life; Metaphor


BUTTER BOX, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a picture to help us
Last Line: See how much help we didn't need?
Subject(s): Butter


LONG-GONE SUN: 2, by CLAIRE MALROUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stack is avery tender yellow
Last Line: Nevertheless, foundations tremble %and what remains is %festa candelabrum %the mystery of the word
Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara
Subject(s): Butter; Cooking And Cooks


MILK AND BUTTER LADY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma churned and minded the flies
Last Line: And there wasn't any use %in being that particular
Subject(s): Butter; Grandparents; Milk


PEACE OF ATHENA, by LYNN BOWMASTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, the pleasure of peanut butter!
Last Line: And we would study war no more
Subject(s): Mythology; Peanut Butter


PEANUT BUTTER, by EILEEN MYLES    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am always hungry
Subject(s): Peanut Butter; Sex; Appetite; Conduct Of Life


PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First you take the dough and knead it, knead it
Last Line: Peanut butter, peanut butter, jelly, jelly
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Jelly; Peanut Butter


PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICHES, by LEN ROBERTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While my father cuts his way
Last Line: Set gently into its grave, stacking them %like balanced blocks, one by one, for tomorrow
Subject(s): Jelly; Peanut Butter


PEANUT-BUTTER SANDWICH, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll sing you a poem of a silly young king
Last Line: The first words that they heard him speak %were, 'how about a peanut-butter sandwich?'
Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel
Subject(s): Jelly; Peanut Butter


SONG TO BUTTER, by JR. ROY BLOUNT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bananas are yellow in their season
Last Line: Oh! Nothing melts %melts the way butter melts
Subject(s): Butter


TESTIMONY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You can't step into the same
Last Line: Either. Not once
Subject(s): Butter; Flowers; Rivers


THE CHURNING SONG, by SILAS DINSMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Apron on and dash in hand
Last Line: Calink! Calink!
Subject(s): Butter


YELLOW BUTTER, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yellow butter purple jelly red jam black bread
Last Line: Don't talk %with your mouth full!
Subject(s): Butter; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Tongue Twisters