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Subject: FAMILY LIFE - IRELAND Matches Found: 72 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Heritage; Heredity; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ADVENT, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's advent, and the woods renounce %your name Last Line: To kick the days ahead %and lets them burn Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland AFTERNOON OF THE SWIMMING PARTY, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: A tidal wave, two old guys Last Line: Glitter without clothes Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland AT EASE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When she died he married her sister Last Line: And a ghost Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Ghosts; Marriage; Supernatural AUNT DYMPNA, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She had blue hair, a kerry blue dog Last Line: Not even the name of the next cat Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BEYOND HIS REACH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He looked at his children, all nine Last Line: And loved his children like he loved question-marks. Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Love BLUE AMBITION, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She'd start novenas, %when you went off to barter Last Line: Granda, standing in your dream Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BLUEBERRIES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Driving north, the haze Last Line: In the blue cups of our hands Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BOG MAGIC, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Granda cut turf with old gael grace Last Line: A wizard willing deadweights into fuel Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland BUILDING WATCH AT COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: As little sonnets labor to be wired Last Line: While hard-hats whistling dixie take a leak Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: It is the cat within us Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel CIRCLES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She seems to go round %in circles as narrow Last Line: In hot air, like a child's %circle on a steamy pane Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland CLEARING FOR A NEW HOUSE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Long before the front-end loader Last Line: And the ones we will keep Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland COWS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Knee deep in may with grassy june before them Last Line: Pleasure: led dimly off, their only madness, flies Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland CRICKETS WENT ON SINGING, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I remember the night you told me Last Line: Your smile half-crazed before you forgot Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses DAD'S ACCORDION, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Dad, no matter how you played it to your daughter Last Line: Because it frightened you,' was all you said Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland DAFFODIL DAYS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I bought the daffodils Last Line: Do not bloom for me, I ask, %do not bloom Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses DARKEST LEAVES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I recall the morning crying awake Last Line: In & out of rooms, & dreams, %through the darkest leaves Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland ECLIPSE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Above us the table of night Last Line: On the night of your thirtieth year Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FATHER, by PAUL CARROLL Poem Source First Line: How sick I get %of your ghost Last Line: This underpass is endless Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day FATHER, WHEN I WAS SIX, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: The wind flung down the firs that stood on tiptoe Last Line: The moonlight anchored in your grasp Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FATHERS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN Poem Source First Line: We talked to our jamesons at closing time Last Line: To somebody else two or three blocks over %who yelled back once. It got quiet after that Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Fathers FEAR OF IRISH SONS, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I have this notion of you: irish Last Line: I fear of my first son Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons FINGER LAKES, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: We stand in the shower Last Line: And towel each other before it gets cold Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: We had never grasped hands Last Line: (which after all, was thicker than water) Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FIRST HOUR, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: This will never happen to me Last Line: My shaky, learning hands Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses FLYING TO IRELAND, AGAIN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: It's like looking down on a quilt Last Line: And left it behind in belclare Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FOG, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Our hospital sits on a rise Last Line: On the perfect white-out of a morning Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland FROM MY B&B LIGHTHOUSE ON CLARE ISLAND, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Mostly when I think of grainne uaile Last Line: Looking lonely as one graffito Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland GAELIC LEGACY, by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Trying to ignore the only thing Last Line: His civilized socks. %peace Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Irish Language GROWING UP, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I no longer had to stand on chairs Last Line: Everything grew up but me Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland HANDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Close to boiling water spilled Last Line: Burning now Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fire; Hands HANGOVER MASS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the sins of the flesh, that reprobate Last Line: Over sidewalk cracks' imaginary snakes Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life - Ireland; Sin HAWK, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: He might have been carved, except I saw him Last Line: As evening spread its red tail on the water Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland HORSE'S GRAVE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I remember bob-horse pulling Last Line: And a gap where the whins grew high Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland HOSPITAL FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Their pollen cleansed the air Last Line: That wove such a spell Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses JACK RUSSELL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: When uncle peter %went abroad Last Line: No kinder eyes, %the whitest coat of bones Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHO YOU ARE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am your little grandmother Last Line: And fields to liverpool Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents LATE WINTER ON CAPE COD, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Blackbirds this evening, %so many of them massing Last Line: A thousandfold and black-leafed, %the red-wings pause Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland LOVE IN THE WESTERN WORLD, by KATHY CALLAWAY Poem Source First Line: Think of family, ulster irish Last Line: The old fishline unreeling again Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Ulster, Ireland MAMMOGRAPHY: A WORD WITH GRANDMA'S GHOST, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: They tell me I'm high-risk too Last Line: The land raised like an irish fist Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses MEET ME AT THE ELEPHANT, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Buffered by his cap and coat Last Line: On the way to natural history Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MICHELANGELO, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: My father climbed ladders Last Line: All he knew was a towel- %he could mend the skies Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MOVING: 1, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I dream up wan excuses like dumb fate Last Line: I leave four walls, loud echoes, and my tub Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MOVING: 2, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: To move to greener pastures by this shore Last Line: What we just sold away: fat chance of that Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland MY LAST UNCLE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: He appeared at union station Last Line: With his suitcase and dreams Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland NANCY CHURNING, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Mute, homely, that was our Last Line: Where she rubs herself with the soot Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland NIGHT OFF THE MATERNITY WARD, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: There was always night's barter up on ilkley moor Last Line: For the starbloom I carried to the basket dark in my room Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Hospitals; Nurses OF, OR FROM, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: These sons %become me Last Line: Become me they %become me Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons OUR LADY OF KNOCK, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: They say our lady shone there once Last Line: Dreams travel back to where I can't Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland PICKING SHAMROCK IN IRELAND, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Three leaves define the trinity Last Line: Satan to wash away our sins Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland PLANTING SNOWDROPS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: We cut through tangles in october Last Line: The wish that still returns Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland QUIET MENTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He bullied her for years Last Line: She didn't win and yet she won Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Solitude; Women - Abused ROADS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Stonewalls, not knowing how to go Last Line: And scarecrows line his field Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland RUNOFF, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Watchful mildred, blind eye Last Line: I was hunched against february Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SACRED HEART PROCESSION, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: One corpus christi you recall Last Line: And my heart, beating, beating %under all that lace Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SAINT BRIGID'S DAY, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: The pintails rising in straight line Last Line: Is alive again and drinking Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SCHOOL NURSE'S JOURNAL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Must I open the paint-stuck windows Last Line: I count fifty sprites in the dell Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SEWING LESSONS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I can still feel the dig Last Line: As he blessed us from the top %of the class Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SLEEPING IN THE AUTUMN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Perhaps after so many years Last Line: I'd hug your empty pillow like a back Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SPINK MOUNTAIN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: All I know is that a red lamp gleamed on the delft Last Line: At last what was left of all I remember Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland SWALLOWS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Imagine the journey they make Last Line: And rise like one over water Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland THE DEATH OF SUALTEM, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the brown bull passed from cooley's fields Last Line: And all about him waves the heavy gorse. Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Love; War; Dead, The THELMA, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: She walks with me in search of bargains Last Line: The summer still racing ahead of us, frisky Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland THREAT OF FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Nobody spoke of the second war Last Line: Was the toll of the angelus Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland TINKER WOMAN, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Walking in the january light Last Line: She carried the bottle home Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland TULIP FIELDS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: It could be the netherlands here Last Line: That follow the tractor-plough, %like odd white tulips %in seas of red Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland VERNAL EQUINOX, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: While all the while I anguish Last Line: Birth was like that, a blue beginning Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN Poem Source First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel WEST OF BLUE, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Someone said you just got tired Last Line: Full of all your empty things Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland WHEN GRANDA LEFT, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I had never seen him like that before Last Line: As if granda himself had come back Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother Last Line: Quiet women and their heavy gods Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents |
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