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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IDAHO Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER WEIDENFELLER GOES, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's goin' to be blamed lonesome after Last Line: We'll sit around an' say it's jest 'cause weidenfeller's gone. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): California; Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: A WALK ON THE END OF THE WORLD, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: When the yellowstone volcano blows again Last Line: Carnage and terror on a scale wider %than a tv or movie camera lens Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: BACK TO IDAHO, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: When I go back to idaho I drive down Last Line: Look back into %one another's eyes Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: BAREBACK IN THE GRAVEL PITS, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: One september night time Last Line: Naked bareback backseat %high school teenage love rules Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: IDAHO SKIES, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Our next door neighbors to the north and east %must bake freeze or bask Last Line: Between you and %the flamboyant stars Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: MEADOWLARKS AND CHALCEDONY, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Unless you glimpse the meadolark's %yellow throat with black four-in-hand tie Last Line: Before it begins to warble %in all 24 tones Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: STINGING NETTLES, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: I want to get a feel for the earth %nothing fancy Last Line: Turns paradise to ashes even memory %can not and will not redeem Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: THE BIG LOST RIVER VALLEY, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Most valleys no bigger than the %big lost river valley Last Line: Big lost river valley is different %every way you look at it Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: THE KISSING TONE, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: The kissing tone on koma %from oklahoma city, oklahoma Last Line: And what not %to take for granted Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: THE PHANTOM ANTLER MOUNTAINS, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: There is a mountain range missing in idaho Last Line: Going begging to be climbed are %the phantom antler mountains Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Underneath this paradise for raptors %a sore spot -- hot spot opened Last Line: Across 17 million years of %volcanic happenstance Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: TWO VIEWS OF MT. BELL, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Lapping barney hot springs pool %the nipple of mt. Bell, 11,612 feet high Last Line: From the arco desert where big lost crosses %highway 26, full of water this wet green spring Subject(s): Idaho BACK TO IDAHO: ZIGGLES, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Tonight I read a book %by my old friend zig Last Line: Gorgeous friend %on the nude beach at santa barbara? Subject(s): Idaho CRATER OF THE MOON (IN IDAHO), by DONA WAYLAND Poem Text First Line: Barrens of cinder crags and ragged lava Last Line: A strange land -- from yesterday's spindle! Subject(s): Idaho FAREWELL TO IDAHO, by H. F. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Come all ye heroes of the land Last Line: And see the country through. Subject(s): Idaho; Pioneers; Time IDAHO, by KAYE STARBIRD Poem Source First Line: Farmers out in idaho Last Line: Stay away from idaho Subject(s): Idaho IDAHO POTATO FIELD, by EDITH M. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Two wee lads in a dark brown field Last Line: In brown, to fill? Subject(s): Idaho; Potatoes PARADISE LOST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She phoned from idaho, he was in glin Last Line: Hell is the home of lost opportunity Subject(s): Idaho; Ireland; Love; Past; Remorse POCATELLO, IDAHO, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thin man whacking / away at tire with mattock Last Line: Sight Subject(s): Idaho RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people from idaho are crazed rednecks Last Line: Lives to curse your blessed plaster bleeding heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Discontent; Idaho; Insanity; Montana; Washington (state); West (u.s.); Women; Women's Rights; Dissatisfaction; Madness; Mental Illness; Southwest; Pacific States; Feminism THE IDAHO EGG WOMAN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halfway between troy and moscow Last Line: Her age a cipher of circles. Subject(s): Eggs; Idaho; Women TO IDAHO: FEARLESS FERRIS, FERRIS FRANK ROAD POET OF IDAHO, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source Last Line: All californians entering idaho must be dipped %who else's lines get truer all the time? Subject(s): Idaho TO IDAHO: 100 BEERS IN IDAHO, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: I read some other arrested adolescent %from my generation who recalled the news Last Line: And how fast to get there %are the only thing holding them up Subject(s): Idaho TO IDAHO: HIDE, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: I am a boy again %riding shotgun in a black and red Last Line: Clean new clothes to school %with the animals under my skin Subject(s): Idaho TO IDAHO: INDIAN LOVE SONG OF THE PICKUP TRUCKS, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Sonoma Last Line: Tacoma Subject(s): Idaho TO IDAHO: INVISIBLE MOUNTAIN, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Invisible mountain's obscured from view Last Line: Pahsimeroi and little lost river side %there's a mountain in there with my name on it Subject(s): Idaho TO IDAHO: JIM GOICOECHEA'S FAKE ID, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: At least it can be told %the real reason for my obsessive interest Last Line: Goshen in bingham county %break the law, keep the faith Subject(s): Idaho TO IDAHO: THE WAY TO INVISIBLE MOUNTAIN, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: The way to invisible mountain is up %on challis national forest maps Last Line: And a survey %to see where and how tall it really is Subject(s): Idaho TO IDAHO: TO IDAHO, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Idaho is an intransigent verb %in its infinitive form Last Line: No one would ever have been idahoing %if they could have thought of anything better to do Subject(s): Idaho TO IDAHO: YELLOWSTONE REPTITIVE DISORDER, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: From the bubbly bottom of sapphire spring Last Line: A cow and a calf %is a moose and a half Subject(s): Idaho |
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