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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KANSAS Matches Found: 85 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A KANSAS SAGA, by JOHN BLAIR Poem Text First Line: In the dawn of kansas history Last Line: Sought and fought for gold in vain. Subject(s): Kansas ACT OF LOVE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I smell fresh bread - %yeast, I think you said - Last Line: The multitude, feed the soul, %bring back the dead Subject(s): Bread; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri AFTER SEEEING THE IMPRESIONIST GROUP EXHIBIT IN KANSAS CITY, WE DRIVE BACK THROUGH FLATNESS TO WICHI, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fofr monet the light is always exclamation points Subject(s): Kansas; Paintings & Painters ALMOST HUNTING SEASON, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Mud brown labrador eyes %two from the yellow one Last Line: It's not legal %but they don't understand Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Hunting; Kansas City, Missouri AN ACT OF LOVE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I smell fresh bread - / yeast, I think you said - Subject(s): Bread; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ANATOMY OF THEATER AT PADUA, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: As there's no malice in science, there's nothing Last Line: Into a well where someone has fallen in Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ARS POETICA, by WYATT TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: What's the farthest sound you hear Last Line: Just you who listens. %and who sees Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ARTHUR BRYANT'S, KANSAS CITY, MO- OR, CUBAN POET GORGES HIMSELF...., by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entropy is the daily topic here, how sauces ooze off plastic trays Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Restaurants; Food & Eating; Kansas City, Missoufri; Latinos BEACHES, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING Poem Source First Line: The man with a wave for his tongue Last Line: On she dreams %sleeping with horses Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BEAR EMERGES, by DENISE LOW Poem Source First Line: The sky shudders with first Last Line: We are alive, again we are all alive Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BIG BANDS: LIBERAL, KANSAS, SUMMER OF 1955, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were supposed to be dead, but they kept coming Last Line: Then groaning into gear and slipping through the starlit %night Subject(s): Kansas; Music And Musicians; Summer BIRD POINT, by DENISE LOW Poem Source First Line: My fingertips recognize Last Line: I hear songs %and wings %rush %away Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BIRTHDAY POEM, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: This morning, the sunrise is a brilliant song Last Line: Each morning we pray to restore hozho, hozho, hozho, hozho Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BURIAL OF BARBER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear him, comrades, to his grave Last Line: Of the freedom of the west! Subject(s): Barber, Thomas; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Funerals; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Burials; Serfs CIVIL WAR BUFF, by RUSH RANKIN Poem Source First Line: A woman pressed my thin body against the wall Last Line: In the evening, in bed, in a constant shower of light Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri COOKING WITH DAISY, by ROBERT STEWART Poem Source First Line: When daisy works in the kitchen, part of her goes with the white beans Last Line: Her in. That certain something lingers at her nose Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri CRANES IN KANSAS, by NORA B. CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Fog in august is strange, far inland as we are Last Line: But I have seen cranes flying ... Crying in the foggy dawn. Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Kansas CROSSING KANSAS BY TRAIN, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The telephone poles / have been holding their Subject(s): Kansas CROSSING KANSAS BY TRAIN, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The telephone poles %have been holding their Last Line: Sons asleep %in their workclothes Subject(s): Kansas DANCE BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON, by SHARON EIKER Poem Source First Line: My dark heart is heavy Last Line: While she keeps a-rockin' Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DECLINING, by PHILIP MILLER Poem Source First Line: Saying no has become our habit Last Line: But cannot decline to go Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DESIRE FOR SOMETHING HOT, by STANLEY EUGENE BANKS Poem Source First Line: I want to pour myself Last Line: Cause I'll blaze and sizzle, %sizzle and burn Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DISREGARD, by TRISH REEVES Poem Source First Line: I have these terrible lapses Last Line: As grooved wood, my dear frame %with two eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DOROTHY, by MELISSA MORPHEW Poem Source First Line: Wrist deep in biscuit dough, a dusting of flour Last Line: Some hand-me-down clothes, a pasture %full of bitterweed and daisies Subject(s): Dreams; Fairy Tales; Hurricanes; Kansas DUMB SHOW, by PHILIP MILLER Poem Source First Line: All afternoon we sit Last Line: Yellow-eyed and bobbing, strutting Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ELECTRONICS OF BLINDNESS, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING Poem Source First Line: Electric octave drops to blue tone Last Line: Violet eagles rise, %tracked on both my eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FAT PEOPLE AT THE AMUSEMENT PARK, by RAWDON TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: They are laughing like the rest of us Last Line: Into a scream of weightlessness Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FIELD DAY, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red-tailed hawk on the meadow by Last Line: Can snare the senses, stir a woman's %envy, a man's unswerving thirst Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri; Puerto Ricans - New York City FIRECRACKER TENT, by TRISH REEVES Poem Source First Line: But how many people have said Last Line: We might as well smile Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FLESH IS AIR, TOO, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: Along a canal I glance in a dim doorway Last Line: Of down settling in dawn's thin doorway Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FOLLIES BURLESQUE, MARKET STREET, KANSAS CITY, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The marquee flashed, the illuminated runway of joy Last Line: And lifting market street into an illuminated runway of joy Subject(s): Kansas; Markets FOR A SPRING BURIAL, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Mostly it is in the skies Last Line: That grows from earth new-opened Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FOUND ON A SLIP OF PAPER IN A CRACK IN THE WALL, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: In prison I had two books Last Line: Lost on a terrible sea Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri GETTING THROUGH THE NIGHT IN LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, by MICHAEL PAUL NOVAK Poem Source First Line: Overhead orion at the ready Last Line: As if from black ink a town %of light could appear Subject(s): Kansas; Night GOOD-BYE! OFF FOR KANSAS, by JOHN WILLIS MENARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye ye bloody scenes of long ago Last Line: I'll sing and give the good lord thanks! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs HAIR ATTITUDE, by STANLEY EUGENE BANKS Poem Source First Line: Sisters flow and roll %with extra control Last Line: Just don't touch, baby, %just don't touch.' Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HANDS, by RAWDON TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: Head stuffed, ears %stopped, eyes Last Line: Of nothing. %hold out your hands Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HANDS, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Of a thousand hands Last Line: Dangled at his sides Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HASKELL, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in kansas is a school Last Line: With head hung, to the dormitory. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Kansas; Native Americans - Education IN THE GULF STREAM, by DONNA TRUSSELL Poem Source First Line: He finds her %standing alone Last Line: And some dim idea %of the sea Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri JOHN HOLLANDER'S LECTURE, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: His words float over my head Last Line: And questions %I won't ask Subject(s): Hollander, John; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri KANSAS, by GLEN BAKER Poem Text First Line: This land of undulating prairies Last Line: To roll across the national sky. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs KANSAS, by J. P. DUNN Poem Source First Line: It is springtime out here in kansas Last Line: In the counties of mcpherson, %lincoln, saline, and clay Subject(s): Kansas KANSAS, by WAYNE HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I smell you on my skin Last Line: Don't protect me from what I know Subject(s): Kansas KANSAS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have walked in kansas Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Kansas KANSAS (2), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the land where miles of wheat Last Line: Let me live and let me die. Variant Title(s): Kansas Subject(s): Creative Ability; Kansas; Nature; Wheat; Inspiration; Creativity KANSAS BOY, by RUTH LECHLITNER Poem Source First Line: This kansas boy who never saw the sea Last Line: Shouts at the crows - and dreams of white gulls flying Subject(s): Kansas KANSAS LAND, by GORDON PARKS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I would miss this kansas land that I was leaving Subject(s): Kansas LE MARAIS DU CYNGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blush as of roses Last Line: The march of the day. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Marais Du Cygne (river), Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs LETTER FROM A MISSIONARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week - the lord be praised for all his mercies Last Line: Amen: so mote it be. So prays your friend. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs LEXHIBITIONIST, by MICHAEL BURNS Poem Source First Line: When fog had cleared and sun Last Line: Nothing, good-old-boy Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri LUTHER A. TODD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gifted, and loved and praised Last Line: And, smiling, cease thy moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Kansas; Life; Obituaries; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MILAGRO, by ANN SLEGMAN Poem Source First Line: After the bus collision, you came Last Line: That is your face Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM: KANSAS CITY, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: Limestone %concrete and steel Last Line: And 'country gardens' on the piano Subject(s): Kansas City, Missouri; Rooms ODE TO GOVERNOR CAPPER, by J. P. DUNN Poem Source First Line: The sun rises in the ancient east Last Line: That whatever governor capper says, %you can relyl upon Subject(s): Kansas OTHER THAN TIME, by ROBERT STEWART Poem Source First Line: The blizzard seems like a plate too full of rice. So when I think of Last Line: Inside. That message beaming out is the memory of a bowl held up %near your face Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri OUT WITH THE BOYS, WICHITA, 1969, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: My buddies and I were out after Last Line: Some depth none of us could fathom Subject(s): Friendship; Kansas; Night PAIN FUGUE, by RAWDON TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: I wake in the middle of night with enchiladas Last Line: Though it never holds the tide of hard labor, nightmare, decay Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PARIS, PALO ALTO, PARIS, by DONNA TRUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I live next door Last Line: Stars burn the sky Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PHOTOS, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: When becky shows me a picture of her Last Line: Can't get a story through anyone's eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PORTRAITS OF THE WIVES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Think of the summer you drove with the family Last Line: The west above the murderous dirt of history Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PRAIRIE CALM, by ELLEN DRINKWATER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think Last Line: And plenty -- for millions of cattle to drink. Subject(s): Kansas; Prairies; Water; Wells; Plains RECOLLECTION, by JIM MCCRARY Poem Source First Line: There is a fall in this air Last Line: That could be all folks Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri RECOMPENSE, by LORA EVANS SAUER Poem Text First Line: I've been where the mountains majestically stand Last Line: Where 'tis my abode to be. Subject(s): Kansas REVERSING A DECISION, by WYATT TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: So loud the wail of cicadas Last Line: That you would return Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri RICE, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER Poem Source First Line: I bend over, pick the rice, rice is good Last Line: Stars rise like jewels Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri RIDING THE ROCK ISLAND THROUGH KANSAS, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Listen to the rock island train Last Line: Goodbye to the rock island ride Subject(s): Kansas; Railroads; Rock Island Railroad ROAD TO MANHATTAN, KANSAS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Like happy car-dogs, ears back, hair flapping Last Line: Rain drops patter the windshield Subject(s): Kansas RUE DES HALLES, by RODERICK TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: It is a see-through day, parisian sun Last Line: To see her white neck, and arms long and bare Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri SEPARATIONS, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: Relentless rain, that ambient metaphor Last Line: Fly the energy of unfulfilled desire Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri SIGHTING ELVIS AT SAFEWAY, by ANN SLEGMAN Poem Source First Line: I first noticed your glance - slow Last Line: Of the media howling at your skid marks Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri SLEEPING WITH TWO WOMEN, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: As I remember it, we emptied Last Line: Continents. Perfectly at home, perfectly lost Subject(s): Kansas; Snow; Winter TEMENOS, by MICHAEL BURNS Poem Source First Line: Last night the dream Last Line: In a cold sweat to survive Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri THE DEFENSE OF LAWRENCE [SEPTEMBER 14, 1856], by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All night upon the guarded hill Last Line: The pulses of the grass. Variant Title(s): The Defence Of Lawrence Subject(s): Courage; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Kansas; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE FIGHT OVER THE BODY OF KEITT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sing, o goddess, the wrath, the ontamable dander of keitt" Last Line: "like to heralds of old, stepped the sergeant-at-arms and the speaker" Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation;kansas;slavery;u.s. - Congress; Antislavery Movement - United States;serfs THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cross the prairie as of old Last Line: The homestead of the free! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Homesteaders; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE OLD BAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's mighty good to git back to the old town, shore Last Line: I want to hear the old band play. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bands; Kansas; Music & Musicians; Nostalgia; Orchestras THE REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE CONSIDERED, SELECTION, by ELYMAS PAYSON ROGERS Poem Text First Line: The covetous nebraskaites Last Line: For god's predictions must prevail. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Legislation; Missouri; Nebraska; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TOUR OF THE STATE CAPITAL: TOPEKA, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: Ad astra per aspera Last Line: To a mass of mud Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Government; Kansas TRUTH, by H. L. HIX Poem Source First Line: Do you sometimes lie when it would be easier to tell the truth? Last Line: In fact I have my doubts that you exist at all, or have existed, or ever will Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri TURTLE SHAPES, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER Poem Source First Line: Turtle circle, %limbs head wave shake Last Line: Big as my retina %firefly sky art Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri WICHITA VORTEX SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turn right next corner Subject(s): Wichita, Kansas WICHITA VORTEX SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn right next corner Last Line: Still pining for love of your tender white bodies o children of wichita! Subject(s): Wichita, Kansas WITH THE MASTER ON THE ROAD TO THE BLACK HILLS, by DAN JAFFE Poem Source First Line: As I drive across dekota the master speaks to me Last Line: Remember, too: look to the master and leap free Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri YET ANOTHER GOD IN MEXICO, by RUSH RANKIN Poem Source First Line: Large boats turned over to dry Last Line: Had concealed his wings Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri |
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