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Subject: KINDERGARTEN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALICE GAINES PLAYED THE HARP, by DAVID FRANKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In kindergarten alice gaines
Last Line: For the end %of the world
Subject(s): Child Musicians; Kindergarten


COLORING BOOK, by LOUISE JAFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In kindergarten %ms green, her blue-draped teacher asked
Last Line: As she heard her answer: %silence
Subject(s): Children; Kindergarten; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


CRYING IN SCHOOL, by CATHY APPEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The kindergarten teacher laughed when the little girl
Subject(s): Kindergarten


DANCE OF THE MOURNING CHILD, by ROGER WEINGARTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He opened the door to the kindergarten
Last Line: His fist up and down my knee, %making sounds like a race car getting ready
Subject(s): Kindergarten


DAY BEFORE KINDERGARTEN: TALUCA, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch daddy tear down
Last Line: Maybe I should be %but I ain't
Subject(s): Kindergarten


EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, by MARTIN JUDE FARAWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit %in the second-to-last seat
Last Line: The dumbest one in the room
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Kindergarten; Marginality, Social


FENCE, by AVA LEAVELL HAYMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Say you're in kindergarten
Last Line: In the paper you're so used to and %that light underneath comes through
Subject(s): Kindergarten


FOR HEATHER, ENTERING KINDERGARTEN, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She tests the curb with a chubby boot
Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta
Subject(s): Kindergarten


FURY OF OVERSHOES, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sit in a row %outside the kindergarten
Last Line: And thinking %nothing of it?
Subject(s): Children; God; Kindergarten; Religion; Shoes


KINDERGARTEN, by GLORIA ABRAHAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister was delicious. %her skin, toasted marshmallow
Last Line: And sent my sister %to play outside %in the street
Subject(s): Kindergarten; Sisters


KINDERGARTEN, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go sit in the corner, said the teacher
Last Line: But the little girl never did
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN, by AMY GERSTLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do children burrow in dirt
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN, by RONALD ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my kindergarten class
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bee-logic: each small life
Last Line: A child's unfinished body, %waxy & insistent
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN, by ANNA SPENCER TWITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watched the children today
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN CLASS PICTURE, 1962, by DEBRA ALLBERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: None of us are smiling except for jeff
Last Line: Tall and wide in each bare window, %a nothingness that takes up half the picture
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN CURSE, by NINA ZIVANCEVIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: I tell him, don't be mad at me
Last Line: I'm asking you nicely
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION, by TRICIA WARDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We wore paper hats
Last Line: Because she said I cried too much
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN LESSONS, by CHARLES PLYMELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wistful blond from kindergarten class
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN LOGIC, by JOSEPHINE B. MORETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a jewish holiday, mrs. Young brought her kindergarten
Last Line: Question: when the secretary returned to her desk, did %the child decide the secretary was not jewis
Subject(s): Jews; Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN MISS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little kindergarten miss
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Kindergarten


KINDERGARTEN TOT, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I's only just a little tot
Subject(s): Kindergarten


MAY DAY DANCING, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kindergarten children first come forth
Last Line: To raise the dust, that braids a double thread %around the pole, in the great room of the sun
Subject(s): Kindergarten


SHE DROPS THE KID AT KINDERGARTEN, by ALEX GILDZEN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Kindergarten


SONG FOR OUR SON: 5. KINDERGARTEN, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They stare, but we expected stares. The shock
Last Line: Our son is filthy. Hissing in the leaves
Subject(s): Kindergarten


TAKING MY SON TO HIS FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the eight o'clock bell spills
Last Line: Fearless, blameless, gone
Subject(s): Kindergarten; Loss


THE FURY OF OVERSHOES, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sit in a row / outside the kindergarten
Subject(s): Children; God; Kindergarten; Religion; Shoes; Childhood; Theology; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THEOLOGY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A YOUNGER SON, by DAVID KIRBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My younger son, still in kindergarten
Subject(s): Kindergarten; Sons


THINGS YOU WILL NEED, by GEORGE ALBON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember in kindergarten %when something
Last Line: In a back yard %of what was thinking in you %when you sat, or ran
Subject(s): Kindergarten


UNABLE TO NAP IN KINDERGARTEN, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am lying on a light blue corduroy pallet
Last Line: The weight %of the world lying below in a rocky rubble
Subject(s): Kindergarten


WHITE BLOUSE, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Against better judgement I see her off to kindergarten
Last Line: Before a downpour the earth needs desperately %for new vegetation and depleted winter reservoirs
Subject(s): Kindergarten