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Subject: LI PO (701-762)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 4 A.M., by JOHN SAMUEL TIEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a leaf which wishes to drop
Last Line: Her skin amid all the dark
Subject(s): Death; Li Po (701-762); Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Silence


A TOKE FOR LI PO [OR, DEDICATION], by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born in pa-hsi province of szechwan
Last Line: "he took the charge well"
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762); Li Bai (71-762)


CUP IN HAND I OPEN THE LATTICE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But since li po has long gone %no one can tell for sure
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762)


DEATH OF LI PO, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not even their master calligraphers
Last Line: As he passed through that perfect circle of light
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762)


DREAMING OF LI PO, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Parting from the dead, I've stifled my sobs
Last Line: Where you go, waters are deep, the waves so wide - %don't let the dragons, the horned dragons harm y
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762)


DREAMING OF LI PO, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death at least gives separation repose
Last Line: Unfed dragons--take good care old friend
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762)


EPITAPH: LI PO, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And li po also died drunk
Last Line: In the yellow river.
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762); Li Bai (71-762)


EVERYBODY'S READING LI PO' SILKSCREENED ON A PURPLE T-SHIRT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Li po who?
Last Line: What a diamond-studded %garter looks like?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): African Americans; Cities; Li Po (701-762)


HAVING DROWNED EMBRACING THE MOON IN THE RIVER, LI PO EXPLAINS, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: So we were drunk that night, it was glorious
Last Line: Clasping a star, the other half walking on water
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762)


HYBRID VILLANELLE ON A LINE BY LI PO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drunk on the moon, a sage of dreams
Last Line: I piss a bloody stain in the moonwhite dirt
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762); Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers


I DOFF MY COAT AND TELL MY BOY, by KIM CH'ONT'AEK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Well, now! How about li po of old? %how would he compare with me?
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762)


LI PO, by RYOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: After a promenade in the green fields, accompanied
Last Line: That's easy since I love wine as much as li po did
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762); Zen Buddhism


LYRIDS, by THOM TAMMARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Po li, chinese astronomer, one april night
Last Line: Of the chinese night
Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Li Po (701-762); Stars


ONE GOOD REASON, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had been traveling all day through the fall colors, hugging the mountainside
Last Line: And the zen ocean whooshing around my head, humming a snatch of blues
Subject(s): Friendship; Li Po (701-762)


TAIBAI TOWER, by DUAN SHUQING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amid the clouds, the tower of an earthbound immortal
Last Line: Year after year it moves travelers to sadness
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762)


THE DEATH OF LI PO, by DANIEL HALPERN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not even their master calligraphers
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762); Li Bai (71-762)


THE GREAT CHINESE POETS, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine tu fu and li po as they have come
Last Line: Sucked down in its liquid mouth.
Subject(s): Tu Fu (712-770); Li Po (701-762); Havana, Cuba


THE MOON, LI PO AND IPHIGENIA, by VIRGINIA RUSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon in the afternoon sky is a ghost
Last Line: Chaste sacrifices to the cold contending winds.
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762); Moon; Li Bai (71-762)


THREE POEMS THINKING ON PAST TRAVELS: 3, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here li bo wrote a poem
Last Line: That bloomed in a mountain rain
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Li Po (701-762); Travel


TO ANOTHER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us sit now in the broad window
Last Line: That li po saw in the drowned rushes
Subject(s): Books; China; Legends; Li Po (701-762); Relationships


TO LI PO, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn, and we're still like the will-o'-the wisp
Last Line: Flitting here and there, flailing about, to impress whom?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762)


WORKS OF LI PO, by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountain flowers are growing and in bloom
Last Line: Syntactically I am on the vessel %as on the wine curtain of the shore
Subject(s): Li Po (701-762)


WRITTEN PLAYFULLY TO ZHANG JI, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Li bo's and du fu's writings endure
Last Line: I will lend you a sash of flying red cloud; %you can join me up here, winging high and low
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Li Po (701-762); Poetry And Poets; Tu Fu (712-770)