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Subject: LIFE CHOICES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF BODING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams
Last Line: Yet kept high festival above sun and moon and star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Life Choices; Monsters; Dreams; Sailing & Sailors


A DAY, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To amuse myself
Last Line: From the muzzle of an oblivious volcano
Subject(s): Life Choices


A MAN LOST BY A RIVER, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a voice inside the body
Last Line: For no good reason
Subject(s): Life Choices


A TENTH ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPH, 1952, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at their faces. You know it all.
Subject(s): Marriage; Anniversaries; Life Choices; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ALL HOLLOWS' EVE, by DOROTHEA TANNING    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be perfect, make it otherwise.
Subject(s): Relationships; Life Choices


BLUE OCTAVO HAIKU, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In fat armchairs sat
Subject(s): Life Choices


DEDICATION FOR THE LIFE OF REASON, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear friends, my solace in your gentle youth
Last Line: I suffered much, but something understood.
Subject(s): Life Choices; Reason


DOES HIS VOICE SOUND SME ECHO IN YOUR HEART, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A quart of champagne, one pill too many
Subject(s): Life Choices


GENIUS LOCI, by BRIAN TEARE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make it / the place
Subject(s): Oakland, California; City & Town Life; Life Choices


HELEN GO MOTHER BETH, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was young once; and on poverty
Subject(s): Life Choices


HUNGER FOR SOMETHING, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I long to be in the woodpile
Subject(s): Life Choices


IN CHAINS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When blackguards and murderers
Subject(s): Evil; Life Choices


IT FOLLOWS, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you had a lot of money
Subject(s): Money; Surgery, Plastic; Life Choices; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts


NIGHT THOUGHTS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My sudden, unexpected wish for mashed potatoes
Subject(s): Life Choices; Desire


ONE VERSION OF EVENTS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Life Choices


PARABLE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read how quixote in his random ride
Subject(s): Life Choices; Don Quixote


PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: CHOICES, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: George says he chooses poverty. That's rash
Last Line: I've an experienced aversion to it
Subject(s): Poverty; Life Choices


SUPPLICATION, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O poetry, visit this house often,
Subject(s): Life Choices


THE CEMETERY BY THE SEA, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This tranquil roof, with walking pigeons, loom
Last Line: This tranquil roof where jib-sails peck in flocks!
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Life Choices; Religion; Passion


THE MEASURE, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I continue in my gbariye.
Subject(s): Life Choices; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE OTHER STARS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tripartite schemes were all very well
Subject(s): Life Choices; Social Commentaries; Relationships


THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate the travel logs that tell you
Subject(s): Travel; Life Choices; Journeys; Trips


WHAT IS THIS ABOVE THY HEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sinner, — or saint
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Saints; Sin; Life Choices


WHAT WILL IT BE, O MY SOUL, WHAT WILL IT BE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To rest and revive and rejoice, to rejoice and to rest
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Life Choices


WHAT'S NEXT?, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The baby carriage was old, one wheel lopsided
Last Line: As she stood still. What next?
Subject(s): Mothers; Life Choices