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Subject: LIZARDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NOTE ON LIZARDS' FEET, by JAMES VAN RENSSELAER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out on the desert
Last Line: To give 'em all wings!
Subject(s): Lizards


AMERICANS ARE AFRAID OF LIZARDS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My american host in madras in his moist air-conditioned apartment
Subject(s): Lizards


BLIZZARD BIRDS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crested newt creep up the trees
Last Line: Wakes up the snowy owls who hoot %and dance upon the heads of newt
Subject(s): Birds; Lizards; Owls


CORAL LIZARD, by FANNY DE GROOT HASTINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How has the dragon lizard shrunken ... This age
Subject(s): Lizards


IN THE HOUSE THE LIZARD'S ENEMY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Warren, the cat, finds them there
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Lizards; Nature


KOMODO, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The flight of a white cockatoo from tamarind to tamarind
Last Line: Thde blazing cockatoo, the pink, lightless, inner tissues of the baron
Subject(s): Komodo Dragons; Lizards


KOMODO DRAGON, by TERESE SVOBODA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can get there only from kuala lumpur, not timor
Last Line: We are lucky, however, to believe everything wild %tastes like chicken, except ourselves
Subject(s): Indonesia; Komodo Dragons; Lizards; Tourists


LEAVE HIM ALONE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trouble with me is
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Lizards


LIZARD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lizard ran out on a rock and looked up, listening
Last Line: If men were as much men as lizards are lizards %they'd be worth looking at
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Lizards


LIZARD UNDERNEATH, by CAITLIN SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the thinking brain
Last Line: And hooded eyes. Love it. %fear it. It couldn't care
Subject(s): Lizards


LIZARDS AND SNAKES, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the summer road that ran by our front porch
Last Line: And swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail
Subject(s): Lizards; Snakes; Family Life; Serpents; Vipers; Relatives


LIZARDS FALL INTO THE WATER TANKS...', by JOSE-FLORE TAPPY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A poison in my veins
Subject(s): Lizards; Water


MR. LIZZARD IS CRYING, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Last Line: Oh, oh, how they are crying!
Subject(s): Lizards


SANIBEL ISLAND, by MARTHA RONK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lizards crawl the screen again, it's sanibel august
Last Line: Upside down, welcomes all gods crfeatures in
Subject(s): Sanibel Island, Florida; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Summer; Lizards


SWAY, by ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Salamanders drift
Last Line: In soft surprise %love aches and latitude
Subject(s): Bodies; Lizards


TANKA DIARY (1), by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hiking up topanga canyon
Subject(s): Hiking; Lizards


THE GOANNA, by G. M. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the castlereagh some years ago
Last Line: That blooming black goanna.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grey, Steele
Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Lizards; Dead, The


THE LIZARD, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit among the hoary trees
Last Line: The circle of eternal youth.
Subject(s): Lizards


THE LIZARD, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time to tickle a lizard
Subject(s): Lizards


THE LIZARDS; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A famous naturalist, whose knife
Last Line: "which so much interest can create!"
Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Lizards


WITCHES' MENUS, by SONJA NIKOLAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Live lizard, dead lizard
Last Line: Lizard a la carte
Subject(s): Lizards; Witchcraft And Witches