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Subject: MARINE ANIMALS Matches Found: 53 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABORTED WHALE WATCH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales ANGLEFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Lurking on the ocean floor Last Line: And make the ocean one fish fewer Subject(s): Marine Animals AQUARIUM, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Behind glass we're learning Last Line: The true air and we dive %in earnest Subject(s): Aquariums; Marine Animals; Oysters ARISTOTLE'S LANTERN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In tidepools and hollows in mudstone rock Last Line: Life was already moving from them, into the salt air Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Harbors; Labor And Laborers; Marine Animals; Sea BIG FISHES, by LARRY R. BROOKS Poem Source First Line: All the big fishes are gone Last Line: And none of them will return %until we are-gone Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals BLENNY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: There are uglier fish than a blenny Last Line: But not many Subject(s): Marine Animals BREAKAGE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go down to the edge of the sea Subject(s): Leisure; Marine Animals; Sea; Ocean BREAKAGE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go down to the edge of the sea Last Line: Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story Subject(s): Leisure; Marine Animals; Sea CATFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: I cannot purr Last Line: To be a cat. %that's that! Subject(s): Marine Animals CLAM, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: They say, 'as happy as a clam,' Last Line: And furthermore: I think clams smell Subject(s): Marine Animals CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 10. BIRDIES SING AND EVERYTHING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Friends, one of the facts Last Line: Doth glint. Or smiling jump off same Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Food And Eating; Marine Animals; Restaurants; San Francisco Bay, California DEAD FISH ON THE SHORE WITH CLAMS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It is winter Last Line: To abandon hope Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Clams; Cuba; Death; Marine Animals; Sea Voyages DOLPHIN SONG, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Your hands on my body Last Line: My whole body glistens Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Seashore DOLPHINS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I love the river dolphins Last Line: Through its mirrors %of water Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Seashore DON'T YOU SEE?, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day was hotter than words can tell Last Line: Till the whale was obliged to whale them all. Subject(s): Crabs; Fish & Fishing; Jellyfish; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean EEL, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Some people make %a big mistake Last Line: An eel is a fish - %it's eel-ementary! Subject(s): Marine Animals FISH HEADS, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: A glowing crucifix (five Last Line: Burn your shark's -jaw crown Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Sea FLOUNDERS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Flat as a pancake Last Line: These flattish, mattish %living dishes Subject(s): Marine Animals FLYING FISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: We don't wish to brag or boast Last Line: And by the way, we also swim! Subject(s): Marine Animals GREY, OR TURTLE, SONG, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE Poem Source First Line: There are just so many ways a sea-turtle can show affection. Or, for that Last Line: And the one across species Subject(s): Marine Animals; Turtles JELLYFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Thin %as a drape Last Line: In its vain search %for peanut %butter Subject(s): Marine Animals JOHN ROUAT THE FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of ayr Last Line: And on a rude pallet lay poor margaret rouat cold and dead. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Water LEAPING DOLPHINS, by FRANCESC PARCERISAS Poem Source First Line: Dolphins leaping at prows in tagomago's Last Line: Of men's rare happiness Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Sea MANATEE, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The manatee is not a man Last Line: At times to be a manateam Subject(s): Marine Animals ME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: At the bottom of the sea Last Line: Flare in the dusk Subject(s): Marine Animals; Seashore MINNOW CAUGHT, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The minnow in the quaker oats Last Line: And he is killed with interest, starved with air Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Minnows; Swimming MYSTICAL INTENTION OF THINGS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Wind ripples the steely blue surface of a lake Last Line: How things at last return to their source Subject(s): Marine Animals; Seashore; Shells NEAR YARMOUTH; TO EDWARD J. O'BRIEN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river holds no more the fishing boats Last Line: The river sleeps, the boats are gone again. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean OYSTER, by ROLAND FLINT Poem Source First Line: He lives in washington, d.C., and he goes all the way to georgia by car Last Line: Ats fuckin oyrsters.' Subject(s): Marine Animals; Oysters; Shells OYSTERS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Did you know the ocean's oysters Last Line: (are the girls the ones with pearls? Subject(s): Marine Animals OYSTERS, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our shells clacked on the plates Last Line: Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb Subject(s): Marine Animals; Poetry And Poets PASSION CONCH, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No sun today, the rainy %season barely begun, so Last Line: Of flame, a gift, %a name. %hua hin thailand Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mollusks; Seashore; Tourists; Travel PIRANHAS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: It's widely known Last Line: But short on manners Subject(s): Marine Animals PORTOLA CANNERY POEM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Bells ring furiously Last Line: In a medieval drawing Subject(s): Marine Animals; Poetry And Poets; Sea RAINBOW TROUT, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: So suave! %so chic! Last Line: Too bad you're a fish Subject(s): Marine Animals RAY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Grand and gray %the regal ray Last Line: Make way! %make way! Subject(s): Marine Animals SALMON, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Could do with legs! Last Line: We bound! %we spring! Subject(s): Marine Animals SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Last Line: Blue smoke snaking up the pink sky Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales SAWFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: You'll see a saw Last Line: And don't do dishes Subject(s): Marine Animals SEA DRIFT, by EILEEN BERRY Poem Source First Line: They would sit, two or three of them as a rule, on the cast-iron seat Last Line: The slow pace of nature's change gave them some kind of peace Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Sea; Shrimp SEA HORSE, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: You have %no hooves Last Line: I call that silly Subject(s): Marine Animals SEA TURTLE, by ELLEN KORT Poem Source First Line: Tonight she lumbers up from the sea as though she knows I am wait Last Line: Morning Subject(s): Marine Animals; Seashore; Turtles SHARKS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Sharks can park %wherever they wish Last Line: On this each other %fish agrees Subject(s): Marine Animals SKATES, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The skinny skates are flat as plates Last Line: Then skate along to find some more Subject(s): Marine Animals STARFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Although it seems %that I'm all arms Last Line: I'm still a star - %I can't complain Subject(s): Marine Animals SUBMARINE BADINAGE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little oyster and he met a Last Line: Is because I can't supply them with another word to say! Subject(s): Marine Animals; Submarines; Submarine Warfare; U-boats TETRA, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The itty-bitty, pretty tetra Last Line: Is small, minute, petite, et cetra Subject(s): Marine Animals THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in Last Line: That vampire conger eel. Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE VOYAGE WITH THE NAUTILUS, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made myself a little boat Last Line: "but I'll sail with thee no more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mothers & Sons; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TO A SMALL-MOUTH BLACK BASS, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The startled gill, the bass whose throbbing lung Last Line: Breathing the lemon as you breathed the stream Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Food And Eating; Marine Animals WHALE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Gone astray, as in the dreams of love Last Line: Her alluring and robust anatomy Subject(s): Desire; Love; Marine Animals; Whales WHALE, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: W I d e as a wall Last Line: A wharf. %a w h a l e Subject(s): Marine Animals |
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