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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... IN THE LAND OF HYPNOSIS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have heard the latest news
Last Line: The speck in on'es eye %when it blocks out %a much deeper %evil
Subject(s): Hypnotism; Meditation; Silence


A MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew
Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation


A MEDITATION ON THE THREE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddess, by threefold ceremonies adored
Last Line: To dwell where wholly thou and thine are his.
Subject(s): Meditation; Religion; Theology


A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often have I said
Last Line: The christ–soul of the universe to shine.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Meditation; Night; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


A PREPARATORY HYMNE TO THE WEEK OF MEDITACIONS UPON, & DEVOUT EXERCISE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: No days, nor weeks, must I
Last Line: Think heavn above my head doth ly.
Subject(s): Christianity; Meditation


A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pain and weariness, aching eyes and head
Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Love; Meditation; Pain; Sickness; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Illness


A SOLEMN MEDITATION, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this life, this active guest
Last Line: Surely, said I—life is a f—t!
Subject(s): Meditation


AND WILT THOU WEEP WHEN I AM LOW?, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Love; Meditation; Crying


BOOK, LAND, NIGHT, by SUSAN TICHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where trees stop and rock begins
Last Line: And began to carry away the chips of bone
Subject(s): Betrayal; Meditation; Poetry And Poets


BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read / sand creek massacre: white antelope's scrotum
Last Line: & the mountains
Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Meditation


BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read %sand creek massacre: white antelope's scrotum
Last Line: Nothing lasts long %nothing %but earth %& the mountains
Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Meditation


BROTHERS: 5. THE ROAD LED FROM DELIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into delight, into the sharp
Last Line: And so forth.
Subject(s): Brothers; Humanity; Meditation; Half-brothers


CANTE HONDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was meditating, absorbed, winding
Last Line: The dust sweeps away and the ash expels
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; Meditation; Memory; Solitude


CLOUDS AND MOUNTAINS ALL TANGLED TOGETHER UP TO THE BLUE SKY, by HAN SHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mindless this life is like water flowing east
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism


DAY'S MEDITATION, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In front of the fiery palm
Last Line: From river to river, mountain to mountain, %sea to sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Meditation; Spain


DREAM OF THE CONDOR, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the choir of stars begins
Last Line: Down in meditation when alone
Subject(s): Meditation; Solitude


ELEGY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've won (lost) my day
Last Line: Whether it's poetry still, or a mere game
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Meditation


FINDING THE BUDDHA, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the corner of a garden shop, among the evengreens
Last Line: Against the body, your smile nearly ready %to bloom
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Meditation; Romance


GOLDIN MEDITATES ON PROVIDENCE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the tower of babel, petitions
Last Line: Who will take up the cudgel of radiance?
Subject(s): Meditation


GUILDER POND, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting here on the rocks
Last Line: Sinking like silver rings %into stillness
Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Meditation


HOW TO MEDITATE, by JOHN KEROUAC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lights out - / fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack
Subject(s): Meditation


HOW TO MEDITATE, by JOHN KEROUAC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lights out - %fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
Last Line: So I don't have to think %and more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack
Subject(s): Meditation


INTO THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half-waif, half-woman, at fourteen norma
Last Line: And the planter of wandering jew was a japanese microphone
Subject(s): Life; Meditation; Women


JEROME MEDITATING, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eyes are closed. %the windows are open
Last Line: Like a shell bringing the ocean home
Subject(s): Meditation


LUTE, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lute set aside
Last Line: And it plays itself
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism


MEDITATION, by MATHILDE DORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Voices at twilight
Last Line: And joyous with love.
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION, by PAUL GERALDY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One loves at first by chance
Last Line: Because you have begun.
Subject(s): Love; Meditation


MEDITATION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My life is such a dream as this
Last Line: To lift my soul to higher things.
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The orchestra tunes up, each instrument
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The orchestra tunes up, each instrument
Last Line: And every gathered voice, every amen, %join to compose the sacred conversation
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a place of barren heaped-up rocks
Last Line: Back to the twinkling harbour lights of home.
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are like a train
Last Line: Entering still standing stations %anticipating fuel
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION, by LI HO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sorrow on the mountain
Last Line: Over the fresh graves %fireflies!
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trumper blasts, that kind of morning
Last Line: And more, and more, %a sum of untended time
Subject(s): Death; Meditation; News; Soul


MEDITATION, by BEYLE SCHAECHTER-GOTTESMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Overflowing eyes %heavy talk
Last Line: Clasp hands %companions of long ago
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION, by RUTH L. TEISSEDRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the chapel bell again
Last Line: Now a walking prayer to an unknown god.
Subject(s): Consolation; Meditation; Remorse; Sin


MEDITATION, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting lotus hurts my knees
Last Line: And deep inside, a still small voice assures me I can go on
Subject(s): Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships


MEDITATION AT FIFTY YARDS, MOVING TARGET, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never point your weapon, keep your finger
Last Line: Sleeping in the next room, all with one shot
Subject(s): Bullets; Guns; Meditation


MEDITATION AT FIFTY YARDS, MOVING TARGET, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never point your weapon, keep your finger
Last Line: Before you know it %I am home
Subject(s): Bullets; Guns; Meditation


MEDITATION HALL, by LIU TSUNG-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clear the land, thatch the rush for roof
Last Line: A bird in flight, leaving no tracks behind
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION IN CHURCH (TO MY MOTHER), by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The soft, clear tones of organ heard
Last Line: All these and more, thou art to me.
Subject(s): Churches; Meditation; Prayer; Cathedrals


MEDITATION IN GLEN HELEN, by JEFF GUNDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So I went to the yellow spring, cupped the cold water
Last Line: And chewed themselves fat on the oily, convoluted hearts
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew
Last Line: I am the woman, and about to enter
Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation


MEDITATION ON A JUNE EVENING, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As evening comes, my thoughts turn back to you
Last Line: And a certain place.
Subject(s): Love; Meditation; Memory


MEDITATION UNDER STARS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What links are ours with orbs that are
Last Line: Half strange seems earth, and sweeter than her flowers.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Meditation; Night; Stars; Bedtime


MEDITATIONS AT TWILIGHT, by JOSEPH LEISER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, more and more at evening
Last Line: Of discontent—to us—bring peace.
Subject(s): Jews; Meditation; Judaism


MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: MONDAY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the tender love of god! - behold
Last Line: But love remains unchangeably the same.
Subject(s): Meditation


MEDITATIONS ON DEATH, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: O sister of the shadow
Subject(s): Death; Meditation


MIRROR MEDITATION, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at my face
Last Line: Lead me astray
Subject(s): Meditation


MOUNTAIN LIVING: 20, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside my door
Last Line: My illusions completely gone
Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism


MOUNTAIN LIVING: 7, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the dark valley the
Last Line: Smashes my meditation
Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism


MY ROOM, by GENEVIEVE W. MASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In my heart there is a room
Last Line: Where I am never bored.
Subject(s): Meditation


POPE ADDS THE MYSTERIES OF LIGHT, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: People pass me by in the street, abuzz like bees
Last Line: In the sun between furrowed fingers and thumb
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Meditation; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)


PRELUDE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from the house where I was nursed
Last Line: With her and god, I owe.
Subject(s): Love; Meditation; Thought; Thinking


REALITY AND ITS DURATION, by ROSEANN LLOYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the end of the workshop, we're doing a meditation from shakti
Last Line: Where and when
Subject(s): Meditation; Mothers And Daughters; Reality


REFLECTIONS ON THE FOREGOING ACCOUNT, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How full a proof of heav'n's all-present aid
Last Line: It is all meanness, if the love be mean.
Subject(s): Love; Meditation


ROTHKO'S LAST MEDITATION, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the days leading to the miracle he did not
Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappeared Persons; Meditation; Desertion; Missing Persons


ROTHKO'S LAST MEDITATION, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the days leading to the miracle he did not
Last Line: Nothing, a miraculous calm he'd soon lose and chase %into his chosen death
Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappeared Persons; Meditation


SECRETS OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pale eyes flashing in his dark face
Last Line: They do not know that I am grieving %they do not know I loved you
Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Jews - Women; Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships


SHORT MEDITATION ON LONG-SUFFERING POETS, by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Although they tell us suffering helps one write
Last Line: And every syllable she writes sheds tears
Subject(s): Meditation; Pain; Poetry And Poets


SITTING AT NIGHT ON THE MOON-VIEWING TERRACE, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: This autumn the days have been hot
Last Line: Now happiness has come of itself
Subject(s): Meditation


SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT; FOR KENNETH REXROTH, by PHILIP WHALEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I always say I won't go back to the mountains
Last Line: Like they say, 'four times up, %three times down.' I'm still on the mountain
Subject(s): Meditation; Mountains


SPRING WOODS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked in a spring woods
Last Line: He starts his work?
Subject(s): Forests; Meditation; Woods


STAYING AT BAMBOO LODGE, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An evening sitting under
Last Line: The gate of mystery!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Meditation; Zen Buddhism


STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I knew not of the temple of incense massed
Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples


STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not know incense incense heap-up temple
Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples


TAN TIEN, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Meditation; Tang Dynasty (618-907)


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: A MEDITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are the hands
Last Line: They belong to the ox
Subject(s): Hands; Meditation


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: A MEDITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are the hands
Last Line: They belong to the ox
Subject(s): Hands; Meditation


THE CRYSTAL GAZER, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall gather myself into myself again
Last Line: In restless self-importance to and fro.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Meditation


THE MEDITATION OF COLUM, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise be to god, and a blessing too at that, and a blessing
Last Line: And hath no thought of my sons in the deeps of the air and the sea?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Legends; Meditation; Salvation


THE MOON AND THE OCEAN; TO SYLVIA, by PAUL ELDRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon, / the old roue
Last Line: And blind him.
Subject(s): Death; Meditation; Dead, The


THE PINK BUBBLE TECHNIQUE, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On shakti gawain's self help tape
Last Line: Left, for better, for worse, to fend for itself
Subject(s): Gawain, Shakti (b. 1948); Meditation


THERE'S LIFE IN A MUSSEL; A MEDITATION, by GEORGE FAREWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come here, thou proud pretender unto arts
Last Line: T'imbibe the quintessence of flowing sweets.
Subject(s): Life; Meditation; Metamorphosis


TO TRY TO FIND, by WANG KUO-WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: To try to find my heart, it's hard enough
Last Line: Ceaseless, the cawing of crows in the evening cold
Subject(s): Meditation


TRANSCENDENCY, by NORMAN CABOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A more imposing chaos than our own
Last Line: Of some more hugely blundering ass than I!
Subject(s): Heaven; Meditation; Paradise


TWO-NATURED MONSTER, by DOUGLAS BLAZEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man sits cross-legged on the living room rug awaiting god's blood. This
Last Line: He decides a good place to begin is breakfast
Subject(s): Meditation


YOU, FOR MY MEDITATION, by SARA DE IBANEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did the earth stretch out
Last Line: Death has shown me how to walk its valleys
Subject(s): Meditation