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Subject: METAPHYSICS Matches Found: 36 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER A READING, CHARLES BUKOWSKI RETURNS & GIVES ME THE LOWDOWN ...., by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: I'm not even drunk!-we both say that as, ship size and grey, he floats Last Line: As rewards went on earth, each sunset the fish jumping blue and silver from the unappreciated beer-g Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers ALLEGRO NON TROPPO, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: No matter %how often I sit on this bench, available Last Line: Time signatures at each edge of the sky Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers APOLOGIA: THE BIBLE-HISTORY STUDENT RETURNS HOME, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: White clouds pass high above the invisible Last Line: Perhaps there was something else, all this way from nineveh Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers BODY AND SOUL: A METAPHYSICAL ARGUMENT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body, from the arrogance Last Line: Yet both together ye make man. Subject(s): Judgments; Metaphysics EARLY COSMOLOGY, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Where am I when I first hear the high orbiting Last Line: What a glimmering plate of dust it all might be Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers; Space And Space Travel; Stars ECLIPSE, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: This was predictable, a science Last Line: Before the common denominator of the dark Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers HOW DO I KNOW I LOVE YOU?, by VIRGINIA A. CAMPLESE Poem Source First Line: It scampers across my mind Subject(s): Metaphysics KEEPING MY OWN COMPANY, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: After all, the afternoons are off gossiping among the pines Last Line: For a little space to breathe, where I am taken with the spindrift, %the implicit small talk of star Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers LAST DAYS OF THE HOT-ROD KIDS, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Butch wax, brylcreem, wildroot cream-oil, and more in our hair Last Line: So haircut or not, it looked like I was headed for canada, and nowhere fast Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers LETTER FROM A METAPHYSICAL COUNTRYSIDE; FRANKFORD, MISSOURI, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A summer's pastoral looks on barn and bib Last Line: Metaphysics must end in boredom or neuroses Subject(s): Metaphysics; Missouri LOST SKY, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Mahon, menorca %100 miles in any direction and Last Line: Unraveling %through the increasingly familiar dark Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers MARCH 21, & SPRING BEGINS ON BENITO JUAREZ'S BIRTHDAY IN MEXICO, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: In mexico today, benito, you are 193 Last Line: And at long last, we drift through the air %no more than the dreams from trees Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers METAPHYSICA, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off the rack, said wittgenstein to descartes Last Line: I decline / to decline Subject(s): Metaphysics METAPHYSICAL TREES, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: I'd like to have a eucalyptus Last Line: Beneath the last trees %of our forgiveness Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers METAPHYSICS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man morose and dull and sad Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Metaphysics METAPHYSICS, by ROD FARMER Poem Source First Line: Come peer through my periscope Last Line: Universe oscillatint eternally %no first universe no last, %no die is cast Subject(s): Metaphysics METAPHYSICS, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why and wherefore set out one day Subject(s): Metaphysics METAPHYSICS, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: When %he gets leukemia Last Line: The only kind that's really %intelligible Subject(s): Metaphysics MY SPIRIT, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My naked simple life was I Last Line: Exalted there they ought to shine. Subject(s): Metaphysics OBSERVATION: MIDDLE AGE, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: The windfall figs fill out, wedged into the limestone cliffs Last Line: Into shore where I have abandoned every thought of home Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers ON THE DEATH OF A METAPHYSICIAN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy dreamer, who outwinged in flight Last Line: Bubble from depths of the icarian sea. Subject(s): Metaphysics PHLOGISTON THEORY & THE CLOUDS OF THE OLD WORLD, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Something is missing, the old clouds always say Last Line: Passing over all that still life, as if it would never burn out Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers PHOTOGRAPH OF MYSELF, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: God almighty, I'm almost halfway glorious in this Last Line: Want everything at 48, still left to me under the sky Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers PRAYER TO ESCAPE THE EAST, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Ash ascending the altitudes of dawn Last Line: Float out in the first direction, as unlikely as luck Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers ROAD TO DAMASCUS, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Why not take some time off work, go for a spin, recall the bumper to Last Line: Suddenly radiant as never before Subject(s): Change; Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers; Roads SCHOOL OF METAPHYSICS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Executioner happy to explain Last Line: He wanted me to understand %right then and there Subject(s): Education; Metaphysics SOME LAST EXISTENTIAL THOUGHTS AT SURF BEACH, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Who hasn't looked at the sea %and seen our position here Last Line: Dear god, don't answer me now, %don't answer at all Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers STAR APOCRYPHA, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Where stars are concerned, I am as enthusiastic Last Line: The last breath gone out with the wild idea of us Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers THE BASE OF ALL METAPHYSICS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now gentlemen Last Line: Of city for city and land for land. Subject(s): Metaphysics THE CURTAINS IN THE HOUSE OF THE METAPHYSICIAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It comes about that the drifting of these curtains Subject(s): Metaphysics THE SCHOOL OF METAPHYSICS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Executioner happy to explain Subject(s): Education; Metaphysics TIME SPACE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Into the universe I crawl Last Line: And time a dream. . . . Subject(s): God; Metaphysics; Space & Space Travel; Time; Universe; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension VIA DOLOROSA, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: In those days there was more rain, %and though I stood often Last Line: Where I was first alive, where stars lined up %to arrive with me, home by dark Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers WATCHFUL, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: I remember the idiot in the town square Last Line: Of the glass doors, a happy man %arranging oranges in a bowl Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers WINTER RESIDUE, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Brown shoes beaten %into submission, witnesses Last Line: From some least portion of remorse, %returns singing with a twig Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers ZENO SAID, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Zeno said-though I have this secondhand Last Line: Like the stars that find their way %each night, clear across the sky? 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