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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MINNESOTA Matches Found: 77 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BLESSING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just off the highway to rochester, minnesota Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Variant Title(s): The Blessing Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Men; Minnesota; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A FARM IN WESTERN MINNESOTA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at childhood, I see the yellow rose bush Last Line: Was work to do, but no one learned how to say goodbye Subject(s): Farm Life; Minnesota; Agriculture; Farmers A LEGEND OF MINNESOTA, by LILLIAN ATCHERSON Poem Text First Line: The stately pines came marching Last Line: A paradise was born. Subject(s): Minnesota; Pine Trees A TRIBUTE TO MINNESOTA, by LETITIA A. WILCOX Poem Text First Line: Really I ought to write a line Last Line: Of orange, purple, red and blue. Subject(s): Minnesota APOLOGIA, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: How long have you measured the lives %of my people as you arrow Last Line: It's as close as I can get to freedom Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Fields; Immigrants; Minnesota AUNT JOE FALLS IN LOVE WITH WILFRED CHAPPELL, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he drove into parkers prairie Last Line: To take a picture of the whole world %if that was what he wanted Subject(s): History; Minnesota AUNT JOE LEARNS TO KEEP HER BALANCE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything I need arrives in time - sunlight Last Line: Then to the other. I try to memorize it, %how she keeps her balance Subject(s): History; Minnesota AUNT JOE PLAYS WITH THE CHILDREN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday afternoons I get out my tricks Last Line: Then what could be impossible? Like a skill %already mastered, the future lies safe within me Subject(s): History; Minnesota AUNT JOE TELLS HOW SHE LEARNED TO LOVE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Singing hymns on sunday evenings Last Line: My jealously, until I longed %to be a living sacrifice Subject(s): History; Minnesota AUNT JOE WATCHES BJORN LARSEN WALKING IN THE RAIN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outside, rain as fine as lace Last Line: I get up and open the door to meet it Subject(s): History; Minnesota BJORN LARSEN AND AUNT JOE AT THE DUMP, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How can a man know which minute Last Line: Its bones, and its nails like little stars %that are going to shine forever Subject(s): History; Minnesota BLESSING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just off the highway to rochester, minnesota Last Line: That if I stepped out of my body I would break %into blossom Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Variant Title(s): The Blessin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Men; Minnesota; Nature CHOICE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The organ swings into the invitation hymn Last Line: Before the generous right hand, %and the sinister left, decide Subject(s): History; Minnesota CIVICS, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the room of scratched, reptilian desks Last Line: A star intentional and brilliant with life? Subject(s): History; Minnesota DECIDING NOT TO GO BACK HOME, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wilfred and I still touch each other Last Line: Real things happen. In this city they're mine, %and I love every one Subject(s): History; Minnesota DECIDING WHERE TO STOP, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only half way round; already I am fretting Last Line: We call it. You can call it anything you want Variant Title(s): Decideing Where To Sto Subject(s): History; Minnesota DRIVING THROUGH MINNESOTA DURING THE HANOI BOMBINGS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drive between lakes just turning green Subject(s): Minnesota; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DRIVING THROUGH MINNESOTA DURING THE HANOI BOMBINGS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drive between lakes just turning green Last Line: In the helicopter like wild animals, %shot in the chest, taken back to be questioned Subject(s): Minnesota; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DRIVING TO MY SON'S CONCERT, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are climbing the green mountains Last Line: For anything to take us its lonely heart Subject(s): History; Minnesota DRIVING TOWARD THE LAC QUI PARLE RIVER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am driving; it is dusk; minnesota. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Minnesota; Rivers DRIVING TOWARD THE LAC QUI PARLE RIVER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am driving; it is dusk; minnesota Last Line: A few people are talking low in a boat Subject(s): Minnesota; Rivers EXACTLY WHERE WINTER ENDS, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have we sunk far enough? Last Line: Cruising through every sadness into april? Subject(s): History; Minnesota FARM IN WESTERN MINNESOTA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at childhood, I see the yellow rose bush Last Line: Was work to do, but no one learned how to say good-bye Subject(s): Farm Life; Minnesota FATHER LUCIEN GALTIER, by HELEN LETHERT MEIER Poem Text First Line: To mississippi shores, in april, eighteen-forty Last Line: From this a city sprang ... Undying pioneer! Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; St. Paul, Minnesota FINDING WORK, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I used to think good and evil were big Last Line: Ventricle, of one strange heart Subject(s): History; Minnesota FREDERICK: BECOMING MY FATHER, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my starving father tended pigs in russia Last Line: At the eyes shining all around me in the dark Subject(s): History; Minnesota FREDERICK: STRANDED, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I had my horsewhip, I'd lash him, that Last Line: With the name of where we need to go Variant Title(s): The Immigrants Strande Subject(s): History; Minnesota FREDERICK: THE DECISION, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who will I be in america? You cry Last Line: I can't understand, whose guns are aimed at me Subject(s): History; Minnesota GOING BACK, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Standing alone on the platform Last Line: And drag my heavy dresses straight across town %to my sister's Variant Title(s): Aunt Joe Gets Off The Trai Subject(s): History; Minnesota HENRIETTA: LEARNING ENGLISH, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we came to this sod house Last Line: I might see you. For going on, %do you forgive us? Subject(s): History; Minnesota HENRIETTA: THE BOAT, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the way, a woman gone mad Last Line: As you fondle your long whip: the story about america Subject(s): History; Minnesota HOME EC 102, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After we baked snickerdoodles, mrs. Luman Last Line: No hall passes, and no detention Subject(s): History; Minnesota HOW DELILAH WAS CURED OF HER MADNESS, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The year that mrs. Luman bid us Last Line: And all the gorgeous bitter tangerines, before he died Subject(s): History; Minnesota HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH, ST. PAUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things are thine: no gift have we Last Line: To lead us from ourselves to thee! Variant Title(s): Church Dedication Subject(s): Churches; St. Paul, Minnesota; Cathedrals INTERSTATE; FOR STEPHEN DUNN, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: He came to minnesota Last Line: We knew we could depend upon it Subject(s): Dunn, Stephen; Minnesota JANITOR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, I'll put down my fiddle Last Line: Every sink until it shone like heaven Subject(s): History; Minnesota KEEPING THE PLANE UP, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This time no one can save me Last Line: But I spread my hands above me %like parachutes, just in case Subject(s): History; Minnesota L.J. SAND IN HIS PAINT AND GENERAL STORE, 1959, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He reads about birds when he should be sorting shipments Last Line: Crows and starlings, together, flashing on one horizon Subject(s): History; Minnesota LEARNING TO SWIM IN LAKE ADLEY, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After church I drive in the rain to lake adley Last Line: And dive in. We bob beside each other, %letting ourselves be carried anywhere, like gifts Subject(s): History; Minnesota LISTENING TO BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder growls hatred, lightning Last Line: Rage, love, survive Subject(s): History; Minnesota LOVE AGAIN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning the tiger lilies bloomed beside the house Last Line: No one will take you to the junkyard today! Subject(s): History; Minnesota MAIN STREET, PARKERS PRAIRIE (LATER OLD TOWN), by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All their lives they've waited for Last Line: Rolling across the prairie toward their future Subject(s): History; Minnesota MARTA: CUTTING HAIR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What kind of a name is marta? Last Line: Martha and I am walking away %from my parents, backwards, fast Subject(s): History; Minnesota MARTA: LIVING IN THE BOXCAR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this boxcar where five families Last Line: Blood before the babies come Subject(s): History; Minnesota MINNESOTA FATS DESCRIBES HIS YOUTH, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been eating Last Line: They would shoot me the grapes Subject(s): Food & Eating; Minnesota Fats (fictional Pool Hustler) MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE, by LOUISE LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: The fields flow with fireweed Last Line: At the coming of the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Susan Louise Subject(s): Minnesota NEW PHYSICS, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pig sails through the sky as my children and I Last Line: Has been trying to get there, negotiating %every pebble Subject(s): History; Minnesota NORTHERN MINNESOTA, by MONTA W. KIRKCONNELL Poem Text First Line: Land of lakes, where pines stand tall Last Line: For the northland winter sport! Subject(s): Lakes; Minnesota; Sports; Pools; Ponds OH, YOU KID!, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The body's coming later! The cop shouted Last Line: Get turned around in the other direction Variant Title(s): Oh You Ki Subject(s): History; Minnesota PARKER HOMESTEADS, 1867, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the last spadeful of earth - his Last Line: The monstrous silver eye of money shuts, %and the horizon passes into him like god Subject(s): History; Minnesota PARKERS PRAIRIE CELEBRATION ON SOO STREET, 1920, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to put my arms around the woman Last Line: Turn any direction now and begin running, %it will end happily. It's not what you think Subject(s): History; Minnesota PERSISTENCE OF THE GREAT BLIZZARD, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So deep into mud season, now, that I can't tell you Last Line: Whirring from the corn. Be my hand %gripping this dark fence Subject(s): History; Minnesota PIPESTONE, MINNESOTA, by MARION VAN LANINGHAM Poem Text First Line: I saw your red rock, pipestone Last Line: Slopes of the prairies. Subject(s): Minnesota POEM FOR THE MISSING BEAUTY OPERATOR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I notice the women are missing Last Line: Lost mother. What was your name? Subject(s): History; Minnesota PRAIRIE PERSPECTIVE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In northwestern minnesota, the horizon's a circle Last Line: O'clock siren, at the blank, bald eye of empty sky Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farm Life; Memory; Minnesota; Poetry And Poets; Prairies PRIMORDIA IN THE NORTHWEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over minnesota Subject(s): Minnesota PRIMORDIA IN THE NORTHWEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over minnesota Last Line: Are you two boatmen %different from each other? Subject(s): Minnesota RAPE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So I can never forget, I've kept one small glove Last Line: That afternoon I thought I hated all of them. %I thought I hated jesus Subject(s): History; Minnesota RED TELEPHONE NEAR THE DAVENPORT, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Hot and the wind is not acting Last Line: Forms for five, maybe ten minutes on the dance floor Subject(s): Minnesota; Telephones; Towns RELIC, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, muse, of the lace dresser-scarf Last Line: Sing how you stay with us until the end Subject(s): History; Minnesota RITUAL, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swerving to miss the dead squirrel Last Line: Down like a toy wagon, three wheels stopped, %one still turning Subject(s): History; Minnesota SAME COLD, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In minnesota the serious cold arrived Last Line: Just two men, he said, in the same cold Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Cold; Minnesota SAVING THE PAST, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It won't shut down, the crying upstairs Last Line: The silent bones, new as morning, %watching the sun rise Variant Title(s): Saving The Past: Subject(s): History; Minnesota SEWING, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember how that morning Last Line: Toward beauty, move toward %the empty spaces Subject(s): History; Minnesota SIMULTANEITY, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am trying to explain when time lost Last Line: Than when you started reading Subject(s): History; Minnesota SO FAR, SO GOOD, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm peering through my son's telescope Last Line: Way out at the edge, so far, %so good Subject(s): History; Minnesota STARGAZING, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt %edith Last Line: The bear Subject(s): Minnesota; Murder; Violence SUMMER OF 1883, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, they chose, all right Last Line: She is holding the sun %in its vast pouch of space Subject(s): History; Minnesota SUMMER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL IN PARKERS PRAIRIE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight I send my complaints flying Last Line: Even my hobble will count as dancing Variant Title(s): Summer Solstice Festival In Parkers Prairie, 193 Subject(s): History; Minnesota THOREAU TRAVELS UP THE MINNESOTA RIVER, by JAMES GURLEY Poem Source First Line: Swallows and kingfishers fly across the wake Last Line: A yellow square against the darkness Subject(s): Minnesota; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) TOUCHING MISS LEONA GIFFORD'S HAIR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long before my father died Last Line: And shook out her blond hair like a gift %into the darkness Subject(s): History; Minnesota VISITING PARKERS PRAIRIE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wilsons lived across the street Last Line: Even god is motion Subject(s): History; Minnesota WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And then one day, you find you're falling Last Line: And everyone can hear you two, like dirty water %swishing down the same drain over and over Subject(s): History; Minnesota WHY THE FIDDLER'S WIFE IS THINKING OF LEAVING TOWN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Opening the door after a day at the diner Last Line: Where she used to think it was him she listened to Subject(s): History; Minnesota WILFRED AND JOSEPHINE ARRIVE IN PITTSBURGH, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After driving three days, I saw it Last Line: A heart nobody can change or fill up, ever Subject(s): History; Minnesota WOMAN WADING IN LAKE ADLEY AROUND 1900, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She must be looking for something, the woman Last Line: As she says, 'oh, be careful. Once a child fell in' Subject(s): History; Minnesota YEAR WE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was whispered danny had a missing ball Last Line: For jesus and the lincoln christian day school Subject(s): History; Minnesota |
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