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Subject: MISSOURI Matches Found: 73 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACT OF LOVE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I smell fresh bread - %yeast, I think you said - Last Line: The multitude, feed the soul, %bring back the dead Subject(s): Bread; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ALMOST HUNTING SEASON, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Mud brown labrador eyes %two from the yellow one Last Line: It's not legal %but they don't understand Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Hunting; Kansas City, Missouri AN ACT OF LOVE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I smell fresh bread - / yeast, I think you said - Subject(s): Bread; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ANATOMY OF THEATER AT PADUA, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: As there's no malice in science, there's nothing Last Line: Into a well where someone has fallen in Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ARS POETICA, by WYATT TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: What's the farthest sound you hear Last Line: Just you who listens. %and who sees Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri AT THE ROSEBUD BRIDGE, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: They have bridged you, o missouri Last Line: The romance of yesteryear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Ferry Boats; Missouri; Travel; Journeys; Trips BEACHES, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING Poem Source First Line: The man with a wave for his tongue Last Line: On she dreams %sleeping with horses Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BEAR EMERGES, by DENISE LOW Poem Source First Line: The sky shudders with first Last Line: We are alive, again we are all alive Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BIRD POINT, by DENISE LOW Poem Source First Line: My fingertips recognize Last Line: I hear songs %and wings %rush %away Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BIRTHDAY POEM, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: This morning, the sunrise is a brilliant song Last Line: Each morning we pray to restore hozho, hozho, hozho, hozho Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri CARELESS LOVE, by THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS Poem Source First Line: In st. Louis blues Last Line: Love o love, %careless love Subject(s): Love; St. Louis, Missouri CIVIL WAR BUFF, by RUSH RANKIN Poem Source First Line: A woman pressed my thin body against the wall Last Line: In the evening, in bed, in a constant shower of light Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri COOKING WITH DAISY, by ROBERT STEWART Poem Source First Line: When daisy works in the kitchen, part of her goes with the white beans Last Line: Her in. That certain something lingers at her nose Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DANCE BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON, by SHARON EIKER Poem Source First Line: My dark heart is heavy Last Line: While she keeps a-rockin' Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DECLINING, by PHILIP MILLER Poem Source First Line: Saying no has become our habit Last Line: But cannot decline to go Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DESIRE FOR SOMETHING HOT, by STANLEY EUGENE BANKS Poem Source First Line: I want to pour myself Last Line: Cause I'll blaze and sizzle, %sizzle and burn Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DISREGARD, by TRISH REEVES Poem Source First Line: I have these terrible lapses Last Line: As grooved wood, my dear frame %with two eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri DUMB SHOW, by PHILIP MILLER Poem Source First Line: All afternoon we sit Last Line: Yellow-eyed and bobbing, strutting Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri EARTH TREMORS FELT IN MISSOURI, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quake last night was nothing personal Last Line: Whose bright ordeal leaves cool men woebegone Subject(s): Earthquakes; Missouri ELECTRONICS OF BLINDNESS, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING Poem Source First Line: Electric octave drops to blue tone Last Line: Violet eagles rise, %tracked on both my eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FAT PEOPLE AT THE AMUSEMENT PARK, by RAWDON TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: They are laughing like the rest of us Last Line: Into a scream of weightlessness Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FIELD DAY, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red-tailed hawk on the meadow by Last Line: Can snare the senses, stir a woman's %envy, a man's unswerving thirst Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri; Puerto Ricans - New York City FIRECRACKER TENT, by TRISH REEVES Poem Source First Line: But how many people have said Last Line: We might as well smile Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FLESH IS AIR, TOO, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: Along a canal I glance in a dim doorway Last Line: Of down settling in dawn's thin doorway Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FLYING INTO ST. LOUIS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is socked in. Can't see a thing. Nor have I ever Last Line: And boarded the plane to san francisco. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents; St. Louis, Missouri; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood FOR A SPRING BURIAL, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Mostly it is in the skies Last Line: That grows from earth new-opened Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FORECLOSURE, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father missouri takes his own Last Line: And the old river rolls on, slowly to the gulf. Subject(s): Missouri River; Rivers FORTUNE, by CHARLOTTE GORDON Poem Source First Line: When I was eight, all of st louis would come Last Line: Then, even my mother cheered %for the fortune any prophet brings Subject(s): Children; Fortune; Future; St. Louis, Missouri FOUND ON A SLIP OF PAPER IN A CRACK IN THE WALL, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: In prison I had two books Last Line: Lost on a terrible sea Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HAIR ATTITUDE, by STANLEY EUGENE BANKS Poem Source First Line: Sisters flow and roll %with extra control Last Line: Just don't touch, baby, %just don't touch.' Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HANDS, by RAWDON TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: Head stuffed, ears %stopped, eyes Last Line: Of nothing. %hold out your hands Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HANDS, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Of a thousand hands Last Line: Dangled at his sides Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri HYMN OF THE WEST, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whose glorious orbs on high Last Line: Land of the new and lordlier race! Subject(s): Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904); Patriotism; Peace; St. Louis, Missouri IN THE GULF STREAM, by DONNA TRUSSELL Poem Source First Line: He finds her %standing alone Last Line: And some dim idea %of the sea Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy error, fremont, simply was to act Last Line: But the full time to harden into things. Variant Title(s): To John C. Fremont Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Missouri; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty JOHN HOLLANDER'S LECTURE, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: His words float over my head Last Line: And questions %I won't ask Subject(s): Hollander, John; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri LAST LOOK AT LA PLATA, MISSOURI, by JIM BARNES Poet's Biography First Line: The park, the heart, you see at town's center is soft Subject(s): Missouri LAST LOOK AT LA PLATA, MISSOURI, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The park, the heart, you see at town's center is soft Last Line: A lone dog barks. A child cries. All of winter night Subject(s): Missouri 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 LEXHIBITIONIST, by MICHAEL BURNS Poem Source First Line: When fog had cleared and sun Last Line: Nothing, good-old-boy Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri LYON, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some hearts there are of deeper sort Last Line: Where prophets now and armies greet pale lyon. Subject(s): American Civil War; Springfield, Missouri, Battle Of (1861); U.s. - History MILAGRO, by ANN SLEGMAN Poem Source First Line: After the bus collision, you came Last Line: That is your face Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri MISSISSIPPI-MISSOURI, by CHARLES H. TIFFANY Poem Text First Line: In clear cold blue itasca lake, in scores of mountain Last Line: Like swaying drunken harlots in the gulf of mexico. Subject(s): Mississippi; Mississippi River; Missouri; New Orleans; Rivers MISSOURI, by FLORIAA WATTS SMYTH Poem Text First Line: I cannot sleep when sunrise comes to wake Last Line: On these dark hills beneath missouri skies. Subject(s): Missouri MISSOURI MARCH, by E. S. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Hey, ho, the wind and the rain Last Line: Hard by drone. %-- miserere Subject(s): Marching And Marches; Missouri MISSOURI WOODS, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: First they tried to keep me out, erecting thick Last Line: In the folds of my skin, seeds in my pants cuffs, %wildness in my heart Subject(s): Forests; Missouri MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM: KANSAS CITY, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: Limestone %concrete and steel Last Line: And 'country gardens' on the piano Subject(s): Kansas City, Missouri; Rooms OTHER THAN TIME, by ROBERT STEWART Poem Source First Line: The blizzard seems like a plate too full of rice. So when I think of Last Line: Inside. That message beaming out is the memory of a bowl held up %near your face Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PAIN FUGUE, by RAWDON TOMLINSON Poem Source First Line: I wake in the middle of night with enchiladas Last Line: Though it never holds the tide of hard labor, nightmare, decay Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PARIS, PALO ALTO, PARIS, by DONNA TRUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I live next door Last Line: Stars burn the sky Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri PHOTOS, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: When becky shows me a picture of her Last Line: Can't get a story through anyone's eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri POEM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mule kicked out in the trees. An early Last Line: And drove some more unable to sleep in missouri. Subject(s): Dolls; Funerals; Girls; Grief; Missouri; Toys; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness PORTRAITS OF THE WIVES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Think of the summer you drove with the family Last Line: The west above the murderous dirt of history Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri RECOLLECTION, by JIM MCCRARY Poem Source First Line: There is a fall in this air Last Line: That could be all folks Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri REVERSING A DECISION, by WYATT TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: So loud the wail of cicadas Last Line: That you would return Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri RICE, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER Poem Source First Line: I bend over, pick the rice, rice is good Last Line: Stars rise like jewels Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri RUE DES HALLES, by RODERICK TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: It is a see-through day, parisian sun Last Line: To see her white neck, and arms long and bare Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri SEPARATIONS, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: Relentless rain, that ambient metaphor Last Line: Fly the energy of unfulfilled desire Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri SHENANDOAH (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "missouri, she's a mighty river" Last Line: "ah ha I'm bound away, 'cross the wide missouri" Subject(s): Missouri River;rivers SIGHTING ELVIS AT SAFEWAY, by ANN SLEGMAN Poem Source First Line: I first noticed your glance - slow Last Line: Of the media howling at your skid marks Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri SNOW GEESE AT DESOTO BEND, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: The missouri twists below them Last Line: A tolling of bells, a benediction Subject(s): Geese; Memory; Missouri; Wings SUNSET: ST. LOUIS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed in the smoky haze of summer sunset Last Line: Resting in twilight. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; St. Louis, Missouri; Sunset; Twilight TEMENOS, by MICHAEL BURNS Poem Source First Line: Last night the dream Last Line: In a cold sweat to survive Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri THE DEATH OF LYON, by HENRY PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Sing, bird, on green missouri's plain Last Line: And grave thy name immortal. Variant Title(s): Lyon Subject(s): American Civil War; Lyon, Nathaniel (1818-1861); United States - History; Wilson's Creek, Missouri, Battle Of THE LITTLE CLOUD, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Text First Line: As when, on carmel's sterile steep Last Line: The blessed liberty of god. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Missouri Compromise; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE LITTLE DRUMMER, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis of a little drummer Last Line: With his rat-tat-too. Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Missouri; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery THE REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE CONSIDERED, SELECTION, by ELYMAS PAYSON ROGERS Poem Text First Line: The covetous nebraskaites Last Line: For god's predictions must prevail. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Legislation; Missouri; Nebraska; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO THE HONOURABLE W. R. SPENCER; FROM BUFFALO, UPON LAKE ERIE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou oft hast told me of the fairy hours Last Line: Have many a mile to journey, ere we meet! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Delaware (river); Homesickness; Lake Erie; Mississippi River; Missouri River; Rivers; Schuylkill River TRUTH, by H. L. HIX Poem Source First Line: Do you sometimes lie when it would be easier to tell the truth? Last Line: In fact I have my doubts that you exist at all, or have existed, or ever will Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri TURTLE SHAPES, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER Poem Source First Line: Turtle circle, %limbs head wave shake Last Line: Big as my retina %firefly sky art Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri WITH THE MASTER ON THE ROAD TO THE BLACK HILLS, by DAN JAFFE Poem Source First Line: As I drive across dekota the master speaks to me Last Line: Remember, too: look to the master and leap free Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri YET ANOTHER GOD IN MEXICO, by RUSH RANKIN Poem Source First Line: Large boats turned over to dry Last Line: Had concealed his wings Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri ZAGONYI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bold captain of the body-guard Last Line: To death or victory! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Springfield, Missouri, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Zagonyi, Charles |
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