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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