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Subject: ONTOLOGY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ONTOLOGY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dark I step out of bed
Subject(s): Ontology; Being


BEING AND NOTHINGNESS, by JOHN BURNSIDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Returning takes too long
Last Line: With the amber of knowledge
Subject(s): Ontology


CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherever shadow falls wherever the drowning
Last Line: Where the world falls in forever there there
Subject(s): Ontology; Being


CONTRA MORTEM: THE WHEEL OF BEING I, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Changing figures. The dionysian child
Last Line: It is contrived it is actual it is a man
Subject(s): Ontology; Being


CONTRA MORTEM: THE WHEEL OF BEING II, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such figures if they succeed are beautiful
Last Line: As the gift of being are the lovers against death
Subject(s): Ontology; Being


EXISTENCE, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man of dark politics
Last Line: In the course of a long day
Subject(s): Ontology


ONTOLOGY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dark I step out of bed
Last Line: And harm cannot come unless I happen, %but because I exist, I am existence
Subject(s): Ontology


REFLECTING TREES OF BEING AND NOT BEING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my childhood when I first
Last Line: Golden fires and lamps of years
Subject(s): Introspection; Love; Ontology; Self


SOME INFORMATION ABOUT TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF EXISTENCE, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the shrift, she says, 'it is always moving, even in slumber
Last Line: Terror now in the hangar: the little door slides back
Subject(s): Aging; Birth; Birthdays; Family Life; Ontology; Time


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. BELIEVE YOURSELF A WHOLE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Believe yourself a whole
Last Line: And made for love—to embrace all, to be united ultimately with all.
Subject(s): Ontology; Being