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Subject: PUMPKINS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMERICAN FAMILY, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the grocery store I bought pumpkins
Last Line: For the slut I guess, after all, I am
Subject(s): Family Life; Pumpkins


DYSLEXIA, by D. RODMAN WALKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Downwind, the smell of honey and pumpkin
Last Line: Hating honey and pumpkins and the ghost of his harvest
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Honey; Pumpkins; Smells


GARDEN OF THE WOMEN ONCE FALLEN: ... PUMPKINS, by LORNA GOODISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this garden, water walks
Last Line: Time of late-blooming pumpkins
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Pumpkins; Women


HALLOWE'EN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The time when bats fly through the / rooms
Last Line: That's when wishes all come true.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Halloween; October; Pumpkins; Supernatural


HALLOWEEN, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the west the moon hangs low
Last Line: In the west the moon hangs low.
Subject(s): Halloween; Pumpkins; Witchcraft & Witches


HALLOWEEN 1996, by C. T. LAWRENCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the afternoon there is the surprise of driving by fire
Last Line: Light and dark. Everything has a seam in it; if it splits, %we get to see the fire inside
Subject(s): Fire; Halloween; Pumpkins


PART OF AUTUMN, by MARIE EMILIE GILCHRIST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Part of autumn it is, perhaps
Last Line: To find a beauty in being slow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Pumpkins; Seasons; Fall


POETICAL ABSTRACTS: 2. METAPHYSICAL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fascination / o' jack-o'-lanterns
Subject(s): Halloween; Pumpkins


PUMPKIN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You may not believe it, for hardly could I
Subject(s): Pumpkins; Supernatural


PUMPKIN PIE, OR REASSURANCES ARE ALWAYS FALSE; THOUGH WE LOVE THEM, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pumpkin, %freshly scraped out of its tightly adhering
Last Line: Do you think it will set?' %'of course, %it will be delicious.'
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies; Pumpkins


PUMPKIN RIND DOLLS, by JANET KIMPSTON HERZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Make me a doll from a pumpkin rind
Last Line: The dolls you made from a pumpkin rind.
Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Pumpkins; Toys


PUMPKIN-PIE - ACROSTIC, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: P is for olly
Subject(s): Pumpkins


PUMPKINS, by GARY J. WHITEHEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up out of old dark
Last Line: Sagging toward earth again to be born
Subject(s): Growth; Pumpkins


RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These are my children
Last Line: And be brought up properly
Subject(s): Pumpkins; Riddles


STOCK AND VERMONT PUNKINS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you what 'twas fun to do
Last Line: The same as hide and hair.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Hunger; Migrant Labor; Pumpkins; Vermont; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers


THE PUMPKIN, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pumpkin lies yellow, beneath the cold
Last Line: "bony, we're in a blue funk; ambrosia is phony, and nectar is punk!"
Subject(s): Pumpkins


THE PUMPKIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Greenly and fair in the lands of the sun
Last Line: Golden-tinted and fair as thy own pumpkin-pie!
Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Pumpkins; Thanksgiving Day; Planting; Planters


THE PUMPKIN PIE, OR REASSURANCES ARE ALWAYS FALSE; THOUGH WE LOVE THEM, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pumpkin, / freshly scraped out of its tightly adhering
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Pies; Pumpkins


THE PUMPKIN TREE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up a lattice of sumac and into the spars
Last Line: Of the wood it cannot know it is bound for
Subject(s): Pumpkins


THE STRANGER IN THE PUMPKIN, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Pumpkins


THEME IN YELLOW, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I spot the hills
Last Line: I am fooling.
Subject(s): Pumpkins


VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate
Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing."
Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains


WHAT BRINGS US OUT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something about pumpkins caused
Last Line: How fast you had to turn to make it move.
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Fear; Pumpkins