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Subject: REINCARNATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 20-SEP-72, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anselm hollo, josephine clare, custer the dog and rudie
Last Line: The holy dread goes on
Subject(s): Miracles; Poetry And Poets; Reincarnation


A FAMILY FAVORITE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies a cat of local fame
Last Line: All pure and beautiful.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Comedy; Death; Epitaphs; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas


ANOTHER LIFE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've no time for that reincarnation stuff
Last Line: Or am I peeved love's puzzle is undecoded %because I upped some former time and just exploded?
Subject(s): Reincarnation


COLD BLOOD, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After murdering his father
Last Line: On limber fingers.
Subject(s): Burma; Fear; Murder; Punishment; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


ETERNITY, by GRACE GRISWOLD BISBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enough for me to realize
Last Line: Through deathless time's eternal range.
Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Reincarnation; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Transmigration; Pretas


FANTASY, by GERARD LABRUNIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an air for which I'd give all else
Last Line: In that remembered other life I had.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


FANTASY, by GERARD LABRUNIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an air for which I'd gladly give
Last Line: And whom I now remember with a sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


GEO-BESTIARY: 27, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She said in la of course that she'd be reincarnated as an indian princess
Last Line: Thought as lovely as april's sycamore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


IF BY CHANCE, by TYRONE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reincarnation? I thinks it's hip
Subject(s): Reincarnation


IN INTERIMS: OUTLYER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He halts. He haw. Plummets
Last Line: Aloud and here and now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Love; Memory; Nature; Reincarnation; Travel; Transmigration; Pretas; Journeys; Trips


LOYALTY, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the hardest part
Subject(s): Reincarnation; Dogs; Politics & Government; Wit & Humor; Transmigration; Pretas


MOURNING FOR MY ELDEST DAUGHTER ZHAOQI [WANWAN], by SHEN YIXIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stored your clothes in the chest, but who would wear them?
Last Line: By the ge river we will exchange smiles, fortuitously met
Subject(s): Death - Children; Reincarnation


PINSK AFTER DARK, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reborn a rabbi in pinsk, reincarnated backward time
Last Line: Paid me no heed, not remembering their futures—verlaine & rimbaud.
Subject(s): Pinsk, Belarus; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


PRE-EXISTENCE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While sauntering through the crowded street
Last Line: Faints on the outmost rings of space!
Subject(s): Memory; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


PRE-EXISTENCE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We have met, you and I, long ago
Last Line: Where we met and we loved, you and I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


RED GERANIUMS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She says she believes in reincarnation
Last Line: The sudden emotion the confusion then nothing?
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


RED GERANIUMS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She says she believes in reincarnation
Last Line: Is this what causes these unexpected over-sweepings: %the sudden emotion, the confusion, then nothin
Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Reincarnation


REINCARNATION, by ALICE CHURCHILL CHAPHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If, when my dust has once again
Last Line: Swinging like a green-bowed swing.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Reincarnation; Trees; Transmigration; Pretas


REINCARNATION, by JOSEPHINE HERMANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within the room where death has taken toll
Last Line: Of death. Triumphant life takes hold anew.
Subject(s): Reincarnation; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Transmigration; Pretas


REINCARNATION, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another world! Another life!' we cry
Last Line: While every day a new life waits for each.
Subject(s): Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


REINCARNATION, by WALLACE MCRAE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does reincarnation mean?'
Last Line: I come away concludin': slim, %you ain't changed, all that much
Subject(s): Cowboys; Reincarnation


REINCARNATION, by MUDROOROO NAROGIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You rise like the phoenix %from the ashes of your drunkenness
Last Line: Of our souls gone astray in the loneliness %of maybe next year or the one thereafter
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Reincarnation


REINCARNATION, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not how, I know not where
Last Line: They left the hills of light.
Subject(s): God; Life; Reincarnation; Soul; Transmigration; Pretas


SECOND LIFE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After life's departing sigh
Last Line: Come and catch that butterfly!'
Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Insects; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Bugs; Transmigration; Pretas


SONNET: 43, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What if some lover in a far-off spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Variant Title(s): Reincarnatio
Subject(s): Reincarnation


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 100, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For an image of life and death
Last Line: Both life and death are fine
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Ice; Life; Reincarnation; Water; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 185, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When will the treadmill of life and death stop
Last Line: We're like blind mules following our feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 260, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine a king-of-the-wheel
Last Line: You'll waste these human years
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Reincarnation; Wealth; Buddha; Buddhists; Transmigration; Pretas; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 45, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you were too dumb the life before
Last Line: But one day you'll cross the vast divide
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


THE ROSE OF THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark rose of thy mouth
Last Line: Kiss me, imperishable fire, dark rose, o rose of my desire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Immortality; Mortality; Mouths; Reincarnation; Roses; Transmigration; Pretas


TRANSFORMATIONS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Portion of this yew
Last Line: That made them what they were!
Subject(s): Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


UNREGENERATE, by JACQUELINE EMBRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall come back in ways I think you'll know
Last Line: "she'll love to hear you mutter: ""damn that bird!"
Subject(s): Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas


WE HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think I remember this moorland
Last Line: This limited gamut brings you again. Damn it, %how long has this got to go on?
Subject(s): Deja Vu; Reincarnation


WHY THE QUESTION OF REINCARNATION DOESN'T CONCERN ME, by CAROLYN STOLOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: So many routes to the heart
Last Line: So many branches from the heart! %whom haven't I been
Subject(s): Reincarnation