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Subject: RICE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARROZ, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Comes to el volcan, the corner bodega
Last Line: Which carries so many so far
Subject(s): Rice


COOLIE IN THE RICE FIELDS, by GLADYS GANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rain falls on the rice fields
Last Line: In snow-white heaps
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rain; Rice; Work; Workers


FOCUS IN REAL TIME, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bowl of rice
Last Line: A bowl of rice
Subject(s): Class Struggle; Rice


GIRL EATING RICE, by BILL HOLM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dinner on a dusty february night in a teacher's cramped cement flat
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Restaurants; Rice


PADDIES, by YI SONGBU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paddies lean against each other
Last Line: The bounty of this strength
Subject(s): Rice


REVEREND DAN RICE, by BRUCE RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up first thing and ride
Last Line: Through brief shoals of aspen
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Harvest; Rice


RICE, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is our very teeth that we sink in the earth
Last Line: Anoint the earth and make it good to eat
Subject(s): China; Farm Life; Mongols And Mongolia; Rice


RICE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I didn't know rice until I traded places with rusty and went next door to eat
Last Line: Husband and cleared her throat. Rusty just hung his head, like his brothers, and %chewed his mother'
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Rice; Suburbs


RICE PLANTING, by AMY UYEMATSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even my mother has taught herself %to acquire the taste of butter & bread
Last Line: From the fourth generation %tells me he's hungry and smiles %when I hand him a riceball %the size of
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Rice


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When winter comes
Last Line: Has stretched and grown above
Subject(s): Rice; Winter


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When autumn comes
Last Line: Must think the hills on fire
Subject(s): Autumn; Rice; Seasons


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When summer comes
Last Line: Thinking they're in a bath
Subject(s): Rice; Summer


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When spring comes
Last Line: Thinking they're in the sea
Subject(s): Rice; Spring


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The scarecrow doesn't worry him
Last Line: A lonely bird pecks rice
Subject(s): Rice


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At bon we dance
Last Line: Keep picking weeds
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Rice


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the paddy grows the weeds
Last Line: And wear my strength away
Subject(s): Rice


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O for a babe still at the breast
Last Line: And rest my weary waist
Subject(s): Rice


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At sundown the little birds
Last Line: Of a girl who plants the rice
Subject(s): Rice


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! My hips hurt so!
Last Line: And lie down at his side
Subject(s): Rice


TAKE YOUR CHOICE: OR HERE'S GRANTLAND RICE'S METHOD, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dim gray mist of the golden years
Last Line: And then she was pretty bad.
Subject(s): Girls; Rice, Grantland (1880-1954)


TANKA, by TACHIBANA AKEMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Happiness is when %you find some rice
Last Line: For another month
Subject(s): Happiness; Rice