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Subject: SURGERY Matches Found: 91 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER MINOR SURGERY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the dress rehearsal Subject(s): Surgery AFTER THE FACE LIFT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman who used to be my age Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Variant Title(s): Face-lift Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts AFTER THE FACE LIFT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman who used to be my age Last Line: For a bunch of jonquils, this year's first %yellow, about to open Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Variant Title(s): Face-lif Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic ALIEN HAND, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: It starts with the seizures Last Line: Divided, the swelling memory %of the blade Subject(s): Sickness; Surgery AN AMERICAN BEAUTY; FOR ANN LONDON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you described your mastectomy in calm detail Last Line: Your last wedding day. Subject(s): Biography; Death; Friendship; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Dead, The; Feminism BRAIN OPERATION, by EDWARD EVERETT ROLS Poem Text First Line: The gnaw, gnaw, gnaw Last Line: Of eternity. Subject(s): Surgery BUCKING THE ODDS, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Steve is one tough bird Last Line: Clean up & patch his nose Subject(s): Surgery BYPASS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Packed closely around those tuberous roots Last Line: Write the rhythms of her heartbeat in a script that looked arabic Subject(s): Hearts; Surgery CELIA BLEEDING, TO THE SURGEON, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond man, that canst believe her blood Last Line: Shed all the blood, felt all the smart. Subject(s): Surgery CHECK-UP, by MIRIAM SOLAN Poem Source First Line: Grey sheets where are you? Sure this door is unlocked before paralyzed Last Line: But not ethically right to be come on operated by a 2nd opinion sesame stick out your tongue say ah! Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Surgery CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 1, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So this must be a mouth Last Line: Impossible words, look %at me Subject(s): Healing; Hospitals; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Surgery CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 3, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day. For one day walls Last Line: After it's passed, the void behind sound %not even fear can inhabit Subject(s): Eye Patches; Military; Surgery CORONARY IN LIPOSUCTION, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hearing how the rope uncoiled from the knot Last Line: Not that they died. Until they died, they weren't real Subject(s): Death; Surgery CORRECT COMPASSION; TO MR. PHILIP ALLISON, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: Cleanly, sir, you went to the core of the matter Last Line: Informing a correct compassion, that performs its love, and makes it live Subject(s): Compassion; Craftsmanship; Surgery DARTMOOR: SUNSET AT CHAGFORD: HOMO LOQVITUR, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ironical, a fool enigma Last Line: Nor even dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Mankind; Surgery; Sunset; Twilight; Human Race DIFFERENCES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choose your own difference between surgery Last Line: And what difference will it make? Subject(s): Surgery DIFFERENCES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choose your own difference between surgery Last Line: And what difference will it make? Subject(s): Surgery DISTANCE FROM LOVED ONES, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After her husband died, zita decided to get the face-lift she had Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts DISTANCE FROM LOVED ONES, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After her husband died, zita decided to get the face-lift she had Last Line: But, mother, I say, I am dying Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic FACE LIFT, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We all want to stare Last Line: But drop into the path %at his every whim, %full-blown, frozen Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic FIRST POEM AFTER SERIOUS SURGERY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breath continues but the breathing Last Line: But silent now / and slow Subject(s): Surgery FOR H. V. (1901-1927), by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the clumsy surgery: the face Last Line: Selected by the family, and none of them his friends Subject(s): Surgery GENTLE READERS, TOMORROW I UNDERGO', by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Win some. Lose some. Mostly ties Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Reason; Surgery GIFT OF A KNIFE, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: When I was very young Last Line: A message in an ancient language %I had yet to decipher Subject(s): Birth; Children; Mothers; Surgery GLASNEVIN, by GIBBONS RUARK Poem Source First Line: A chance of summer in the liffey air Last Line: Leads us first to the inventor %of plastic surgery, as well he might, %these days of the gelignite a Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic HARD ROCK RETURNS TO PRISON FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINAL INSANE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hard rock / was / 'known not to take no shit Subject(s): African Americans; Insanity; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisons & Prisoners; Surgery; Negroes; American Blacks; Madness; Mental Illness; Convicts HARD ROCK RETURNS TO PRISON FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINAL INSANE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard rock / was / 'known not to take no shit Last Line: Had cut deep bloody grooves %across our backs Subject(s): African Americans; Insanity; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisons And Prisoners; Surgery IN HOSPITAL: 16. HOUSE-SURGEON, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exceeding tall, but built so well his height Last Line: And cultivate his mild philistinism. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Physicians; Surgery; Doctors IN HOSPITAL: 5. OPERATION, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are carried in a basket Last Line: On a hushed, attentive audience. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Surgery IN HOSPITAL: 6. AFTER, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as a flamelet blanketed in smoke Last Line: To an immense, complacent dreamery. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Surgery IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our doctor had call'd in another, I never had seen him before Last Line: The lord of the children had heard her, and emmie had past away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Surgery; Childhood IN THE HOSPITAL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grimed with misery, want, and sin Last Line: He knew, at last what life had meant. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness IN THE OPERATING ROOM, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: The anesthetist is singing Last Line: My arms to the table Subject(s): Surgery IN THE SURGICAL THEATRE, by DANA LEVIN Poem Source First Line: In the moment between %the old heart and the new Last Line: The doctors pausing with their knives uplifted, the rush of wings %stirring a wind - Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Surgery INSIDE CARYLS LEFT SHOULDER, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Surgery INVISIBLE, by KAREN DALE Poem Source First Line: For a time I am invisible, it seems, swathed in thin blankets, waiting in Last Line: He is needed, worshiped, loved Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Radiology; Sickness; Surgery IT FOLLOWS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you had a lot of money Subject(s): Money; Surgery, Plastic; Life Choices; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts LANDSCAPES BEFORE SURGERY, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: In the most remote, junglelike corner of the island Last Line: Where the first cell must have divided, somewhere %sometime in that paradise Subject(s): Landscape; Surgery LUCKY, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever imagining the dire, the sudden Subject(s): Luck; Surgery; Food & Eating; Hair LULLABY BEFORE SURGERY, by J. W. MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: My good roommate breathes Last Line: So what and sleep and someone plans to call you early Subject(s): Surgery MAJOR SURGERY, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: My dreams rise, a twist of smoke Last Line: Cars buzz in the walls Subject(s): Life Change Events; Self-reliance; Surgery MARKINGS, by GLORI SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Each birth notches a woman's pelvis like a belt Last Line: Still, his fingers found the trigger %and aimed for the scar Subject(s): Birth; Scars; Surgery; Women MASTECTOMY POEMS: 2. THE GURNEY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's this long corridor above the street Last Line: How good it is, not to be anywhere Subject(s): Hospitals; Surgery MASTECTOMY POEMS: 3. RIDDLE: POST-OP, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A - tisket a - tasket Last Line: Guess what it is %it's nothing Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Surgery MISSING MY FATHER'S HEART SURGERY, by KRISTIN BECKER Poem Source First Line: They did not look between your ribs Last Line: That beat in you %like a smooth, heavy fist Subject(s): Fathers; Hearts; Surgery NANCY TALKING TO THE NURSE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four times the surgeons, military-firm Last Line: "why, nancy, I have heard you all along!" Subject(s): Surgery NEMESIS, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: Scrubbing up, my surgeons check their nails Last Line: Or did he think of gertrude at the blast? Subject(s): Physicians; Surgery NO MAP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How close the clouds press this october first Last Line: Showing the dark places and how to escape them? Subject(s): Surgery; Fathers & Sons; Birthdays NOW AND THEN, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste OPERATION, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: They take all the parts marked x. You watch this in a mirror above the Last Line: Have begun to fly Subject(s): Sickness; Surgery OUTSIDE THE OPERATING ROOM OF THE SEX-CHANGE DOCTOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the operating room of the sex-change doctor, a tray / of penises Subject(s): Sex; Surgery PLASTIC SURGERY, by ROBERT N. FEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Praying for rejuvenation Last Line: And tomorrow, though delayed, will claim its due Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic PLASTIC SURGERY MADONNA, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gets nipped %tucked and sucked Last Line: Look like a road %map of new jersey Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic POET'S SURGERY, by MARIA TERRONE Poem Source First Line: When you told me they removed Last Line: And why he must have it, too Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Surgery POST-OP, by BLAIR EWING Poem Source First Line: With a rotating bezel for a Last Line: Through the chambers of your heart Subject(s): Surgery; Survival QUESTIONS FOR RACHEL'S SURGEON, by TOVAH S. YAVIN Poem Source First Line: Who will make a shiddoch for this frog lady, my spider woman? Last Line: Who will make this shiddoch? %this is what a mother asks Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Surgery RALPH'S STORY, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Ralph, one of my shooting Last Line: Been circumcised & %was starting to bleed Subject(s): Surgery RE-ENTERING THE SCAR, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: I said no to opening the tangled Last Line: And the one from the year before minuscule %for this moment how I glisten Variant Title(s): Reentering The Sca Subject(s): Surgery SAFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones Subject(s): Hands; Surgery; Children; Childhood SAME OLD SUE, by RITA MILLET Poem Source First Line: She finally had a face-lift, did poor aunt sue Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic SCALPEL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They'd stunned me groggy with demerol and bland Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Surgery SCAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will learn %to live together Last Line: And I will not fall off Subject(s): Scars; Skin; Surgery SONG FOR MY LOVER: 11. A MEDICAL STUDENT LEARNS LOVE AND DEA, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scalpel finds the heart. The heart is still Last Line: I cut, and make from him the grave I rob Subject(s): Surgery; Medical Students SONG FOR MY LOVER: 13. TOWARDS CURING AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slap on latex gloves before I put Last Line: I leave him pleadinmg. Too much to do Variant Title(s): Towards Curing Aids Subject(s): Surgery; Aids (disease); Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PAULINE BARRETT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife! Last Line: Dear, have you ever understood? Subject(s): Surgery SURGEON, by KATHERINE HUNTER COE Poem Text First Line: How powerfully he dominates his day Last Line: When they recall the great, kind heart of him. Subject(s): Surgery SURGEON'S KNIFE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are hearts - stout hearts - that own no fear Last Line: That rest on the work of the surgeon's knife Subject(s): Surgery SURGEONS MUST BE VERY CAREFUL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stirs the culprit — life! Subject(s): Surgery SURGERY, by IRENE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: While I lay on the table in darkness Last Line: Which was coming back, %the home of all grief Subject(s): Surgery THE APOSTATE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, hypocrite harry, that hamburg hand-kisser Last Line: Bless the poet, heinrich, as he blesses you. Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Hypocrisy; Jews; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Judaism; Feminism THE GROSS CLINIC, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a sister who takes care of animals, whose artistry is flesh Subject(s): Gross, Samuel D. (1805-1884); Surgery; Family Life; Relatives THE HOSPITAL NURSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know when I am dead?' Last Line: "and for thy love to worship thee." Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Illness THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 2. THE GURNEY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's this long corridor above the street Last Line: How good it is, not to be anywhere Subject(s): Hospitals; Surgery THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 3. RIDDLE: POST-OP, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A - tisket a - tasket Last Line: "guess what it is Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Surgery THE OPERATION, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: By saturday I said you would be better by sunday Subject(s): Surgery THE SCALPEL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They'd stunned me groggy with demerol and bland Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Surgery THE SURGEON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack, oh big jack Last Line: Up into your hands Subject(s): Surgery THE SURGEON AT 2 A.M., by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white light is artificial, and hygienic as heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Surgery; Hospitals THE SURGEON'S HANDS, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Text First Line: His face? I know not whether it be fair Last Line: As though the hands of christ had served and blest. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Surgery THE SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse Last Line: Was never to mortal known. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors THE TIMELY TOPIC, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When modern people get together, they do Last Line: Mix a drastic potion, and take it with a spoon! Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness THE VISIONARY UNDER THE KNIFE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Surgery THOSE VARIOUS SCALPELS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those / various sounds consistently indistinct, like intermingled echoes Last Line: Are more highly specialized than the tissues of destiny itself? Subject(s): Surgery THREE ON LUCK: PROSTATE OPERATION, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all those years at work I must have seen Last Line: One of these old bous talking and talking and talking %what he can't do-it's one life at a time Subject(s): Surgery TO MR. HARLEY'S SURGEON, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On britain europe's safety lies Last Line: Think what you save or what you kill Subject(s): Surgery TOMATOES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A woman tavels to brazil for plastic / surgery and a face-lift. She is sitxy Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts TOMATOES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman tavels to brazil for plastic %surgery and a face-lift. She is sitxy Last Line: Starvation, think of his ravenous kisses Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic UNBLINDING, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: When I think of my fear Last Line: One flick of a surgeon's knife %struck long-idle retinas %into perfect sight Subject(s): Blindness; Fear; Surgery VIRGINIA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First they took off one breast Last Line: The more multiples there are. Subject(s): Death; Surgery; Women; Dead, The WHEN THE DOCTOR CALLS THE SURGEON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the doctor calls the surgeon, and the surgeon says you must Last Line: Not to be -- an -- everlasting -- fool! Subject(s): Surgery WORDS WRITTEN DURING YOUR OPERATION, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The early fog has retreated Last Line: You'd leave me is beyond belief Subject(s): Fear; Love; Surgery |
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