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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TONGUES Matches Found: 23 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BABYSITTING, ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: In gambell, where the natives speak Last Line: Nowhere else can we go, so we sit %with love, and look after our own' Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages; Nome, Alaska; Tongues CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag Last Line: Which a beacon mesmerically burns with the stars of a translucent imminence Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues DITTO MARCEL DUCHAMP? DITTO DITTO GERTRUDE STEIN?, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: What or who killed the dinosaurs? Last Line: Is it too late to remember memory's not enough? Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Tongues G'L'A'N'C'E'S, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: How to creep up on discover disclose distance in a connec Last Line: Light glanced off Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Tongues; Voices GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & the code / public record stopped midsentence Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Tongues; Words; Vocabulary; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & the code %public record stopped midsentence Last Line: They were bled %who reads them now? %idzat %artist Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry And Poets; Tongues HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 1. A CONTEMPORARY EXPLANATION OF THE TERM, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU Poem Source First Line: His 'lani' in leilani was gesture Last Line: The blue eyes had arrived and 'the possibilities were endless Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans - Languages; Tongues; Tourists; Travel IN WINTER, DON'T EVER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To someone cold Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Tongues; Winter LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum / a ton / a rung Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum %a ton %a rung Last Line: I wonder what dido understood Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry And Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LANGUAGE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Your tongue like a barefoot walk Last Line: Becomes for a moment %moss, %water, %stone Subject(s): Language; Love; Romance; Tongues LANGUAGE OF ENDANGERMENT, by VICTORIA LENA MANYARROWS Poem Source Last Line: Threatens us no more Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Language; Tongues; Writing And Writers LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LOST LANGUAGE, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How and where shall we begin to Last Line: Looking out at the sea Subject(s): Books; Language; Speech; Tongues; Writing And Writers LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . . Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; O HADA CIBERNETICA: 17, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: On emerging from the womb your shinbone Last Line: Won't blurt out a single word Subject(s): Language; Tongues SLAVE OF SONG, by ROBERT H. STOWELL Poem Text First Line: Any little lad will say Last Line: "sour, salt, or sweet." Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Tongues THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues THE CHOW, A DOG OF ANCIENT ORIGIN, HAS A BLUE-BLACK TONGUE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet we accept her kisses, affectionate as air Last Line: Glances off the black- / lined mouth, the dogtooth violet Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Dogs; Tongues THE TONGUE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the boneless tongue, so small and weak" Last Line: "the sacred writer crowns the whole, / 'who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul!'" Subject(s): Hebrew Language;jews;tongues; Judaism TO DIDO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With dumb belongings there can be Last Line: They learned what they are. How more can I make them yours? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Language; Reason; Tongues TO TASTE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: It should really have its own set of legs Last Line: And only come out at night Subject(s): Tongues TONGUES, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To mortify the spirit I once attended Last Line: The stuttering leaves on the insensible pavement. Subject(s): Class Struggle; French Language; Tongues |
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