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Subject: VOWELS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHAPTER 1, by CHRISTIAN BOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink this pidgin
Last Line: Finish writing this writ, signing it, kind sir: nihil, dicit, fini
Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary


CHAPTER E, SELS., by CHRISTIAN BOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Western men revere the greek legends. We retell them
Last Line: The green gems, les gemmes vertes, bedeck her velvet flesh
Subject(s): Language; Vowels


CHAPTER I, SELS., by CHRISTIAN BOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink this pidgin
Last Line: Frills drift in mizzling twilight. I think: night is nigh
Subject(s): Language; Vowels


CHAPTER O, SELS., by CHRISTIAN BOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loops, hoops, or whorls form lots of fonts to jot down
Last Line: No song of solomon conforms to crossword protocols
Subject(s): Language; Vowels


THE GAIETY OF FORM, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet to weight the line with all these vowels
Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Play; Pleasure; Vowels; Inspiration; Creativity


THE VOWELS: AN ENIGMA, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are little airy creatures
Last Line: It can never fly from you.
Variant Title(s): On The Vowels - A Riddle;riddle: The Five;a E I O U
Subject(s): Mnemonics; Vowels


THE VOWELS; FOR LEON BAKST, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A light and shade, e green, I blue, u purple and yellow, o red
Last Line: O red, u purple and yellow, I blue, e green, a black and white.
Subject(s): Vowels


THERE ONCE WAS A MAN WHO LOVED VOWELS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Your half-moony meloobbious fowls
Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Vowels


VOWEL SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue
Last Line: O omega, violet ray of her eyes.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Vowels


VOWELS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are little airy creatures
Last Line: If the fifth you should pursue, %it can never fly from you
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Vowels


VOWELS, by CHRISTIAN BOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loveless vessels
Last Line: We lose
Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Words; Vocabulary


VOWELS, by CHRISTIAN BOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loveless vessels
Last Line: So level %wlves evolve
Subject(s): Language; Vowels


VOYELLES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue, vowels
Last Line: X-ray of her eyes; it equals sex
Subject(s): Vowels


W (A USER'S MANUAL), by CHRISTIAN BOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the v you double, not the u, as if to use
Last Line: At a vowel at a powwow in between sawteeth
Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Words; Vocabulary


W (A USER'S MANUAL), by CHRISTIAN BOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the v you double, not the u, as if to use
Last Line: Where u and you become a tautonym, a continnuum
Subject(s): Language; Vowels