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Subject: WOMEN - MIDDLE AGED Matches Found: 44 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARTIST IN INK, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The octopus, artist in ink Last Line: His ocean floor abstracts %endlessly octaving Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BABY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Baby, glide over rivers Last Line: To paint from memory, but couldn't Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BALLADE AT THIRTY-FIVE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Women - Middle Aged BIRD-PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The famous bird-painter hobbles by Last Line: First take singing lessons %from the birds Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BLOWING KISSES, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Nowadays her baby teeth rattle safely Last Line: By killing children in the shark-mouthed streets Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BROKEN BED, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Who broke the bed? Some dream monster Last Line: Soon we'll need every bandage in europe, won't we Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BUILDING A CITY FOR JAMIE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I am building jamie a city with plenty palaces Last Line: No city?' %no city. Of course not Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged CURTAIN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The curtain was tattered but ornate Last Line: In sweet grey gothic penryn, where the rain comes from Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged EIGHT FROG DREAMS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: A more innocent creature than the tree-frog Last Line: By outdreaming them Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FEAR-RIDDEN, by MARGARET R. RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Elizabeth feels safer dressed in gray Last Line: Who fears to live, when others fear to die. Subject(s): Fear; Women - Middle Aged FLOOD, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Water asleep %all across china Last Line: Downstream in their sleep Subject(s): Environment; Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FORGIVE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: It is easy to forgive a lot of trees Last Line: Call them a forest. Let rain fall on them Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FROM THE WINDOW, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: You know the poet who says Last Line: Vi desde...: from pablo neruda, 'caballos' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged I OFTEN PAINT WHITE HORSES BLACK, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I often paint white horses black Last Line: And don't forget to put some horses round the edges Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged IN A RAILWAY STATION, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strangely memory serves us! Here tonight Last Line: "will have gone twenty miles tonight for naught." Subject(s): Memory; Pity; Railroad Stations; Women - Middle Aged IN ALL COLOURS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: All day the beautiful painter he loves Last Line: See Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged JANUARY 20TH, 1993, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: What does it mean, I wonder, to wake up coming Last Line: In a world ravaged by war and tourism Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged KINGDOM OF TINY SHOES, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: We are all dead, lucy, cush, kilroy and me Last Line: Shrugging at such foolishness Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged LESAGE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I had my boat but where was the river Last Line: Was nothing beyond his powers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged LONG WALKS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: And tremendous orgasms Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged MOUTH-PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Me? He says. 'I paint Last Line: You choose,' he mouths, licking his lips Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged OLD CITY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Old city sailing by Last Line: Here in tempting old city Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged OUTGROWN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: It is both sad and a relief to fold so carefully Last Line: She stops being a child Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Like rainhorses running wild through the first three Last Line: Clanging and hissing, the rogues Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAINTER'S WIFE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Here's a glimpse of a famous cloud mountain Last Line: He is painting my portrait yet again, you see Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAINTING WHAT WE SEE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: There is fear, I hug you tight Last Line: There are things we will not see, n'est-ce pas Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PICASSO IS RIGHT, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: On my bedroom wall Last Line: The colour that makes everyone weep...' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Women - Middle Aged PORTRAIT HOUSE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Rivers climb back to the ceiling where they belong Last Line: That this house has always felt sad Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged POSTMAN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I open the door, it is the postman Last Line: Tomorrow he will stand guard by my gate Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged RESCUING THE BUDDHA, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: There are more than 50,000 rivers in china Last Line: As if related by blood, his brothers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SO EARLY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I wake so early Last Line: Can you tell me, whoever you are, what this pain is for Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOME ANGELS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Every day I paint all day, riding Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOME RIVERS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Gave me some rivers some moons some rain, I forget when Last Line: Some hands take some things Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged STATUE OF NEPTUNE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: He is a powerful-handsome man Last Line: It is,' I say, with a big smile Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged STORY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: When anyone comes from Last Line: Before I too fly out of the story Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SWEET HEART, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Here I am, sweet heart, my long white lizzie siddal skirts Last Line: Who is afraid Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged THE FIRST GRAY HAIR, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The matron at her mirror Last Line: Behold the first gray hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Women - Middle Aged THE ODD WOMAN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At parties I want to get even, Last Line: And leave for the long river drive to town. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Parties; Single People; Women - Middle Aged; Bachelors; Unmarried People TIGERS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: My girl shivers beside me Last Line: I just hear them roar. And I shiver Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged TRAVEL, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: With steady looks the young men are firing arrows Last Line: I think he is a frog Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WATERLILY TRADITION, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The women are singing in the patisserie Last Line: It is my waterlily tradition Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WORSE THINGS THAN DIVORCE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I was helping dancey lift his wife april by her ears into the sky Last Line: Just as if dancey were here, saying, 'lo, it is I...Everything is ok.' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WOULD YOU LIKE A TOMATO, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Would you like a tomato Last Line: Would you like a tomato Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged YULE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: On the tall green tree we have hung Last Line: Here is your tree, here are your children, reine soleil, %give us your gifts Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged |
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