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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WYOMING Matches Found: 71 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming A LONG WAY OUTSIDE YELLOWSTONE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the tracks in cheyenne, behind the biggest billboard Last Line: Wondering if hers is among them. Or perhaps not Subject(s): Denver, Colorado; Sacramento, California; Wyoming; Yellowstone National Park A POEM FROM THE EDGE OF AMERICA, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are ways of finding things, like stumbling on them Last Line: Although it might by why Subject(s): Nature; Wyoming CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Last Line: Sting. These chrysanthemums stolen, crossing an ocean to %return them Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming COYOTE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spotted him scouting antelope along bison basin road Last Line: Until the curve of his ribs began to cool beneath my fingers Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Last Line: Shaped welts on yellow ivory Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Last Line: And gleaming coils of fine, silk twine Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF SALT RIVER, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Imagine this view seen from the slope Last Line: From here: this tilt of north %in your life Subject(s): Farm Life; Wyoming FUTILITY, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: The highway is going to hell in northern wyoming Last Line: The big dipper hangs on its peg %over an empty rain barrel Subject(s): Poverty; Prairies; Wyoming GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE, SELS., by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On susquehanna's side, fair wyoming Last Line: Was outalissi hailed, with bark and plumage bright. Variant Title(s): Description Of Wyoming Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 2, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A valley from the river shore withdrawn Last Line: In all that slept beneath her soft voluptuous ray. Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 3, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love! In such a wilderness as this Last Line: The death-song of an indian chief! Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Last Line: To keep from blowing away Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 10. MINORU SAITO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I shaved my head and became Last Line: That made me say no Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Last Line: I see the man-in-the-moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 3. MASA NAKAHARA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am thinking about the temple Last Line: Serial number in its ear Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 5. LILY IWASAKI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minoru, it's been over a month Last Line: Full of rage and cunning Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 6. SAM TOYAMA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother held up a wrinkled fashion Last Line: Kicking me in the face inside her Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 7. NINA INOUE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the shoe ration, I can't play Last Line: I learned what it means to be kind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 8. YOSHIO MIYAKE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It sours my incense, disturbs the sleep Last Line: Will suddenly wake, eyes spitting blood Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 9. CHIKAKO OKANO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know tweezing away dead skin Last Line: The scars I leave behind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother recognized / my feet and claimed me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother recognized %my feet and claimed me Last Line: Richly embroidered %by unfamiliar hands Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming; Dreams KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell %you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming METEOROLOGY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart is such a big awkward girl Last Line: Even the best days Subject(s): Evil; Gasoline; Good; Weather; Windows; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 1. BENNY'S PLACE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We made camp %by the springs Last Line: Flung from the snow Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 2. ANTELOPE HUNTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stirring up grouse Last Line: Of dust and hoofbeats Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 3. GUTTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sawing the ribcage %was hard work Last Line: The spicy sage taste %run through me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took me everywhere Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took me everywhere Last Line: Opening the sky Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gleaming arc / of knife Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gleaming arc %of knife Last Line: A white moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Last Line: I am your sister Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEACH GIRL, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apprehended by snow Last Line: And you will spit it out Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Last Line: It hurts. And the more it hurts, %the bigger the pearl Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LANTERN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget me Last Line: Her own limbs, one by one Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Last Line: Of peony petals crumpling in my fists Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PURSUING A CAREER: 2. WORD PROCESSING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Intern(m)e(n)t Subject(s): Computers; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Professions SNOW COUNTRY, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Only %a little %yellow Last Line: Wyoming %from the train %yesterday Subject(s): Snow; Wyoming SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Last Line: And pry each of my petals loose Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SQUID, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purplish pink, their bodies were mottled with black dots, like Last Line: Water, and when I held them up to my nose they smelled like %another country Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 1. SUMIDA RIVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rice-paper lanterns bob Last Line: The sides of the boats %in judgment Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 2. ORIHIME'S SONG, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came from mulberry trees Last Line: To have you inside me again Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 3. A THOUSAND CRANES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to the bamboo grove Last Line: I am selfish Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming THE STATE OF WYOMING, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps a childhood magic-writing tablet Last Line: To the shadow of an antelope stare. Subject(s): History; Imagination; Wyoming; Historians; Fancy THE WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand outside my gate Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming THE WYOMING MASSACRE, by URIAH TERRY Poem Text First Line: Kind heaven, assist the trembling muse Last Line: Of cruel tyranny. Subject(s): American Revolution; Massacres; Native Americans; Wyoming, Pennyslvania; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UTOYASUKATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's a black bird Last Line: And you'll say yasukata Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming WESTERN CIVILIZATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That woman still lives at her ranch Last Line: That just now shaded your eyes Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Stars; Wyoming WINTER WOODS WITHOUT SNOW, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: The rain here leaves everything dark Last Line: And nostrils: skin keeps remembrance %like a rind Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Wyoming WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand outside my gate Last Line: My honeybee. %my centipede Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming WYOMING, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou com'st, in beauty, on my gaze at last Last Line: Has death no triumph-hours, save on the battle-day? Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844); Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania WYOMING, by JILL OSIER Poem Source First Line: You recognized the land, and I recognized you. And I Last Line: Beside me. I saw grass, I saw sky. You saw wyoming Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Travel; Wyoming WYOMING, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: With each new death I push Last Line: The sky that leads us on Subject(s): Death; Loss; Travel; United States; Wyoming WYOMING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A demon yell, a flesh of steel, and massacre complete Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania WYOMING, by CHARLES E. WINTER Poem Source First Line: In the far and mighty west Subject(s): Wyoming WYOMING REMEMBERED, by MAXINE FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: At evening %all is changed Last Line: I bite into peppergrass %gather my fire Subject(s): Wyoming WYOMING TOWNS, by PAUL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: They brag of mountain hamlets, the canyon villages Last Line: Daring the spread earth's danger, %the vast threat in what wind can do %with snow across the mad fla Subject(s): Wyoming |
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