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Subject: APPALACHIA Matches Found: 131 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING, by DORIS JUANITA DAVENPORT Poem Source First Line: People in gainesville %not all that different Last Line: You get started, %with that Subject(s): Appalachia; Women ANOTHER KIND OF BURNING, by RUTH MARY FOX Poem Source First Line: The south wind's molded by a spine of hill Last Line: Of an infant now fatherless %in fact Subject(s): Accidents; Appalachia; Death APPALACHIAN FRONT, by ROBERT LEWIS WEEKS Poem Source First Line: Panther lies next to wharncliffe Last Line: The water over the rocks %is running clear and cold and pure Subject(s): Appalachia APPALACHIAN SPRING, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: A tuning fork on the mountain Last Line: The april twilight's field of images was conjured up Subject(s): Appalachia; Aviation And Aviators; Maryland; Mountains APPALACHIAN WINTER, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: I sit in darkness %beside the stove, rocking Last Line: Words that say there is nothing to fear Subject(s): Appalachia; Women ARCHAEOLOGY, by GEORGE ELLA LYON Poem Source First Line: I am digging Last Line: By the window where I make my bread Subject(s): Appalachia; Women BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: In the shade cold Subject(s): Appalachia BACKSASS, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A southernism generally confined to negative constructions Last Line: 100% 40-carat backsass Subject(s): Appalachia; Courage; History; Strength BAD TOMMY TURNER, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Go peck with the chickens Subject(s): Appalachia BARBER, BARBER, SHAVE A PIG, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: To make a wig for baldhead me Subject(s): Appalachia BEFORE I WAS HUNGRY, by WALTER LANE Poem Source First Line: Before I was poor Last Line: Rights of %fishermen, %farmers Subject(s): Appalachia; Farm Life; Poverty BELOW FREEZING ON PINELOG MOUNTAIN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched in the rusted cab of a junked pulpwood truck Last Line: Rises like gray smoke through rust holes in the roof. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Appalachia; Guns; Mountains; Rain; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BIG NOSE, RED NOSE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: A nose that glows Subject(s): Appalachia BLACK SHAWL, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: Around me, %unraveling its garland Last Line: Tangle of black roots %that drags my hands down Subject(s): Appalachia; Women BODY POLITIC, by JULIE DUNLOP Poem Source First Line: They sleep under the bright colors they quilted Last Line: Looking down on the clatter of cook and clean Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Appalachia; Family Life; Native Americans BOW, WOW, BOW, WOW!, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: And you'd better run faster %bow, wow, wow! Subject(s): Appalachia BOY IS A GREENHORN UNTIL, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Kissed a pretty girl Subject(s): Appalachia BRASSTOWN VALLEY, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: How fair the mountains Last Line: Asleep in the winter sun Subject(s): Appalachia; Women CEREMONY, by DORIS JUANITA DAVENPORT Poem Source First Line: Soquee is a cherokee word for the hill Last Line: Don't mess with the sacred %it will get you every time Subject(s): Appalachia; Women CHURN DASHER, CHURN DASHER, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Won't you work a little faster? Subject(s): Appalachia COMPLAINT TO BETELGEUSE, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: I used to know that stars were stars Last Line: That tear orion's belt, divide andromeda Subject(s): Appalachia; Women COUNTING THE SUMS, by RITA SIMS QUILLEN Poem Source First Line: I must tell them someday Last Line: Coal grit %in the back of the throat Subject(s): Appalachia; Women CREED, by LYNN POWELL Poem Source First Line: I'd like to believe god's like you and heaven's Last Line: Through the little hands you made for her Subject(s): Appalachia; Women DARWIN IN APPALACHIA, by VINCENT HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: The cattle carry their birds out from under Last Line: The willow tree. It's true, look at their legs Subject(s): Appalachia; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) DAY IT RAINED CATS AND DOGS, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: I believe I'll start all over again Subject(s): Appalachia DEATH WATCH, by BARBARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Bonedust grates inside my eyes Last Line: And call me still to love Subject(s): Appalachia; Women DEATHBED DREAMS, by RITA SIMS QUILLEN Poem Source First Line: In the willows and vines along the river Last Line: In the willows and vines along the river Subject(s): Appalachia; Women DEEP MINING, by IRENE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: Think of this: that under the earth Last Line: Throught the earth from top to bottom %and both of us are init. %one of us is always burning Subject(s): Appalachia; Women DIDDLE, DIDDLE DUMPLING, MY SON JOHN, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: The tale ended long though it started shorty Subject(s): Appalachia FAITH, by LYNN POWELL Poem Source First Line: Hard to believe the earth Last Line: Is more beautiful for its shadow %of flowering judas Subject(s): Appalachia; Women FAITH IN WORDS, by JO CARSON Poem Source First Line: Remember: words are all pretenders Last Line: Words have the same light as the moon Subject(s): Appalachia; Women FATHER GOOSE, JOLLY FELLOW, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Take a pen and write a letter Subject(s): Appalachia FIRST, GRIEF, by LEATHA KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Death is a hole. %we throw things in it. The body Last Line: Into the dark that's always there, %stung with stars Subject(s): Appalachia; Women FROG I PLAYED WITH, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Took the wart back Subject(s): Appalachia GENTRIFIERS ARE IN PURSUIT, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of rafer barnstable born according Last Line: As soon as he gets his hands on the money Subject(s): Appalachia; Inheritance And Succession; Landlords And Tenants; Money; Progress GEORGE PORGY, HUCKLEBERRY PIE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: He kissed the girls and ran away Subject(s): Appalachia GET A JOB, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just over 16, a cigarette smoking boy and a bit Last Line: A bright one, I'm told, but less bright than its new brother Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Appalachia; Teenagers HARRY LARRY PRIDEMORE NEWE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Winks at the latter new year's day Subject(s): Appalachia HATCHET AND THE HAMMER FELL OUT, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Until both forgot what it was about Subject(s): Appalachia HE CUT MY GARDEN DOWN, by LOU V. CRABTREE Poem Source First Line: Making it so %this winter was hard Last Line: They did not have to cut my garden down Subject(s): Appalachia; Women HERE AM I, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Everybody is %around Subject(s): Appalachia HERE IS SULKY SUE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Turned to a pickle Subject(s): Appalachia HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: And the dish banged away with the spoon Subject(s): Appalachia HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Oiling the works with a feather Subject(s): Appalachia HIGGLEDY, PIGGLEDY, MY SMART HEN, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: To see goose eggs my hen doth lay Subject(s): Appalachia HOLE IN THE SKY, by RITA SIZEMORE RIDDLE Poem Source First Line: I hunger for a hunk of hot cornbread Last Line: My hole in the sky let you drop through Subject(s): Appalachia; Women HOUSE HOLDER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: To live within these bounds Last Line: I want to stand in that kitchen with the blue tile %and feel my mouth water Subject(s): Appalachia; Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love; Women HOW MUCH IS A JILLION?, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: For a hug around the neck? Subject(s): Appalachia HUMPTY DUMPTY SAT ON A WALL, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: We'd had an egg to break our fast Subject(s): Appalachia HUSBAND, by LOU V. CRABTREE Poem Source First Line: I never saw my husband naked Last Line: Gloriously in naked good health Subject(s): Appalachia; Women I DO NOT LIKE YOU, DOCTOR PELL, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: I do not like you doctor pell Subject(s): Appalachia I HAD A LITTLE WIFE THE SIZE OF MY THUMB, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Bought birdskin shoes for her tiny feet Subject(s): Appalachia I SAW AN ICICLE BURNING BRIGHT, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: If you believe me, so are you Subject(s): Appalachia I SAW IT COME ON A STORMY NIGHT, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: My head was brave but my feet wouldn't stand Subject(s): Appalachia I SOLD HEN'S TEETH AT THE ISOM FAIR, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: First time ever kissed by a horse Subject(s): Appalachia I SOLD MY HORSE, IT PAINTED MY HEART, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: And slave my pride in any case? Subject(s): Appalachia IF A WITCH-BROOM IN A TREE YOU SPY, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: The eye will close forevermore Subject(s): Appalachia INDIAN WALKS IN ME, by MARILOU AWIAKTA Poem Source Last Line: That seeks the whole %in strength and peace Subject(s): Appalachia; Women JACK AND JILL WENT UP THE HILL, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: The womenfolk fetched the water Subject(s): Appalachia JACK PRATT WOULD NOT EAT FAT, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: They both ate as long as able Subject(s): Appalachia JACK WAS NIMBLE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Jumping the candlestick Subject(s): Appalachia KINK FELL OUT OF MY HAIR, by PATRICIA A. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: They killed g.P. And the kink fell out of my hair Last Line: They said, 'another nigger dead; white folks don't care' Subject(s): Appalachia; Women KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always like summer / best Last Line: And sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Appalachia; Family Life; Knoxville, Tennessee; Summer; United States; Women; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America LAMENT, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: Spring %and a delicate depression Last Line: Who is last, hardest to open Subject(s): Appalachia; Women LITTLE BOPEEP HAS LOST HER SHEEP, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Tails full of burrs behind them Subject(s): Appalachia LITTLE BOY BLUE, COME BLOW YOUR HORN, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Have you no fear of switch or paddle? Subject(s): Appalachia LITTLE NANCY ETTICOAT, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: And her head swelled to %considerable size Subject(s): Appalachia LYING TONGUE, LYINH HEAD, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Is brimstone and fire Subject(s): Appalachia MAN IN THE MOON CAME DOWN TOO SOON, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: And got himself caught in a blizzard Subject(s): Appalachia MARGINAL, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is where I live Last Line: Undertow or breaker, and I can %poise myself and hold %for along time, profoundly %neither one place Subject(s): Appalachia; Women MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Mary's lamb was nobody's fool Subject(s): Appalachia MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Or he'll kick you out of sight Subject(s): Appalachia MIGRATION, by HANNAH EKBERG Poem Source First Line: Every summer they bundled us Last Line: Thick and sure between our fingers Subject(s): Appalachia; Illinois; Migration; Mountains; Travel MISS BUXOM HUBBARD, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Her flea-bitten dog got none Subject(s): Appalachia MOVING THE OLD ROSE, by PAUL HICKS Poem Source First Line: The soil is not soft in eastern kentucky Last Line: Of the old rose we are moving from his mother's house Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Appalachia; Fields; Kentucky MY FATHER. HIS RABBITS, by BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: In my dreams they return as they should Last Line: I lift them into their pens, shut the doors, %making all as it was before. %my father. His rabbits Subject(s): Appalachia; Women MY FIRST WORD WILL BITE YOU, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Put them together and you're imagining things Subject(s): Appalachia MY PEOPLE, by PATRICIA A. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Earth passes over my fingers Last Line: Dust and ground bone %my people Subject(s): Appalachia; Women NANNY CAT, NANNY CAT, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: I petitioned the judge to give cats the vote Subject(s): Appalachia NED MCNOINK KILLED A SHOAT, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Ned mcnoink was left the ooink Subject(s): Appalachia O WHERE, O WHERE HAS MY LITTLE DOG GONE?, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: That's where he is, is he Subject(s): Appalachia OCTOBER IN APPALACHIO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The last katydid knocks its tambourine Last Line: The stars press our bones into what black seam? Subject(s): Appalachia; Mountains; Stones OLD BONEY FACE LOVED HIS EASE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: He slept entirely raw Subject(s): Appalachia OLD JOHN BEAN, WORLD'S OLDEST MAN, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Drank mountain dew in between Subject(s): Appalachia OLD PRENTICE HOGAN NEVER TOOK A BATH, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Old prentice peels off pretty in the spring Subject(s): Appalachia OLD WOMAN, OLD WOMAN, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Of course, kind sir %why do we tarry? Subject(s): Appalachia ON A MILL WORKER IN ROCKWOOD, by LISA COFFMAN Poem Source First Line: He'd come home and put his face in his hands Last Line: He'd come home and put his face in his hands Subject(s): Appalachia; Women ONE PENNY'S NIGH NONE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: A poke of candy Subject(s): Appalachia ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Letting him go was half the fun Subject(s): Appalachia PAPAW, by GEORGE ELLA LYON Poem Source First Line: They told him, the youngest Last Line: I been there and there aint no tracks Subject(s): Appalachia; Women PAT-A-CAKE, PAT-A-CAKE, BAKER'S MAN, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: A slice for sally, and save me some Subject(s): Appalachia PEOPLE PIECE #11, by JO CARSON Poem Source First Line: You know the other day we went over at george's get some eggs? Last Line: Oh. Maybe that's why we ain't go no eggs Subject(s): Appalachia; Women PETER, PETER, PUMPKIN EATER, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: And now she keeps him very well Subject(s): Appalachia POTTED HAM AND CRACKERS, by RITA SIZEMORE RIDDLE Poem Source First Line: We're going home today,' he said Last Line: Her mom was right. That's all there was to keep Subject(s): Appalachia; Women PRETTY MAIDS AND HOMELY MAIDS, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: To never know a freckle Subject(s): Appalachia RAIN, RAIN. GO AWAY, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Come again some school day Subject(s): Appalachia RAINCROW, RAINCROW, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Until it happens %we'll never know Subject(s): Appalachia RAPTURE, by LISA COFFMAN Poem Source First Line: What is the gear that turns this world Last Line: As the gold block of cheese on the dark shelf Subject(s): Appalachia; Women RIDDLE, RIDDLE, RANDY CROW, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: One with a pistol in his hand Subject(s): Appalachia RIDE A CORNSTALK, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: An apple to bake a pie Subject(s): Appalachia ROWDY, DOWDY, JITNEY JONES, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Who carried the dog in a poke Subject(s): Appalachia SELF-PORTRAIT, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was far outside the frame, beyond %the pale, lost in the margins, smudged Last Line: The silver rings and necklaces of white surf Subject(s): Appalachia; Women SHARP-TACK ONCE ASKED ME, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: As many rocks as are in your head Subject(s): Appalachia SING A SONG OF SIX CENTS, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Why didn't we up and fly? Subject(s): Appalachia SINK OR SWIM, LIVE OR DIE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Hog jowl and turnip greens Subject(s): Appalachia STAR VISION, by MARILOU AWIAKTA Poem Source First Line: As I sat against the pine one night Last Line: Once more, lying on the grass Subject(s): Appalachia; Women STITCH IN TIME, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Taught to be handy with needle and thread Last Line: Threading over, under, around, and through Subject(s): Appalachia; Women SUSAN PRIGGS, SUSAN PRIGGS, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: The wig liked least was none at all Subject(s): Appalachia TADWHACKER, TADWHACKER YOU BAD CREATURE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Twenty wacks across the knee Subject(s): Appalachia TENANT FARMER'S WIFE, by JEFF DANIEL MARION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It never fails, what breaks is what Last Line: In a place that's not my own Subject(s): Appalachia; Farm Life; Loss; Man-woman Relationships THERE IS AN OLD WOMAN LIVES UNDER A HILL, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Eat too many and you're apt to split Subject(s): Appalachia THERE WAS A CATTLE TRADER OUT FOR A BUCK, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: On santa's big foot it didn't fit Subject(s): Appalachia THERE WAS A CLEVER WIFE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Gave them a sugar-tit and put them to bed Subject(s): Appalachia THERE WAS AN OLD CROW, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Crow, nod, clod Subject(s): Appalachia THERE WAS THIS GIRL IN BULAN TOWN, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: I speak in pity, not in laughter Subject(s): Appalachia THERE'S A TALE OF A CAT, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Is necessarily short Subject(s): Appalachia TOM, TOM, THE BLACKSMITH'S SON, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Tom with a stick bore the brunt Subject(s): Appalachia TOUCHING THE LEAF MOLD, by MARK DEFOE Poem Source First Line: He did this as a boy, probing the detritus of fall Last Line: Listening, listening hard in the muted dusk Subject(s): Appalachia; Childhood Memories; Labor And Laborers; Mowing And Mowers TRAIN RIDES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So on the first day of fall only not really because it's still early october Last Line: And this poem recognizes that Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Appalachia; Women TWEEDLE-DE-DUM AND TWEEDLE-DE-DEE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: They saw seven sawfish saw it in two Subject(s): Appalachia VEGETABLE QUEEN, by BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: Her breasts swinging Last Line: I harvest my way down the rows-- %the chill %merely her fear I dream %growing old, growing cold; %wi Subject(s): Appalachia; Women VIRIDIAN DAYS, by IRENE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: I was an ordinary woman, and so Last Line: Then digging in the parsley-shaggy, pungent, green Subject(s): Appalachia; Women WAY DOWN YONDER IN THE HICKORY GROVE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: To see the hole my spade did make Subject(s): Appalachia WHAT ARE LITTLE BOYS MADE OF?, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: And that's what little boys are made of Subject(s): Appalachia WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: And that's what little girls are made of Subject(s): Appalachia WHERE I AM NOW, SELS, by BARBARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I would rather be with you again Last Line: And I would be there, waiting Subject(s): Appalachia; Women WHICH CAME FIRST, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Swinging through the trees? Subject(s): Appalachia WILDWOOD FLOWER, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: I hoe thawed ground %with a vengeance. Winter has left Last Line: To be grateful for whatever comes to me Subject(s): Appalachia; Women WILL YOU LEND ME YOUR MARE TO RIDE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Money is what makes the old mare go Subject(s): Appalachia WINTER IS COMING, MY GRIPPE, by JAMES STILL Poem Source Last Line: Ker-chew! Ah, ker-chew! Subject(s): Appalachia ZEN LAUNDRY, by LEATHA KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Mornings, pulled earthward, I approach Last Line: Go now and wash your socks Subject(s): Appalachia; Women |
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