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Subject: BIRD-WATCHING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARIS BLACKBIRD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the seine's left bank, near the pont-neuf, on the mansard roof
Last Line: The scruffy blackbird -- and listen for the cry caught in her bronze throat.
Subject(s): Bird-watching; Blackbirds; Creative Ability; Knowledge; Louvre, Paris; Museums; Paris, France; Seine (river), France; Inspiration; Creativity; Art Gallerys


BIRD WATCHING, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every time we put crumbs out and sunflower
Last Line: Be bread and seed in time: all else will follow
Subject(s): Bird-watching


BIRD WATCHING, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every time we put crumbs out and sunflower
Last Line: Be bread and seed in time: all else will follow
Subject(s): Bird-watching


BIRD-WATCHERS, by LAURA G. WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why study birds?' the neighbor asked, and I
Subject(s): Bird-watching


BIRD-WATCHING, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the channel, mare island welders cut
Subject(s): Bird-watching


BIRDS, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In peabody museum where phoebe lagged and marcia hid
Last Line: Trying to answer, here, here, I am here
Subject(s): Bird-watching; Museums


SHOREBIRDS IN SEASONAL PLUMAGE OBSERVED THROUGH BINOCULARS, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To more than give names
Last Line: Its mesmerizing %circumstantial thumbprint, %would already have %been aware of this
Variant Title(s): Shorebird-watchin
Subject(s): Bird-watching


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA, BIRDWATCHING WITH THE 8TH GRADE BOYS & GIRLS, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because we once cohabited in trees
Last Line: This singing to the sky just to stay alive
Subject(s): Bird-watching


SOME TIPS ON WATCHING BIRDS, by DEATT HUDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is not poetry, he said
Last Line: That nothing but love %can quite identify for sure
Subject(s): Bird-watching


THE OFFERING, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the scrap pine I jerked the saw, guessing dimensions
Last Line: White as a soul, fat as a tongue.
Subject(s): Bird-watching; Birds; Gifts & Giving


THE POST-DRIVER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lingering loon flies over the marsh
Last Line: Oh, what is it that goes cuhchoo?
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Animals; Bird-watching; Birds; Frogs


UP FROM THE EGG: THE CONFESSIONS OF A NUTHATCH AVOIDER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bird watchers top my honors list
Last Line: But I sometimes visualize in my gin %the audubon that audubin
Subject(s): Bird-watching