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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IOWA Matches Found: 49 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER VERLAINE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Right now Last Line: It wears a big floppy heart Subject(s): Iowa ALIEN CORN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Kneeling to see the world Last Line: Weevils from a cornskin rug. Help! Help! Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Iowa; Native Americans AMAZING GRACE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: People going straight up to heaven Subject(s): Iowa AMAZING GRACE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: People going straight up to heaven Last Line: Forty of them, in three hours Subject(s): Iowa ANTONIN DVORAK IN IOWA, by NICHOLAS HARP Poem Source First Line: Perhaps he stood out there Last Line: Until that dusky moment Subject(s): Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904); Iowa; Music And Musicians AUTUMN, IOWA CITY, by EDWIN THUMBOO Poem Source First Line: October again. My roots feel Subject(s): Iowa BAR MITZVAH IN IOWA, by VICTOR CAMILLO Poem Source First Line: I try to put the service into my mind Last Line: Which is lost in the synagogue garden, %took from us all Subject(s): Bar And Bat Mitzvahs; Iowa CROSSING IOWA, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Settled by the elect, the prairie's been saved from wandering the wilderness Last Line: Your own breath floats before you like boats on an ink-black sea %even now, I could go back to izmit Subject(s): Iowa DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth Last Line: Fate across all them rolls Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry And Poets EXPLANATION, by GEOF HEWITT Poem Source First Line: I say the women don't sleep right %here in iowa Subject(s): Iowa FOUR POSTULATES, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is most valued, Last Line: The long land rests against our feet Subject(s): Home; Iowa HOKUSAI IN IOWA, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: I no longer remember I am here Last Line: Earth-rubbing lines %fashioned a style Subject(s): Iowa HOLLYHOCK TIME, by MRS. OLIVER J. SALTSGIVER Poem Text First Line: The bees are droning all the day Last Line: "tis hollyhock time in iowa." Subject(s): Hollyhocks; Iowa HORTICULTURE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of my mother's moser uncles Last Line: Being invited to their house to tasted a little slice of miracle Subject(s): Horticulture; Iowa HORTICULTURE, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of my mother's moser uncles Last Line: To taste a little slice of miracle Subject(s): Horticulture; Iowa ICE AGE, by AMY GERSTLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A million years ago the earth grew cold. Iowa was covered by Last Line: The rocks applaud. Summers turn short and cool. The world remakes itself %without us now Subject(s): Ice Age; Iowa IMAGES FROM THE MIDWEST, by GEORGI BELEV Poem Source First Line: The tree turned yellow all over Subject(s): Iowa IMPERATIVE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undisturbed, and stubbornly repeating Subject(s): West (u.s.); Iowa; Farm Life; Southwest; Pacific States; Agriculture; Farmers INDIAN SUMMER, by NICOLAE BREBAN Poem Source First Line: The sky is only a white lens Subject(s): Iowa IOWA, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Any rising breaks monotony of plane Last Line: The arced worlds apogee, %as high as anything Subject(s): Iowa IOWA, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: Air as the fuel of owls. Snow Last Line: On their hills are strangely childlike Subject(s): Americans; Iowa; United States IOWA, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The blanched tree livid behind Last Line: Is a man of my colour, sick, %falling down in the snow Subject(s): Iowa IOWA, by LINNEA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: The thought of having nothing to do but sex all day Last Line: Her face kisses, rubs. She aches with promised rain, %sucking, drooling, homing in Subject(s): Iowa IOWA, by MAURICE MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Flat as is pancake, fertile as can be Last Line: Coin, clarinda, holstein -- go, and call the cows. Subject(s): Iowa IOWA, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: If yeats, remembering the swans in irish Last Line: With many songs! Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Iowa; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) IOWA, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: They prefer their old style Last Line: The fields give their ears, %and the stalks turn brown Subject(s): Corn; Iowa IOWA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White barns this morning match the trees Last Line: Our fruited plains as virgin as the moon Subject(s): Iowa IOWA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White barns this morning match the trees Last Line: Our fruited plain as virgin as the moon Subject(s): Iowa IOWA & OTHER ACCIDENTS, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: There was snow that afternoon covering the road Last Line: Always there about to happen Subject(s): Accidents; Iowa; Middle West; Winter IOWA BARN, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light and shadow Last Line: Could reflect us Subject(s): Barns; Iowa IOWA COMMUNITY, by ROBERT STUHR Poem Text First Line: All these houses huddled in the valley Last Line: We'll look back over a life well done. Subject(s): Iowa IOWA FARMER, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I talked to a farmer one day in iowa Last Line: I could remember more familiar sights Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Farm Life; Iowa IOWA GOTHIC, by ELSNER KASPER Poem Text First Line: The broad and sunlit fields around Last Line: A poet with a better role. Subject(s): Iowa IOWA GOTHIC, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The men putting on bird costumes are in %the curtained part of the gallery Last Line: By second-places, I must imitate meat %wincing in the fry-pan Subject(s): Gothic Drama; Iowa; Plays And Playwrights; Theater And Theaters IOWAY TO IOWA, by MAY M. HUNT Poem Text First Line: From his primal home in the woodland Last Line: For their chief so brave and true. Subject(s): Iowa; Names; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MILE HILL, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: December: the trees chafing Last Line: Everyday to find on the ground %what we'd lost to the sky Subject(s): Iowa OF TIME AND RIVER, by AFFONSO ROMANO DE SANT'ANNA Poem Source First Line: The iowa river runs in winter backwards Subject(s): Iowa OLD MEN ON THE BENCHES, PERSIA, IOWA, by ANN STRUTHERS Poem Source First Line: The old men sit on the benches outside Last Line: Easy to throw away when the time comes Subject(s): Iowa; Mankind; Old Age POSSIBILITES OF SNOW, by CHENG WEN TAO Poem Source First Line: Perhaps it will melt into our lifeblood Subject(s): Iowa RIDING SHOTGUN THROUGH LOWA WITH QUEST, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: This musicians life Last Line: The immigrant %fixing my eye Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Iowa; Music And Musicians ROUTINE DRIVE THROUGH IOWA, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: Something startled a pheasant west of des moines Last Line: Confident only in august %when there's not enough breeze to rustle the cornstalks Subject(s): Animals; Iowa SEPARATION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well my cadillac now that the hog herding has begun Last Line: Just where our lovers die Subject(s): Absence; Farm Life; Iowa; Pigs; Separation; Isolation; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs SNOW IN IOWA CITY, by JAYANTA MAHAPATRA Poem Source First Line: Clean sky, empty of bird wings Subject(s): Iowa SUMMER AFTERNOON IN SOLON, IOWA, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Cats, contagious with sleep, bake Last Line: Each flowerpot contains its own horizon Subject(s): Iowa THE DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth Last Line: Fate across all them rolls Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Historians; Irish TRIBUTE TO DUBUQUE, by OPAL A. DENIO Poem Text First Line: Once more I gaze upon these wooded hills Last Line: Remembered hills and vales where reveries dwell. Subject(s): Dubuque, Iowa VISITING MY OWN HOUSE IN IOWA CITY, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The three large dogs in my house Subject(s): Houses; Iowa VISITING MY OWN HOUSE IN IOWA CITY, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The three large dogs in my house Last Line: I came to transform and to love Subject(s): Houses; Iowa WALKING FIELDS AT NIGHT SOUTH OF HAMPTON, IOWA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: The last of the year's wheat is drought-bruised and bolted Last Line: I say, if there never were stars I would %not miss them Subject(s): Bodies; Fields; Iowa; Physical Disabilities; Walking |
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