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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A KANSAS SAGA, by JOHN BLAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the dawn of kansas history
Last Line: Sought and fought for gold in vain.
Subject(s): Kansas


ACT OF LOVE, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I smell fresh bread - %yeast, I think you said -
Last Line: The multitude, feed the soul, %bring back the dead
Subject(s): Bread; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


AFTER SEEEING THE IMPRESIONIST GROUP EXHIBIT IN KANSAS CITY, WE DRIVE BACK THROUGH FLATNESS TO WICHI, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fofr monet the light is always exclamation points
Subject(s): Kansas; Paintings & Painters


ALMOST HUNTING SEASON, by DAN QUISENBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mud brown labrador eyes %two from the yellow one
Last Line: It's not legal %but they don't understand
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Hunting; Kansas City, Missouri


AN ACT OF LOVE, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I smell fresh bread - / yeast, I think you said -
Subject(s): Bread; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


ANATOMY OF THEATER AT PADUA, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: As there's no malice in science, there's nothing
Last Line: Into a well where someone has fallen in
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


ARS POETICA, by WYATT TOWNLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's the farthest sound you hear
Last Line: Just you who listens. %and who sees
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


ARTHUR BRYANT'S, KANSAS CITY, MO- OR, CUBAN POET GORGES HIMSELF...., by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Entropy is the daily topic here, how sauces ooze off plastic trays
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Restaurants; Food & Eating; Kansas City, Missoufri; Latinos


BEACHES, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man with a wave for his tongue
Last Line: On she dreams %sleeping with horses
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


BEAR EMERGES, by DENISE LOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky shudders with first
Last Line: We are alive, again we are all alive
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


BIG BANDS: LIBERAL, KANSAS, SUMMER OF 1955, by B. H. FAIRCHILD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They were supposed to be dead, but they kept coming
Last Line: Then groaning into gear and slipping through the starlit %night
Subject(s): Kansas; Music And Musicians; Summer


BIRD POINT, by DENISE LOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: My fingertips recognize
Last Line: I hear songs %and wings %rush %away
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


BIRTHDAY POEM, by LUCI TAPAHONSO    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning, the sunrise is a brilliant song
Last Line: Each morning we pray to restore hozho, hozho, hozho, hozho
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


BURIAL OF BARBER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bear him, comrades, to his grave
Last Line: Of the freedom of the west!
Subject(s): Barber, Thomas; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Funerals; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Burials; Serfs


CIVIL WAR BUFF, by RUSH RANKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman pressed my thin body against the wall
Last Line: In the evening, in bed, in a constant shower of light
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


COOKING WITH DAISY, by ROBERT STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: When daisy works in the kitchen, part of her goes with the white beans
Last Line: Her in. That certain something lingers at her nose
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


CRANES IN KANSAS, by NORA B. CUNNINGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fog in august is strange, far inland as we are
Last Line: But I have seen cranes flying ... Crying in the foggy dawn.
Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Kansas


CROSSING KANSAS BY TRAIN, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The telephone poles / have been holding their
Subject(s): Kansas


CROSSING KANSAS BY TRAIN, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The telephone poles %have been holding their
Last Line: Sons asleep %in their workclothes
Subject(s): Kansas


DANCE BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON, by SHARON EIKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dark heart is heavy
Last Line: While she keeps a-rockin'
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


DECLINING, by PHILIP MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saying no has become our habit
Last Line: But cannot decline to go
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


DESIRE FOR SOMETHING HOT, by STANLEY EUGENE BANKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to pour myself
Last Line: Cause I'll blaze and sizzle, %sizzle and burn
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


DISREGARD, by TRISH REEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have these terrible lapses
Last Line: As grooved wood, my dear frame %with two eyes
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


DOROTHY, by MELISSA MORPHEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wrist deep in biscuit dough, a dusting of flour
Last Line: Some hand-me-down clothes, a pasture %full of bitterweed and daisies
Subject(s): Dreams; Fairy Tales; Hurricanes; Kansas


DUMB SHOW, by PHILIP MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All afternoon we sit
Last Line: Yellow-eyed and bobbing, strutting
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


ELECTRONICS OF BLINDNESS, by ELIZABETH GOLDRING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Electric octave drops to blue tone
Last Line: Violet eagles rise, %tracked on both my eyes
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


FAT PEOPLE AT THE AMUSEMENT PARK, by RAWDON TOMLINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are laughing like the rest of us
Last Line: Into a scream of weightlessness
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


FIELD DAY, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red-tailed hawk on the meadow by
Last Line: Can snare the senses, stir a woman's %envy, a man's unswerving thirst
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri; Puerto Ricans - New York City


FIRECRACKER TENT, by TRISH REEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: But how many people have said
Last Line: We might as well smile
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


FLESH IS AIR, TOO, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along a canal I glance in a dim doorway
Last Line: Of down settling in dawn's thin doorway
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


FOLLIES BURLESQUE, MARKET STREET, KANSAS CITY, by B. H. FAIRCHILD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The marquee flashed, the illuminated runway of joy
Last Line: And lifting market street into an illuminated runway of joy
Subject(s): Kansas; Markets


FOR A SPRING BURIAL, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mostly it is in the skies
Last Line: That grows from earth new-opened
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


FOUND ON A SLIP OF PAPER IN A CRACK IN THE WALL, by BARBARA LOOTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In prison I had two books
Last Line: Lost on a terrible sea
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


GETTING THROUGH THE NIGHT IN LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, by MICHAEL PAUL NOVAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Overhead orion at the ready
Last Line: As if from black ink a town %of light could appear
Subject(s): Kansas; Night


GOOD-BYE! OFF FOR KANSAS, by JOHN WILLIS MENARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good-bye ye bloody scenes of long ago
Last Line: I'll sing and give the good lord thanks!
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs


HAIR ATTITUDE, by STANLEY EUGENE BANKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sisters flow and roll %with extra control
Last Line: Just don't touch, baby, %just don't touch.'
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


HANDS, by RAWDON TOMLINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Head stuffed, ears %stopped, eyes
Last Line: Of nothing. %hold out your hands
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


HANDS, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of a thousand hands
Last Line: Dangled at his sides
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


HASKELL, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in kansas is a school
Last Line: With head hung, to the dormitory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Kansas; Native Americans - Education


IN THE GULF STREAM, by DONNA TRUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: He finds her %standing alone
Last Line: And some dim idea %of the sea
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


JOHN HOLLANDER'S LECTURE, by DAN QUISENBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: His words float over my head
Last Line: And questions %I won't ask
Subject(s): Hollander, John; Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


KANSAS, by GLEN BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: This land of undulating prairies
Last Line: To roll across the national sky.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs


KANSAS, by J. P. DUNN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is springtime out here in kansas
Last Line: In the counties of mcpherson, %lincoln, saline, and clay
Subject(s): Kansas


KANSAS, by WAYNE HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I smell you on my skin
Last Line: Don't protect me from what I know
Subject(s): Kansas


KANSAS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I have walked in kansas
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Kansas


KANSAS (2), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the land where miles of wheat
Last Line: Let me live and let me die.
Variant Title(s): Kansas
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Kansas; Nature; Wheat; Inspiration; Creativity


KANSAS BOY, by RUTH LECHLITNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This kansas boy who never saw the sea
Last Line: Shouts at the crows - and dreams of white gulls flying
Subject(s): Kansas


KANSAS LAND, by GORDON PARKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I would miss this kansas land that I was leaving
Subject(s): Kansas


LE MARAIS DU CYNGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blush as of roses
Last Line: The march of the day.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Marais Du Cygne (river), Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


LETTER FROM A MISSIONARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last week - the lord be praised for all his mercies
Last Line: Amen: so mote it be. So prays your friend.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs


LEXHIBITIONIST, by MICHAEL BURNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When fog had cleared and sun
Last Line: Nothing, good-old-boy
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


LUTHER A. TODD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gifted, and loved and praised
Last Line: And, smiling, cease thy moan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Kansas; Life; Obituaries; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


MILAGRO, by ANN SLEGMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the bus collision, you came
Last Line: That is your face
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM: KANSAS CITY, by VICTOR CONTOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Limestone %concrete and steel
Last Line: And 'country gardens' on the piano
Subject(s): Kansas City, Missouri; Rooms


ODE TO GOVERNOR CAPPER, by J. P. DUNN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun rises in the ancient east
Last Line: That whatever governor capper says, %you can relyl upon
Subject(s): Kansas


OTHER THAN TIME, by ROBERT STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blizzard seems like a plate too full of rice. So when I think of
Last Line: Inside. That message beaming out is the memory of a bowl held up %near your face
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


OUT WITH THE BOYS, WICHITA, 1969, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My buddies and I were out after
Last Line: Some depth none of us could fathom
Subject(s): Friendship; Kansas; Night


PAIN FUGUE, by RAWDON TOMLINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wake in the middle of night with enchiladas
Last Line: Though it never holds the tide of hard labor, nightmare, decay
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


PARIS, PALO ALTO, PARIS, by DONNA TRUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I live next door
Last Line: Stars burn the sky
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


PHOTOS, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When becky shows me a picture of her
Last Line: Can't get a story through anyone's eyes
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


PORTRAITS OF THE WIVES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think of the summer you drove with the family
Last Line: The west above the murderous dirt of history
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


PRAIRIE CALM, by ELLEN DRINKWATER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes I think
Last Line: And plenty -- for millions of cattle to drink.
Subject(s): Kansas; Prairies; Water; Wells; Plains


RECOLLECTION, by JIM MCCRARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a fall in this air
Last Line: That could be all folks
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


RECOMPENSE, by LORA EVANS SAUER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've been where the mountains majestically stand
Last Line: Where 'tis my abode to be.
Subject(s): Kansas


REVERSING A DECISION, by WYATT TOWNLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So loud the wail of cicadas
Last Line: That you would return
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


RICE, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bend over, pick the rice, rice is good
Last Line: Stars rise like jewels
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


RIDING THE ROCK ISLAND THROUGH KANSAS, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen to the rock island train
Last Line: Goodbye to the rock island ride
Subject(s): Kansas; Railroads; Rock Island Railroad


ROAD TO MANHATTAN, KANSAS, by DAN QUISENBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like happy car-dogs, ears back, hair flapping
Last Line: Rain drops patter the windshield
Subject(s): Kansas


RUE DES HALLES, by RODERICK TOWNLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a see-through day, parisian sun
Last Line: To see her white neck, and arms long and bare
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


SEPARATIONS, by BARBARA LOOTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Relentless rain, that ambient metaphor
Last Line: Fly the energy of unfulfilled desire
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


SIGHTING ELVIS AT SAFEWAY, by ANN SLEGMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I first noticed your glance - slow
Last Line: Of the media howling at your skid marks
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


SLEEPING WITH TWO WOMEN, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I remember it, we emptied
Last Line: Continents. Perfectly at home, perfectly lost
Subject(s): Kansas; Snow; Winter


TEMENOS, by MICHAEL BURNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night the dream
Last Line: In a cold sweat to survive
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


THE DEFENSE OF LAWRENCE [SEPTEMBER 14, 1856], by RICHARD REALF    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All night upon the guarded hill
Last Line: The pulses of the grass.
Variant Title(s): The Defence Of Lawrence
Subject(s): Courage; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Kansas; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


THE FIGHT OVER THE BODY OF KEITT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sing, o goddess, the wrath, the ontamable dander of keitt"
Last Line: "like to heralds of old, stepped the sergeant-at-arms and the speaker"
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation;kansas;slavery;u.s. - Congress; Antislavery Movement - United States;serfs


THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cross the prairie as of old
Last Line: The homestead of the free!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Homesteaders; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


THE OLD BAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's mighty good to git back to the old town, shore
Last Line: I want to hear the old band play.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bands; Kansas; Music & Musicians; Nostalgia; Orchestras


THE REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE CONSIDERED, SELECTION, by ELYMAS PAYSON ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The covetous nebraskaites
Last Line: For god's predictions must prevail.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Legislation; Missouri; Nebraska; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs


TOUR OF THE STATE CAPITAL: TOPEKA, by VICTOR CONTOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ad astra per aspera
Last Line: To a mass of mud
Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Government; Kansas


TRUTH, by H. L. HIX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you sometimes lie when it would be easier to tell the truth?
Last Line: In fact I have my doubts that you exist at all, or have existed, or ever will
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


TURTLE SHAPES, by PATRICIA CLEARY MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turtle circle, %limbs head wave shake
Last Line: Big as my retina %firefly sky art
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


WICHITA VORTEX SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn right next corner
Subject(s): Wichita, Kansas


WICHITA VORTEX SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn right next corner
Last Line: Still pining for love of your tender white bodies o children of wichita!
Subject(s): Wichita, Kansas


WITH THE MASTER ON THE ROAD TO THE BLACK HILLS, by DAN JAFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I drive across dekota the master speaks to me
Last Line: Remember, too: look to the master and leap free
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri


YET ANOTHER GOD IN MEXICO, by RUSH RANKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Large boats turned over to dry
Last Line: Had concealed his wings
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri