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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KANSAS Matches Found: 85 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 |
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