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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MAPS Matches Found: 59 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MAP OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX IN ENGLAND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something forgotten for twenty years: though my fathers Subject(s): Essex, England; Landscape; Maps A MAP TO THE NEXT WORLD, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for those who Subject(s): Maps A SENSE OF DIRECTION, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was moonless the night I drove my son Last Line: Am shivering in its draft. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Maps; Mothers & Sons AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: An aerial broad view of landscape, high Last Line: African genes. Ethnic dna...Aboriginal cave glyphs may point a way Subject(s): Barbados; Earth; Farm Life; Flowers; Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Plants; Sugar AEROGRAM PUNJAB, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sailed by africa, back home [or, pyramids] Last Line: You're good with maps. Find me [or, what a holiday. I'm a globe] Subject(s): Africa; Geography; Maps; Sailors And Sailing; Travel ALIEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The foreign woman %asks for a drink Last Line: Tattoos of her %sorrows Subject(s): Exiles; Islands; Maps; Tourists; Travel AN OLD MAP, by ELIZABETH MORROW Poem Text First Line: How small and arrogantly safe that world Last Line: Disclosed the continent of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve Subject(s): Maps; Mediterranean Sea ASIA, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Through the window of the school Last Line: He was grave %and alone in the world Subject(s): Asia; Death; Graves; Maps; Solitude BEAUTIFUL ROTHESAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful rothesay, your scenery is most grand Last Line: After viewing the beautiful scenery of rothesay. Subject(s): Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips CARTOGRAPHER, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: On this %brittle ground Last Line: Slides into place %in the sky Subject(s): Maps CARTOGRAPHY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the border a howl goes up, skinning the cold air Last Line: It's real, it doesn't exist, it's on all the black maps Subject(s): Boundaries; Maps; Wings; Borders CARTOGRAPHY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The map speaks Last Line: The sky is not on the map Subject(s): Continents; Maps; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CARTOGRAPHY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Only the bird sees what I see Last Line: When I retrace them I leave my seal, %a map painted %of soul Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters DESK, by S. C. HAHN Poem Source First Line: It is flat and cluttered as a kansas town I once drove through but whose Last Line: Idaho, I want to exist forever Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Maps; United States FILIGREE OF THE FAMILIAR, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Here, all the men wear mustaches Last Line: Linking the outbound voyage to the everyday Subject(s): Boston; Continents; Maps; Travel GEOGRAPHY, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: In fourth grade we played geography Last Line: Beyond here there be monsters Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Maps GHAZALS: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, keewanaw, iceland open up Last Line: Another target in chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips HOW TO READ A MAP, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The maps expose %seven continents, travel Last Line: Elegant as cryptograms, %falling and unafraid Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Maps; Travel; Travel Directions; Villages IN THE LANGUAGE OF MAPS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The mapmaker is measuring the earth Last Line: The language of maps is constantly changing Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Travel INVENTION OF LONGITUDE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unsolved: frost clotting a broken Last Line: Who has approached too close to motion Subject(s): Inventions And Inventors; Maps; Travel JOURNEYS, by BARBARA CROW Poem Source First Line: My husband wants difficult things Last Line: The poem I was going to write today Subject(s): Hiking; Maps; Roads; Travel LESSON 10, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a map? Last Line: Southeast? In the northeast? In the southwest? Variant Title(s): Simplicity [and Sweet Neglect] Subject(s): Maps; Nature MAP, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Aventine mount Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Geography; Maps MAP, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Composed, generally defined Last Line: Of how the world might look could we %maintain a lasting, %perfect distance from what is Subject(s): Maps MAP FOR LEAVING, by JILL OSIER Poem Source First Line: I was over you yesterday Last Line: I couldn't tell you Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Geography; Maps; Mississippi River; Mount Rainier; Nature; Rivers; Travel MAP FOR LONG DISTANCES, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER Poem Source First Line: It is all sharp edges and heated Last Line: Breeze pushes loose %the tangled winter days Subject(s): Maps; Travel; Winter MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY, by CHRIS SEMANSKY Poem Source First Line: Once when the roof flew off Last Line: A savage, had a dozen children, and died, %years later, of a common cold gone wild, %his memory clea Subject(s): Homeless; Maps MAP TO THE NEXT WORLD, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for those who Last Line: You must make your own map Subject(s): Maps MAPMAKER ON HIS ART, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the bronzed, heroic traveller Last Line: The jungles with their tawny meadows and swamps %where, till the day I die, I will not go Subject(s): Maps MAPPARIUM, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: In geography class we learn the world Last Line: I'll take this globe as my own Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Maps; Travel MAPS, by ALBERTO BLANCO Poem Source First Line: Let's start at the beginning Last Line: Nothing has set foot in a map %nothing is written in poetry Subject(s): Geography; Islands; Maps; Travel MAPS, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: High adventure %and bright dream Last Line: For home-staying %vagabonds! Subject(s): Maps MENDOCINO, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could lose myself in great bursts of work Last Line: Something reusable like leftovers, %bouillabaisse perhaps Subject(s): Maps; Mendocino, California; Travel OLD MAPS, by GLOVER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Windows in occasional cabins start to glow Subject(s): Maps OLD MAPS, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love old maps made long ago Last Line: I find my pleasure as a rule %is quite diminished Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Maps; Schools ON EVERY TOPOGRAPHIC MAP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The fingerprints of god Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): God; Maps; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects RIVER MAP AND WE'RE DONE, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By master saville who, conceivably, from accuracy of his drawing of the fort Last Line: Old hulk - rocky marsh Subject(s): Maps SKETCH: EPISODE B AT GOLD CITY, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an aid / for apprehending the vanishing point Last Line: You Subject(s): Cities; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Urban Life TAKING THE OLD ROAD, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Yesterday we fell for it again Last Line: Windows in all the lonely farmhouses Subject(s): Farm Life; Maps; Roads; Travel Directions TAOSENO, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Even the sun is different here: %more generous along its helioptrope horizon Last Line: Travels the length of this ruin %this place of silence and sheen Subject(s): Language; Maps; Travel THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And not simply by the fact that this shading of Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: #name? Last Line: And finds no horizon %will not be there Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful and ancient city of perth Last Line: You cannot be surpassed at the present day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE CARTOGRAPHER OF THE MEADOWS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As he moves to amber from his resinoujs drowning Subject(s): Fields; Maps THE CHINAMAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Centre of earth!' a chinaman he said Last Line: His tail: those flames became its funeral-pyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): China; Hair; Maps THE MAP, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Composed, generally defined Last Line: Perfect distance from what it is Subject(s): Maps THE MAP MAKERS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: There was a man who made a map Last Line: For it never took twenty years. Subject(s): Maps; Stars THE MAP OF THE WORLD CONFUSED WITH ITS TERRITORY, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a drawer I found a map of the world Subject(s): Maps; Earth; World THE PLACE ON THE MAP, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look upon the map that hangs by me Last Line: And its episode comes back in pantomime. Subject(s): Maps THE RAND MCNALLY ATLAS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belly down on the rug Last Line: Durango, chinook, ramona, monongahela. Subject(s): Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Maps; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TIMES ATLAS; FOR MY MENTOR, LONG DEAD, RICHARD HALLIBURTON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today was the coldest day in the history Last Line: That might leave so many dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Halliburton, Richard (1900-1939); Maps; Sea Voyages; Weather THE TOPOGRAPHY OF HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All cities are open in the hot season Last Line: "calling out ""o love, love,"" but finding none" Subject(s): Death; Hate; History; Maps; United States; Dead, The; Historians; America TO GET TO FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: To get to fresno, %you need to turn left Last Line: Welcome back, fresno. %welcome back home.' Subject(s): California; Geography; Maps; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration TOPONYMY, by RALPH GUSTAFSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lens and line Last Line: Field, what sky. Subject(s): Geography; Maps TRAVELING THE MAP, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The map shows me my attempted life Last Line: Of escape %the shimmer of sky at dusk Subject(s): Atlantis; Geography; Maps; Mythology - Classical; Travel TRIGEMINUS, by DURS GRUNBEIN Poem Source First Line: Then we went swimming, on familiar terms with the dead Last Line: Before the brief since-then Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Travel UNDER GEMINI: 2: A BOY'S ATLAS OF THE HEAVENS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call these constellations by their fames Last Line: Or to be fooling anyone but you Subject(s): Constellations; Maps; Names; Stars |
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