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Subject: PENGUINS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANTARCTIC ANTHEM, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the botom of the planet
Last Line: In our sweet antarctic home
Subject(s): Penguins


BE MY PENGUIN, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Oh please, be my penguin
Subject(s): Penguins


BELLY SLIDING, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our forepenguins settled here
Last Line: Shout, 'let's do it all again!'
Subject(s): Penguins


DIARY OF A VERY SHORT WINTER DAY, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the first hint of dawn
Last Line: As we watch the sun set
Subject(s): Diaries; Penguins


EMPEROR PENGUINS, by BARRY LOUIS POLISAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Huddled closed together
Last Line: Gently, on their toes
Subject(s): Animals; Penguins


FUTILE QUESTION, by DEZSO TANDORI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why does he stand there, this short penguin
Last Line: The real question: what could he do instead?
Subject(s): Animals; Penguins; Picture Books; Statues


HATCHLING'S SONG, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm almost hatched!
Last Line: I'm really hatched
Subject(s): Penguins


I AM LOOKING FOR MY MOTHER, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Only my mom says ack
Subject(s): Penguins


IN VICTORIA, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the rafts of little penguins
Last Line: To gawp from their raked terrace seats
Subject(s): Nature; Penguins


MOTHER PENGUIN'S VACATION, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two months out at sea
Last Line: A deep-sea lullaby
Subject(s): Penguins


MY FATHER'S FEET, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To keep myself up off the ice
Last Line: I'm hanging on to his warm toes?
Subject(s): Penguins


ON THE DEATH OF AN EMPEROR PENGUIN IN REGENT'S PARK, LONDON, by DAVID+(2) WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A proletarian, unlikely bird, no monarch
Last Line: And watch, neither suberb nor able, from below %a smashed world whirl away in stinging snow
Subject(s): Penguins; Zoos


PENGUIN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think it must ve v ery nice
Subject(s): Penguins


PENGUINS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep in dark
Last Line: Keeping cool %at forty below, %keeping everything %on ice
Subject(s): Penguins


PENGUINS' FIRST SWIM, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ten little penguins all in a line
Last Line: Splashing in the waves of the salty southern sea
Subject(s): Penguins


PREDATOR RIDDLES, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's black and white
Last Line: She's a skulking -- %skua bird
Subject(s): Penguins


REGURGITATE, by JUDY SIERRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I[t's been one whole hour since I ate
Last Line: Cough it up, dad! Regurgitate!
Subject(s): Penguins