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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PRAIRIES Matches Found: 195 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CREOLE TRIPTYCH: 2. THE PLAINSMAN, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Text First Line: In his bronze face a something sombre shows Last Line: Like some light rainbow o'er the cataracts. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Work; Workers; Plains A PRAIRIE MIRACLE, by GRACE WELSH LUTGEN Poem Text First Line: The river's dwindled to a creek under the red sun's glare Last Line: Relives that scene at nain. Subject(s): Drought; Prairies; Rain; Plains A PRAIRIE MOTHER'S LULLABY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset deepens in the west Last Line: Sleep, my little prairie wildflower, lullaby, oh, sleep! Subject(s): Mothers; Prairies; Babies; Sleep; Plains; Infants ABANDONED FARMSTEAD, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: Across the distance of contested lands Last Line: In a car that shrank upon a shrinking road, %until the last speck of farmstead disappeared Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; Prairies AFTER A YEAR IN KOREA, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle oscar hated cold, hauled Last Line: The bomb, good summers short, %the winters hard, more bitter every year Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Prairies - Texas AFTER EDEN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like snakes my own way, underfoot Last Line: Where the loading corral is waiting %and a truck backed tight against the ramp Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas AFTER THE FLIGHT HOME FROM SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rage for order on the plains Last Line: In bad weather, not far from my door, %each day laid out forhim, easy to understand Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Fence Subject(s): Prairies - Texas ALBUMS, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me the life of the far west and the prairie Last Line: These albums! Not unbreakable, my toys! ... Subject(s): Prairies; Plains AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies Last Line: From sea to shining sea! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Prairies; United States; Independence Day; Plains; America AT REEVEY'S PRAIRIE, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: Black-winged grasshoppers crackle up Last Line: For a moment, for a moment stopping Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Prairies; Sailors And Sailing; Travel AT THE FOOTBALL STADIUM, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, beyond the flooding Last Line: Beneath the lenses and his fists %he mouthed an o Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas AURORA, JULY WOODS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Little town of trillium and hay Last Line: The long breath of design Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Mothers; Prairies BARN ON THE FARM WE'RE BUYING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We slide the barn door wide and cough. Dust swarms Last Line: We're growing used to, our other odor. %the earth we're beginning to call home Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BEYOND THE RED RIVER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds have flown their summer skies to the south Last Line: Where the prairie is starting to shake in the surf of the winter dark Subject(s): Prairies; Rivers; Plains BLACK WINGS WHEELING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen her lift a calf Last Line: Lizards with slit mouths, lost dogs, %does with wild eyes and rapidly beating hearts Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BLUE SKIES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the crisp reeds Last Line: Or moving, the wind knowing, %the wind always delivering Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BORROWED HOUSE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: This isn't our table, that wasn't our bed Last Line: And be heard from: peaches, pears, and apricots %vendettas, charms, and prayers Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted; Prairies; Rooms BOY AT THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW WITH HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: It is heavy as a stone he tells himself like any rock in the field Last Line: Of the mind Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Fathers And Sons; Prairies BRIEF, FAMILIAR STORY OF WINTER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The barn is telling the story of winter Last Line: And listening, like good children. %they believe it's only a story Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BUILDING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chopping down dense mesquites Last Line: Holding their rattles %tie up and silent Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas BY THE GOSH I JUST WALTZED HIM, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: Is that right Subject(s): Prairies CANADIAN PRAIRIES VIEW OF LITERATURE, by DAVID DONNELL Poem Source First Line: First of all it has to be anecdotal; ideas don't exist Last Line: The corn under my shirt awkward a little rough light brown dry %and makesz me itch at times Subject(s): Canada; Literature; Prairies; Writing And Writers CAT-TAILS, by KATHERINE TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Then thousand regal cat-tails stand Last Line: Once held the drifting, desert sands at bay. Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains CATTLE IN RAIN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No cow knows what to do in rain Last Line: In the pasture, they will go on %chewing this green haze forever Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas CAUGHT IN A STORM ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under an oak, I wait out a hailstorm Last Line: And eats, believing my lie that we're safe, %that nothing can hurt us Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas CHANGE, by GLENN C. TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: No more the lonesome prairie Last Line: In days when this was the lonesome prairie. Subject(s): Change; Prairies; Plains CHILDREN'S HOUR, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's try spinning autumn into gold Last Line: Brighter than the sun going down, %all of us shielding our eyes and silent Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas COUNTRY SCHOOL, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: Inside the schoolhouse Last Line: Toward any kind of light Subject(s): Classmates; Family Life; Prairies; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DAKOTA SPRING, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: The days are dusty coal men Last Line: Waltzing to a prairie lullaby. Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains DEDUCTIONS FROM THE LAWS OF MOTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The countryside is quiet, except that contrail Last Line: To amaze us all, always on he go %over miles of sand under a spinning moon Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas DEMONS IN TEXAS, by STEPHEN LOWE Poem Source First Line: Start the truck,' was the call Last Line: And the early morning hours Subject(s): Fields; Prairies - Texas DIGS IN ESCONDIDO CANYON (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the brazos froze, the trucks are here Last Line: A harmless drudge who means nobody harm, who only means %to dig for bones he might have loved Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas DRIVING HOME TO THE PLAINS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now it begins, the endless golds Last Line: For bottles, blankets, nothing ever more %but sky, ten million stars Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas DRYING UP, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anytime from march through fall Last Line: Tightens the nuts and in march starts them up %again. He waits. The wells suck deep. The water flows Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas ELEMENTAL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I open my door to a glassy white world Last Line: I walk stiffly back to the house %to think blue thoughts till spring Subject(s): Bones; Death; Graves; Prairies EYES IN GRANDFATHER'S OILS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wolves again. Grandfather roamed these fields Last Line: Their eyes staring through the canvas %glazed by oils and starving Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas FARMING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer drives his team afield, and Last Line: Things like these, he fails to smile and sing. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains FATHER'S REVOLVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I carried it cold, with pearl handles Last Line: Over the pasture, coaxing rabbits to hop boldly %in the open, daring rattlesnakes to coil Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas FEEDING THE WINTER CATTLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We lifted bales and dropped them heavy Last Line: And lifting, heaving it over like ballast %between the dogs,like another christmas visit %dropping a Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas FIDDLES AND STEEL GUITARS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even a stuttering owl knows music Last Line: And a mad bull backing off and pawing, %about to tear the barn down Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas FINDING MY FATHER'S HANDS IN MID-LIFE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What enters my hand is stiff Last Line: Of his thumb something we closed on, %muscle we loved Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas FLOOD PLAIN, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: The land lies flooded and fat. The sun Last Line: Is fluent and flashing and vast Subject(s): Earth; Floods; Prairies FRANKENSTEIN OF THE PLAINS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: She's wearing tight wranglers Last Line: Like a frankenstein of the plains Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; San Francisco; Women FUTILITY, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: The highway is going to hell in northern wyoming Last Line: The big dipper hangs on its peg %over an empty rain barrel Subject(s): Poverty; Prairies; Wyoming GETTING IT DONE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched amazed the same burnt sienna Last Line: Where we live, only brown earth and sky %and in between, all that matters Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas GOAT RANCHING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could let go and live with the goats Last Line: Whetting their horns like sabers %on barbed wires Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas GOATS OF SUMMER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The clink of steel diggers rammed Last Line: Waiting to be strung, a dozen more dry holes %before there'll be some order to this dirt Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas GOD'S WEATHER: AUGUST, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: God's peace and the moon on the meadow's dead clover Last Line: With the mists and the moon and the weathergod's weather. Subject(s): Prairies; Summer; Weather; Plains GREAT WESTERN PLAINS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little voices of prairie dogs Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Prairies GROWING UP NEAR ESCONDIDO CANYON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With bristles and picks Last Line: Cow bones or coyotes' %we believed were human, %turning them over and over Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas HAWKS IN A BITTER BLIZZARD, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hard work alone can't drive blue northers off Last Line: Nothing in oak or juniper they carve %ever as wild and staring as those eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas HIGH PLAINS, by VICKI GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Anneal me, she whispers Last Line: It burns like honey on her tongue Subject(s): Prairies; Size And Shape HIGH PLAINS RAG, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But like remorse Last Line: It can never stop . Subject(s): Grass; Prairies; Plains HONEY MAN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a bear, uncle murphy could line bees Last Line: Yellow as butter, dark bittersweet mesquite, %white lightning, sweet copper combs Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas INLANDER, by ALINE MICHAELIS Poem Text First Line: He had lived inland all his plodding life Last Line: At stark, dry seaweed, folded in a book. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains JACKRABBIT, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Thrives on the prairie, out in the empty Last Line: That's why they raise from the wild this wail Subject(s): Animals; Prairies; Rabbits LEAVING THE MIDDLE YEARS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slow blues beckon us to move Last Line: Sentimental enough for lovers bound %by more than rings and wrinkles %deeper than any scars Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas LEFT-HANDED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the self of my former shadow Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains LET ME DIE ON THE PRAIRIE, by FRANCES JANE CROSBY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Let me die on the prairie! And o'er my rude grave Last Line: And how sweet in its bosom my slumber will be! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Alstyne, Frances Jane, Mrs.; Crosby, Fanny Subject(s): Prairies LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE, by MARK CONWAY Poem Source First Line: Why do we stay here, sleeping on a dwarf Last Line: Missed. I live here anyway, in a landscape Subject(s): Life; Prairies LIVING ON OPEN PLAINS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We thought we knew these flat Last Line: Where are the coyotes, now? %where is the sand running to? Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas LOSING A BOAT ON THE BRAZOS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Downriver rocks were rapids. Believe me Last Line: Like old bones mired in mud we've proved %can rise and walk again Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas LULLABY FOR A PRAIRIE TOWN, by LEE ANDREW WEBER Poem Text First Line: Little prairie town Last Line: Sleep. Subject(s): Prairies; Towns; Plains MACON PRAIRIE (NEBRASKA), by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She held me for a night against her bosom Last Line: The leadership of kin, and happy ending %on the red rolling land of macon prairie Subject(s): Nebraska; Prairies MAKING BOOK ON THE AQUIFER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When it doesn't rain, we water Last Line: Wherever others on the road a mile away %are going, we are here Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas MARRIAGE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbors' dogs have howled at the last Last Line: Animals trot by outside our window %for the blesing of names Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Prairies - Texas MEMENTO MORI, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen her pose a skull Last Line: Wearing a skull, painted in clouds %and ground we could stand on Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Last Line: Caliche canyon and haul back barrels of water %from the river of the arms of god Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MESSENGER, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: We dance barefoot on fresh-cut straw Last Line: As if hacking were my solitary sound Subject(s): Nature; Prairies METAMORPHOSIS, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Oh god, how I hate these dull barren plains Last Line: And I'd never go east again. Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains MINERS ON THE PRAIRIE, by MARK CONWAY Poem Source First Line: For isn't that what the old ones Last Line: We do our best work in the dark Subject(s): Mines And Miners; Prairies MOOFER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I remember skin the color of tea %wrapped his large-boned body. He wore Last Line: Such self-satisfied %little universes, %such lost children, %such americans Subject(s): Farm Life; Immigrants; Old Age; Prairies MOUNDS AT ESTACACO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hawks alone could have loved it Last Line: Cows and romping calves in all directions, %bumblebees roaming the miles of cactus Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie Last Line: And prairies too! Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains MY BROTHER IN SUMMER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the texas plains he wakes at five Last Line: Leaves at work, sighing oxygen, %pushing itself toward its own white death Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas MY PRAIRIE GIRL, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: My prairie girl, though tanned of face Last Line: My prairie girl. Subject(s): Admiration; Girls; Prairies; Plains MY PRAIRIES, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love my prairies, they are mine Last Line: Are not for me, are not for me Subject(s): Prairies MY SHRINE, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: I love the friendly loneliness of plains Last Line: And waft to me old dreams that cannot die. Subject(s): Calm; Introspection; Prairies; Self; Shrines; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Plains NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ostrich and giraffe peek Last Line: In embakasi plain Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Baboons; National Parks; Prairies NATIVE BORN, by MILDRED SPARKS Poem Text First Line: The deep-scarred prairie soil Last Line: Of the prairie-born. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains NEW HARVEST, by CULLY DRAKE KIRKHAM Poem Text First Line: I heard an old man speaking to the wind Last Line: "and his heart will run to meet a prairie wife!" Subject(s): Harvest; Prairies; Plains NIGHT MISSIONS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight will be like any other night Last Line: Blue wings climbing somebody's dreams, %tuned blades humminglike mercy Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas NIGHT OF RATTLESNAKE CHILI, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only the lure of a rattler kept us Last Line: Was cold and sweeter than most %and steel spoons melted in our mouths Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the high plains Last Line: At the end Subject(s): Prairies; Tibet; Travel; Plains; Journeys; Trips OKLAHOMA PRAIRIES, by ELIZABETH COPMANN Poem Text First Line: Not in the path of the brazen sun Last Line: Trails a rainbow through the grasses. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains OLD MEN FISHING AT BROWNWOOD, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spitting tobacco juice on hooks Last Line: Pneumonia or stroke, the hiss of fangs %nearby on a shimmer of water Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas ON A SCREENED PORCH IN THE COUNTRY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We scan the sky for jets whose radios and dead Last Line: We leave the porch light off and rock in darkness, %watchingwild eyes flashing in the fields Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Living On Hardscrabbl Subject(s): Prairies - Texas ON BOOT HILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the prairie and through the pines Last Line: And a star-speckled range to ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Mountains; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains ON HEARING A DESCRIPTION OF A PRAIRIE, by FRANCES JANE CROSBY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Oh! Could I see as thou hast seen Last Line: And the heart beats light and free Alternate Author Name(s): Van Alstyne, Frances Jane, Mrs.; Crosby, Fanny Subject(s): Prairies ON THE OREGON TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're the prairie pilgrim crew Last Line: Flag that leads the white man 'round the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Buffaloes; Cowboys; Oregon; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prairies; Plains ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES Poem Text First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills Last Line: But when will the earth respond? Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains ONE NIGHT MARLYCE JACOBSEN EXPRESSED HERSELF, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Was the eve of her enlistment in the u.S. Army %out at the holy rosary church Last Line: Glow from the golden moon above it in the west Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Prairies; Women ONE THAT GOT AWAY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We took turns eating ammonia dirt Last Line: Four hooves in the air forevr, %his mane like flames of gold Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 5. CROP CIRCLES5, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW Poem Source First Line: Left, r9ight, straight Last Line: 2428426290833 68353 Subject(s): Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Prairies; Seeds PLAINS AND THE ART OF WRITING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A prairie lays its mystery face up Last Line: Long muscles flowing %over the old, familiar sand Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas PLAINS BORN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward from the greener places Last Line: Round the blue rim of the known! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Plains POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stones in my heart Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe. Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES Poem Text First Line: Across the sombre prairie sea Last Line: Of placid, all-consoling sea. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE BLESSIN'S, by NORA FLADEBOE MOHBERG Poem Text First Line: Now, yuh listen here, young feller Last Line: They cain't never even find us, 'way out here. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains 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 PRAIRIE DAWN, by BERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: The stealthy coyote slinking denward on soft-padded feet Last Line: Heart strengthened, my creator, I have watched dawn's hour with you. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE DREAMING SEA, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Prairie gleams in winter Last Line: Beyond the work waiting inside the barn Subject(s): Dreams; Prairies PRAIRIE FOLKS: SETTLERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above them soars a dazzling sky Last Line: Behind the snarling plough. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains PRAIRIE GRAVEYARD, by ANNE MARRIOTT Poem Text First Line: Wind mutters thinly on the sagging wire Last Line: In the centre of the huge lone land and sky. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Prairies; Graveyards; Plains PRAIRIE HOUSES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unreasonable lenses refract the Subject(s): Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE NIGHT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: I love to go on a straight, white road Last Line: At my scarf, as I go by. Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips PRAIRIE PERSPECTIVE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In northwestern minnesota, the horizon's a circle Last Line: O'clock siren, at the blank, bald eye of empty sky Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farm Life; Memory; Minnesota; Poetry And Poets; Prairies PRAIRIE SPRING, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Evening and the flat land Last Line: Out of the lips of silence, %out of the earthy dusk Subject(s): Prairies PRAIRIE STARS, by MINNIE HITE MOODY Poem Text First Line: How many ages have these silent stars Last Line: These stars shall gild this prairie's diadem! Subject(s): Prairies; Stars; Plains PRAIRIE TREMBLANTE, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD Poem Text First Line: A stretch of swaying grasses that sweep by Last Line: And lonely bayous answer star to star. Subject(s): Prairies; Sky; Stars; Plains PRAIRIE VESPER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: A doubting skeptic walked with me Last Line: Is creed enough for me. Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE VOICES, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Be these the burden of our runes Last Line: When we essay our winged steeds. Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains PRAIRIE WIND, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: I love to hear the prairie wind Last Line: Blow through the edge of town. Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains PRAIRIE WINDS, by WILLIAM EARL HILL Poem Text First Line: O savage spirits of the air's unrest Last Line: We trust all shall be wellwhere winds are still! Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains PRAIRIE WOMAN, by SHIRLEY DILLON WAITE Poem Text First Line: This is the dawn! I have awaked too soon Last Line: And have not these impounded for your need. Subject(s): Prairies; Women; Plains PRAISE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the threat of summer, trees Last Line: That never go anywhere all winter, %and somehow survive Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas PRAYING FOR RAIN ON THE PLAINS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If it comes, %let tractors stall hub-deep Last Line: Stare at flat horizons without a cloud %and blink Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies; Prayer; Rain RAIN ON THE PRAIRIES, by PAUL CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: What the eye sees remains Last Line: The legs of rain dangling %over the disappearing ridges Subject(s): Prairies; Rain RIG-SITTING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the derrick, I twist this wrench tight Last Line: How many times a bit goes around %before breaking Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas ROCK SOFTLY IN MY ARMS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forget the bells, the call to order Last Line: In my arms and hold me, girl, %this night won't last for long Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas SEINING FOR CARP, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The carp keep coming back, no matter how many Last Line: Carp wait in the open, catchable, all the carp %in our lives easy to seine and toss to the cats Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas SETTLEMENT, by KIM HORNER Poem Source First Line: We crossed the tallgrass Last Line: And find me, neither alive nor dead %until that moment Subject(s): Prairies SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: For here and for the afterlife Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion; Plains - Texas; Theology SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For here and for the afterlife Last Line: Would live, if it was god's will %and the wind blew Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion SKETCHES OF THE TEXAS PRAIRIE: 'APRIL RAINS', by GEORGE BOND Poem Text First Line: There is magic in the april rains Last Line: Of vivid texas flowers. Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Rain; Plains - Texas SOLILOQUY, by FREDERICK E. LAIGHT Poem Text First Line: I have seen tall chimneys without smoke Last Line: Of godly men that somehow it shall rain. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Drought; Prairies; Recessions; Plains SOUTH BY WEST: SOUTHWEST PLAINS, by EDNA TARVER Poem Text First Line: Baked dry Last Line: In placid waiting. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains SPACE, by CAROL HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: We prairie-bred souls are minimalists Last Line: Against a very clean, %very distant horizon Subject(s): Prairies SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE, by BEATRICE PAYNE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: There is no land like this land Last Line: To feel its youth return! Subject(s): Prairies; Spring; Plains SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE, by MURIEL H. WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: North's high call brought the winds Last Line: All in may. Subject(s): Prairies; Spring; Plains STARTING A PASTURE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This far out in the country no one is talking Last Line: Honking, sticking their heads out the windows and laughing. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Plains - Texas STARTING A PASTURE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flooded with sun, this ranch looks like a rice field Last Line: Imported from wyoming, a flock of ostriches which came %lastnight by train, wide eyed and panting Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas SUCCESSION OF THE OAK, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: A naked oak in a northern sky Last Line: All trees touch Subject(s): Nature; Oak Trees; Prairies SUNDOWN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's not alone, the old bull Last Line: The weight of the farm %and the long day disappear Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: The red sun sinks in veils of amethyst Last Line: The motif of this music of the plains. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Soil; Work; Workers; Plains TAKING EACH DEEP BREATH, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, the long arm of thunder, reaches us Last Line: Gliding under the crack of thunder, %taking each deep breath to let it go Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas THE BAD LANDS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No fresh green things in the bad lands bide Last Line: The song of a million years. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Earth; Landmark Preservation; Prairies; World; Plains THE BAD LANDS, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: The bad lands raise their lovely shoulders Last Line: As harmonies unsung. Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains THE BORDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dreamers of old coronado Last Line: And a people with sun in their veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Boundaries; Colorado (state); Cowboys; Geography; Prairies; Borders; Plains THE BOY ON THE PRAIRIE, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: At thirteen he first saw a railway train Last Line: With grant and lincoln as his greatest men. Subject(s): Children; Middle West; Prairies; Childhood; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Plains THE CALL OF THE PLAINS, by ETHEL MACDIARMID Poem Text First Line: Ho! Wind of the far, far prairies! Last Line: And I answer in ecstasy! Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Plains; Southwest; Pacific States THE CATTLE COUNTRY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the dusk-enfolded prairie Last Line: Holds it in his hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Cattle; Prairies; Plains THE DREAMS OF WILD HORSES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night and full moon Last Line: Moonlight weathering in the dry corn Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Prairies; Nightmares; Plains THE FREE WIND, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went and worked in a drippin' mine Last Line: And my hawse and me was young. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Plains THE HILL ROAD, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: Let others take the valley road, a safe and beaten track Last Line: Under the sun I'll take for aye, the steep hill road, with you. Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Prairies; Separation; Isolation; Plains THE LONG TRAIL: CALLING THE CHILDREN HOME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: So the long trail sleeps. But fast and far Last Line: Mother-mine calling the children home! Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE GOLD RUSH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Now it's gold and gold! Last Line: And we strike it rich. Subject(s): Canyons; Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke Last Line: Is comeis come! Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE TIMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet. Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails THE NIGHT HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin' Last Line: And a lone rider sings to the moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE OLD FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, the old, old farm, and the old farm's joys! Last Line: "across the twilight's dusk and grey, still calls, ""come, boys, come in""!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains THE PEACE OF PRAIRIES, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: To heal my spirit's ill there seemed no cure Last Line: And peace where skies bend low to kiss the plain. Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains THE PRAIRIE, by DIANA ULINE GROVE Poem Text First Line: What is it that holds me on this prairie unadorned? Last Line: My soul cried out and found its god. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains THE PRAIRIE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are blue above my head Last Line: Rapt in a dream of god. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains THE PRAIRIE IMMIGRANT, by RACHEL COLE KATTERJOHN Poem Text First Line: The wind wailed over a granite stone Last Line: Alone forever alone! Subject(s): Immigrants; Prairies; Solitude; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Plains; Loneliness THE PRAIRIE PATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Upon the brown and frozen sod Last Line: The fields of immortality Subject(s): Prairies; Plains THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet west wind, the prairie school Last Line: A legacy to those who come from those who come no more. Subject(s): Books; Prairies; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Plains; Students THE PRAIRIE SPEAKS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I am the prairie singer Last Line: I am the prairie singer. Subject(s): Memory; Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; Prairies; Spring; Plains THE PRAIRIE TOWN, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER Poem Text First Line: Lovers of beauty laugh at this gray town Last Line: Lies like an old sea-road, star-pointed north. Subject(s): Prairies; Towns; Wellesley College; Plains THE PRAIRIE WIND, by JESSIE KENNEDY SNELL Poem Text First Line: The prairie wind is ever constant, yet Last Line: The night-wind with its crooning slumber-song. Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing Last Line: Those of inland america. Subject(s): Prairies; United States; Plains; America THE PRAIRIES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the gardens of the desert, these Last Line: And I am in the wilderness alone. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains THE QUILL WORKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills Last Line: Will broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; Prairies; Trade; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains THE RAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've watched the ground-hog's shadow Last Line: Did you ever see the comin' of the rains? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Rain; Spring; Water; Plains THE SINGER, by DENISE BARRETTE Poem Text First Line: Over the ecru summer grass Last Line: A prairie jenny lind. Subject(s): Lind, Jenny (1820-1887); Prairies; Wind; Plains THE SPRINGTIME PLAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of me, are you hearing Last Line: And the waiting eyes of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Prairies; Plains THINGS ABOUT TO DISAPPAR, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pronghorns the size of fawns Last Line: Theynvr pause, before our eyes they fade %like a legend and run for mils Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas THINGS I HAVE SEEN, by CLELL GANNON Poem Text First Line: I have seen cherries hanging overripe Last Line: Beneath a sun-soaked sky -- after the rains! Subject(s): Prairies; Plains TIED UP UNDER TREES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not when the moccasin sidles Last Line: The wide white border of his mouth, %and inside, all tongue and fangs Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas TO A SILVER BIRCH, by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY Poem Text First Line: I never knew until I crossed the prairie Last Line: For now at last I see. Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Prairies; Trees; Plains TO MAKE A PRAIRIE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee Last Line: If bees are few. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains TORNADO CHASING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night the cb crackles Last Line: In flashes. They gasp like me %and breathe the name of god Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Tornadoes TRAINS, UP CLOSE AND FAR AWAY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hearing a faint train whistle Last Line: Wail long after any human hand %could have pulled the cord Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas TWO NOCTURNS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat Subject(s): Sea; Prairies; Loneliness; Ocean; Plains UNCLE BUBBA AND THE BUZZARDS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle bubba wore scuffed leather Last Line: Sweaty glove rubbing his horse, %his stiff boots thudding in the straw Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas UNCLE ROLLIE AND THE LAWS OF WATER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The windmill pumps an old, slow action up and down Last Line: Water trickling through a rusted pipe, faithful %after all these years, the dry, split blades still Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing." Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains WEEDS BARN OWLS, ALL NIBBLING GOATS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We chop these weeds with hoes filed shiny Last Line: Sometimes an owl blinded by sunlight, %weaving from barn to barn Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WESTERN HOKKU, by MARGARET SLACK FUHRMAN Poem Text First Line: Our happiness is Last Line: And a coyote's cry. Subject(s): Prairies; South Dakota; Plains WHATEVER GROUND WE WALK ON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We walk until the moon rises Last Line: Yet here we are, not even touching %and the moon is up, and rushing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WHATEVER IT TAKES (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In pakistan, three elephants go around Last Line: To prop it, stomps down around this post %to wedge it tight between two perfect stones Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WHEN CHILDREN THINK YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Living on hardscrabble, a man is less Last Line: And comb my hair and shave, roll down my sleeves %and go inside as if nothing's happened Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WHERE PRAIRIES ROLL, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Where prairies roll, the gods dispel Last Line: Where prairies roll. Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains WHERE SILENCE REIGNS, by W. A. WOODS Poem Text First Line: Out back, where silence reigneth, on the great grey western plains Last Line: While the ever-creaking saddle is the only sound we hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Horses; Prairies; Dead, The; Plains WHERE THE TREES GO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In time they all rise up Last Line: The other trees look down %and find them missing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WILDCATTING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the cramped cab of a pickup, we bump down Last Line: Drunk on the constant spinning, each twist %of the bit like love, trying it over and over Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WILL COGAN'S MAP, by TOM DOMEK Poem Source First Line: Mine are the drills Last Line: Like dust in my skull Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; North Dakota; Prairies; Water Supply; Wells WIND AND HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's wind, not rain, dry cattle need Last Line: And muzzle deep in stock tanks %filled and overflowing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WINDMILLS NEAR ESCONDIDO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Relax, it's friday, nothing to do Last Line: How many gallons spin on a windmill, %how many rain clouds wishs build Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WINTER BEFORE THE WAR (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One winter, sledgehammers couldn't break ice Last Line: And drank and cursed our luck, and tried to ignore %stiff wind and shingles banging overhead Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Witching Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas WOMAN ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My wife is not afraid of dark Last Line: So if our children wake and cry %for light, there will be light Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Prairies - Texas WOODLOT, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clumped, murmuring above a sump of loam Last Line: Whatever that conundrum may yet %prove to be, amounts to nothing Subject(s): Prairies |
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