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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 weather—god'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 well—where 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 come—is 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