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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SALT Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision." Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism CONFESSION, by JAMES+(3) KOCH Poem Source First Line: I'm in love with the morton salt girl Last Line: And dream of skinny-dipping beneath the stars in vast salt seas Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Salt; Swimming; Water CONFISCATING SALT, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: From the local office, orders flying thicker than comb's teeth Last Line: What true man would view with others for a hairbreath's gain? Subject(s): Salt EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salt is pity, brooms are fury Last Line: The other half are mirrors Subject(s): Churches; Mirrors; Salt; Cathedrals GULLS OVER GREAT SALT LAKE, by ROSS SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: What do they here, these denizens of the deep Subject(s): Birds; Great Salt Lake, Utah; Gulls HIS WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But it was right that she / looked back Last Line: She could taste the salt. Subject(s): Lot (bible); Marriage; Salt; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAST DAYS IN SALT LAKE CITY, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dwarfed by a building that would have delighted mussolini Last Line: If you leap to a hasty conclusion and split for the coast Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); Salt Lake City, Utah LINES; WRITTEN AFTER READING SALT'S 'THE LOGIC OF VEGETARIANISM', by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt I am a fool to eat Last Line: I like the change in diet well. Subject(s): Cabbage; Salt, Henry S. (1851-1939); Vegetarians LOVE LIKE SALT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lies in our hands in crystals Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Salt ODE TO SALT, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This salt %in the saltcellar %I once saw in the salt mines Last Line: Reveals to us %more than domestic whiteness; %in it, we taste infinitude Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; Salt; Sea ON THE SALT SEA, by JOHN OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salt begets thirst; then well may rivers be Last Line: Salt as it is, all swallowed by the sea. Subject(s): Salt; Sea; Ocean PHOTOS OF A SALT MINE, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How innocent their lives look Last Line: And filter here, not innocence but guilt Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K. Subject(s): Salt PRELUDE FOR LOT'S WIFE, by JAMES T. GALLAGHER Poem Text First Line: Let soft white silver of her tears Last Line: A pillar of salt. Subject(s): Fear; God; Salt; Tears REMEMBERING LOVES AND DEATHS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They happened in us Last Line: That was pure honey, once Subject(s): Denver, Colorado; Honey; Salt Lake City, Utah RIDDLE: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Though smaller than a baby gnat Last Line: "this, on the emperor's table sat" Subject(s): Riddles;salt SALT, by A. S. ALLISON Poem Text First Line: I crossed the bogong plains that night on the box of a cobb and co. Last Line: But only I and the horses heard jim's cry from the depths below. Subject(s): Cattle; Salt; Story-telling; Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight SALT MARSH, by DEBORAH CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: Here, love, on the salt marsh Last Line: Or, like the stars, the moon beckons Subject(s): Love; Relationships; Salt; Swamps SALT WATER, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a bowl of tears on the table Last Line: The salt of regret and the salt of effort Subject(s): Jewish Families; Salt THE CITY OF SALT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sun-drenched Last Line: And sweet to taste. Subject(s): Cities; Mothers; Salt; Urban Life THERE WAS A SALT-WORKS AT STAGE FORT, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a salt-works at stage fort, in 1656 Last Line: Floating, an island floating in the western sea Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Salt THROWING SALT ON A PATH, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch you throw salt on the path Last Line: Expands the edges of the universe. Subject(s): Salt |
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