Potential Titles: Desperate/Desperation

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the shape of unanswerable desperation - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

The desperation of the moon - M.L. Liebler "Winter Meditation"

Combustible with desperation - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Goes to the Next Whisky Bar"

The desperation of unstruck piano keys - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"


Both of us desperate to quit - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"

In a desperate rebellion I strive - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Hunting for the gate she desperately held shut - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

My desperate belief in other realities - Desiree C. Bailey "Woman in Dub"

The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Dear and desperate doubter - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"

Embarked for desperate shores - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"

Queen of desperate alarms - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

As desperate and false as prayer - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"

A Titan slain in some desperate battle - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Desperate for something sacred - Marianne Chan "Seafood City"

Too late ripened by a desperate sun - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

Desperate faces at each cell - H.D. "Prisoners"

Desperate for the meadow's coronation - Chris Dombrowski "Self-Portrait as Dandelion Head Discovered in the Crop of a Partridge"

A ghost desperate for absolution - Carmen Gimenez "Self as Deep as Coma"

Their desperate fruit - Leslie Harrison "[December]"

A slingstone whirled for the desperate - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"

Flame out a desperate and last surmise - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"

In the van of desperate years - Robinson Jeffers "Song of Quietness"

Gallant toilers in a desperate cause - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VI: A Parallel"

No phantom born of desperate dreams - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

Gave wildest wings to desperate prayer - George Martin "Marguerite"

Know love in the desperate abyss - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

A desperate feeding of desire - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Song of Solomon Remix"

A bitter but desperate certainty - Pablo Neruda "Oh, My Lost City" transl. by Alastair Reid

Play the desperate chess - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"

Held my desperate hand from crime - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

Vintage of desperate years - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

And desperate, brief delights - Clark Ashton Smith "Alexandrines"

At portals dark and desperate - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"

A famished star made desperate - George Sterling "Fire of Dreams"

Desperately fleeing this frame - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 195: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Drawn down through desperate ways - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

White rage of desperate moon-drawn waters - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Abandon all the desperate drought - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"


Despair.


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