Potential Titles: Pray

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The clouds were praying to him - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

Unless you pray to Neptune - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Water Spirit"

To pray for new heavens - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"

All the flowers are praying - Emily Bronte "The Two Children"

And pray for the chance to say please - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"

And left your lips praying - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

That pray to the Dragon that preys on the light of the Sun - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Praying hands in tree and flower - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"

Prayed to the songs of whales - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Advises Jane Eyre"

Soft pathways for the praying bird - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

Praying through the meanwhiles - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Prayed to all the living things - Desdamona "Once and Future"

Must do more than meditate and pray - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Prayed twice daily to Saint Anne - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Prayed to our shadows for clouds - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"

I pray with both hands - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

Must pray to be abandoned - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

A whispered pray blowing the crumbs - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"

Praying for someone else's son - Andrea Gibson "Living Proof"

Lit those candles daily and prayed - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

Pray devil's thunder may fall - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet II (from Farewell)"

And with a gesture pray - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"

That for which millions prayed - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

Pray in languages notched like harps - Else Lasker-Schuler "Reconciliation" transl. by Robert Alter

To pray inside the mouth of a tiger - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

Praying it survives the breezes - J. Patrick Lewis "The Crookedest Building"

Only pray laughter comes often - Audre Lorde "Today Is Not the Day"

Prayed to the veins of a trembling city - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

For nearer joys should pray - Thomas MacDonagh "Wishes for My Son"

You pray to your sins - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Praying in the swamp of memory - John McCarthy "Gravestone"

Recall those oaths when passion prayed - H.P. McKnight "Hope--Eternity"

We have prayed on the same cliff - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"

Each praying invisibility - Walter Dean Myers "Hosea Liburd, 25, Laborer"

Prays in no language but his own - Naomi Shihab Nye "Half-and-Half"

And Phillis Wheatley prayed - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"

In stony hands that pray for ever - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

Who prays for your reckoning - Angela Penaredondo "to hold these contradictions in kinship"

Praying for distant wings - Phan Nhien Hao "May" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Who prays you all the way home - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Brown Love"

Pray this world has softened you - Joseph Rios "Dear Buffalo, Dear Zeta or To a Few of My Dead or Nearly Dead Tios"

Because even a badger prays - Elizabeth Spires "Badger Disguised as a Monk"

Prayed to avian gods we don't believe in - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"

Prayed for the family in your unknown future - Keith Taylor "Prayers from the Polish Church, Detroit, 1963"


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