Potential Titles: Appoint/Appointment

Who regularly follow their appointed time - Etel Adnan "Surge"

Cannot outflow its appointed tide - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIV--Moonlight at Sea"

The appointed place of rendezvous - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Appointed of parrots five - Howard Futhey Brinton "Jumbo's Dream"

The narrow scene of this our appointed tedium - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"

Silver steps to our appointed star - Iris Tree "Islands"


Untimely appointments - Luis Munoz "Habits"

Galleys miss appointments with the tides - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"


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Potential Titles: Apprehension

A likely swoon just shy of apprehension - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"

Wounded by apprehensions - Hart Crane "Possessions"

Drive our pick through the mineral of our apprehensions - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"

Sudden seized with shadowy apprehension - Amy Levy "Medea"

With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"

Upon the apprehension of edges - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"

Showering the trees with apprehension - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"


Continents of misapprehension - Marianne Moore "England"


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Potential Titles: Appear/Appearance

( Appear )

The wheel of appearances - Jordi Doce "Guest"

Hand-fast to her twilight appearance - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

The appearance of a new-found star - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."


Homage to his new-appearing sight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"


Persistently reappears just to howl by the gate - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"

Reappear upon its foreseen circle - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Reappear in silent symphonic gestures - Cedar Sigo "Arsenal 4"

From dawn till the stars reappear - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"


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Potential Titles: Approach

( Approach )

Echoes against the dusks of the Unapproachable - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"


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Potential Titles: Appease/Unappeased

Appeasement turned bitter - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"

When phantasms could appease - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Fame cannot appease me - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"


A flame forever unappeased - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"

Hungry, unappeasable furious spirit - Frank Bidart "The Ghost"

Restless as unappeased trees - Ishion Hutchinson "Aubade"


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Potential Titles: Apollo

( Apollo )

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Potential Titles: Applause

Applause in broken scattering sound - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Dock Drama"

Miraculous thunder ran above the applauded circus - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"

Any penny of applauding hands - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

Ghostly mirth and phantom hands applauding - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"

And the world their deeds applaud - Kate Louise Wheeler "Thy Place"


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Potential Titles: Apostle

And each his own apostle - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

Our high Star and true Apostle - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Grim apostle of stress and strain - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"

To feel it, one must be an apostle - Alfred Kreymborg "Old Manuscript"

Drawn like apostles toward Popocatépetl - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong


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Potential Titles: Appropriate

An appropriate name for gin - Chelsea Dingman "Epistemology"

Grieve to appropriate degrees - Paul Guest "Post-Factual Love Poem"

Collapses into the appropriate dimensions - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"


Correct but inappropriate - Grace Paley "Sisters"

Citing something age-inappropriate from Aristotle - Joshua Bennett "You Are So Articulate With Your Hands"


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Potential Titles: Apt

Who're apt to fall at times into excess - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Which gliding time is apt to introduce - Philo "The Tribute"

By cadence apt and varied rhyme - J.S. [John Sterling] "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

Apt Scholars all at Evil - John Spateman "War"

Devised each apt decree - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"


Graced a naked aptitude for rage - Michael Heffernan "The Empress"

Aptitude for utterance divine - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

With aptitudes enough for three - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"


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Potential Titles: Apricot

( Apricot )

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Potential Titles: Apology

( Apology )

The unapologetic knack of the element - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"


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Potential Titles: Apparent

My apparently inextinguishable notion - Tony Hoagland "Entangled"

Pardon my apparent rudeness - Henry S. Leigh "Chateaux d'Espagne"

Your brief moments of apparent transparency - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"

The apparent weightlessness of leaves - Carl Phillips "To Autumn"

This apparently tenacious earth - Kay Ryan "Things That Have Stayed in Position"


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Potential Titles: Approve

Smiled approval at the finding - Marion Strobel "Collectors"

The approving angels know - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"

Such as Dante had approved - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"


Another howling coyote ass chorus of disapproval - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"

Standing behind mirrored windows, disapproving - Ted Kooser "Chocolate Checkers"

Cry loud disapproval of existing ills - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"


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Potential Titles: Apocalypse

( Apocalypse )

When Walt's celebratory song becomes a post-apocalyptic dirge - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Walt Whitman]

Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"


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Potential Titles: Apparition

To keep the garden free of insects and apparitions - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

The apparition that had once been Troy - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Offered its last apparition - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"

In the way of true apparitions - Tess Gallagher "Ring"

This collection of authentic apparitions - Ada Limon "Gratitude in Spite of Oneself"

Like the rest of us gusty apparitions - Adrian Matejka "October Sonnet"

Apparitions ranging along a crooked creek - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"

Apparition less of mist than hunger - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"


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Potential Titles: Apply

Applied science of the abstract light - Aimee Le "So the Love Story Started"

The world before highlighter's applied - Carol Moldaw "Meditation on the Veranda"

Apply the transitive property and consider the results - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

Applied her passion like a hot iron sword - Bianca Stone "Emily Dickinson"

Weave through turnpike traffic while applying lipstick - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

While applying lipstick with an archer's precision - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"


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Potential Titles: Appetite

( Appetite )

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Potential Titles: April

( April )

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Potential Titles: Appall

( Appall )

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Potential Titles: Appeal

The voices of sorrow appealing - A.E. "Love"

A yearning nature's strong appeal - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"

Crows & apples sanction their appeal - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Existence stands with an appeal we cannot shun - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]

Machines that admit of no appeal - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

Hark to an exiled son's appeal - James Ryder Randall "My Maryland"

An appeal from earth to sky - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


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Potential Titles: Apart

( Apart )

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Potential Titles: Apron

( Apron )

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Potential Titles: Apple

( Apple )

An orchard chaotic with apple blossoms - John James "Beneath the Trees at Ellingsworth"

Apple blossoms buried in the tall grass - Richard Solomon "Spring Cleaning"

A thousand tropics in an apple blossom - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Briefer than apple-blossom's breath - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"


Bed of apple-branches & thyme - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"


Bees' quaint seduction of apple pie - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"


Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"


Stirred by apple-scented wind - Clara Shanafelt "Fantastic"


Fair apple trees keep ward - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

The mouse that gnaws an apple tree's roots - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

Of green gems on my apple tree - John Drinkwater "May Garden"

Came not before an apple tree - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

Building my next in the old apple-tree - Ruth Revere "A Bluebird's Song"


Tasting of acid flame and apple wine - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"


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