Potential Titles: Opera

Listen to the trill of cricket opera - Rachel Barenblat "Lake"

Missed every night of the opera - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"

Awakened by the opera of dawn - Billy Collins "Rip Van Winkle"

Like parrots from an opera - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

From an opera over the earth - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"


The musical improvisation of the operatic day - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Courtliness and operatic mystery - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 1"


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Potential Titles: Opposite

( Opposite )

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Potential Titles: Opaque

( Opaque )

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Potential Titles: Oppose/Opposition

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Potential Titles: Opiate/Opiod/Opium

In opiate slumber furled - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Woke up from the opiate of empire - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"

The scorched air breathes its opiate - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Noon"

With opiates for idleness to quaff - Emily Pauline Johnson "Under Canvas"

Sleep softly waved her opiate rod - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The opiate that fills you dream - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"


Fluttering skirts of opium poppies - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The breath of the opium dragon - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"


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Potential Titles: Option

( Option )

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Potential Titles: Opal

( Opal )

Through veils of ether opaline - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"


The opal-eyed vampires of hell - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Pacifist"

An opal-hearted country - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"


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Potential Titles: Oppress

( Oppress )

( Oppression )

Pour confusion on oppressive foes - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"


The austere oppressors in their strength - "Enceladus" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]


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Potential Titles: Open

( Open )

Invent me in the half-opened eye of night - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

The shadows half-opened - Pablo Neruda "The Creation" transl. by Dennis Maloney


Dread opener of the mysterious doors - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"


Staring at the open-mouthed stars - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"


With my pried-open prayers full of silt - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"


Classic as a book unopened - Brody Parrish Craig "Haircut in the Kitchen Sink"

A caverned ark ever unopened - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"

Up to Heav'n's unopening Door - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Huddled in dark unopened books - Charles Simic "In the Library"


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