Potential Titles: Unheard

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Hear.


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Potential Titles: Unborn

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Birth.

Born.

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Potential Titles: Unite/Unity

Disunited orbs that late were atoms - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"


To reunite shreds of boxed childhood memories - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

My scattered tears preserve and reunite - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. Second Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Reunited members of the unacknowledged - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"

No cause will sever that bond which reunites - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Evening"


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Potential Titles: Unless

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Potential Titles: Unable

Able.


Strength by limping sway disabled - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXVI"


Inability to grasp wave-particle duality - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"


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Potential Titles: Unwelcome

Convicts programmed for an unwelcome war - Mike Allen "Ascending"

The highest ideal of unwelcome - Mary Jo Bang "Ham Paints a Picture to Illustrate an Early Lesson: O Trauma!"

A word unwelcome to his ears - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

The unwelcome shark gliding beneath our lee - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

A guest unwelcome come unwillingly - Douglas Malloch "Life"

Sound the arrival of the unwelcome hour - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]


Welcome.


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Potential Titles: Unuttered/Unutterable

With all the unuttered joys of bygone days - Frank Oliver Call "The Vision"

Rings with Hope's unuttered songs -Sir Nizamat Jung "VI: Love's Silence"

Notes of despair unuttered - E.J. Pratt "The Conclusion of 'Rachel'"

Brimming with unuttered words - Alison Swan "Catalogue"


And tastes the fountain unutterably deep - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

In the land of the unutterable - Charles Wright "No Angel"

Arrange your unutterable alphabet - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"


Utter.

Utterance.


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Potential Titles: Untangle

Who untangle loss from creation - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Shadows of untangling vines - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

Untangle the roots of salt water - Sherwin Bitsui "Triptych"

That it slipped untangled from a dream - Juan Felipe Herrera "Hey Phil"

All night I've untangled alleys - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Until the spirit untangles itself - Wendy Xu "Pledge"


Entangle.

Tangle.


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Potential Titles: Unsuspected/Unsuspicious

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Conspiratorial unsuspicious activity - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"


Suspect/Suspicion.


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Potential Titles: Unshaken

Meet the trouble with mind unshaken - al-Khansa "[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]" transl. by Reynold A. Nicholson

My soul unshaken by the ruin - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

Light's unshakeable escort - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

Unshaken as the steadfast walls - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

This heart's unshaken faith attest - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

Eyes that keep eternal watch, unshaken, strong, and true - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

Stand unshaken at the helm of life's wrecked craft - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"


Shake/Shook.


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Settle.


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Potential Titles: Unripe

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Potential Titles: Unreason

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Reason.


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Potential Titles: Unmoved/Unmoving

Unmoved by pity or the dark heart of the sea - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"

Sat unmoving and alert amid devouring light - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Unmoved among the ruins of the works of God - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

And tends to this unmoved by blandishments - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Unmoved by mortal contemplation - Louis J. McQuilland "In a Library"

Only the heart remains unmoved - Su Tung-p'o "Beginning of Autumn: A Poem to Send to Tzu-yu" transl. by Burton Watson

Still unmoved by disbelief - Wendy Xu "Pledge"


Move.

Movement.


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Potential Titles: Unmindful

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Mind.

Mindful.

Mindless.


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Potential Titles: Unmeasured

This guilt must sure unmeasured be - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

To dance with unmeasured fury - Pablo Neruda "It Rains" transl. by William O'Daly

Dance with unmeasured mirth, enraptured - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

The treasures of unmeasured space - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems VI"

Through calm unmeasured miles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"


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Measure.

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Potential Titles: Unlock

( Unlock )

Lock.


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Potential Titles: Unlucky/Luckless/Bad Luck/Hard Luck

Bad luck drawn away like pilot fish following his wake - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Whose bad luck or misfortune will be sitting on your head - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

The bad luck of odd numbers - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"

Always looking for bad luck - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun


Same old Hard Luck tales to tell - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: November"

Leaning into hunger and hard luck - Kay Ryan "Waste"


The last luckless mollusk adrift in the blast - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

Luckless urchin not to see - Thomas Moore "Cupid Once Upon a Bed"

Takes a plunge among the luckless throng - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"


Any diamondback unlucky enough to be on the road - Catherine Bowman "Heart"


Luck.


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Potential Titles: Unloose

( Unloose )

Loose/Loosen.


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Potential Titles: Unhinge

( Unhinge )

Hinge.


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Potential Titles: Unhallow

Unhallow'd thoughts might soon defame - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXV: The Young Shepherds" transl. by Sir John Bowring

From this unhallowed desolation - J.B.S. Haldane "Complaint of the Blasphemous Bombers at Beit Aiessa"

Such visions claim unhallow'd power - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Unhallowed mirth shrieks frantic laughter - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art]"

In the moon's unhallowed glow - Maurice Maeterlinck "Temptations" transl. by Bernard Miall

Out of darkness and unhallowed years - George Sterling "Repentance"

The unhallowed shrine of pomp and pride - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]


Hallow.


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Potential Titles: Unforgiven/Unforgiving

Unforgiven for the lapse - Mary Jo Bang "Ham Paints a Picture to Illustrate an Early Lesson: O Trauma!"

Light should be unforgiving - Scott Cairns "Embalming"

Dark unforgiven imagination - Stephanie Chang "Spider Lily Cyborg"

His doubt covers them like unforgiving ash - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

To contemplate an unforgiving history - N. Scott Momaday "Remembering Milosz and Esse"


Forgive.


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Potential Titles: Unmade/Unmake

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( Unmake )

Make/Made.


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Potential Titles: Unfeeling/Unfelt

That web of weights unfelt - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

Ruling them with unfelt thrall - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

By the strong pride of an unfeeling will - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

In the unfeeling armour of old time - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"

Unfeeling reality screened by eyelashes - Zheng Min "Naked Exposure #10: Glass Windows" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Feel/Feelings.


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Potential Titles: Unequal

Unequalled prospects to enchant the eye - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"

Since my unequal pen essayed to tell - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Four elements with man proclaim the unequal war - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

When this unequal fight began - W.A. Frisbie "The Pirate Frog"

Unequal Paths fond Mortals tread - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"

Exhaustion from unequal strife - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Summons to Cuchulain" transl. by Eleanor Hull


Equal.


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Potential Titles: Uneasy

A partisan witness to the uneasy union of life and loss - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

By the chained stalk of the uneasy mind - Stephen Vincent Benet "Always the Sonnetteer"

Balances uneasily upon its three-pronged roots - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

In many an Old World palace, uneasy sits the crown - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

This uneasy current in my head - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"

Wander uneasy on tower heights - Wang An-Shih "On Tower Heights" transl. by David Hinton


Easy.


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Potential Titles: Unkind

( Unkind )

Kind.


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Potential Titles: Undercurrent

I am forebearer and undercurrent - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"

An undercurrent that also reveals me - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"

Sweet melody is the undercurrent of gunfire - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"

The undercurrent of history repeating itself - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

No more than an undercurrent in daily life - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

An undercurrent of hidden language - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"


Current.

Under.


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Potential Titles: Undaunted

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Daunt.


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Potential Titles: Unheeded/Unheeding

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Heed.


Heedless.


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Potential Titles: Uncover

New proof uncovered on every return - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"

Uncovering the same sweet dust - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"

Stand uncovered, torn and battle-spent - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"

Uncovering the dictates of graven line - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

What the rain did not uncover - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love"


Cover.


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Potential Titles: Uncommon

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Common.


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Potential Titles: Unchain

The giant's unchained strength - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

And unchain the silvery feet of waves - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Move unchained as wind across the world - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

The fresh liquor of unchained thought - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"

A pleasant salmon in the unchainable sea - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan


Chain.

Enchain.


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Potential Titles: Unbridled

( Unbridled )

Bridle.


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( Unbar )

Bar.


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Potential Titles: Unanswered/Unanswering

A rosary of unanswered hours - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

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

Every struck chime unanswering - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"

Wave after wave of unanswered murmur - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"

Unanswered red garnet - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"

Stamped with our unanswerable woes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Making a Fist"

eat and speak an unanswerable and chilling fire - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"

An unanswered crying turned to stone - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"


Answer.


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Potential Titles: Unimaginable/Unimagined

Unimagined lyrics of despair - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"

Though your beauty were a net of unimagined power - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

Against some unimagined darkness - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"

Circulate you unimagined - Fady Joudah "[...]"

A place of unimagined reds and golds - Linda Pastan "All Nights"

Unimagined graces from an unimagined June - Humbert Wolfe "Wheels 1919"


Adapting it to the unimaginable - Kay Ryan "In Case of Complete Reversal"

Rises and plunges into the unimaginable seventh dimension - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

The beginning of some new unimaginable moment - Keith Taylor "What's Needed Now"

Or the unimaginable touch of Time - William Wordsworth "Mutability"


Imagine.


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Potential Titles: Unsought

Here the dormant fury rests unsought - George Crabbe "The Library"

Left the shining shrines unsought - Thomas Hardy "After Reading Psalms XXXIX., XL., etc."

Those two seasons unsought - Thomas Hardy "A Two-Years' Idyll"

Sweetest when unsought - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"

With cunning of sound unsought - Algernon Swinburne "The Roundel"

With possession of music unsought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"


Seek.


Sought.


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Potential Titles: Unwearied

( Unwearied )

Weary.


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Will.

Willing.


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Potential Titles: Unwind

( Unwind )

As the shuttle sped and reels unwound - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Web of Dreams"

Unwound them where the Great Bear swung - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"


Wind (verb).


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Know.


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Potential Titles: Unseeing/Unseen

The unseeing eyes of discontent - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"

Beneath the sky's unseeing eyes - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"


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See/Seen.


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Potential Titles: Under

( Under )

Undercurrent.

Underfoot.

Underground.

Underneath.

Underside.

Understand/Understood.

Undertake/Undertake.

Undertow.

Underwater.

Underworld.


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( Till )

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Potential Titles: Unspoken

Laddering across the unspeakable world - Rita Dove "Transit"

Ten thousand unspeakable majesties - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Grandeurs of Mary"

Fifty unspeakable ones had borne his soul - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

You are an unspeakable adjective - Alfred Kreymborg "Poetry"


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Speak/Spoke.


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Spend/Spent.


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Under.

Water.


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Potential Titles: Unchanged/Changeless

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( Unchanging )

Forever the mighty maze inflicts unchangement - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"


Change/Changeful.


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( Uncertainty )

Certain.


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Potential Titles: Unfinished

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Finish.


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Fold.


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Name.

Nameless.


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Potential Titles: Unconscious

( Unconscious )

Turns in half-unconscious quest to those forgotten lullabies - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]


Conscious.


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Under.

World.


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Die/Dying.


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Expect.


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Potential Titles: Underground

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Ground.


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Potential Titles: Underneath

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Underneathness and the welcome of mosses - Camille T. Dungy "Characteristics of Life"


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Potential Titles: Unison

Still creaked the grasshoppers' rasping unison - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"

To a heart that vibrates ever in sweet unison - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

By great winds in awful unison - Archibald Lampman "New Year's Eve"

A power of unison between souls - Edgar Lee Masters "William and Emily"

In unison with your footfall - Theodore Maynard "Wed"

What we risk in unison - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"

Melody in pure and ordered unison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

A thousand arrows pointing in unison - Maggie Smith "Starling"


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( Unbound )

Bound.


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Break/Broke.


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Potential Titles: Undo/Undone

An undoer of complicated knots - Rodney Jones "For Katy"


( Undo )

( Undone )

Done.


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( Unfamiliar )

Familiar.


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( Unfurl )

Furl.


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Potential Titles: Undivided/Indivisible

Here let us linger indivisible - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"

That o'er our doom sheds undivided radiance - Edward Carpenter "Death"

Undivided by the hard lines of empire - Tarik Dobbs "A Djinn in Sakhnin"

With an undivided heart I loved - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

Takes from darkness and cold their undivided victories - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"


Divide/Divisible/Division.


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Relentless.


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Chart.


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Potential Titles: Undreamed

But undreamed worlds may come to birth - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"

Into an undreamt vista of stardust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"

Eros of the unthought, undreamed - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"

Found some undreamt light of tenderness - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]

Made of undreamed dreams glassed in morning dew - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"

Such undreamed distances as the last planets see - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


Dream.


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Potential Titles: Undress

( Undress )

Dress.


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Potential Titles: Unify

Unified mix of greenery, gravity, and water - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

Your name unifies the heart - Leonard Cohen "I Lost My Way"

Who unifies the upward heart - Leonard Cohen "It Is to You I Turn"

Twin saints, unified in their beauty - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"


Preaches the holy search for a Grand Unifying Theory - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"


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Potential Titles: Unlearn

( Unlearn )

Learn.


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Potential Titles: Unseal

Unsealing the mystery of Virgo - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

And could words unseal the spell - John Clare "The Meeting"

Unseal the shut, the hidden places - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"

Where the unsealed mountain meets the sky - Francis J. Lys "Justitia Excedens Terris"

Shall unseal its honeyed story - Susanna Moodie "The Maple-Tree"


Seal.


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Potential Titles: Untrodden

( Untrodden )

Tread/Trod.


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Potential Titles: Unyielding

( Unyielding )

Yield.


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Potential Titles: Unfathomable/Unfathomed

( Unfathomable )

( Unfathomed )

Fathom.

Fathomless.


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Potential Titles: Untrue/Untruth

Braves the opposition of the tried untrue - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The hollow, the base, the untrue - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"

Friends departed, friends untrue - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]

Romantic and silly and untrue - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

Barren-hearted and untrue - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

Which make the best philosophy untrue - Henry David Thoreau "Winter Memories"


Sweet those inscrutable untruths - Mary Jo Bang "Crossed-Over, Fiend-Snitched, X-ed Out"


True.


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Potential Titles: Unremembered/Unremembering

( Unremembered/Unremembering )

Remember.


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Potential Titles: Untouched/Untouchable

Touch.


The Untouchable had him by the throat - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

A part of the untouchable clouds - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

the soaring of voices to untouchable heights - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

At the great fork on the untouchable road - Charles Wright "Little Ending"


( Untouched )

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Potential Titles: Undertake/Undertaker

When once the task we undertake - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"

To undertake Medea's rescuing eyes - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"

Tools of a terrorist undertaking - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"

Undertake terrestrial forms of everything unspeakable - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

For here there are no depths to undertake - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Undertake the hijacking of language - Prageeta Sharma "Poetry Anonymous"


Like midwives and undertakers - Jane Kenyon "Three Songs at the End of Summer"


Take/Took.


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Potential Titles: Unending/Unended

( Unended/Unending )

End.

Endless.


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Potential Titles: Unfulfilled

( Unfulfilled )

Fulfill.


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Potential Titles: Unhappy/Unhappiness

( Unhappy/Unhappiness )

Happy/Happiness.


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Potential Titles: Unsung

( Unsung )

Sang.

Sing.

Singer.

Song.

Sung.


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Potential Titles: Unaware

( Unaware )

Aware.


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Potential Titles: Unquiet

The unquiet wish to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Solace for the unquiet mind - Danske Dandridge "Beneath the Pines"

From the unquiet realms of sleep - Darrell Figgis "Exile"

Spring's unquiet shadow listening - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

Across the wind's unquiet tides - Sarojini Naidu "The Royal Tombs of Golconda"

From unquiet bricks and boards - Tess Taylor "Wedding Album 1977"


Quiet.


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Potential Titles: Undertow

( Undertow )

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Potential Titles: Unsaid

( Unsaid )

Said.


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Potential Titles: Unmarked

Mark.

( Unmarked )

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Potential Titles: Undulate/Undulant

The undulant energies of pitch and syntax - B. K. Fischer "Museum of Menstruation"

Undulant rustlings of oncoming silk - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"


( Undulate )

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Potential Titles: Unbidden

Veering unbid into my view - Thomas Hardy "At Moonrise and Onwards"


( Unbidden )

Bid.

Bade.


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Potential Titles: Unafraid

( Unafraid )

Afraid.


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Potential Titles: Unforgotten/Unforgettable

An unforgettable fury of light - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"

Peace to thine unforgetting heart - George Sterling "The First Food"


Your wizard guards in vigilance unforgot - Archibald Lampman "Storm"

With heart-pain unforgot - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett


( Unforgotten )

Forget/Forgot.


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Potential Titles: Unicorn

We leave behind our unicorns - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Unicorn with bursting heart - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

Like an exiled general or a grounded unicorn - Edward Hirsch "Black Rhinoceros"

The shingled hippo becomes the gray unicorn - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Of unicorns all dripping gold - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

And the unicorn evils run them through - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"


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Potential Titles: Universal

( Universal )

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Potential Titles: Unroll

( Unroll )

Roll.


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Potential Titles: Unsatisfied

( Unsatisfied )

Satisfy/Satisfaction.


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Potential Titles: Unveil

( Unveil )

Veil.


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Potential Titles: Unbend/Unbent

Rigged with bones unbending - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"

The unbent hills and fields of our childhood - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 19"

Your ancient strength remains unbent - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

While trees unbent and listened - Ida Lee "The Drover's Vision"

Stretch their straight lines unbent - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell


Bend/Bent.


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Potential Titles: Underside

Lick the underside of the earth - Tina Chang "Fury"

Light on the underside of leaves - Jack Ridl "It Was Last Night, I Think"

Clipped to a grass blade's underside - Chase Twichell "Never"

Blank as the underside of a river - Jenny Xie "Alike, Yet Not Quite"

The underside of distance - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"


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Potential Titles: Unholy

( Unholy )

Holy.


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Potential Titles: Unnoticed

( Unnoticed )

Notice.


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Potential Titles: Untamed

( Untamed )

Tame.


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Potential Titles: Untroubled

( Untroubled )

Trouble.


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Potential Titles: Unworthy

( Unworthy )

Worthy.


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Potential Titles: Unwritten

( Unwritten )

Write.


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Potential Titles: Unleash

( Unleash )

Leash.


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Potential Titles: Unusual/Usual

Being smitten with an unusual wisdom - Ezra Pound "The Study in Aesthetics"


( Usual )

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Potential Titles: Unwrap

( Unwrap )

Wrap.


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Potential Titles: Unstable

A forest with unstable boundaries - Etel Adnan "Night"

An unstable moment - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"

The unstable camaraderie of exiles - Carl Phillips "Captivity"

From earth's unstable shores - E.J. Pratt "In Memoriam"

How unstable the poweres to which we grow attached - Paisley Rekdal "Wild Horses"


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Potential Titles: Universe

( Universe )

The voices of the micro-universe still remain - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"


The lottery, the multiverses, and tomorrow's astrology - Regie Cabico "Morning After the Election"

All the multiverses looping upon themselves - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

I don't think about the Multiverse - Jenny Thompson "Multiverse"


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Potential Titles: Unnumbered

( Unnumbered )

Innumerable.

Number.

Numberless.


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Potential Titles: Unasked

Till he came unasked by night - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Unasked for and colorless - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"

Given myself as an unasked weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"

May wait in silence & unasked - Ann K. Schwader "Wind Shift"

Unasked, I have entered a memory - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"


Ask.


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Potential Titles: Unblessed

( Unblessed/Unblest )

Bless.


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Potential Titles: Unravel

Ravel.


( Unravel )

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Potential Titles: Unconquerable/Unconquered

( Unconquered/Unconquerable )

Conquer.


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Potential Titles: Underfoot

Trilobites and shells embedded underfoot - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"

Righteousness in inkstone underfoot - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Trodden underfoot like wayside flowers - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

And trod wolves underfoot - D.H. Lawrence "The Ass"

Tramp them underfoot like pebbles - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Same chamomile crushed underfoot - Dean Young "Dear Bob," [Poetry Nov. 2011]


Feet/Foot.

Under.


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Potential Titles: Unearthly

( Unearthly )

Earth.

Earthly.


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Potential Titles: Uneven

With uneven stones - Rae Armantrout "Decor"

Across uneven pavements sunk in slime - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

Sifts down between the uneven roofs - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"

Song before two thousand uneven ears - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XVII" transl. by William O'Daly

In these uneven walls a wave lies prisoned - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"


Even not indexed.


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Potential Titles: Union

In some cannibalistic parent and child reunion - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"


( Union )

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Potential Titles: Unique

A unique river of desire - Hanif Abdurraqib "It's Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die"

The unique union of nine - Zeina Azzam "Nine Spice Mix"

No language unique to time - Mary Jo Bang "She Remembers His Hat"

Unique in meaning and fixed in order - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Not even a context for their unique situation - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"


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Potential Titles: Unlike/Unlikely

Not so likely to ferment blithe disregard - Scott Cairns "Another Road Home"

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


Unlikely steps on the gallows of wave function - Mike Allen "Pulse"

Unlike the logic of the lamp - Mary Jo Bang "They Were That and Then"

Not unlike Lot's wife - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "No More Birminghams"

Twisted in a peculiar way and fallen in an unlikely place - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"

Unlike despair, happiness knows no final answer - Charles Wright "Only the I-Ching Hexagrams Are Lacking"


Like not indexed.


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Potential Titles: Unquenchable/Unquenched

( Unquenchable/Unquenched )

Quench.


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Potential Titles: Unruly

Made him her unruly quorum - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"

Waiting to sail out into unruly ocean - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"

An unruly and subversive passion - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"

And no more able to quiet that unruly heart - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

So unruly are my needs - Jenny Xie "Letters to Du Fu"


Rule.


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Potential Titles: Unfaltering

( Unfaltering )

Falter.


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Potential Titles: Unlit

( Unlit )

Lit.


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Potential Titles: Untold

( Untold )

Tell/Told.


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Potential Titles: Unbearable

( Unbearable )

Bear (Endure or Carry).


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