Potential Titles: Wistful

( Wistful )

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Potential Titles: Witness

( Witness )

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Potential Titles: Will (noun and adjective)

( Will )

An emanation willed into matter - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Because the volcanoes willed it - Pablo Neruda "Disasters" transl. by William O'Daly

The willed suspension of belief - Carl Phillips "Spring"


Willing.


Wilful/Willful.


The waves prefer their cold free-will - Lermontof "[One wave upon another leaps]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]


Whose every atom is self-willed - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"


Who spilled the strong-willed wine - Dean Young "Spring Reign"


Unwilling.


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Potential Titles: Wild-Rose

( Wild-Rose )

Rose.

Wild.


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Potential Titles: Wise

( Wise )

The moments of my unwiseness - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"

Yet this heart unwise - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "How Shall I Build"

Unwise and curiously planned - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"


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Potential Titles: Wine

( Wine )

Clasps his hands in the wine-chill air - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"


( Wineglass )

The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"


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Potential Titles: Wife

A wife of freshly fallen snow - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

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

Who wed a flower wife - Joyce Kilmer "Said the Rose"

Whose wives all came to unhappy ends - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Having sweethearts, but no wives - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Straighter than the wife of Caesar - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

The cursing wives of the dark - Frank Stanford "Vanish"


And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"


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Potential Titles: Witch

Bewitch.


( Witch )

Some buried witch-bell rings - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"


Witchcraft.


The witched hours of want - Natalie Diaz "From the Desire Field"

Witched by thy Narcissus eye - Hafiz "The Divan II" (translated by H. Bicknell)


Flee from the tyrant Circe's witcheries - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Whose eye, for me, has lost its witchery - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"

Her witchery my looping trail - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen K"


The dark, witch-haunted solitude - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"


( Witching )

Witch-lights of laughter - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"


a scrawl of hands weaving witchtricks - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"


The citrus peels our witch-work requires - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"


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Potential Titles: Witchcraft

( Witchcraft )

Craft.

Witch.


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Potential Titles: Wind (verb)

Rewind to the seconds of its resurrection - Janine Joseph "Oh, I'm Dying, I'm Dying"

How many times must we rewind - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Laments Her Reincarnation"

Never known a law to rewind a bullet - Tariq Luthun "Al-Bahr"

Rewinds the mind's clock - Jenny Molberg "After Twenty Junes"


( Wind (verb) )

The winder of consequence - Mary Jo Bang "The Blank of Reason Produces Blank: After Goya"


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( Wound )

Unwind.


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Potential Titles: Win/Won

( Win )

( Won )

On some hard-won eminence of hope - Don Marquis "The Comrade"


A task undone and a prize unwon - George Blackstone Field "Yesterday"


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Potential Titles: Wield

( Wield )

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Potential Titles: Windy

( Windy )

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Potential Titles: Wisdom

( Wisdom )

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Potential Titles: Without

( Without )

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Potential Titles: Wind-Blown

Crouching dust and wind-blown sand - Edmund Blunden "The Giant Puffball"

For the willows' wind-blown hair - Willa Cather "Fides Spes"

Open to a sky of windblown herons - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"

Our little wind-blown hearts - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

In every cloud of wind-blown dust - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Hearts of wind-blown flame - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"


Blow/Blew.

Wind.


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Wick/Candlewick

( Wick )

Boys with candlewick lips to be lit - Marianne Chan "With"

As stars burn down like candle-wicks - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"

Snuffed out candlewick shadow - Yona Harvey "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"


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Potential Titles: Willow

( Willow )

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Potential Titles: Wildcat

The wildcat quarrel of traffic - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch-Time Along Broadway"

Tigers and wolves and wild-cats - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"

Wildcats and wolves wearing the hats of men - Li Po "Poem No.19 in the Old Manner" transl. by Burton Watson

Fight like scalded wildcats - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Wild cat with a hand cannon - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"


Cat.

Wild.


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Potential Titles: Wildfire

( Wildfire )

Fire.

Wild.


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Potential Titles: Windowsill/Sill

Attracting crows to sit on the sill and caw - Zilka Joseph "Green Kaanji and Destiny"

Dry snow under the storm-locked sills - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"


Dead shells accumulating on the windowsill - John James "Forget the Song"

All the windowsills you've ever known - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Geraniums bloomed on windowsills - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Herbs and succulents on their windowsills - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"


Window.


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Potential Titles: Wildwood

Where the wild wood ceaseless breathes - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"

In the uprooted wild-wood - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Bereft of wildwood joy and song - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"

No hound's note wakens the wildwood hart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Some roof of wildwood tree - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"

Praise to the king of the wildwood ring - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]


Wild.

Wood/Woods.


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Potential Titles: Wink

Winking glimpses at incarnadined flame - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"

This great wink of eternity - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Eclipse and cloud them with a wink - John Donne "The Sun Rising"

See you winking back like the stars - Lauren Parker "Miranda"

In a dizzying cloven wink - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"

In the republic of the winking stars and spent cataclysms - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"


An unwinking beacon, sister to stars - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Blaster Bill" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]


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Potential Titles: Wilful/Willful

Raucous and willful, loud as thunder - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"

Vexes that wilful and capricious eye - William Cory "Amavi"

A wraith so poised and willful at trail's end - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

May no fate willfully misunderstand me - Robert Frost "Birches"

Autumn crickets sound their willful cries - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

A wayward, wilful wind that blew hot - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

Because thy wilful heart will not believe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"


Will (noun, adjective).


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Potential Titles: Willing

( Willing )

Unwilling.


Will (noun).


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Potential Titles: Wide

( Wide )

Wide-eyed as Athena's wired owl - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [Is it possible to let the sleeping life seep into day--]

Control with gossamer threads wide-flown - James Russell Lowell "The Dancing Bear"

Till waters scream in anger and the wide-mouthed valley fills - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"

Filled with wide-shining wonder - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

The wide-sweeping meadows of truth - Cora C. Bass "The Future"

To try the world-wide cry - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"


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Potential Titles: Wisp

A wisp of jests and the laughter - Frank D. Ashburn "The Lost Legion"

Some wisp of misty memory - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

A wisp of the battering wind - Lola Ridge "The Destroyer"

Long cool wisps of glimmer - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"

A wisp of straw once coiled about their shoots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"


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Potential Titles: Wisteria

Drying freshly damp wisteria with black silk - Joshua Bennett "Owed to the Durag"

A wisteria poked its lank blossoms through the cloudbank - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Ghost fragrances of wisteria and gardenia - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"

Rope-work of wisteria, wands of oleander - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Wisteria bulging on spring air - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"


Honey cakes in tombs wisteria-hung - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"


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Potential Titles: Wild

( Wild )

By sheeted rain blown tempest-wild - Theodore H. Rand "The Opal Fires Are Gone"


Sweet chant of the wild-birds' morning hymn - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"


And the small death of the wild card - Frank Stanford "Embark"


Wildcat.


Half fragile as water, half hydrophobic wildchild - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"


( Wilder )

( Wildest )

Walks wild-eyed and cries to Time - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


Wildfire.


Wildflower.


Neighbored by the wild-grape - Louise Imogen Guiney "Late Peace"


Shake from your wilding throats - Adelaide Crapsey "The Plaint"


( Wildly )

( Wildness )

Wild-omened scarlet glooms - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems V"


Wild-Rose.


A wild-sweet wonder of yesterday - Herbert Randall "Hills o' My Heart"


Drifts of wild-thorn flowers - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"


Wildwood.


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Potential Titles: Wilderness

( Wilderness )

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Potential Titles: Minion

Summon a minion made of radishes - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

Scorn oppression's minions - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"

Why send minions on clandestine capers - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"

Truth's a minion of the mind - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"

freeing the minions from their mindcontrol helmets - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"


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Potential Titles: Within

( Within )

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Potential Titles: Wither

( Wither )

Like the breath of morning to half-withered flowers - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Slow-withering stick and stone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

Lilies unwithering, magnolias of iron - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"



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Potential Titles: Wing

( Wing )

Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

Butterfly-winged sphinxes guarded their eggs - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Where chill-winged curlews dip and call - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

By this dark-winged planet - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

A thousand death-winged messengers - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Like the dusk-winged albatross - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Golden-winged through the glory swim - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

A buzzing bouquet of moon-winged butterflies - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Moth-winged Cupid painted on the air - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

The holy six-winged seraphim - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen

Stars that shower swift-winged light - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"

And watched Magellan's white-winged ships - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

Shrill the wind-winged heralds blew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Under the wingbeats of moths - Conrad Hilberry "Talk on the Porch"

Still for a wingbeat second - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

With steady wingbeats boosts his way - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"

Into a bat's wing-brush of air - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

( Wingless )

The ballet of wingspan - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"

The wingspan of an idea taking off - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"


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Potential Titles: Withdraw

( Withdraw )

Withdrew into blurred definitions - Etel Adnan "Night"


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Potential Titles: Wish

( Wish )

At the bottom of a wishing well - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"


Wishlist of crossed out verbs - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"


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Potential Titles: Winter

( Winter )

a walk in a midwinter ochre wood - Jason Allen-Paisant "And You..."

Fettered in midwinter's crystal chains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Pilot of the Plains"

Like the seed of midwinter - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope I: The Message of the March Wind"


Like overwintered wasps plotting assassinations - Matthew Wimberley "The Celebrated Colors of the Local Sunsets"


An April bud on winter-haunted trees - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"


Alone in the winter-house - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"


From the peatmoss of our winter-keep - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"


The winterlight consumes the field - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"


The park is winter-plucked - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"


When winter-time grows weary - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"


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Potential Titles: Wilt

( Wilt )

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Potential Titles: Winnow

( Winnow )

Harvest-feeding dews, fine-winnowed light - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"


A treasure of unwinnowed grain - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"


Under the breath of the winnowing-fan - Thomas Hardy "Without, Not Within Her"


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Potential Titles: Wind-Swept

Hang on the shivering wind-swept year - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Song of Scarlet"

The sweetest of windswept memories - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"

Across the wind-swept waves of Time - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Across a wind-swept sphere - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Welcome"

The wind-swept harp of earth - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

Upon a shore wind-swept and desolate - James Stephens "The Shell"

Land of wind-swept plains and blood - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"


Sweep.


Wind.


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Potential Titles: Window

( Window )

Content in its windowless world - Danusha Lameris "Nothing Wants to Suffer"

And pushes us on to the windowless inn - Edwin Markham "Youth and Time"

The trampolined floor of a windowless room - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"


Pane/Windowpane.


Windowsill/Sill.


Window-perched cats and foraging chipmunks - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"


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Potential Titles: Wind

East Wind.


North Wind.


South Wind.


West Wind.


( Wind )

( Compound words involving Wind )

Windless.


Windy.


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Potential Titles: Wicked

( Wicked )

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Potential Titles: Windless

( Windless )

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Potential Titles: Wire

( Wire )

Barbed Wire.


A mutation of myth hardwired - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Hot-wires the sun with its speed - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

The moon rewired our universe - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"

Two stops apart on a tightwired continuum - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"


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Potential Titles: Wizard

( Wizard )

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Potential Titles: Withhold

( Withhold/Withheld )

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Potential Titles: Windmill

( Windmill )

Mill.

Wind.


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Potential Titles: Withstand/Withstood

( Withstand/Withstood )

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