Potential Titles: Woe

( Woe )

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Potential Titles: Woman/Women

( Woman/Women )

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Potential Titles: Woof

( Woof )

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Potential Titles: Wound (Injury)

For the past tense of 'to wind' see: Wind (verb)/Unwind. The sorting may be a bit wobbly because some usages could be interpreted in more than one way.


( Wound )

A sword-wound to that tender heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan


Look on me with unwounding eyes - John Danyel "Why Canst Thou not, as Others Do?"

The fissure of the lightning leaves it unwounded - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"


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Potential Titles: Worse/Worst

( Worse )

( Worst )

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Potential Titles: Wore/Worn

Wear.


( Wore )

( Worn )

And careworn brows forget - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Songs for the People"


Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont


With its wild midnight orgies overworn - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"


An aficionado of the wilted, the shopworn, and the free - Ted Kooser "In the Alley"


By many a storm-worn stone - E.J. Bronte "The Outcast Mother"


On the timeworn pavement - Alun "Tintern Abbey" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

As a time-worn stone - Denis Florence MacCarthy "A Lament"


Among the weather-worn shards - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"


Up the same well-worn path - Angelina Weld Grimke "The Eyes of My Regret"


Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear.


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Potential Titles: Wordless

Word.


( Wordless )

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Potential Titles: Word

( Word )

Freedom's sweet keynote and commission-word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"


The satisfaction of crossword puzzles - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"


Only these hungry miser-words - Muriel Stuart "Sic Transit--"


The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"


Sister-words of blame - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"


Unworded songs and musics never heard - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva


Will be a watchword and a battle hymn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"

The deep watchword of the rushing storm - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

To solve the doubt, watchword and countersign - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]


Wordless.


Keep the meddlesome chthonic wordslingers cranky - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"


That improvised word-spun truth - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"


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Potential Titles: Woodbine

Rotting pillars where the woodbines twine - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

And fettered him with woodbine sweet - Philip Bourke Marston "Love Asleep"

With tendrils of woodbine is bound - William Shenstone "The Shepherd's Home"

The crystal song of the woodbine - "'Tis Sweet to Roam"


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Potential Titles: Workshop

The noisy workshop of the world - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

The entire workshop of the body - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Workshop on the avenue of greater dreaming - Tim Pratt "Mask"

In the workshop of my mind - D.L. Sayers "Sympathy"

called you from your idle dream-workshop - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"


Shop.

Work.


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Potential Titles: Worthless

( Worthless )

Worth.


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Potential Titles: Wooden

( Wooden )

Wood/Woods.


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Potential Titles: Woodpecker

( Woodpecker )

The pileated woodpecker's maniacal laugh - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"


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Potential Titles: Wormhole

Where wormholes close and open like anemone - Kendall Evans "Oracle"

Surrounding Eden for a wormhole into paradise - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Stuffed in wormholes and pipes - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

The membrane of memory itself wormholed - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

Wormholing haphazard between those spaces - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"


Hole.

Worm.


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Potential Titles: Worry

( Worry )

Storm-worried Argo slept - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"


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Potential Titles: Wonder

( Wonder )

Clad in the garb of wonder-fire - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"


( Wonderful )

The implications of our wonderland - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"

A declining wonderland - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Imagine"

There is no room left for my wonderland - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"


Hauling their bereaved wonderment - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"


Everything wild and wonder-touched - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"


Wondrous.


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Potential Titles: Worthy

( Worthy )

The newsworthy world a nebulous swirl - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"


Unworthy.


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Potential Titles: Worm

( Worm )

Silkworm.

Togas of worm-eaten mud - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Wormhole.

Ornate with worm-trail tracery - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"


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Potential Titles: Worth

( Worth )

Worthless.


The small worthwhile pieces - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"


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Potential Titles: Knuckle

( Knuckle )

A litter of chewed knucklebones - Alice Notley "Woman in Front of Poster of Herself"


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Potential Titles: Woo

( Woo )

Dutiful but unwooed by chisel and bench - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"


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Potential Titles: World

( World )

Pretending the Doubleworld was acceptable - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"


Whose root claws at the midworld fire - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"


Old World.


Your otherworldliness preserved in soul - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Flecked with otherworldly raindrops - Joseph O. Legaspi "Imagined Love Poem to my Mother from my Father"

That otherworldly moaning glissando - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"


Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"


To guide the star-worlds of eternity - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood


Underworld.


Rise victorious from every worldly strife - E.M. "Part VI. The Apologia"

And light my worldly path no more - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"

Unsoiled by worldly dust - Tao Qian (translated by James Hightower) "Returning to the Farm to Dwell I"


The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"


The dark gates of that world-quelling mind - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"


Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]


A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"


World-voices chanting grand arias - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"


There was a loud quarrel, worldwide - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Disintegrating worldwide stock markets - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

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


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Potential Titles: Worship

( Worship )

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Potential Titles: Woodland

( Woodland )

Land.


Wood/Woods/Wooden.


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Potential Titles: Work

( Work )

Dragons in embossed brickwork marching - William Carlos Williams "March"

A nervous brushwork of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"

Clockwork.

The dreamwork of trees - Lisel Mueller "Why I Need the Birds"

Their boots knew the footwork - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"

Bundled guesswork disguised as intention - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"

Of eleven maidens the handiwork - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Signposts in sorrow & paperwork - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"

Patchwork.

In this glittering piece-work world - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"

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

Graffiti on the stonework - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

A rainbow tapework as a token of goodbye - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Ringing of threadwork and carpet - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

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

Workshop.

The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"


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Potential Titles: Wood/Woods

Shut my bramblewood door - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson

Trampled on brushwood and fern - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

Dreamt a grove grown for coffinwood - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"

Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"

Driftwood.

Fifty years under the greenwood tree - Andrew Lang "The Brigand's Grave"

The keening of dust on hardwood - Julia Bouwsma "Upon Opening Another Folded Day"

Further down pinewoods' blood horizon - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"

( Plywood )

( Sandalwood )

Cut from an awkward block of ship-wood - H.D. "Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4"

Down aisles of tangled underwood - Don Marquis "The Rondeau"

Wildwood.


( Wood/Woods )

The reluctant who turn their backs on wooded fires - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

Deep in the wooded muscle of your heart - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

And cease to haunt these wooded ways - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"


Wooden.


While eating wood-grown fruits - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"


Woodland.


Before the woodman's fatal stroke - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"


Woodsmoke rising to the ashy stars - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"


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Potential Titles: Wolf

( Wolf )

A mouse hands back a wolf-totem - Mary Jo Bang "The Cracked Jar Called Can it Be Taught"


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Potential Titles: Wondrous

( Wondrous )

Wonder.


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Potential Titles: Wool

( Wool )

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Potential Titles: Wormwood

( Wormwood )

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