Potential Titles: Rocks [category]

See Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [category] for gemstones and decorative rocks.


Alabaster:
The portico hung o'er a flight of alabaster - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"

Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Highways like ribbons of alabaster - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson

Anthracite:
Against the scintillant anthracite of space - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Apatite:
An apatite translucency of winter sky - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

Asbestos:
Wove a rich asbestic web - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Gathered great heaps of fraying asbestos - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Like flame at an asbestos curtain - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Robes of asbestos do we wear - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

Ashlar:
Ashlar whereon the gales might drum - Thomas Hardy "The Old Workman"

Asphalt.

Asteroid.

Basalt:
Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"

In sable trammel, behind her basalt door - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

Uncurled in a basalt crack below spruce - Keith Taylor "The Guest Cabin"

Nestled in a bowl of basalt and blueberries - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

Bedrock:
Giant feet grounded deep in bedrock - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

Lie quiet as bedrock beneath - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

Slammed his second fist into the bedrock of the sea - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"

Boulder.

Brick.

Brimstone.

Calcite:
Built a calcite beehive tomb - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

Cement.

Chalk.

Cinderblock:
Built of cinderblocks and barbed wire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"

Cinnabar:
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Spoons of jade mixing magic cinnabar - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson

Coal.

Cobble/Cobblestone.

Concrete.

Feldspar:
Fireworks in fields of feldspar and lace - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

Flint.

Fossil.

Geology.

Glass.

Granite.

Gravel.

Gypsum:
Hiding among the gypsum flakes - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"

Hematite:
Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

Keystone:
The keystone of his airy bridge - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Lava.

Limestone.

Lode:
Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Loadstone/Lodestone:
The loadstone beckons to the long needle - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

Magma:
Over plains of magma murk - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Crawling baby of magma and water - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"

Marble/Marbled/Marbles.

Meteor.

Mica:
Mica embedded in a mattress of slate - Mary Jo Bang "Hotel Incognito"

gold against the mica sky - Didi Jackson "Fall"

Sparkled scatter of mica and stone chips - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Millstone.

Mineral.

Moonrock:
A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Pebble.

Petrify.

Pitchblende:
hard white bones shot with pitchblende - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Pumice:
The whited pumice of the storm - Walter S. Percy "The Blizzard"

Quarry.

Rock.

Salt

Sand.

Sandstone:
With a sandstone faith still worn - Rebecca G. Biber "Artichoke"

Through the canyons of sandstone and shale - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

sandstone bones are left long under sage - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Shale:
The shale night filling with rain - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"

Through the canyons of sandstone and shale - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

Became black slick hid in shale - Tiffany Higgins "Samba in the Sky" [Poetry Nov. 2013]

Garden of scaffolding and shale - Erika Meitner "Ghost Eden"

Discern salt from iron or shell from shale - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Slate.

Stone.


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Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [Category]

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Agate.

Amber.

Amethyst.

Aquamarine:
Staring into aquamarine and amethyst - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Aquamarine Pisces gems for eyes - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Angled slats of aquamarine - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Beryl.

Carbuncle:
Windows of agates, and gates of carbuncles - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"

Carnelian:
A branch of carnelian to serve as food - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

A lamina of coral and carnelian - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Chalcedony:
Paved with copper and chalcedony - Richard Aldington "On a Motor-Bus at Night"

Burnished like chalcedony - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Scene"

Chrysolite:
Girt by a colonnade of crysolite - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Citrine:
Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"

Crystal.

Diamond.

Emerald.

Garnet:
Unanswered red garnet - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"

That dark garnet of a husband - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

each new days i show my garnet arms - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

A garnet stone to match my gift - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Gem.

Jade/Jaded.

Jasper.

Jet.

Jewel.

Lapis:
Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

A sea-gull of lapis lazuli - Marianne Moore "Talisman"

Malachite.

Moonstone.

Nephrite:
Lush throats throttled by nephrite - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway

Obsidian.

Onyx.

Opal.

Peridot:
Dazzling as a piece of raw peridot - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Lime cordial, molten peridot - Richard Scott "Peridot"

To recover some peridot shard - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Quartz.

Rock.

Rhinestone:
A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"

Rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"

Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Rhodonite:
One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

Ruby.

Sapphire.

Selenite:
Selenite incense holder to honor my fresh dead - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

Soapstone:
Uprooting soapstone and jade - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Stone.

Tigereye:
A tigereye banded five kinds of gold - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

Topaz.

Tourmaline:
To lay tourmalines and tinted glass - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"

Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Turquoise.


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Potential Titles: Reptiles and Amphibians [category]

Adder.

Alligator:
In which the alligator's peace splashes - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

From the devouring alligator's thrones - Pablo Neruda "Doctor Francia" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Where the snake and alligator lurk in endless everglades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

For the eye of the young alligator - Wallace Stevens "Nomad Exquisite"

Anaconda:
The spectral forms of anaconda - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Anole:
Memorized sonnets while leaping around green anoles - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"

Asp.

Axolotl:
Baby axolotls and crickets' songs surviving - P. H. Low "Ode"

Boa Constrictor:
Pythons and boa constrictors plucked from a gorgon's scalp - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

Bullfrog:
The burble of the bull-frog in the well - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Bogs churning with bullfrogs - Diane Seuss "Curl"

Chameleon:
Strange garrisons of emerald-mailed chameleons - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

Chameleons run through twenty colors in the sun - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Like a vast chameleon changed - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

Cobra.

Copperhead:
The lace the sultry copperhead sheds - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Cottonmouth:
how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"

Crocodile.

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

Frog.

Iguana:
To impersonate iguanas in ruins - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"

to explain civil unions to an iguana - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins

Lizard.

Newt:
Slowing to the pace of the newt - Maxine Scates "Look"

Painted Turtle:
Envied the painted turtle sunning on a log - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

Painted turtles, pumpkinseed or green sunfish - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"

Python:
Let pythons wrap themselves around you - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

a Galatea in Python too cold to share a bed with - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

The python's murderous embrace - James Jeffrey Roche "Nature the False Goddess"

Pythons and boa constrictors plucked from a gorgon's scalp - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

Rattlesnake.

Reptile.

Salamander:
Old salamander basking in the fire - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

A salamander shaking off light - Mark Irwin "Threshold"

Salamanders use the stars to find their way - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

Some flame-red salamander pirouetting - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Serpent.

Sidewinder:
Sidewinders in the saloons of fools - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Snake.

Toad.

Tortoise.

Tree-Frog:
Heard the tree-frog foretelling a storm - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Tree frogs blossoming after a country rain - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"

When the tree-frogs chant in choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

Turtle.

Viper.


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Potential Titles: Rank/Titles - Hereditary (Ish) and Adjacent [category]

Aristocrat:
Aristocrat of time - Emily Dickinson "She sped as the Petals of a Rose"

Ageless aristocracy of a peerless soul - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"

The delicate aristocracies of bloom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Baron:
Rome's legacy recalled by certain barons in their failing days - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Caesar.

Calif/Caliph:
Gems that drop from off a Calif's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Caste:
a caste of lies is built as cells - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"

Czar:
Trampled on the sleeping Czars - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

No one asked the tzar's daughters - francine j. harris "Did anyone ever ask any one of Nikita's daughters"

Make the savage Czar in terror clutch his crown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Stood before hell's mighty czar - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"

Dame:
Dame Night her tapestry's begun - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Discovering many a glimpse of knights and dames - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"

Dynasty.

Emperor/Empress.

Free-Born:
Free-born bird with echo babbling after - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Helot:
One of the mart-made helots - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

Imperial.

King.

Knight.

Lady.

Lord.

Majestic/Majesty.

Monarch.

Noble.

Peasant.

Pharaoh:
Greater wonders than shook Pharaoh's throne - Tommaso Campanella "XXXIX. On the Lord's Prayer. No.3" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The pharaohs of rice and indigo - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"

Moves the seven great ebony pharaohs - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Pharaoh's drinking cups of amethysts - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"

Prince/Princess.

Queen.

Regal.

Regent:
Regents of the spheres of light - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Fair regent of the night - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Retinue:
Like a retinue of assassins - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"

Royal.

Serf:
Serf of the monstrous city - George Cronyn "Song in Winter"

The thorns for his serfs - Arthur M. Forrester "The Lord of Kenmare"

The poorest serf who fears a tyrant's nod - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

Guardian and serf of that grey house - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"

Slave.

Sovereign.

Squire.

Subject.

Thane:
Of thanes and thieves and kin - Shivanee Ramlochan "Witch Hindu"

Thrall.

Throne.

Tsar/Tzar: See Czar above.

Vassal.


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Potential Titles: Rank/Titles - Religious [category]

Some overlap with Supernatural/Religious [category]. Some words may be there instead of here. Arbitrarily.

Acolyte:
With throngs of worthy acolytes - CM Burroughs "God Letter"

With one wild honey-bee for acolyte - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Anchorite:
Brightens the gloom of the anchorite's cell - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Apostate:
Like some apostate monk - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Apostate to my father's creed - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Nothing will these Apostates please - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]

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"

Augur/Augury.

Avatar:
Love's radiant avatar - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

What dark god's avatar awaits - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"

Tossed to their height by endless avatars - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

And my shadowy avatars renounced - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"

A timeless avatar of never-ending dooms - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Bishop:
A game of rooks & bishops on an expanding board - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"

Congregate/Congregation.

Disciple.

Excommunicate:
The excommunicates of Rhyme - George Meredith "The Point of Taste"

Exorcist:
A troupe of exorcists - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"

Heresy/Heretic:
Heretics believe there is a forest - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"

Indigo of wizard Heresy - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

The heretic has come at last to heel - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"

to work its internalized heresies - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Where autumn foams at the lips of heretics - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Taught them such gross heresy - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"

That well-known foolish heresy - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone

Hermit.

Infidel:
An infidel in thought and word and grief - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Love of Judas"

Infidels of our own high mysteries - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Messiah:
Spoke our own gospels like mad messiahs - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"

Minister.

Monk.

Nun:
A porcelain nun behind a wrought iron gate - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"

White silence like a nun - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

More revolutionary than a nun - Frank O'Hara "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art"

Pain has all the patience of a nun - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"

Pagan.

Paladin:
Paladins from Jordan's shore - Charles Badham "Lines Written at Warwick Castle"

That from Valhalla brings the Paladins - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"

Parishioner:
Guarded by the granite names of dead parishioners - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"

Pastor:
In gardens pastored by snakes - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"

Pilgrim/Pilgrimage.

Postulant:
Postulants for the stars' previous wisdom - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

Priest/Priestess.

Probationer:
A young probationer of light - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"

Prophecy/Prophet.

Saint.

Synod:
Of sect, surplice, or synod - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

And hold a Synod in thy heart - Marquis of Montrose "I'll Never Love Thee More" (Per Wikipedia, the 1st-4th Marquesses of Montrose were all named James Graham. Later, the title attached to the Duke of Montrose as a subsidiary title, but I'm assuming that, if the poet had a ducal title, the editor would have used that instead. I decided not to dig further and just to put this under 'Montrose.')


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Potential Titles: Rank/Titles - People and Groups in Communities/Relationships [category]

This includes professions and other people adjacent words that don't fit better elsewhere.

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

Agent.

Allegiance.

Ally.

Ambassador:
Sends assassins not ambassadors - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Ambassadors exchanging costly gifts - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"

An ambassador of the sun - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"

Autocrat:
Upon the Book of Time the Autocrat has writ - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Bandit.

Barbarian.

Barkeeper:
'Til the Barkeep's out of ice - W.E. Christian "Pay Day"

Bigot:
Where bigot zeal should find no place - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Huguenot Fort"

Bully:
To disarm the most resilient bully - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"

The bully of the bootleg town - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Tragedy of Pete"

Only the bullying sun of Madrid - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"

To bully me into these festive occasions - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

A bully pushing lettuce around - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"

Bureaucracy.

Bystander:
Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."

Cabal:
This hot cabal of treasury bench - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Cadre:
A cadre of shame brandishing knives - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Candidate:
A painful candidate for lasting fame - George Crabbe "The Library"

Chancellor:
The Chancellor of the Wheat and Corn - James M'Carroll "A Royal Race"

Chaperone:
By the white swan chaperoned - D.M. Matheson "The Gardens"

The chaperone lingers at the adder's-tongue - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"

Chief:
The chief of blue Valhalla's deities - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

Each chief is now a vassal low - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

The eternal way of the four chief doors - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Chiefest among ten thousand charms - Mary Dana Shindler "Chiefest Among Ten Thousand and Altogether Lovely"

Citizen.

Civilian:
Slowed down for civilian conversation - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"

Class:
Bored by classes on constellations we'll never see - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

To the poorest class of hope - Thomas Lynch "October"

Clique:
Idols of a petty clique - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

Club.

Coalition:
Buoyed by your own coalition with the air - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

Cohort.

Collaborator:
That jaded collaborator, daylight - Maxwell Bodenheim "Realism"

Collective.

Committee:
And escape the wrath of the committees - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

The committee for naming tornadoes - Matthew Zapruder "Schwinn"

Community:
Cross this ocean of liberation in community - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

Where community can constellate - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

Comrade.

Conclave:
In the midst of a dazzled conclave - C.S. Calverley "Flight"

Conference.

Convict:
The convict's melancholy king - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

Convocation:
Convocations of indispensable sisterhoods - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

Cop:
Hidden from the cop car sleeking innocently past - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"

Council:
The stern and lofty councils of despair - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Around the many Council fires - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"

A council of solemn dolls who try you - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"

Crew.

Crowd.

Democratic:
Towards their own democratic end - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Denizen:
Where an ancient wrath is denizen - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"

One of the earth-starred denizens - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"

Despot:
The despots in their stolen state - Tommaso Campanella "XXXII. To the Swiss" transl. by John Addington Symonds

All the despot's bolts and powers - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"

With despot snares behind them - "Remember Traitors" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Where your despot feet have led - Iris Tree "Flame"

Diaspora:
A thirst trap hinged on diaspora - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"

A hall filled with a hungry diaspora - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"

a full moon in diaspora - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Rocket No. 9 To Venus"

the universe in diasphoric wailing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

Dictator:
Dictators of the wine harvest - Pablo Neruda "The Bordellos" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Drew the dictatorship of flies - Pablo Neruda "United Fruit Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt

Elite:
Washington's elite that vowed to drown them - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Embassy:
The secrets of your lunar embassy - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"

In tender embassy of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

In one rich embassy of gold - "The Summer"

Buzzing private embassies were sped - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"

Emissary:
The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

They walked long as emissaries - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"

The emissaries of her will - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"

Emissaries drawn from near and far - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

Enemy.

Envoy:
An envoy for the memory - Jenny Molberg "Fourth State of Matter"

Exile.

Expatriate:
The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

Itinerant eyes in expatriate hearts - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

Faction:
Factions of the circus and the shrine - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

Warring factions agreed up the date and final form - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Defend from faction's wild commotion - "The Union Marseillaise" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Just faction politics, and nothing more - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

Family Relationships [category].

Fellow/Fellowship.

Feminist:
The complicity of the scholars and the feminists - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

Flower Girl:
The myth of flower girls selling futures - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"

Foe.

Folk.

Foreign.

Foreman:
Foreman's shack at the mining pool's edge - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

So vulgar it would make a foreman blush - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Friend.

Fugitive.

Gang:
Shredding the sky in their hooligan gangs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

Graduate:
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

Group.

Guard.

Guardian.

Guest.

Guild:
Just outside the hall of their ancient Guild - Henry S. Leigh "The Vision of the Alderman"

Herald.

Hierarchy.

Higher-Ups:
Suspect the higher-ups have hidden motives - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"

Hobo:
Railroad tracks and hobo jungle - Mary Jo Bang "A Screen Door Slams"

Which keeps hobos poor and corporations rich - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Host.

Hostage.

Household:
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

Morning wakes its household noises - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

Lord of ten thousand households - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

Of the shadow on the household - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"

Immigrant:
Has failed every immigrant - Fatimah Asghar "A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too"

All of immigrants to this soil - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"

Judge/Judgment.

Juror/Jury:
The jury picked to hear your plea - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

Jurors surveying a crime scene - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

We'll try the rogue, by Judge and Jury - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"

Landlady/Landlord:
Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

and the landlady did not wake - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

Libertine:
A cross between a Jester and a Libertine - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: March"

Longshoreman:
Danced the floors of cold longshoremen's halls - David St. John "Guitar"

Maid/Maiden.

Malcontent:
Rough-hewn hours of practice and malcontent - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

Malcontents and mutineers - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

The alphabet for interrupters, malcontents - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"

Master.

Mayor:
The sullen mayor who reigns in hell - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"

Member:
A member of the fiasco survivor's club - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands, II"

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

Migrant/Migration.

Minion.

Minister.

Mob.

Myrmidion:
The innumerable myrmidons of his empire - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Native.

Neighbor/Neighborhood.

Newborn.

Nomad.

Official:
Protected by official oblivion - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria E. Dweller of Heaven"

Treat with Nature in official pacts - George Meredith "My Theme: Continuation"

Oligarch:
Aimed against the oligarchs - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

The oligarchs trampling the green - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"

Or made the Oligarchal Tyrants strong - Philo "The Tribute"

Outlaw.

Overlord:
Overlord of many kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

Parliament:
Mute parliament of each thing - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

Come out of the ocean in their parliamentary regalia - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"

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

Feeding the partisans from frugal larders - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Passerby:
Encounter only Death, the Passer-by - William Theodore Peters "Death and Love"

We hand passers-by silk ribboned poems - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Patriot:
How could we ever be patriots? - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

Patron:
When ignorance was patron to my need - David Gray "Despondency"

Again today our patron star - Tess Taylor "Solstice"

Pedestrian:
And aren't we all pedestrians of air? - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]

People.

Person/Personal.

Physician:
Physician who cured not a few of ambition - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

Sought physicians for histology - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"

Playmate.

Plot.

Police:
A gateway to emptiness policed by ghosts - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

The policeman's voice an aftershock - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"

Police arriving at the edge of the mind - Tiffany Higgins "Samba in the Sky" [Poetry Nov. 2013]

Gives birth to another police procedural - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

Posse:
A posse of ghosts chasing down life - Paul Bernstein "Night Mares: a Cinquain"

Postgraduate:
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

President:
Absolute zero is stirring in the President's head - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

Proletariat:
The bull of the proletariat - D.H. Lawrence "St Luke"

Prosecutor:
The prosecutor and defense of my own heart - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

Protege:
Protege of trickster Hermes - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Proxy:
Someone has voted their proxies - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"

Public.

Quorum:
Made him her unruly quorum - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"

With six clever dogs for a quorum - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."

Ragamuffin:
Hedgerow waifs and ragamuffin strays - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Rally:
Jays and juncos rallied to see - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

Ranks.

Rascal:
From such faithless rascals keep you free - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.

Refugee.

Regime:
Turns out tempered resilience outlasts regimes - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Every time the regimes change she will dance - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

Renegade:
A renegade fragment of the sun - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"

Sanctuary for renegades and shamans - Gregory Pardlo "Antebellum"

Resident:
A perpetual resident of cold endings - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"

Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Revolutionary.

Rogue.

Ruffian:
Ruffians dicing long beneath blurred candles - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"

The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

Ruler.

Runaway:
Eyes me like a runaway - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"

Hidden passages, runaways, and orphaned days - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Scapegoat:
Scapegoats of shore and hill - Helen Gray Cone "The Riddle of Wreck"

Secret Agent:
Let my ears go secret agent - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Senate:
The pomp of sacred senates - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

The applause of listening senates - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Your Etna, your senate of dread - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Seneschal:
The golden wall-flower stood like seneschal - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Serve/Servant.

Sheriff:
Shall be sheriff of my tender zoo - CAConrad "Sharking of the Birdcage"

Spokesman:
A spokesman of the night - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"

Student.

Subject.

Surgeon:
A surgeon of time attending to the inner workings - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"

Sycophants:
Phoenix with her sycophants - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

To make a sycophant or spy - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"

Resents hearing the prayers and praise of sycophants - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

The prayers and praise of sycophants - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Team:
Quilt in the home team's colors - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"

My team unyoked, my fallow unsown - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse

With ox-teams great in the fall - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Throng

Tour/Tourist.

Treaty.

Tribunal:
This fair tribunal of ambitious youth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Troupe:
In the middle of the troupe obscene - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

A troupe of exorcists - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"

Truant.

Tutor:
The wild bird's untutored melodies - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Tyrant.

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

Strain like urchins at the guardian ropes - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

Vagabond.

Vagrant.

Victim.

Voluntary/Volunteer.

Votary:
An earnest votary of Evening - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Waitress:
the waitress takes moonbeams into her mouth - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"

Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military - People & Groups [category].

Ward/Warden/Warder.

Watchman.

Wayfellow:
My ancient way-fellows convene - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Witness.


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