Potential Titles: Scars
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somethingdarkerThe dead who carry no scars - Rasha Abdulhadi "sirens and silence"
Mineralizing scars into my becoming - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"
Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
This scar is how I talk to you - Raymond Antrobus "Closure"
Half-captured happiness had left a scar - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
Seared me white with burning scars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"
A garden of twined scars - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
Scarred by a thousand winters - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"
Dim green or torn with golden scars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Attach themselves as scars - Lucille Clifton "sorrow"
As the mist leaves no scar - Leonard Cohen "The Mist"
And bare each stony scar - Christopher Pearce Cranch "December"
Wore scars and rashes like empirical clothes - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
Would no longer scar his autumnal heart - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Fire Eater"
Its scarred face an old mirror - Carol Ann Duffy "Tall"
The genesis of a scar - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Seared with slavery's mortal scars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"
Knots where his growth scarred him - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"
From the scars of toppling hills - Louis Golding "A Journey South"
To coat their battle scars with gin - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"
The pitiless scar of Time's sharp claw - Mona Gould "Mirror"
The fragrant shadows scarred with light - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"
Soul's unrest and spirit's scar - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Where heal the spirit's scars - Ivor Gurney "Camps"
That goes in defiance of danger and scars - "The Harp of Old Erin and Banner of Stars" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Striking an electric scar - Georgia Heard "Room of Nature"
The sudden scarred face of the moon - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Or distance deeper brand the scar - Jennie Earngey Hill "Distance"
Scarred with sordid rust of years - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Without the armor of its scars - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"
Reflecting scarred light - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"
Amongst my most quiet scars - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"
And scars are worn for honor - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, Concluding Song of Dawn: A Morn of May"
Scars on the chests of the birds - John James "Sonata"
Scars the cruelest cannot crease - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
The scarred geography of my left arm - Camisha L. Jones "Scars"
Scarred with the chronicles written by flame - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"
Scars laid while I slept - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"
Despite these mortal scars - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"
A cruel scar on his shell - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Splits into scar and crackle - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Dark scars between seasons - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
Tore my heart out and hid the scar - Dorothea Mackellar "Riding Rhyme"
Two new scars since yesterday - Furnley Maurice "Master in Equity"
Forever with a scarred, closed fist - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"
The rock language of all your elegant scars - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
The inevitability of a scarred life - Erika Meitner "What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence"
That pricked his scars with memory - George Meredith "Lucifer in Starlight"
The coat lined with a thousand invisible scars - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"
Scar over in the colour of sand - Abdushukur Muhammet "My Name" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
The scars that mark their hearts - Harryette Mullen "Still Waiting"
In the heights of the newly scarred planet - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Voices" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Dry moon poured upon scars - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
His words on your face as scars - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
Against the stars and scars of a city - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"
Though a new Helen bring new scars - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
We live with our battle scars - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
Ancient scars of trench and tomb - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
If my heart be scarred and burned - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"
Can travel by my scars - Walter S. Percy "The Blazed Trail"
Memory itself but a scar - Carl Phillips "The Need for Dreaming"
Stitches itself a whitened scar - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"
On the scarred bench sequestered - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
Following you up stairwells of scarred oak - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"
The scar of her sandal thereafter - James Whitcombe Riley "Dolores"
A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
a fingernail scratching the scars of yesterday's ruins - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
Scars across the face of night - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
Each question leaves a scar - Ann K. Schwader "Wolves of Mars"
Through the hour that scars and sears - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"
The deep scars of love - David Shumate "Passing Through a Small Town"
Scar tissue's calligraphy writes on his body - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"
Scars of plunder, time and warfare - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"
All the old scars of former battles bleed - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"
We are more than our scars - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Gorgeous scars won from wrestling with a forklift - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Not grateful for your scars - Edwin Torres "Three Spots under the Shade"
each grain of rice leaving a scar on our skin - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
And scarred with many a knock - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Seen without its scars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"
How water and wind scar them - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Cynical, moon-scarred and old - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"
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Mineralizing scars into my becoming - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"
Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
This scar is how I talk to you - Raymond Antrobus "Closure"
Half-captured happiness had left a scar - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
Seared me white with burning scars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"
A garden of twined scars - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
Scarred by a thousand winters - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"
Dim green or torn with golden scars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Attach themselves as scars - Lucille Clifton "sorrow"
As the mist leaves no scar - Leonard Cohen "The Mist"
And bare each stony scar - Christopher Pearce Cranch "December"
Wore scars and rashes like empirical clothes - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
Would no longer scar his autumnal heart - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Fire Eater"
Its scarred face an old mirror - Carol Ann Duffy "Tall"
The genesis of a scar - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Seared with slavery's mortal scars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"
Knots where his growth scarred him - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"
From the scars of toppling hills - Louis Golding "A Journey South"
To coat their battle scars with gin - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"
The pitiless scar of Time's sharp claw - Mona Gould "Mirror"
The fragrant shadows scarred with light - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"
Soul's unrest and spirit's scar - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Where heal the spirit's scars - Ivor Gurney "Camps"
That goes in defiance of danger and scars - "The Harp of Old Erin and Banner of Stars" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Striking an electric scar - Georgia Heard "Room of Nature"
The sudden scarred face of the moon - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Or distance deeper brand the scar - Jennie Earngey Hill "Distance"
Scarred with sordid rust of years - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Without the armor of its scars - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"
Reflecting scarred light - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"
Amongst my most quiet scars - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"
And scars are worn for honor - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, Concluding Song of Dawn: A Morn of May"
Scars on the chests of the birds - John James "Sonata"
Scars the cruelest cannot crease - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
The scarred geography of my left arm - Camisha L. Jones "Scars"
Scarred with the chronicles written by flame - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"
Scars laid while I slept - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"
Despite these mortal scars - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"
A cruel scar on his shell - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Splits into scar and crackle - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Dark scars between seasons - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
Tore my heart out and hid the scar - Dorothea Mackellar "Riding Rhyme"
Two new scars since yesterday - Furnley Maurice "Master in Equity"
Forever with a scarred, closed fist - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"
The rock language of all your elegant scars - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
The inevitability of a scarred life - Erika Meitner "What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence"
That pricked his scars with memory - George Meredith "Lucifer in Starlight"
The coat lined with a thousand invisible scars - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"
Scar over in the colour of sand - Abdushukur Muhammet "My Name" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
The scars that mark their hearts - Harryette Mullen "Still Waiting"
In the heights of the newly scarred planet - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Voices" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Dry moon poured upon scars - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
His words on your face as scars - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
Against the stars and scars of a city - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"
Though a new Helen bring new scars - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
We live with our battle scars - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
Ancient scars of trench and tomb - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
If my heart be scarred and burned - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"
Can travel by my scars - Walter S. Percy "The Blazed Trail"
Memory itself but a scar - Carl Phillips "The Need for Dreaming"
Stitches itself a whitened scar - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"
On the scarred bench sequestered - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
Following you up stairwells of scarred oak - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"
The scar of her sandal thereafter - James Whitcombe Riley "Dolores"
A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
a fingernail scratching the scars of yesterday's ruins - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
Scars across the face of night - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
Each question leaves a scar - Ann K. Schwader "Wolves of Mars"
Through the hour that scars and sears - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"
The deep scars of love - David Shumate "Passing Through a Small Town"
Scar tissue's calligraphy writes on his body - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"
Scars of plunder, time and warfare - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"
All the old scars of former battles bleed - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"
We are more than our scars - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Gorgeous scars won from wrestling with a forklift - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Not grateful for your scars - Edwin Torres "Three Spots under the Shade"
each grain of rice leaving a scar on our skin - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
And scarred with many a knock - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Seen without its scars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"
How water and wind scar them - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Cynical, moon-scarred and old - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
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