Potential Titles: Understand/Understood

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Nothing remains of the world I understood - Mike Allen "Space War"

I would understand the caravel of my childhood - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
The flags they don't even understand - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"

By now my shoes understand - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

These harpy talons understand - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Where the wound lies I've never understood - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas

Since the tomb understands the poet always - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Distract me from understanding green - Terry Blackhawk "Meditation in Green"

Understood why the waves were quiet - Laurel Blossom "By the Sea, By the Sea"

Because we understand shadows - Jericho Brown "Trojan"

A parable you don't understand - Nickole Brown "Parable"

But understand the notes through each syrinx - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

A poem the birds will understand - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"

Understand the rhythm of our song - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

the lip of our understanding - Lucille Clifton "blessing the boats"

iron understands time is another name for God - Lucille Clifton "rust"

The accident of understanding what it means to be X - Oliver de la Paz "Solve for X"

Learned to understand the solitudes - Eleanor Farjeon "The Reflection"

To see and understand Pierrot and Columbine - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"

To inspire the understanding of a friend - Robert Frost "Revelation"

That the fire understands - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"

Because water understands everything - Tess Gallagher "Two of Anything"

The safety from being understood - Kahlil Gibran "How I Became a Madman (Prologue)"

The time it takes a blackbird to understand - Joy Harjo "Desire"

The great sword of understanding - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"

To understand the language of the whales - Tony Hoagland "Legend"

Returning from old understandings - Andrew Hudgins "A Flag of Honeysuckle"

Understanding is obliteration - Andrew Hudgins "Silver"

Can merely be understood one angle at a time - Geoffrey Jacques "The Problem of Speech Genres"

How you understood the inheritance of first principles - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

To understand a banished secret - Lionel Johnson "Renegade"

At a lecture on something I don't understand - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of Gab"

Understood the moon - Philip Levine "Smoke"

The Spring wind alone can understand - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

Should have understood their burning - Amy Lowell "Vespers"

Using science neither of us understands - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"

All too far for any human mind to understand - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Filibuster all he understands is missing - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Let us both listen till we understand - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"

Often deceived and seldom understood - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Mozart is the only one who understands - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Defined as beyond scientific understanding - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

What weed and thorn have understood - Meredith Nicholson "To the Seasons"

And understand the power of heat - Margaret Noodin "Careful" transl. by the author

Perhaps my soul understands more than my heart can know - Margaret Noodin "I Am Undefeated" transl. by the author

None but Love will understand - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

To understand hesitation both ways - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"

Feet that understand no path - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Frogs don't understand mercy - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Tlaltecuhtli"

Chooses only to understand those who need weapons - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

Though it is understood that what we do isn't aimless - Dimitri Reyes "[Oye! This is an apartment building ode]"

A metaphor for something we didn't understand - Keith Taylor "Tall Oaks"

Believing is different than understanding - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"

Breathing in the light of understanding - Rudolph Valentino "At Sunrise Tomorrow (To E.B.)"

Blasts of understanding blown - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

And their cattle seemed to understand - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"

Nothing to understand in hunger - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XI"

Only these poplar blossoms understand - Wang An-Shih "Late Spring" transl. by David Hinton

I will leave understanding it was always coming - Andrea Werblin "Barrio with Sketchy Detail"

With a whisper no one understands - Elinor Wylie "Escape"


Not conversations as much as serial misunderstandings - Erika Jo Brown "Art"

To prepare a misunderstanding - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

If there isn't the possibility of being misunderstood - Elaine Equi "No Other" [Poetry May 2019]

Will misunderstand my silence - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

Have misunderstood the stars - Jim Harrison "Midnight Blues Planet"

The loneliness of being imperfectly misunderstood - Tony Hoagland "Marriage Song"

All things skewed or misunderstood - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"

What are my frauds but nudged along misunderstandings? - Dean Young "Undertow" [Poetry Nov. 2007]


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