Potential Titles: Afraid

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Afraid to shake loose any stars still lodged inside - Duana Ackerson "The Observatory"

My weapons in hand, of no contest afraid - Rev. J.G. Adams "The Young Soldier" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]

I'm afraid I'm only the weather - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I live between the bus stop]"

Because I'm too busy being afraid of it - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Afraid of the dark forest trees - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

More afraid of never flying - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Too tired with harvesting to feel afraid - Natalie Clifford Barney "A la Campagne"

Robbers afraid of pardon - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Afraid of what they refuse to see - Tommye Blount "Bareback Aubade with the Dog"

And I should be afraid to be so unprepared - Molly McCully Brown "Rabbitbrush"

Of his own soul afraid - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

I'm afraid I won't go far enough - Diana Marie Delgado "And So Many Are Dear"

The east afraid to trust the morn - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXIV"

Afraid of the paradise in my ear - Carolina Ebeid "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick and Mum Petals"

Should I dream you afraid - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"

Light gets afraid of tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"

Not afraid of breaking things - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"

I'm afraid I can't answer your query - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"

So afraid of my voice - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Afraid to blink under oath - Lam Lai "I, New York"

Afraid of no incongruities - Amy Lowell "The Congressional Library" [excerpt]

Afraid of coats and the cold - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"

Afraid of your eyes - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."

Afraid of what it will summon - Lauren Parker "Miranda"

Afraid a new ember may stray to wildfire - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

& never dream that you should be afraid - Ann K. Schwader "Weird of the White Sybil"

All the museums are afraid of me - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea

Afraid of the wind, afraid of the truth - Arthur Stringer "What Shall I Care?"

Afraid of time - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"

Can return and not be afraid - Sara Teasdale "Water Lilies"

And in the dark was not afraid - Amber Flora Thomas "Shed"

Never sleeps afraid - Edwin Torres "Under Venus's Hair"

Just when life is not afraid - Jean Valentine "Black Wolf"

Afraid of beauty's dreadful secret - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Helped us no longer be afraid of ghosts - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"

Afraid of some forgotten ghost awakening - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

Afraid to even hold the memory of light - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Never afraid to wave good-bye - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton


Unafraid.


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