Potential Titles: Birth

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And birth fields of wild red milkweed - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

And birth our anger in secret - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Destroyed before the birth of Babylon - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

Waiting for the thunder's birth - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 IV"

Attendant on the birth of eagles - Elizabeth Bartlett "Mexican Profile"

Watch the birth of stars in heaven - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

A wordless sound of birth and anguish struggling - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Of wild seas birthing oceans - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"

Flakes of flood-birthed moonlight - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"

Spell-bound vagabond of spurious birth - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Like the birth of little winds - Max Bodenheim "Silence"

As the devil's flowers do not give birth to seeds - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 1: Temptation"

Carve the charter of your birth - Clarence Frederick Buhler "The March of Life" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Singing at the birth of time - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"

Birth is a torn ticket stub - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"

From the birth of time addressed - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"

Light in the bosom of darkness has birth - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Seduced by the memory of its birth - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

We grieved like the shadow that gives birth to worlds - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Against the birth of May - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Breathless upon this birth - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"

Of salt billow was her birth - Walter de la Mare "The Blind Boy"

The birth of dreadful light - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Gave birth to the tiniest of errors - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"

A young Phoenix flaming into birth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

a universe that gave birth to itself - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

Remember the sun’s birth - Joy Harjo "Remember"

No abstract fires or vague births - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"

Whose tide to a black-crested viper gave birth - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Genetic reconnaissance at birth - fahima ife "our general banality"

The bounds of death and birth - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"

As warm water shatters at birth - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

In the endless sum of death and birth - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

Reveal the private ledger of your birth - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Mapping the nodes of universal birth and death - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"

Birthing stone from seed - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

The birth of a brushstroke - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

To which the lip alone gave birth - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Shall give the next Prometheus birth - Don Marquis "At Last"

On the leaning birth beside the mill - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"

Crops walloped in their places of birth - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

When light has birth - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Birth and death in only minutes - Jenny Molberg "Storm Coming"

Poison tended by poison that births poison - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

The force that gave it birth - Meredith Nicholson "Cardinal Newman"

Brought to birth what Plato saw - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Our birth was given up to screaming - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

Birth & blood is the rose - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

Birthed from your memory - Janel Pineda "Mujer Malvada"

Silent in the birth of another shadow - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"

Time gives birth to nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp is time"

you have given birth to daytime visions - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Who summons clouds to birth - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

From the black hole of your birth - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Stars that have a different birth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "To the Moon"

The galaxies of birth - Wallace Stevens "Of Ideal Time and Choice"

After the birth of the simple light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

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

Savage and strange as birth - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Way Back"

Old at the birth of the river - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"

When it birthed itself alive - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Do not assume ghosts were birthed by other ghosts - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

Death and birth the two infinite walls - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"


Shiny with its afterbirth of light - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"


Birthday.


Birthmarks on curved ivory tusks - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"


The birthplace of jewels and gold - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"

Past the birthplace of the sun - Sara Teasdale "In Memoriam F. O. S."

Out of the birth-place of sighs - Priscilla Jane Thompson "A Valentine"


Birthright.


Made of birthstone & birchbark - John McCarthy "I Wanted to Save Her but the Trailer Park Was a Chasm"


Born.

Reborn.

Unborn.


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