Potential Titles: Ripe

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Thirst for a rapid, riper summer - Rasha Abdulhadi "plum out of season"

Ripened dry to the song of summering jays - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Raspberries ripened into jam - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Air ripe with arrested intention - Mary Jo Bang "Ham Paints a Picture to Illustrate an Early Lesson: O Trauma!"

red as a ripe warm plum - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

Butter and the sauce of a hundred ripe tomatoes - Paola Bruni "The Lesson"

Ripened by years of toil - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"

My longings ripen into worth - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "The Plains of Peace"

To offer up intoxicating ripeness - May Chong "Catering"

Prophet of the ripened year - Abraham Cowley "The Grasshopper"

And leap into the ripe air - ee cummings "Crepuscule"

These ripe pears are bitter to the taste - H.D. "The Gift"

Too late ripened by a desperate sun - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

And ripe fruits in their purple hearts - H.D. "Pear Tree"

In the old ages ripe with mystery - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

A purses for any crystal prophet ripe - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Ripe and summer-breathing clover-flower - John Drinkwater "The Midlands"

Chooses Athens in his riper age - John Dryden "Prologue: To the University of Oxford"

Compounds of ripe silence - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem 4: RX"

Fields of ripening corn and clover - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"

All the gifts that spring from ripest age - Herbert H. Gowen "What the Wise Men Saw"

Cherries of the night are riper - Robert Graves "Cherry-Time"

Expects some day to ripen its little drops of wine - "Great Expectations" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

A syrup ripe for yellow jackets - francine j. harris "until it comes"

Ripe to be harvested for bitter need - F.W. Harvey "Harvest Home"

Rich with ripe sorrow, needful of no word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Lay ripening in my soul - Aldous Huxley "Poem"

Drop sweetness like the ripening peach - Islwyn "The Poets of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Not ripen without frost - Helen Hunt Jackson "September"

Red shall the cornfields ripen - Lionel Johnson "Enthusiasts"

With autumn grows on red ripe apples - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

With the ripe first fruit - Lionel Johnson "A Song of Israel"

Reached on tiptoe to pull ripe pomelos from the dark - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"

The ripe fruit of a question - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"

Whose fruit was never ripe - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

The table ripe with fruits and metal parts - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

Ripened the rusty metal - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"

Ripe apples drop about my head - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Striking their roots in ripening revolutions - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Toward some ripe, sweetened pause - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Whispers ripening in the same breath as ruin - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"

Ripened wisdom of the age - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"

Which are ripe fruit of sun - George Meredith "The Discipline of Wisdom"

Her revelries of ripeness - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

The apricots from a thousand trees ripening - W.S. Merwin "West Wall"

Many springs for their ripening - Carly Joy Miller "Five Moths"

As wind ripens their talent for exodus - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"

Ripened to a distant sweetness - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Ripe corn whispered inside its perfect sheaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

August days ripening the blackberries - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Both ripening and root - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

A second thought ripening - Lynn Powell "Needing the Baroque"

Treads the ripened honey of clover heads - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Apples of fire ripened and fell - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Ripe juices of citron and grape - James Whitcombe Riley "Dolores"

Not given to know the riper fruit that waits - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Allowing these kinds of questions to ripen - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #22"

Ripe with longing - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

Shaking the riper trees to dust - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

The phase after ripeness - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"

Ripen, grow wings, and build songs - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"

And the ripe shrub writhed - Wallace Stevens "The Planet on the Table"

Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Fruit from the ripening bough of Thought - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Ripening in love's golden grace - William W. Story "The Violet"

Nearly ripe for worms - Jean Toomer "Face"

The last juices from the sun's ripe fruit - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"

All the autumn heaven ripe with stars - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Climbed to shake the ripe nuts down - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

From ripening corn the pigeons flew - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A solace of ripe plums - William Carlos Williams "To a Poor Old Woman"

Ripened in hours of darkest tribulation - Joseph R. Wilson "Words to Mendelssohn's 'Consolation'"

Thought that fully ripens - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver


Tart speech and full-ripe reason - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"


Last year's late-ripening persimmons - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"


Brown and bruised as apples over-ripe - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"

To wash overripe stars - Ishion Hutchinson "Aubade"

Reaping of nations overripened - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"


Sun-ripe Nature's million strings - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"


Unripe.


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