Potential Titles: Seeds

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Blossoming into a head full of seeds - Rasha Abdulhadi "Lanternseed"

What are bones if not seeds waiting - Lydia Abedeen "Birangona Song in a Walmart Parking Lot"

The seed of a perfect moon - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

The seeds immediately sprout acres of jays - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"

Someone scattering seeds of light that will blossom into faces - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

The seeds we found in an antique textbook - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"

Their seeds will become the roots - Francisco X. Alarcon "Ancestors of Tomorrow"

Sow themselves with seed and grain - William Allingham "The Ruined Chapel"

The farness you nurtured like a seed - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

Compromise the seed of self - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

Seeds for next summer's weeds - Julia Alvarez "Last Trees"

The seed we call our soul - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

Plant the strange seed to see how it grows - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Underground the seeds still dormant - dee(dee) c. ardan "freedom terrors"

Coaxing a new seed into existence - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Grown from seeds of optimism - Mary Jo Bang "Cafe Edgar"

Seeds of spent summer - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"

Gathered wisdoms [sic] seed from fruits of joy and pain - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

Secured the growing of the seed - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

The seed will weep for its root - Elizabeth Bartlett "Full Circle"

A seed cannot grow in the heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sower"

They waited for the seeds to start - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

Yet saved the seeds to plant next spring - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

Gone to seed oblivion's oath - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

With the pollen and seeds of dawn - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"

Into the seed of the beginning and the end - Wendell Berry "The Wish to be Generous"

Seeds with a whole galaxy inside - Tamiko Beyer "February"

The seed of future empire - Edward Blackadder "Annapolis Royal"

In seed time learn - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"

Sow the first seed of your fury - Cecil Bodker "Fury's Field" transl. by Nadia Christensen

The seed of the year beyond the year - Louise Bogan "Elders"

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

Falling seeds their promise bring - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"

Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"

He who for seed sows sorrow, tears, and sighs - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVI. Love and Art" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Sow seeds of misery between - C. Burchardt "Complaint"

The seeds of actions planted long ago - Will Carleton "Wealth"

Out of tangled weed and thorny seed - Madison Cawein "Ghosts"

Stab our souls with seeds of sworded fire - W.R. Childe "Les Hallucines"

Your seeds are scattered on distant summer shores - May Chong "Kamcia"

Thinned the seeds already sprouting - Kai Coggin "Essence"

Will bless the hands that sowed the seed - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Garden"

Must now be mellow to the seed - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

The seeds that turned to stone - Nathalia Crane "The Dinosaur's Eggs"

And planted the seeds of her flowers - Adelaide Crapsey "Cry of the Nymph to Eros"

Tosses maple seeds in the air to spiral - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

And tend our agonizing seeds - Countee Cullen "From the Dark Tower"

Who plants a seed begets a bud - Countee Cullen "Fruit of the Flower"

And the red seed of the red vervain - H.D. "Simaetha"

As heavenly seed are sown - Sir William Davenant "The Christian's Reply to the Philosopher"

A seed in Time's neighbor-plot - Mary Carolyn Davies "Songs of a Girl"

The great black beautiful seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

The subtle swift seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

Seeds spilled across another year - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

Seeds of fire to rouse the thunders - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

An endless trail of seeds behind - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Reflections of honeysuckle gone to seed - Chris Dombrowski "Bull Elk in October River"

Surrounded by stems bent by their seeds - Chris Dombrowski "Swale"

Tiny seeds like secrets of the universe - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

Whose seeds had slept 30 millennia - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Deft seeds blown from a thistle-head - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

Each furrowed seed or heartbeat - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"

All seeds of beauty to be born - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

And seeds were planted deep in hell - George Blackstone Field "The Bonnets"

Through the rifts of rising, falling seed - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"

Reap this cruel seed - T'ai Freedom Ford "Emancipation Celebration"

And sing the wildflowers up from root and seed - Robert Frost "Our Singing Strength"

The seed, the soil, the sun and I - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"

From the seeds of who you used to be - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Enough to drown the seeds - Louise Gluck "Before the Storm"

That gemmed torture of seed - Rae Gouirand "Arils on Velvet"

Dandelion seeds plucked from the breeze - Lore Graham "Absence"

To seed the severed world of object-things - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

The fruit that's already the seed - Leah Naomi Green "Arrival"

The field adores the seed - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"

Around the soft seeds of their flesh - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"

Seeding the sky - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

A line of turnips where the seed ran out - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"

Water knew anything could be a seed - Matthew Herskovitz "Water on Mars"

A stash of seed or mineral - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"

My seeds are sleeping there - Conrad Hilberry "Garlic Mustard"

And sing for the cold seed - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

If envious hate roots out the seed - Leslie Pickney Hill "Tuskegee"

Summon the seeds & weeds - Brenda Hillman "Girl Sleuth"

Bring the immortal seed to light - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"

Sowing the seeds of hope - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."

Planted only the seed of my tears - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Throw seed to every wind - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"

Scattered black seeds of a future - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"

The inward seeds of quick decay - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

May be the seed of success to-morrow - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

In the depth of the seed - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"

Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"

How jewelweed snaps its seeds at a touch - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"

The always steadying presence of seeds - Joanna Klink "Given"

The seeds of okra in trade winds headed to a new world - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

The seed of a lake - Ted Kooser "A Washing of Hands"

Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"

Whose magic stirs the seeds - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Waking up with seeds in my hands - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"

Now becomes a seed for history - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

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

If the seeds of the universe dry up - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

The seed that comes up outside the garden - Ada Limon "The Echo Sounder"

This packet of seeds with no soil to live in - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

A seed of desert drought - Casandra Lopez "The Hottest June"

Lost in the sap of a flower seed - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

Seed of beauty in a ground of truth - Amy Lowell "The Promise of the Morning Star"

Could leap out of a seed and walk - Tariq Luthun "Fruit"

All things alter in the seed - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"

A million graves to nurse the buried seed - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

The seed my heart had dared to sow - Naomi Long Madgett "Heart-Blossom"

Endure as seeds endure - Naomi Long Madgett "Song for a Season"

Like April calling to the seed - John Masefield "King Cole"

The myriad seeds of dark rebellion - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Bears the seed of future years - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"

Seeds planted among rows of song - Khaled Mattawa "Lyric"

A seed that fell from a bird's flight - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

How seed turns to leaf regardless of its earth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

Imprisoned in the buried seeds - Theodore Maynard "Prophecy"

Crop-grower of infertile seed - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"

Tell the truth and sow the seeds of songs - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

The careful seeds of spring - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"

Hoarding exotic burrs and seeds - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"

A seed of Stars, the dust of Suns & Moons - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

Stubborn as wayward seeds - Orlando Ricardo Menes "El Rastro"

A pomegranate seed in this still life - Risalet Merdan "Bitter Pomegranate" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

The Nurse of seed - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The cave of the dragon's seed - W.S. Merwin "Suite in the Key of Forgetting"

Hard seeds of hate - Edna St Vincent Millay "Blight"

A dead seed in her hand - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

Spring from damned seeds - Edna St Vincent Millay "Weeds"

A lone dark seed with its own white soul - David Mook "Milkweed"

A thousand grieving seeds - Rachel Moritz "Poem for Rebecca Wight"

Like the seed of midwinter - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope I: The Message of the March Wind"

The seeds of life's queen flowers - Irene Elder Morton "My Garden Wall"

Seeded with a green sun - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Grown from scattered fever-seed - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The seed I planted in my mouth - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Planted in it the seeds of heaven - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Sleep with the dream of a seed - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Rising up like seeds of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Portrait of the Man" transl. by Teresa Anderson

Seeds split off from love - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Have the seeds of planets - Pablo Neruda "To the Traveler" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Sown by the seed of the wind - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Flower running to poisonous seed - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

The stored magic in a seed - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"

Seed that promised blossom - Roden Noel "The Pity of it"

The bad seed of an idea - Urayoan Noel "No Longer Ode"

Wave the flag of stone and seed - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"

A seed. Surviving in this tragic soil - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

Whose seeds, in tear and anguish sown - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

the nuthatch, a glutton for its seeds - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Pocketfuls of ancient seed - Grace Paley "It Doesn't Matter If"

With illicit seeds they grow - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"

Guess the number of seeds in a cucumber - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"

The little fruitless seed deep sown - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

The ancestral body splits into water & seeds - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]

Sharpens over a dominion of seeds - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

A moral constellation of strawberry seeds - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

Doling seeds & ant to nobody - Kiki Petrosino "Voice Lessons"

Covet the seeds of the honey locust - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"

My doubts like glass seeds - Sina Queyras "Thalidomide; Or, What She Didn't Ask"

Striving seeds and budding flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Thoughts at Ajaccio"

Draws the trembling spirit like a seed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

As to the heart of a poppy seed - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Their bright invulnerable seed - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Seed of the fierce flame that burned on Horeb - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"

Soul of fire and seed of sod - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"

With seed of suns - Charles G.D. Roberts "Wayfarer of Earth"

Seed that the years have scattered - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

His dust is fire and seed - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"

But the seeds of all things are blest - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

The blessing is the seed - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

Born into each seed - Kay Ryan "In Case of Complete Reversal"

A seed's commitment to its place on the ground - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"

Scattered the seeds of pestilence - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

That they may sow the seeds of merit - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

we seed the world with blood - Evie Shockley "du bois in ghana"

Save pomegranate seeds in glass jars - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Bursts into dandelion seeds - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

Swirled from seed to ceiling - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

The seeds of a mythology - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"

Hang stars like seeds of light - Edward Thomas "The Dark Forest"

Sowed the seed of mourning years - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"

Early seeds lay cold in the ground - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

From a wrinkled seed in an earth-bound clod - Henry van Dyke "Salute to the Trees"

When the seed of the acorn was dry - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"

Found help from the acorn seed - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"

Seeded me with a rock your father caught - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

Scatter wild their seeds - Charles William Wallace "The Haunted House"

The seeds that wake to flowers - Kate Louise Wheeler "Hidden Treasures"

By the chance dropping of a tiny seed - Helen Hay Whitney "The Coming of Love"

My voice was a seed in the wind - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

The seed of the fire - W.B. Yeats "The Song of the Old Mother"

The seeds of a thousand saplings - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

this field I have seeded with violence - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

The milky dreams of seeds - Yvonne Zipter "Seeds"


The dragonseed breeding of current and bone - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

Seed-black of the waiting heart - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Discard the shriveled seed coat - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"

Joy the seedling of a dream - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Identical seedpods strong on a vine - Gary Snyder "Why I Take Good Care of my Macintosh"

dead dry pods holding dormant soulseeds - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

We are Starseeds every one of us - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"


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