Potential Titles: Petal
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somethingdarkerA scattering of gold crocus-petals - Richard Aldington "Round-Pond"
Skips along a carpet of flamboyant petals - Keisha-Gaye Anderson "We Dreamed You"
Gold rose petals spilled by the moon - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Flower forests and the petals of stars - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Each petal I plucked so gently - Diannely Antigua "I Buy My Monster Roses"
Each petal a shower of instant truths - Mary Jo Bang "Belle Vue"
These perished petals that I send - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 V"
The kingdom of one ivory petal - Ellen Bass "Roses"
The disconsolate petals on the grass - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
A rose if its petals thought of snows - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Aimless petal of the wind - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Butterfly"
Gave out petals inked with curses - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"
When the wind frenzied up a snow globe of petals - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
The rose will yield its petals to the wind - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Magnet of the falling cherry petals - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"
Folded in petals of the purest white - Arthur Colton "The Water-Lily"
Sweetness spilled from a million petals - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
petals danced against my eyes and down - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
you open always petal by petal - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"
a noise of petals falling silently - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Fall in a pride of petaled hours - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
Roses with amber petals - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Petals on the black earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"
One petal like a shell is broken - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Gather lifetimes on one small petal - Dante Di Stefano "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns"
Into petals of pain - Katherine Edgren "The Subterranean Splinter Blues"
Sleeping in the richness of those petals - Heid E. Erdich "Stung"
The wind scatters my wilted petals - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"
Petaled thoughts to sprinkle on the floor - Beulah Field "Pierrot"
Deceived by the jade petals - John Gould Fletcher "An Oiran and her Kamuso"
All delicate leaf and toxic petal - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Supervillain Studies: For the Love of Ivy"
A wing like a petal - Zona Gale "Umbra"
The petals' solemn white - Zona Gale "Wonder"
Lush petals and glistening thorns - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
For them no lotus petals blow - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXI"
Silver tears across the black petals - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
Razor sharp petals as armor - fei hernandez "Singing Funeral"
The petal of hibiscus that never blooms - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
Two petals more on every flower - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
When the mountain peach unfurls its crimson petals - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Stencilled on the petals of a bluebell - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"
Red rose petals scattered everywhere - Zilka Joseph "Eliyahoo Hanabi"
Its fragile refined petal's belligerent fragrance - Margit Kaffka "Father" transl. by Laura Schiff
Petals of light upon darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Petals of moon-kissed roses - Joyce Kilmer "Slender Your Hands"
A blizzard of petals that will take your breath - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
Petals in drifts on the sidewalk - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
A flat red lily with a million petals she unfolds - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"
In a revelation of petals - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"
Peeled back as petals - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
Plum petals stuck on a withered twig - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Night comes and, drowsy with drink]" transl. by Burton Watson
Beneath him is a whirlwind of petals - Li Po "Laughter in the Thicket" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
cartilage sighing apart like petals - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"
From delicately petalled memories - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"
Dark scarlet petals of discovery - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
On darkling ivory-petalled row - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"
While the poppies' petals flagged - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"
cut a vein and stain the pried petals - Elis Montgomery "Inheritance"
The same mauve petals my grandmother wore - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Of thorns and petals never worn - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The petals of dead planets eaten - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
June added petals and feathers - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
A flower with thousands of nameless petals - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Counting petals and comets' tails - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Petals wound with snakes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
A fist of grindstone petals - tiana nobile "Petals"
In their writhing petals - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"
Flowers with knife-sharp petals - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"
Over footpaths of fallen petals - Phan Nhien Hao "Seattle Memory" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
White petals pooled around her ankles - Paige Quinones "Venice Beach"
Languid petals shimmering - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"
Pressed like petals between the pages of history - Jacques J. Rancourt "As Weather"
From those cold petals subtler power - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"
Eleven petals about the rose - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
The descending shadow of the petals stains the street - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"
The bright petals of the minutes enfold me - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Petals unfurled, shedding glory all around - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Petals blown from flower-hued stars - Edith Sitwell "Fireworks"
Fairer the petals that fall - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Along strange winds your petals blew - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"
Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Yellow melting like a firework petal - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"
Like petals of light fallen - Sara Teasdale "Old Tunes"
And sunshine splintered in petals - Edwin Torres "A Minotaur Sleeps on Shelter Island"
Thin flute music petaling the silence - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
Flower petals fall in the storm, and blossom again - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Blackthorn petals pearl the breeze - Mary Webb "Green Rain"
Crimson poison petal of the South - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ruby"
Scatter my petals so that I will never grow again - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
Crimson petals spilled among the stones - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
From among those trumpeting petals - William Carlos Williams "Iris"
Petals are news of the day - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
At the edge of the petal - William Carlos Williams "The Rose"
A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"
Walks the paths of the petal-strewn park - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
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Skips along a carpet of flamboyant petals - Keisha-Gaye Anderson "We Dreamed You"
Gold rose petals spilled by the moon - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Flower forests and the petals of stars - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Each petal I plucked so gently - Diannely Antigua "I Buy My Monster Roses"
Each petal a shower of instant truths - Mary Jo Bang "Belle Vue"
These perished petals that I send - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 V"
The kingdom of one ivory petal - Ellen Bass "Roses"
The disconsolate petals on the grass - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
A rose if its petals thought of snows - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Aimless petal of the wind - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Butterfly"
Gave out petals inked with curses - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"
When the wind frenzied up a snow globe of petals - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
The rose will yield its petals to the wind - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Magnet of the falling cherry petals - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"
Folded in petals of the purest white - Arthur Colton "The Water-Lily"
Sweetness spilled from a million petals - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
petals danced against my eyes and down - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
you open always petal by petal - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"
a noise of petals falling silently - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Fall in a pride of petaled hours - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
Roses with amber petals - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Petals on the black earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"
One petal like a shell is broken - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Gather lifetimes on one small petal - Dante Di Stefano "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns"
Into petals of pain - Katherine Edgren "The Subterranean Splinter Blues"
Sleeping in the richness of those petals - Heid E. Erdich "Stung"
The wind scatters my wilted petals - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"
Petaled thoughts to sprinkle on the floor - Beulah Field "Pierrot"
Deceived by the jade petals - John Gould Fletcher "An Oiran and her Kamuso"
All delicate leaf and toxic petal - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Supervillain Studies: For the Love of Ivy"
A wing like a petal - Zona Gale "Umbra"
The petals' solemn white - Zona Gale "Wonder"
Lush petals and glistening thorns - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
For them no lotus petals blow - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXI"
Silver tears across the black petals - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
Razor sharp petals as armor - fei hernandez "Singing Funeral"
The petal of hibiscus that never blooms - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
Two petals more on every flower - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
When the mountain peach unfurls its crimson petals - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Stencilled on the petals of a bluebell - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"
Red rose petals scattered everywhere - Zilka Joseph "Eliyahoo Hanabi"
Its fragile refined petal's belligerent fragrance - Margit Kaffka "Father" transl. by Laura Schiff
Petals of light upon darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Petals of moon-kissed roses - Joyce Kilmer "Slender Your Hands"
A blizzard of petals that will take your breath - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
Petals in drifts on the sidewalk - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
A flat red lily with a million petals she unfolds - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"
In a revelation of petals - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"
Peeled back as petals - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
Plum petals stuck on a withered twig - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Night comes and, drowsy with drink]" transl. by Burton Watson
Beneath him is a whirlwind of petals - Li Po "Laughter in the Thicket" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
cartilage sighing apart like petals - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"
From delicately petalled memories - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"
Dark scarlet petals of discovery - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
On darkling ivory-petalled row - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"
While the poppies' petals flagged - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"
cut a vein and stain the pried petals - Elis Montgomery "Inheritance"
The same mauve petals my grandmother wore - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Of thorns and petals never worn - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The petals of dead planets eaten - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
June added petals and feathers - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
A flower with thousands of nameless petals - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Counting petals and comets' tails - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Petals wound with snakes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
A fist of grindstone petals - tiana nobile "Petals"
In their writhing petals - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"
Flowers with knife-sharp petals - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"
Over footpaths of fallen petals - Phan Nhien Hao "Seattle Memory" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
White petals pooled around her ankles - Paige Quinones "Venice Beach"
Languid petals shimmering - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"
Pressed like petals between the pages of history - Jacques J. Rancourt "As Weather"
From those cold petals subtler power - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"
Eleven petals about the rose - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
The descending shadow of the petals stains the street - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"
The bright petals of the minutes enfold me - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Petals unfurled, shedding glory all around - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Petals blown from flower-hued stars - Edith Sitwell "Fireworks"
Fairer the petals that fall - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Along strange winds your petals blew - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"
Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Yellow melting like a firework petal - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"
Like petals of light fallen - Sara Teasdale "Old Tunes"
And sunshine splintered in petals - Edwin Torres "A Minotaur Sleeps on Shelter Island"
Thin flute music petaling the silence - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
Flower petals fall in the storm, and blossom again - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Blackthorn petals pearl the breeze - Mary Webb "Green Rain"
Crimson poison petal of the South - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ruby"
Scatter my petals so that I will never grow again - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
Crimson petals spilled among the stones - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
From among those trumpeting petals - William Carlos Williams "Iris"
Petals are news of the day - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
At the edge of the petal - William Carlos Williams "The Rose"
A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"
Walks the paths of the petal-strewn park - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
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