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Potential Titles: Color/Colour
Colour fluid as the South - Harold Acton "Old Woman"
Cosmic colours imprisoned in metal - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Chameleons run through twenty colors in the sun - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
The serpent who gifted her with feathers of every color - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Color provokes a psychic vibration - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Color hides a power still unknown but real - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Skeleton of black borders and color fields - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
In coloured blurs of butterfly distress - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
Quilt in the home team's colors - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"
In clashing storm of color - Charles Ashleigh "A Miracle"
Foxglove and zinnia fold their colors - Lou Barrett "Brief Truance"
Shaped the color and sound of mountains - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"
who say all colors are gray - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
a glamorous color blue - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
Sailing on with our colors furled - Cora C. Bass "Sunshine"
Filling the waves with colored fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
Rough angles with the color purple - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Provide the only note of color - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"
The same faithful colours paint the mind - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
Each seasonal chorus colored with resilience - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Cry the names of colors - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
Chant the names of colors - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
Burdened with many colors - Maxwell Bodenheim "Pastels"
An x-ray for colors beneath your colors - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"
The color of vague memories - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"
The color of brittle-mindedness - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"
The color of an ancient thesaurus - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
The sky's color an old blade - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"
With the color taken from their sight - Lucie Brock-Broido "Physicism"
Colorful living in a world grown dull - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Some colors have always been illegal - Sue Budin "Passport, 1954"
Every bay a changing alchemy of colors - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Not for colouring empty dust - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Thy choicest color was Green - Jamie Harris Coleman "The Artist Above"
Perfectly painted the color of cold - Misha Collins "Clasped"
No cold canvas of dead color - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Cloudland's curves and grading colors - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Through color may send greetings to the sight - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Who would answer for the color of a rose - Nathalia Crane "The Blind Girl"
Drag up colour from the sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Colored balloons bobbing against a black ceiling - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
Snakes the color of wood ash or fresh dark - Tyree Daye "Town Day on the Hill"
Describe what color is not - Monica de la Torre "No mode of excitement is absolutely colorless"
The color of risk & knowing - Diane DeCillis "Artemisia Absinthium"
Have cried openly at the newborn color - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"
Watch the individual colors as they surface - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"
The correct color for desolate - Stephen Dunn "The Obsession"
On his breath of every color - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
Collective breath of all colors - Max Early "Delayza's Necklace"
Icy in unfinished colors - Carolina Ebeid "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick and Mum Petals"
In vials of ivory and coloured glass - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land II: A Game of Chess"
A color I can sleep in - Elaine Equi "Asking for a Raise"
The color of all yearning - Heid E. Erdich "Black and White Monument, Photo Circa 1977"
In a place where color speaks - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
Colors bathed in mellow lights - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
Crueler colours than the abyss - Caleb Femi "Baseline"
Working the strange colors of clamor and bells - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
The color that is lost in prayer - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"
With chains of coloured song - Rose Fyleman "The Daphne Bush"
Colour and fancy and lilt - Zona Gale "Hokku"
Luminol was her favorite color - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Into the shadows of a water colored world - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"
Colour in which to drown - Rosaleen Graves "Colour"
Embracing stars of all colors - Joy Harjo "First Morning"
Each star rang with separate colored hue - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Snow poisoned the color of monoxide - francine j. harris "you, old meany"
Taking protective colouring from bole and bark - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
Mephisto never yet was caught beneath false colors - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"
Their subtly colored chips of sound - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
Bacteria communicate in color - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"
The curve of Noah's colored arc - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Set down your flammable colors - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"
Every color backed away into the past - Jackson Holbert "Unsent Letter to Jakob"
All ways the molten colours run - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
A coloured skein of thoughts - Aldous Huxley "Poem"
Of colour and pure wings - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
Hope with her tender colors - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"
Sell the colors of your sunset - Helene Johnson "Magalu"
Bursting, lets a thousand colors fly - James Weldon Johnson "Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)"
In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"
lifelines to be colored with earth - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Hands"
Thorny roses goaded into color - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"
Deck'd out with stars and colors gay - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"
The radiant colours of his thought - Fredoon Kabraji "The Lovers"
Unfold in many colors - Susan Katz "Jungle Concert"
An odd cut of intense color - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Strange colors on the foaming sea - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"
The warm dust of those colors - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"
Precisely the color of dust - Ted Kooser "Grasshoppers"
That win their colour from the day - Richard Le Gallienne "Ad Cimmerios"
The rust of brittle color - Hailey Leithauser "Dolor"
Islands tinged with the colours of Paradise - Li Po "The White River at Nan-Yang" transl. by Arthur Waley
The tongue taste of natural color - Ada Limon "Gratitude in Spite of Oneself"
Drunkenness steaming in colours - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
With one sad color are imbued - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
Wearing its constant colors unchanged - Lu Yu "The Stone on the Hilltop" transl. by Burton Watson
The color of the shore that welcomes - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
The color of the roses that spy - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
A chance to restore the color - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
Upon the quilted colors of the autumn hills - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Climb the sun gathering color - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
The Ghost of a Gargoyle riding his night colored mare - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
As roses slowly blush a deeper color - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Rigorously arranging emotions by color - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"
Which enters every color under heaven - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
Blood of winter, color of rye - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
To digest the color of ghosts - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"
Orange is the single-hearted color - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"
All of its colors shrieking at me - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"
A day with no colors except brown - W.S. Merwin "Print Fallen Out of Somewhere"
Dancing storms of leaves in flaming colors - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Stitching patches of color to the earth - N. Scott Momaday "Ago"
The shivering colors of the Arctic night - N. Scott Momaday "The Death of Sitting Bear"
Tell me what color I should wear to a funeral - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Every thought washed of color - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Illumine a hundred unearthly colors - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Scar over in the colour of sand - Abdushukur Muhammet "My Name" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Rubbed the colors from my smile - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
How a story can emerge from colors - Marilyn Nelson "Studio"
The heart with its deep bright colors - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
In a final color of forgiven autumn - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A long day the color of honey and blue - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew
The color of a savage harvest - Pablo Neruda "Morning XI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
A barricade the color of fury - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
Kings and queens the color of amaranth - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XX" transl. by William O'Daly
To see seven birds of the same color - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly
The empress of three colors - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
As the night mutes every color - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
The gift of colour's mystic form - Grace Nichols "Rivers"
The long sorrow of the color red - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Small Vases from Hebron"
The color of my longing - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
essential for the colors of the stone - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
The amber color of comfort - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"
Shadows the color of moss at dusk - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"
Found two colors of love - Willie Perdomo "Poet in Harlem"
With their belts of colored dust - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
All colors have veins full of neon - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
Ravens the precise color of sorrow - Carl Phillips "Leda, After the Swan"
The beautiful colors of extinction - Carl Phillips "Regime"
Spellbound by the color of the grasses - Po Chu'i "Spring River" transl. by Burton Watson
Whose colour was but echo - John Presland "A January Morning"
Alien multitudes in a strident shield of color - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"
The colors in hell's flag - Lola Ridge "Betty"
That slay all colour as they run - Lola Ridge "Lull Before Storm"
That spilled their colors in your tawny bronze - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
A word the color of dawn - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"
Sung in the colors yet unnamed - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
The colors of all the saddest love songs - Valencia Robin "Cathedral"
Horns of every pitch and color - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Colored with bitter wrongs - Carl Sandburg "Lawyers"
The colors came with the smell of burning - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Hair tonics by color like a spectrum - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"
Caught a color from the sun - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"
an absorbing array of colors - Evie Shockley "black love"
And don the bright colors of scarlet and gold - Joyce Sidman "Ballad of the Wandering Eft"
The colored clue of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "The Maze of Sleep"
The color stunning your tongue - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"
Wind found its color - Patricia Smith "What Was the First Sound"
An odor the color of bones - Frank Stanford "Politicians"
Discovered the colors of the moon - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"
My heart is dyed a color so deep - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 44: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Just as the color of water is fixed - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 82: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Gathers harmonies of color - Edwin Torres "The Vase of the Universe"
This kaleidoscope of roaring color - Iris Tree "[Blow upon blow they bruise the daylight wan]"
Opalled with the changing colours of unrest - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
Colours twinging on a prism's edges - Iris Tree "Nerves"
Send down their shining colors - Ts'ao P'i "Lotus Lake" transl. by Burton Watson
Floods of colour long concealed - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"
Until the cataract of colour breaks - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
Filled with all the colors of the sky - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"
Into a deeper color - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Maize in golden colors dressed - Arthur Weir "The Oak"
Level and undisturbed by colors - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Angles and colors and design - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
The color of their planet's birthright - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
In the sound of colored glass violins - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Birds the color of history - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
As if color were too expensive - C. Dale Young "The Wolf"
Look like you hear colors - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Exactly the color that it is - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
An amber-colored amethyst inhabits it - Marianne Moore "A Jelly-Fish"
Blood-colored rust rubbed into my hands - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
A colorful exterior of a painful past - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Touching the colorful cacophony of sounds - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
Colorless.
Climbed from the shallows to don your dragon-colors - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"
Delicate uplifts of dust-colored skin - Mary Oliver "Look Again"
Changed into the five-coloured clouds - Li T'ai-Po "The Pleasures within the Palace" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Through the jasper-colored sphere - Charles Sangster "The Illumined Goal"
Rose-coloured dreams adorning - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Dreams"
A rust-colored rosary worn from prayer - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"
Garlands of sulfur-colored seaweed - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
That flares like the ten-colored turquoise - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
the house disguised as a technicolor sunset - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Technicolor and twilight-made - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"
My voice of leaves and varicolored bark - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
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Cosmic colours imprisoned in metal - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Chameleons run through twenty colors in the sun - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
The serpent who gifted her with feathers of every color - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Color provokes a psychic vibration - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Color hides a power still unknown but real - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Skeleton of black borders and color fields - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
In coloured blurs of butterfly distress - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
Quilt in the home team's colors - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"
In clashing storm of color - Charles Ashleigh "A Miracle"
Foxglove and zinnia fold their colors - Lou Barrett "Brief Truance"
Shaped the color and sound of mountains - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"
who say all colors are gray - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
a glamorous color blue - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
Sailing on with our colors furled - Cora C. Bass "Sunshine"
Filling the waves with colored fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
Rough angles with the color purple - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Provide the only note of color - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"
The same faithful colours paint the mind - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
Each seasonal chorus colored with resilience - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Cry the names of colors - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
Chant the names of colors - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
Burdened with many colors - Maxwell Bodenheim "Pastels"
An x-ray for colors beneath your colors - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"
The color of vague memories - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"
The color of brittle-mindedness - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"
The color of an ancient thesaurus - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
The sky's color an old blade - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"
With the color taken from their sight - Lucie Brock-Broido "Physicism"
Colorful living in a world grown dull - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Some colors have always been illegal - Sue Budin "Passport, 1954"
Every bay a changing alchemy of colors - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Not for colouring empty dust - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Thy choicest color was Green - Jamie Harris Coleman "The Artist Above"
Perfectly painted the color of cold - Misha Collins "Clasped"
No cold canvas of dead color - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Cloudland's curves and grading colors - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Through color may send greetings to the sight - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Who would answer for the color of a rose - Nathalia Crane "The Blind Girl"
Drag up colour from the sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Colored balloons bobbing against a black ceiling - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
Snakes the color of wood ash or fresh dark - Tyree Daye "Town Day on the Hill"
Describe what color is not - Monica de la Torre "No mode of excitement is absolutely colorless"
The color of risk & knowing - Diane DeCillis "Artemisia Absinthium"
Have cried openly at the newborn color - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"
Watch the individual colors as they surface - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"
The correct color for desolate - Stephen Dunn "The Obsession"
On his breath of every color - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
Collective breath of all colors - Max Early "Delayza's Necklace"
Icy in unfinished colors - Carolina Ebeid "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick and Mum Petals"
In vials of ivory and coloured glass - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land II: A Game of Chess"
A color I can sleep in - Elaine Equi "Asking for a Raise"
The color of all yearning - Heid E. Erdich "Black and White Monument, Photo Circa 1977"
In a place where color speaks - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
Colors bathed in mellow lights - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
Crueler colours than the abyss - Caleb Femi "Baseline"
Working the strange colors of clamor and bells - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
The color that is lost in prayer - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"
With chains of coloured song - Rose Fyleman "The Daphne Bush"
Colour and fancy and lilt - Zona Gale "Hokku"
Luminol was her favorite color - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Into the shadows of a water colored world - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"
Colour in which to drown - Rosaleen Graves "Colour"
Embracing stars of all colors - Joy Harjo "First Morning"
Each star rang with separate colored hue - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Snow poisoned the color of monoxide - francine j. harris "you, old meany"
Taking protective colouring from bole and bark - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
Mephisto never yet was caught beneath false colors - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"
Their subtly colored chips of sound - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
Bacteria communicate in color - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"
The curve of Noah's colored arc - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Set down your flammable colors - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"
Every color backed away into the past - Jackson Holbert "Unsent Letter to Jakob"
All ways the molten colours run - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
A coloured skein of thoughts - Aldous Huxley "Poem"
Of colour and pure wings - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
Hope with her tender colors - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"
Sell the colors of your sunset - Helene Johnson "Magalu"
Bursting, lets a thousand colors fly - James Weldon Johnson "Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)"
In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"
lifelines to be colored with earth - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Hands"
Thorny roses goaded into color - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"
Deck'd out with stars and colors gay - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"
The radiant colours of his thought - Fredoon Kabraji "The Lovers"
Unfold in many colors - Susan Katz "Jungle Concert"
An odd cut of intense color - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Strange colors on the foaming sea - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"
The warm dust of those colors - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"
Precisely the color of dust - Ted Kooser "Grasshoppers"
That win their colour from the day - Richard Le Gallienne "Ad Cimmerios"
The rust of brittle color - Hailey Leithauser "Dolor"
Islands tinged with the colours of Paradise - Li Po "The White River at Nan-Yang" transl. by Arthur Waley
The tongue taste of natural color - Ada Limon "Gratitude in Spite of Oneself"
Drunkenness steaming in colours - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
With one sad color are imbued - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
Wearing its constant colors unchanged - Lu Yu "The Stone on the Hilltop" transl. by Burton Watson
The color of the shore that welcomes - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
The color of the roses that spy - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
A chance to restore the color - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
Upon the quilted colors of the autumn hills - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Climb the sun gathering color - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
The Ghost of a Gargoyle riding his night colored mare - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
As roses slowly blush a deeper color - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Rigorously arranging emotions by color - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"
Which enters every color under heaven - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
Blood of winter, color of rye - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
To digest the color of ghosts - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"
Orange is the single-hearted color - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"
All of its colors shrieking at me - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"
A day with no colors except brown - W.S. Merwin "Print Fallen Out of Somewhere"
Dancing storms of leaves in flaming colors - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Stitching patches of color to the earth - N. Scott Momaday "Ago"
The shivering colors of the Arctic night - N. Scott Momaday "The Death of Sitting Bear"
Tell me what color I should wear to a funeral - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Every thought washed of color - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Illumine a hundred unearthly colors - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Scar over in the colour of sand - Abdushukur Muhammet "My Name" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Rubbed the colors from my smile - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
How a story can emerge from colors - Marilyn Nelson "Studio"
The heart with its deep bright colors - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
In a final color of forgiven autumn - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A long day the color of honey and blue - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew
The color of a savage harvest - Pablo Neruda "Morning XI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
A barricade the color of fury - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
Kings and queens the color of amaranth - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XX" transl. by William O'Daly
To see seven birds of the same color - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly
The empress of three colors - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
As the night mutes every color - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
The gift of colour's mystic form - Grace Nichols "Rivers"
The long sorrow of the color red - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Small Vases from Hebron"
The color of my longing - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
essential for the colors of the stone - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
The amber color of comfort - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"
Shadows the color of moss at dusk - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"
Found two colors of love - Willie Perdomo "Poet in Harlem"
With their belts of colored dust - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
All colors have veins full of neon - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
Ravens the precise color of sorrow - Carl Phillips "Leda, After the Swan"
The beautiful colors of extinction - Carl Phillips "Regime"
Spellbound by the color of the grasses - Po Chu'i "Spring River" transl. by Burton Watson
Whose colour was but echo - John Presland "A January Morning"
Alien multitudes in a strident shield of color - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"
The colors in hell's flag - Lola Ridge "Betty"
That slay all colour as they run - Lola Ridge "Lull Before Storm"
That spilled their colors in your tawny bronze - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
A word the color of dawn - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"
Sung in the colors yet unnamed - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
The colors of all the saddest love songs - Valencia Robin "Cathedral"
Horns of every pitch and color - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Colored with bitter wrongs - Carl Sandburg "Lawyers"
The colors came with the smell of burning - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Hair tonics by color like a spectrum - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"
Caught a color from the sun - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"
an absorbing array of colors - Evie Shockley "black love"
And don the bright colors of scarlet and gold - Joyce Sidman "Ballad of the Wandering Eft"
The colored clue of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "The Maze of Sleep"
The color stunning your tongue - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"
Wind found its color - Patricia Smith "What Was the First Sound"
An odor the color of bones - Frank Stanford "Politicians"
Discovered the colors of the moon - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"
My heart is dyed a color so deep - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 44: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Just as the color of water is fixed - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 82: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Gathers harmonies of color - Edwin Torres "The Vase of the Universe"
This kaleidoscope of roaring color - Iris Tree "[Blow upon blow they bruise the daylight wan]"
Opalled with the changing colours of unrest - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
Colours twinging on a prism's edges - Iris Tree "Nerves"
Send down their shining colors - Ts'ao P'i "Lotus Lake" transl. by Burton Watson
Floods of colour long concealed - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"
Until the cataract of colour breaks - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
Filled with all the colors of the sky - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"
Into a deeper color - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Maize in golden colors dressed - Arthur Weir "The Oak"
Level and undisturbed by colors - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Angles and colors and design - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
The color of their planet's birthright - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
In the sound of colored glass violins - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Birds the color of history - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
As if color were too expensive - C. Dale Young "The Wolf"
Look like you hear colors - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Exactly the color that it is - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
An amber-colored amethyst inhabits it - Marianne Moore "A Jelly-Fish"
Blood-colored rust rubbed into my hands - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
A colorful exterior of a painful past - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Touching the colorful cacophony of sounds - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
Colorless.
Climbed from the shallows to don your dragon-colors - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"
Delicate uplifts of dust-colored skin - Mary Oliver "Look Again"
Changed into the five-coloured clouds - Li T'ai-Po "The Pleasures within the Palace" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Through the jasper-colored sphere - Charles Sangster "The Illumined Goal"
Rose-coloured dreams adorning - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Dreams"
A rust-colored rosary worn from prayer - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"
Garlands of sulfur-colored seaweed - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
That flares like the ten-colored turquoise - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
the house disguised as a technicolor sunset - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Technicolor and twilight-made - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"
My voice of leaves and varicolored bark - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
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