Potential Titles: Branch

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A branch of the Eternal Vine - A.L.O.E. "Hymn for the Communion"

Under the sweet breath of branches - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

A small branch signifying the impossible - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

Rocks adorned with crowns of fallen branches - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Inherited trees with twisted branches - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجارا"

Bare branches dripped with gold - H.M. Andrews "Song"

Branches from her own heart crept - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Hang your kisses on all my branches - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"

The branches growing from my teeth - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"

This forest of branches is your inheritance - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

A ladder of branches and leaves into heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

Oriole hopping from branch to branch - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Spun sugar in branches & twigs - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Lately,"

Hidden in the branching veins of earthbound stone - Bruce Boston "Marble People"

Time's withered branch dividing - Emily Bronte "Death"

Caw and fuss among what brittle branches left - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

Berried branches of the rowan - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"

Behind the wind-whipped branches - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

A branch of carnelian to serve as food - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Swam through its branches - Hilda Conkling "The Apple-Jelly-Fish-Tree"

His branches rise in theoretic symmetries - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"

This sleeve of ice worn by a branch - James Crews "Awe"

Let the pears cling to the empty branch - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

Beneath the branches of the moon - Walter de la Mare "The Horn"

The cuckoo's voice on bending branch - "Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland" transl. by Kuno Meyer

My branch of thoughts is frail tonight - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

Birdhouse hanging from a make-believe branch - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Imagination"

Living shade from beechen branches - Edward Dowden "From April to October: V. The Mill-Race"

Bed of apple-branches & thyme - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"

A branch from Scotland's shore - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

By briar, branch and broken stick - Anthony Euwer "Snoots"

An errant eagle perched in the branches above - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"

Elfin dreams in its branches stir - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

Beneath emptying branches - Sid Farrar The Year Comes Round

Shook the music from your branches - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"

Huge branches of coral inky or amber - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

My thoughts are willow branches already broken - John Gould Fletcher "Dead Thoughts"

Into a new language of branching gestures - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"

Branches scratch against my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

A branch in my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

Brought wren song up from the branches - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"

Knocking on hollow branches - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Remnant"

In new ecstasy of branching beauty - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

With branching antlers of the chase - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Thoughts from joy's branches flew - Hafiz "The Divan XXXVII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Full of branches and mouths - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Hung on a bare-branched oak - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

The fractaled branches of three oaks - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"

Branches reaching the planet heart - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Where darkness branches - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

Out of the branch's private misery - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"

A broken branch remembers quiet - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

To tie-back or prune branches is useless - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"

The branches of the soldier oak - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"

Taken in by the netted branches of raspberries - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

Gales hang in the branches - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

The blur of beginnings of branchings - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

Webs and dim branching, cross-firing - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"

A few stiff branches covered with scimitar thorns - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Two branches clap two stones together - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"

Between the swell of turf and slanting branches - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The forest left its branches in her chest - Vandana Khanna "Why Sita Is Chosen"

Emptying night from its branches - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"

Its own pattern twisted into the branches - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

The wind tangles the net of branches that holds it - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

May the bird rest on its branch - Danusha Lameris "Let Rain Be Rain"

Thin veils of mist between their branches - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

Beneath the many-branching candelabrum - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

Naked branches point to frozen skies - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

The dendrite branching of frost on a window pane - Stephen Leggett "Seven Winter Poems"

Roosting in the dark branches of the Joshua tree - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

On the branches of withered trees - Li Po "Fighting" transl. by Arthur Waley

Climbing aloft on cedar branches - P.H.B. Lyon "The Deserted Garden"

And the branches bowed beneath my foot - "The Maiden's Morning Dream" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Hanging branches crowned her head with bays - Charles Mair "Innocence"

Sees gray branches weep - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"

Up in the middle of knotted branches - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

One talon for the olive branch - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

No branch shall endure until morning - Theodore Maynard "A Great Wind"

A high branch of broken promises - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"

Many branches find their roots - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

No branch of Reason's growing - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Fruit and flower on the same branch - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"

Marked by the slash of branches - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"

Envy's vultures in the branches perk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Branches sliced from the trunk of an old tree - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"

The bonfires on Hell's branches - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman

A branch of fallen crystal - Pablo Neruda "Battle of the Jarama River" translated by Richard Schaaf

Raised its coral branches of poison - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Gunpowder to shake the dishonored branches - Pablo Neruda "The War (1936)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

On the branches of my memory - Grace Nichols "Bourda"

The green silence of the branching limes - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"

Trusting branches not to break - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Build"

Settles in the branches of his lungs - Gregory Orr "From That Moment"

Curl up in the top branches and sleep - Gregory Orr "A Life"

While the feverish branches chafe - Kiki Petrosino "Young"

Hair and branches and dream - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

The cool descent of the willow's branches - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

The fist through the branches - Carl Phillips "Foliage"

Each arm a branch raised in offering - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Throwing a Dinner Party While the City Burns"

Close the curtains of branched evergreen - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

Oak leaves sitting on elm branches - Alison Rumfitt "Romance of Possible Contrasts"

Beaten by the envy of the black branches - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier

Rattling the branches of other lives - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"

Bleeding in its branches - Charles Simic "A Book Full of Pictures"

Crept amid the branches of the elm - L. Virginia Smith "Bless the Homestead Law"

Escaping from the attic of branches - Richard Solomon "The Great Masturbator"

A riven bloom on a restless branch - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves

Upon branches of a thousand blossoms - "The Song of the Thrush"

A fractal branching of mistakes - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

The bough of summer and the winter branch - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

The sighful branches of my mind - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

One branch of chrysanthemum holds out against frost - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

Whose last branch failed to leaf - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

Desire branches like mycelium - Arthur Sze "The Radiant's"

Bare, brown branches stark against the deep, blue sky - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Honeycombed with delicate coral branches - Keith Taylor "Drummond Island Fossils"

With strong roots and thick branches - Elizabeth Torres "The Tree"

All the branches of the mystical vine - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"

Tall branches sweeping the azure sky - Ts'ao P'i "Lotus Lake" transl. by Burton Watson

Branches were our rafter and our roof - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson

Each branch and limb of oak was a prayer - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

Under the branches bending - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

The closely matted branches of the mesquite - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"

Kissed the bony branches into blossom - Charles William Wallace "The Old Benoni Tree"

This branch of blue butterflies - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

A burst of fragrance from black branches - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

Of winter branches and old bones - William Carlos Williams "The Soughing Wind"

Cut a branch and bury it - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"

A beautiful troubling through the branches - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"


A myriad-branching, cloud-aspiring tree - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"


The walnut-branches hold me - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus


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