Potential Titles: Plant

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The combustion of plants through sulphurous summer - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Planted far from their original orchards - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجا"

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

The fragrance of bygone plants - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of the setting sun"

Take these remains and plant them - Julie Babcock "Johnny Appleseed Proposes"

Planted on the moon - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Collected on the heads of chamomile plants - Taneum Bambrick "Intimacies Received 5"

To plant trees under starlight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"

Planting their flags on the wind - Terry Blackhawk "Not Wafting, but Dofting"

Planted safe against this stark, lean year - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"

Plants that spring in ruins and shards - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"

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

Planted nine acres of orchids - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Eat from every plant except for the bitter one - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

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

Planted an immortal grove - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

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

Planting a tree in my palm - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"

Plant a warder keen and pure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"

Plant my syllables in light - Elaine Equi "Reset"

And where will they plant their feet? - Eleanor Farjeon "Light the Lamps Up, Lamplighter!"

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

That without planting grow - "Flora: a Vision"

Planted as it is in the dew - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"

Grew plant ladders to the the stars - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"

Strong foundations they planted broad and deep - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

To plant the roots of coming years - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"

From mud where no one planted it - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

Go to baptize the plants - Sy Hoahwah "Church for the Disliked"

Suddenly regretting the tree my father planted - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

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

Where the ice plants glow - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"

Setting bloom where curse is planted - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"

Spring's thousand tender greens - Jane Kenyon "The Clearing"

The vines they planted, the corn they sowed - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

When the plant of Eden dies - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"

Nothing she plants has roots long enough to hold - Tariq Luthun "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing"

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

That plants and uproots - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Planting myself in this soil - Shara McCallum "History Is a Room"

Of wilting plants and fainting flowers - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"

Planting joy in constant fire - George Meredith "The Star Sirius"

Planting shade trees upside down - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

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

The dirt that packs the plant is the beginning - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"

The persistence of something not planted - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"

Like perennials you'd forgotten to expect - Carl Phillips "Moralia"

The tree my father planted - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "Song of the Choctaw Girl"

Plant your roots when the moon is dark - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

The spot where someone should have planted a tree - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist as a Twelve-Year-Old Girl"

We planted ourselves next to their scarecrows - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"

Guilt planted for others - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Plant a tree on Jordan's quiet banks - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz

Planted for their temporary kingdoms - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"

Flower by dream-ghosts planted - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"

Planting our songs among the stars and on the waters - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

Parents or partners to plants - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"

Her forest of planted avocado jars - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"

Corrupt a landscape through the planting of foreign flowers - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Were planted not in vain - Effie Smith "Thanksgiving"

Plant vegetables in a parking lot - Alison Swan "Detroit"

planted at the rupture of a root - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

The plants have outlasted our indifference - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"

You plant the pain in my heart - John Todhunter "An Irish Love Song"

The bitter creeping plant of discontent - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

Planted in the hull of twilight conversation - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"


A spirit-planted, fadeless flower - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"


Unplanted, unsown, blooming alone - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)


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