Potential Titles: Root

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The poisoned roots of pride - A.L.O.E. "Gardener's Hymn"

Pulling my roots toward nourishment - Elmaz Abinader "Ash Wednesday"

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

Roots in the auguries of our shifting stars - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"

Inherited trees with roots uprooted - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees"

With the willing submerged assembly of tree roots - Mouna Ammar "When I see the Suffering of My People"

Rooting out weeds, trampling on trash - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

Insects, vessel-like roots reaching for foliage - William Archila "El Mozote"

From the root of a nicotined tooth - William Archila "Spirits"

The roots of his lungs - Simon Armitage "Emergency"

Who made the roots of trees his bed - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"

The memory of trauma in our roots - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Daisies rooted in water reeds - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"

Knife to the narrative root - Mary Jo Bang "Dwelling in Our Time"

A forest of fruit taking root - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"

Rooting in a nexus of needles - Mary Jo Bang "A Portrait of Love"

Undermining the roots of To Be - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"

The axe wrapped in tree roots - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"

Precious roots - Rachel Barenblat "Change"

Volunteer wildflowers take defiant root - Rachel Barenblat "Peak"

rooted origins of leaf - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

A root from the sleeping earth - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

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

winter the future's root - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"

trees with roots of red - Elizabeth Bartlett "whatever else may be"

Small Mercies sliced from the root - Ellen Bass "Roses"

The fist of the mind grows roots and greens - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"

Deepens into a well filled with roots - Kyce Bello "Far Country"

My roots still sip the honeyed earth - Paul Bernstein "The Withering Elms and I"

The deepest rooted dream of a tree - Emily Berry "Unexhausted Time"

Untangle the roots of salt water - Sherwin Bitsui "Triptych"

The fibrous roots of every heart - William Blake "The Book of Thel"

Tangled roots perplex her ways - William Blake "The Voice of the Ancient Bard"

In his root's deep cavern housed - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Moles have gnawed the rose tree at its root - Arna Bontemps "Lancelot"

His acre brought forth roots last year - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"

The fresh root of Eternity - Emily Bronte "Death"

Have dried down to the root - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Change on Change"

With strangling roots - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Whose roots were in another world - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

The swifter current that mines its root - William Cullen Bryant "Green River"

Rooted sure and slow - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"

And undermine it rock and root - Madison Cawein "The Speckled Trout"

The bitter root of love - Jennifer Chang "Episteme 12"

The mouse that gnaws an apple tree's roots - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

Those too ignorant of their own holy roots - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

Move among roots of nations - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

Whose sweat and salt quenched our roots - May Chong "Kamcia"

Traded lullabies root to root - May Chong "Kamcia"

These sinful roots and remnants - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VI"

Leave my own buried roots - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"

The dahlia rooted in Egyptian sleep - Mary E. Coleridge "Chillingham"

Do not touch her roots - "Counsel to a Bridegroom" transl. from Mandinka by Bala Saho

Pry dirt from the roots of an ancient oak - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"

Had taken root in the floodplain of your hands - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"

Who tend my roots with rains of gall - Countee Cullen "Confession"

Extract of that same root - Countee Cullen "Fruit of the Flower"

Their ghostly roots - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"

And tear all the roots from the earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"

Moss-weed root tangled in sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Caught root among wet pebbles - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

Upon the old roots of an oak - Danske Dandridge "The Night Watch"

Whose roots are still embracing - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

The deepest root yanked clean - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"

And find his feet growing roots - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"

Meagre as a gnarled root - Mitchell Dawson "Asperities: Threat"

From the roots of the dark thorn - Walter de la Mare "The Ghost"

Singing round the root - Walter de la Mare "Sleepyhead"

My roots always at a distance - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

I've become a vine with tangled roots - Diane DeCillis "Dreams of My Father"

Where roots travel and tendrils reach - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"

Until they fall like withered roots - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"

Balance on a tangle of puzzled roots - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"

Puzzled roots in a wilderness of secrets - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"

Cyclamens in heaven roots growing among the clouds - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Sweet potatoes root for their own harvest - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"

Thirsty reaching down for roots - Kathy Engel "It would be water"

Tireless as rust and bold as roots - Louise Erdrich "Fooling God"

Shackled to stubborn roots - Anthony Euwer "Builders of Highways"

The both of us clenched in gnarled roots - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"

Be the water you siphon into the roots - Tarfia Faizullah "Apology from a Muslim Orphan"

Clean as pine root boiled in fire - Carolyn Forche "Alfansa"

the square root of what academia alleges - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Out of the roots of my desire - Maxwell E. Foster "More Modern Love"

Scorns a pasture withering to the root - Robert Frost "The Cow in Apple Time"

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

Grown roots and found strength - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Do the trees ever tire of their roots? - Nikita Gill "Questions for the Daughters of Nyx"

Gathering the shadows to their roots - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Unpeopled Eden"

Takes root where you weep - Cynthia Grady "Tree of Life"

Finally severing the root - Laurie Ann Guerrero "Blessing"

The roots of thine anchor - Louise Imogen Guiney "Saint Cadoc's Bell"

Tasted the bittersweet roots of this crazy world - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

Magic burned into the roots of antelope words - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"

Root deeply dark - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"

A whisper from ancient roots - Avis Harley "The Skyway to Mexico"

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

Will wrench invading roots - Janice N. Harrington "Burn"

Everything I hold takes root - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Girded with root and rock - Seamus Heaney "Antaeus"

Derive a forked root from that ground - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"

Of earth dreaming its root in flowers and snow - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"

To keep the outside from taking root - Stephanie Heit "Window Dressing"

To see their mother-root - George Herbert "The Flower"

Thy root is ever in its grave - George Herbert "Virtue"

And twisted roots his steps betray - Oliver Herford "The Wakeful Princess"

Following the vine to its root - Mary Hickman "If the Heart Does Not Restart"

An island pulling up its roots - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"

Deeply rooted in this heart so true - Jennie Earngey Hill "Enchantment"

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

Put down its roots below the phyla - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

When rain leaps to the waiting of roots - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Dazzling at the root in a bath - Carlie Hoffman "After Translating the Women of the Twentieth Century"

The frozen lightning of the sycamore roots - Jackson Holbert "Two Pastoral Poems 1"

I'll shudder through root and stone - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"

Flowers that spring from the same root below - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Tore away its ancient root - "In Hebrid Seas"

Whose roots are in the spray - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: Sand Martins"

Our monuments rooting bones in all shores - Ashaki M. Jackson "A Proclamation"

Rooted against the tides - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Kaōnōn"

The power my rooted limbs to start - James Weldon Johnson "Before a Painting"

Gasoline to the roots of the forsythia - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

With laws that serve as wire and root - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Watch the old roots write - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

Foliage, crenelated, dark at the root - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"

Found me roots of relish sweet - John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Young buds sleep in the root's white core - John Keats "Faery Song"

Cool-rooted flowers fragrant-eyed - John Keats "Psyche"

The hidden virtue of herb and root - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Like rooted oak and pine - William J. Kershaw "The Indian's Salute to His Country"

Picking through the ruins for my roots - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Ginger and bitter roots growing at her ankles - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"

Run its roots out into the salty darkness - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"

Rooted at one level in the painter's art - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

On the insistent root of the old - Maxine Kumin "The Zen of Mowing"

Replenished from the sleepless root - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

The blood-root in its sheath of gray - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

Till the roots of my vision seems torn - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

Thousands of feet below the olive-roots - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

The mandrake root that fattens in the gloom - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Sensing the root, the bud, the bough - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

Balances uneasily upon its three-pronged roots - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Chorus of soup bones and roots - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"

Buildings that take root inside the land - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

The fiery roots of forests brave and far - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Writhing roots on trees of dream - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Fracture at the root - Casandra Lopez "Where the Bullet Breaks: San Bernardino 2010"

Your vocabulary not rooted in fair exchange - P. H. Low "Ode"

Searched by the nightshade's root - James Russell Lowell "The Black Preacher"

Roots tangled around stillborn engines - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

And stuff my window with roots - Lu Yun "The Valley Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)

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

Rooted impulse of essential song - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Let new names take and root - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"

Has roots in the depths of the sky - Fiona MacLeod "Lullaby"

Pull its roots from your spine - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Under the beech-roots snugly - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

Striking their roots in ripening revolutions - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Its deep and communal roots - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Roots sending it deeper into the dark - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Bone-cold root of nowhere - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

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

Gnawing the green roots from a blinded moon - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

An idea never taking root - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"

Bitter root not allowed to stretch - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"

Roots a towering flourish of coral reef - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"

The rooted liberty of flowers - Alice Meynell "The English Metres"

Making angles with the root - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Bean-Stalk"

The roots of last year's roses - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: VIII"

who will feed the roots of the tree - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

With roots of neon to spear inside - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"

Rooted to budding metals - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Faith with withered roots - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Let weeping root me - Maggie Nelson "The Deep Blue Sea"

The square root of Everest - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"

And thorns amid the roots - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The same forgotten roots of fear - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Descend to the mineral roots - Pablo Neruda "The Day Will Come" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Hoarded by the ancient mother of roots - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf

Nothing but that goblet of roots - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Five chosen roots - Pablo Neruda "I Ask for Silence" transl. by Alastair Reid

Incite the root of their swords - Pablo Neruda "I Come from the South [Song of Protest]" transl. by Miguel Algarin

So much walking among souls and roots - Pablo Neruda "In Memory of Manuel and Benjamin" transl. by William O'Daly

The profligate mother of roots - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Earth" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Tears daybreak from its night roots - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The root of a lost lightning flash - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The stubborn root of my soul - Pablo Neruda "Tyranny" Translated by Donald D. Walsh

A bridle of reins and roots - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

To keep your roots from frost - E. Nesbit "The Things that Matter"

How jealously you guard the root - E. Nesbit "The Tree of Knowledge"

Secret places tangled in roots - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Sharpest dangled by the roots - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"

Journeying to the root of her tears - Grace Nichols "At Stockwell Tube"

The decaying roots of a fallen empire - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Grim roots like monstrous talons - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

This tragedy with a terrible root - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"

Old roots twisted beyond our worry - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grandfathers Say"

Bury screams beneath the roots - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part I)"

Pale and narrow and hidden in the roots - Mary Oliver "Daisies"

A transparent stalk rooted in sand - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Yielding no root - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "A Greeting"

Both ripening and root - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

Arms rooting to earth - Janel Pineda "Mujer Malvada"

Roots brimming the pot's rim - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"

Whose root claws at the midworld fire - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

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

Water pouring from spaces between soil and root - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"

Give me the deep-rooted weeds - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"

I wear their writhing roots across my scalp - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"

Rooted in the things unknown but longed for - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"

Quiescent as at the roots of mountains - Lola Ridge "Circuit"

Shook unto their gnarled roots - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Pliant with the strength of rooted things - Lola Ridge "Kerensky"

Like a skunk that roots about the heart - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Tearing at their own roots - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"

Running along the roots of the mountains - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Rise up with singing roots - Lola Ridge "Sons of Belial"

Bitter healing at the roots of seas - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"

Willows plunging their bloodless roots - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

That lone diner on the grubby root - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"

The secret roots of the sun - Isaac Rosenberg "Chagrin"

Gnawed a fibre from strange roots - Isaac Rosenberg "God"

A single root and separate bough - Isaac Rosenberg "If You Are Fire"

The tight roots of some dead universe - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

Soldiers and orchards rooted in constellations - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

The dangling roots of an emerald dream - Kay Ryan "Duck"

Twisted the roots under my heart - Carl Sandburg "Night Stuff"

If sleeping roots dream - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

Envy the forest its full cellar of roots - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"

Pluck up mountains by the roots - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

Roots clasping the high hill's edge - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Trying to salvage the bitter roots - Prageeta Sharma "What Happened at the Service?"

Entwined those rooted hopes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Reimagining can take place at the root of time - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Whose roots are in Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "The Orchid"

Loveliness find root within decay - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"

The roots of thirst - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

To whisper what their roots had found - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"

Whose roots take hold on Hell - George Sterling "The Night of Man"

Rooted in canyons you can't imagine - Gerald Stern "Crosshatching"

As a root would wither without rain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Roots in the clouds - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

Hold the memory of trauma in our roots - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

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

tender shoots and root vegetables - Laura Theis "Some Pointers on Dating a Were-Hare"

That blasts the roots of trees - Dylan Thomas "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"

Serves but to root thy native oak - James Thomson "Rule Britannia"

A bunch of violets without their roots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"

Circle the tree's girdling roots - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

Deep enough in the ground to be called roots - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"

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

What appears to be deeply rooted - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"

Clasped by roots and rains - Louis Untermeyer "The Great Carousal"

The groping faith of every root - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Pine roots wound down into the black, black mud - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

That in my heart has taken root - Francois Villon "Arbor Amoris" transl. by Andrew Lang

Rooting it into appalled memento - Karen Volkman "Labor as a Tulip"

A question ready to open roots - Ocean Vuong "The Smallest Measure"

Root and twist, burrow like lightning - Seth Wade "Did You Hear About the Neighbors?"

As deep as the roots of language - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

I am near enough my roots - Sanna Wani "Tomorrow is a Place"

We take our roots and country sweets - Mary Webb "Market Day"

By the way the roots kept pushing - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

A sapling rooted in a fissured plinth - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

The root business between us - Simone White "the intimacies of what will be called our sacred alliance without history"

Rise against their rootedness - Richard Wilbur "Young Orchard"

The fire roots that circle him - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

Rooted, they grip down and begin - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]"

In hollows under the mangrove root - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

Wondering about your roots - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"

Some futures take root - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

The root of the solitary - Jenny Xie "Visual Orders"

See the root of song - "XX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Who loves a life among fig roots - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

invades fractally by rhizome and root - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

In crevasses between root & bone - Felicia Zamora "The Exercise of Forgiving"


And shadowless trees rootlessly paused - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"


Taproots growing down through treasure caverns - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"


Their underground tree-root syllables - Chen Chen "I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule"


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