Potential Titles: Orange (color and fruit)

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The scent of orange bloom made redolent - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"

The dark tastes of salt and oranges - Ralph Angel "Sampling"

Orange moon, pale night, and cricket hum - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

Stands of trees bearing false oranges - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Orioles come for the oranges - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

Soft orange inside my steel - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"

Bright bowers of orange, bergamot and broom - Mrs. Agnes S. Coleman "The Spanish Maiden" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Apples of orange and copper fire - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

Orange of Idleness which flaunts the sun - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

The orange floods of afternoon - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Unflinchingly parading their bursts of rebellious orange - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"

Giving us orange and yellow and sometimes green - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"

Orange, and red, all fringed with golden light - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"

In the green groves of the orange and lime - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The pocketknife seducing the orange - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"

Little orange willow switches hardly bending - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"

I'd kiss the oranges blue - Kimberly Grey "Hunger Sentences"

The usual orange stampede - francine j. harris "feeder"

In animated orange code - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Orange creeping vines, parasitic, protecting you - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Kaōnōn"

A trickle of oranges in the snow - Ilya Kaminsky "Above Blue Tin Roofs, Deafness"

On the orange grove's waving height - Fanny Kemble"Eastern Sunset"

Grinning orange against the black - Rachel Kolar "Twinkle, Twinkle, Lantern Jack"

What to do with the problem of the orange - Ada Limon "First Lunch with Relative Stranger Mister You"

Orange is the single-hearted color - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"

Tyranny wears orange trappings - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

An orange sun fatter than the sky - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Our fingertips shone orange from grasping - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Hypothetical Moons"

The tiger lily's orange fires - Effie Lee Newsome "Pansy"

Your own personalized orange revolution - Jena Osman "To the Reader"

Brick parapets burning cold orange - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

The clear oranges burning - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

The poignant exactness of oranges - Kay Ryan "Death by Fruit"

Love scarlet adore pink thrive on orange - Joyce Sidman "Ultraviolet"

Orange juice in the form of air - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

With onyx pebbles and orange weed - George Sterling "North Wind"

The orange far down in yellow - Wallace Stevens "The Green Plant"

Redolent with balm of myrtle, orange, and the rose - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

Orange slots of hot thought - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"

Brilliant orange strikes the sky - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

In an irridescent orange back-lit with coffee - James F. Yockey "What If"


bitter oranges unafraid of cosmic dust - Alise Alousi "Burnished in Future Time"

Bitter orange and almond milk - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Real as a bitter orange - A.E. Stallings "Sublunary"


A bonfire of burnt-orange - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"


Mountains turned hazard-orange mid-air - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"


In vain with orange blossoms scents the gale - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

The wreath of orange blossoms on her brow - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Glacial orange blossom of silence - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: II" transl. by James Nolan


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