Potential Titles: Speak/Spoke

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Your blistered heart that speaks - Harold Acton "Old Woman"

Your actions had the option to speak - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"

That speak to me of pauses and continuings - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

A silent language which can speak - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"

Without the harmony of speaking here - Ralph Angel "Sampling"

Speaking a language of holes - Raymond Antrobus "Dear Hearing World"

Speaks from its own sky - Raymond Antrobus "I Want the Confidence of"

To him that speaks the last farewell - B. "Two Pictures: Love Terrestrial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Speaks through your hollow carved wood - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

That faint, persistent whisper that drives one to speak - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Speak with tasseled exactitude - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

Turn to speak and find a vacant chair - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

Speak them in the passage of an air - Maurice Baring "Mozart"

Speak to me only of the present - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"

Speak of capturing vastness - Rosebud Ben-Oni "So They Say-- They Finally Nailed-- the Proton's Size-- & Hope-- Dies--"

And in the waterfall stand and speak - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"

And speak from the top of life - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Speaks bliss to me - Emily Bronte "Fall Leaves Fall"

Step from the mouths of your dens and speak - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

Speaks with the wind - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"

The lying prophets speak - Lyman Bryson "The Prophet"

The grieving speak a different language - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Friendships]"

No voice to speak - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Other Side of the Mirror"

All oracles that whispering speak - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Saving when envy speaks - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

A thousand spires speak gilded words - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"

There are always more names to speak alive - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

Never heard the soil speak - Tyree Daye "Do-si-do"

Her speaking full of ravens' calls - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"

Speak from the vantage point of craters - Diane DeCillis "The Myth of Father"

Speak out amid the depth of night - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"

As raindrops speak small lullabies - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"

Speak to me of danger and disdain - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Speaking by the tongues of flowers - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Speak but not to everyone - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"

In a place where color speaks - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"

Come speaking into our dreams - Heid E. Erdich "Poem for Our Ojibwe Names"

Speaks in the water’s tongue - Martin Espada "Not Here"

This is why I speak smoke - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"

Listens for the ghost years as they speak - Donald Evans "Epicede"

No voices speak our name - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Speak with silence across gulfs of silence - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Happy to practice speaking - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

start speaking in decibels - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

All who hide too well away must speak - Robert Frost "Revelation"

you'd speak only truths for six hours afterwards - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Speaks a word like burning light - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

I can pass until I speak - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"

I speak because I am shattered - Louise Gluck "The Red Poppy"

Can teach the hour to speak - Gerald Gould "Oxford"

Amidst the idols of speaking tides - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Speaking this, their heart language - Sandra Gustin "Cause of Death"

My fist speaks in four languages - Roy G. Guzman "The Age of Aquarius"

Speaking sins words - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)

The facts were told not to speak - Jane Hirshfield "On the Fifth Day"

Speaking the song of birds - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"

Speak my spirit's emotion - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"

Through the stars eternity may speak - Islwyn "Night" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

A woman who speaks against silence - Ilya Kaminsky "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"

Paris makes me speak this strange language - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

We speak only in brooms - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

privacy is a language we don't speak - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

Where day speaks to the night - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

A language we can't speak yet - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Speaking pain & joy - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'

Speaking dirges into the phantom darkness - Youna Kwak "After"

Speaks from a world of accidents and wars - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Her lone voice speaking for the silenced stars - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"

Languages only they still speak - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"

Whom now and then society permits to speak - Henry S. Leigh "Men I Dislike"

Speaking of the great theater of conquest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"

Slow fish speaking the language of silence - Philip Levine "Making It Work"

And for all your fury speak you fair - Amy Levy "Medea"

Speaking like a siege gun - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Lyrebird speaking stolen words - Amari Low "Themself"

Who speak to Kings as peers - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"

Speak the body's thrift - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege"

Speak the rumble of my pulse - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege" [2]

Speak of myself in past tense - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"

But none will speak your name - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

My throat too bruised to speak - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Written Statement"

Speaks from failing blood - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

Who'll stand and speak for London - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"

Speak to the same want of nature's koan - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"

Bees and blossoms speaking each to each - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Have been forced to speak silently - Claire Millikin "August Sander's 'Man with Dancing Bear, 1928, Westerwald'"

While listening to my intuition speak - Erika Murcia "Decoding My Mother's Gifts"

Let the sun's rays speak - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

I speak too much of apocalypse - Caroline Harper New "Elk Lake"

The ground speaks green - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"

Believe speaking is for others - Naomi Shihab Nye "Voices"

When I speak the wizard prayer - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"

To speak is to dream - Maria Antonia Ortega

In a country so famous for speaking the truth - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Only the greatest souls can speak - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Built from things too difficult to speak of - Carl Phillips "Fist and Palm"

Carry our need to speak - Sina Queyras "Years"

Though they speak the same language - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

Let silence speak in my stead - William Reichard "In the Evening"

To stay the tides that speak - A.J. Requier "A Charm"

Speaking of the chiseled weather - Lynn Riggs "Charger"

Ourselves speaking to the universe - Alberto Rios "To Mars from Arizona"

And sometimes speak of Friends forsaken - Mrs. Mary Robinson "The Alien Boy"

Music too sweet for words to speak - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"

In the speaking silence of a dream - Christina Rossetti "Echo"

No Hamlet hold my jaws and speak - Carl Sandburg "Bones"

Speak the wisdom of worlds past - Ann K. Schwader "Alexandria Next Time"

Speaks in hieroglyphs of red - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"

Who speaks in the thunders of space - Frederick George Scott "A Dream of the Prehistoric"

When wo commands the tear to speak - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The brown bittern speaks in the bog - "A Sleep Song" transl. by P.H. Pearse

To speak the language of the wound - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

Speaking with 100 iron tongues - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"

The wind speaks only summer - Algernon Swinburne "A Landscape by Courbet"

Speak directly into the ear of the sky - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: Twilight"

A turning mood speaking itself - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"

Shall speak to us with lips the darkness closes - Edith Wharton "Elegy"

Silence speaks the secret of the world - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"

In the silence speak one quiet word - Helen Hay Whitney "Enough of Singing"

That speaks of unacknowledged loss - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

Speak carefully of the living - Jay Wright "Kumu"


Clenched tight on godspeak shrapnel - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"


Silver-speaking mirrors of desire - Robert Bridges "Ode to Music"


Tears are the language of the unspeakable - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Undertake terrestrial forms of everything unspeakable - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Folios of unspeakable sorrow - Claire Millikin "Linear A and B"

Enfolding but the cold, unspeaking dust - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"


That faraway place where the ruins spoke to poets - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

Never chose the language we spoke - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

Spoken out of half a dream - William Stanley Braithwaite "Near the End of April"

No word of hope you've spoken - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Filled with You"

Spoke a whole year without vowels - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

never spoke ill of the pretty stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

Hope: the last word spoken - Rita Dove "Testimony: 1968"

Spoke in weather-leveled voices - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"

That once spoke the tongue of smoke - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"

Spoke aloud to an empty audience - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"

Words spoken by the coals - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Spoke some unremembered word - Zona Gale "Light"

Every splinter spoken for - Carmen Gimenez "Be Recorder"

The warning of reason was spoken in vain - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"

Only the wind that spoke of its bees - Jane Hirshfield "On the Fifth Day"

Spoke our own gospels like mad messiahs - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"

Spoke to a more universal currency - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

Spoken in the tongue of salt - M.L. Liebler "This Atlantic Language"

Being spoken from the earth's inside - Audre Lorde "Coal"

The soul's spoken melody - George Martin "Thomas D'Arcy McGee"

The pardon that a felon spoke - Theodore Maynard "Christmas on Crusade"

Spoke so tenderly of peace - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"

The blossoms laughed and spoke to me - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

Their glory was spoken as motion - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Verb"

May pass for a tender word spoken - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

Spoke worn words to hallow my sleep - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"

Our bodies have spoken in code - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"

A comforting word the prophet spoke - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

One word spoken, one whisper of regret - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"

Spoke such a tender word - May Sarton "Small Joys: New Year 1990"

Faith to keep each promise spoken - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

Spoke the sacred names of Thebes - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"

Spoken by mournful mouths - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"

The true word of welcome was spoken - Robert Louis Stevenson "Home No More Home to Me"

Stern oracles the while spoke ever deep and slow - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Nothing spoke my language of smoke - Paul Tran "Hypothesis"

Every word I spoke to the wind - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

Before the sun has spoken - Marjory Wentworth "(Loving) the World and Everything in It: Celebrating Mary Oliver"

And spoken unto my nothingness - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"


Bespoke mirrors for our escaping faces - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "With a third eye, I see the catastrophe"


They carry shards of their half-spoken dreams - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"

Only the half-spoken promises of Heaven - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"


Loud-spoken in the jargon of the day - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"


A spokesman of the night - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"


The omnipotent outspeaks in thunder - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"


Unspoken.


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