Potential Titles: Ask

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Mornings to ask for favors and forgiveness - Carl Adamshick "Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging"

Because the birds, my brothers, have asked - Etel Adnan "Night"

To ask the placenta for its numerical origin - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Stop asking about the afterlife - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"

Indirect askings and parallel furtive answerings - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

Ask you to emulate the flight path of an ostrich - dee(dee) c. ardan "freedom terrors"

May not ask too great a boon - Albion Fellows Bacon "An Alpine Valley"

That compels us to answer the questions it asks - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

A question we don't dare to ask - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Asking is an act of harmony - Mary Jo Bang "On the Subject of Conjuring"

I asked the river for answers - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"

Asking for honey to crystallize - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"

Go ask the sphinx, perhaps she knows - Ardelia Maria Barton "What Is the Future of the Race?"

You can't ask a person who doesn't exist - Emily Berry "The End"

A cup of sugar she hasn't asked for - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Ask the honest cold how - William Brewer "The Messenger of Oxyana"

No other grace to ask - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

Agrees to ask for nothing - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"

Asks of our bright, unsteady flame - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

Ask for a remission of words - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"

Gifts I ask not of Apollo - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"

Ask not the idle cards to show - Rev. William Crowe "To a Lady, Fortune-Telling with Cards"

Ask the strange hands of the wind - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

And what will we tell anyone who asks - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Ask the sky to show its hands - Chelsea Dingman "Reconstructing the Saints"

Shall ask the snow for alms - Canon Dixon "The Heaving Roses of the Hedge Are Stirred"

And asked to be moved - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

Asking in advance to be forgiven - Stephen Dunn "A Card from Me to Me"

Refuse to ask or answer - Tarfia Faizullah "Diary"

Asked, too, to be luminous and ruined - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"

Ask to know what I was walling in - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

Ask me about candles on countertops - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

When asking curses with my lips - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

But if the war ask billions - "Go In and Win" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

And she mocks the thing you ask - Viscountess Grey "Echo"

Still asking them questions - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"

Ask no ill-advised reward - Thomas Hardy "Epitaph"

Ask why the seaweed wanders - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"

I will ask the rose - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"

Ask the lover's heart - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"

How much oxygen to ask a question - Tom Healy "Base Camp"

And asked if Peace were there - George Herbert "Peace"

Ask the fox and raven - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"

don't ask me when freedom is coming - Kara Jackson "fleeing"

Ask who shrives the heart - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

I asked the raven sky - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

Ask no sad requiem o'er his ashes sung - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Ask for a taste of luck - Kassia "Selected Epigrams" transl. from Byzantine Greek by Patrick Diehl

Asking for cuts from your first-born heart - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"

Asking through ravenous teeth- Michael Kleber-Diggs "America is Loving Me to Death"

Asking each question but one - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"

Asking me for favors all along - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"

Just a stone to anyone asking for bread - D.H. Lawrence "The American Eagle"

Ask the rain to clear my path - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Ask the wind to show my path - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

The earth asks nothing - Philip Levine "The Secret"

Would ask of memory no other boon - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

When the witches ask what you want - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"

Better to ask what man is not - Nabila Lovelace "The S in 'I Loves You, Porgy'"

Asking some stick, like Aaron's, to bud - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

The spleen doesn't ask twice - Randall Mann "A Better Life"

Do not ask why the wind broods - Randall Mann "?"

Ask for the trinkets you've pilfered - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

They don't even ask you to try on the glass slipper - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"

The crossroad asks what I bring to the tale - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

Nor ask the silent to give sound - George Meredith "Woodland Peace"

Helpless not to ask - W.S. Merwin "A Note from the Cimmerians"

Cannot ask the living for grace - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"

Asking all my ghosts to join me - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"

Ask for bread and dominion - Pablo Neruda "Night LXXX" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

To ask more from honey - Pablo Neruda "October Fullness" transl. by Alastair Reid

Ask the wind more questions - Pablo Neruda "Soliloquy at Twilight" transl. by Alastair Reid

The darkness asking the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

When they asked me to partake of rules - Alice Notley "The Poem"

Asking to see God's identity papers - Mary Oliver "I Wake Close to Morning"

Nor asks the wild bird's requiem - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

May never dare to ask return - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Reply to the questions they might have asked - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"

Start forgetting to ask - Carl Phillips "Of the Rippling Surface"

Forgetting to stop asking - Carl Phillips "Shimmer"

Asks a kindness of Fate - Po-Chu-i "Alarm at First Entering the Yang-Tze Gorges" (translated by Arthur Waley)

This luxury of even time to ask - Khadijah Queen "Ut Pictura Poesis"

Ask nothing of the spring - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

We asked our way of the swallow - Rennell Rodd "Those Days Are Long Departed"

When you ask what is my desire - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"

Which asked no beat of answering pulse - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"

To ask for a crystalline idiom - Prageeta Sharma "The Imperishable and Perishable Family"

Ask some tremendous thing to prove her - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"

Learn by asking all the questions - Desirae Simmons "What to Remember If I Lose My Way"

Cunning life keeps asking for more - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

When Time and strong Oblivion ask - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"

Never ask why will is but obedience - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"

Asked for something greater - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

For what can neither ask nor heed - Edward Thomas "There Was a Time"

Ask where all the angels were - Francis Thompson "Ex Ore Infantium"

And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"

Ask the mountain - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"

The ask and the offer in garlanded time - Jo Walton "Nemi"

Rope you to the podium and ask - The Cyborg Jillian Weise "Nondisabled Demands"

You asked, I think, too great a sacrifice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"

Locked within yourself and asking - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"


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