Potential Titles: Bad
Feb. 2nd, 2010 12:39 amDriven off by the smell of licorice gone bad - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
Bad weathers of the soul - Julia Alvarez "Fights"
Hear the bad news kiss the wind - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"
The sharp bite of the bad apple - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"
A bad penny landing same side up - Rachel Barenblat "Chord"
Masked in bad silence, turned against their star - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Near Enemy"
A bad dream's ice to choke you - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Good at trenches, bad at bridges - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"
Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Worst end of bad beginning - Rev. C.C. Colton "Old Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
To survive the bad season - Bernard Ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"
When the kitten is lost or the puppy is bad - Hannah G. Fernald "Picture-Book Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
A bad dream that never started - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"
As in a dream of some bad night - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
Warped by its own bad passions - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Where bad news is no longer news - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
The catapult from bad to everlasting - Carly Inghram "Last Night I Saw a Boat Just as it Was Exiting My Purview"
A crime to let a bad man live - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"
In my mouth like bad water - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"
The frayed seam of bad dreams - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"
Sometimes the bearer becomes the bad news - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
The bad seed of an idea - Urayoan Noel "No Longer Ode"
Throwing good years after bad - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
A bad acquaintance hurries on a crime - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
Bad brakes and a need to stop - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"
Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Forty miles of perfect bad road - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Resplendent in our own bad planning - Valencia Robin "There"
Familiar as the ghosts of our bad nights - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
A badly translated constellation of extinct stars - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Has Irrepressible Memories"
Songs that gave us bad idea - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
Bad whiskey I drink by myself - Frank Stanford "Cotton You Lose in the Field"
Lets bad instruments produce the best events - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Alas, that pigment be so badly used - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
Bad Disciple of a lost cause - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
Better a cluster of stars than another bad sleep - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
The worst of all bad names - W.B. Yeats "Father and Child"
Hunger is a bad companion - Jane Yolen "A Long Walk to Nowhere"
Unless you count bad dreams - Jane Yolen "Mortar/Pestle"
Bad Luck.
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Bad weathers of the soul - Julia Alvarez "Fights"
Hear the bad news kiss the wind - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"
The sharp bite of the bad apple - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"
A bad penny landing same side up - Rachel Barenblat "Chord"
Masked in bad silence, turned against their star - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Near Enemy"
A bad dream's ice to choke you - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Good at trenches, bad at bridges - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"
Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Worst end of bad beginning - Rev. C.C. Colton "Old Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
To survive the bad season - Bernard Ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"
When the kitten is lost or the puppy is bad - Hannah G. Fernald "Picture-Book Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
A bad dream that never started - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"
As in a dream of some bad night - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
Warped by its own bad passions - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Where bad news is no longer news - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
The catapult from bad to everlasting - Carly Inghram "Last Night I Saw a Boat Just as it Was Exiting My Purview"
A crime to let a bad man live - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"
In my mouth like bad water - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"
The frayed seam of bad dreams - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"
Sometimes the bearer becomes the bad news - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
The bad seed of an idea - Urayoan Noel "No Longer Ode"
Throwing good years after bad - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
A bad acquaintance hurries on a crime - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
Bad brakes and a need to stop - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"
Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Forty miles of perfect bad road - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Resplendent in our own bad planning - Valencia Robin "There"
Familiar as the ghosts of our bad nights - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
A badly translated constellation of extinct stars - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Has Irrepressible Memories"
Songs that gave us bad idea - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
Bad whiskey I drink by myself - Frank Stanford "Cotton You Lose in the Field"
Lets bad instruments produce the best events - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Alas, that pigment be so badly used - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
Bad Disciple of a lost cause - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
Better a cluster of stars than another bad sleep - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
The worst of all bad names - W.B. Yeats "Father and Child"
Hunger is a bad companion - Jane Yolen "A Long Walk to Nowhere"
Unless you count bad dreams - Jane Yolen "Mortar/Pestle"
Bad Luck.
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