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Potential Titles: Balance

when no body can shove you off balance - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

Where one crow balances - Kim Addonizio "Salmon"

Each new cage designed to perfect the prime balance - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Sifts and proves and balances - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"

Under the great balanced day - Louise Bogan "Medusa"

The balance of culture and matter - Ana Bozicevic "Poem"

The answer that balances an equation - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"

To balance the power of yes - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"

Such balancing monsters of love - Leonard Cohen "What Is a Saint"

Struggling for balance, juggling time - Barbara Crooker "In the Middle"

In reason's balance her best offers weigh - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

In other balance are our actions weighed - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

That bear the balance of the heart to Virtue's side - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

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

These scales cannot be balanced - Rebecca Dunham "Black Horizon"

Balancing on orbs and light - Camonghne Felix "Statement on Being Lonely vs. Alone"

Remove myself from this balancing act - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"

Balance on spines of sunken giants - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Afterweather"

We have to use a spell to make them balance - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

Would avarice and false applause weigh in the balance - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Balanced on the scales of thought - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

Balances a mere pinpoint of consciousness - Thom Gunn "Human Condition"

To balance your side of the scale - Tom Hall "The American Slave"

The crows balance and rocking on the windy lines - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"

Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"

A promise of balance - Joy Harjo "Grace"

A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"

As balanced by a spell - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

And still the scales balance - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"

Time balanced on a fish egg - Sy Hoahwah "Church for the Disliked"

The balance of living while dreaming - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

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

Acknowledges the tilted balance - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"

The temperate zeal that balances your brain - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

May balance the cost - George Martin "Lines"

Balance marbles on their fingertips - John Masefield "King Cole"

A grand piano balancing on the tip of a fishhook - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Because all equations balance - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

Balance in front of blank time - Claire Millikin "Rooms Before Television"

At this balance of my destiny - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

A marriage of balance and taste - Grace Nichols "O Tea"

A proper balance of water, air and poetry - Lorine Niedecker "Nursery Rhyme"

By the false balance of delusive Trade - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

That weighs in her balance the spheres - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Balanced like scales at nought - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The grand balance of the dances - Ed Roberson "The Neighbor's Street Sirens Sing"

Balance their haloes on hatracks - Maurya Simon "Angels"

How I balance silence with thunder - Arthur Sze "Salt Song"

The balance of the year on her outspread palms - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"

Balanced on a strand of swaying stone - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"

Balanced on a pinpoint of time - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"

A single hair balanced on a fingertip - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Balance of holy fire - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"

Balanced, cantilevered, interlocked - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


The balance-beam of Fate was bent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"


Acid imbalances that detonate - Carmen Gimenez "Redaction"


Beheld a phantom on unbalanced wings - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"

Hope was unbalanced by terror but lifted its banner anew - Harry Martinson "Aniara 68" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Through the bruised, unbalanced waves - J.D. McClatchy "Late Night Ode"


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