Potential Titles: Behind
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somethingdarkerThe residue we leave behind - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"
The fraction of a dream behind every door - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
Of the look he left behind - Elizabeth Acevedo "After He's Decided to Leave"
The moon's answers slip around behind it - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
behind tenuous doors with intimidating bells - Grisel Y. Acosta "Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic"
Against the sky behind the dodecahedron - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Never left any traces behind - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "We Have Not Met" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
His gaze rose through the shapes behind the world - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Somewhere parsecs deep behind your eyes - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Arrayed behind his eyes in primary bands of power - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
His menagerie lined up close behind - Alise Alousi "Back to School"
Pulling the mind's ladder up behind me - Julia Alvarez "Locust"
And flaming swords did burn behind his path - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
To leave behind a legacy of light - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"
Behind the weight of a country I've lost - William Archila "Childhood"
We leave behind our unicorns - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
And fling your cares behind - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"
A retrospect of sin behind me - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
The chrome skin of a girl behind glass - Mary Jo Bang "If Wishes Were Horses"
A porcelain nun behind a wrought iron gate - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"
Left in its course a track of light behind - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Behind a desert moon now green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
Hell on shore behind the eyes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
A world rippled by the years we've left behind - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Earth before them, Time behind - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: I. The Victories"
Fear and chains behind us cast - John Breslin "Rolling Home"
Behind my mask of life - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"
Absent as what fire leaves behind - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"
The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"
Whose feet are coming behind - Robert Buchanan "The Strange Country"
Not behind but leading in our visible estate - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
Let the iron gate swing to behind me - C. "That's What We Are" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCL, v.LVI, Dec. 1844]
Stand silently behind the silent trees - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
The weeping shadow left behind - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
Left half a life behind - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"
Behind the wind-whipped branches - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Behind the rose the planet - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
The law behind the veil - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Behind the rich silence of red-running sunsets - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"
That split the shattered sunlight from a light behind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of St. Barbara"
Grey fields gone behind the set of sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Dusky courts hidden behind the moon - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
And hides behind the hedges - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
Spying from behind my mother's eyes - Ama Codjoe "Hunger"
Left their song behind them - Hilda Conkling "Snowflake Song"
And forget the vassals ranked behind - William Cory "Amavi"
To leave the frowning forts behind - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Slipped behind the comb of sunrise - Brody Parrish Craig "Full"
To where Sirius barks behind huge Orion - Walter de la Mare "The Ride-by-Nights"
Suture the silence behind them - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet 25"
I gathered the joys they left behind - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Behind an army deaf to angry scorn - Geoffrey Dearmer "To the Uttermost Farthing"
An endless trail of seeds behind - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"
Behind this soft eclipse - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVI: Apocalypse"
Behind this mortal bone - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXV: Emancipation"
Fate following behind us - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XLIX"
The sky & what it leaves behind - Chelsea Dingman "Notes on Inheritance"
Stray sunbeams summer left behind - Julia C.R. Dorr "November" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
I clutch at the ragged holes they leave behind - Rita Dove "Adolescence II"
Behind enemy lines with no maps, no matches - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"
When beagles press close behind - William Henry Drummond "Madeleine Vercheres"
Who hide behind the veil of vengeance - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
I drop the dying year behind me - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
Stars whispering behind veils - Cheryl Dumesnil "What You Were Doing Up There"
Left to-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind - A.E. "Babylon"
Threads of evolution woven underground and mounted behind glass - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]
A rainbow behind the moon - The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
A guard behind the massive columns in the fane - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Leave behind aught of th' unfinished beverage in your cup - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Left a heap behind, of ashes slaked in blood - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
The fire blazes behind us - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Leaving behind flames & rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Leave behind the breaking of curses - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Another thrush behind that glad bird sings - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
How hollow the sound left behind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 13"
Behind the stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Behind the black bark of the moon - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Stars' dull hatchets behind the black - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
My broken singing flung behind - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"
Behind it was a well of wine - "From the Vision of Mac Conglinne" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Behind light words that tease and flout - Robert Frost "Revelation"
Birds that sing behind a waterfall - Alice Fulton "Roar Shack"
Dark behind the flaring particles - John Gallaher "In the Little Book of Guesses"
Many foes, behind, before, beneath your nose - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Behind an old door at the end - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
The smells a ghost leaves behind - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
The darkness behind your shining star - Nikita Gill "Hades to Persephone"
Behind the blazing fire of a ten-thousand-year-old war - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Mother"
The trail of ashes behind Apollo - Nikita Gill "The Sun God"
In vast echoing rooms behind glass cases - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Leave behind to conquer time - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
Behind a guard of frowning fir - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Somewhere different than the world behind - Theodora Goss "The Gold-Spinner"
All thought of peace behind you cast - Robert Graves "Country at War"
The pocketed dark behind fireplace brick - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Who can leave the world's tangles behind - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "28 [If you're climbing Cold Mountain Way]" transl. by David Hinton
Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Apples summer left behind - Avis Harley "Feet Treat"
Behind me into the future - Duriel E. Harris "The Soldier's Dream"
Stars behind the daylight - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser Braided Creek
The intricate rubbish left behind - Robert Hayden "[American Journal]"
A turtle with love pushing from behind - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
As the sun walks behind the shadow - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"
And death a league behind - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Breath of Life"
And the deepest shadows close behind the gleaming arcs - Walter Léon Hess "Feline Philosophy by Thomas Cat: Twelfth Caterwaul"
A country sealed behind him - Edward Hirsch "Orphic Rites"
Metal of what stays behind - Jane Hirshfield "Dog Tag"
Which Time, in utter scorn, has cast behind - Henry B. Hirst "Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Who cast their names behind them - Horace Holley "The Soldiers" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
A fox slipped from behind brambles - David Hornibrook "Gone"
I know the knives are close behind - David Hornibrook "Versions of a Summer"
Behind all outward veils that cloak the universe - Robert E. Howard "Voices of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Left the sweet day behind - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"
everything that remains in the world you leave behind - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"
who walk five paces behind their own footsteps - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
Leaving behind nothing but amber - Emily Jiang "Salamander Song"
the illicit behind a fiberoptic veil - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
Leaving the lightning's flash behind - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"
Behind a door you can't open - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"
Sifting through the dust behind us - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"
Nothing behind us to burn - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"
The blur of a voice behind the wall - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"
three feet behind my grin - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"
And look out sharp and frequently behind - W. Kenrick "Love in the Suds"
Each leaving behind its print - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"
Several lifetimes behind him - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"
The psychosis behind Birth of a Nation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Standing behind mirrored windows, disapproving - Ted Kooser "Chocolate Checkers"
Leaves behind us swirling in our plasma trail - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"
The words are trapped behind her lips - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Murderers entombed behind Arkham's walls - Andrew Kozma "The Black Death" [Strange Horizons 8 Sept. 2025]
Lurks no ghost behind the arras - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Left something of you behind - Chaman Lall "Departure"
Death behind his back - "The Lament of Queen Maev" (Translation by T.W. Rolleston)
An older, dreamier creed behind - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
To watch the world that lingers behind - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"
Behind thy pearly veils opaque, mysterious woof - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Behind a thousand flimsy masks - Aimee Le "Faith"
Glint like birds behind the rain - Joseph Lease "True Faith"
Glowing behind the dark others - Denise Levertov "A Surrogate"
The unrisen sun hiding behind the sea - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley
And shadow only trails along behind me - Li Po "Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon" transl. by David Hinton
And spirits behind those birds of flame - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
A thousand burnt up years behind - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"
Lost something in white and red behind - Liu Chengyu "Pillage, Thundersnow" [Strange Horizons 16 Dec. 2019]
Of red birds and constellations tucked behind clouds - P. H. Low "Ode"
But behind you is destruction - Amy Lowell "Astigmatism"
Singing the miles behind him - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"
And had a cabinet behind his eyes - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
The deathwatch tickt behind the wall - James Russell Lowell "Rosaline" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
The years have swung shut behind me - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
In sable trammel, behind her basalt door - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Landlocked behind the barbed wire - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"
An echo chamber behind her eyes - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Red-mouthed storms behind them - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"
The virtue behind clarity - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"
With odds and ends of science left behind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The water behind a thousand mirages - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"
At the susceptible horizon behind us - Farid Matuk "The Butcher's Fifth Quarter"
Mercury sonorous behind the glass - Farid Matuk "Mimesis"
Left behind by a shift in design - Farid Matuk "My Daughter Among the Names"
Into the ocean-dark behind me - Jamaal May "Ode to the White-Line-Swallowing-Horizon"
Until the sun collapses behind all the dust - John McCarthy "County Fair"
Leaving manmade dreams behind - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
The gold outline the bird left behind - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
Running clouds behind hands of willows - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
Take comfort behind neon signs - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
Hidden behind our sleepy eyes - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
A ghost behind my chair - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Behind the strangeness of your eyes - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"
Why don't you leave the past behind you? - Andy Miller "Diana"
And ghosts never left behind - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
The men behind the ashes and the debris - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Behind a vaulting sunrise - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Who hath not lingering cast long looks behind - Mushafi "[No man hath ever passed]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
But is there soul behind that face - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Behind thirsty tigers - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Chair" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Maloney
Behind a planet of swords - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A veil that has nothing behind it - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
endless human lives have left behind sediments - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "final final night" transl. by Phương Anh
As a hound behind fled sheep - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Left locked behind us among the darkening leaves - Anne E.G. Nydam "Jorinde Remembers" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
Lying in the backseat behind all my questions - Naomi Shihab Nye "Making a Fist"
No corners to hide behind - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Void behind the twin masks of light and dark - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Putting the market place behind - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Hid their names behind other names - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
Not leave behind one taint of melancholy - J.G. Percival "To a Belle" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Just behind my heart - Carl Phillips "The Darker Powers"
The desire to leave loneliness behind - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
An orchard behind the strip mall - Patrick Phillips "Matinee"
Shadows deep behind you - Miriam Clark Potter "Dutch Katrina"
Far behind the looking glass - Miriam Clark Potter "The Looking Glass"
Behind the wrecked churchyard of my imagination - Kevin Prufer "Graves"
Who stayed behind to count the void that is - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Dancing behind a field of invisible geraniums - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "The Boxwood Sketches" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Arsenic slurry caged behind a dam - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
As he watches from behind the wire diamonds of chain-link - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"
Glass panes behind which stars rise - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"
With despot snares behind them - "Remember Traitors" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Left behind a crimson path of light - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Obscured behind wild horses - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"
Behind the chain's black links - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Yellow sun and shadow are spinning gold behind - Lloyd Roberts "The Wood Trail"
Away to all black years behind me - Morris Rosenfeld "Want and I" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
They'd leave behind chrysanthemums made of cloth - Margaret Ross "Saturday"
To-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind - George William Russell "Babylon"
Have the night behind us - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"
The harsh rain that sweeps behind the thunder - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
we leave our objects behind us - Sam Sax "Objectophile"
Kept the bird on a little perch behind my ear - Natalie Scenters-Zapico "There Is a Bird in My Mouth"
Twin suns bled to ash behind their moons - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Whirls his minions behind him fast and far - Clinton Scollard "The Christmas Hunter"
New hope ribboning behind - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"
Like the lost behind hell's gate - Frederick George Scott "The Abbot"
Like a star behind the polar lights - Frederick George Scott "Columbus"
Eyes imprisoned behind crimson bars of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Hidden behind simple truth - Alexandra Seidel "Three Visions Seen from Upside-Down"
Something is forgotten and left behind - M. Bartley Seigel "Love Is Made from Laughter, Fists, Tears, and Forgetting"
Left me behind like a forgotten footprint - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Create trail markers for those coming behind us - Evie Shockley "job prescription"
The Thunder, rolling up behind the Deep - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Leaves its light echo joyously behind - L.B. Smith "Sadness" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
A crime behind my teeth - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
Your shape behind a flame - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
Two faces behind glass - Richard Solomon "Away"
Feeds on what the finches leave behind - Elizabeth Spires "Moment Vanishing"
Marooning all you've left behind - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"
Blazing behind the utmost star - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
Conquering legions marched behind - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"
Dust and ruin and emptiness left behind - Arthur Stringer "Prescience"
Close them behind eyelid doors - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 74: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Behind this sinister, foreboding peace - Howard V. Sutherland "Approaching Night"
Starlight behind daylight - Arthur Sze "First Snow"
Aged monuments left behind by warlocks - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Buried behind a thin layer of clouds - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
Hidden behind a forest of dry rushes - Keith Taylor "Outside"
Compromises wait behind each hardly opened gate - Sara Teasdale "Wisdom"
The skylarks are far behind - Edward Thomas "Good-Night"
Her young disciples leaves behind - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"
Trailing talk behind each tiny summit of rock - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Saw some light hidden behind the dark - John Trudell "Baby Dolls Blues"
A noisy closet behind a locked door - John Trudell "Baby Dolls Blues"
Each missing piece an ocean leaving shore behind - John Trudell "What He'd Done"
Vanishing behind my steps - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Behind the purple bloom of the horizon - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
behind our walls of thatch and moss and tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Preserved behind velvet doors - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
The true expression hidden behind - Rudolph Valentino "Money"
A slave behind the bars of time - Rudolph Valentino "Slavery (To E.A.P.)"
Hope, neglected, falls behind until we walk alone - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
Left behind with the vanished years - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
Dragging my imagination behind me - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"
Hidden behind the airtight jars - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"
Behind it was a well of wine - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"
The long dream left behind - Ellen Bryant Voigt "Kyrie" (p.17)
The light behind your veins - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"
With the beginnings of unease immediately behind - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
A blur behind the sharpness of irises, waiting - T.D. Walker "Iris"
This inner pattern behind failure and success - Wang Wei "In Reply to Vice-Magistrate Chang" transl. by David Hinton
The afternoon's gold findings recede into the hills behind us - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Behind this elixir there are no mishaps - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"
Leave the clanging cockroach cold behind - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"
Leaving behind nameless voids - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
All to-morrows hid behind the veil - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"
With the cold flushed sky behind - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
A cloak behind which to change one's power - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
That have left a name behind them - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 44" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
How deep behind burned the blossoms of the mind - Humbert Wolfe "Envoi [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
Rather find strength in what remains behind - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
What resides behind your eyes - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"
The map we left behind - Jay Wright "Sasa"
Behind the truth are other truths - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
That burned behind the bars of evening - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
In a hands-behind-back colloquy of feints and nods - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
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The fraction of a dream behind every door - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
Of the look he left behind - Elizabeth Acevedo "After He's Decided to Leave"
The moon's answers slip around behind it - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
behind tenuous doors with intimidating bells - Grisel Y. Acosta "Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic"
Against the sky behind the dodecahedron - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Never left any traces behind - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "We Have Not Met" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
His gaze rose through the shapes behind the world - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Somewhere parsecs deep behind your eyes - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Arrayed behind his eyes in primary bands of power - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
His menagerie lined up close behind - Alise Alousi "Back to School"
Pulling the mind's ladder up behind me - Julia Alvarez "Locust"
And flaming swords did burn behind his path - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
To leave behind a legacy of light - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"
Behind the weight of a country I've lost - William Archila "Childhood"
We leave behind our unicorns - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
And fling your cares behind - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"
A retrospect of sin behind me - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
The chrome skin of a girl behind glass - Mary Jo Bang "If Wishes Were Horses"
A porcelain nun behind a wrought iron gate - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"
Left in its course a track of light behind - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Behind a desert moon now green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
Hell on shore behind the eyes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
A world rippled by the years we've left behind - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Earth before them, Time behind - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: I. The Victories"
Fear and chains behind us cast - John Breslin "Rolling Home"
Behind my mask of life - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"
Absent as what fire leaves behind - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"
The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"
Whose feet are coming behind - Robert Buchanan "The Strange Country"
Not behind but leading in our visible estate - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
Let the iron gate swing to behind me - C. "That's What We Are" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCL, v.LVI, Dec. 1844]
Stand silently behind the silent trees - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
The weeping shadow left behind - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
Left half a life behind - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"
Behind the wind-whipped branches - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Behind the rose the planet - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
The law behind the veil - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Behind the rich silence of red-running sunsets - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"
That split the shattered sunlight from a light behind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of St. Barbara"
Grey fields gone behind the set of sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Dusky courts hidden behind the moon - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
And hides behind the hedges - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
Spying from behind my mother's eyes - Ama Codjoe "Hunger"
Left their song behind them - Hilda Conkling "Snowflake Song"
And forget the vassals ranked behind - William Cory "Amavi"
To leave the frowning forts behind - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Slipped behind the comb of sunrise - Brody Parrish Craig "Full"
To where Sirius barks behind huge Orion - Walter de la Mare "The Ride-by-Nights"
Suture the silence behind them - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet 25"
I gathered the joys they left behind - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Behind an army deaf to angry scorn - Geoffrey Dearmer "To the Uttermost Farthing"
An endless trail of seeds behind - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"
Behind this soft eclipse - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVI: Apocalypse"
Behind this mortal bone - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXV: Emancipation"
Fate following behind us - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XLIX"
The sky & what it leaves behind - Chelsea Dingman "Notes on Inheritance"
Stray sunbeams summer left behind - Julia C.R. Dorr "November" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
I clutch at the ragged holes they leave behind - Rita Dove "Adolescence II"
Behind enemy lines with no maps, no matches - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"
When beagles press close behind - William Henry Drummond "Madeleine Vercheres"
Who hide behind the veil of vengeance - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
I drop the dying year behind me - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
Stars whispering behind veils - Cheryl Dumesnil "What You Were Doing Up There"
Left to-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind - A.E. "Babylon"
Threads of evolution woven underground and mounted behind glass - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]
A rainbow behind the moon - The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
A guard behind the massive columns in the fane - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Leave behind aught of th' unfinished beverage in your cup - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Left a heap behind, of ashes slaked in blood - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
The fire blazes behind us - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Leaving behind flames & rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Leave behind the breaking of curses - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Another thrush behind that glad bird sings - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
How hollow the sound left behind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 13"
Behind the stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Behind the black bark of the moon - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Stars' dull hatchets behind the black - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
My broken singing flung behind - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"
Behind it was a well of wine - "From the Vision of Mac Conglinne" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Behind light words that tease and flout - Robert Frost "Revelation"
Birds that sing behind a waterfall - Alice Fulton "Roar Shack"
Dark behind the flaring particles - John Gallaher "In the Little Book of Guesses"
Many foes, behind, before, beneath your nose - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Behind an old door at the end - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
The smells a ghost leaves behind - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
The darkness behind your shining star - Nikita Gill "Hades to Persephone"
Behind the blazing fire of a ten-thousand-year-old war - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Mother"
The trail of ashes behind Apollo - Nikita Gill "The Sun God"
In vast echoing rooms behind glass cases - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Leave behind to conquer time - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
Behind a guard of frowning fir - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Somewhere different than the world behind - Theodora Goss "The Gold-Spinner"
All thought of peace behind you cast - Robert Graves "Country at War"
The pocketed dark behind fireplace brick - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Who can leave the world's tangles behind - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "28 [If you're climbing Cold Mountain Way]" transl. by David Hinton
Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Apples summer left behind - Avis Harley "Feet Treat"
Behind me into the future - Duriel E. Harris "The Soldier's Dream"
Stars behind the daylight - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser Braided Creek
The intricate rubbish left behind - Robert Hayden "[American Journal]"
A turtle with love pushing from behind - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
As the sun walks behind the shadow - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"
And death a league behind - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Breath of Life"
And the deepest shadows close behind the gleaming arcs - Walter Léon Hess "Feline Philosophy by Thomas Cat: Twelfth Caterwaul"
A country sealed behind him - Edward Hirsch "Orphic Rites"
Metal of what stays behind - Jane Hirshfield "Dog Tag"
Which Time, in utter scorn, has cast behind - Henry B. Hirst "Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Who cast their names behind them - Horace Holley "The Soldiers" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
A fox slipped from behind brambles - David Hornibrook "Gone"
I know the knives are close behind - David Hornibrook "Versions of a Summer"
Behind all outward veils that cloak the universe - Robert E. Howard "Voices of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Left the sweet day behind - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"
everything that remains in the world you leave behind - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"
who walk five paces behind their own footsteps - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
Leaving behind nothing but amber - Emily Jiang "Salamander Song"
the illicit behind a fiberoptic veil - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
Leaving the lightning's flash behind - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"
Behind a door you can't open - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"
Sifting through the dust behind us - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"
Nothing behind us to burn - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"
The blur of a voice behind the wall - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"
three feet behind my grin - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"
And look out sharp and frequently behind - W. Kenrick "Love in the Suds"
Each leaving behind its print - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"
Several lifetimes behind him - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"
The psychosis behind Birth of a Nation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Standing behind mirrored windows, disapproving - Ted Kooser "Chocolate Checkers"
Leaves behind us swirling in our plasma trail - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"
The words are trapped behind her lips - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Murderers entombed behind Arkham's walls - Andrew Kozma "The Black Death" [Strange Horizons 8 Sept. 2025]
Lurks no ghost behind the arras - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Left something of you behind - Chaman Lall "Departure"
Death behind his back - "The Lament of Queen Maev" (Translation by T.W. Rolleston)
An older, dreamier creed behind - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
To watch the world that lingers behind - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"
Behind thy pearly veils opaque, mysterious woof - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Behind a thousand flimsy masks - Aimee Le "Faith"
Glint like birds behind the rain - Joseph Lease "True Faith"
Glowing behind the dark others - Denise Levertov "A Surrogate"
The unrisen sun hiding behind the sea - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley
And shadow only trails along behind me - Li Po "Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon" transl. by David Hinton
And spirits behind those birds of flame - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
A thousand burnt up years behind - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"
Lost something in white and red behind - Liu Chengyu "Pillage, Thundersnow" [Strange Horizons 16 Dec. 2019]
Of red birds and constellations tucked behind clouds - P. H. Low "Ode"
But behind you is destruction - Amy Lowell "Astigmatism"
Singing the miles behind him - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"
And had a cabinet behind his eyes - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
The deathwatch tickt behind the wall - James Russell Lowell "Rosaline" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
The years have swung shut behind me - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
In sable trammel, behind her basalt door - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Landlocked behind the barbed wire - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"
An echo chamber behind her eyes - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Red-mouthed storms behind them - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"
The virtue behind clarity - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"
With odds and ends of science left behind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The water behind a thousand mirages - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"
At the susceptible horizon behind us - Farid Matuk "The Butcher's Fifth Quarter"
Mercury sonorous behind the glass - Farid Matuk "Mimesis"
Left behind by a shift in design - Farid Matuk "My Daughter Among the Names"
Into the ocean-dark behind me - Jamaal May "Ode to the White-Line-Swallowing-Horizon"
Until the sun collapses behind all the dust - John McCarthy "County Fair"
Leaving manmade dreams behind - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
The gold outline the bird left behind - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
Running clouds behind hands of willows - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
Take comfort behind neon signs - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
Hidden behind our sleepy eyes - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
A ghost behind my chair - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Behind the strangeness of your eyes - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"
Why don't you leave the past behind you? - Andy Miller "Diana"
And ghosts never left behind - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
The men behind the ashes and the debris - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Behind a vaulting sunrise - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Who hath not lingering cast long looks behind - Mushafi "[No man hath ever passed]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
But is there soul behind that face - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Behind thirsty tigers - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Chair" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Maloney
Behind a planet of swords - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A veil that has nothing behind it - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
endless human lives have left behind sediments - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "final final night" transl. by Phương Anh
As a hound behind fled sheep - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Left locked behind us among the darkening leaves - Anne E.G. Nydam "Jorinde Remembers" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
Lying in the backseat behind all my questions - Naomi Shihab Nye "Making a Fist"
No corners to hide behind - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Void behind the twin masks of light and dark - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Putting the market place behind - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Hid their names behind other names - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
Not leave behind one taint of melancholy - J.G. Percival "To a Belle" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Just behind my heart - Carl Phillips "The Darker Powers"
The desire to leave loneliness behind - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
An orchard behind the strip mall - Patrick Phillips "Matinee"
Shadows deep behind you - Miriam Clark Potter "Dutch Katrina"
Far behind the looking glass - Miriam Clark Potter "The Looking Glass"
Behind the wrecked churchyard of my imagination - Kevin Prufer "Graves"
Who stayed behind to count the void that is - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Dancing behind a field of invisible geraniums - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "The Boxwood Sketches" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Arsenic slurry caged behind a dam - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
As he watches from behind the wire diamonds of chain-link - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"
Glass panes behind which stars rise - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"
With despot snares behind them - "Remember Traitors" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Left behind a crimson path of light - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"
Obscured behind wild horses - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"
Behind the chain's black links - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Yellow sun and shadow are spinning gold behind - Lloyd Roberts "The Wood Trail"
Away to all black years behind me - Morris Rosenfeld "Want and I" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
They'd leave behind chrysanthemums made of cloth - Margaret Ross "Saturday"
To-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind - George William Russell "Babylon"
Have the night behind us - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"
The harsh rain that sweeps behind the thunder - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
we leave our objects behind us - Sam Sax "Objectophile"
Kept the bird on a little perch behind my ear - Natalie Scenters-Zapico "There Is a Bird in My Mouth"
Twin suns bled to ash behind their moons - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Whirls his minions behind him fast and far - Clinton Scollard "The Christmas Hunter"
New hope ribboning behind - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"
Like the lost behind hell's gate - Frederick George Scott "The Abbot"
Like a star behind the polar lights - Frederick George Scott "Columbus"
Eyes imprisoned behind crimson bars of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Hidden behind simple truth - Alexandra Seidel "Three Visions Seen from Upside-Down"
Something is forgotten and left behind - M. Bartley Seigel "Love Is Made from Laughter, Fists, Tears, and Forgetting"
Left me behind like a forgotten footprint - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Create trail markers for those coming behind us - Evie Shockley "job prescription"
The Thunder, rolling up behind the Deep - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Leaves its light echo joyously behind - L.B. Smith "Sadness" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
A crime behind my teeth - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
Your shape behind a flame - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
Two faces behind glass - Richard Solomon "Away"
Feeds on what the finches leave behind - Elizabeth Spires "Moment Vanishing"
Marooning all you've left behind - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"
Blazing behind the utmost star - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
Conquering legions marched behind - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"
Dust and ruin and emptiness left behind - Arthur Stringer "Prescience"
Close them behind eyelid doors - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 74: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Behind this sinister, foreboding peace - Howard V. Sutherland "Approaching Night"
Starlight behind daylight - Arthur Sze "First Snow"
Aged monuments left behind by warlocks - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Buried behind a thin layer of clouds - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
Hidden behind a forest of dry rushes - Keith Taylor "Outside"
Compromises wait behind each hardly opened gate - Sara Teasdale "Wisdom"
The skylarks are far behind - Edward Thomas "Good-Night"
Her young disciples leaves behind - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"
Trailing talk behind each tiny summit of rock - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Saw some light hidden behind the dark - John Trudell "Baby Dolls Blues"
A noisy closet behind a locked door - John Trudell "Baby Dolls Blues"
Each missing piece an ocean leaving shore behind - John Trudell "What He'd Done"
Vanishing behind my steps - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Behind the purple bloom of the horizon - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
behind our walls of thatch and moss and tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Preserved behind velvet doors - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
The true expression hidden behind - Rudolph Valentino "Money"
A slave behind the bars of time - Rudolph Valentino "Slavery (To E.A.P.)"
Hope, neglected, falls behind until we walk alone - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
Left behind with the vanished years - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
Dragging my imagination behind me - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"
Hidden behind the airtight jars - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"
Behind it was a well of wine - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"
The long dream left behind - Ellen Bryant Voigt "Kyrie" (p.17)
The light behind your veins - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"
With the beginnings of unease immediately behind - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
A blur behind the sharpness of irises, waiting - T.D. Walker "Iris"
This inner pattern behind failure and success - Wang Wei "In Reply to Vice-Magistrate Chang" transl. by David Hinton
The afternoon's gold findings recede into the hills behind us - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Behind this elixir there are no mishaps - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"
Leave the clanging cockroach cold behind - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"
Leaving behind nameless voids - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
All to-morrows hid behind the veil - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"
With the cold flushed sky behind - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
A cloak behind which to change one's power - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
That have left a name behind them - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 44" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
How deep behind burned the blossoms of the mind - Humbert Wolfe "Envoi [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
Rather find strength in what remains behind - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
What resides behind your eyes - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"
The map we left behind - Jay Wright "Sasa"
Behind the truth are other truths - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
That burned behind the bars of evening - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
In a hands-behind-back colloquy of feints and nods - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
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