Potential Titles: Being
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somethingdarkerWhile I don't normally track forms of 'to be,' I'm tracking these because the lines are extremely blurry between noun/verb/adjective here.
In which I encounter crumbs from my being - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Plunging from the brink of light and being - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
In a landscape of elliptical beings - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
All the shores of being - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Bent on being perpetual - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "In the glad hours of morning"
To avoid being consumed - Rae Armantrout "On Your Way"
That was worse for being secret - Elizabeth Bartlett "Along That Road"
Being witness to my sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
To slip across barriers of being - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
A being made of gauze and fire - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
Long, long departed Beings with familiar glance - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott
A ghosted threshold of being - Kimberly Blaeser "The Way We Love Something Small"
All the yards torn by their green rust beings - Russell Brakefield "Effigy"
Both being flawed - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
No excuse for being a poet - Sue Budin "Wanting"
Its inhabitants phosphorus beings - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
Quantum foam roiling at the edge of being - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"
Being here without you - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"
About our finite being spread - Eleanor Rogers Cox "At Benediction"
The riddle of being and breath - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Philosopher"
Taking & being this dust - Marissa Davis "Singularity"
The path of being led into terror - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Waken thoughts of Being's early day - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Being quieter than blossoms - Toi Derricotte "The Blessed Angels"
The dark flame that is your being - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"
Being looking from the dark - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
the one i sing into being with this savage tongue - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
The safety from being understood - Kahlil Gibran "How I Became a Madman (Prologue)"
Not worried about being divisible - brian g. gilmore "distant lover #3"
stricken with the fervor of cosmic beings - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
All the dark feathered beings will rivet the air - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"
Pleasure in being in complete - Linda Susan Jackson "Improvisation on Them"
An elastic sense of being and becoming - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"
Aware of being outnumbered by the spoons - Courtney Kampa "Credo"
The last beings of the blue star on all spheres of the Sun - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"
The strife of hourly being - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"
Being ignorant of the water - Archibald Lampman "Personality"
Being a little weary of Roman virtue - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
Have poured the sap of all my being - Amy Levy "Medea"
All my being's silent harmonies wake trembling - Amy Lowell "Dreams"
That coax what we crave into being - Tariq Luthun "I Wonder About the Woman who Now Lives in the Balad Without Me"
The dead doors of my being - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Guilty of being hungry - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"
Nets to catch the full sum of our being - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
True for all living beings - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
Across the wide sound of being - W.S. Merwin "What the Bridges Hear"
Solitary beings with transparent feet - Pablo Neruda "A Rose" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Darkness being watered thin - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Halloween, 14"
My sorrows being hidden - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
An interdimensional being existing in all worlds - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"
Song being born of quest - Mary Oliver "Daisies"
From the deepest spurs of their being - Mary Oliver "Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water"
Instead of being locked up in gold - Mary Oliver "This World"
A fetish for being eaten alive and whole - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
Being smitten with an unusual wisdom - Ezra Pound "The Study in Aesthetics"
Silence, which is not the same as being quiet - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
Intermingled in being and blended in breath - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Everywhere without being seen - Carl Sandburg "Anywhere and Everywhere People"
Till being's wine is low - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Coax the night into being - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Every name on the edge of being gone - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
With seven created beings - "The Soul (From 'The Black Book of Caermarthen.')" (translated by ??)
In the fathomless waters of being - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 223: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With sheer blithe being - John Updike "To a Skylark"
The changing sentences and truths of being - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"
Walk on without being tempted - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
Pass from knowing to being - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Practicing not being a sculpture - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
Smoke-beings flung in constellations - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
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In which I encounter crumbs from my being - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Plunging from the brink of light and being - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
In a landscape of elliptical beings - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
All the shores of being - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Bent on being perpetual - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "In the glad hours of morning"
To avoid being consumed - Rae Armantrout "On Your Way"
That was worse for being secret - Elizabeth Bartlett "Along That Road"
Being witness to my sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
To slip across barriers of being - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
A being made of gauze and fire - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
Long, long departed Beings with familiar glance - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott
A ghosted threshold of being - Kimberly Blaeser "The Way We Love Something Small"
All the yards torn by their green rust beings - Russell Brakefield "Effigy"
Both being flawed - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
No excuse for being a poet - Sue Budin "Wanting"
Its inhabitants phosphorus beings - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
Quantum foam roiling at the edge of being - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"
Being here without you - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"
About our finite being spread - Eleanor Rogers Cox "At Benediction"
The riddle of being and breath - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Philosopher"
Taking & being this dust - Marissa Davis "Singularity"
The path of being led into terror - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Waken thoughts of Being's early day - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Being quieter than blossoms - Toi Derricotte "The Blessed Angels"
The dark flame that is your being - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"
Being looking from the dark - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
the one i sing into being with this savage tongue - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
The safety from being understood - Kahlil Gibran "How I Became a Madman (Prologue)"
Not worried about being divisible - brian g. gilmore "distant lover #3"
stricken with the fervor of cosmic beings - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
All the dark feathered beings will rivet the air - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"
Pleasure in being in complete - Linda Susan Jackson "Improvisation on Them"
An elastic sense of being and becoming - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"
Aware of being outnumbered by the spoons - Courtney Kampa "Credo"
The last beings of the blue star on all spheres of the Sun - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"
The strife of hourly being - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"
Being ignorant of the water - Archibald Lampman "Personality"
Being a little weary of Roman virtue - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
Have poured the sap of all my being - Amy Levy "Medea"
All my being's silent harmonies wake trembling - Amy Lowell "Dreams"
That coax what we crave into being - Tariq Luthun "I Wonder About the Woman who Now Lives in the Balad Without Me"
The dead doors of my being - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Guilty of being hungry - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"
Nets to catch the full sum of our being - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
True for all living beings - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
Across the wide sound of being - W.S. Merwin "What the Bridges Hear"
Solitary beings with transparent feet - Pablo Neruda "A Rose" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Darkness being watered thin - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Halloween, 14"
My sorrows being hidden - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
An interdimensional being existing in all worlds - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"
Song being born of quest - Mary Oliver "Daisies"
From the deepest spurs of their being - Mary Oliver "Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water"
Instead of being locked up in gold - Mary Oliver "This World"
A fetish for being eaten alive and whole - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
Being smitten with an unusual wisdom - Ezra Pound "The Study in Aesthetics"
Silence, which is not the same as being quiet - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
Intermingled in being and blended in breath - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Everywhere without being seen - Carl Sandburg "Anywhere and Everywhere People"
Till being's wine is low - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Coax the night into being - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Every name on the edge of being gone - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
With seven created beings - "The Soul (From 'The Black Book of Caermarthen.')" (translated by ??)
In the fathomless waters of being - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 223: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With sheer blithe being - John Updike "To a Skylark"
The changing sentences and truths of being - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"
Walk on without being tempted - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
Pass from knowing to being - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Practicing not being a sculpture - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
Smoke-beings flung in constellations - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
Navigation Links:
Go to B word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
