Potential Titles: Enough

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Not close enough to be cherished - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"

Not enough clean water left to wash it off - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

There are dark roads enough to go - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"

Enough to bend the back of centuries - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

The budding calla is bold enough to bloom - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Enough of the wind - Simon Armitage "The Present"

to disappear into a song wide enough to drown - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

cataloguing enough ash in my voice - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Distant journeyings enough - Albion Fellows Bacon "A Song"

We gather thorns enough - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"

Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"

Brave enough to scale the skies - Maurice Baring "Icarus"

Sand and stars are not enough - Elizabeth Bartlett "Not Just Once"

But never enough of sour or sweet - Clara Doty Bates "The Three Little Pigs" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Enough to avoid making an easy sum - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"

Sharp enough to cut bone & soul - Joshua Bennett "Invocation"

That love us enough to break this language lengthwise - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

Just enough to tempt the snake - Paul Bernstein "Skin Deep"

Not high enough to palm the moon - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

With riches enough to purchase a crown - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"

Hot enough to boil a stew pot - Tommye Blount "Karl Lagerfeld's line of beauty"

Any diamondback unlucky enough to be on the road - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Opened room enough in the sky for the stars - Russell Brakefield "The Way We Learned to Sing"

Will yield enough crop to eat and later sow - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"

Would never be clean enough to put against skin - Andrea Carter Brown "On Reading Allen Ginsberg's 'Homework'"

In a futile attempt to collect enough to survive - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"

Enough wealth to dazzle a Prester John - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"

Enough is sinned and suffered - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Scarce old enough for sound - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Not room enough in all the Field - John Bunyan "Upon the Lark and the Fowler"

Long enough for discord to set in - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"

For hours, the flowers were enough - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

Enough to feel that sweet steady rhythm - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

Enough to make the pinecone grow wings - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

The wish was enough to point to the sky - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

Enough gratitude for the day - Susan Cataldo "Poem for the Family"

Enough music for the night - Susan Cataldo "Poem for the Family"

Gold enough to pave the way - Willa Cather "Provencal Legend"

Angry enough to o'erwhelm a whole Rookery - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"

Tight enough to choke back tears - Jim Daniels "Church Reform"

Long enough for me to burn - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"

Lift enough smoke to reach you - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"

Vicious enough to merit the weight of regret - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

I'm afraid I won't go far enough - Diana Marie Delgado "And So Many Are Dear"

Blackberries enough to light the brain - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"

A riverbank cut deep enough to bury us - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

An impact with enough dominion to annihilate - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

There's never enough time to learn - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Bright enough to burn the whole sky - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

If you hold them long enough - Cheryl Dumesnil "Notes to Myself on the Morning after His Birth"

Make of nothing bread enough - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"

Enough to wake the rain - Julie Fogliano "Spring, May 20"

cracked just enough for spirit to seep in - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Strength enough to kill the rain - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1"

Time has not memory enough - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

To glimpse is intrusion enough - Tess Gallagher "Black Pudding"

Mistakes enough to fill an ocean - Nikita Gill "In This Story"

Wanting to know what enough felt like - Carmen Gimenez "All Money Is a Matter of Belief"

If you stand at the crossroads long enough - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"

Enough to drown the seeds - Louise Gluck "Before the Storm"

Small enough to hear the dawn breaking - Theodora Goss "Thumbelina"

Never enough keys for all the doorways of memory - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

Never enough keys for all the hidden rooms - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

My inward joy was payment enough for me - Robert Graves "The Coronation Murder in Four Parts"

Has bloomed enough for us to eat - Kimberly Grey "Conjugating"

Too warm, too close, and not enough like pain - Thom Gunn "Lament"

As if hands were enough to hold an avalanche off - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"

Enough to fill the whole sky - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Enough cold locked inside you - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

Is death's scythe not keen enough? - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLV"

Not enough to guarantee safe voyage - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"

Enough for a fresh coat every year - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"

Kind enough to give of roses - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Neighbor's Roses"

Old greens not crisp enough for salad - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"

Expansive enough to fill years' worth of slumber - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Cement walls stable enough to cover them - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"

And who has oil and wine enough? - Annie Fellows Johnston "It Was the Road to Jericho"

Divided the silence wide enough for music - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to My Hearing Aids"

And I will live long enough to forgive your folly - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

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

Stare hard enough at the fabric of night - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Shoes never worn enough to be worth the price - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Built my tomb walls strong enough to keep me safe - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Never enough to fill the hole your doubt dug - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

The trumpet's almost kissed by enough pain - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Yielding scarce enough to eat - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

The rain she's collected is enough - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

Born with sense enough to grind his corn - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

A long road is grief enough - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson

will make it feel small enough to fit - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"

Lofty enough to break regimen - Chip Livingston "There Is No San Lenin"

Till we've consumed enough to leave - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Phragmites"

Strong enough to roost in for the night - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"

With aptitudes enough for three - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Here a voice to please enough - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Nothing she plants has roots long enough to hold - Tariq Luthun "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing"

Not enough to cover the quaking mud - Dorothea Mackellar "The Grey Lake"

When it's dark enough for sunrise - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Enough air to live on - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

Fragile enough to feel the time bend in your hold - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

Corners small enough to swallow - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

With bodies pure enough to sacrifice - Arianna Monet "Thinking about "The Little Mermaid" in the Waiting Room of the Otolaryngology Department"

Ears human enough to hear - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Transfusions"

The only fortress strong enough to trust - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

Every morsel with nerve enough to be - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"

Safe enough to confront the darkness - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"

As if the bricks and concrete were enough - Alice Notley "Poem [St. Mark's Place caught at night...]"

Important enough to be named - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"

Nothing big enough but freedom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Tiny Journalist Blues"

Did not hold long enough to get me down - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"

Brittle enough to be believed - Achy Obejas "The Man with No Legs"

The clouds get enough attention as it is - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"

Just long enough for us to be astonished - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

Strong enough to withstand rain - January Gill O'Neil "For Ella"

Enough stars still visible - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

Sturdy enough box for containing rescue - Carl Phillips "Of California"

Strong enough to bring the stars down - Carl Phillips "This Far In"

My heart has spirit enough to listen - Po-Chu-i "On Being Sixty" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Enough rye whiskey to kill - D.A. Powell "[the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office]"

Wings great enough to sustain our victories - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Even your breath is breeze enough to scatter them - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

Even your breath is breeze enough - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

Offered more than enough - Kay Ryan "Ticket"

Runs deep enough to drown this certainty - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"

Almost enough for a voodoo doll - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"

Mulberry bark that was beaten enough to braid - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"

just enough tragedy to urge action - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

Blue enough to rouse ancestors - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Cloth of gold were fair enough to touch her feet - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Yet deep enough to drown - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

What insult is good enough - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Disturbed enough molecules to jostle me - Alison Swan "A House in the Country"

Soft enough to couch each rumbling dream - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

Enough to sustain him through that century of doubt - Keith Taylor "The Road from Galahad"

Strong enough to be silent - Sara Teasdale "What Do I Care?"

Only fowls have foothold enough - Edward Thomas "The Barn"

Not enough time for a whole new plot - Brian Tierney "We Dream the Dreams Dreaming Us"

Deep enough in the ground to be called roots - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"

Enough to make the cartwheels crack - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Enough lost causes to die for- Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"

not enough prime numbers; and not enough time travel - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"

The turn wasn't taut enough - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"

Enough light to drown in - Ocean Vuong "Deto(nation)"

I am near enough my roots - Sanna Wani "Tomorrow is a Place"

a skilled enough practitioner of failure - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"

You do not know enough to dream - Carolyn Wells "The Seven Ages of Childhood"

Enough pain to set fires - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"

Neither ice nor snow lived long enough - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"

Bright enough to create the day - "Wildlife Encounter"

Open my heart enough - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"

The sky is petty enough without us pestering it - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

November's tempests thawed us enough - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

What payment were enough - W.B. Yeats "His Confidence"

Nothing here tall enough to pretend to reach - Kevin Young "Dog Star"

No bulwark strong enough - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


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