Potential Titles: Weight

[somethingdarker]

Weigh.


The weight of time we carry - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Glow with the weight of love - Aria Aber "Ode to My Hair"

To hold the weight of her tide - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"

All the water seeks is to swallow weight - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Lifted weights of anguish - Yehuda Amichai "God Full of Mercy" (translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav)

Under the weight of heedless travelers' footsteps - Mouna Ammar "ID"

Behind the weight of a country I've lost - William Archila "Childhood"

Time will weight her equal to gravel - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

Upholding its weight of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"

Weighted down with my distrust - Charles Baudelaire "To a Madonna" transl. not credited

Strains at the weight of a buried stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

The weight of the decisions in you - Emily Berry "Ghosts (Homage to Burial)"

And retain the landmark's weight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

The weight of many thousand dreams - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"

The weight of ashes from burned-out camps - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

The echo of old names and weighted fill of rocks - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

Cramped weight of memorized realities - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Tempting our flesh to renounce its weight - Maxwell Bodenheim "Platonic Narrative"

Know the weight of my heart - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"

Carries the weight he chose - Jericho Brown "Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park"

Protected from the weight of the snow - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"

Can move weights infinite - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXV. Love's Paradoxes" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Crushed beneath the furrow's weight - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

The medieval weight of failure - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"

Some glass weight washed on the sand - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"

With weights and chains and pendulum - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

A weighted leaf in the wind - H.D. "Storm"

Will lift the weight of my anvil of grief - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"

The grim shapeless weight of erosion - Jim Daniels "Treaty"

Intuition of the weight of darkness - Diane DeCillis "Margin of Error"

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

Weighted and bound in its mask - Toi Derricotte "Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing"

Like the weight of cathedral tunes - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXXI"

In the weight of last year's skies - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"

Half so heavy as a cobweb's weight - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Shake off this planet's weight - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy for the Eleven: 4. The Mud Room"

The weight of my voice - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Things Haunt"

But proud of the weight of our chain - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

Abandonment to the weight of everything - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"

To trust his weight upon poetic wings - Thomas Gent "Poems"

Like my goodbye had no weight - Andrea Gibson "Give Her"

Trade the weight of all your seriousness - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"

Exhausted from the weight of stones - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

No longer be crushed with the weight of the world - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

The consent of weight to gravity - Leah Naomi Green "Camera Obscura"

A feather's weight that shapes the arrow's flight - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

No golden weights can turn the scale - Frances E.W. Harper "A Double Standard"

The heaven's weight lifts up off Atlas - Seamus Heaney "Anything Can Happen"

The length and weight and silence of the bereft - Jane Hirschfield "Ledger"

Made real by their weight in sweat - Millie Ho "3D-Printed Brother"

Broke under the weight of tenancy - fahima ife "post-acid"

The presence of this heavy weight - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"

Their dead weight sinks our histories - Tsitsi Ella Jaji "Ritual Object"

Our collective weight against stone - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #260: Swampert"

With the leaden weight of sorrowing years - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Hip broken under the weight of time - Anoma Kanie "All that You Have Given Me, Africa" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Bearing the weight of a whole self - Mary Karr "County Fair"

Lay down this weight of sceptred misery - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Under the weight of its perseverance - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"

Alleviate its weight - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"

What a relief to feel the weight fall - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"

The weight of years of argument - Danusha Laméris "Nothing Wants to Suffer"

That web of weights unfelt - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

The whole weight of the rain - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"

With so much stubborn weight of our going - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Weary weight of tears unshed - Amy Levy "A Greek Girl"

Who bore the weight of all our loneliness - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

Beneath the weight of agonies remembered - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

The weight of being infinite in a world that isn't - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"

Lean with the weight of land - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"

The weight of all that I desired - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "A Pilgrim"

With too weighty a burden - John Masefield "A Consecration"

Weight in the earth or glory in the grass - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Hear the weight of delirium - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"

Sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight - George Meredith "An Orison of the Muse"

Only the weight of rain - M.S. Merwin "Entry"

For your weight in salt - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

No gracious weight of golden fruits - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: III"

Worth its weight in smoke - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Merry Maid"

The weight of every brooded wrong - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Renascence"

Pack the car with the weight of rain - Claire Millikin "Shopping Mall Dolls"

Too small for the weight of his gaze - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Adds itself to the weight of the planet - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

If we never disown its weight - Christina Olivares "Portrait"

The weight of your shell pulls you deeper - Gregory Orr "The Transformation"

The weight of those hands - Brenda Marie Osbey "On Contemplating the Breasts of Pauline Lumumba"

Worth only its own weight - Linda Pastan "The Burglary"

The weight of a bracelet she can't afford - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda III"

Less weight than resting moonlight - Lola Ridge "Adelaide Crapsey"

Less weight than moonbeams - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

With a silence vast in weight - James Whitcombe Riley "Eros"

From the imagined weight of spaces - Isaac Rosenberg "Chagrin"

The weight of tech against Thoth's scale - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"

The welcome weight of hands holding - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

The weights of the winds and the rains - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"

Like weights of icy stone - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

Aware of the weight again - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Till through the weight of overcoming hours - C.H. Sorley "German Rain"

The luck of all the draws is the weight of stone - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"

The great weightings of the end - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"

The table throws its weight of shadow - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Throws its weight of shadow - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

All the weight of spun sugar - Alison Swan "A House in the Country"

Not tied to our bodies' weight - Arthur Sze "Sleepers"

Beneath the weight of dark - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

Under the morning light's weight - Z.G. Tomaszewski "First Evening, Mooselung Pond"

The porous weight that follows echo - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

The weight of apples in the blossoms - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

A cloud of equal weight - John Updike "Half Moon, Small Cloud"

Whose trees know the weight of history - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

When the sullen sky stoops with its weight of terror - "Watchword" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

To carry the weight of my life - John Wieners "Billie"

The weight of the sky is upon them - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Gods deadened by the weight of waiting - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

Somewhere to rest the weight of yourself - Janet S. Wong "Low Crow"

The weary weight of all this unintelligible world - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"

Come out from the weight of the unbearable - Charles Wright "The Last Word"

The heavy jackfruit bent with the weight of gravity - James F. Yockey "What If"

The weight of gravity toward that secret center - James F. Yockey "What If"

Many souls hold galaxies' weight - Felicia Zamora "America, Let Us Pause"


Becomes confetti circling in a paperweight - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"


Weightless.


Navigation Links:
Go to W word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.