Potential Titles: Cage
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somethingdarkerFilling the cage of your chest - Elmaz Abinader "This House My Bones"
Birds that freed themselves from the cages of our bodies - Duane Ackerson "What If"
Some words die caged - Francisco X. Alarcon "Words Are Birds"
Each new cage designed to perfect the prime balance - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"
Every outline is a cage - Mary Jo Bang "Untitled"
Allow no music near its cage - Hilaire Belloc "The Python"
In a bird-cage of lightning - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."
Whisper into the cage of exile - Daniel Borzutzky "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"
Cage of time or name - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 8"
Brought to her cage - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
In the cage of the Parrot to be confined - Ellen C. Clayton "Alf and the Parrot"
Some words die in cages - Eduardo C. Corral "To Francisco X. Alarcon (1954-2016)"
A message through the cages of a great whale's teeth - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
In that cage of words wild thoughts were pent - Olive Custance "A Dream"
In solid cages of white ice - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"
Five hundred steel cages lined up - Toi Derricotte "The Minks"
To break this iron cage - Aziz Isa Elkun "Borders" transl. by author
A cage of gossamer gold - Rose Fyleman "The Goblin to the Fairy Queen"
Caged as a prisoner, kissed as a pet - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
In the cage of your heart - Nikki Grimes "Lessons"
In our birdcage coffers - Matthea Harvey "Robber Sentenced to Reflection"
Releasing the caged stars - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"
Whose arts have caged some devil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Daily Trials"
The way a trellis shadow cages light - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Caged by the brittle twigs of my ribs - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"
Cry for the bars that encage me - Amy Levy "Captivity"
We must accept the cage we are given - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
This lurid cage of lust and grief - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"
A cage of wizard wood with perch of ebony - Ruth Manning-Sanders "Come Wary One"
The city is a cage of dead doves and avid hunters - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
Impassioned little minstrel of the cage - George Martin "To My Canary Bird"
The edict that traps my hunger in cages - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"
When the cage door cracks - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
Cage governed by shadows - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Our tongues are in cages - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Drink the ink that is your cage - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Where caged winds slumber - E. Nesbit "Out of the Fulness of the Heart the Mouth Speaketh"
Like a cage shaped exactly like his body - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
A luna moth in a chambered cage - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"
Caged in a room of mirrors - Gregory Orr "The Cage"
Sullen prisoners in the body's cage - Alexander Pope "Elegy"
Cages of words have dissolving bars - Charles Rafferty "Words"
Arsenic slurry caged behind a dam - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
A crow in the cage with a parrot - Saadi "They Put a Crow in the Cage" transl. by Coleman Barks
In a cage full of oxygen - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"
And burst all cages - George Soule "Rebellion"
Fairest songs sung to caged birds - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
A birdcage with wings - Melissa Studdard "Everyone in Me Is a Bird"
After so long in that cage of mine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Caging the sun in rusted prison bars - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"
Phantom trees caged in fog - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Awhile to sit within its gilded cage - H.J.W. "An Evening Hymn" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Caged within my breast - John Hall Wheelock "The Black Panther"
Not fashioned for cages - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Greater Britain"
Broke my pretty cage - William Carlos Williams "The Fool's Song"
The scorpion inside a cage of flame - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"
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Birds that freed themselves from the cages of our bodies - Duane Ackerson "What If"
Some words die caged - Francisco X. Alarcon "Words Are Birds"
Each new cage designed to perfect the prime balance - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"
Every outline is a cage - Mary Jo Bang "Untitled"
Allow no music near its cage - Hilaire Belloc "The Python"
In a bird-cage of lightning - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."
Whisper into the cage of exile - Daniel Borzutzky "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"
Cage of time or name - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 8"
Brought to her cage - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
In the cage of the Parrot to be confined - Ellen C. Clayton "Alf and the Parrot"
Some words die in cages - Eduardo C. Corral "To Francisco X. Alarcon (1954-2016)"
A message through the cages of a great whale's teeth - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
In that cage of words wild thoughts were pent - Olive Custance "A Dream"
In solid cages of white ice - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"
Five hundred steel cages lined up - Toi Derricotte "The Minks"
To break this iron cage - Aziz Isa Elkun "Borders" transl. by author
A cage of gossamer gold - Rose Fyleman "The Goblin to the Fairy Queen"
Caged as a prisoner, kissed as a pet - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
In the cage of your heart - Nikki Grimes "Lessons"
In our birdcage coffers - Matthea Harvey "Robber Sentenced to Reflection"
Releasing the caged stars - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"
Whose arts have caged some devil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Daily Trials"
The way a trellis shadow cages light - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Caged by the brittle twigs of my ribs - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"
Cry for the bars that encage me - Amy Levy "Captivity"
We must accept the cage we are given - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
This lurid cage of lust and grief - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"
A cage of wizard wood with perch of ebony - Ruth Manning-Sanders "Come Wary One"
The city is a cage of dead doves and avid hunters - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
Impassioned little minstrel of the cage - George Martin "To My Canary Bird"
The edict that traps my hunger in cages - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"
When the cage door cracks - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
Cage governed by shadows - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Our tongues are in cages - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Drink the ink that is your cage - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Where caged winds slumber - E. Nesbit "Out of the Fulness of the Heart the Mouth Speaketh"
Like a cage shaped exactly like his body - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
A luna moth in a chambered cage - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"
Caged in a room of mirrors - Gregory Orr "The Cage"
Sullen prisoners in the body's cage - Alexander Pope "Elegy"
Cages of words have dissolving bars - Charles Rafferty "Words"
Arsenic slurry caged behind a dam - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
A crow in the cage with a parrot - Saadi "They Put a Crow in the Cage" transl. by Coleman Barks
In a cage full of oxygen - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"
And burst all cages - George Soule "Rebellion"
Fairest songs sung to caged birds - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
A birdcage with wings - Melissa Studdard "Everyone in Me Is a Bird"
After so long in that cage of mine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Caging the sun in rusted prison bars - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"
Phantom trees caged in fog - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Awhile to sit within its gilded cage - H.J.W. "An Evening Hymn" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Caged within my breast - John Hall Wheelock "The Black Panther"
Not fashioned for cages - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Greater Britain"
Broke my pretty cage - William Carlos Williams "The Fool's Song"
The scorpion inside a cage of flame - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"
Navigation Links:
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