Potential Titles: Prayer
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My prayer for what is gone - Aria Aber "Waiting for Your Call"
To hide inside prayers that hum - Elmaz Abinader "The Last Lesson We Learn"
A prayer in the form of a failed poem - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
When a prayer is nothing but the distance - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
Days rotate parallel to prayer - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
The power of a good man's prayer - "Away to the Fray" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Shaped within a static prayer - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"
Our version of prayer - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"
A pasture of rapt prayer - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
Of blood & saltwater prayer - Joshua Bennett "Praise House"
Path of pain of prayer - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Lifts the cup and breathes the prayer - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Caught me without a prayer - Tommye Blount "The Black Umbrella"
Lengthened a prayer into a lance - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
The warm, assuring duty of prayer - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
To the rotted prayers of eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
And weave a prayer into your naked stride - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Orrick Johns"
As desperate and false as prayer - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"
Of prayer against the grasses - Jericho Brown "Duplex"
Beyond the need of chant and prayers - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Steps"
Full many a fruitless prayer - John Clare "Patty of the Vale"
Lift up holy hands of prayer - Arthur Hugh Clough "O Thou of Little Faith"
Prayer to go unchanged within this water - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
Despoiled of poetry and prayer - Benjamin Copeland "A Contrast"
Woven into the battlements of prayer - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Who confuses private and public prayers - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
A prayer book tinted with red sorrow - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"
Your questions between prayer and faith - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
The ruined grounds of the first prayer - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Swapped prayer for sharp screams - Ajanae Dawkins "How to Witness a Miracle Without Converting"
A rosary of coral beads and a priest's prayer - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"
A prayer for my bones - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
The timid prayer of the minutest cricket - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature I: Mother Nature"
Whispers through mist his flowered prayer - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
In prayerful, rational geometry - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Form prayers to broken stone - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"
Prayers of grandmothers current and ancient - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
This prayer of mine be hallowed with a tear - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
My body's quiet prayer - Aricka Foreman "Polycystic Study of Intimacy"
The color that is lost in prayer - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"
Prayers to altars of cold death - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
The broken heart's strong prayer - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Believing ecstasy to be prayer - Zona Gale "Stone Cell"
A prayer electronically conveyed - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"
Say a prayer for the wind - Louise Gluck "Poem"
Five words of unfinished prayer - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
To open against the prayer - Leah Naomi Green "C-section"
To bear creation's holy vesper prayer - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Alpine Horn"
Cliffs like suspended prayers - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
The promised prayer of a future - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Make prayers of clear stone - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
Breath of roses and a prayer - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
Bring our prayers that hide and watch us - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Yet more prayers left undone - Eleanor Hull "The Old Woman of Beare"
The boiling grief of my mother's prayers - Maria Ibarra-Frayre "Awareness"
Between defeat and prayer - Mark Irwin "Nike of Samothrace"
Heavy as prayers - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"
My requests solemn as prayer - Allison Joseph "The Black Santa"
Chanted prayer, or psalm, or hymn - John Keble "Fire"
My fond prayers and wild idolatry - Fanny Kemble "To a Picture"
With my pried-open prayers full of silt - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
Strolled through the prayer snow - Jennifer L. Knox "Prayer of the Shy Forest"
Not a vision nor a prayer - Emma Lazarus "Work"
Who put prayer in motion - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
My insomniac answer to self-addressed prayers - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Prayers in the mist - Casandra Lopez "10th St Porch: Investigation"
The terror of the night begins with prayer - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Aslant the shadows of my prayer - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"
Prayers do not sell in hell - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Your wild jest of wicked prayer - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"
Gave wildest wings to desperate prayer - George Martin "Marguerite"
If you consent to my prayer - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (9)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Hear birdsong as prayer - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
War took our prayers - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
A moving anchorage of prayer - Samuel McCoy "The Off-Shore Wind"
The prayers and praise of sycophants - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Kneel all night in prayer - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Knows more than her prayers - Walter Dean Myers "Delia Pierce, 32, Hairdresser"
The untimely symmetry of prayer - Hera Naguib "Prologue to a Womanhood"
of clarity in the prayer's thought - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
Rivers that muttered prayers - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
To guard the hidden heart of prayer - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
Soft prayers to heaven stealing - Meredith Nicholson "Down the Aisles"
That exhale would be a prayer - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"
Rose higher than a prayer ignored - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"
Through the dark gates of prayer - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"
Said my name like a prayer - Naomi Shihab Nye "Moon over Gaza"
When I speak the wizard prayer - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Prayers that are made out of glass - Mary Oliver "Mindful"
Each stone a prayer - John Oxenham "Everymaid"
Divides prayer from absolute defeat - Carl Phillips "Next Stop, Arcadia"
If attention is prayer - Carl Phillips "A Stillness Between the Hunting and the Chase"
Swallowing salted prayer drops - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
A rust-colored rosary worn from prayer - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"
An anguished prayer from the deeps - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Joined my prayer to the wind and trees - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Dying curse and choking prayer - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Of incense mist and secret prayers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"
Still holds our prayers in its teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "Western Wall"
The amen in the prayer you never say - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
The prayers and the favorite foods - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
The prayer of his weary eyes - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Place of His Rest"
Return to earth in prayer - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Max Roach)"
A red yell and a purple prayer - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"
A farmer's spring prayer - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"
Bring your prayer to the Deep Sea - "Second Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this is addressed to Enheduana)
With blasphemy for prayer - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
The prayer of going nowhere - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"
Patched with prayer and dust - Patricia Smith "Now He's an Etching"
Nor mix farewell with prayer - George Sterling "Helen Peterson"
Shapes a new alphabet for prayer and song - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
eulogy of a body in prayer - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Endless prayers in stone - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"
Too still and sure for prayer - Sara Teasdale "Since There Is No Escape"
In loneliness of prayer unlit by life - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
when prayer kneels before poverty - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
Squared by a billion prayers - John Updike "Subcontinental"
our small volley of prayers & dreams - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Each branch and limb of oak was a prayer - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
A word exiled from the prayer - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
Like a blessing that answers a prayer - Charles William Wallace "There's a Laugh"
Where trees repeat their prayers - Helen Hay Whitney "Tranquility"
The prayerless heart prepare - Arthur Hugh Clough "Qui Laborat, Orat"
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My prayer for what is gone - Aria Aber "Waiting for Your Call"
To hide inside prayers that hum - Elmaz Abinader "The Last Lesson We Learn"
A prayer in the form of a failed poem - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
When a prayer is nothing but the distance - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
Days rotate parallel to prayer - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
The power of a good man's prayer - "Away to the Fray" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Shaped within a static prayer - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"
Our version of prayer - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"
A pasture of rapt prayer - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
Of blood & saltwater prayer - Joshua Bennett "Praise House"
Path of pain of prayer - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Lifts the cup and breathes the prayer - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Caught me without a prayer - Tommye Blount "The Black Umbrella"
Lengthened a prayer into a lance - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
The warm, assuring duty of prayer - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
To the rotted prayers of eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
And weave a prayer into your naked stride - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Orrick Johns"
As desperate and false as prayer - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"
Of prayer against the grasses - Jericho Brown "Duplex"
Beyond the need of chant and prayers - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Steps"
Full many a fruitless prayer - John Clare "Patty of the Vale"
Lift up holy hands of prayer - Arthur Hugh Clough "O Thou of Little Faith"
Prayer to go unchanged within this water - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
Despoiled of poetry and prayer - Benjamin Copeland "A Contrast"
Woven into the battlements of prayer - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Who confuses private and public prayers - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
A prayer book tinted with red sorrow - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"
Your questions between prayer and faith - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
The ruined grounds of the first prayer - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Swapped prayer for sharp screams - Ajanae Dawkins "How to Witness a Miracle Without Converting"
A rosary of coral beads and a priest's prayer - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"
A prayer for my bones - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
The timid prayer of the minutest cricket - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature I: Mother Nature"
Whispers through mist his flowered prayer - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
In prayerful, rational geometry - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Form prayers to broken stone - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"
Prayers of grandmothers current and ancient - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
This prayer of mine be hallowed with a tear - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
My body's quiet prayer - Aricka Foreman "Polycystic Study of Intimacy"
The color that is lost in prayer - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"
Prayers to altars of cold death - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
The broken heart's strong prayer - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Believing ecstasy to be prayer - Zona Gale "Stone Cell"
A prayer electronically conveyed - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"
Say a prayer for the wind - Louise Gluck "Poem"
Five words of unfinished prayer - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
To open against the prayer - Leah Naomi Green "C-section"
To bear creation's holy vesper prayer - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Alpine Horn"
Cliffs like suspended prayers - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
The promised prayer of a future - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Make prayers of clear stone - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
Breath of roses and a prayer - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
Bring our prayers that hide and watch us - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Yet more prayers left undone - Eleanor Hull "The Old Woman of Beare"
The boiling grief of my mother's prayers - Maria Ibarra-Frayre "Awareness"
Between defeat and prayer - Mark Irwin "Nike of Samothrace"
Heavy as prayers - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"
My requests solemn as prayer - Allison Joseph "The Black Santa"
Chanted prayer, or psalm, or hymn - John Keble "Fire"
My fond prayers and wild idolatry - Fanny Kemble "To a Picture"
With my pried-open prayers full of silt - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
Strolled through the prayer snow - Jennifer L. Knox "Prayer of the Shy Forest"
Not a vision nor a prayer - Emma Lazarus "Work"
Who put prayer in motion - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
My insomniac answer to self-addressed prayers - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Prayers in the mist - Casandra Lopez "10th St Porch: Investigation"
The terror of the night begins with prayer - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Aslant the shadows of my prayer - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"
Prayers do not sell in hell - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Your wild jest of wicked prayer - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"
Gave wildest wings to desperate prayer - George Martin "Marguerite"
If you consent to my prayer - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (9)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Hear birdsong as prayer - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
War took our prayers - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
A moving anchorage of prayer - Samuel McCoy "The Off-Shore Wind"
The prayers and praise of sycophants - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Kneel all night in prayer - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Knows more than her prayers - Walter Dean Myers "Delia Pierce, 32, Hairdresser"
The untimely symmetry of prayer - Hera Naguib "Prologue to a Womanhood"
of clarity in the prayer's thought - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
Rivers that muttered prayers - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
To guard the hidden heart of prayer - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
Soft prayers to heaven stealing - Meredith Nicholson "Down the Aisles"
That exhale would be a prayer - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"
Rose higher than a prayer ignored - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"
Through the dark gates of prayer - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"
Said my name like a prayer - Naomi Shihab Nye "Moon over Gaza"
When I speak the wizard prayer - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Prayers that are made out of glass - Mary Oliver "Mindful"
Each stone a prayer - John Oxenham "Everymaid"
Divides prayer from absolute defeat - Carl Phillips "Next Stop, Arcadia"
If attention is prayer - Carl Phillips "A Stillness Between the Hunting and the Chase"
Swallowing salted prayer drops - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
A rust-colored rosary worn from prayer - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"
An anguished prayer from the deeps - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Joined my prayer to the wind and trees - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Dying curse and choking prayer - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Of incense mist and secret prayers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"
Still holds our prayers in its teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "Western Wall"
The amen in the prayer you never say - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
The prayers and the favorite foods - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
The prayer of his weary eyes - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Place of His Rest"
Return to earth in prayer - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Max Roach)"
A red yell and a purple prayer - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"
A farmer's spring prayer - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"
Bring your prayer to the Deep Sea - "Second Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this is addressed to Enheduana)
With blasphemy for prayer - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
The prayer of going nowhere - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"
Patched with prayer and dust - Patricia Smith "Now He's an Etching"
Nor mix farewell with prayer - George Sterling "Helen Peterson"
Shapes a new alphabet for prayer and song - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
eulogy of a body in prayer - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Endless prayers in stone - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"
Too still and sure for prayer - Sara Teasdale "Since There Is No Escape"
In loneliness of prayer unlit by life - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
when prayer kneels before poverty - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
Squared by a billion prayers - John Updike "Subcontinental"
our small volley of prayers & dreams - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Each branch and limb of oak was a prayer - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
A word exiled from the prayer - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
Like a blessing that answers a prayer - Charles William Wallace "There's a Laugh"
Where trees repeat their prayers - Helen Hay Whitney "Tranquility"
The prayerless heart prepare - Arthur Hugh Clough "Qui Laborat, Orat"
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