Potential Titles: Promise

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Every mode of unfulfilled promise - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"

What are bodies if not secrets promised - Lydia Abedeen "Birangona Song in a Walmart Parking Lot"

The promise caught from eastern skies - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"

This obscurity that's keeping no promise - Etel Adnan "Night"

Doesn't look much like promise - Hari Alluri "Spiral"

A sign promised from the afterworld - Julia Alvarez "Signs"

The gold of her promise - Maya Angelou "America"

No angels promised - Maya Angelou "The Singer Will Not Sing"

Made up of false promises - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"

Whispering promises to ourselves - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Promises in thunderclaps - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

Heavy with promise of snow - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"

no promise of another spring - Elizabeth Bartlett "now and forever"

Promising new terms for our tomorrow - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Refugees"

Will paper their walls with maps and broken promises - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

With cunning promises of red - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Incurable Mystic Answers Western Ambitions"

In a land of ice and mirth and explicit promise - Bruce Boston "Ajax Redux"

Amid the promise of perish - Jari Bradley "Unruly"

Though hope may promise joys - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"

Falling seeds their promise bring - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"

That far terrain between Promise and Apology - Jericho Brown "Ganymede"

Soft with promise - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Streaked with the promise of rest - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"

Toward the promise of her face - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Into their own constituency of promise - Anthony Butts "Mist and Fog"

A composure which promises never to end - Scott Cairns "Necropolitan"

Of higher hopes and prouder promise told - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

To sorrowing hearts a gracious promise - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

The promised hidden wonders - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson

On the coast of promise - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"

The fragrance of those promises - Leonard Cohen "Come Healing"

Where you promised to stand guard - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"

Peering past the promise - Aaron Coleman "South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills" [erasure poem]

From those in promise bound - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Some promise must have been broken - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

Swiped change and cracked promises - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"

A small number of promises called tomorrow - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

The promise of forgetting all thing - Kwame Dawes "New Year's Eve in Addis"

I promise to gather your bones - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"

Its promised summer always postponed - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"

If I were the type who made promises - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"

Where promised snow always refuses to fall - Cheryl Dumesnil "Breaking the Broken Things"

Every promise seems gilded with truth - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"

The sound of a promise breaking - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star"

The promise of gravel - Nava EtShalom "Proposal"

For the promise of my name - Tarfia Faizullah "Register of Eliminated Villages"

And believed the billboard's promises - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

These are the seasons Persephone promised - Annie Finch "Chain of Women"

Promising weeks of time to fade through - Annie Finch "Chain of Women"

With promise of the autumn's glittering grain - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

Kindled pale with promise - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Paradise never made you any promises - Nikita Gill "How to Leave Paradise"

Never the promise of shelter - Louise Gluck "March"

Empty promises of a broken land - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"

A rainbow sight of promise made - Thomas Hardy "A Procession of Dead Days"

The promised prayer of a future - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"

Promises glued together with blood - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"

A promise of balance - Joy Harjo "Grace"

Berries made of promises - Joy Harjo "Granddaughters"

Their wings of fragile promises - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"

A promise not to draw blood - francine j. harris "the road to jackson has orchids"

Promises like a cup of tears - Stephanie Hemphill "Dance"

Blowing a calliope of promises - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rivers"

Promising a crop of dust - Conrad Hilberry "Radiation"

My promises have cracked and dropped away - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

When windows keep their promise to open - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Remember what you promised in July - Tony Hoagland "The Classics"

Topple under all those promises - Tony Hoagland "Real Estate"

The questions where promises lodge - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"

The promise still outruns the deed - Oliver Wendell Holmes "To My Readers"

Kings mourn that promised praise - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

When the language of the promise is wrong - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

Etched with promises made to eternity - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

Promised to evict the misgivings - Marcus Jackson "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government"

Such is the promise of light - Omotara James "Pier 52"

Remember not the promises we made - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"

safety in their promise of song - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

Whispering a stone's promise - Yusef Komunyakaa "Guernica"

Can't unbutton promises - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Promise intimate revelations to come - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Laurentia Burning"

Promise me the rich can't sleep - Joseph Lease "Free Again [excerpt]"

Credited the truth of the promises that fool'd me - Henry S. Leigh "Broken Vows"

Who promises that death is gentle too - Amy Levy "The Promise of Sleep"

Scenting the air with protective promises - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"

With all your wide futures promised - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"

His promise of gold and of pearl - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"

Minstrels of change and of promise - Amy Lowell "The Way"

Frail promise to longing desire - Amy Lowell "The Way"

A promise means swimming against the current - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Blew up promises like bright balloons - Naomi Long Madgett "Impressions"

Promise stars forever bright - Naomi Long Madgett "Wedding Song"

A city of fetid promise - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"

A high branch of broken promises - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"

For the promise within the wreckage - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Nor the tender bloom of promise - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Its denials and pure promises - W.S. Merwin "Night with No Moon"

Glow of a distant promise - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Her promises rule this night - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (8)" transl. by Dennis Daly

The promise of honey, the symbol for uranium - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly

This royal promise of the rose - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

Primed with promises of sweet rewards - Grace Nichols "Battle"

Seed that promised blossom - Roden Noel "The Pity of it"

The promise of atonement in your return - Achy Obejas "Volver"

He promised he'd buy me a fairing - "Oh! Dear!"

The golden hours of promise - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"

Promises never to mend it again - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Fed by the oil of promise - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"

Every rim of promise - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"

Thunder making promises - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

A farewell without promise - Phan Nhien Hao "Day Flowers in the Highlands" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Promises in their not-yet-broken state - Carl Phillips "Captivity"

Promises kept becoming apologies - Carl Phillips "Career"

Life promises only one sweet memory - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

We promised not to promise - Alison Prine "Long Love"

Future promise of fruitful clay - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"

Promises made and mocked - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The broken promise is the one we remember - Alberto Rios "The Broken"

Clung to the chance promise - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Here is the door I promised - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

Cutting a path of promise - Margaret E. Sangster "Preface"

The promise of pancakes - DJ Savarese "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"

Faith to keep each promise spoken - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

The silence we were promised - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

Leering ruefully at broken promises - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"

For the hour you promised me - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fetch"

The warm scent buried like a promise - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"

Too small for any hope or promise - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"

Promise me the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Blunt slivers of larger promises - Patricia Smith "8 a.m., Sunday. August 28, 2005"

Who's always promising and walking out - A.E. Stallings "Failure"

My crescent faith clings round the promise - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

The promise of rhyme bending my ear - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"

The turn in the road is a promise - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

Bear with them broken promises of Spring - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"

Pink with the dawn of my promise - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"

Love which promised truth - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

Pale with the promise of pride - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"

And sing a lullaby of promise and of comfort - Carmen Sylva "A Friend"

Promises in place of a goodbye - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

Only the half-spoken promises of Heaven - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

The promise of Fate's rebound - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"

All that promise and defeat - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Red with the promise of fortune - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

like the wish for any promise - Asiya Wadud "number four"

To the very edge of that promise - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

Locate the ledge of your promises - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

Against a country of promise - Michael Wasson "Countdown as Slow Kisses"

New promise every day of sweetness - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"

Over the broken promises of the day - Charles Wright "The Childhood of St. Thomas"

Toward the promise of night - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"

Twirling out of sight like promises - Yvonne Zipter "Seeds"


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