Potential Titles: Shape

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The shape of her two hundred and six bones - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

That shape every movement forward - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

His gaze rose through the shapes behind the world - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Storms of shape and hue rain tremors - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Allowing him to shape others to his whim - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Judgment in the shape of fire and brimstone - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"

Shape his memory into a spoon - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"

Take shape beneath the grasp of Thought - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]

Heart-broken shapes that stand in field and sky - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"

And shape the world to suit myself - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"

Shaped within a static prayer - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"

and impel his pride in shaping - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

an outer shape and an inner clue - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"

Shaped the color and sound of mountains - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"

Is only shape and dust - Elizabeth Bartlett "In His Image"

Shaped from the floating cloud - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Our shapely hooks of shining gold - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"

Order such shapes as a wizard air - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

Haunting shapes and goblin cares - Paul Bewsher "Chelsea"

A perfect emerald the size and shape of a whale - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"

The shape of a note starts with loss - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Change a shape by looking - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

The shape of a man trying to hold up the ceiling - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"

Shape the aftermath of a mudslide - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"

In transitory shapes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Made the same shape of myself - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"

Which shaped the lightning's fiery claw - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "The Artist"

When shapes fall from the air - John Ciardi "Abundance"

The fine and twisted shapes of the heart - Leonard Cohen "What Is a Saint"

On adamantine anvils shaped - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Shapes like those in Jacob's dream - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"

If trouble came in shape of squall - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"

Its shapes introduce themselves - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"

Eternal shapes of shadowly light - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

A pair of shears cutting countrysides into shapes - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Ways to exceed the edges of shapes - Monica de la Torre "Theorem of Sorts"

Shape themselves around that one bright seizure - Rita Dove "Prose in a Small Space"

Shape my mouth into a fountain - Carolina Ebeid "Relapsing/Remitting"

A shape that keeps returning - Carolina Ebeid "Shape"

And shap'd it forth before the multitude - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Must borrow every changing shape - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

A dance older than the shape of human bone - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"

Airy shapes of Oreads circling free - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

Shape and spirit together mingling - John Freeman "The Body"

The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"

That builds shape, memory, dream and all - John Freeman "Shadows"

the shape of unanswerable desperation - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

And shape the thousand joys that never may exist - Thomas Gent "Poems"

I have forgotten my rebellion's shape - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Immortality"

No shape in my gap - C.S. Giscombe "Portland Parish/The Blue Mountains"

Often denied their shape - Paul Guest "1987"

Shaping the thousandth tendril - Louise Imogen Guiney "Garden Chidings"

The one they shape by hand and foot - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

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

Love in the fluid shape of a saxophone - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

Ghostly shapes of light years reversed - Joy Harjo "Javelina"

And shape dissent from light - Janice N. Harrington "Burn"

Shape border from its river source - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Imagine a way of shape that doesn't strangle - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Your mouth will make no empty shapes - francine j. harris "something in the water"

The breeze in the shape of bees - francine j. harris "they seem to gather in one park"

The shape of deep sleep - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"

Shape me into driftwood - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"

A moving Show of whirling Shadow Shapes - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

A memory as soon as I shape it - Bob Hicok "No Stones"

Carved myself into the civil shape of a knife - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

Their whirling shapes accept no charge - Hsu Kan "The Wife's Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

None of us could remember the shape of possibility - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"

Strange shapes and grieves ghosts - Elinor Jenkins "The Last Evening"

Shaping another lonely god - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"

Alive with shapes and shadows - Richard Jones "Rest"

Shaped twelve sparrows from wet clay - Zilka Joseph "Sparrows and Dust"

Bringing shapes from the invisible world - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Let the unexpected take shape - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

The world is not shaped by your tomato gardens - Eunsong Kim "[asian]"

To represent the shapes required of love - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

The shape of our star days - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

The shape of gone, of never been born - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

Shaped for secret oaths - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Clay Army"

In raw wood & metal remembering her shape - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Cutting black shapes into the sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "Nighthawks"

Ugly shapes and dreams beware - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

Whose shapes are known no more - Archibald Lampman "The Moon-Path"

Black and mighty shapes of iron and stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

Under elms shaped for sleep - Ruth Lechlitner "Connecticut Countryside"

Shaped as a roaring lion - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

New worlds defined their shape - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

A blade of night to shape and soothe - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

What memory shall I shape from this ash? - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

Taking shape in the ashes of beauty, desire and pain - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"

The shape of my descent - Thomas Lynch "I Felt Myself Turning"

Perish like the shapes of air - Edwin Markham "These Songs Will Perish"

Shapes mad fancies into facts - Don Marquis "Sea Changes II: Moonlight"

Shift her bones to shape the world twelve times - Maya Marshall "Musing onLilith Lost to Time"

Shaped an Era's golden height - George Martin "Shelley"

Dandelions giving shape to the wind - Herbert Woodward Martin "Blue"

As light shaped by trajectory - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"

Like the shapes we made - Farid Matuk "For a Daughter/No Address"

Bereft of our familiar shapes - Irene Rutherford McLeod "So Beautiful You Are Indeed"

Brave in her shape - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Logic to the shape of tower and tenement - Michael Mesic "Gaudi"

Shaped from something still alive - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

Our hands have shaped perfect silences - N. Scott Momaday "Nous Avons Vu La Mer"

Whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

Letting cloud take what shapes it may - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"

Shaped to remind me of a heart - Harryette Mullen "From Tanka Diary"

In the shape of dark poppies - Pablo Neruda "Phantom" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Like a cage shaped exactly like his body - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"

What fate was shaping out betwixt us - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]

The scent of its own full shape - Naomi Shihab Nye "Words When We Need Them"

Offering me life in a different shape - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"

To shape a form for glory's shrine - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Shaped as other men - Dorothy Parker "Salome's Dancing-Lesson"

Shaping itself to the wish of any object - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Even as a potter shaping Eden clay - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

The shapes of ghastly dreams - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Under the shape of wishes - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"

The shape that luck mostly takes - Carl Phillips "Flight of Doves"

Shaped by breath or pressure - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 3. Glass"

Genius shaped a dream into a deed - Alexander Posey "Ode to Sequoyah"

The shapes that come in dreams - Alexander Posey "To My Wife"

The Protean shapes of evil - John Presland "To the Leaders of Both Parties January 1910"

A loss in the shape of a language - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"

Shapes of foam that banner in the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Shaped within no narrow limits - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Broken to shape of thought - Carl Sandburg "Languages"

Tracing shapes of void from starlight - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"

Sadness shapes the landscape - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

And you in every blessed shape - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIII"

From shadow to shape to gait - Solmaz Sharif "Visa"

As if we could shape softness - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"

Tortured by storms to shapes as rude - Shelley "The Recollections"

An infinity of tragic shapes - Charles Simic "A Letter"

Resolving into a human shape of fire - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

Your shape behind a flame - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"

Lurking shapes that give no sign of rising - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"

In the attic of forgotten shapes - A.E. Stallings "The Doll House"

Some hidden shape of hell - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Rosemary"

Within the ancient circles of shapes - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

Shapes a new alphabet for prayer and song - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Cascades changing in scale, not shape - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

The welcome shape of the axe - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Shaped themselves into a strange string of eons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 188: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Life is but a dream whose shapes return - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

The shape the song takes - Z.G. Tomaszewski "The Soul"

Carry decades of lockets shaped like metal hearts - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

And shape them in creation - Natasha Trethewey "Mythmaker"

while its secrets shape the court - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

The fallen stones give shape to a new structure - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Shaping the real from the dream - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Dreaming"

Storms in the shape of names - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"

A geometry of disparate shapes - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"

Find and shape what is not known until it's made - John Moncure Wettarau "The Sculptor's Trade"

Soft shapes of stealth - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Ice cream in the shape of flowers - William Carlos Williams "The Delicacies"

Mirror and dissipate the cloudy shapes of error - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"

Still the shapes of time and space and error move - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"

Amid the many shapes of joyless daylight - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"

The many shapes of joyless daylight - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

The shape of an absolute past - Jay Wright "Kumu"

Candles shaped like faces - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"


The dream-shapes you weave - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"

Replaced his compass with a heart-shaped clock - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Reshaping fear as placid science - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"

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

Who shapeshifts in an effort to please - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"

Shapeshifting sleeper agents hiding in plain sight - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

That lies are often truth-shaped - Nikita Gill "Questions for the Daughters of Nyx"

The wedge-shaped engines of the sun - Harold Acton "Ventilation"


a slender dimness in the unshapeful hour - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

The indefinite unshapen dawn - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

The unshapen dust of earth without a face - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

All unshaped unbidden miracles - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"


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