Potential Titles: Slip
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somethingdarkerThe moon's answers slip around behind it - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
The terrible music of the slipping hours - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"
The laden mind shall slip past dream - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
Slip his silver penny into your pocket - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
Slipping away carried off in the stream - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"
My rooms slip in and out of higher dimensions - Mike Allen "Space War"
The bodies we inherited and tried to slip out of - Ari Banias "No More Birds"
To slip across barriers of being - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
He slips a painted acid in the drink - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"
Slips from presence to memory - Joshua Bennett "Aubade with Insomnia"
Bloodhounds straining at the slip - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"
Must slip where the world has set the grooving - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Woman's Shortcomings" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]
To let nothing else slip away unsecured - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Slip among the shadows of a pine - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"
For when time would slip free altogether - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"
Each particle a Basho frog slipping into the pond - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
For hands will slip and feet will slide - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
Slipped behind the comb of sunrise - Brody Parrish Craig "Full"
Until the mask was slipped once more in place - Clarissa Scott Delany "The Mask" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And always they will slip away - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"
Slipped and started up again - Rita Dove "The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude"
Moonlight slipping from his eyes - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Air slips between my teeth - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
The sun has slipped his tether - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"
Husks whence the kernel slips - Eleanor Farjeon "In the Oculist's Anteroom"
Slip like water from your palms - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
Slipped from a flowering sun - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten III"
Slip from one black cloak into another - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
That slips the knot of tomorrow - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Mile after mile slipping in between - Angelina Weld Grimké "Paradox"
Before immediately slipping into the nightmare once again - Thom Gunn "Lament"
That it slipped untangled from a dream - Juan Felipe Herrera "Hey Phil"
Slipped a code into your shoe - Brenda Hillman "The Late Cold War"
For the fairies to slip through - Florence Hoatson "The Little White Gate"
The hour you slipped away - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Recall"
Sudden flashes of the slipping skies - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
the slip of a rain-glazed rock - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
Tall brick buildings slipping into a ravine - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Nor the slipped hound of hate track that soul's secret ways - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
Slip unnoticed between this world and the next - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
Slip from a reel of translation - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
Slip into total eclipse - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"
Dementia boiling in the abyss if we slip - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"
The hours slip bitterly over - Archibald Lampman "One Day"
Slippage of signifier and signified - Lance Larsen "To My Daughter's Dead Name"
Slips by glittering and glancing to the eye - Richard Le Gallienne "Paris Day by Day: a Familiar Epistle"
As the tigers slip like smiles through the bamboo - Stephen Leggett "Seeing Tigers"
Slipped among sedges out of sight - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
Slip into the diabolical roles I've played - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"
Out where gray waters slip - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"
Cannot wait to slip into the void - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
All have slipped away like snow - Justin H. McCarthy "Long Ago"
Young as the slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
The slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Slipping lyrics over lips - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
Slipped past me like a wraith - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
Slips red thread around its spool - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"
A fugitive's note slipped quick to the future - John Murillo "On Metaphor"
Such a brief slip of minutes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Each Day We Are Given So Many Gifts"
When the moon slipped its knot - Stephen Oliver "An Actual Encounter With The Sun On My Balcony At France Street"
The selkie who slips her wet pelt - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"
Slipped through blades of rain - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Yellow lading slips among the weeds - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"
Just one slip in the whole of forever - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Plate Spinning"
Then my fears I'd slip for a while - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Slipped on the slick rag of the future - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
some will not slip cleanly from my mouth - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"
Picking up the slipped threads - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Feet that dance on slipping earth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"
Slips from the box of upside-down buildings - River "The Egg" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Love the slip and grip of an unfamiliar pen - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Slipping pebbles shriek through their claws - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Suicide's Grave"
the night slips down my throat - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Slipped down from starry heavens to walk in other step - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
And the climber slips down gulfs of fear - Clark Ashton Smith "The Unrevealed"
Slipped into the embrace of the night - Jean M. Snyder "Benediction"
Slips me Charon's obol - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"
Slip along the endless thread of thought - Susan M. Spalding "At Friends' Meeting" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
Slips past the sun's long kiss - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
Won from the rays slipped off the sun - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
Crescent sliver slips unseen - Edwin Torres "E.G. as I.E."
Slips between our whim - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Look down and mourn how water slips past - Wang An-Shih "On a moonlit island bridge" transl. by David Hinton
Great planets slip their arcs as the small pale stars multiply - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
This emotion that somehow slipped past the masters - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
As it slips from a curl of birch skin - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Down from her beaten path she softly slips - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"
Slipping in between the beauty coming and the beauty gone - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
And one slips into wanting nothing more - Charles Wright "In Praise of What Is Missing"
My hand slipping to the west - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
Pressed upon a slippery, dodging ghost - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Slippery with dew and laughter - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Down wet and slippery roads to hell - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
On the bridges to those slippery worlds - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Qassida"
Slippery frozen places of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
Its secret in the slippery wheels - Charles Simic "The Pieces of the Clock Lie Scattered"
Comes slippery on ordinary days - Safiya Sinclair "Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty"
Watching the slippery elm made new - Alison Swan "Some Things I Needed to Know"
Trying to leverage this slippery trait of memory - Bogi Takács "The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast a Spell"
Her children bright in the slipstream - Deborah Garrison "Sestina for the Working Mother"
In the slipstream above the stratosphere - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Promise me the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Where space drips into our slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Daydream a new reverie into the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
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The terrible music of the slipping hours - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"
The laden mind shall slip past dream - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
Slip his silver penny into your pocket - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
Slipping away carried off in the stream - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"
My rooms slip in and out of higher dimensions - Mike Allen "Space War"
The bodies we inherited and tried to slip out of - Ari Banias "No More Birds"
To slip across barriers of being - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
He slips a painted acid in the drink - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"
Slips from presence to memory - Joshua Bennett "Aubade with Insomnia"
Bloodhounds straining at the slip - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"
Must slip where the world has set the grooving - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Woman's Shortcomings" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]
To let nothing else slip away unsecured - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Slip among the shadows of a pine - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"
For when time would slip free altogether - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"
Each particle a Basho frog slipping into the pond - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
For hands will slip and feet will slide - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
Slipped behind the comb of sunrise - Brody Parrish Craig "Full"
Until the mask was slipped once more in place - Clarissa Scott Delany "The Mask" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And always they will slip away - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"
Slipped and started up again - Rita Dove "The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude"
Moonlight slipping from his eyes - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Air slips between my teeth - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
The sun has slipped his tether - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"
Husks whence the kernel slips - Eleanor Farjeon "In the Oculist's Anteroom"
Slip like water from your palms - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
Slipped from a flowering sun - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten III"
Slip from one black cloak into another - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
That slips the knot of tomorrow - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Mile after mile slipping in between - Angelina Weld Grimké "Paradox"
Before immediately slipping into the nightmare once again - Thom Gunn "Lament"
That it slipped untangled from a dream - Juan Felipe Herrera "Hey Phil"
Slipped a code into your shoe - Brenda Hillman "The Late Cold War"
For the fairies to slip through - Florence Hoatson "The Little White Gate"
The hour you slipped away - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Recall"
Sudden flashes of the slipping skies - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
the slip of a rain-glazed rock - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
Tall brick buildings slipping into a ravine - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Nor the slipped hound of hate track that soul's secret ways - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
Slip unnoticed between this world and the next - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
Slip from a reel of translation - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
Slip into total eclipse - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"
Dementia boiling in the abyss if we slip - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"
The hours slip bitterly over - Archibald Lampman "One Day"
Slippage of signifier and signified - Lance Larsen "To My Daughter's Dead Name"
Slips by glittering and glancing to the eye - Richard Le Gallienne "Paris Day by Day: a Familiar Epistle"
As the tigers slip like smiles through the bamboo - Stephen Leggett "Seeing Tigers"
Slipped among sedges out of sight - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
Slip into the diabolical roles I've played - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"
Out where gray waters slip - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"
Cannot wait to slip into the void - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
All have slipped away like snow - Justin H. McCarthy "Long Ago"
Young as the slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
The slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Slipping lyrics over lips - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
Slipped past me like a wraith - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
Slips red thread around its spool - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"
A fugitive's note slipped quick to the future - John Murillo "On Metaphor"
Such a brief slip of minutes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Each Day We Are Given So Many Gifts"
When the moon slipped its knot - Stephen Oliver "An Actual Encounter With The Sun On My Balcony At France Street"
The selkie who slips her wet pelt - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"
Slipped through blades of rain - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Yellow lading slips among the weeds - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"
Just one slip in the whole of forever - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Plate Spinning"
Then my fears I'd slip for a while - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Slipped on the slick rag of the future - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
some will not slip cleanly from my mouth - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"
Picking up the slipped threads - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Feet that dance on slipping earth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"
Slips from the box of upside-down buildings - River "The Egg" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Love the slip and grip of an unfamiliar pen - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Slipping pebbles shriek through their claws - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Suicide's Grave"
the night slips down my throat - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Slipped down from starry heavens to walk in other step - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
And the climber slips down gulfs of fear - Clark Ashton Smith "The Unrevealed"
Slipped into the embrace of the night - Jean M. Snyder "Benediction"
Slips me Charon's obol - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"
Slip along the endless thread of thought - Susan M. Spalding "At Friends' Meeting" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
Slips past the sun's long kiss - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
Won from the rays slipped off the sun - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
Crescent sliver slips unseen - Edwin Torres "E.G. as I.E."
Slips between our whim - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Look down and mourn how water slips past - Wang An-Shih "On a moonlit island bridge" transl. by David Hinton
Great planets slip their arcs as the small pale stars multiply - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
This emotion that somehow slipped past the masters - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
As it slips from a curl of birch skin - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Down from her beaten path she softly slips - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"
Slipping in between the beauty coming and the beauty gone - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
And one slips into wanting nothing more - Charles Wright "In Praise of What Is Missing"
My hand slipping to the west - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
Pressed upon a slippery, dodging ghost - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Slippery with dew and laughter - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Down wet and slippery roads to hell - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
On the bridges to those slippery worlds - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Qassida"
Slippery frozen places of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
Its secret in the slippery wheels - Charles Simic "The Pieces of the Clock Lie Scattered"
Comes slippery on ordinary days - Safiya Sinclair "Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty"
Watching the slippery elm made new - Alison Swan "Some Things I Needed to Know"
Trying to leverage this slippery trait of memory - Bogi Takács "The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast a Spell"
Her children bright in the slipstream - Deborah Garrison "Sestina for the Working Mother"
In the slipstream above the stratosphere - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Promise me the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Where space drips into our slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Daydream a new reverie into the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Navigation Links:
Go to S word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
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