Potential Titles: Stop
Jul. 15th, 2011 11:28 pmWhy must crumbling doctrines stop us? - Anne Carly Abad "Rehearsal for When He Wakes"
Does the movement stop when the beat pauses? - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
When Dionysian winds stop beating - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
The clock would stop and the doors swing wide - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
No ram appears to stop my hand - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"
Stop asking about the afterlife - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"
Stop entranced before some tempting shop - Martin Armstrong "Miss Thompson Goes Shopping"
Never stops knowing hunger - Mary Jo Bang "Apology for Want"
Razor thin minutes slot without stop - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
Two stops apart on a tightwired continuum - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"
A train that stops for nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Hell"
Time stops in a tea shop - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
We are a stopped carousel - Samiya Bashir "At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac"
They've stopped the Lethe, down in Hell - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"
Sounds which can stop time - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
How waves know when to stop cresting - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"
To stop the revolving monster of life - Max Bodenheim "Baby"
Stopped holding each other hostage - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Stop my sleeping and sour my mind - Stephanie Burt "Hank McCoy's Complaint Against the Danger Room"
The frost has stopped flirting with the dunegrass - Ching-In Chen "Simulacra"
Without reflection we stop - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"
The breath of the world that stops - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"
Stopped clocks and voices cut short - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Stop when the moon clocks out - Cynthia Cruz "Final Performance"
Without stopping our breath of song - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
To stop ideas from overflowing - Monica de la Torre "The Script"
I stopped dreaming of Neptune - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Forget the distance, count no steps, nor stop to blow - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Stop one heart from breaking - Emily Dickinson [untitled]
As if beneath the stoppage of time - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
To stop myself from falling awake - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Dangerous weather he witnessed but could do nothing to stop - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
A stopping place before they reach the sea - Edith Dunham "Our Little Brook" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
May stop chattering and start to hum - Anne Evans "A New Variant"
The wheel never rusts, never stopped - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"
as soon as the sound stops shaking in the ocean salt air - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Will not stop for gratitude - Robert Frost "America Is Hard to See"
Where the harvest shall stop - Robert Frost "Gathering Leaves"
Don't stop to think of what you've done - "Go In and Win" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
that I never stopped looking for you - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
Will stop dreaming about fear - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"
Nothing to stop time - Susan Howe "Periscope"
We take a tumble and the cog-wheels stop - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
By the river where the wind stops - John James "Materia"
The music of stopped ears - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Naming Ceremony"
No friend of mine stops my dance - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
Silence has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
History has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
Stop, besieged by underbrush - A.M. Juster "I Sit Half-Naked"
Stop searching for why - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
A wilt that can't stop weeping sap - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
But we couldn't stop believing in iron - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
Before my heart stops beating - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Where my body stops or begins - Robin Coste Lewis "Landscape"
After the machines stopped churning the air - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"
The record scratched and stopping - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"
Stop showing off wounds to strangers - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Brought agonies of hoping to a stop - John Masefield "The Haunted"
Glad till the dancing stops - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
The mystery stopped coming through - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"
Until your coat stops shivering - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Stopped our titillating trophy hunts - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
I've stopped expecting hope - Risalet Merdan "Today Is a Day to Write Poems" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Rusting around stopped notes - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"
The attic holds its stopped worlds - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
The tender stops of various quills - John Milton "Lycidas"
Stopping there their Pride - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
Never stopped me from dancing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"
The snow has forgotten how to stop - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Whoever does the telling stops time - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"
Never stop courting recklessness - Carl Phillips "If You Will, I Will"
Forgetting to stop asking - Carl Phillips "Shimmer"
Permission to stop listening - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"
Bad brakes and a need to stop - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"
Not a minute stopped or stayed he - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
The border says stop to the wind - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
stop in midair in that soundless moment - Ed Roberson "Nolan,"
No tangible good to stop for - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Box of wishes waiting for time to stop - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
Settles on everything stopped - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"
To stop the terrible dreaming - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
In an effort to make the minutes stop - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"
Only stopped clocks and no reflections - A.E. Stallings "The Boatman to Psyche, on the River Styx"
You had never started and would never stop - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"
The world where you stopped - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"
I am still listening when you stop - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
When the ground won't stop - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
Could stop time by taking apart the clock - Paul Tran "Galileo"
Till the clock says stop - Jacqueline Waters "Ready for My Statement?"
And stop at the one with the golden script - Charles Wright "I Shall Be Released"
Leading to one vast ultimate stop - Charles Wright "Walking Beside the Diversion Ditch Lake"
In order to stop resisting - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
The storm stopped the clock - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Stopped the clock that chases me - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom"
Stopp'd my singing mouth with thunder - Francis Brett Young "Song [I made a song in my love's likeness]"
Stopping between gardens - Jordan Zandi "Quarry"
The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"
Nine hundred degrees of nonstop night - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
The canvas for another sunset showstopper - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Inhale the scent of long-unstoppered flasks - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Started stealing stop signs - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"
The shadow of a stop sign - Sue Budin "Little Things"
Unstoppable beats fiery impact every time - Rae Armantrout "Lie"
Dismay at unstoppable liveliness - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"
Could unstop all the laws of the universe - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"
Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
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Does the movement stop when the beat pauses? - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
When Dionysian winds stop beating - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
The clock would stop and the doors swing wide - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
No ram appears to stop my hand - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"
Stop asking about the afterlife - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"
Stop entranced before some tempting shop - Martin Armstrong "Miss Thompson Goes Shopping"
Never stops knowing hunger - Mary Jo Bang "Apology for Want"
Razor thin minutes slot without stop - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
Two stops apart on a tightwired continuum - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"
A train that stops for nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Hell"
Time stops in a tea shop - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
We are a stopped carousel - Samiya Bashir "At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac"
They've stopped the Lethe, down in Hell - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"
Sounds which can stop time - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
How waves know when to stop cresting - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"
To stop the revolving monster of life - Max Bodenheim "Baby"
Stopped holding each other hostage - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Stop my sleeping and sour my mind - Stephanie Burt "Hank McCoy's Complaint Against the Danger Room"
The frost has stopped flirting with the dunegrass - Ching-In Chen "Simulacra"
Without reflection we stop - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"
The breath of the world that stops - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"
Stopped clocks and voices cut short - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Stop when the moon clocks out - Cynthia Cruz "Final Performance"
Without stopping our breath of song - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
To stop ideas from overflowing - Monica de la Torre "The Script"
I stopped dreaming of Neptune - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Forget the distance, count no steps, nor stop to blow - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Stop one heart from breaking - Emily Dickinson [untitled]
As if beneath the stoppage of time - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
To stop myself from falling awake - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Dangerous weather he witnessed but could do nothing to stop - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
A stopping place before they reach the sea - Edith Dunham "Our Little Brook" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
May stop chattering and start to hum - Anne Evans "A New Variant"
The wheel never rusts, never stopped - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"
as soon as the sound stops shaking in the ocean salt air - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Will not stop for gratitude - Robert Frost "America Is Hard to See"
Where the harvest shall stop - Robert Frost "Gathering Leaves"
Don't stop to think of what you've done - "Go In and Win" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
that I never stopped looking for you - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
Will stop dreaming about fear - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"
Nothing to stop time - Susan Howe "Periscope"
We take a tumble and the cog-wheels stop - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
By the river where the wind stops - John James "Materia"
The music of stopped ears - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Naming Ceremony"
No friend of mine stops my dance - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
Silence has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
History has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"
Stop, besieged by underbrush - A.M. Juster "I Sit Half-Naked"
Stop searching for why - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
A wilt that can't stop weeping sap - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
But we couldn't stop believing in iron - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
Before my heart stops beating - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Where my body stops or begins - Robin Coste Lewis "Landscape"
After the machines stopped churning the air - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"
The record scratched and stopping - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"
Stop showing off wounds to strangers - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Brought agonies of hoping to a stop - John Masefield "The Haunted"
Glad till the dancing stops - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
The mystery stopped coming through - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"
Until your coat stops shivering - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Stopped our titillating trophy hunts - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
I've stopped expecting hope - Risalet Merdan "Today Is a Day to Write Poems" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Rusting around stopped notes - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"
The attic holds its stopped worlds - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
The tender stops of various quills - John Milton "Lycidas"
Stopping there their Pride - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
Never stopped me from dancing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"
The snow has forgotten how to stop - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Whoever does the telling stops time - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"
Never stop courting recklessness - Carl Phillips "If You Will, I Will"
Forgetting to stop asking - Carl Phillips "Shimmer"
Permission to stop listening - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"
Bad brakes and a need to stop - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"
Not a minute stopped or stayed he - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
The border says stop to the wind - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
stop in midair in that soundless moment - Ed Roberson "Nolan,"
No tangible good to stop for - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Box of wishes waiting for time to stop - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
Settles on everything stopped - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"
To stop the terrible dreaming - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
In an effort to make the minutes stop - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"
Only stopped clocks and no reflections - A.E. Stallings "The Boatman to Psyche, on the River Styx"
You had never started and would never stop - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"
The world where you stopped - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"
I am still listening when you stop - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
When the ground won't stop - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
Could stop time by taking apart the clock - Paul Tran "Galileo"
Till the clock says stop - Jacqueline Waters "Ready for My Statement?"
And stop at the one with the golden script - Charles Wright "I Shall Be Released"
Leading to one vast ultimate stop - Charles Wright "Walking Beside the Diversion Ditch Lake"
In order to stop resisting - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
The storm stopped the clock - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Stopped the clock that chases me - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom"
Stopp'd my singing mouth with thunder - Francis Brett Young "Song [I made a song in my love's likeness]"
Stopping between gardens - Jordan Zandi "Quarry"
The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"
Nine hundred degrees of nonstop night - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
The canvas for another sunset showstopper - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Inhale the scent of long-unstoppered flasks - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Started stealing stop signs - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"
The shadow of a stop sign - Sue Budin "Little Things"
Unstoppable beats fiery impact every time - Rae Armantrout "Lie"
Dismay at unstoppable liveliness - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"
Could unstop all the laws of the universe - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"
Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
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