Potential Titles: Weapon

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All the weapons of Hell's armoury - Maurice Baring "August, 1918"

With the weapons of our memory - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Not all of our safeguards are weapons - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

History's weapons fall from my pockets - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"

Bearing both weapon and wound - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)

The beauty of our weapons - Leonard Cohen "First We Take Manhattan"

With false weapons of Philosophy - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

The best weapon of the readiest wit - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Armed with the weapons of terror - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

To make a weapon of my song - James Weldon Johnson "Envoy"

A battle worthy of our weapons - Ilya Kaminsky "Lullaby"

Triumphed over many-weaponed Death - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The weapons littering his lineage - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"

With his merry men well weaponed in steel - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

All the weapons of my poetry - Pablo Neruda "Come with Me" transl. by Teresa Anderson

Forged you like a weapon - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems I" translated by Mark Eisner

No weapons of sea or of wood - Pablo Neruda "Waltz" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Tongues and weapons of His power - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"

In the stars of the automatic weapons - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

For weepers for weapons for widows - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Red Red Rose"

Double the raging weapons - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"

In the light of the weapons we wield - Henry Scott Riddell "The Grecian War Song"

Holding hunger inside them for a weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Given myself as an unasked weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"

dismantling the weapons array pointed at the city - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

Displayed as truth, a weapon, a warning - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Weaponized into political meaning - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

Full of weapons with menacing points - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"


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