Potential Titles: Pause

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Does the movement stop when the beat pauses? - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

That speak to me of pauses and continuings - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Respected the pause between lightning and skybreak - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

Into another pause before corruption - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"

And shadowless trees rootlessly paused - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

A rhythm of slice and pause - Elizabeth Bradfield "Wilson's Specimens"

And the heart must pause to breathe - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"

To pause 'mid its day-dreams so witchingly bright - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"

With ritual pauses for breath and pity - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

Neighborhoods of pause - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXVII: Void"

a pause then to Parnassus reach - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Poet at Play"

A school of koi pausing at the surface - Katie Ford "Koi"

Paused above Infinity's abyss - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"

Battalions of the midnight pause - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"

Pause hard by the rose-wreathed gate - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Pausing at the gates of rest - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"

And the belated blackbird paused - William Dean Howells "The Pilot's Story"

Pause and interval of peace - Helen Hunt Jackson "August"

Should not on Fortune pause - Ben Jonson "To Himself"

Pause in the transience of all things - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

'Mid whose wild din I pause - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

A pause to gather lost thoughts - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

The slow dignity of your eternal pause - D.H. Lawrence "Baby Turtle"

Clutching for one second's pause - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"

All pause to sing in praise of rain and sky - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"

Would pause for an honorable cause - Hailey Leithauser "Guillotine"

After a question, a pause - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"

Pause beside the mouth of hell - Percy MacKaye "Wilson"

In these perfectly paused trees - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Toward some ripe, sweetened pause - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

When night gives pause to the long watch I keep - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"

Paused at every grievous door - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"

Do not hasten but pause to tell - Meredith Nicholson "Whereaway"

still hold pause for the sun - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

Nor even pause to gaze - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

A pilgrim wind will pause to look - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

Sun that pauses to kiss the dew - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "My Valley"

Pause with rainbows - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Philadelphia Murals)"

At the center of a pause - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"

Inhalation and exhalation paused - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"

Pause upon the threshold's rust - Leonora Speyer "Protest in Passing"

hoof paused over water - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"

The pauses between beams of searchlights - Alison Swan "Another Coast"

The clamours knocking without pause - Iris Tree "[What words that move on wings"]

As the hunter will pause on the precipice brink - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

A brief pause of labour's sullen wheel - William Watson "The Glimpse"

With neither word nor pause - Charles Weekes "Dreams"

Paused on Earth's grey rim - Eugene R. White "Reward"

The bare and brown a pause between - Humbert Wolfe "Opals and Amber"

That pause not in their flowing - Francis Brett Young "Five Degrees South"

The pause between the thunder and the bridge - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"


Early in the era of the pause button - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"


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