Potential Titles: Perfect
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somethingdarkerThe seed of a perfect moon - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
Deciding on a mirror as the perfect camouflage - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"
A perfect flush of weeds and flowers - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"
In darkness and perfect silence - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Each new cage designed to perfect the prime balance - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Perfectly at home beneath the surface - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"
Perfect fading wish of every shooting star - Atticus "Magic in Stars"
A perfect edge and a battling edge are battling - Mary Jo Bang "One Could Say the Train Is Resting"
His perfect record of stealth and elusion - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"
Lamented wind of perfect sunrisings - Esther Belin "I hope to God you will not ask"
A more perfect name for water - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Little Brother"
A perfect emerald the size and shape of a whale - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"
To the perfect zenith of its prime - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Perfect sunny fives haphazard in the air - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Drink wine in perfect accord - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson
The miniature moon of some perfect little planet - Russell Brakefield "After the Labor Day Procession"
Repeating invocations pure and perfect - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Sudden as a perfect fruit - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Gathering each perfect ash - Lucille Clifton "the dead do dream"
An exile's perfect letter - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Perfectly painted the color of cold - Misha Collins "Clasped"
Long breath of perfect ecstasy - Eleanor Rogers Cox "At Benediction"
by certain foolish perfect hours - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IX)"
Not mar that perfect dream - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love XIX: Dreams"
Forth shadowed in perfect loveliness - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The perfect symmetry of their despairs - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
A skater marking perfect figures on perfect ice - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees - Robert Frost "A Prayer in Spring"
The perfect emblem of futility - Dana Gioia "The Angel with the Broken Wing"
Built you perfect and guilty - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
A jewel of blue magic in your perfect ear - Joy Harjo "Desire"
perfect for lipstick to paint on my lips - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
No perfect world we haven't fought for - Jordan Jace "I Want"
A perfect catastrophe set into lines - John James "Klee's Painting"
Will carry you perfectly as a thief - Allison Eir Jenks "Old Soldiers"
All her small perfect shadows - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"
Which is sorrow's perfect breath - Lionel Johnson "Hawthorne"
A perfect oasis in the moonlight - Richard Jones "Rest"
The violence of the perfect pitch - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
Ivory legs with perfectly hinged joints - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
The perfect work of wisdom - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Written in London"
Never faultless light or perfect rest - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"
Shall win completeness perfect as the sun - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
Only the perfected silence of men - D.H. Lawrence "Going Back"
Its fangs of perfect rage - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
Weather and water in its perfecting - Denise Levertov "A Stone from Iona"
The perfect and then the broken - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"
The whales roar in perfect tune and time - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
These gods that make perfect and blight - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
Saw truth like a perfect crystal - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
Perfect till the rocks dissolve - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
In that large realm of perfect mind - Edgar Lee Masters "The Desplaines Forest"
In these perfectly paused trees - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Cobalt perfect from downy barbs to vanes - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"
Frogs perfect their symphony at dusk - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
The mannequin's shadow, perfect and bereft - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"
Engulfed in the perfect night of millennia - N. Scott Momaday "The Galleries"
Our hands have shaped perfect silences - N. Scott Momaday "Nous Avons Vu La Mer"
A perfect destiny on a whisper of the wind - N. Scott Momaday "Shade"
Lonely perfect tassels to the wind - Isabel Neal "Drought Essay"
Ripe corn whispered inside its perfect sheaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
A cadence of perfectly chronicled images - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
The theater of their perfect faces - Mary Oliver "The Snow Cricket"
Construct temples to worship their Perfect Numbers - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"
Still searching for that perfect al dente tone - Andre F. Peltier "Let the Rigatoni Be My Reeds"
The perfect emblem of the age - Andre F. Peltier "The Modern Proboscis"
To have timed your arrow perfectly - Carl Phillips "Archery"
His signature, a perfect birdswoop of wings - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
In the perfect universe of math - Paisley Rekdal "Philip Larkin's Koan"
Filled with perfect ozone - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Perfect as a wish forever unfulfilled - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
With gleams of rapture perfected - James Whitcombe Riley "Slumber-Song"
Desire in still perfect hours - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)
Grew to perfect summer in one day - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
Eaves hold in perfect vertices - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Nor yet the flower of perfect days - Alice Wellington Rollins "The New Day"
A perfect sunlight on rustling forest tips - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Perfect moonlight upon a rippling stream - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Perfects its own malign intent - Ann K. Schwader "Cordyceps zombii"
The perfect ceremony of love's rite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"
Perfectly alone and anonymous - Charles Simic "The Immortal"
The years poured back from one cracked jar into a perfect basin - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
Fix them in some still more perfect order - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"
Places of perfect order and broken patterns - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Blended grace and perfect symmetry - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
A perfect diamond to hold in memory - Keith Taylor "Condoms, Abandoned on the Park Bench"
Ribs perfectly arranged around the emptiness - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Whose bodies were perfect as moonlight - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Mountains pillaring the perfect sky - William Watson "The Glimpse"
Meet in perfect symmetry at the corners - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"
Too perfect for compassion - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
The making of perfect soldiers - Walt Whitman "As I Ponder'd in Silence"
Where symmetry sheds perfect grace - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Too sure of its perfect flower - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
Full of legend and perfect discrepancies - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Set in mysterious perfection - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"
Perfection is target to the eye - Elizabeth Bartlett "Achilles Had His Heel"
As fatal victims of perfection - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
To whom perfection was a sort of predilection - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Blaster Bill" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]
As if completeness were perfection - Sue Budin "Totality"
Full perfection of immortal hues - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
On our heels a fresh perfection - John Keats "Hyperion"
The gravity of perfection in her - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
Proves perfection by defining the flaw - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Their okra bore an essence of perfection - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
His master gardener dispensed perfection - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
Not a ladder to perfection - Robert Pinsky "Antiques"
What perfection still craves - Lynn Powell "Needing the Baroque"
Clean cast from Perfection's brain - John Presland "Tapestry"
The cold perfection threaded through with rage - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
Stretches its arms towards perfection - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 35"
Imperfect/Imperfection.
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Deciding on a mirror as the perfect camouflage - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"
A perfect flush of weeds and flowers - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"
In darkness and perfect silence - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Each new cage designed to perfect the prime balance - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Perfectly at home beneath the surface - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"
Perfect fading wish of every shooting star - Atticus "Magic in Stars"
A perfect edge and a battling edge are battling - Mary Jo Bang "One Could Say the Train Is Resting"
His perfect record of stealth and elusion - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"
Lamented wind of perfect sunrisings - Esther Belin "I hope to God you will not ask"
A more perfect name for water - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Little Brother"
A perfect emerald the size and shape of a whale - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"
To the perfect zenith of its prime - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Perfect sunny fives haphazard in the air - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Drink wine in perfect accord - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson
The miniature moon of some perfect little planet - Russell Brakefield "After the Labor Day Procession"
Repeating invocations pure and perfect - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Sudden as a perfect fruit - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Gathering each perfect ash - Lucille Clifton "the dead do dream"
An exile's perfect letter - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Perfectly painted the color of cold - Misha Collins "Clasped"
Long breath of perfect ecstasy - Eleanor Rogers Cox "At Benediction"
by certain foolish perfect hours - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IX)"
Not mar that perfect dream - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love XIX: Dreams"
Forth shadowed in perfect loveliness - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The perfect symmetry of their despairs - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
A skater marking perfect figures on perfect ice - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees - Robert Frost "A Prayer in Spring"
The perfect emblem of futility - Dana Gioia "The Angel with the Broken Wing"
Built you perfect and guilty - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
A jewel of blue magic in your perfect ear - Joy Harjo "Desire"
perfect for lipstick to paint on my lips - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
No perfect world we haven't fought for - Jordan Jace "I Want"
A perfect catastrophe set into lines - John James "Klee's Painting"
Will carry you perfectly as a thief - Allison Eir Jenks "Old Soldiers"
All her small perfect shadows - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"
Which is sorrow's perfect breath - Lionel Johnson "Hawthorne"
A perfect oasis in the moonlight - Richard Jones "Rest"
The violence of the perfect pitch - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
Ivory legs with perfectly hinged joints - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
The perfect work of wisdom - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Written in London"
Never faultless light or perfect rest - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"
Shall win completeness perfect as the sun - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
Only the perfected silence of men - D.H. Lawrence "Going Back"
Its fangs of perfect rage - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
Weather and water in its perfecting - Denise Levertov "A Stone from Iona"
The perfect and then the broken - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"
The whales roar in perfect tune and time - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
These gods that make perfect and blight - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
Saw truth like a perfect crystal - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
Perfect till the rocks dissolve - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
In that large realm of perfect mind - Edgar Lee Masters "The Desplaines Forest"
In these perfectly paused trees - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Cobalt perfect from downy barbs to vanes - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"
Frogs perfect their symphony at dusk - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
The mannequin's shadow, perfect and bereft - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"
Engulfed in the perfect night of millennia - N. Scott Momaday "The Galleries"
Our hands have shaped perfect silences - N. Scott Momaday "Nous Avons Vu La Mer"
A perfect destiny on a whisper of the wind - N. Scott Momaday "Shade"
Lonely perfect tassels to the wind - Isabel Neal "Drought Essay"
Ripe corn whispered inside its perfect sheaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
A cadence of perfectly chronicled images - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
The theater of their perfect faces - Mary Oliver "The Snow Cricket"
Construct temples to worship their Perfect Numbers - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"
Still searching for that perfect al dente tone - Andre F. Peltier "Let the Rigatoni Be My Reeds"
The perfect emblem of the age - Andre F. Peltier "The Modern Proboscis"
To have timed your arrow perfectly - Carl Phillips "Archery"
His signature, a perfect birdswoop of wings - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
In the perfect universe of math - Paisley Rekdal "Philip Larkin's Koan"
Filled with perfect ozone - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Perfect as a wish forever unfulfilled - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
With gleams of rapture perfected - James Whitcombe Riley "Slumber-Song"
Desire in still perfect hours - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)
Grew to perfect summer in one day - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
Eaves hold in perfect vertices - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Nor yet the flower of perfect days - Alice Wellington Rollins "The New Day"
A perfect sunlight on rustling forest tips - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Perfect moonlight upon a rippling stream - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Perfects its own malign intent - Ann K. Schwader "Cordyceps zombii"
The perfect ceremony of love's rite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"
Perfectly alone and anonymous - Charles Simic "The Immortal"
The years poured back from one cracked jar into a perfect basin - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
Fix them in some still more perfect order - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"
Places of perfect order and broken patterns - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Blended grace and perfect symmetry - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
A perfect diamond to hold in memory - Keith Taylor "Condoms, Abandoned on the Park Bench"
Ribs perfectly arranged around the emptiness - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Whose bodies were perfect as moonlight - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Mountains pillaring the perfect sky - William Watson "The Glimpse"
Meet in perfect symmetry at the corners - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"
Too perfect for compassion - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
The making of perfect soldiers - Walt Whitman "As I Ponder'd in Silence"
Where symmetry sheds perfect grace - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Too sure of its perfect flower - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
Full of legend and perfect discrepancies - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Set in mysterious perfection - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"
Perfection is target to the eye - Elizabeth Bartlett "Achilles Had His Heel"
As fatal victims of perfection - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
To whom perfection was a sort of predilection - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Blaster Bill" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]
As if completeness were perfection - Sue Budin "Totality"
Full perfection of immortal hues - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
On our heels a fresh perfection - John Keats "Hyperion"
The gravity of perfection in her - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
Proves perfection by defining the flaw - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Their okra bore an essence of perfection - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
His master gardener dispensed perfection - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
Not a ladder to perfection - Robert Pinsky "Antiques"
What perfection still craves - Lynn Powell "Needing the Baroque"
Clean cast from Perfection's brain - John Presland "Tapestry"
The cold perfection threaded through with rage - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
Stretches its arms towards perfection - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 35"
Imperfect/Imperfection.
Navigation Links:
Go to P word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
