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And twirl a big ball of hope - Kwame Alexander "Walter, Age Ten: Celebrating Walter Dean Myers"

A ball that rolls down a timeless hill - Mary Jo Bang "The Wallpaper behind the Day"

A golden ball in fountains dancing - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

A ball of twine in the grey sky - Tamiko Beyer "February"

Built a huge ball of masonry upon a mountain-top - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Wind the months in balls - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"

A Ball of Fire the further thrown - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"

Never let the ball escape his glove - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

The new parade of theatres and fancy balls - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

Balled up like a stone - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

Wanting a ball is not wanting a prince - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Arrive at the ball bedecked in fury - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

A song of playing at ball - Amy Lowell "Clear, with Light Variable Winds"

A white fluffy ball changing semblance - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"

Holds out a ball of mercury - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"

Balls of amber and of ivory tossed - May Probyn "Is it Nothing to You?"

The crime of attending a party or ball - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

One of death's juggling red balls - Charles Simic "The Initiate"

Upon a dark ball spun in Time - Walter J. Turner "Giraffe and Tree"

The ball of twine has just run out - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"


Laid out like a beach ball gone airless - Mary Jo Bang "You Know"


Its crystal ball, buoyed by all the vacuum - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"

Used the heavens as a crystal ball - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"

A crystal ball lowered into low-hanging helium - Ian Goh "Firework"


A curve-ball made of shelter - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."


Our ship is fueled by a deuterium iceball - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"


The pocked metronome of tennis balls - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"


Playing tetherball alone - Chris Dombrowski "May"


A wrecking ball gown - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"

A wrecking ball swung an uppercut - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

The enormous spiral of wrecking balls - Matthew Zapruder "Never Before"


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