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Potential Titles: Father

Father sings in the threshing ground - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

The scowl my father wore in exile - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"

Evil to her shall be her husband's father - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring

my father was rafted over waters - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Apostate to my father's creed - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

My mother's blood and my father's name - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

This is my father's chosen country - Frank Bidart "California Plush"

Retained from those lost nights our fathers slept - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

In the backlot of my father's skull - Wo Chan "Such As"

The slice of the world my father gazed at - Nicholas Christopher "1943"

Your shadow will outlive my father - Eduardo C. Corral "To a Blossoming Saguaro"

The street of our fathers - r. erica doyle "Where Is She ::: Kote Li Ye"

The ghost of Hamlet's father wandering through - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"

Who father havoc through absence - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"

What gravity gives birth to a father? - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"

Father and son and the open sky - Edgar A. Guest "A Boy and His Dad"

And they pay their father's debt - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Students of our fathers' disciplines - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

Brooding about our fathers always on the make - Edward Hirsch "Liberty Brass"

Suddenly regretting the tree my father planted - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

Passionflowers lit my father's garden - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

Cursed with your father's mind - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"

By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

And stand beside my father's door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

Over three kingdoms my father was King - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

when my father reprograms my mother - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

Fathering desire of fire to reach fire - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

The million living fathers of the War - Alice Meynell "A Father of Women"

Sell my father's feather bed - "Milking Pails"

All the aunts in my father's house - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

Heavy father of the world's silence - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The father of grief or the guest of eternal anguish - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

The Fathers are in dust - John Henry Newman "Relics of Saints"

My father's least favorite prophecy - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

My father takes a different angle - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

For the erring Absalom his father wept aloud - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

My father never needed a compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"

The tree my father planted - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "Song of the Choctaw Girl"

Father Neptune's only daughter - Josephine Pollard "A Very Handsome Mermaid"

The evidence of the Fathers - E.J. Pratt "Overheard in a Cove"

Killed my father to steal the name - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

My father's tools quarrying bread - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

Who pay their father's debts - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova

To prick the vein of a father - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

A descendant of Sisyphus on his father's side - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"

Did he blame Daedalus, his father? - Wendy A. Shaffer "Icarus"

The many failings of fathers and feathers - Wendy A. Shaffer "Icarus"

There is fire in our father's ashes - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

The blood of my father the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

The ocean sang in my father's hands - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"

Old stories etched on the lifeline of my father's palm - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"

The youthful world's grey fathers - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"

A father to my loneliness - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "To Hide a Goddess"

From the ghost-hills of your fathers - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"

Seeded me with a rock your father caught - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

Fathers of the ancient day - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"

Who miss their harsh fathers - Abe Louise Young "Who"


The forefathers of stone - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A foster-father to your memory - Thomas James "Epitaph on Companions Left Behind in the Northern Seas"


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