Potential Titles: Whip
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somethingdarkerThe whip marks of your history - Elmaz Abinader "Coming Clean"
Brain thin whips to beat you down - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
whips the dull season high - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
Stark before a whip of weather - Arna Bontemps "Blight"
Answer the crack of the whip - John Philip Bourke "The Gospel of Shirk"
His mouth the lash of whips - Countee Cullen "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)"
Sped along by whips with gilded handles - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
Your virtues over me like whips - Max Eastman "A Praiseful Complaint"
Fell before the whip and steel - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"
Whipping Quijote's sword overhead - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
Or shelter from the whip of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Forgotten news whipped against parking meters - Mary Karr "The New Year"
At least you'll be spared the whip - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
As raised by demons' knotted whips - George Martin "The Drunkard"
To avoid the insult of a whip - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
As a whip fit for my Treason - Theodore Maynard "Punishment"
Fierce as whips or as needles - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"
No whip of cracking thunder - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson
Like roses made of whips and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With its long whip of lemon blossoms - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The lashing, silver whips of the rain - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"
Ceaseless winds that eddy down to whip the iron street - Lloyd Roberts "The Winter Harvest"
Of bell and whip and horse's tail - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Cool scarves of air whipping past - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"
Play crack-the-whip in the abyss - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
Blowing along a dust-whipped road - Fred L. Joiner "Sikasso Snow"
Taking a horsewhip to a swarm of bees - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
One lone-wind-whipped weed - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
Silence of whiplashed weather - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner
Whip-stitched into the lining of that question - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Behind the wind-whipped branches - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
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Brain thin whips to beat you down - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
whips the dull season high - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
Stark before a whip of weather - Arna Bontemps "Blight"
Answer the crack of the whip - John Philip Bourke "The Gospel of Shirk"
His mouth the lash of whips - Countee Cullen "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)"
Sped along by whips with gilded handles - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
Your virtues over me like whips - Max Eastman "A Praiseful Complaint"
Fell before the whip and steel - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"
Whipping Quijote's sword overhead - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
Or shelter from the whip of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Forgotten news whipped against parking meters - Mary Karr "The New Year"
At least you'll be spared the whip - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
As raised by demons' knotted whips - George Martin "The Drunkard"
To avoid the insult of a whip - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
As a whip fit for my Treason - Theodore Maynard "Punishment"
Fierce as whips or as needles - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"
No whip of cracking thunder - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson
Like roses made of whips and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With its long whip of lemon blossoms - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The lashing, silver whips of the rain - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"
Ceaseless winds that eddy down to whip the iron street - Lloyd Roberts "The Winter Harvest"
Of bell and whip and horse's tail - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Cool scarves of air whipping past - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"
Play crack-the-whip in the abyss - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
Blowing along a dust-whipped road - Fred L. Joiner "Sikasso Snow"
Taking a horsewhip to a swarm of bees - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
One lone-wind-whipped weed - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
Silence of whiplashed weather - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner
Whip-stitched into the lining of that question - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Behind the wind-whipped branches - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
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