Potential Titles: Bird

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Reciting lists of all the varieties of bush and bird - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"

Birds that freed themselves from the cages of our bodies - Duane Ackerson "What If"

Dream of flying lift a marble bird - Leonie Adams "A Gull Goes Up"

Holding crushed bird skulls in your hands - Kim Addonizio "Here"

Because the birds, my brothers, have asked - Etel Adnan "Night"

Innocent souls turned carrion birds - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

As from the old nest birds escape - John Albee "Evolution"

Where the stone horses metamorphose into birds - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

A bird might have dreamt its shadow - Meena Alexander "Muse"

Summer birds no June shall hasten hither - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Birds spill from beneath her breasts - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Full-blown and full of birds - Julia Alvarez "What Was It That I Wanted?"

Your citadel fed to the birds - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"

Startling the wood bird's madrigal - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"

Even before the bird cracked its brittle tough shell - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"

The birds are busy choosing trees - Julie Babcock "Preparedness"

The tribes of birds collected - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

Wild birds chant their dirges - Benjamin West Ball "The Forgotten"

The breeze hushing the birds - Mary Jo Bang "Before the Absolute Perfection Dying Achieves"

Snow birds and sooty herons caught - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

Fled into the air like frightened birds - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

Into the shrill dirge of birds - Lou Barrett "Death of a Son Before His Time"

Make our moons birds of prey - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

A single bird would rip it like silk - Ellen Bass "Any Common Destination"

A bird of bones and air - Robin Becker "Hummingbird"

Finding birds in the building with no roof - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"

The birds that sing themselves the moon - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"

Swift as the questing birds - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Catch morsels of food from birds flying overhead - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

A wild bird riding the wind and screaming bitterly - Arna Bontemps "Homing"

The history of a million birds - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"

While birds refused to sing - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"

The last bird's belated flight - Charlotte Bronte "Stanzas"

Birds beneath its shelter gathered - Emily Bronte "Death"

A place the birds made for someone else - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

Birds soft singing through the shade - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"

Where Birds from Fowlers nets are free - John Bunyan "Upon the Lark and the Fowler"

The birds' unnumbered choir - Caledfryn "The Cuckoo" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Hollow as the bones of birds - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"

A poem the birds will understand - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"

A bird flashed by as if mistaken - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"

Bring lost birds inside the house - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

Where people breathed out white birds - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

Which birds will you pull into orbit - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

And the birds had bread to eat - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

The birds of passage take their flight - C. Cole "The Robin"

Scare the small birds from the corn - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Choral Song of Illyrian Peasants"

A bird's way of singing - Hilda Conkling "First Songs: XII"

Hope's bright birds sing through them - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Leading up Insects and Birds to Parnassus - "The Council of Dogs"

The bird's long, lethal strain - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

Like foolish birds to painted grapes - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"

Fair scenery for song birds - Nathalia Crane "The Three-Cornered Lot"

Three little birds in a row sat musing - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

The captive bird that struggles to be free - Rev. Thomas Dale "The Anniversary"

The spilled ink of birds in a hurry - Jim Daniels "Boxing Toward the Promised Land"

And share my bread with birds - W.H. Davies "In May"

The white cascade that's both a bird and star - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"

Soft pathways for the praying bird - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

Three and thirty birds there stood - Walter de la Mare "Melmillo"

From the brittle little throat of a clay bird - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"

With the freedom of migrating birds - Diane DeCillis "The Grammar of Memory"

Birds of foreign tongue - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"

Sweet birds in ignorant cadence - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity IV"

The meteor of birds departing - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIII: The Oriole"

Dear birds of the tangled ceiling above - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"

Who wouldn't talk to the birds - Chris Dombrowski "Poem with Several Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do"

And quiet between bird calls - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Assembled in light of earliest birds - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Tropical birds and rare perfumes - Julia C.R. Dorr "Maud and Madge"

One bird sang the song I chose - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

Some birds will dare to sing - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Can name the birds that sing - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"

Birds in the stations of girlhood - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

Let no bird escape her snare - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Of birds casting spells - Elaine Equi "Reset"

Outstretched to the birds which weren't there - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 6"

A masked bird fishing in a golden stream - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

Entice the shy birds of delight - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"

The voices of the mad wild birds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

A box for the keeping of birds - Sandy Florian "House"

Another thrush behind that glad bird sings - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

A nest of black hair for the birds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"

A murmur of birds in a fiberglass net - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen E"

These heavenward birds to snare - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

As if only hunting birds moved - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"

A little bird before the mystery of glass - Robert Frost "The Hill Wife"

Ice and snow, dead weeds and unmated birds - Robert Frost "Wind and Window Flower"

Throwing kisses to the birds - Rose Fyleman "Vision"

Thrill the air like birds - Zona Gale "To a Poet"

To make a girl a castaway bird - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

Birds that fell asleep in his pockets - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

Each note the free birds fling - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"

The deep empty longing in the voice of birds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson

When birds are silent and oxen drowse - Rosa Gilbert "Song [The silent bird is hid in the boughs]"

Beautiful birds nest inside your mind - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Who gently places fallen baby birds back - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"

A bird suddenly stunned by the glass - Aracelis Girmay "Second Estrangement"

For the birds to break their silence - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"

Summer with a thousand birds - Louis Golding "For Now Comes Summer"

Such song as no birds achieve - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

No reason for feral birds - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

Birds in the berry bushes and briars - Theodora Goss "My Garden"

Free-born bird with echo babbling after - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

A pale bird, circling you with air - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"

A bird with no name at all - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"

The ritual sacrifice of round birds - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

The language which the birds employed - Hafiz "The Divan XV" (translated by H. Bicknell)

The bird of sacred gardens - Hafiz "The Divan XXXIX" (translated by H. Bicknell)

The birds and their chatter overwhelm me - Han-Shan "[The birds and their chatter]" transl. by Burton Watson

A fox of fire, a bird of stone - Joy Harjo "Desire's Dog"

Be brave, my child, the birds will sing again - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Birds Will Sing Again"

The slow movement of a hunting bird - Robert Hass "...White of Forgetfulness, White of Safety"

Where we have held the loose feathers of a fallen bird - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

To its covert glides the silent bird - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

Play and sing to Birds alone - Oliver Herford "The Wakeful Princess"

When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"

Surrounded by dirt birds - Bob Hicok "No Stones"

Night descending like a tired bird - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

When the birds go north again - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"

Wildest bird in our hickory swamp - Conrad Hilberry "Vein and Muscle"

Everlasting pipe and flute of wind and sea and bird - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

But the birds aren't ready to be oxen again - Carlie Hoffman "Panorama After Foreclosure"

All the winter bird dare try - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"

Wheeling galaxies of birds - Aldous Huxley "Italy"

The birds sing faint broken songs - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"

Speaking the song of birds - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"

The outspread plumes of the quetzal bird - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Scars on the chests of the birds - John James "Sonata"

A new bird better than a phoenix - Jennifer Jean "Inspiration Point"

Can a bird ever tire of having wings? - Robinson Jeffers "Wonder and Joy"

the tiny sounds of faraway birds - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

That humble birds to silent flight - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

The tail feathers of soot-mottled birds - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

The music of his clouds, his winds, his birds - Fredoon Kabraji "The Lovers"

The red bird inside my chest - Donika Kelly "Red Bird"

To the birds and waters only known - Henry Kendall "After Many Years"

Let the birds build nests out of your lies - Vandana Khanna "Fable"

A crown, a wound, a consequence of birds - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Under the birds' low song-swept radiances - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

How long has that bird been watching you? - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

A flock of birds that can make no song - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

May the bird rest on its branch - Danusha Lameris "Let Rain Be Rain"

The pensive throats of the shy birds - Archibald Lampman "Freedom"

The voices of returning birds - Archibald Lampman "Good Speech"

The wild bird's untutored melodies - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

Glint like birds behind the rain - Joseph Lease "True Faith"

My song forsakes me like the birds - Frances Ledwidge "In September"

Strife of winds and birds - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

The small ventures of birds and beasts - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"

All the birds in hiding - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"

And spirits behind those birds of flame - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"

Immortal brooks and magic birds - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Flew away to line the nests of birds - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"

Of red birds and constellations tucked behind clouds - P. H. Low "Ode"

Rose and gold arabesqued with the song of birds - Amy Lowell "Azure and Gold"

Farther apart than bird and fish - Lu Yun "For Ku Yen-hsien, a Poem for Him to Give to His Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

The birds on the teeth of the reef - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"

A lost bird riding out the night - Jeannette Marks "Dragon"

As the nest enfolds the bird - Jeannette Marks "The Nest"

The golden birds became a fire - John Masefield "Fragments"

A seed that fell from a bird's flight - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

A bird with stones in its beak - Shara McCallum "The News"

Windows carrying a black bird's wing - Shane McCrae "From the Ground It Must Have Looked Like Its Wings Were Not a Part of It"

Newborn birds and their erratic songs - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"

Southward fled the arctic bird - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"

Shivering birds beneath the eaves - Claude McKay "After the Winter"

In the misery of a fallen bird's nest - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

The many intricate songs of birds flying in Central Park - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"

The gold outline the bird left behind - Joanne Merriam "No Words"

Fog with the voices of birds - W.S. Merwin "Syllables"

Fold them like the wings of frightened birds - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Frightened birds shot cruelly down - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Evil birds of evil feather - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"

Shadows of birds crossing a road - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"

Colloquium of dark birds and mirrors - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"

The bird of fortune will land on you - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Who admired strange birds - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"

In the combined livery of bird plus snake - Marianne Moore "Like a Bulrush"

A bird made of bone, solemn and dead - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

Sailing like soulful birds - Walter Dean Myers "Willie Arnold, 30, Alto Sax Player"

because the birds were fed with nothingness - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

The birds consume the night - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

A single feather of an iron bird - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Filling them with holes and birds - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell

The birds of the alphabet attack - Pablo Neruda "Lost Letters" transl. by Alastair Reid

Purple bird of the first abyss - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Four numbers like four lucky birds - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid

With a shout of birds in the rain - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The gray cry of sea birds - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

To see seven birds of the same color - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly

By the time we became birds - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

That matched the song of stream and bird - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

That survive in the warble of birds - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

The thousand small birds of January - Naomi Shihab Nye "Postscript"

The birds chant loud their matins - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"

The wind-bird with its white eyes - Mary Oliver "White-eyes"

No one owns the hearts of birds - Mary Oliver "Winter and the Nuthatch"

Nor asks the wild bird's requiem - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

A memory of where the bird should be - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"

Each bird a tiny fist of time - Kiki Petrosino "Elegy"

Between us a ravel of birds - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"

Birds cawing over the broken earth - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"

Love among the songs of birds - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "[Will you go with me]"

Babbling brooks and birds in chorus - Plesheef "Spring" transl. by John Pollen

The thunder and the singing of the birds - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"

The bird of Juno stooping - Alexander Pope "Lines by a Person of Quality"

Birds of air dip bright wings in my tide - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"

Except the scream of some wild bird - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"

A great white bird on sunlit wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"

As a scythe of birds swings over the road - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"

Warbling birds of melancholy wing - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"

Morning is a bird set for flight - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 3: Lullaby"

Sonatas from the throats of master birds - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"

A line that birds cannot see - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

The birds are back in the reeds again - Lloyd Roberts " On the Marshes"

A bird at the time of hunting - Rumi "The Moon-Soul and the Sea" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Only birds might confidently walk upon - Kay Ryan "Thin"

Feed the birds of my failures - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait"

Hold the birds in a looking-glass - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"

Birds disappeared by rain - Nicole Sealey "the first person who will live to be one hundred and fifty years old has already been born"

The wings and hollow bones of a damp bird - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The bird called tomorrow - Frank Sherlock "It's Time"

The word a rose breathes to a bird - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"

And maps the birds in his head - Jacob Shores-Arguello "Workshop"

When every bird was on his wing - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

That birds nest in the crooks of clouds - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Every bird calls your name - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"

Birds crash into a windowed sky - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"

This bird once shook the forest - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

The drunken birds in the belladonna - Frank Stanford "My Day Is Over"

Remembrance of awakened birds - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Fairest songs sung to caged birds - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Gave their last blood to birds - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"

Only the song of a secret bird - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Weigh down the wings of airborn birds - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

Birds' chirping along the hidden acacia - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Sorrowing birds in Autumn went - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

The birds crying from shriveled gardens - Keith Taylor "Statue of the Blind Girl"

what the birds know is the way home - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

there are birds making treaties with the sky - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

Surpassing Eden's most enchanting bird - T.J. Terrington "Birth of the First-Born"

Crying for the bird of the snow - Edward Thomas "Snow"

The bird that threatens music - TC Tolbert "What I really want to know is how rough, Melissa,"

Birds will chant my requiem wild - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

Birds at rest on the water - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson

By the breath of of a bird - Louis Untermeyer "Revelation"

Hold secret a bird's flowering - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"

You a bird in oblique flight - Rosemarie Waldrop "A Valentine That Can't Be Sent"

And the bird becomes a thought - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"

Birds that wander from a softer land - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"

No sweet-voiced bird will sing - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"

For the bird was Truth - William Carlos Williams "The Fool's Song"

Two blue-grey birds chasing a third - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"

The wind coming that stills birds - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Filled a basket with crashing birds - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"

The dawn in which one bird believes - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"

What bird is singing in the dawn - Humbert Wolfe "Cleopatra"

Dawns that scatter like startled birds - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"

Featherless birds in the ruined trees - Charles Wright "Remembering Bergamo Alto"

Proud bird of the shore - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"

White birds on the foam - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"

Birds the color of history - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Constructing cyberpunk nests from anti-bird spikes - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"


Made mirrors of the pond and birdbath - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"


Squeeze the air from her birdbone body - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"


In a bird-cage of lightning - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."


Birdhouse hanging from a make-believe branch - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Imagination"


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His signature, a perfect birdswoop of wings - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"


A bird-wing desire - Dao Strom "Instrument"


The storm that douse the firebird - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"


A carrion flock of homing-birds - John Masefield "A Creed"


Sea-birds that cry discords - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"

The stasis of a seabird's dive - Paige Quinones "Elegy Ending on the Ocean Floor"

Hear seabirds cackle like ghosts - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton


Snowbirds spread their crystallized wings - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"


Sunbirds exalting the break of dawn - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"


Sweet chant of the wild-birds' morning hymn - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"


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