Potential Titles: Swim/Swam/Swum
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Swimming up the sweet air to reach you - Kim Addonizio "Mermaid Song"
Learned to swim in the caustic water - Elizabeth Alexander "Haircut"
A jellyfish swam in a tropical sea - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"
Those stars were letters swimming at creation's edge - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Swimming against the undertow of infinity - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Like swimming through bricks - Simon Armitage "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"
Swim in zones of windless air - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Celebrate the poison we're all swimming in - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"
Who swam to sovereign rule through seas of blood - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Learning to swim in my tears - Ana Bozicevic "About a Fish"
The fish swam like brilliant magicians toward the window - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"
Wrinkled suns in awful blackness swim - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
That through the darkness swim - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Swam through its branches - Hilda Conkling "The Apple-Jelly-Fish-Tree"
Each destination swims lithe as otters - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Consults the GPS"
Jests that swim the depths of truth - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
Swam in its polluted river - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
To swim in the rain and remember - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Swim between the visible and the hidden - Laura Foley "What Stillness"
Swimming on a young October sky - Marsden Hartley "Fishmonger"
Swim the midnight flux of dream - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"
Otters swam in the lagoon - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Picking apart the physics of swimming - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"
Swam in spools of dark - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Swim in eddying whirls of passion - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"
The sunset swims in her eyes - D.H. Lawrence "Study"
All these sharks swimming in the bathtub - Ada Limon "Fin"
Swim the violent current down Broadway - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
A promise means swimming against the current - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
When Water itself goes for a swim - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"
The full moon comes swimming from her cave - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Fitted complete to swim the ocean - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
Swims to me on tears - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Without teaching you how to swim - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Swim again in a sea of doubt - E. Nesbit "The Island"
As the dolphin swam the derelict canal - Idra Novey "Nearly"
Swam through sorrow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Mediterranean Blue"
Swimming against the molten current - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
A shark is swimming in my house - Abdurehim Parach "On the Boat" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Swimming through the coldest depths of space - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Golden-winged through the glory swim - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Swimming in midnights of coal mines - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"
Larger planets swim the liquid zone - George Santayana "Mont Brevent"
Born swimmer in the data stream - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"
And swim, shimmering, into the dream beyond - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"
Swim backwards in circles of blood - Frank Stanford "Cotton You Lose in the Field"
And swam the flood of air - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Swim the winding flame - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"
While dolphins swam in an ocean of orchestra - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"
Swim in milk and honey till we drown - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
To swim in the middle of love - Javier Zamora "Vows"
Between freedom and unfreedom swans swim - Zheng Min "Naked Exposure #9: The Wings of Swans" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Wearing a swimsuit on Thursday - Aimee Le "That Girl"
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Learned to swim in the caustic water - Elizabeth Alexander "Haircut"
A jellyfish swam in a tropical sea - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"
Those stars were letters swimming at creation's edge - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Swimming against the undertow of infinity - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Like swimming through bricks - Simon Armitage "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"
Swim in zones of windless air - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Celebrate the poison we're all swimming in - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"
Who swam to sovereign rule through seas of blood - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Learning to swim in my tears - Ana Bozicevic "About a Fish"
The fish swam like brilliant magicians toward the window - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"
Wrinkled suns in awful blackness swim - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
That through the darkness swim - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Swam through its branches - Hilda Conkling "The Apple-Jelly-Fish-Tree"
Each destination swims lithe as otters - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Consults the GPS"
Jests that swim the depths of truth - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
Swam in its polluted river - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
To swim in the rain and remember - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Swim between the visible and the hidden - Laura Foley "What Stillness"
Swimming on a young October sky - Marsden Hartley "Fishmonger"
Swim the midnight flux of dream - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"
Otters swam in the lagoon - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Picking apart the physics of swimming - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"
Swam in spools of dark - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Swim in eddying whirls of passion - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"
The sunset swims in her eyes - D.H. Lawrence "Study"
All these sharks swimming in the bathtub - Ada Limon "Fin"
Swim the violent current down Broadway - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
A promise means swimming against the current - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
When Water itself goes for a swim - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"
The full moon comes swimming from her cave - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Fitted complete to swim the ocean - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
Swims to me on tears - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Without teaching you how to swim - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Swim again in a sea of doubt - E. Nesbit "The Island"
As the dolphin swam the derelict canal - Idra Novey "Nearly"
Swam through sorrow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Mediterranean Blue"
Swimming against the molten current - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
A shark is swimming in my house - Abdurehim Parach "On the Boat" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Swimming through the coldest depths of space - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Golden-winged through the glory swim - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Swimming in midnights of coal mines - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"
Larger planets swim the liquid zone - George Santayana "Mont Brevent"
Born swimmer in the data stream - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"
And swim, shimmering, into the dream beyond - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"
Swim backwards in circles of blood - Frank Stanford "Cotton You Lose in the Field"
And swam the flood of air - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Swim the winding flame - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"
While dolphins swam in an ocean of orchestra - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"
Swim in milk and honey till we drown - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
To swim in the middle of love - Javier Zamora "Vows"
Between freedom and unfreedom swans swim - Zheng Min "Naked Exposure #9: The Wings of Swans" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Wearing a swimsuit on Thursday - Aimee Le "That Girl"
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