Potential Titles: Toward/Towards

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Pulling my roots toward nourishment - Elmaz Abinader "Ash Wednesday"

Steer toward the placid stars - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Toward a defined but indeterminate place - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

Hexagons find their way toward curved forms - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"

The Minotaur weaving toward its meal - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Towards another incomplete hope - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Bent towards the warmth of the scorching sun - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجار"

Ascending toward the ending sky - Cristoso Apache "Gahe Dzil/Mountain Spirits"

Towards the cave where you must descend - Margaret Atwood "Variation on the Word Sleep"

Toward some wide conclusion moves - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"

Toward the throne of Saturn sailed - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Forward toward the missing beginning - Mary Jo Bang "Where"

peace towards our tomorrow - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"

All the music that drives us toward mystery - Rosebud Ben-Oni "So They Say-- They Finally Nailed-- the Proton's Size-- & Hope-- Dies--"

Light towards the dark secret heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Stretch but a claw toward the dream-voiced pipes - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Toward the chaos he brought - Joshua Bennett "Praise Song for the Table in the Cafeteria Where All the Black Boys Sat Together During a Block, Laughing too Loudly"

An innate impulse toward wholeness - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Consciousness Self-Learns"

Directed toward greater coherence - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

Like a wolf looking toward home - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"

When mind extends toward sky - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

Rise towards the scattered stars - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"

Wanders one step toward the stars - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Inverted toward grace - Jari Bradley "Unruly"

Bubbled toward utopia - Elizabeth Bradfield "Polar Explorer Capt. John Cleves Symmes (1820)"

Walk towards a faint murmur of water - Russell Brakefield "Myth"

Towards a mastery of disappearance and creation - Russell Brakefield "Shutter, Lag"

We lean towards letters that do not bend - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"

The fish swam like brilliant magicians toward the window - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"

Toward the sweet scent of oncoming storm - Sue Budin "Reclamation"

Toward the promise of her face - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Like stars rushing toward destruction - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

Each stride like a mathematics toward desire - Anthony Butts "Thin Places"

Our faces toward the arctic sky - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

The oxen pulling me toward dawn - Tina Chang "Birth"

Moved toward extinction - Tina Chang "Lion"

And neither breaks toward justice - Cortney Lamar Charleston "It's Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends--"

Ricocheting towards each other - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]

Hurl myself faster toward extinction - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

Pilgrimage toward the obvious - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"

To dance in music toward the sea - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"

A different dance toward death - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"

Steadily traipsing toward dawn - Susan Comninos "Arctic Traveler"

All water flows toward loneliness - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"

With ordered urge toward life - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"

How it gestured toward our defiance - Meg Day "The Permanent Way"

Mirrors holding themselves toward the light - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"

Regret turned like a sunflower toward that scientific sun - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

The war I was born toward - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"

Like a bridge toward starlight - Cheryl Dumesnil "Love Song for the Drag Queen at Little Orphan Andy's"

Creeping toward an unseen mark - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Toward a brightness so blank - Heid E. Erdich "Mitochondrial Eve"

A list of starships decelerating toward us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"

the dark, dank alley the only path toward home - b ferguson "parkside & ocean"

Peering toward some stony land - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

No beacon toward his destinies - Arthur Davison Ficke "Poetry"

And winds and shadows fall toward the West - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Wander towards chaos and drop into hell - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"

Towards an unseen day - John Gould Fletcher "A Distant Song"

Ringing toward the stars - Ralph Fletcher "A Writing Kind of Day"

When we turn time toward sequence - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"

Toward some muscled music - T'ai Freedom Ford "black, brown, and beige (a movement in three parts): Movement One: Black"

Their impending ascension toward the unknown - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"

A jet pirouettes toward the airport - Sarah Freligh "In this Poem, We Will Not Glorify Sunrise"

Orphan gentling toward a dying time - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

driving towards her black and white demise - Gwynne Garfinkle "Dear Tom Cassidy's Daughter"

Bear them inch by inch toward death - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"

Rise toward the throne of the sky - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

I hunger up toward dreaming - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

Toward a heavier blue - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"

Comes toward us with both hands - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"

My whole trajectory's toward you - Marilyn Hacker "On Marriage"

Running towards a cracked sky - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: II. Two Horses"

Set the moth's tongue toward tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"

March toward battles red - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLIV"

Before accelerating toward the speed of light - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

Blaze toward western emptiness - Brenda Hillman "Some Kinds of Forever Visit You"

Turn west toward granite - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

Reaching out towards the opal stool - Carly Inghram "Praise Poem"

As a rose refolding toward evening - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"

South toward no one's harvest - Fred L. Joiner "Sikasso Snow"

Stretched always toward the furthest limit - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"

Toward that natural first absurdity - June Jordan "On a New Year's Eve"

Brambled path towards the forest's heart - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Toward a past swallowed by stone - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Who pushes you back toward the fire - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Reach toward star and cloud - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

Fall into the wind toward the first day - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

Great hands open towards the west - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Towards their own democratic end - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

The dark road toward their silence - Philip Levine "After the War"

Toward a horizon of pure blood - Philip Levine "Library Days"

The old voyage toward morning - Philip Levine "The Secret"

And bent toward the afternoon continuum - Ada Limon "Spring, 1989"

Turned toward some invisible turmoil - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

A path towards its well-defended heart - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Pulling you toward the ancient texts - Aditi Machado "then"

Toward some fantastic sun - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Materialist"

Toward shadows of Gethsemane - Naomi Long Madgett "If There Were Songs to Sing"

Toward the magenta shroud of its fate - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

Toward dawn a cold spell - Mao Wen-hsi "[I mustn't ask about him]" transl. by Burton Watson

Mist crawling toward violet mountains - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"

Toward the earliest gods - Sandra McPherson "Pregnancy"

The future is throttling towards us - Erika Meitner "Jackhammering Limestone"

Always falling toward each other - Joanne Merriam "Surface Properties"

Stretches equations toward zero or infinity - Claire Millikin "Shoes in Photographs"

Turn terroring towards the demon in your heart - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

Verses that flow toward the moon - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman

Toward the greenroom of John Wilkes Booth - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

Reaches toward undying truths - Marilyn Nelson "Studio"

Barking toward unknown days - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf

Toward that springtime without ashes - Pablo Neruda "Maternity" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Toward the spire of salt and solitude - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Towards the ancient scent of moss - Pablo Neruda "Ox" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Towards the unbearable infinity - Pablo Neruda "The Ship" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Pushing octopus and urchin toward the sun - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"

Treading toward a new morning - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

Counts the hours until it can turn toward the sun - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Pointing toward some distant Troy - Grace Nichols "Helen of the Gables"

Flung toward heaven's toppling rage - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath III. Thanksgiving"

Pointed toward my shore - Lorine Niedecker "My Life by Water"

Walked toward the zenith - Mark Nowak "...Again"

Casting ourselves toward ancient altars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"

Incursions toward the pomposity of ants - Frank O'Hara "To the Film Industry in Crisis"

body charmed, spell bent, toward progressing - Porsha Olayiwola "Twerk Villanelle"

Moving toward the inlets of the fingers - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

Walking toward you on this bridge of poems - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Speeding toward the grim unknown - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Insurance"

Singing on towards the ocean - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"

On the train running toward nothingness - Phan Nhien Hao "No Rain Today" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Walking toward the sound of water - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

Far away toward the setting sun - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "[Will you go with me]"

Sweeps away toward morning - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"

To sail towards the wildest of screams and never return - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

Float toward a tulip light - Sina Queyras "Tulips"

Slow journeying toward your destined goal - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Ages" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Drift towards a mystic isle - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"

Racing one another towards joy - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"

Had this tendency toward melody - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

Into the blank, toward the nothing - Paisley Rekdal "Once"

Toward some reef of Fate - Cale Young Rice "All's Well"

Turn toward the shadowy morn - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The beeches reaching towards the birches - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

Racing full toward the bright horizon - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"

Out of myself toward gratitude - Valencia Robin "Reset"

The expiation journey toward peace - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

Strives unguided towards indefinite ends - V. Sackville-West "To a Poet Whose Verses I Had Read"

A bridge redshifts toward oblivion - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Stretched a long periscope toward the multiplying horizons - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"

That has evolved toward wickedness - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

As the waves make towards the pebbled shore - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"

a question toward blood sweetened lips - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

The wind steering me toward my destiny - Desirae Simmons "What to Remember If I Lose My Way"

Of love tending toward catastrophe - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"

Telling me to go toward myself - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"

amble towards intention - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"

Toward separate songs - Patricia Smith "The End of a Marriage"

Toward rumored sun - Patricia Smith "Inconvenient"

And stumble toward the stars - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

Nudging towards the brinks - A.E. Stallings "Hangup"

The yearning of the blossom toward the fruit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

Of rushing toward smallness - Mary Szybist "In the Glare of the Garden"

Toward stark and solitary places - Genevieve Taggard "With Child"

Stretches its arms towards perfection - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 35"

Toward the last green barrier island - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"

Dancing through the grass toward home - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"

In its rusty evolution toward shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Shed"

The world spinning towards dusk - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Two Chairs Under an Apple Tree"

Gears towards its own sun - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"

We are all still running towards each other - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"

Toward some other sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"

Eyes forever cast toward Rome - Devin S. Turk "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars"

Heart hurtling toward its final career - Emily van Kley "Weight Training"

Toward Canaan's blue traced golden paths - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Toward that distance of eddying light - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Awake and turn toward the south - "VI: Otro Chalcayotl, Canto de Tetlepan Quetzanitzin | Another Chalco-Song, a Poem of Tetlepan Quetzanitzin" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Pulling history towards these feet - Divya Victor "Threshold"

Toward the wrong lights - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Beto, Sheep of Heaven"

Ache toward the tide - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Sea of Drowned Caves"

Molasses threads descending toward devotion - Ocean Vuong "Devotion"

Running toward a rusted horizon - Ocean Vuong "In Newport I Watch My Father Lay His Cheek to a Beached Dolphin's..."

The road toward rotting - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Toward the unquestionable dark - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

The lonely expedition toward the center of everything - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Toward the same shadows - John Hall Wheelock "Plaint"

Beyond the brick toward choked stars - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Toward the infinite summits of the night - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Toward me from that dead hillside - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

The pain scalding us toward each other - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"

Pulled by invisible strings toward light - Charles Wright "Anniversary II"

In their slow drift toward received form - Charles Wright "The Gospel According to Somebody Else"

Tends toward the condition of silence - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"

Reach out toward the margin's white hand - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

Riding a bicycle towards the ceiling - John Yau "Music from Childhood"

The weight of gravity toward that secret center - James F. Yockey "What If"

Toward the promise of night - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"

Drifting toward the opposite - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"

Dream toward a little calm - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"


Dared to scorn untoward chance - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

Cast out by the hand that scatters food untowards - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

With untoward avowal break the peace - Carmen Sylva "A Room"


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