Potential Titles: Want
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somethingdarkerWanted to abduct nothing more valuable than our dreams - Duane Ackerson "Porch Lights"
I do not want what Mary Shelley made - Mary Alexandra Agner "Book of the Dead Woman"
A story of want and sound - Alise Alousi "Imitation Spring"
Never wanted to be a lava angel - Zaina Alsous "Being-Nothingness"
Wanted love more than history - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"
Who want a wound to enter by - Walter Conrad Arensberg "To the Necrophile"
But heart and soul shall be wanting - Faith Baldwin "The Last Demand"
Only ever wanted the red sky to turn blue - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"
In favor of believing whatever one wants reality to be - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
Their own secret inflection of want - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"
Off to where a dog wants to go - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"
Not wanting to be an occasion of temptation - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
Wanting to trace your laughter - Richard Blanco "Three Unendings"
He wants roads diverging - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Wants doves returning at dusk - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Wants an eternal river - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Wants a river that makes its own way - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
The tenderness you wanted here - Robert Bly "Prayer for My Father"
Have wanted clean rain - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
When your body wants to sing but can't - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
I want to breathe in the Tide of cleanliness - Andrea Carter Brown "On Reading Allen Ginsberg's 'Homework'"
Spiked with all the dirty talk a snail could want - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"
What you don't want, fling away - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
I wanted to run from terror - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"
I want to spacewalk in time with you - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Black Want to red Rebellion calls - Ralph Chaplin "Blood and Wine"
Choke the gaping mouth of want - R.S. Chilton "Lines on Seeing My Sister Fill a Little Beggar-Boy's Basket with Cold Victuals"
The fear in what she wanted - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Want and famine raged around - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
For want of tenderness - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
The darling of Want and Woe - Arthur S. Cripps "Undines of Diverse Days"
Fail to stem the rising tide of want - Julia [Julia Day] "A Call" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]
By want made dissolute and rude - Julia [Julia Day] "A Call" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]
Only wanted to hear the sea - Meg Day "Elegy in Translation"
Who wants to go back to zero again? - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"
The past wants to be remembered - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
But no one wants the emptiness of space - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Small pinching wants supplied by Charity - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Wanted to live full tilt with risk - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"
The witched hours of want - Natalie Diaz "From the Desire Field"
Wanting to be lost again - Chelsea Dingman "Snow Fugue"
Want the perpetuity of circles - Gregory Djanikian "Children's Hospital, Emergency Room"
The hour the world wants most from me - Chris Dombrowski "Whittling"
I do not want to give sorrow - Jeanne d'Orge "The Interpreter (Sixteen Years)"
We want no tyrant over us - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"
I wouldn't want to embarrass a stranger - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
I'd wanted a muse, but had created a monster - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
When we don't want nuance to get in the way - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"
Some light that wants to watch me survive - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Autopainophile"
When the cinema wants to be real - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
Gnawed by corruption, wanting rest - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Have every pettier want defied - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Didn't want history to exist - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
No one wanted to admit me a necessity - Nikita Gill "Echidna to Typhon"
Wanting to know what enough felt like - Carmen Gimenez "All Money Is a Matter of Belief"
I die of want upon a bed of gold - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
The woman who wanted us to be perfect - Theodora Goss "The Stepsister's Tale"
Until want and need cannot be separated - Rae Gouirand "In Lieu of Questions"
Don't want to know your shadow - Rae Gouirand "Inheritance"
That will tarnish from want - Rae Gouirand "Persimmon"
Sky to keep me from want - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"
And want consorts with crime - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"
Turn need into want - Terrance Hayes "Elegant Tongue"
Sorrow and want shall never touch thee - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Beneath other fields of want - Faylita Hicks "The Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage"
If going back was what we wanted - Conrad Hilberry "Finding the Way"
If you want to mourn the dust - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"
Who wanted to kneel down and pray without ceasing - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"
We want the moon, but we shall get no more - A.E. Housman "Last Poems IX"
Bitter for want of weeping - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"
Forget the want and trouble - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Room made of metal and want - fahima ife "more poverty interwoven with equal happiness"
A petrochemical addict in want of an antagonist - fahima ife "shamanism"
The way blue might want for green - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"
The curve of wanting - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
No safe engineering for this much want - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"
To want to patch every heart - Jordan Jace "I Want"
Wanted to grasp the flame's heat - John James "Materia"
When we want to feel our shadows - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"
A woeful want of pristine fire - James Weldon Johnson "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day"
That wants the whole vast world - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
When the air becomes crowded with want - Saeed Jones "Kudzu"
To want no more than what we had - Mary Karr "County Fair"
Relinquishes self and will and want - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: Christ Human"
Wanting a ball is not wanting a prince - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Full of want and marrow - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Werewolf"
An empty bowl careful with my wanting - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"
Right where time wants - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"
I want to cloak my skin in a stolen night - Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa "The Wicked Lady"
All of us want our share of light - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
But no one wants the emptiness of space - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Nowhere the dead want to go - Ted Kooser "Old Cemetery"
Nor wanted a spell to draw me from this life apart - Ivan Kozloff "Kiéff" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
His want overtook his will - Maxine Kumin "The Burners, the Buriers"
Wanted to be revealed by some visible sign - Edgar Kunz "Day Moon"
I want to be the doctor of your mind - Ada Limon "Little Morning"
When the witches ask what you want - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"
Everyone wants to own the birds - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
Left with want in the soles of his shoes - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
A supper that wants a grace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
That lay over the purple leaves of want - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Fevered Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall
Nothing worse than wanting out - Randall Mann "Home"
Climbing for stars and wanting the moon - Jeannette Marks "Little Miss Hilly"
Rubbing dream on dream for want of something real - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Involved in wanting more - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
Because there is no shame in wanting - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
All tooth and whispered want - Joanne Merriam "Cherries for Buttons"
Speak to the same want of nature's koan - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"
The illusions want more - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"
Wanted to die of anger - Jenny Molberg "Echolocation"
I only want love to hold me for ransom - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
To step on what wants me drowned - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
The twin ghosts of hollowness and want - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"
Before I woke up wanting - Marilyn Nelson "Texas Protection"
Only wanted to set something free - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"
not wanting to work with ashes - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"
Wanting the oracle to tell me first - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"
I want this wind to consume me - Margaret Noodin "Northern Lights" transl. by the author
Jealous of our want - D. Nurkse "Rooms by the Night or Hour"
Wants to march the trail of flattened rye grass - Naomi Shihab Nye "Boy and Egg"
That frog song wanting nothing but echo - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
because it wanted a change of canvas - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
Wanted to see through your light - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
The star I thought I wanted - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
All I want is boundless love - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
If the rich want payment - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"
Wanting it too much invites haste - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
Wants to astonish the water - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Sign?"
Steal sadness of not wanting - Grace Paley "Anti-Love Poem"
The enigma of the wanted - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"
For whatever we might want time to do - G.E. Patterson "The Keeping Room"
Left to wander Dante's black forest - Cynthia Pelayo "Afterglow"
The space between wanting and having - Carl Phillips "Instructions Prior"
Want to have the last sound - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"
Seconds wasted count as wanting - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
A potion for whatever you don't want - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
I don't want to drown in ocean math - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
The difference between panic and want - Paige Quinones "View from a Guest House in Calabasas"
Practice the want of nothing - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
My dominion in want of excess - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
Not one of the galaxy wanted address - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The oil drip of wasted want - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"
Who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Who want no finer disasterous fruit - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"
Wanted to be the wind - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)
Wanted to paper the walls with butterflies - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
How the ocean steals anything it wants - Mark Rudolph "Threnody at Sea"
Bred by want's unalterable demands - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"
Wandering unsatisfied between hells - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"
No want of conscience hold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLI"
Belonging where I am wanted - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Forget anything you ever wanted - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"
Heed approaching winter's want - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Butterfly in a School Room"
At least today I want to - Aaron Smith "Still Life with Antidepressants"
The land the wall wants to eat - Brandon Som "Resistors"
In proportion to our wants - William Somerville "The Chase"
Tell Zeal it wants devotion - Anonymous "The Soul's Errand"
Plucking a flower I did not want - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"
Choices that we didn't make and never wanted - A.E. Stallings "Whethering"
Wanted to be a sieve - Dao Strom "Instrument"
Even pebbles want to break - Mary Szybist "Withdrawal"
To all true wants Time's ear is deaf - Henry David Thoreau "Independence"
Shed plums and nuts into the lap of want - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
Decided he wanted to juggle two flames - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Wanting the eggs to be our miracle - Kristen Tracy "Having It?"
Always wanted the tiger - Kristen Tracy "Presto"
Who wants the silver stripped from your tongue - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"
Leaking one's soul for want of an angel - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
For they wanted to grow up wise - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
Wanted a day with cracks - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"
Wants no trophies here of strife - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
I want no memory of this place - Andrea Werblin "Barrio with Sketchy Detail"
Unless you want the wrath of their light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
Wicked wants and wishes to explain - "The Whore"
Smiling at fate, when you want to cry - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
This wedge of want - C. K. Williams "The Clause"
Didn't want ordinary existence - C. K. Williams "Scale: II"
And one slips into wanting nothing more - Charles Wright "In Praise of What Is Missing"
Wanting falls around me - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"
Wind wants to make me correct something - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
Everyone wants out of the spider's stomach - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
The dead do what they want - Kevin Young "Mantle"
A few kilowatts of your wanting - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"
Valorous deeds, fathomless debt, or unwanted magazine subscriptions - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
Spectral and unwanted as I am - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"
Under the light of that unwanted dawn - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
Hexes, unwanted gifts, and othersuch hexes - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart" [sic]
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I do not want what Mary Shelley made - Mary Alexandra Agner "Book of the Dead Woman"
A story of want and sound - Alise Alousi "Imitation Spring"
Never wanted to be a lava angel - Zaina Alsous "Being-Nothingness"
Wanted love more than history - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"
Who want a wound to enter by - Walter Conrad Arensberg "To the Necrophile"
But heart and soul shall be wanting - Faith Baldwin "The Last Demand"
Only ever wanted the red sky to turn blue - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"
In favor of believing whatever one wants reality to be - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
Their own secret inflection of want - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"
Off to where a dog wants to go - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"
Not wanting to be an occasion of temptation - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
Wanting to trace your laughter - Richard Blanco "Three Unendings"
He wants roads diverging - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Wants doves returning at dusk - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Wants an eternal river - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Wants a river that makes its own way - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
The tenderness you wanted here - Robert Bly "Prayer for My Father"
Have wanted clean rain - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
When your body wants to sing but can't - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
I want to breathe in the Tide of cleanliness - Andrea Carter Brown "On Reading Allen Ginsberg's 'Homework'"
Spiked with all the dirty talk a snail could want - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"
What you don't want, fling away - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
I wanted to run from terror - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"
I want to spacewalk in time with you - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Black Want to red Rebellion calls - Ralph Chaplin "Blood and Wine"
Choke the gaping mouth of want - R.S. Chilton "Lines on Seeing My Sister Fill a Little Beggar-Boy's Basket with Cold Victuals"
The fear in what she wanted - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Want and famine raged around - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
For want of tenderness - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
The darling of Want and Woe - Arthur S. Cripps "Undines of Diverse Days"
Fail to stem the rising tide of want - Julia [Julia Day] "A Call" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]
By want made dissolute and rude - Julia [Julia Day] "A Call" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]
Only wanted to hear the sea - Meg Day "Elegy in Translation"
Who wants to go back to zero again? - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"
The past wants to be remembered - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
But no one wants the emptiness of space - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Small pinching wants supplied by Charity - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Wanted to live full tilt with risk - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"
The witched hours of want - Natalie Diaz "From the Desire Field"
Wanting to be lost again - Chelsea Dingman "Snow Fugue"
Want the perpetuity of circles - Gregory Djanikian "Children's Hospital, Emergency Room"
The hour the world wants most from me - Chris Dombrowski "Whittling"
I do not want to give sorrow - Jeanne d'Orge "The Interpreter (Sixteen Years)"
We want no tyrant over us - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"
I wouldn't want to embarrass a stranger - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
I'd wanted a muse, but had created a monster - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
When we don't want nuance to get in the way - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"
Some light that wants to watch me survive - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Autopainophile"
When the cinema wants to be real - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
Gnawed by corruption, wanting rest - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Have every pettier want defied - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Didn't want history to exist - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
No one wanted to admit me a necessity - Nikita Gill "Echidna to Typhon"
Wanting to know what enough felt like - Carmen Gimenez "All Money Is a Matter of Belief"
I die of want upon a bed of gold - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
The woman who wanted us to be perfect - Theodora Goss "The Stepsister's Tale"
Until want and need cannot be separated - Rae Gouirand "In Lieu of Questions"
Don't want to know your shadow - Rae Gouirand "Inheritance"
That will tarnish from want - Rae Gouirand "Persimmon"
Sky to keep me from want - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"
And want consorts with crime - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"
Turn need into want - Terrance Hayes "Elegant Tongue"
Sorrow and want shall never touch thee - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Beneath other fields of want - Faylita Hicks "The Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage"
If going back was what we wanted - Conrad Hilberry "Finding the Way"
If you want to mourn the dust - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"
Who wanted to kneel down and pray without ceasing - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"
We want the moon, but we shall get no more - A.E. Housman "Last Poems IX"
Bitter for want of weeping - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"
Forget the want and trouble - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Room made of metal and want - fahima ife "more poverty interwoven with equal happiness"
A petrochemical addict in want of an antagonist - fahima ife "shamanism"
The way blue might want for green - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"
The curve of wanting - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
No safe engineering for this much want - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"
To want to patch every heart - Jordan Jace "I Want"
Wanted to grasp the flame's heat - John James "Materia"
When we want to feel our shadows - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"
A woeful want of pristine fire - James Weldon Johnson "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day"
That wants the whole vast world - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
When the air becomes crowded with want - Saeed Jones "Kudzu"
To want no more than what we had - Mary Karr "County Fair"
Relinquishes self and will and want - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: Christ Human"
Wanting a ball is not wanting a prince - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Full of want and marrow - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Werewolf"
An empty bowl careful with my wanting - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"
Right where time wants - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"
I want to cloak my skin in a stolen night - Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa "The Wicked Lady"
All of us want our share of light - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
But no one wants the emptiness of space - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Nowhere the dead want to go - Ted Kooser "Old Cemetery"
Nor wanted a spell to draw me from this life apart - Ivan Kozloff "Kiéff" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
His want overtook his will - Maxine Kumin "The Burners, the Buriers"
Wanted to be revealed by some visible sign - Edgar Kunz "Day Moon"
I want to be the doctor of your mind - Ada Limon "Little Morning"
When the witches ask what you want - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"
Everyone wants to own the birds - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
Left with want in the soles of his shoes - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
A supper that wants a grace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
That lay over the purple leaves of want - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Fevered Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall
Nothing worse than wanting out - Randall Mann "Home"
Climbing for stars and wanting the moon - Jeannette Marks "Little Miss Hilly"
Rubbing dream on dream for want of something real - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Involved in wanting more - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
Because there is no shame in wanting - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
All tooth and whispered want - Joanne Merriam "Cherries for Buttons"
Speak to the same want of nature's koan - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"
The illusions want more - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"
Wanted to die of anger - Jenny Molberg "Echolocation"
I only want love to hold me for ransom - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
To step on what wants me drowned - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
The twin ghosts of hollowness and want - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"
Before I woke up wanting - Marilyn Nelson "Texas Protection"
Only wanted to set something free - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"
not wanting to work with ashes - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"
Wanting the oracle to tell me first - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"
I want this wind to consume me - Margaret Noodin "Northern Lights" transl. by the author
Jealous of our want - D. Nurkse "Rooms by the Night or Hour"
Wants to march the trail of flattened rye grass - Naomi Shihab Nye "Boy and Egg"
That frog song wanting nothing but echo - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
because it wanted a change of canvas - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
Wanted to see through your light - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
The star I thought I wanted - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
All I want is boundless love - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
If the rich want payment - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"
Wanting it too much invites haste - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
Wants to astonish the water - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Sign?"
Steal sadness of not wanting - Grace Paley "Anti-Love Poem"
The enigma of the wanted - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"
For whatever we might want time to do - G.E. Patterson "The Keeping Room"
Left to wander Dante's black forest - Cynthia Pelayo "Afterglow"
The space between wanting and having - Carl Phillips "Instructions Prior"
Want to have the last sound - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"
Seconds wasted count as wanting - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
A potion for whatever you don't want - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
I don't want to drown in ocean math - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
The difference between panic and want - Paige Quinones "View from a Guest House in Calabasas"
Practice the want of nothing - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
My dominion in want of excess - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
Not one of the galaxy wanted address - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The oil drip of wasted want - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"
Who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Who want no finer disasterous fruit - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"
Wanted to be the wind - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)
Wanted to paper the walls with butterflies - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
How the ocean steals anything it wants - Mark Rudolph "Threnody at Sea"
Bred by want's unalterable demands - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"
Wandering unsatisfied between hells - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"
No want of conscience hold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLI"
Belonging where I am wanted - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Forget anything you ever wanted - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"
Heed approaching winter's want - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Butterfly in a School Room"
At least today I want to - Aaron Smith "Still Life with Antidepressants"
The land the wall wants to eat - Brandon Som "Resistors"
In proportion to our wants - William Somerville "The Chase"
Tell Zeal it wants devotion - Anonymous "The Soul's Errand"
Plucking a flower I did not want - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"
Choices that we didn't make and never wanted - A.E. Stallings "Whethering"
Wanted to be a sieve - Dao Strom "Instrument"
Even pebbles want to break - Mary Szybist "Withdrawal"
To all true wants Time's ear is deaf - Henry David Thoreau "Independence"
Shed plums and nuts into the lap of want - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
Decided he wanted to juggle two flames - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Wanting the eggs to be our miracle - Kristen Tracy "Having It?"
Always wanted the tiger - Kristen Tracy "Presto"
Who wants the silver stripped from your tongue - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"
Leaking one's soul for want of an angel - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
For they wanted to grow up wise - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
Wanted a day with cracks - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"
Wants no trophies here of strife - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
I want no memory of this place - Andrea Werblin "Barrio with Sketchy Detail"
Unless you want the wrath of their light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
Wicked wants and wishes to explain - "The Whore"
Smiling at fate, when you want to cry - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
This wedge of want - C. K. Williams "The Clause"
Didn't want ordinary existence - C. K. Williams "Scale: II"
And one slips into wanting nothing more - Charles Wright "In Praise of What Is Missing"
Wanting falls around me - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"
Wind wants to make me correct something - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
Everyone wants out of the spider's stomach - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
The dead do what they want - Kevin Young "Mantle"
A few kilowatts of your wanting - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"
Valorous deeds, fathomless debt, or unwanted magazine subscriptions - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
Spectral and unwanted as I am - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"
Under the light of that unwanted dawn - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
Hexes, unwanted gifts, and othersuch hexes - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart" [sic]
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