Potential Titles: Own

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We're all on our own sinking islands - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"

The white cliffs of our own native land - "Abroad"

Owls to sing their own dark songs - Duane Ackerson "What If"

A house of my own making - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I came home]"

Covered with his own words - Etel Adnan "Night"

Our decision to sneak out to find our own sky - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

My own deep unknown, the human mystery - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"

We grow our own religion - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

Forced to craft my own light, my own hope - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Family mirrors haunt their own reflections - Elizabeth Alexander "Ladders"

Make my own time, counterfeit the minutes - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

My own man in the eyes of the law - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

An impediment of your own creation - Alise Alousi "Poetry"

Too young to own the flame - "The Alter'd Lay"

Struggling to navigate my own way - Julia Alvarez "Passing On"

A minotaur of your own making - Julia Alvarez "Touching Bottom"

Your own broken and soldered together heart - Mouna Ammar "Permission"

A call that requires you to hear your own whisper - Mouna Ammar "What it's Like"

Branches from her own heart crept - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Speaks from its own sky - Raymond Antrobus "I Want the Confidence of"

In his own darkness - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel and the woman"

Won't see his own shadow hit bottom - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Red light district"

Pre-registered for her own eventual absence - Rae Armantrout "Hoard"

Slaves to our own false truths - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Bound to its own annihilation - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Awkward/Black/Object"

Rising, luminous, from its own bones - Rebecca Baggett "Chestnut"

And your own hastiness to blame - George A. Baker "A Reformer"

Your own tragic edge of a rug - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

A surgeon to my own demise - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

Their own secret inflection of want - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"

Time holding its own drape - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

And scarce believes the altered voice her own - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Caught in her own fatal snare - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Time with its own logic - Catherine Barnett "2020"

To rescue time from its own worst foe - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Gave image its own reflection - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Can hear his own answered call - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"

as his own yellow sign - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

Mistook the maid for his own Psyche - "The Belles of Williamsburg"

But never owns their sway - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

Wants a river that makes its own way - Robert Bly "Men and Women"

Our own altered histories and future visions - Bruce Boston "Dream People"

The poisonous elements in our own composition - Bruce Boston "Parchment People"

Its own unaddressed question - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"

And each his own apostle - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

The night shakes out its own lament - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

I needed to fire an arrow of my damn own - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"

Running from the freedom of my own blood - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"

Forced to look outside their own heartbreak - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"

Of a world breaking its own heart - Mahogany L. Browne "The 19th Amendment & My Mama"

Fulfil their own depletions - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The right of your own griefs - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Of his own soul afraid - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Heaven's own shining floor - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

The moments of thine own eternity - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Looking at your own fingerprints - Joseph Bruchac "Prints"

Into their own constituency of promise - Anthony Butts "Mist and Fog"

In a house of earth's own granite - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

Who own the mantle of the sky - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

A corpse, your own or someone else's - Scott Cairns "Embalming"

Regal as Juno's own - C.S. Calverley "Companion: A Tale of a Grandfather"

Her own proof of immortality - Tommaso Campanella "XXVI. Conscience" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Nowhere except its own elsewhere - Julie Carr "A Fourteen-Line Poem on Heteronymic"

That held its own attention - Tina Chang "Astroturf"

Between war and my own luck - Tina Chang "Birth"

Search the borders for my own disappearance - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"

Sew the night onto your own coat - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

Who are becoming their own storms - Chen Chen "When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities"

Your own incandescent lives - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

will become her own ghost - Lucille Clifton "incantation"

Leave my own buried roots - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"

The ringing of my own true blade - Mary E. Coleridge "A Huguenot"

That our own hands fashion - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"

Why do I shrink to own the bitter truth? - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Quits his own vine's securing shade - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

By cultivating his own woe - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

own a debt from every man - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"

Who fight in quarrels not their own - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

I never look at my own face in the mirror - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

Turned each to his own self - H.D. "Circe"

And drown in his own reflection - Laura Da' "Bad Wolf"

Silence carries its own venom - Jim Daniels "Boxing Toward the Promised Land"

Its own venom and many false antidotes - Jim Daniels "Boxing Toward the Promised Land"

But the body has its own narrative - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

The live man meeting his own ghost - Coningsby Dawson "The Hill-Tower"

Rounded by my own gravity - Meg Day "If You're Staying, I'll Stay Too"

And own their boldest fictions may be true - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Made me a changeling to my own - Walter de la Mare "Bewitched"

Narcissus orbiting around his own fracture point - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

Pursuing my own version of the truth - Toi Derricotte "Burial Sites [excerpt]"

Found the dark on my own - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"

Transformed by their own long burning - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"

Secure against its own - Emily Dickinson "The Soul unto itself (683)"

You drawn your own breath - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"

Courage makes his own chair - Dom "Number Cruncher: Here's a Crowd"

Shocked by their own power - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Every effort botched in its own wrong way - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"

Infidels of our own high mysteries - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Sweet potatoes root for their own harvest - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"

Ringing their own silent bells - Stephen Dunn "From the Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs"

Map of thine own fortitude - Helen Parry Eden "Bournemouth to Poole"

The Red Sea of mine own passion - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"

Hold my own hand - Natalie Eilbert "Crescent Moons"

And danced with my own vanishing - Claudia Emerson "House-Sitting"

Strong Hades could not keep his own - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"

Bring your own horizon - Elaine Equi "Where You Been?"

In her own cold isolation - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"

The dark has its own blindfold - Tarfia Faizullah "Aubade with Sage and Lemon"

Built for my own mind - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

The sounds of their own grief - Tarfia Faizullah "You Ask Why Write About It Again"

Etched on your own palm - Tarfia Faizullah "Your Own Palm"

With readings and sonar echoes of our own - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"

The exile in its own autumnal house - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"

Even your footprints are not your own - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"

At the mercy of my own bravery - Camonghne Felix "Thank God I Can't Drive"

We became our own vaccine - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Their own infamy creating - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"

A bride of my own lamentation - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

In her own solitary direction - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

scheduled to announce their own identities - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"

The mind's own fire beneath the cool skin - John Freeman "The Body"

And the sun by its own power seems to be undone - Robert Frost "An Encounter"

Carry our own map to disaster - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Every Human Is a Black Box"

Empty as his own expectations - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Engineering by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"

With atrocity's own smoke - James Galvin "Fire Season"

The radiance of my own anarchy - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"

A kinder way to say my own name - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"

Pouring bubbles into your own bloodbath - Andrea Gibson "Your Life"

Fleeing in fear from their own shadows - Charles Gibson "Sonnets IX"

Feathered from its own wing - Michelle Gil-Montero "First Forty Days"

Made from your own silver-tipped wishes - Nikita Gill "The Moon Writes a Love Letter to Artemis"

Drowning inside your own bones - Nikita Gill "A Secret from Me to You"

Taste my own memories - Nikita Gill "Sorcery"

At the edge of your own abyss - Nikita Gill "Young Zeus: The Crossroads"

The fire of my own heart - Louise Gluck "The Red Poppy"

Passageway that are their own harvest - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"

A long memory from my own name - Rae Gouirand "Inheritance"

Boast their own unsaid things - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"

A bitter brew mixed with my own hand - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"

The doctrine of our own breath - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"

That will always be her own to hold - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

Its own inheritance and time - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"

Even our own souls were silent - Linda Gregerson "At the Window"

A fish of my own spirit - Linda Gregg "Whole and Without Blessing"

A speck, like kindling for its own distant fire - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Holding my own absence in faith - Rachel Eliza Griffiths "Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees"

The glory of our own molten territories - Wendy Guerra "Winter Sports" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

With your own starry cheek - Laurie Ann Guerrero "Blessing"

Warped by its own bad passions - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Stumbled down into your own shadow - Joy Harjo "The Returning"

Impenetrable as its own beauty - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"

Your own path of hard turns - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

A country by my own heart walled - F.W. Harvey "Since I Have Loved"

A thin moon of my own dismay - Robert Hass "The Apple Trees at Olema"

To guard their own Thermopylae - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"

Like their own volcano's fire - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

Rising in the glow of Love's own fire - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"

An enemy of their own desires - Faylita Hicks "The Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage"

Our eyes enact their own seasons - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"

Find its own sad rhymes - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

Coax my own sustenance from the earth - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

Absorbed by your own concentration - Jane Hirshfield "My Skeleton"

The first language is not our own - Linda Hogan "Map"

Play hypocrite to my own heart - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Peace"

The light of our own dreaming - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"

Remind me of my own declining sun - J. Hunt, Jr. "Evening"

Owns a paradise of glass - Aldous Huxley "Private Property"

With the moon's own sadness - Jean Ingelow "Divided"

Revealed my own unrest - Jean Ingelow "The Four Bridges"

Opened our eyes when his own were closed - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Spoke our own gospels like mad messiahs - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"

Spinning his eyes in their own pirouette - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

The winter's own release - Helen Hunt Jackson "January"

Tired of its own mysteries - Allison Eir Jenks "Black Magic"

Grow at the pace of our own hearts - Allison Eir Jenks "Exit"

inside its own electric equilibrium - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"

forked tongue out tasting his own aimless circles - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

Gave his motherboard its own mirror - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Even our own stories feel vacant - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"

But who owns any certainty - Joe Jimenez "Broken Retablo for Being on My Back, My Feet Bare & in the Air"

To jeopardize my own supremacy - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

For my own soul overboiling - Kimberly Johnson "Farrow"

A prince whom princes own - Lionel Johnson "The Roman Stage"

kissed by my own flame - Camisha L. Jones "Wrecking Ball"

Each step farther into my own silhouette - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"

The burned light of his own country - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Through the darkness with his own becoming light - June Jordan "July 4, 1974"

Bodies moving to their own influences - Allison Joseph "Soul Train"

A garden inside my own ribs aflourish - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Blind to your own eye's intricate machine - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Our own name on the line - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"

A silken thread of my own hand's weaving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"

A bride burning like her own planet - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

You forget the music your own voice makes - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

My own constellation of pathetic disasters - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Rewrites Myth"

Wise in his own conceit - Joyce Kilmer "The Morning Meditations of Frere Hyacinthus"

Mists of his own ashes - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

The prosecutor and defense of my own heart - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

The dust-mote mottled skies of our own minds - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

Once our genes were our own - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Excess Baggage"

Become my own myth - Maxine Kumin "Male Privilege"

Its own pattern twisted into the branches - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

Leave you to the miracle of your own misfortune - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

This room made warm by our own resources - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

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

No poem survives its own translation - Yoon Ha Lee "Stella Rosetta"

Delivered by its own desolation - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

Despairing of my own energy - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Who will own our names - M.L. Liebler "Late Autumn Fire"

Your own bones will hold you up - Ada Limon "The Commute"

The ghostly cofferdam of my own mind - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Held tight with our own explosives - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Buoyed by your own coalition with the air - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

Rotated and spun in our own isolations - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Do not hold my own escape against me - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Becoming her own wild whisper - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"

Grasped my eager heart in my own talons - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

Phantoms having their own funerals - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

A tending to my own geography - Casandra Lopez "The Hottest June"

My own book of your last hours - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- Hers"

Drumming the Old One's own tattoo - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Baffled with its own omniscience - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

When life was its own spur - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Night has its own quiet stepping - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"

Articles of their own impermanence - Thomas Lynch "Lessons from Berkeley"

Refreshed my own parched season - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"

We chose evolution in our own timeline - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"

Forge a desert with my own arms - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

Worships his own desire - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Mock our own blood on the thorns - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Crushed under its own dream - Dawn Lundy Martin "Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity"

Grapes fall under their own command - Herbert Woodward Martin "Standing Beneath Grapes"

To release our own trapped music - David Tomas Martinez "Trap Music"

During their own windy migrations - Adrian Matejka "October Sonnet"

My past was its own face - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Our own great ranges of feelings - Heather McHugh "A Physics"

Your own broken heart held tightly in your fist - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

In my own skin in this infinity mirror - Lynn Melnick "Poem Entering the Apple Valley Target"

Digging his own grave with every breath - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"

Bearing burdens not our own - Dante Micheaux "Center Ring"

Corrupted by their own illusions - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

In a foreign country in my own head - Jane Miller "Life's Ironies"

A museum of her own imagination - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

Each of us pleased with his own art - "The Monk and His Pet Cat" transl. by Kuno Meyer

And through sweet Nature's ruin trace her own - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

All prophetic of our own decay - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Took into body my own self - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"

So much exposure to my own bereavement - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"

A lone dark seed with its own white soul - David Mook "Milkweed"

No safe haven I could ever own - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Samaria Rice, Tamir's Mother"

The stars had language of their own - Dugald Moore "Julia"

Never seen our own face - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'

Cuts her own self from the clay - Angel Nafis "King of Kreations"

Trifling with all who own her sway - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Undergoing her own kind of catharsis - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Eurydice's own choice - Francis Neilson "Music in Hades"

Let the circus admire our own dexterity - Pablo Neruda "Elegy: XIV" transl. by Ilan Stavans

Ordains its own unwinding - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid

Whose own gravity consumes them - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"

Our own small sins grown in the dark - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"

Standard of his own chronology - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

My own bouts of pan-pipe sickness - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

Gave their secrets to his own heart's keeping - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"

Build his own stairs to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

As at the gaze of his own cold Medusa - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

Prays in no language but his own - Naomi Shihab Nye "Half-and-Half"

The scent of its own full shape - Naomi Shihab Nye "Words When We Need Them"

Carnivores in their own essential food chain - Achy Obejas "Dancing in Paradise"

His own eternal night - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Portrait of My Father as a Pianist"

Oak trees with their own history of migration - Jose Olivarez "You Must Be Present"

Your own vanishing song - Mary Oliver "The Loon on Oak-Head Pond"

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

Left to her own abandon - January Gill O'Neil "For Ella"

Over the waters of our own darkness - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

Your own personalized orange revolution - Jena Osman "To the Reader"

By her own soul possessed - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

From my own back in scarlet shreds - Wilfred Owen "A Terre"

Foreseen his own eclipse - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata 8"

To struggle and claim his own - Arthur Caswell Parker "My Race Shall Live Anew"

Worth only its own weight - Linda Pastan "The Burglary"

The understudy to her own life - Linda Pastan "Dido and Aeneas: After Purcell"

Sing the song of its own execution - Linda Pastan "Late September Smile"

In its own winding purgatory - Linda Pastan "Marking Time"

Attempts to escape from its own ashes - Phan Nhien Hao "May" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Each contains its own dream - Carl Phillips "Electric"

To each its own urgency - Carl Phillips "If You Will, I Will"

Building your own refuge - Emilio Porta

White as god's own ribs - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"

The echoes of his own discords - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Two Worlds"

The first hint of my own violence - Sina Queyras "Years"

Around her own stacks of dynamite - Sina Queyras "Years"

Earth owns no smiles in absence - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

More substantial than their own joy - Charles Rafferty "Blackbirds"

By the night of her own grief - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"

But rather truth for love's own sake - Theodore H. Rand "Conduct"

In the soul's own hot equators - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

The bride of my own sad light - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"

The scorpion tail of her voice speared its own pain - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

Leads her to her own blue sphere - Sam C. Reid, Jr. "Summer's Night"

Out of the fullness of my own reality - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

My own voice frozen in the yard - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"

On her own terms in cold, in silence - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Displaced from their own habitat - Adrienne Rich "Octobrish"

Thought at its own axis may be whorled - Lola Ridge "Appulse"

His own eyeful against the other's eyeful - Lola Ridge "Emma Goldman"

Tearing at their own roots - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"

Have known only my own shallows - Lola Ridge "Submerged"

Whose glory is our own - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"

Drain their own kisses as they drink - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"

No more than they own flowers - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Resplendent in our own bad planning - Valencia Robin "There"

Till even my own dream dies - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Using the Past's own export vessels - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

With faith as honest as your own - Alice Wellington Rollins "Doubt"

Brought in by the winds of our own stormy reluctance - Levi Romero "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"

Now her own sister in stone - Isaac Rosenberg "Spring, 1916"

You could buy your own name - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

Growls at nothing but his own heartbeat - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"

Penning his own requiem - Ira Sadoff "Biographical Sketch"

A stranger to my own ruin - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"

Looks with strange horror on her own abyss - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

Or less than your own - May Sarton "Best Friend"

Beside my own mystery - May Sarton "A Handful of Thyme"

From truth's own glass of fire - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

Who fills the future with your own blood - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"

The acid of its own long dying - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"

Perfects its own malign intent - Ann K. Schwader "Cordyceps zombii"

Hostage to her own event horizon - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

In my own custom of gathering breath - Teresa J. Scollon "Summer Solstice in Black River Falls"

May I for my own self song's truth reckon - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Nothing at all except Time which owns all things - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

The realm you built to your own grandeur - Alexandra Seidel "The City that Wasn't There"

Maybe all arrive in their own time - Diane Seuss "Gertrude Stein"

Silence has its own roar - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

Drawn by your own sweet skill - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

With nature's own hand painted - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"

Despise not your own - Taras Shevchenko "To the Dead" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

The one thing they cannot make their own - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

A word hunting its own meaning - Joyce Sidman "He"

The rhythm of your own heart's disquiet - Joyce Sidman "How to Find a Poem"

Out through the door of my own shadow - Joyce Sidman "Song of Bravery"

Nothing on our own - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Winter Bees"

Eons from even our own moon - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"

Champions of their own dreams - Gary Soto "Australia Backwoods"

Before we severed our own wings - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

Ungrateful creatures with their own lives - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"

To sink the ashes of their own experience - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Our own motions in a freedom of air - Wallace Stevens "The Rock I: Seventy Years Later"

The labrinthine ways of my own mind - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

Of your own nervous blood - Dao Strom "Instrument"

Their own river of beating hearts - Alison Swan "True Story"

Burnt to lava by your heart's own flame - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"

The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

With the garland from my own throat - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"

Any wrongs are products of your own mind - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]

a door that cannot find its own name - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

Only my own spirit's pride - Sara Teasdale "Alone"

In its own fourfold embrace - Francis Thompson "New Year's Chimes"

To call your distant soul their own - Henry David Thoreau "The Atlantides"

looking for an orbit to call its own - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Gears towards its own sun - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"

To sun not its own but felt as its own - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"

A book turning its own bright pages - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

My own host and guest and ghost - Iris Tree "[I feel so much alone]"

An army fierce upon its own destruction - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."

Exiles in their own homeland - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

Be you in your own sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"

And snapped in my own fires - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"

Until it becomes my own dim map - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"

Reflecting my own stranger's face in the window - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"

Rocks in the sea of its own primordial past - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Universe We Are"

Swallows his own name - Emily van Kley "Upper Peninsula"

The emblems of our own delight - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires I" transl. by Alma Strettell

Surviving their own dead selves - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell

The provenance of our own materiality - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"

Not easy to believe in your own dream - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

Danger and glory claimed him as their own - Hon. Robert J. Walker "Napoleon's Tomb" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Dazzled by my own delight - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

Where she reflects upon her own reflection - Arthur Waugh "The Beautiful Swan"

The tiny orbs of our own truth - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Arcs"

Truth has its own tough memory - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Holes"

Marked him with his own black stamp - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"

Its own procedures of mourning - C. K. Williams "Elegy for an Artist: 2. Wept"

Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Sorrow is my own yard - William Carlos Williams "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"

Through your very own little reckoning - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"

Fourteen faithful moons to call your own - Allan Wolf "The Moons of Neptune: Roses Are Red, Neptune is Blue"

You've got to find Eurydice on your own - Charles Wright "No Direction Home"

Weary from our own regard - Jay Wright "Sasa"

A transient sigh for sorrows of his own - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Checkpoints of your own making - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

A ghost beyond her own reach - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

In the reflections of my own glass - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"

One of their own eliminated by the math - Art Zilleruelo "Arrangements"


Though breath was all I owned - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"

Owned wealth in a measure supreme - Eleanor Farjeon "The Unspoken Word"

Against a spiral of owned objects - Ra Malika Imhotep "Hurstonian Mythos 0.2: Custodial Spirits"

Grown in gardens never owned - Carmen Tafolla "Marked"


Their owners who also disintegrate to dust - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

As owner of the lightning and the sun - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

By no owner's hand disturbed - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)


Trace ownership in treaties and deeds - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

Who will contest the ownership of fire? - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Lips admit their ownership - Maxine Kumin "After Love"


Owning all their vastness - Naomi Shihab Nye "For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh"

Owning every foot on which we stand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"


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