Potential Titles: Write

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Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


In handwriting made heavy - Dante Di Stefano "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)"

Insects of my fateful handwriting - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

Who know my left-handed handwriting - Danni Quintos "Quintos"

Breath-prints on a window, handwriting in snow - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]


The sun clocks in to overwrite the night - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"


Rewrite.


Unwritten.


Believe in the small writ large, writ impossible - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"

On things of earth is by a pointed diamond writ - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

A Book by seraphs writ - William Cowper "To Mary Unwin"

Not writ in water nor in mist - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A scroll full writ with all life's acts - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The cipher that's writ upon our cell - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

Writ over a graph of consciousness - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Americus, Book I [excerpt]"

The purple promise of the spring is writ in violets - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]

Writ in burnished rows of steel - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"

Upon the Book of Time the Autocrat has writ - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

And, having writ, moves on - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Writ in some dull foreboding star - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

When dark skies are writ with crimson prophecies - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

What lessons have you writ in stone - Joaquin Miller "Mother Egypt"

Though writ in fiery characters - "The Misanthrope"

The speech of prophets writ - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"

Forever writ in water of bright tears - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Writ upon that crazy neon north - Andre F. Peltier "Northern Lights"

Thy flower is writ of grief - Theodore H. Rand "Beauty"

Read the message writ across Earth's face - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

Writ in the traveller's chart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Passions writ in hieroglyphs of gold - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"

Whose name was writ in water - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"


Writing cursive lines on shifting slate - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Write your story into mine - Atticus "Magic in Words"

Nor their black legend write - Charles Baudelaire "Sonnet of Autumn" transl. not credited

We write on stony water - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Writes her scattered dream - Robert Bridges "Angel Spirits of Sleep"

Read you the writing of his soul - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

I can write similes of serenity & poetic sermons - Regie Cabico "Morning After the Election"

Writes a letter to his death - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

I write sad poems with swaying characters - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

No one is writing our history - Leonard Cohen "You Live Like a God"

Write my name with fire - Jim Daniels "Self-portrait with Cigarette"

Write yourself hopeful - Dante Di Stefano "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)"

On heaven's scroll with burning letters write - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"

Which is news fit to write home about? - Rita Dove "Trayvon, Redux"

Writing your answer in dirt and sweat - Anthony Euwer "Builders of Highways"

Writing constitutions for water - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen g"

Write letters to the disappeared - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

Write his name nine times in blood ink - Rober Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"

Writes itself in sheets across my veins - Suzi F. Garcia "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood (with some help from Ahmad)"

In the letter you didn't write - Suzanne Gardinier "Stammering translated sonnet in which the poet sends the rains of Havana to her love in New York"

Staying is a kind of writing - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

The only role you get to write yourself - Theodora Goss "Snow White Learns Witchcraft"

And then you get to write your own story - Theodora Goss "Snow White Learns Witchcraft"

Have been writing dismal testimony - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"

Write the letters of my name in the sand - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"

On falling waters writes the text - Gerard Manley Hopkins "It was a hard thing to undo this knot"

Watch the old roots write - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

I used to write rainfall into existence - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

Racing the writing brush - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson

The moon writes her legends in light - Amy Lowell "Loon Point"

Write their name upon its dome - Douglas Malloch "When the Geese Come North"

The thought writes itself like yeast - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

To write dark letters on dark pages - Mark McMorris "The Thought of the World"

Writes the melancholy scrawl of wreckage - George Meredith "The Last Contention"

Mixed to write them saint or snake - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

allegory writing me into a fold of stillness - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"

In writing the river's tremor - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Writing the earth with stars - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Writes letters with water and stone - Pablo Neruda "To the Traveler" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Write not thy thoughts on snow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Write it with the pen of history - Thomas O'Hagan "Langemarck"

write a family tree in chalk - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

What now I feel in writing this adieu - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"

We write it on parchments of time evermore - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Refugees are dialectical beings"

To write their return to nothing from nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"

Write in blood or don't bother - Sina Queyras "The Applicant"

Write these pages with heart's blood - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

Whose writings will ever be held in esteem - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

To write our names in history - Sonia Sanchez "Poem"

I know what the rainbow writes - Carl Sandburg "Prairie"

Still he writes an encore - Cintia Santana "apocalyptic lyric"

Ere Fate writes Finis to the tome - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

By spirits taught to write - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVI"

until you are the one writing the song - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

The night writing in its diary - Charles Simic "Factory"

Scar tissue's calligraphy writes on his body - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"

I write on the face of earthquakes - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Write on these spindrift pages - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

Writing names across funereal woods and windows - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"

Write poems about dead ends - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"

Like that fierce writing on the wall - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

New peoples write--in blood--their name - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Write unsigned love letters - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"


Tap-dancing in the hell writers make for themselves - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"


Their one-sided written constitution - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

New epics written with each shift in space - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

The codex written at the boundary of time - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Their histories written in code - Alise Alousi "Detroit 1998, a reminiscence"

By Time's slow finger written in the dust - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

The blood written record of deeds - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"

To-day is written in curling smoke - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"

Written on the smooth gray stone - Louise Morey Bowman "The Witch"

What wicked things are written on the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

The host of names written on water - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

Written on the evening skies - Arthur Colton "The Thrush"

A freshly written eviction note - CAConrad "Pluto.1"

Written of brightness and light - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)

The gray gull flaps the written stones - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Written with stars on a chalkboard sky - Diane DeCillis "View from a Room, NYC"

No laws written to guard you - Carol Ann Duffy "White Writing"

A voice written in light - Rebecca Dunham "Field Note, 2011"

Written on the iron leaf - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Written by the prophet old - George Blackstone Field "The Rhyme of the Rolling Stone"

Written over ancient oyster beds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten III"

Written on a river's path - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

Whose name was written in the sand - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"

Scarred with the chronicles written by flame - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"

I've written my name in vermilion so you won't forget - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

Whose griefs were written up in gold - Archibald Lampman "The Moon-Path"

Written on the doorstep in lava - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

Language of decay written in clockwork - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Never saw god written in neon lights - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

In the lyrics of songs written by androids - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

From written rune and stricken reed - Don Marquis "Selves"

A fairy-tale written in panic - Harry Martinson "Aniara 91" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Roads written in sleep - W.S. Merwin "Long Afternoon Light"

Lines rehearsed though never written - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"

Written in letters of living light - Mary E. Nealy "The Captain of '63 to His Men" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Written in fox blood - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Written on the arriving tide - Margaret Noodin "Red Sky over Superior" transl. by the author

Legends would be written about us in the language of cranes - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

Had written it with the flash of stars - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Written on a grain of rice by someone at a folding table - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

Chaos written plain in fossil glyphs - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"

Their deeds were written with the stars - Virna Sheard "The Young Knights"

Written on the heart - Taras Shevchenko "A Poem of Exile" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Read, written and erased - Jaime Siles "God in the Library"

Foretold by signs written in the swirling leaves - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

In his eternal books of fate are written - Spenser "Death" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

Their epitaph is written in my heart - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"

my dark surrealism written in slang - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

Misfortune and misery were written against us - "XVIII: Nican Ompehua Teponazcuicatl | Here Begin Songs for the Teponaztli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Letters written in the air - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"


The headlines wrote themselves - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"

Wrote their epitaph in pale wood flowers - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Forget all the letters we wrote - Leonard Cohen "The Golden Gate"

Wrote the lore in Eden sung - Benjamin Copeland "Little Ruth"

Wrote my wish upon a kite - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"

That wrote within the law of gratitude - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Wrote the past in characters of rock and fire - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

A crime the prisons wrote for him - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

The lightning wrote an unknown language - James Weldon Johnson "The Crucifixion"

We recite the songs our makers wrote - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

Wrote for it an homage and not a lament - Fatima Malik "Critique of My Thighs"

Wrote all the wrong names - Farid Matuk "For a Daughter/No Address"

I ghost wrote a letter - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"

Cole Porter never wrote a song about us - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

Wrote on my heart with stylus of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

I wrote your name within my heart - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"

The letters which Endymion wrote - Oscar Wilde "On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters"


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