Potential Titles: Say
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All we say is divided between combat and seduction - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
Say farewell to the spring - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "If You Forget Me" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
some say we came from nowhere - Alise Alousi "Burnished in Future Time"
And saying goodbye does not end anything - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
Makes the Moon say something new - Raymond Antrobus "Happy Birthday Moon"
Yesterday means I say goodbye - Fatimah Asghar "Kal"
The theory says it could always be worse - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory II"
Looking at a watch that says now - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"
Who called again to say what's ugly? - Ari Banias "No More Birds"
Conscripted to say what I shouldn't - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
never say the dreams were false - Elizabeth Bartlett "odyssey"
who say all colors are gray - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
Who says that childhood's woes are small - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Saying one name for a thousand years - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Preserve they say and mean repent - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
What you hear is not what I'm saying - Erika Jo Brown "Art"
And pray for the chance to say please - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"
Do you have the heart to say the truth? - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Deeper than saying goodbye - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"
Saying goodby at the innermost door - Leonard Cohen "Innermost Door"
Hoping the moon may say something - Hilda Conkling "Night Goes Rushing By"
What loons could be trying to say - Monica de la Torre "The Script"
The quiet of his arms saying goodbye - Nava EtShalom "Composition"
Of love let's have no more to say - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]
Who says I need a partner to dance? - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"
A kinder way to say my own name - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Say a prayer for the wind - Louise Gluck "Poem"
What the voice born of stillness might say - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"
Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Who's there, says the infinite beforeness - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
To say Yes to the holes where buttons go - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
When fire says remember - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
And what is the prophet of victory saying? - Maxim Gorky "The Song of the Storm-Finch" [Mother Earth v.1 no.1, March 1906] transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Say farewell to my pack of care - Edgar A. Guest "When Day Is Done"
May say nothing in shame of poets - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"
The stars have learned to say good-bye - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Never minds what the little notes say - "Her Own Way" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
For fear of what she might say - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
Gave me a new word to say for home - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
Hath pity more to say? - Lionel Johnson "A Burden of Easter Vigil"
All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
Say goodbye to disaster - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
The words my lute can never say - Frances Ledwidge "In September"
As they say in the language of that place - Philip Levine "Coming Close"
No darkness we can say was his - Philip Levine "The Search for Lorca's Shadow"
With my heart broken I come to say goodbye - Li Po "We Will Grow Old Together" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The earth saying language and vision are nothing - Sandra Lim "Cattiveria"
The first word I say is listen - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Heed not what the owls may say - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
Just uncouth to say so - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
A trap for what I don't say - Jamaal May "Mouth"
What water says as it plummets - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
Let's just say I hope - Marilyn Nelson "Safe Path Through Quicksand"
Answering something you couldn't say - Alice Notley "No world is intact"
Whose highest kindness was to say nothing - Miller Oberman "Taharah"
But don't dare say I went peacefully - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
let's say i have consumed more loss - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Who says the moon has no heart? - Po Chu'i "The Traveler's Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
As we don't say of the night - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"
The amen in the prayer you never say - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
Saying the same thing they said last night - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"
The border says stop to the wind - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
The blessing of what neither says aloud - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
Who can say that it will not burn again? - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
To say the forest is the sanctuary of ghosts - David St. John "Beeches"
As warm, we'll say, is the russet grey - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"
What the strings would say concerning my soul - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Never say that I was false - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CIX"
if i say this place belongs to me too - ire'ne lara silva "machetona"
my heart says trust - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"
my tracks say doubt - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"
Too blithe for song to say - Algernon Swinburne "First Footsteps"
If I had the tongues of angels, what would I say - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Say not that our hearts are cold - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIII. The Return"
Under the room of what we say - Jean Valentine "At the Conference on Women in the Academy"
You dare to say with perjured lips - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
A light says why - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Till the clock says stop - Jacqueline Waters "Ready for My Statement?"
A name only the brave can say - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"
Did you say my soul mattered? - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
Tracing gray skin around the unsayable - Brenda Hillman "The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice"
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All we say is divided between combat and seduction - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
Say farewell to the spring - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "If You Forget Me" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
some say we came from nowhere - Alise Alousi "Burnished in Future Time"
And saying goodbye does not end anything - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
Makes the Moon say something new - Raymond Antrobus "Happy Birthday Moon"
Yesterday means I say goodbye - Fatimah Asghar "Kal"
The theory says it could always be worse - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory II"
Looking at a watch that says now - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"
Who called again to say what's ugly? - Ari Banias "No More Birds"
Conscripted to say what I shouldn't - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
never say the dreams were false - Elizabeth Bartlett "odyssey"
who say all colors are gray - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
Who says that childhood's woes are small - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Saying one name for a thousand years - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Preserve they say and mean repent - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
What you hear is not what I'm saying - Erika Jo Brown "Art"
And pray for the chance to say please - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"
Do you have the heart to say the truth? - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Deeper than saying goodbye - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"
Saying goodby at the innermost door - Leonard Cohen "Innermost Door"
Hoping the moon may say something - Hilda Conkling "Night Goes Rushing By"
What loons could be trying to say - Monica de la Torre "The Script"
The quiet of his arms saying goodbye - Nava EtShalom "Composition"
Of love let's have no more to say - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]
Who says I need a partner to dance? - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"
A kinder way to say my own name - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Say a prayer for the wind - Louise Gluck "Poem"
What the voice born of stillness might say - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"
Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Who's there, says the infinite beforeness - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
To say Yes to the holes where buttons go - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
When fire says remember - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
And what is the prophet of victory saying? - Maxim Gorky "The Song of the Storm-Finch" [Mother Earth v.1 no.1, March 1906] transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Say farewell to my pack of care - Edgar A. Guest "When Day Is Done"
May say nothing in shame of poets - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"
The stars have learned to say good-bye - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Never minds what the little notes say - "Her Own Way" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
For fear of what she might say - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
Gave me a new word to say for home - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
Hath pity more to say? - Lionel Johnson "A Burden of Easter Vigil"
All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
Say goodbye to disaster - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
The words my lute can never say - Frances Ledwidge "In September"
As they say in the language of that place - Philip Levine "Coming Close"
No darkness we can say was his - Philip Levine "The Search for Lorca's Shadow"
With my heart broken I come to say goodbye - Li Po "We Will Grow Old Together" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The earth saying language and vision are nothing - Sandra Lim "Cattiveria"
The first word I say is listen - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Heed not what the owls may say - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
Just uncouth to say so - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
A trap for what I don't say - Jamaal May "Mouth"
What water says as it plummets - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
Let's just say I hope - Marilyn Nelson "Safe Path Through Quicksand"
Answering something you couldn't say - Alice Notley "No world is intact"
Whose highest kindness was to say nothing - Miller Oberman "Taharah"
But don't dare say I went peacefully - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
let's say i have consumed more loss - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Who says the moon has no heart? - Po Chu'i "The Traveler's Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
As we don't say of the night - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"
The amen in the prayer you never say - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
Saying the same thing they said last night - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"
The border says stop to the wind - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
The blessing of what neither says aloud - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
Who can say that it will not burn again? - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
To say the forest is the sanctuary of ghosts - David St. John "Beeches"
As warm, we'll say, is the russet grey - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"
What the strings would say concerning my soul - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Never say that I was false - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CIX"
if i say this place belongs to me too - ire'ne lara silva "machetona"
my heart says trust - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"
my tracks say doubt - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"
Too blithe for song to say - Algernon Swinburne "First Footsteps"
If I had the tongues of angels, what would I say - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Say not that our hearts are cold - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIII. The Return"
Under the room of what we say - Jean Valentine "At the Conference on Women in the Academy"
You dare to say with perjured lips - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
A light says why - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Till the clock says stop - Jacqueline Waters "Ready for My Statement?"
A name only the brave can say - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"
Did you say my soul mattered? - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
Tracing gray skin around the unsayable - Brenda Hillman "The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice"
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
