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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-02 07:45 pm

Potential Titles: Say

Said.


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"

Looking at a watch that says now - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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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