Potential Titles: Future
Jun. 8th, 2010 02:06 amThe stitch stabbed into a future - Rasha Abdulhadi "—"
Voyaging juncture between past and future - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Whose time must we steal to have a future together? - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"
Some scattered into quantum futures - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
An archaeology of another possible future - Zaina Alsous "Species-Being free-write"
To meet the future in disguise - Julia Alvarez "Death Days"
Think about the future and the sea - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Come to cast my vote against your future - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
The future running backwards - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
Inviting the future to appear - Rae Armantrout "Passage"
the immediate future is keen - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
We lie in the shadow of a future we cannot name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Light furrowed the future - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
winter the future's root - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"
Shall bind the future fast - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
Evoke the future like a window - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"
the future in the past - Elizabeth Bartlett "weather forecast"
Gathering sweetness for the future - Ardelia Maria Barton "Reverie"
Read the future by the past - Cora C. Bass "The Sum of Life"
Before whom the future outspreads - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Happy New Year"
The seed of future empire - Edward Blackadder "Annapolis Royal"
To change the future, change the past - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
We have no future but ourselves - Daniel Borzutsky "Painblank"
Our own altered histories and future visions - Bruce Boston "Dream People"
Look at the future obituaries - Ana Bozicevic "The Fall of Luci"
Dreams the dim hills of the future - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"
Thoughtful for Winter's future sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"
Counting future tears - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"
Gazed into the future's deep - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
Learned to steer my future - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Unable to shred the fog of futures - Wo Chan "performing miss america at bushwig 2018, then chilling"
A future quieter than snow - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"
The meanness of the future - Jennifer Chang "Signs"
Into a canopy of the future - Tina Chang "Lion"
Having to live in a dead person's future - Victoria Chang "OBIT"
Calls from the future rang different - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"
Sketch an anarchist's map to the future - Chen Chen "The School of the Unschoolable"
We could fail the future - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"
Heroes of a tradition always in the future - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
Of the future sailing outward - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"
no future in those clothes - Lucille Clifton "my dream about being white"
Recognize the future in our hopes - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"
People of the Turned Future - Aaron Coleman "South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills" [erasure poem]
The future with its golden key - Susan Coolidge "Two Ways to Love. I"
The tardy zeal of future days - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
In the future when distance fails - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"
Hurtling into that unrelenting future - Shutta Crum "Reading Brodsky (in English) While Stirring Soup"
Decayed the hope of future years - The Rev. Thomas Dale "A Mother's Grief" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
The cool gap of her future - Jim Daniels "Final/Not Final"
Because the future drives on new tires - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
The future's only visible retrospectively - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
No future but itself - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XIX: The Mystery of Pain"
Petition the future for more days without rain - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
The clouds of the future parting - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
The future is a rumor - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"
The future was no sealed book - Toru Dutt "Savitri"
Postponing the future - Elaine Equi "The Lost Poems"
The tree edge of the future - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"
This flame-swept future - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
The future time with joy inherit - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Came from the mist of a future dawn - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"
In a future with her face - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Believed in a future with her face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
The future sobs a low, sad warning - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
In the familiar lost-future tense - Tess Gallagher "Souvenir"
Unconditional surrender to the future - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Deciphering the future from a dusky summer sky - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
As the past is buried in the future - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
A map by which their future was ne'er confined - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
That can be propelled into my far future - John Grey "The Computer vs. My Personal Evolution"
Find fuel for the future - Nikki Grimes "Emergency Measures"
A future sculpted of dreams - Nikki Grimes "Through the Eyes of Artists"
The promised prayer of a future - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Behind me into the future - Duriel E. Harris "The Soldier's Dream"
The texture of the future - Jim Harrison "The Home"
And a sweet hope gilds the future - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Could I Hear the Kookaburras Once Again"
For my past and future assassin - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
His future hung with trophies - Seamus Heaney "Hercules and Antaeus"
The future's dubious lot - Felicia Hemans "To My Eldest Brother"
The sons of future days - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Where the future never thinks to look - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
The myth of flower girls selling futures - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"
Futures not free of obstacles - Ellen Hopkins "By Some Stroke of Heaven"
The flame of future victories - "Hours of Childhood"
Mother of all my future memories - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses I"
Bringing us mules from the future - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
This was the language of the future - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
Hurls absurd reasons from a future - K. Iver "Anti-Elegy"
Strange fossils for future archaeologists - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Emblem to hang in the future sky - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"
Scattered black seeds of a future - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"
The future restages the past - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
If the smouldering future should inspire - James Weldon Johnson "Envoy"
The cicadas sounding out the future - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"
Sounding out the future through repetition - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"
To tell the future what to be - Fady Joudah "[...]"
A pointer to future liberation - Fady Joudah "Sandra Bland, Texas"
Into the arms of a tidy, anticipated future - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
The future still woos you - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"
Hitch a ride to your future - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"
Honey lasts best in the future - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
To come up on the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"
Living here in the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"
Their present all their future and their past - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"
Her eyes like stars fixed on the future - Ted Kooser "A New Potato"
Onto the sand of the future - Ted Kooser "Student"
Carefully placed upon the future - Ted Kooser "This Paper Boat"
Digesting our emotions to feed her future - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Quince Bedroom"
A complex invitation to become the future - Linette Lao "Becoming"
Before that Wall's forestalling future - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"
Returned to our future - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
No returning to the future you once inhabited - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
Shall go down to future ages as heroes - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The future and the past are dead - Amy Levy "Magdalen"
Spirits of the past and future days - Amy Levy "Sinfonia Eroica"
Lost in the future - J. Patrick Lewis "Christopher Columbus"
The future refuses to happen - Paige Lewis "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, Honest"
Could tell the truth of the future - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
When the future collapsed upon them - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
All of the future tyrants fell - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
With all your wide futures promised - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Cradling the future in a glorious past - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
Without any history or future - Thomas Lynch "Woman Gardening"
Moving futures into fuchsias - Aditi Machado "nation"
Before a further future elsewhere - danilo machado "(telling)"
The glory of a future breaks - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Canada"
Because imagine is all I can do with the future - Maya Marshall "Why I Meant it When I Said I Didn't Want Kids While You, Wanting Them and Me, Insisted I Did"
Bears the seed of future years - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Bleeds from a hole in his still uncertain future - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
To a future of mindless rain - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Tread the thorns some future day - James E. McGirt "A Quest"
Dragging through future ruins - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
In vision sees the future road to fame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Will toil in the Future's hundred years - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
The future is throttling towards us - Erika Meitner "Jackhammering Limestone"
That bars me from the future - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Shadows that possess no future - M.S. Merwin "Green Fields"
In some future version of me - Jenny Molberg "Atropos"
Against future flight - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Angel"
A future backward destination - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
the gymnast of our future was leaping - Valzhyna Mort "Belarusian I"
A fugitive's note slipped quick to the future - John Murillo "On Metaphor"
Intimately designed for a future - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"
Wistful fated future tense - Hoa Nguyen "Ask About Language as if it Forgets"
Unto the ever hopeful future tell - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"
Because I dream of your future - Nancy Nishihira "The Endless Sky (Mothering)"
And fix the future hours, dark or bright - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Your light is a memory of the future - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
The future must have seemed weightless - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Created the blueprint for our futures - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"
As we carried our hopes for the future - Andre F. Peltier "Our Garage, Our Dagobah"
A boundless future sweeps in golden day - J.G. Percival "Life: a Sonnet" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
In the clouds ten years in the future - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"
When I hear us dream our futures - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"
They seek a phantom Future - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Golden Days"
The dust of future years - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: My Will"
Life dwells in the neck of the future - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "An infinite outing; or the cemetery"
Where travel is future - Khadijah Queen "Ut Pictura Poesis"
Planned & printed on a Sunday future - Danni Quintos "Cross Your Forehead, Mouth, & Heart"
Future promise of fruitful clay - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
The anniversary of some future sadness - Charles Rafferty "Unnoticed"
Among her future oil and wines - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"
As down the future years I gaze - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Slipped on the slick rag of the future - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
To find a future brighter than the past - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Out only chosen future - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"
sacrifice dreams for future generations - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
forward to all the future generations - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
The map of the future - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 14"
A tornado from a future century - Sahar Romani "Afternoon in Andalusia"
Imagining a hundred thousand different futures - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
That clears to-day of unpaid debts and future fears - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
a billion light years deep into the future - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
In the wet air of the future - Leslie Sainz "Sonnet for Ochun"
Paleontological remnants of the future - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Set to detonate into an unknown future - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"
Who fills the future with your own blood - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"
The future draws its crimson thread - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"
In hopes of wiping out some future hell - Ann K. Schwader "Wolves of Mars"
Down the facing mirrors of future and past - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
The future occluded or dreaming - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"
See the future pass - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fragment: Questions"
With sweet long futures - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Scallop Shell"
That maps the good and the evil in the future's bewildering folds - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Opening the blank future like a letter - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Absolve the future of its fears - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
A future which contains no past - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "The Wife Speaks"
The future is strewn with the roses of hope - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Through the Future's golden aisles - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Could invest against their tenuous future - Keith Taylor "One Species to Mourn"
Prayed for the family in your unknown future - Keith Taylor "Prayers from the Polish Church, Detroit, 1963"
Has drowned the Future and the Past - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
Smiling into the future - Edwin Torres "I Wanted to Say Hello to the Salseros but My Hair Was a Mess"
As they stand in this future catacomb - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
The future moves from one part to another - Chase Twichell "Inland"
A future astonished heart - Julia Uceda "2976"
For future uses hoarding present force - William Watson "Sketch of a Political Character"
The future is merciless - Charles Wright "Tomorrow"
The orchards of my future - Joshua Weiner "The Not-Yet Child"
Beckoning from the future's promised land - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"
And hostage from the future took - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
History and future test one another - Nancy Wood "Wisdom of the Elders"
The chaos of future mornings just over the ridge - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"
Oblivion of the Present, Future, Past - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
And you, all future tense - Jenny Xie "Alternative Endings"
Even the future recoils - Jenny Xie "Melancholia"
Some futures take root - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"
Offering the nerves of a future - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Fast-forward into a bleaker future - Jane Yolen "Fence of Bones"
Caught in the blinding stars of the future - Ray Young Bear "To See as Far as the Grandfather World"
Hoped the future too would yield - Adam Zagajewski "Bertolt Brecht in Eternity"
Diagrams for future happiness - Adam Zagajewski "Pencil"
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Voyaging juncture between past and future - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Whose time must we steal to have a future together? - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"
Some scattered into quantum futures - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
An archaeology of another possible future - Zaina Alsous "Species-Being free-write"
To meet the future in disguise - Julia Alvarez "Death Days"
Think about the future and the sea - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Come to cast my vote against your future - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
The future running backwards - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
Inviting the future to appear - Rae Armantrout "Passage"
the immediate future is keen - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
We lie in the shadow of a future we cannot name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Light furrowed the future - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
winter the future's root - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"
Shall bind the future fast - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
Evoke the future like a window - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"
the future in the past - Elizabeth Bartlett "weather forecast"
Gathering sweetness for the future - Ardelia Maria Barton "Reverie"
Read the future by the past - Cora C. Bass "The Sum of Life"
Before whom the future outspreads - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Happy New Year"
The seed of future empire - Edward Blackadder "Annapolis Royal"
To change the future, change the past - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
We have no future but ourselves - Daniel Borzutsky "Painblank"
Our own altered histories and future visions - Bruce Boston "Dream People"
Look at the future obituaries - Ana Bozicevic "The Fall of Luci"
Dreams the dim hills of the future - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"
Thoughtful for Winter's future sorrow - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"
Counting future tears - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"
Gazed into the future's deep - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
Learned to steer my future - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Unable to shred the fog of futures - Wo Chan "performing miss america at bushwig 2018, then chilling"
A future quieter than snow - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"
The meanness of the future - Jennifer Chang "Signs"
Into a canopy of the future - Tina Chang "Lion"
Having to live in a dead person's future - Victoria Chang "OBIT"
Calls from the future rang different - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"
Sketch an anarchist's map to the future - Chen Chen "The School of the Unschoolable"
We could fail the future - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"
Heroes of a tradition always in the future - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
Of the future sailing outward - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"
no future in those clothes - Lucille Clifton "my dream about being white"
Recognize the future in our hopes - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"
People of the Turned Future - Aaron Coleman "South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills" [erasure poem]
The future with its golden key - Susan Coolidge "Two Ways to Love. I"
The tardy zeal of future days - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
In the future when distance fails - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"
Hurtling into that unrelenting future - Shutta Crum "Reading Brodsky (in English) While Stirring Soup"
Decayed the hope of future years - The Rev. Thomas Dale "A Mother's Grief" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
The cool gap of her future - Jim Daniels "Final/Not Final"
Because the future drives on new tires - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
The future's only visible retrospectively - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
No future but itself - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XIX: The Mystery of Pain"
Petition the future for more days without rain - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
The clouds of the future parting - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
The future is a rumor - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"
The future was no sealed book - Toru Dutt "Savitri"
Postponing the future - Elaine Equi "The Lost Poems"
The tree edge of the future - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"
This flame-swept future - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
The future time with joy inherit - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Came from the mist of a future dawn - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"
In a future with her face - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Believed in a future with her face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
The future sobs a low, sad warning - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
In the familiar lost-future tense - Tess Gallagher "Souvenir"
Unconditional surrender to the future - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Deciphering the future from a dusky summer sky - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
As the past is buried in the future - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
A map by which their future was ne'er confined - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
That can be propelled into my far future - John Grey "The Computer vs. My Personal Evolution"
Find fuel for the future - Nikki Grimes "Emergency Measures"
A future sculpted of dreams - Nikki Grimes "Through the Eyes of Artists"
The promised prayer of a future - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Behind me into the future - Duriel E. Harris "The Soldier's Dream"
The texture of the future - Jim Harrison "The Home"
And a sweet hope gilds the future - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Could I Hear the Kookaburras Once Again"
For my past and future assassin - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
His future hung with trophies - Seamus Heaney "Hercules and Antaeus"
The future's dubious lot - Felicia Hemans "To My Eldest Brother"
The sons of future days - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Where the future never thinks to look - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
The myth of flower girls selling futures - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"
Futures not free of obstacles - Ellen Hopkins "By Some Stroke of Heaven"
The flame of future victories - "Hours of Childhood"
Mother of all my future memories - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses I"
Bringing us mules from the future - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
This was the language of the future - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
Hurls absurd reasons from a future - K. Iver "Anti-Elegy"
Strange fossils for future archaeologists - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Emblem to hang in the future sky - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"
Scattered black seeds of a future - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"
The future restages the past - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
If the smouldering future should inspire - James Weldon Johnson "Envoy"
The cicadas sounding out the future - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"
Sounding out the future through repetition - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"
To tell the future what to be - Fady Joudah "[...]"
A pointer to future liberation - Fady Joudah "Sandra Bland, Texas"
Into the arms of a tidy, anticipated future - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
The future still woos you - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"
Hitch a ride to your future - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"
Honey lasts best in the future - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
To come up on the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"
Living here in the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"
Their present all their future and their past - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"
Her eyes like stars fixed on the future - Ted Kooser "A New Potato"
Onto the sand of the future - Ted Kooser "Student"
Carefully placed upon the future - Ted Kooser "This Paper Boat"
Digesting our emotions to feed her future - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Quince Bedroom"
A complex invitation to become the future - Linette Lao "Becoming"
Before that Wall's forestalling future - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"
Returned to our future - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
No returning to the future you once inhabited - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
Shall go down to future ages as heroes - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The future and the past are dead - Amy Levy "Magdalen"
Spirits of the past and future days - Amy Levy "Sinfonia Eroica"
Lost in the future - J. Patrick Lewis "Christopher Columbus"
The future refuses to happen - Paige Lewis "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, Honest"
Could tell the truth of the future - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
When the future collapsed upon them - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
All of the future tyrants fell - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
With all your wide futures promised - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Cradling the future in a glorious past - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
Without any history or future - Thomas Lynch "Woman Gardening"
Moving futures into fuchsias - Aditi Machado "nation"
Before a further future elsewhere - danilo machado "(telling)"
The glory of a future breaks - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Canada"
Because imagine is all I can do with the future - Maya Marshall "Why I Meant it When I Said I Didn't Want Kids While You, Wanting Them and Me, Insisted I Did"
Bears the seed of future years - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Bleeds from a hole in his still uncertain future - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
To a future of mindless rain - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Tread the thorns some future day - James E. McGirt "A Quest"
Dragging through future ruins - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
In vision sees the future road to fame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Will toil in the Future's hundred years - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
The future is throttling towards us - Erika Meitner "Jackhammering Limestone"
That bars me from the future - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Shadows that possess no future - M.S. Merwin "Green Fields"
In some future version of me - Jenny Molberg "Atropos"
Against future flight - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Angel"
A future backward destination - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
the gymnast of our future was leaping - Valzhyna Mort "Belarusian I"
A fugitive's note slipped quick to the future - John Murillo "On Metaphor"
Intimately designed for a future - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"
Wistful fated future tense - Hoa Nguyen "Ask About Language as if it Forgets"
Unto the ever hopeful future tell - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"
Because I dream of your future - Nancy Nishihira "The Endless Sky (Mothering)"
And fix the future hours, dark or bright - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Your light is a memory of the future - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
The future must have seemed weightless - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Created the blueprint for our futures - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"
As we carried our hopes for the future - Andre F. Peltier "Our Garage, Our Dagobah"
A boundless future sweeps in golden day - J.G. Percival "Life: a Sonnet" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
In the clouds ten years in the future - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"
When I hear us dream our futures - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"
They seek a phantom Future - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Golden Days"
The dust of future years - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: My Will"
Life dwells in the neck of the future - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "An infinite outing; or the cemetery"
Where travel is future - Khadijah Queen "Ut Pictura Poesis"
Planned & printed on a Sunday future - Danni Quintos "Cross Your Forehead, Mouth, & Heart"
Future promise of fruitful clay - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
The anniversary of some future sadness - Charles Rafferty "Unnoticed"
Among her future oil and wines - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"
As down the future years I gaze - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Slipped on the slick rag of the future - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
To find a future brighter than the past - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Out only chosen future - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"
sacrifice dreams for future generations - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
forward to all the future generations - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
The map of the future - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 14"
A tornado from a future century - Sahar Romani "Afternoon in Andalusia"
Imagining a hundred thousand different futures - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
That clears to-day of unpaid debts and future fears - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
a billion light years deep into the future - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
In the wet air of the future - Leslie Sainz "Sonnet for Ochun"
Paleontological remnants of the future - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Set to detonate into an unknown future - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"
Who fills the future with your own blood - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"
The future draws its crimson thread - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"
In hopes of wiping out some future hell - Ann K. Schwader "Wolves of Mars"
Down the facing mirrors of future and past - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
The future occluded or dreaming - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"
See the future pass - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fragment: Questions"
With sweet long futures - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Scallop Shell"
That maps the good and the evil in the future's bewildering folds - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Opening the blank future like a letter - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Absolve the future of its fears - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
A future which contains no past - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "The Wife Speaks"
The future is strewn with the roses of hope - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Through the Future's golden aisles - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Could invest against their tenuous future - Keith Taylor "One Species to Mourn"
Prayed for the family in your unknown future - Keith Taylor "Prayers from the Polish Church, Detroit, 1963"
Has drowned the Future and the Past - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
Smiling into the future - Edwin Torres "I Wanted to Say Hello to the Salseros but My Hair Was a Mess"
As they stand in this future catacomb - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
The future moves from one part to another - Chase Twichell "Inland"
A future astonished heart - Julia Uceda "2976"
For future uses hoarding present force - William Watson "Sketch of a Political Character"
The future is merciless - Charles Wright "Tomorrow"
The orchards of my future - Joshua Weiner "The Not-Yet Child"
Beckoning from the future's promised land - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"
And hostage from the future took - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
History and future test one another - Nancy Wood "Wisdom of the Elders"
The chaos of future mornings just over the ridge - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"
Oblivion of the Present, Future, Past - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
And you, all future tense - Jenny Xie "Alternative Endings"
Even the future recoils - Jenny Xie "Melancholia"
Some futures take root - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"
Offering the nerves of a future - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Fast-forward into a bleaker future - Jane Yolen "Fence of Bones"
Caught in the blinding stars of the future - Ray Young Bear "To See as Far as the Grandfather World"
Hoped the future too would yield - Adam Zagajewski "Bertolt Brecht in Eternity"
Diagrams for future happiness - Adam Zagajewski "Pencil"
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