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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-09 02:07 pm

Potential Titles: Smooth

Smoothes the earth we trample - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"

Minor quibbles a clock will iron smooth - Mary Jo Bang "Head-Heavy on its Snakestalk, the Tulip"

Smoothed the seams of her life - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"

Smooth and even as her last defense - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"

Memory's chorus smoothly chimes - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

That smooths the brow of care - James Beattie "Retirement. 1758"

Smoothed out for the moon - Andrea Blancas Beltran "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"

Smooth with its swoop of swallows - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Into the smooth curvatures of faith - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"

And smooth the crease in my brain - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"

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

Smoothed the ruffled path - Howard Futhey Brinton "Mac's (Psychological) Cigar"

who gathered the five smooth stones - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

The smooth order of forgiveness - Henri Cole "Persimmon Tree"

Broken by ice, smoothed by water and time - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The ocean's heart too smooth, too blue - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXV: Shipwreck"

A smooth dry carpet of velvet - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"

A smooth continuity of singing fractions - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

My raiment fits smooth to the spirit - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Birth"

That grace can smooth no waters - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"

Hear the insects' smooth roulette - Conrad Hilberry "Hunch"

Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"

As a skate's heel sweeps smooth - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Windhover"

Trod it smooth and straight - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"

Smoothing away with silence - Helen Hoyt "Rooming"

Eternity on slightly smoother surfaces - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Feet"

In smoothest echoes breaking - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

sandpaper erasures that smooth it to sleep - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Someone to smooth the sharp thorn of my head - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"

Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

A blade of fire to cleanse and smooth - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Through darkness smooth as amber - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

To smooth so rough a path - Anonymous "Loyalty Confined"

The mute smoothness of grey pearls - Joanne Merriam "No Words"

A pebble smoothed over in a sea of feathers - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"

Smoothed sand in the mouth of an oyster - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"

Finger those smooth substances spent - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly

Eyes stony smooth shut in moonlight - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

The goddess of the smooth doorway - Alice Notley "The New Brain"

Smooth ripple of the wind's second name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Always Bring a Pencil"

Only night's smooth stare - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fireflies"

Stones worn smooth with patience - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"

Smooth as gently breathing gales - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"

In a sea of smooth pebbles - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"

Smooth over every jagged edge - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"

We'll smooth your icy pillow - Deborah Ruddell "Penguin's Lullaby"

Soften to one smooth horizon - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"

The smooth temper of my age - Robert Southey "The Holly Tree"

The path of seals is smooth - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Smoothed earth's furrowed face - Francis Thompson "Daisy"

Worn smooth by precedent - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Are not so smoothly fooled - John Updike "Endpoint"

Sharp spines worn smooth by wind - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Seashell"


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