Potential Titles: Mean
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somethingdarkerPreserve they say and mean repent - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Wind through the tree of what I mean - William Brewer "My Somniloquist"
What all lost letters mean - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
in the mean time that split apart with the atom - Lucille Clifton "in the meantime"
That green might mean so many things - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
Mean to avoid the eyes of men - Heid E. Erdich "Black and White Monument, Photo Circa 1977"
Blue wings mean hope - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"
Depends on what you mean by home - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"
Those mean little squares and boulevards - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"
Time to lie and mean it - Anthony Madrid "Bottles and Cans"
As though your desires mean nothing - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
The mean annual rainfall on Plato's Republic - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Didn't intimacy mean courtesy - Carl Phillips "Since You Ask"
Rimming vistas of mean streets - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
For whatever being human could mean - Tim Seibles "Faith"
Taken to mean a warning - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
Discordant Notes I mean to curse - John Spateman "War"
Content with meaner prey - John Clare "The Woodman"
The meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"
Forgery of deeper meaning - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
The meanings that exist beside sounds - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Meaning making music like a heretic - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
In meaning close to sacrament - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Words that die before meaning - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
The moods if not the meanings - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"
Where generous meanings burn - William Cullen Bryant "Upon the Mountain's Distant Head"
Shorn of sacred meaning - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Symbols"
Hoops through which to leap upon meanings - Witter Bynner "Horses"
Could tell the meaning of that hidden charm - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Grasped the meaning of purity - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson
they smile, meaning us - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"
Each invisible stitch of meaning - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
And teach you the meaning of regret - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
As we walk in the forest of meaning - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Replace desire with meaning - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
Replace intensity with meaning - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
Unique in meaning and fixed in order - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
Threaded with crescent meaning - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"
Some word of earnest meaning - Grenville Grey "Write Thou Upon Life's Page"
A bridge between two shores of meaning - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"
Existence pouring out its one meaning - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
Little zeroes between mystery & meaning - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"
Decoding the meaning of your recurring dream - Cynthia Hogue "Spells for Dread"
Flowers whose hidden meaning we crush - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Until the meanings leave - Rodney Jones "The Watergate"
The melancholy meaning of open satchels - Jane Kenyon "Going Away"
Like the very meaning of surrender - Ted Kooser "3. Prisoners from the Front"
which all meaning requires one to reject - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
The clear ink of its meaning - Philip Levine "These Words"
Ink resisting its meaning - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
Words to unburden them of their meanings - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
And the meanings cling like iron - Mark McMorris "The Thought of the World"
And renew us with varied meanings - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"
Such meaning in a dagger-day - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
A difficult problem of hard meaning - "The Monk and His Pet Cat" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Scared at my manifold meaning - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
The orchestration of meaning - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
The meaning of each temporal blame - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
The way disruption can punctuate with meaning - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
Knows not the meaning of a broken crown - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"
Her pockets drained of meaning - Adrienne Rich "Eastern War Time"
The meaning of a mountain of masks - Lauren Russell "Exposition"
Search their heads for meanings, stories, stars - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
A word hunting its own meaning - Joyce Sidman "He"
To utter a word with meaning fraught - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Caught in structures without meaning - Steven David Justin Sills "Earth"
In every tongue and meaning - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: To Ori a Ori"
Lingering lipstick on splinters of meaning - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini
Sun burns new meaning onto my skin - Fargo Tbaki "Palestine Is a Futurism: The Dream"
Weaponized into political meaning - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Meaning in its narrow orb - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"
All four meanings of the word regret - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"
Cast meaningful shadows - Matthew Zapruder "January"
A meaningless refrain to empty walls - Marie Hedderwick Browne "My House Is Left Unto Me Desolate"
The meanness of the future - Jennifer Chang "Signs"
in this code where every word means obey - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
Where dead means hidden - Rae Armantrout "Heaven"
Yesterday means I say goodbye - Fatimah Asghar "Kal"
Namesake means release - Kay Ulanday Barrett "While looking at photo albums"
Our means so scarce - Jennifer Chang "Signs"
When silence means being made a frozen sea - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Less rain means more salt - Killarney Clary "[Backlit by the glitter-chopped horizon,]"
The accident of understanding what it means to be X - Oliver de la Paz "Solve for X"
By means of a thousand strange herbs - Lizzie Doten "Love and Latin"
What it means to survive decay - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 6. Mucormycosis"
By means most palpable to sense and sight - Thomas Gent "The Grave of Dibdin"
Her name means Light To Me - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Here name means Unjump The Darkness - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
unmake myself as a means of delay - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
And have no right answer for what this means - Youna Kwak "After"
A promise means swimming against the current - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Passes wisdom's means - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"
Without passports or means of escape - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Sought every means which wisdom can suggest - Philo "The Tribute"
By no known means compliant - Khadijah Queen "Copper Men"
what means are available to terminate - Barbara Jane Reyes "calles de los dolores y trastorno de tension postraumatica"
Crooked growth means it can be a loophole - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"
And a loophole can be a means to freedom - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"
This latest means of never needing air - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"
inherited or acquired by other means - Evie Shockley "it: a user's guide"
Stealing fire means taking sides - Richard Solomon "Possession III: Ball"
Golden in the mercy of his means - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
A snake that eats her tail and means eternity - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
A result of the means - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"
Destroyed by ordinary means - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"
To let the light in means exposure - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"
Defining what yes meant - Mary Jo Bang "Once Upon a Time"
Half-shadowings of the thing I meant - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"
Outhouse meant a ravine brimmed with spiders - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
Where it was you meant to travel - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"
The damage the truth was meant to do - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"
Mock whom they were meant to honour - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Siphoned sacrifices meant for our goddess - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Never meant for the apple to make you hungry - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
The damage the truth was meant to do - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"
What the elders meant by grace - Chris Dombrowski "Ghazal in which End Word Repetition Is Implied"
Not the fox I meant to find - Chiyuma Elliott "The Fox Emerging from Shadow"
A cargo meant to be lost - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"
Meant me to be hungry - Mildred Howells "God's Will"
Creatures meant for the deep - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"
the limelight not meant for you - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
Never meant to live in euphemism - Randall Mann "Realtor"
The applause is meant for the stars - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"
That ever was meant for June - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "The Sin Eater"
Never veered from the path where he meant to go - Sarah Noble-Ives "Horse-Back"
As if proof meant nakedness - Carl Phillips "Craft and Vision"
What's meant to be wind - Carl Phillips "Entire Known World So Far"
As if that meant safety - Carl Phillips "Shall Want for Nothing"
Thought sleep meant rescue - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"
Never meant to be human - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
An extravagance we were meant for - Paisley Rekdal "Once"
Vacant chaff well meant for grain - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
every conversation meant as embrace - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
Not meant for rescue - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"
Meant for wind and motion - Adam Zagajewski "Epithalamium"
Rant in wild, unmeaning rhymes - Hilaire Belloc "More Beasts (For Worse Children): Introduction"
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Wind through the tree of what I mean - William Brewer "My Somniloquist"
What all lost letters mean - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
in the mean time that split apart with the atom - Lucille Clifton "in the meantime"
That green might mean so many things - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
Mean to avoid the eyes of men - Heid E. Erdich "Black and White Monument, Photo Circa 1977"
Blue wings mean hope - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"
Depends on what you mean by home - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"
Those mean little squares and boulevards - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"
Time to lie and mean it - Anthony Madrid "Bottles and Cans"
As though your desires mean nothing - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
The mean annual rainfall on Plato's Republic - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Didn't intimacy mean courtesy - Carl Phillips "Since You Ask"
Rimming vistas of mean streets - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
For whatever being human could mean - Tim Seibles "Faith"
Taken to mean a warning - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
Discordant Notes I mean to curse - John Spateman "War"
Content with meaner prey - John Clare "The Woodman"
The meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"
Forgery of deeper meaning - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
The meanings that exist beside sounds - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Meaning making music like a heretic - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
In meaning close to sacrament - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Words that die before meaning - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
The moods if not the meanings - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"
Where generous meanings burn - William Cullen Bryant "Upon the Mountain's Distant Head"
Shorn of sacred meaning - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Symbols"
Hoops through which to leap upon meanings - Witter Bynner "Horses"
Could tell the meaning of that hidden charm - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Grasped the meaning of purity - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson
they smile, meaning us - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"
Each invisible stitch of meaning - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
And teach you the meaning of regret - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
As we walk in the forest of meaning - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Replace desire with meaning - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
Replace intensity with meaning - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
Unique in meaning and fixed in order - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
Threaded with crescent meaning - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"
Some word of earnest meaning - Grenville Grey "Write Thou Upon Life's Page"
A bridge between two shores of meaning - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"
Existence pouring out its one meaning - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
Little zeroes between mystery & meaning - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"
Decoding the meaning of your recurring dream - Cynthia Hogue "Spells for Dread"
Flowers whose hidden meaning we crush - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Until the meanings leave - Rodney Jones "The Watergate"
The melancholy meaning of open satchels - Jane Kenyon "Going Away"
Like the very meaning of surrender - Ted Kooser "3. Prisoners from the Front"
which all meaning requires one to reject - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
The clear ink of its meaning - Philip Levine "These Words"
Ink resisting its meaning - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
Words to unburden them of their meanings - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
And the meanings cling like iron - Mark McMorris "The Thought of the World"
And renew us with varied meanings - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"
Such meaning in a dagger-day - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
A difficult problem of hard meaning - "The Monk and His Pet Cat" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Scared at my manifold meaning - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
The orchestration of meaning - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
The meaning of each temporal blame - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
The way disruption can punctuate with meaning - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
Knows not the meaning of a broken crown - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"
Her pockets drained of meaning - Adrienne Rich "Eastern War Time"
The meaning of a mountain of masks - Lauren Russell "Exposition"
Search their heads for meanings, stories, stars - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
A word hunting its own meaning - Joyce Sidman "He"
To utter a word with meaning fraught - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Caught in structures without meaning - Steven David Justin Sills "Earth"
In every tongue and meaning - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: To Ori a Ori"
Lingering lipstick on splinters of meaning - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini
Sun burns new meaning onto my skin - Fargo Tbaki "Palestine Is a Futurism: The Dream"
Weaponized into political meaning - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Meaning in its narrow orb - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"
All four meanings of the word regret - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"
Cast meaningful shadows - Matthew Zapruder "January"
A meaningless refrain to empty walls - Marie Hedderwick Browne "My House Is Left Unto Me Desolate"
The meanness of the future - Jennifer Chang "Signs"
in this code where every word means obey - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
Where dead means hidden - Rae Armantrout "Heaven"
Yesterday means I say goodbye - Fatimah Asghar "Kal"
Namesake means release - Kay Ulanday Barrett "While looking at photo albums"
Our means so scarce - Jennifer Chang "Signs"
When silence means being made a frozen sea - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Less rain means more salt - Killarney Clary "[Backlit by the glitter-chopped horizon,]"
The accident of understanding what it means to be X - Oliver de la Paz "Solve for X"
By means of a thousand strange herbs - Lizzie Doten "Love and Latin"
What it means to survive decay - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 6. Mucormycosis"
By means most palpable to sense and sight - Thomas Gent "The Grave of Dibdin"
Her name means Light To Me - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Here name means Unjump The Darkness - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
unmake myself as a means of delay - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
And have no right answer for what this means - Youna Kwak "After"
A promise means swimming against the current - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Passes wisdom's means - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"
Without passports or means of escape - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Sought every means which wisdom can suggest - Philo "The Tribute"
By no known means compliant - Khadijah Queen "Copper Men"
what means are available to terminate - Barbara Jane Reyes "calles de los dolores y trastorno de tension postraumatica"
Crooked growth means it can be a loophole - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"
And a loophole can be a means to freedom - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"
This latest means of never needing air - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"
inherited or acquired by other means - Evie Shockley "it: a user's guide"
Stealing fire means taking sides - Richard Solomon "Possession III: Ball"
Golden in the mercy of his means - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
A snake that eats her tail and means eternity - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
A result of the means - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"
Destroyed by ordinary means - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"
To let the light in means exposure - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"
Defining what yes meant - Mary Jo Bang "Once Upon a Time"
Half-shadowings of the thing I meant - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"
Outhouse meant a ravine brimmed with spiders - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
Where it was you meant to travel - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"
The damage the truth was meant to do - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"
Mock whom they were meant to honour - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Siphoned sacrifices meant for our goddess - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Never meant for the apple to make you hungry - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
The damage the truth was meant to do - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"
What the elders meant by grace - Chris Dombrowski "Ghazal in which End Word Repetition Is Implied"
Not the fox I meant to find - Chiyuma Elliott "The Fox Emerging from Shadow"
A cargo meant to be lost - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"
Meant me to be hungry - Mildred Howells "God's Will"
Creatures meant for the deep - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"
the limelight not meant for you - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
Never meant to live in euphemism - Randall Mann "Realtor"
The applause is meant for the stars - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"
That ever was meant for June - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "The Sin Eater"
Never veered from the path where he meant to go - Sarah Noble-Ives "Horse-Back"
As if proof meant nakedness - Carl Phillips "Craft and Vision"
What's meant to be wind - Carl Phillips "Entire Known World So Far"
As if that meant safety - Carl Phillips "Shall Want for Nothing"
Thought sleep meant rescue - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"
Never meant to be human - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"
An extravagance we were meant for - Paisley Rekdal "Once"
Vacant chaff well meant for grain - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
every conversation meant as embrace - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
Not meant for rescue - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"
Meant for wind and motion - Adam Zagajewski "Epithalamium"
Rant in wild, unmeaning rhymes - Hilaire Belloc "More Beasts (For Worse Children): Introduction"
Navigation Links:
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Go to Potential Titles: Math [category].
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