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Potential Titles: Mirror
Begins with pain as a mirror - Hanif Abdurraqib "The Prestige"
Emerges from sleep in the mirror - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
That struggles to be born inside the mirror - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"
Deciding on a mirror as the perfect camouflage - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"
The reflection of the broken nine mirrors - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
Family mirrors haunt their own reflections - Elizabeth Alexander "Ladders"
That remind us of the mirror we share - Mouna Ammar "How to be at home"
Upon the mirror of the mind - Auguste Angellier "Tranquil Habit" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Mirror twins are different - Maya Angelou "Human Family"
Intense and holy as the mirrored sky - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
Floating mirrors with unidentified objects - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"
Thrown on an empty mirror - Mary Jo Bang "The Diary of a Lost Girl"
Thinking a mirror appears to do - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
A mirror with a feather motif - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"
I talk but always to a mirror - Mary Jo Bang "Intractable, and Irreversible"
Pinched face mirrored in a latent puddle - Mary Jo Bang "A Portrait of Love"
Looking for a fake mirror - Mary Jo Bang "Practice for Being Empty"
A camera turned on a mirror - Mary Jo Bang "The Wake Was a Line and We Watched"
through streets of mirrors - Elizabeth Bartlett "mood on a string"
Leading to a corridor of black mirrors - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
Where time is an iris mirror - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"
Obscure mirrors, darkened and forlorn - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
That mirrored all the skies - Charles Baudelaire "A Former Life" transl. not credited
In front of an unbreakable mirror - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
I am Wisdom's mirror! Behold me not! - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Mirror the fetal scroll of fiddlehead ferns - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
The flat planet of the mirror - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
And disappearing into bright wet mirror - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Blue tunnel crossing the mirror - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
The mirror in the lavender hour - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
A window can be a mirror - Sara Borjas "Lies I Tell"
That mirrors well my life of yesterday - John Philip Bourke "At Parting"
That's when they both became mirror - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"
Silver-speaking mirrors of desire - Robert Bridges "Ode to Music"
Mirrored in the ocean vast - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"
Mirrors reflect other people's furniture - Marianne Chan "A Country of Beautiful Women"
This mirror can be comfort now - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"
The mirror won the battle - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Friendships]"
In mirrors of ice and night - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
loosened in the mirror - Lucille Clifton "morning mirror"
Calling from every mirrored thing - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
A mirror turning back to sand - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
Echo or mirror seeking - S.T. Coleridge "Frost at Midnight"
The undisclosed mirror - CAConrad "Leave Something Quiet in Shell of My Ear"
Restless mirror of the Infinite - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Filtering a mirror of loss - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"
With muscles that astonish your mirror - Dorsey Craft "Bagging Groceries at Piggly Wiggly"
The barrier between our mirrored wings - Brody Parrish Craig "Overpass"
Tired of mirthless mirrors - Nathalia Crane "Old Maid's Reverie"
Matchless mirrors of delight - Nathalia Crane "The Rose of Rest"
I never look at my own face in the mirror - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
The magic mirror of the dawn - Olive Custance "Gifts"
Deep-mirrored in thine eyes - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"
Because the valley was full of mirrors - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Mirrors holding themselves toward the light - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Examining every curve in the mirror - Toi Derricotte "The blue nightgown"
Escaping with the last unshattered mirror - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"
Cleanse the muddy mirrors of my thought - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Its scarred face an old mirror - Carol Ann Duffy "Tall"
Without comparisons, mirrors, ambition - Stephen Dunn "A Short History of Long Ago"
Said my name before the mirror - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Each holding a mirror in her arms - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"
Variety in a wilderness of mirrors - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Multiply variety in a wilderness of mirrors - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
The wet pitch of the water's mirrors - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Little Song"
Whose eyes lie mirrored in your cup - Eleanor Farjeon "By the Fountain"
Mirror halves of a shell - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
A kiss blown in the mirror - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
The mirrors of the sea are strewn - James Elroy Flecker "A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon"
Lost in the Maze of Mirrors - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Into a mirror with no face - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Mirrors among the trees - Carol Frost "Circus City"
leaving sigils in lipstick on the bathroom mirrors - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
An owl to be my mirror - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"
Sweep a sea of mirrors - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"
Our solitude a two-way mirror - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Eight: Mitosis"
More honest than a mirror - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
Fragile mirrors easily broken - Ivor Gurney "Strange Service"
A mirror of unfinished voices - Nathalie Handal "Santo Domingo"
Falling into a liquid mirror - Jim Harrison "Tomorrow"
No magic in mirrors - Matthea Harvey "Robber Sentenced to Reflection"
Through mirrors of burning - Robert Hayden "October"
Held the mirror hostage - Stephanie Heit "Rehearsal"
Sky-born shadows mirrored on a stream - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XV"
In the mirror of the current - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Friend"
In the mirror of your shoulder - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"
She lives in all the mirrors - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2007: HoodWitches"
Secret white mirror - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"
The dark's mirror lengthened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"
Moons not hers lie mirror'd on her sea - Ralph Hodgson "Reason Has Moons"
Defrauds the mirror - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Mirrored all her angels - Arno Holz "Phantasus" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
The mirror gave me back a form - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
My shining mirror darkens with neglect - Hsu Kan "The Wife's Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
And the stars are mirrored across me - Aldous Huxley "Points and Lines"
Sees herself in this shattered mirror - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"
Remove the stabbing radiance from my mirror - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Shatter the mirror of fear - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Gave his motherboard its own mirror - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
At the interface a mirror - Fady Joudah "The Holy Embraces the Holy"
Makes of our bodies a mirror - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"
Reorganized my face in the mirror - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Mirrors in which the self is projected - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"
Lived in a room of mirrors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Back through the silver mirror - Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung "from 'Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters'"
How they tasted of mirrors - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"
Standing behind mirrored windows, disapproving - Ted Kooser "Chocolate Checkers"
Made mirrors of the pond and birdbath - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"
Sees new worlds in her mirrored eyes - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Needed a better mirror for her pursuits - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Beyond all glass's mirroring - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"
The mirror of her moments - Richard Le Gallienne "In Her Diary"
Had moved his table of mirrors - Gary Lehmann "The Heat of the Moon"
Withdraw from this orbit of mirrors - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"
Face the flower-formed mirror - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Evening comes with an onslaught]" transl. by Burton Watson
Stealing a mirror glance - Li Shang-yin "[At eight stealing a mirror glance]" transl. by Burton Watson
The gilded magpie mirror - Li T'ai-Po "Written in the Character of a Beautiful Woman Grieving Before Her Mirror" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Red eyes burning back in the mirror - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Our thrones of maps and mirrors - Ada Limon "High Water"
a fortune of mirrors and years - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
The tremulously mirrored clouds lie deep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
A swaying mirror for the sun - Jeannette Marks "Willow Pollen"
Be a mirror to these movements - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"
Just mirrors of unrealities - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
Breaking a stolen mirror - Ted Mathys "Appalachian Trail"
Find ourselves in the charred mirrors - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
Citizen of the binary mirror - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"
Stare in the mirror of his face - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"
Make a racket pounding on mirrors - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson
Blurred as in red mirror moons - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
In my own skin in this infinity mirror - Lynn Melnick "Poem Entering the Apple Valley Target"
Before the laughing mirror - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Trapped between two mirror points - Joanne Merriam "Mirror Points"
Towers of empty mirrors - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
No mirror keeps its glances - Alice Meynell "Your Own Fair Youth"
Tell you your eyes are mirrors - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
Colloquium of dark birds and mirrors - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
Transfigured tarnish of another's mirror - Claire Millikin "The Unpopular Dress"
Hold a mirror up to the clouds - Jenny Molberg "Mirrors"
The shiver of the mirrored moon - N. Scott Momaday "The Essence of Belonging"
Each cup mirrors the glowing skies - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"
Within whose glowing sphere is mirrored half a world - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Between the mirror and the shoe rack - Valzhyna Mort "My Father's Breed"
In red mirror moons - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Put by the mirror of her bridal days - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"
Mirrored in the pearly dew - Francis Neilson "Sweet Face, I See Thee Shine"
With all their fractured mirrors - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"
A procession of mirrors and swords - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Since Love is a mirror we break - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
The mirror croons an unending song - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
The mirror crooning to a lonely crow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Through the waveless mirror-seas - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"
Even the mirror's dazzling emptiness - D. Nurkse "Looking and Finding"
Past the mirrors and night windows - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"
All the mirrors were painted black - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
Caged in a room of mirrors - Gregory Orr "The Cage"
That mirror of things infinite - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
Transform the mirror of his soul - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Are You My Cousin"
Our glory-days in the rear-view mirror - Andre F. Peltier "Miyagi's Wisdom and the Lunch-Table Debates"
All the generosity of a mirror - Carl Phillips "Correction"
If I meet no mirrors - Carl Phillips "On Coming Close"
Holding a mirror up to Apollo - Carl Phillips "Reasonable Doubt"
splits open revealing mirroring paths - Xan Forest Phillips "no one wants to be rough anymore"
Leave the mirror stored in its box - Po Chu'i "Feelings Wakened by a Mirror" transl. by Burton Watson
Red dust coats the mirror's green bronze - Po Chu'i "Feelings Wakened by a Mirror" transl. by Burton Watson
A broken bundle of mirrors - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"
Bespoke mirrors for our escaping faces - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "With a third eye, I see the catastrophe"
Forsake me at the lip of the mirror - Sina Queyras "Mummy"
To put my palm against that mirror - Paige Quinones "Bipolar and its Related Disorders"
Sets a mirror at our feet - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"
O rose in the mirror of time - Theodore H. Rand "The White Rose"
The brook is silent when it mirrors most - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
a motionless mirror of the full moon sky - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
the blinding mirror image of near-sighted dreams - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Memory lifts her smoky mirror - Adrienne Rich "Eastern War Time"
My century's hinged and beveled mirror - Adrienne Rich "1999"
A tiny silver mirror held to the high stars - Lola Ridge "Fame"
A mirror depthless and deceitful - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"
That mirrors a friend's face to memory - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
She holds a shadowy mirror to her eyes - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
The mirror becoming stranger - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"
Throw stones at a mirror - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Polishing the mirror of your heart - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
A thousand times that mirrored glory fled - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
Viewed in the hollow mirror of remorse - Friedrich Schiller "Resignation" transl. not credited
Two mirrors looking for arrowheads - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"
Haunted mirrors stare down from all sides - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"
The enemy inherent in our mirrors - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"
Beneath its polished mirror moon - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"
No fuller than any mirror - Teresa J. Scollon "The Yoga Master at the Party"
Make the universe a mirror - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"
Fashioned from the mirror of the soul - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems II"
my skin is a mirror of past lives - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
Down the facing mirrors of future and past - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
Using the Black Sea as a mirror - Diane Seuss "Song in My Heart"
A mirror reflects out of boredom - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"
Still water as their mirror - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
This language of mirrors at the end of the world - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
And in our eyes, we see empty mirrors - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Mirrors made of lucid stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Impression"
Mirrors of steel or silver - Clark Ashton Smith "Mirrors"
Picking up the pieces of a broken mirror - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"
Once mirror to the mountain - George Sterling "The First Born"
Bend the lances of the mirrored pines - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Mirrors the harsh, round sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Reflected in the sapphire mirror - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 51: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
An elephant mirrored in a slab of quartz - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 224: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A mirror between aurora and extremity - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
The silver had run out of all the mirrors - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
The surfaces of mirrors with no reflections - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
In the mirror of a fading photograph - Russell Thorburn "Bad Men and Dirt"
But the mirror is not the truth - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
Mirrors flashed their argent memories - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"
Like fog from a mirror - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"
Everybody else saw the you in the mirror - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"
With mirrors held to the bottom of lakes - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
Must orchestrate the shattering of mirrors - Enrique Villasis "Birds in Flight, 1965"
Mother of mirrors, angel of the acts - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"
A mirror's tears - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"
A mirror spread in each direction - Arthur Waugh "The Beautiful Swan"
Mirror my wildest passions - Oscar Wilde "Sonnet to Liberty"
Mirror and dissipate the cloudy shapes of error - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"
The past becomes such a mirror - Charles Wright "On the Night of the First Snow, Thinking About Tennessee"
And their mirrored pieces of heaven - Charles Wright "Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else"
Mirrored a thousand laughing faces - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
Death and its mirror - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
A set of moving mirrored shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
Spoon mirror flipping us upside down - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
The mirror that dangles from quicksilver - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 2" transl. by Katherine Silver
Looking-Glass.
A mirror-creature in a red dress - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Cast mirror-fogged webs into the center - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
listen for the thoughts of their lost mirror-images - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
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Emerges from sleep in the mirror - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
That struggles to be born inside the mirror - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"
Deciding on a mirror as the perfect camouflage - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"
The reflection of the broken nine mirrors - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
Family mirrors haunt their own reflections - Elizabeth Alexander "Ladders"
That remind us of the mirror we share - Mouna Ammar "How to be at home"
Upon the mirror of the mind - Auguste Angellier "Tranquil Habit" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Mirror twins are different - Maya Angelou "Human Family"
Intense and holy as the mirrored sky - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
Floating mirrors with unidentified objects - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"
Thrown on an empty mirror - Mary Jo Bang "The Diary of a Lost Girl"
Thinking a mirror appears to do - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
A mirror with a feather motif - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"
I talk but always to a mirror - Mary Jo Bang "Intractable, and Irreversible"
Pinched face mirrored in a latent puddle - Mary Jo Bang "A Portrait of Love"
Looking for a fake mirror - Mary Jo Bang "Practice for Being Empty"
A camera turned on a mirror - Mary Jo Bang "The Wake Was a Line and We Watched"
through streets of mirrors - Elizabeth Bartlett "mood on a string"
Leading to a corridor of black mirrors - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
Where time is an iris mirror - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"
Obscure mirrors, darkened and forlorn - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
That mirrored all the skies - Charles Baudelaire "A Former Life" transl. not credited
In front of an unbreakable mirror - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
I am Wisdom's mirror! Behold me not! - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Mirror the fetal scroll of fiddlehead ferns - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
The flat planet of the mirror - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
And disappearing into bright wet mirror - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Blue tunnel crossing the mirror - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
The mirror in the lavender hour - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
A window can be a mirror - Sara Borjas "Lies I Tell"
That mirrors well my life of yesterday - John Philip Bourke "At Parting"
That's when they both became mirror - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"
Silver-speaking mirrors of desire - Robert Bridges "Ode to Music"
Mirrored in the ocean vast - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"
Mirrors reflect other people's furniture - Marianne Chan "A Country of Beautiful Women"
This mirror can be comfort now - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"
The mirror won the battle - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Friendships]"
In mirrors of ice and night - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
loosened in the mirror - Lucille Clifton "morning mirror"
Calling from every mirrored thing - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
A mirror turning back to sand - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
Echo or mirror seeking - S.T. Coleridge "Frost at Midnight"
The undisclosed mirror - CAConrad "Leave Something Quiet in Shell of My Ear"
Restless mirror of the Infinite - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Filtering a mirror of loss - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"
With muscles that astonish your mirror - Dorsey Craft "Bagging Groceries at Piggly Wiggly"
The barrier between our mirrored wings - Brody Parrish Craig "Overpass"
Tired of mirthless mirrors - Nathalia Crane "Old Maid's Reverie"
Matchless mirrors of delight - Nathalia Crane "The Rose of Rest"
I never look at my own face in the mirror - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
The magic mirror of the dawn - Olive Custance "Gifts"
Deep-mirrored in thine eyes - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"
Because the valley was full of mirrors - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Mirrors holding themselves toward the light - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Examining every curve in the mirror - Toi Derricotte "The blue nightgown"
Escaping with the last unshattered mirror - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"
Cleanse the muddy mirrors of my thought - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Its scarred face an old mirror - Carol Ann Duffy "Tall"
Without comparisons, mirrors, ambition - Stephen Dunn "A Short History of Long Ago"
Said my name before the mirror - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Each holding a mirror in her arms - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"
Variety in a wilderness of mirrors - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Multiply variety in a wilderness of mirrors - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
The wet pitch of the water's mirrors - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Little Song"
Whose eyes lie mirrored in your cup - Eleanor Farjeon "By the Fountain"
Mirror halves of a shell - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
A kiss blown in the mirror - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
The mirrors of the sea are strewn - James Elroy Flecker "A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon"
Lost in the Maze of Mirrors - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Into a mirror with no face - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Mirrors among the trees - Carol Frost "Circus City"
leaving sigils in lipstick on the bathroom mirrors - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
An owl to be my mirror - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"
Sweep a sea of mirrors - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"
Our solitude a two-way mirror - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Eight: Mitosis"
More honest than a mirror - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"
Fragile mirrors easily broken - Ivor Gurney "Strange Service"
A mirror of unfinished voices - Nathalie Handal "Santo Domingo"
Falling into a liquid mirror - Jim Harrison "Tomorrow"
No magic in mirrors - Matthea Harvey "Robber Sentenced to Reflection"
Through mirrors of burning - Robert Hayden "October"
Held the mirror hostage - Stephanie Heit "Rehearsal"
Sky-born shadows mirrored on a stream - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XV"
In the mirror of the current - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Friend"
In the mirror of your shoulder - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"
She lives in all the mirrors - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2007: HoodWitches"
Secret white mirror - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"
The dark's mirror lengthened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"
Moons not hers lie mirror'd on her sea - Ralph Hodgson "Reason Has Moons"
Defrauds the mirror - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Mirrored all her angels - Arno Holz "Phantasus" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
The mirror gave me back a form - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
My shining mirror darkens with neglect - Hsu Kan "The Wife's Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
And the stars are mirrored across me - Aldous Huxley "Points and Lines"
Sees herself in this shattered mirror - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"
Remove the stabbing radiance from my mirror - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Shatter the mirror of fear - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Gave his motherboard its own mirror - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
At the interface a mirror - Fady Joudah "The Holy Embraces the Holy"
Makes of our bodies a mirror - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"
Reorganized my face in the mirror - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Mirrors in which the self is projected - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"
Lived in a room of mirrors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Back through the silver mirror - Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung "from 'Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters'"
How they tasted of mirrors - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"
Standing behind mirrored windows, disapproving - Ted Kooser "Chocolate Checkers"
Made mirrors of the pond and birdbath - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"
Sees new worlds in her mirrored eyes - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Needed a better mirror for her pursuits - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Beyond all glass's mirroring - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"
The mirror of her moments - Richard Le Gallienne "In Her Diary"
Had moved his table of mirrors - Gary Lehmann "The Heat of the Moon"
Withdraw from this orbit of mirrors - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"
Face the flower-formed mirror - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Evening comes with an onslaught]" transl. by Burton Watson
Stealing a mirror glance - Li Shang-yin "[At eight stealing a mirror glance]" transl. by Burton Watson
The gilded magpie mirror - Li T'ai-Po "Written in the Character of a Beautiful Woman Grieving Before Her Mirror" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Red eyes burning back in the mirror - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Our thrones of maps and mirrors - Ada Limon "High Water"
a fortune of mirrors and years - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
The tremulously mirrored clouds lie deep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
A swaying mirror for the sun - Jeannette Marks "Willow Pollen"
Be a mirror to these movements - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"
Just mirrors of unrealities - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
Breaking a stolen mirror - Ted Mathys "Appalachian Trail"
Find ourselves in the charred mirrors - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
Citizen of the binary mirror - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"
Stare in the mirror of his face - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"
Make a racket pounding on mirrors - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson
Blurred as in red mirror moons - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
In my own skin in this infinity mirror - Lynn Melnick "Poem Entering the Apple Valley Target"
Before the laughing mirror - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Trapped between two mirror points - Joanne Merriam "Mirror Points"
Towers of empty mirrors - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
No mirror keeps its glances - Alice Meynell "Your Own Fair Youth"
Tell you your eyes are mirrors - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
Colloquium of dark birds and mirrors - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
Transfigured tarnish of another's mirror - Claire Millikin "The Unpopular Dress"
Hold a mirror up to the clouds - Jenny Molberg "Mirrors"
The shiver of the mirrored moon - N. Scott Momaday "The Essence of Belonging"
Each cup mirrors the glowing skies - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"
Within whose glowing sphere is mirrored half a world - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Between the mirror and the shoe rack - Valzhyna Mort "My Father's Breed"
In red mirror moons - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Put by the mirror of her bridal days - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"
Mirrored in the pearly dew - Francis Neilson "Sweet Face, I See Thee Shine"
With all their fractured mirrors - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"
A procession of mirrors and swords - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Since Love is a mirror we break - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
The mirror croons an unending song - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
The mirror crooning to a lonely crow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Through the waveless mirror-seas - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"
Even the mirror's dazzling emptiness - D. Nurkse "Looking and Finding"
Past the mirrors and night windows - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"
All the mirrors were painted black - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
Caged in a room of mirrors - Gregory Orr "The Cage"
That mirror of things infinite - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
Transform the mirror of his soul - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Are You My Cousin"
Our glory-days in the rear-view mirror - Andre F. Peltier "Miyagi's Wisdom and the Lunch-Table Debates"
All the generosity of a mirror - Carl Phillips "Correction"
If I meet no mirrors - Carl Phillips "On Coming Close"
Holding a mirror up to Apollo - Carl Phillips "Reasonable Doubt"
splits open revealing mirroring paths - Xan Forest Phillips "no one wants to be rough anymore"
Leave the mirror stored in its box - Po Chu'i "Feelings Wakened by a Mirror" transl. by Burton Watson
Red dust coats the mirror's green bronze - Po Chu'i "Feelings Wakened by a Mirror" transl. by Burton Watson
A broken bundle of mirrors - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"
Bespoke mirrors for our escaping faces - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "With a third eye, I see the catastrophe"
Forsake me at the lip of the mirror - Sina Queyras "Mummy"
To put my palm against that mirror - Paige Quinones "Bipolar and its Related Disorders"
Sets a mirror at our feet - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"
O rose in the mirror of time - Theodore H. Rand "The White Rose"
The brook is silent when it mirrors most - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
a motionless mirror of the full moon sky - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
the blinding mirror image of near-sighted dreams - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Memory lifts her smoky mirror - Adrienne Rich "Eastern War Time"
My century's hinged and beveled mirror - Adrienne Rich "1999"
A tiny silver mirror held to the high stars - Lola Ridge "Fame"
A mirror depthless and deceitful - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"
That mirrors a friend's face to memory - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
She holds a shadowy mirror to her eyes - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
The mirror becoming stranger - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"
Throw stones at a mirror - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Polishing the mirror of your heart - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
A thousand times that mirrored glory fled - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
Viewed in the hollow mirror of remorse - Friedrich Schiller "Resignation" transl. not credited
Two mirrors looking for arrowheads - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"
Haunted mirrors stare down from all sides - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"
The enemy inherent in our mirrors - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"
Beneath its polished mirror moon - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"
No fuller than any mirror - Teresa J. Scollon "The Yoga Master at the Party"
Make the universe a mirror - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"
Fashioned from the mirror of the soul - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems II"
my skin is a mirror of past lives - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
Down the facing mirrors of future and past - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
Using the Black Sea as a mirror - Diane Seuss "Song in My Heart"
A mirror reflects out of boredom - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"
Still water as their mirror - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
This language of mirrors at the end of the world - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
And in our eyes, we see empty mirrors - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Mirrors made of lucid stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Impression"
Mirrors of steel or silver - Clark Ashton Smith "Mirrors"
Picking up the pieces of a broken mirror - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"
Once mirror to the mountain - George Sterling "The First Born"
Bend the lances of the mirrored pines - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Mirrors the harsh, round sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Reflected in the sapphire mirror - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 51: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
An elephant mirrored in a slab of quartz - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 224: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A mirror between aurora and extremity - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
The silver had run out of all the mirrors - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
The surfaces of mirrors with no reflections - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
In the mirror of a fading photograph - Russell Thorburn "Bad Men and Dirt"
But the mirror is not the truth - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
Mirrors flashed their argent memories - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"
Like fog from a mirror - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"
Everybody else saw the you in the mirror - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"
With mirrors held to the bottom of lakes - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
Must orchestrate the shattering of mirrors - Enrique Villasis "Birds in Flight, 1965"
Mother of mirrors, angel of the acts - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"
A mirror's tears - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"
A mirror spread in each direction - Arthur Waugh "The Beautiful Swan"
Mirror my wildest passions - Oscar Wilde "Sonnet to Liberty"
Mirror and dissipate the cloudy shapes of error - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"
The past becomes such a mirror - Charles Wright "On the Night of the First Snow, Thinking About Tennessee"
And their mirrored pieces of heaven - Charles Wright "Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else"
Mirrored a thousand laughing faces - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
Death and its mirror - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
A set of moving mirrored shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
Spoon mirror flipping us upside down - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
The mirror that dangles from quicksilver - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 2" transl. by Katherine Silver
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A mirror-creature in a red dress - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Cast mirror-fogged webs into the center - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
listen for the thoughts of their lost mirror-images - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
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