Potential Titles: Learn

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Make it learn to live in the dark - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"

Learned to count clouds - Francisco X. Alarcon "My Grandma Is an Angel"

Learn to sing with their hearts - Francisco X. Alarcon "Ode to Buena Vista Bilingual School"

Learned to swim in the caustic water - Elizabeth Alexander "Haircut"

When he learned he could drink the stars - Mike Allen "Deluge"

The thorned secrets our tongues have learned - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"

The mournful song of exile is now for me to learn - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"

Learned, done, dusted and trusted to memory - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Learn how to swallow back oceans - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Learned echoes from emptiness - Mary Jo Bang "Slow Dancer"

A foreign word that you are ashamed to learn - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"

Learn to break free - Rachel Barenblat "So Much (Ahavah Rabbah)"

And learn to stand on air, alone - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"

They will learn how to hunt - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

Learned touch from air - Jan Beatty "Drag"

Don't learn from stones - E.C. Belli "Vows"

Learn the work song of smaller creatures - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

In seed time learn - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"

Learned accounting to sort lentils - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"

You have learned the beginning - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"

Learning to swim in my tears - Ana Bozicevic "About a Fish"

Whose tongues learn first to cry - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

Shall learn the quietness of Arden - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

Learned to wake without exaggeration - Scott Cairns "Early Frost"

Learned to steer my future - Will Carleton "Wealth"

With pilfered shreds of learning - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

Learned to suffocate death and continue - Paul Carroll "Song [To be able to walk along and see]"

Learned nothing from her kindness - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"

Learning not to clutch the ground so fierce - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"

have learned the taste of blood - Lucille Clifton "enemies"

Learn the Second Reverence - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Learn the faith of the indifferent - Henri Cole "Twilight"

To learn what scheme he could advance - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"

To learn where Fancy makes her nest - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"

Until I learned how kites are made - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"

Learned all his dreaming from my eyes - Adelaide Crapsey "The Witch"

shall seek all blossoms that do learn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Panic in the alphabet learned - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

Learned the value of dirt - Kwame Dawes "Dirt"

Learn the language of rain - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"

Learned the language of resentment - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

When we learn to prize them - Aubrey de Vere "Human Life"

Learned the music of the kitchen - Diane DeCillis "Music from Another Room"

No one has learned the leaving song - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Learn to keep warm with breathing - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #3"

Learn in the retreating - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity II"

The language that I cannot learn - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Learn the exile's woe - James B. Dollard "Song of the Little Villages"

Learned the mind of winter - Chris Dombrowski "Like a December apiary, the mind tapers"

There's never enough time to learn - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Learned to imitate each other's breath - Michael Dumanis "The Forecast"

Learned to understand the solitudes - Eleanor Farjeon "The Reflection"

Each thing learned in mercy - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"

To learn the medicine for vanishing - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen h"

Learned to navigate painted margins - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"

After learning to shave the gleaming steel - Katie Ford "Koi"

Until we learn to doubt its existence - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

With what I learn from having died - Robert Frost "Away!"

Learned from the forbidden fruit - Robert Frost "Quandry"

That I need learn to let go with the heart - Robert Frost "Wild Grapes"

Isolation is a learned defense - Suzi F. Garcia "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood (with some help from Ahmad)"

Had learned to wear the crown of sorrow - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

The world's a book we learn to translate - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

If hills could learn to weep - Oliver Goldsmith "A Great Man"

What every hour is free to learn - Gerald Gould "Oxford"

By learning to relinquish it - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

Learn to gather sighs - Kimberly Grey "Epithalamium ABC"

Learn to leave and return - Kimberly Grey "Invention"

A new labyrinth that I learn and forget - Wendy Guerra "Snow in Havana" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Learn the peace of lilies - Hazel Hall "Before Quiet"

Learn how to leave - Nathalie Handal "Elsie"

Till you learn again to breathe underwater - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

The stars have learned to say good-bye - Joy Harjo "Desire"

To learn my heart's language - Jim Harrison "Hard Times"

Learnt the art of looking wise - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "His Father"

The first cell that learned to divide - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

Learning how to stand a shock - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

The hallowed wells of Learning - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

When once they learn'd the spell - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

When I learn of your enterprising viciousness - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

Grasshoppers learn to sing as they go - Marie L. Johnson "The Grasshopper" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Learning the secrets of cirrhosis - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

Learned the funereal smell of carnations - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Learning to worship the strangers - June Jordan "These Poems"

A glowing thing learning - Sarah Kay "Jakarta, January"

Having learnt from sources pure and high - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

From spiders learn to warp their looms - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

Learning why one envies the octopus for its ink - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Learning an algebraic maze - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

Sacred vials of learning - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

We have learned the lesson of Time - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"

The blue aster learns to rise and run - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Learning to recognize what we love - Li-Young Lee "To Hold"

How we all learned to walk properly again - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Her angles learned to grow some kind of sharpness - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"

Learning to survive where there is no food - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

Except a burning learned just once - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Fled from the halls where learning kills - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"

The painter must learn his art anew - Arthur Macy "A Bit of Color"

Learned a sense of direction - Randall Mann "A Better Life"

Learn again to begin - Maureen N. McLane "OK Let's Go"

Learn the secret of the shrouded death - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Learn to catch your corners - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"

Learned the burden of secrets - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"

A crystalline chair of learning - Pablo Neruda "Chilean Mockingbird" transl. by Jack Schmitt

You learn something strange when you garden for souls - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

To learn the importance of stillness - Mary Oliver "Coming to God: First Days"

Learning to be astonished - Mary Oliver "Messenger"

Learning has no constant master - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

Hope is more than sages learn - Walter S. Percy "What Is Truth?"

A friend you've learned not to trust entirely - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

Spent decades learning how best to melt - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

And warms the earth in a learned way - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"

Learn the texture of a heart - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"

to learn the secret of cruelty - Kadijah Queen "Violence, I know you"

Let it be a history learned from orange - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

A language I wish I had never learned - Paige Quinones "Viability Study"

Leave hope and learn your song - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

I imagine learning what you'd already try to teach me - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"

Has learned to carve many doors out of its darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

Have learnt the riddle of seas and sands - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Lessons learned and broken wings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"

To learn that ice would burn - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

Learning to hide inside art's ecstatic parentheses - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"

Learning the last bright routs - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"

Added feathers to the learned's wing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"

Learn and find the lesson true - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVIII"

Learn the strength and change of time - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

I had not learned all things must die - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

Learn to be water in a garden - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"

freedom is learning to walk - Evie Shockley "du bois in ghana"

The bees have learned to embroider - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

Who learns and teaches free - James Stephens "The College of Science"

Full of lessons for my learning - "A Summer Holiday" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Now when the bitter truth is learned - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Two million things for me to learn - Edward Thomas "The Child in the Orchard"

Learn to water joy with tears - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Venice and Naples learned their part - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"

And learn the same lesson again and again - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

Learn now about hunger - R.A. Villanueva "Annus Mirabilis"

Has learnt your silence - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Learn their limits without degrees - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"

Learnt from thee to live - Phillis Wheatley "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"

The survivor must learn a new tune - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"

Hard to learn forgiving - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"

Must learn the taste of truth - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"

How does anything learn to be alone? - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Disappointment"

Learns everything by taste - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Pattern Recognition"

And our souls learn wonderful lessons - Huldah Lucile Winsted "In the Land of Dakota"

Learned that survival was hierarchical - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"

Have learned the turbulence of names - Jay Wright "Kumu"

The only alchemy I care to learn - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Can only be learned by living - Kevin Young "Ledge"

Learn to move as ghosts do - Jenny Zhang "under the chiming bell"


A machine-learning algorithm to calculate the odds - Edgar Kunz "Willrobotstakemyjob.com"


Relearn the forgotten alphabet of beginnings - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

Relearning familiar sin - Michael Lauchlan "Interferometry in Hell"

With the effort to relearn these names - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"


Unlearn.


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