Potential Titles: Loose/Loosen

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Afraid to shake loose any stars still lodged inside - Duana Ackerson "The Observatory"

Emotion loosened from intensity - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Grief bundled or coming loose - Alise Alousi "Back to School"

Turn the beggars loose on my vegetables - Julia Alvarez "Ars Politica"

Loose without oars or sails - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"

Rumor was loose in the air - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"

Loosen your hair to the storm again - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Loose net of words to deeds - Stephen Vincent Benet "Music"

Space's Pandora-box loosed its wonders upon him - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Loosen the buckles of my mind - Tamiko Beyer "February"

Years loosen one sand grain - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"

Looses its thin divine kindness - Maxwell Bodenheim "After Feeling Deux Arabesques by Debussy"

Had hidden beneath a loose generosity - Maxwell Bodenheim "More About Captain Simmons"

A cupful of hesitation finally beginning to loosen your tongues - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

Beneath the loose and drifting snow - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"

loosened in the mirror - Lucille Clifton "morning mirror"

That one brief unit of loose time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Like two loose comets wandering - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Loose of tongue and light - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene IV"

Tears to loosen the torment - Andrea Cote-Botero "Dear Beth" (translated by Sasha Pimentel)

In the loose girdle of soft rain - Hart Crane "My Grandmother's Love Letters"

Loose clutter and human mystery - Jim Daniels "Approaching and Passing an Epiphany"

Thousands of puppies loose - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

Who will let loose a river of lament - Kwame Dawes "Talk"

Flings loose its shadows - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

Glitter fierce in loose veils of oil - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 2. Corexit 9527A"

To loose a link never made - "Eadwacer" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone

Pebble loosened from the frost - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Demon rust loosening the bolts - Martin Espada "A Million Ants Swarming Through His Body"

Loose coins in my memory's backseat - John Olivares Espinoza "These Hands, These Roots"

Loosen your grip on your judgments - Anne Evans "A New Variant"

Drunk on loosened wind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Last Kingdom"

A loose flock of blackbirds sweeping over - Vievee Francis "Clarity"

In loose numbers wildly sweet - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Hauled taut and loosed - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

Let the doves of fancy loose - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Around the Boree Log"

Where we have held the loose feathers of a fallen bird - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

A loosened sheaf of light - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"

Satan broke loose and nothing between - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

My grief a loose dam - K. Iver "Anti-Elegy"

Loosening the stitches to pass time - Allison Eir Jenks "The Burial of Two Strangers"

combs loose static from my hair - Aristilde Kirby "Daria Ukiyo-e"

Into the clouds of loose, lush roses - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"

Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Lets Passion's loosened elements fly - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Lets loose the whirlwind's vengeful power - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]

Tumbleweed torn loose - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson

Leave your arms loose in the hour - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

Who should loose me - Amy Lowell "Patterns"

My mind is loose on ice skates - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"

Some loose-tongued prophet's meddling word - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Let loose from a barbed hook - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

The wind's wolves through the woods are loose - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Broke loose with the wind - Pablo Neruda "Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid

Loosen my language from my teeth - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"

Loose on the swelling tide - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

Let loose by the blackbirds - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

Like constellations cut loose - Linda Pastan "Fireflies"

Loose notes on tragedy - Carl Phillips "As Easy to Cry as Not To"

Loose every captive from his irons - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Twined up in loose fog, time-shocked - Khadijah Queen "Dementia Is One Way to Say Fatal Brain Failure"

My year of pulling the knots loose - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"

The Pleiades broken loose - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Torches flaming out like loosened hair - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Loose approaches to tightening mazes - Kay Ryan "Latents"

Let me lift and loosen old foundations - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"

The loose rivets of the spirit clay - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

All kinds of wishes let loose - Teresa J. Scollon "Goodbye to Dwight Lipke"

Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

And her hands have loosed the tether - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: I. In the North"

Had loosened their grip on the world - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

Loose all burden of old woes - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Crowning their victory by loose despair - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

Broke loose to a remoter sky - George Sterling "The Altar Flame"

Tossed them loose to the sun and the wind - Katherine Tynan "The Making of Birds"

Loose the storm-dogs from their bed - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Sofly sighs the gracious wind]"

At her throat is loose gold - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"


To a mind tired of loose ends - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"

Having tied all the loose ends - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Loose end of a rainbow dangling - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"


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