Potential Titles: Catch

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And catch you falling into trust - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

His fingers catch glimpes of other lives - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"

Used to catching her image first in puddles - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

Catches herself spread in the moon's reflection - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

The sun catches tantalizing glimpses of herself - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

Sometimes the sea catches fire - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"

Catching the light at day's end - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"

To catch the empty hand of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"

To catch the hands of night - Elizabeth Bartlett "Final Performance"

the throat of night catches - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"

And catch the magic of her eye - "The Belles of Williamsburg"

Catches hold of what comes next to hand - Robert Blair "The Grave"

High sparkling fountains catch a rainbow light - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

To catch the upheaval of triumph - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Catch morsels of food from birds flying overhead - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Sticky threads to catch unwary insects - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

The sound of my past catching up with yours - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

A kiss so cold you'll catch your death - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

For nothing they intend to catch - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"

The roaming robber breezes catch - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Still catches the stones - Robert Creeley "Waldoboro Eve"

Catching the light, spinning it into gold - James Crews "Here with You"

A bullet not even lamplight could catch - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Played catch with a warm tomato - Denise Duhamel "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"

Catching against my heartbeat - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

Catch the clouds in the midst of their dance - Daniel Errico "CloudPlay"

My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"

Catching its hems on our thresholds - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"

Her shawl catching scraps of her voice - Carolyn Forche "Mientras Dure Vida, Sobre el Tiempo"

Who catches the first crimsoning of dawn - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Those razor-sharp moments you catch - Lore Graham "Absence"

Catch heaven's brightness on their waves - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"

I catch on the vertices - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Till it catch the sound of that western sea - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"

Catch yourself in a plate glass window - francine j. harris "Reflections in a Pool of Hair"

To catch the fluttering Bird of Night - Oliver Herford "The Golden Cat"

Catching scraps of sunlight through the sycamores - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Waterfall"

Catch the stranger's curious eye - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"

As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"

To catch a rainbow cry - Langston Hughes "In Time of Silver Rain"

And catch hold of a soft pulse - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

Catch with a small snag - Kimberly Johnson "Ode on My Episiotomy"

Catching my limbs in sequels and spoofs - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"

To catch the sweetheart wind - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Round pools within a wood to catch the stars - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Whom very few contrive to catch - Henry S. Leigh "My Ultimatum"

Trusting the trees to catch my fall - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"

Catches the stars and pulls them down - Amy Lowell "A Little Song"

Catching up to the speed of rue and awe - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Fish-hooks baited to catch greed - John Masefield "Biography"

Nets to catch the full sum of our being - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

To catch each dream that lies hidden - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

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

Knows how to catch a fly in his hands - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"

Catches the thread of all sorrows - Naomi Shihab Nye "Kindness"

We catch but broken strokes - John Oxenham "God's Handwriting"

Catch a weasel asleep - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Conroy's Gap"

The speed to catch swallows - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Our New Horse"

The shadow I can't quite catch - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"

To catch a wind god breathing - Carl Phillips "Vikings"

Catching fish to pay his debts - E.J. Pratt "The Passing of Jerry Moore"

Till the snow-caps catch the chorus - Robert Reid "A Song of Canada"

Catch the sun upon their snouts - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

To catch the last vestiges of someone's history - Levi Romero "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"

Catch all the auroras before they fall - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"

Catching play of sun-fire - Carl Sandburg "In a Breath"

Catch crabs in Lethe's flood - Friedrich Schiller "The Journalists and Minos"

Wake up and catch the melody - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick "Easter"

And my heart shall catch the rhythm - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

To catch the legends as they fall - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

A silken basket catching our paper airplanes - Bryce A. Taylor "Cartilage"

Catching quick moments of sunlight - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

And the tired forest catches fire - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

enter the sweat of what falls before I catch it - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Strange acrobats to catch them - Iris Tree "Nerves"

To catch the spirit of passage - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

To catch the final crumbs - Thomas Walsh "Egidio of Coimbra--1597 A.D."

And weave but nets to catch the wind - John Webster "The Burial"

Catch glints of rapture from the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Bird Love--Rose Love"

Catch the wind and twine the evening stars - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

Catch the sparks that flutter from the stars - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"

Remains to catch the parting ray - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"

And catch the light of the right star - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

Catch alewives in their hands - Elinor Wylie "Atavism"

The cold spell that catches us - Kevin Young "Ditty"


Uncatches some remote lock - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"


Caught in the stormstrike - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"

Caught last night in open sea - "Abroad"

Small sun caught up in the quicksilver lies - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

The promise caught from eastern skies - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"

Too modern to be caught grieving - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"

Vaguely caught through whispers fallen from tradition's lip - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Caught in the vapor between this world and that - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"

Caught hold of its ancestors' shadows - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The shadow went on walking"

Caught in the frame of their looking - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Awkward/Black/Object"

The dream on the canvas caught - Albion Fellows Bacon "Chiaro-Oscuro"

Song of a garden caught in a robin - Mary Jo Bang "Day Two of a New Bear"

Imagination caught in the door latch - Mary Jo Bang "Heartbreaking"

Snow birds and sooty herons caught - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

Caught in her own fatal snare - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

caught like a leaf burning - Elizabeth Bartlett "beyond cost"

caught swirling autumn down - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

Caught in the meshes of Eternity - Stephen Vincent Benet "Poor Devil!"

Caught in the terrier mouth of rain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

Caught at the edge of the net of gems - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Caught me without a prayer - Tommye Blount "The Black Umbrella"

Caught the echoes of the herald's song - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"

Takes from the fish-hawk his newly caught prey - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Caught from some shadowy memory - Susan Coolidge "A Blind Singer"

Caught in every wanton snare - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Caught the bulk of the vampire - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Says She's Not the Madwoman in the Attic"

Caught in the stubble of the world - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Caught root among wet pebbles - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

Caught in a dead fir-tree - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

Caught by the arm of a strong wind - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"

Caught the huge moon in my throat - Meg Day "Another Night at Sea Level"

In a burning passion caught - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Caught without her diadem - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXIX: Beclouded"

A spirit caught among its wires - John Hunter Duvar "John A'Var's Last Lay"

And in thy sweet chains caught - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"

Caught like the hunter of the east - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

With the gold of roses caught round his feet - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The True and Last Story of Little Boy Blue"

In any rough place where it caught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"

where all are caught in isolate crystal - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

Caught no glimmer through the night - Wilfrid Gibson "Flannan Isle"

And been caught in the web of the stars - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

Caught in your treacherous veil - Louis Golding "The Advent of Mars"

A silver star caught in the meshes of the moon - Mona Gould "Night Garden"

Caught in a knot of regret - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"

And the scene is caught - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (1)"

Caught upon a buried sky - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"

Caught from a snowdrop in earliest spring - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Mephisto never yet was caught beneath false colors - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

Long story caught in his throat - Conrad Hilberry "Memory"

Mice and leverets caught by flood - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

Stares caught in plexiglass - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"

That caught its shadow in a dream - Annie Fellows Johnston "Through an Amber Pane"

Like messages that will never be caught - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

One always caught in the clutch of another - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

A kind of love always caught in the underworld - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 1"

Nettles caught on hem and hair - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"

Within the Temple caught - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

When happiness is caught off guard - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

A cloud in the sunset caught - Archibald Lampman "A Ballade of Waiting"

The wavering flames upcaught - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"

Caught at false shadows - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"

nectar of oceans caught in your throat - Yoon Ha Lee "Sea-Sweet"

Caught in the Circle of Pain - Amy Levy "Felo de Se"

To hold the clue that I caught first - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

They caught me half-revealed - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

Caught the universe that just revived - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

A dream, caught with both hands - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

In Memory's sketchbook caught - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

And caught my songs about her throat - Archibald MacLeish "Charity"

Got caught stealing a candy bar - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

Caught from dubious hues - George Meredith "A Later Alexandrian"

Caught elegy's peripheral glance - Claire Millikin "Rooms Before Television"

A silkworm caught in the grass - Tyler Mills "ectopic"

a burglar caught red-handed - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"

Caught the lightning of the cold - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The moon caught up in the jasmine - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

The silver chill caught in our wind-woven walls - Mari Ness "ICE"

To find yourselves caught in Man's merciless traps - "Night Fall in the Ti-Tree"

When my sleeve caught fire - Idra Novey "Nearly"

From lies of vaunting Treason caught - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Caught in bristling cyberspace - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

A squirrel caught at play - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Caught between brackets and barricades - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

The wind is caught in the lilac bush - Miriam Clark Potter "The Pilot Wind"

Caught between two unmarked graves - Camille Rankine "Inheritance"

Caught in a laboratory without a science - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"

Caught in a before and after - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"

Caught between two winds - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Caught on seas that have no name - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Flying Dutchman"

Caught still as Absalom - Isaac Rosenberg "Chagrin"

Never caught his quarry - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

Caught hunting mosquitoes - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"

The science of stars caught in these spheres - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

Caught a color from the sun - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"

Caught in structures without meaning - Steven David Justin Sills "Earth"

Caught in meshes of Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

Caught me from the clasping world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"

Shadows caught with our mouths open - Gerald Stern "Ted Rosenberg"

Catches tigers in red weather - Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"

Caught in many tangles - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Umbrella caught on hemlock twigs - Alison Swan "Snow"

Flies caught in time's mesh - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

Caught in that dusty snare - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Who caught and sang the sun in flight - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"

Caught old Time with potent spells - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

Caught up with what it was - Edwin Torres "This Is Not the Conversation That I Started the Conversation With"

Caught a flash of eternity - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"

Seeded me with a rock your father caught - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

A chastened glow from fires celestial caught - Edith Wharton "Raffaelle to the Fornarina"

Caught the threaded echoes of the breeze - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"

Caught in the blinding stars of the future - Ray Young Bear "To See as Far as the Grandfather World"

The falling prize with pleasure caught - "The Young Monkey" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Caught in a dilapidated loop - Felicia Zamora "Bodies & Water"

A blue moon for an instant caught - Cynthia Zarin "Blue Vase"


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