Potential Titles: Ocean

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i set my love out over an ocean of space - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

As if a siphon could drain an ocean - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

The ocean metaphor refused - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"

An ocean of green legumes joining hands - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

Dashed back into a midnight ocean - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"

As the ocean knows this island - Lauren K. Alleyne "Nothing to Declare"

When the salt has left the ocean - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Lines to My Love"

While holy vespers steal across the ocean - Lennox Amott "My Beauty's Home"

Count all the oceans - Fatimah Asghar "Oil"

The strange tales of Ocean it tries to confess - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Made gentle the wild oceans - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Make me dream in oceans - Cameron Awkward-Rich "What Returns"

Inside an ocean that never spills - Julie Babcock "Being Right"

The dark dagger of the ocean - Quenton Baker "[we are]"

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

Ocean's teapot of eroding waves - Mary Jo Bang "Real Time"

An ocean of grief pressed into ovals - Mary Jo Bang "This Morning"

The ocean saved in a jar - Catherine Barnett "Living Room Altar"

Ocean salt and tear salt - Kay Ulanday Barrett "While looking at photo albums"

that the oceans have known better universes - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

Where Ocean plays with his amaranthian ships - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"

Of wild seas birthing oceans - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"

Diagrams like songs on ocean floors - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"

A barge carrying on ocean home - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"

But still the ocean craves for more - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"

Emerged from the ocean of night - Patrick Bronte "The Rainbow"

In the sleep of ocean's azure gulfs - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

Across oceans' roads past rows of ghosts - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"

And oceans echoed glories in her ear - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

Mirrored in the ocean vast - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"

The universe of ocean dwelt - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

A legacy of people crossing oceans - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

Cross this ocean of liberation in community - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

All the seasons of the ocean - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"

The ocean's childless oracle - Jennifer Chang "River Pilgrims"

Licking dry the ocean's mouth - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"

Die so he could be the ocean - Leonard Cohen "Drank a Lot"

Once the oceans open up - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

Of time upon the ocean's bed - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Discovered the extravagance of oceans - Diane DeCillis "The Myth of Father"

The ocean's heart too smooth, too blue - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXV: Shipwreck"

Ocean drums his grand march beat - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Sheer ocean of sky - Ed Falco "Morning Voices"

Where you expect to find ocean - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Anchorless upon the ocean - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "The Changing Light"

Exactly half a mile from the ocean - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"

Dropped into the ocean of herself - B. K. Fischer "Museum of Menstruation"

While navigating ocean catacombs - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Their hearts brave the Four Oceans - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Mistakes enough to fill an ocean - Nikita Gill "In This Story"

Dark unfathomed caves of ocean - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

From Oceans of mercy's zeal - James Roane Gregory "Rain"

On the ocean that hollows the rocks - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"

Far on the verge of the ocean it lay - Gerald Griffin "Hy-Brasail"

An ocean of fear of the dark - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"

In an ocean of telephone sound - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: III. Drowning Horses"

Salt my shoulders with ocean - francine j. harris "somewhere outside acme, i believe in castles"

Make my river an ocean - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"

Waiting to sail out into unruly ocean - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"

Leaving the worlds of ocean - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Fill the ocean with melted ice - Arden Eli Hill "None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals"

On the thin mirage of ocean - Robert Hillyer "Fog"

To the ocean of your breath - J.G. Holland "Kathrina: Complaint"

Wear our shame like an ocean - Carly Inghram "Of No Specific Light"

Shoulders washed by ocean's foam - "The Isle of Arran" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Under the feet of the ocean cavalry - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"

Gentle flotsam of an oceanic dream - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Move until the ocean turns - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"

The prisoners of old ocean - James Weldon Johnson "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day"

An eyebrow in the ocean - Rindon Johnson "There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay"

My throat is the ocean now - Saeed Jones "After Last Light"

A hundred fins in the ocean of my chest - Zilka Joseph "Gourami Fish Tale"

Disturbs the tranquil rest of Ocean - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

All those who've drowned in oceans - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

Embracing oceans and galaxies - Kim Unsong "My Spirits"

By the ocean's obfuscating grave - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"

The ocean is sky to fish and mollusk - Christopher Kondrich "Layer of Ash"

Parsing old and new ocean kinships - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"

As a weed beneath the ocean - Archibald Lampman "Passion"

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

To an ocean's greatest rise - Hailey Leithauser "Rapture"

The mountains have no word for ocean - Philip Levine "Our Valley"

Burning crystals settling on the evening ocean - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

A buoy that the ocean resents - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Anchored in the ocean - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Spring"

Where the restless oceans pound - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"

Crafted from ocean waves & starlight - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"

Constellations in an ocean - Mina Loy "Love Songs (I)"

When the mermaid sleeps in her ocean hall - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Who spanned the wide ocean - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Sieur de Maisonneuve, or The Founding of Montreal"

The ocean that drowns the liars - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

Whirlpool surrounded by ocean and hanging moss - Maya Marshall "Port of Entry"

Softest harmonies of air and ocean - George Martin "Laleet"

An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"

Can't be built out of ocean - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

Succumb to the ocean and its hunger for stone - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Admiring the ocean's lack of attachment - Campbell McGrath "My Sadness"

Fitted complete to swim the ocean - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"

Forcing rash sweetness on sage ocean's brine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

To brave the ocean's battling shock - Morna "Ianthe"

Fragrant with the ocean's breath - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"

Mourned by the ocean wave - Neil Munro "Fingal's Weeping"

Our ocean of air and lungs - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf

An arid insect over the ocean - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

That once cupped an ocean in its peak - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"

To an infinite field of ocean - Tim Newcomb "Bear Valley Trail, Point Reyes"

On an alien ocean's verge - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

A fountain in an ocean of tears - Robert Nichols "The Tower"

The warmth of the missing ocean - Nancy Nishihara "The Weight"

An ocean wide we must cross to-day - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Ocean Voyage"

The rumor of a phantom ocean - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

A blacker night than ocean knew - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

Raised his hand against the roaring ocean - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"

The bones along the ocean floor - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

The ocean empties its pockets - Mary Oliver "Morning Walk"

The egg case of an ocean shell - Mary Oliver "Something"

Lived with eight sisters in a warm ocean - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Seek ocean on the loveliest river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Aspiration"

From joining ocean's war - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

Snow falling on the ocean - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Insurance"

As pathless as ocean's foam - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Conroy's Gap"

Where the ocean drifts its rhythms to the beach - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Singing on towards the ocean - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"

Cast against an ocean's skin - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"

The bells' slow ocean tones - E.J. Pratt "The Toll of the Bells"

I don't want to drown in ocean math - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

Strung yarn trajectories across all the oceans - Danni Quintos "Five Hundred Years & Three Weeks Ago We Killed Magellan"

While sailing life's surprising ocean - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

The wine of shoreless oceans - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Sharks in an ocean of mermaids and pearls - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

With Earth and Ocean reconciled - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"

All the ocean's water without me - Roger Reeves "Black Laws"

Reckless of ocean's rise - Robert Reid "Poesie"

An ocean heartless as eternity - Adrienne Rich "Regardless"

With an ocean's belly underneath - Lola Ridge "Alliance"

Flotsam of the five oceans - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Runs westward to the ocean rim and over - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"

A sense of ocean and old trees - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"

Empty the wild ocean with the shell of an egg - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

How the ocean steals anything it wants - Mark Rudolph "Threnody at Sea"

For oceans gravity did not command - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Scattered our fears for the ocean to swallow - Teresa J. Scollon "New Year's Day, Winslow Beach, Maine"

Tradition is capable of crossing any ocean - Tobias Seamon "Letter from the Old World"

Crossed an ocean to find - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"

As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

An ocean raging within a stone - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

Sun and moon are lost in the ocean - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Praise the Ocean for teaching me - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"

Flailing on a wronged ocean - Patricia Smith "Siblings"

Hold the ocean in my fist - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"

Across that billion-star ocean - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Incarnation"

Ocean's thunder unsubdued - George Sterling "The City and the Silence"

Saw the sapphire fields of ocean blaze - George Sterling "Duandon"

Took an ocean for its harp - George Sterling "Hesperian"

Beside the ocean of the Past - George Sterling "Memory"

That sorrow in the ocean's voice - George Sterling "Music"

Draining the bitter oceans - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"

And solitary oceans then unknown - George Sterling "Youth and Time"

Days like oceans in obsidian - Wallace Stevens "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"

Still vocal in their ocean depths - Arthur J. Stringer "Canada to England"

The ocean that thunders upon man's soul - Arthur Stringer "The Surrender"

A vision of heaven from the hollows of ocean - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

On the untroubled sands of ocean - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

From the floor of an ocean we can't imagine - Keith Taylor "Drummond Island Fossils"

The fish soar to find the ocean - Francis Thompson "The Kingdom of God"

Became an ocean for a country of smaller oceans - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"

As the oceans of shoreless space - Tso-le-oh-woh "What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet"

The wild volition of the frothing ocean - Genya Turovskaya "Wisterical"

The ocean sang in my father's hands - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"

Scripture an ocean gave me - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

The ocean is always knocking - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

Old Ocean with its ceaseless roar - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "Montauk"

The ocean would as soon entreat the moon - William Watson "Liberty Rejected"

Numerous as the ocean sand - Arthur Weir "Champlain"

This ocean kingdom and coral throne - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"

Every ocean has its mouth - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"

Ignore what returns to the ocean  - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"

While dolphins swam in an ocean of orchestra - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"


Burnt stars oceanic gardens - Philip Lamantia "Celestial Estrangement"

An oceanic circus of gray-light - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"

Trodden oceanic sorrow - Hoa Nguyen "Ask About Language as if it Forgets"


Into the ocean-dark behind me - Jamaal May "Ode to the White-Line-Swallowing-Horizon"


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