Potential Titles: Use

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Using the palette we invent - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

Embrace who they used to be - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

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

Using straight pins to eat hollyhocks - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"

Used me in her parasitic trade - Mary Aldis "Ellie"

Used the heavens as a crystal ball - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"

His numbers have their use - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VIII--The Sunshine of Poetry"

Using only a cup of water - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

Used to connote a blank space - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

Get used to trash along the road - Elizabeth Barnett "You remember the feeling but not what made you feel that way"

Used the name we had agreed upon - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"

use your struggle as disguise - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"

Use an obvious language that deceives - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"

To use thought as a musical instrument - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. VI: Woman"

A blighted winter bough where love and music used to be - Arna Bontemps "A Tree Design"

Used and spent, and then abandoned and passed by - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"

Where that perished sapling used to be - Emily Bronte "Death"

Using haunted dice - Calef Brown "The Gambling Ghost"

A gift someone had to die for him to use - Jericho Brown "Reunion Tour"

No use for your tears - Jericho Brown "Riddle"

That used to blow thee between the hedge-thorns - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Dead Rose" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]

Well versed in use of arms - Joseph Horatio Chant "Bag Your Game"

Used for transferring distances - M.C. Childs "Electrical Symbols"

Used what words we had - Franny Choi "We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had"

To use the undistorted light - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

All used by the Devil as bait - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"

Rocks used to hold an angel down - Tyree Daye "The Tomato Women's Meetings: The Washing of Hands"

Use silence to trap a devil - Toi Derricotte "Passing"

The gold in using wore away - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVII: The Wife"

the type of monster you used to love - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

Mellow with old loves that used to burn - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

This cheat that uses us as baubles - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Use the glass as a dream portal - Nikky Finney "The Inflammation"

To avoid use of his sacred name - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"

Serve to remind me of castles I used to build in air - Robert Frost "The Kitchen Chimney"

We have to use a spell to make them balance - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

Hands that used their country's ark to bear - "The Ghost of Chatham"

From the seeds of who you used to be - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Used to keep the moon for company - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"

As dead as doornails used to be - John Grey "The Computer vs. My Personal Evolution"

Closed is the book we used to read - Eliza Paul Gurney "In a Season of Bereavement"

To wayward ends and to half use - Ivor Gurney "Hospital Pictures 5. The Miner"

Used a rosebud for a brush - Tom Hall "The Perfect Face"

Make use of broken walls - Nathalie Handal "How to Bite Hard"

Sunset where there used to be a carnival - francine j. harris "why i haven't written"

Use our virtues to betray us - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"

I will not use you for harm - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

The yellow weeds you used to ride - Nora Hopper "The Wind Among the Reeds"

Use wax, and thread, and awl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]

Using the world less and words more - Rodney Jones "The Language of Love"

Only two hands to use in the dance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

To stammer where old Chaucer used to sing - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Using no other exercise - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Gathered and used again - Galway Kinnell "Fire in Luna Park"

Through timeless arrogance of use - Rudyard Kipling "The Birthright"

By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Having no use for money - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"

Searing language into brains ill-equipped to use it - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

The dark imprints of use - Michael Lauchlan "Glove"

I used to write rainfall into existence - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

And use the voice of truth - "The Life and Death of Tom Careless"

Haunted by the ghosts I used to be - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"

A mother that exists only in user manuals - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

Using science neither of us understands - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"

What use is there in breaking the enchantment - Harry Martinson "Aniara 27" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Used and misused like things without a soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

As Vashti used to do - John Masefield "Esther"

Using their passions as his tool - John Masefield "Pompey the Great"

A smile that nobody can use - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

Where a river used to tumble to the sea - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

For baser uses rule our iron age - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Use it to mar the surface of things - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

Used to cast old tales and illusions - W.S. Merwin "The Chinese Mountain Fox"

using the fog's opaque cushion - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"

Used to having a thousand brothers - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Uses up his wandering heart - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Salamanders use the stars to find their way - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

And the world is not what it used to be - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Dolly" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, no.113, v.III, Feb. 27, 1886]

The use they've made of cardamom - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

Use the time that's still vouchsafed you - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Use the harmony of our bones - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"

Used to chainsmoke on the mezzanine - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"

The use of dewdrops I cannot see - Miriam Clark Potter "Blundering Benjamin Bumble Bee"

Used up on hard ground - Khadijah Queen "Anodyne"

My dead have no use for names - Paige Quinones "Visiting My Grandparents' Unmarked Graves"

Using dynamite and metal claws - Charles Rafferty "Quarry"

The bones of what we used to be - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"

Hers by old certitude of use - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"

From the years that used to be - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

Could use a nice invasion - Valencia Robin "After Graduate School"

Using the Past's own export vessels - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

Use the lessons of yesterday - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"

Suggest the uses of paint thinner - James Marcus Schuyler "April"

Using the Black Sea as a mirror - Diane Seuss "Song in My Heart"

The hardest knife ill-us'd doth lose his edge - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCV"

Use rigour in my jail - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"

For use only by a zen sun laughing - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"

Using the game to create the essential essence - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

Twisting earth's iron to their use - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"

Used to make such riot once - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"

Only the things he used remain - Tao Yuanming "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Arthur Waley

Nor to use heaven's champaign - Francis Thompson "All Flesh"

The tree uses a secret algebra - McKenzie Toma "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"

From which sweetness used to run - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Flesh and Blood"

I used to have a maybe - Edwin Torres "Viva la Viva"

Of lightning's use and speed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Alas, that pigment be so badly used - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"

The power of might used in an earthy way - Rudolph Valentino "The Sphinx (To B.H.)"

Other nights we use just our names - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"

For future uses hoarding present force - William Watson "Sketch of a Political Character"

Gifts well used and duty done - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"

Whose use is compromised - Katie Willingham "Salt (Disambiguation)"

If an injured god used his prerogative of anger - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"

Used to disguise fragility and fractured dreams - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"

Uses tears and exacting brush strokes - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Get used to nothing answering back - Dean Young "Folklore"

No use telling the dead - Kevin Young "Ledge"


Used-up plantations worn and dry - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Lost among the used-up cinders - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"


Useful.


Useless.


On that disused and forgotten road - Robert Frost "Ghost House"


Iron misused must turn to blight - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"

Used and misused like things without a soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg


And old forgotten key deep in an unused drawer - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]

With miles and miles of unused sky - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Homesteader"

Oil the unused armour's rust - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"

Stir the attar of unused air - Lola Ridge "Dedication"

Nightlights going unused in the swinging forests - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"


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