Potential Titles: Tore/Torn

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Some tore holes in space and leapt through - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

Wild clamour and fierce tumult tore - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Who tore Orpheus when he refused to sing - Terrance Hayes "At Pegasus"

Tore away its ancient root - "In Hebrid Seas" (Translation by Thomas Pattison)

The sky tore strips of wax paper - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

Tore my heart out and hid the scar - Dorothea Mackellar "Riding Rhyme"

Tore & tossed memories into ponds - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

The cockleburs tore our feet open - John McCarthy "Toughness"

Which the same Furies tore - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Tore off the arms of the fire - Pablo Neruda "The Strike [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

Tore my purple into rags and knelt - Iris Tree "Flame"


Torn from the perch of their comfort - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"

Distorted trumpet, torn bass line - Carl Adamshick "New year's morning"

Torn from within a cold glassy fire - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Mirrors" transl. by Allan Francovich

Chaos, from his old dominion torn - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Torn fire glares on beauty - Louise Bogan "A Tale"

The torn marrow of an adder's spine - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Scatter myself empty as a torn dress - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

All the yards torn by their green rust beings - Russell Brakefield "Effigy"

Toothed and torn and spurred - Howard Futhey Brinton "Mac's (Psychological) Cigar"

Torn from the throat of night - Paul Cameron Brown "The Bells"

As if the sky was torn off - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

We can not mend torn roses - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Dim green or torn with golden scars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Birth is a torn ticket stub - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"

Though every thread is torn - Leonard Cohen "Dance Me to the End of Love"

Have torn blue midnight air - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

Torn pocket of time - Susan Comninos "Bequeathal"

The wind among the torn shells - H.D. "Sea Violet"

In thousand fragments shattered, wrecked and torn - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Torn from stubbornly disobedient scores of prisms - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

A wind that stirs the torn tickets - Chris Dombrowski "Hear them all"

Despite any torn confusion - Mari Evans "A Lace of Perforations"

A rose torn in the careless frolic - Eleanor Farjeon "Fairy-Time"

The torn lantern of my hope - John Gould Fletcher "Disappointment"

Torn between cloud and butterfly - John Gould Fletcher "The Fop"

Kelp fronds torn from their buoys - Katie Ford "Koi"

Torn apart by stones of fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"

With a song at the torn edge - Joy Harjo "Javelina"

So torn by my tides - Stefania Heim "So Torn by My Tides"

Minerals torn from mines with no mouths - Brenda Hillman "1951"

Torn webs of shadows - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"

Tender soul with anguish torn - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Her shout a hole torn in the sky - Ilya Kaminsky "As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy's Face with a Newspaper"

Whose heart is torn with parting - D.H. Lawrence "Going Back"

Till the roots of my vision seems torn - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

Torn sigils tangled in bones on the lawn - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"

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

Hoards of torn desires, broken joys - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"

Dark torn from dark - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

As exiles torn from Grace - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Which Time's cold blast had rudely torn - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Torn features of wrath - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Their torn and rugged battlements - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "The Man from Snowy River"

Stand uncovered, torn and battle-spent - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"

My naked feet I've torn - "The Poor Clerk (Ar C'Hloarek Paour)" (Translated by Tom Taylor)

Through gold rents torn in a violet sky - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: My Picture Gallery"

Torn from the countless ages - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Night in Italy"

Has torn a hole in the weather - Charles Rafferty "Golf Course Moon"

Have torn our hearts and hands asunder - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Torn into octaves discordantly clashing - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Your torn wild scarlets - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Summons"

A torn fig eaten straight from the tree - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

Memory of my torn life - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"

Torn from a simpler immortality - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"

Torn ticket in my hand - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

Torn from the clasping day - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"

Yesterday is torn in shreads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"

Torn laces and broken swords - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"

Abandoned like torn butterfly wings - Michael Wasson "Countdown as Slow Kisses"

Torn by winds and chilled with heedless snow - Helen Hay Whitney "The Coming of Love"


A torn-bread awkwardness - Mary Jo Bang "February Elegy"

Legions in the flame-torn sky - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"

Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Between its flood-torn shores - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Deeps of the wind-torn west - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Summons"


Tearing the eye of the river open - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Drew vectors that would tear through fragile forms - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Tear our sleep to tatters - Rita Boumi-Pappas "The Crow" transl. by Kimon Friar

The month that tears itself apart - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"

Rip a tiny tear between this world and that - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Teeth tearing bloodily at the sky's throat - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

Tear the full flowers - H.D. "Orion Dead"

And tear all the roots from the earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"

Bursting whirlwinds tear their rapid course - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Tear apart the lace of fruit - Diana Marie Delgado "In the Romantic Longhand of the Night"

In your furious, tearing wind - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

Tearing through brambled clouds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

To tear the glamour from my eyes - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"

Lest anguish tear my dreams - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Let Me Not Lose My Dream"

gyre with dead fire alarm tears - Aristilde Kirby "Daria Ukiyo-e"

Tear up his copy-books to fabricate a kite - Henry S. Leigh "A Nursery Legend"

Iron pick will tear a pathway - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Some new Convulsion tear - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Sown by tearing winds - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

Choose between tearing and binding - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

Tear down the fabric of ten thousand years - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

Tearing the calluses of bark from our wounds - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

As summer tears apart milkweeds - Adrienne Rich "August"

Tear at the pillars of the world - Lola Ridge "The Destroyer"

Tearing at their own roots - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"

Always tearing at the hollyhocks - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait"

Come along on the tearing blizzard tails - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Darkness that will tear the sky down - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"

Possessed of tearing breath - May Swenson "Hearing the Wind at Night"

Crushing hoofs and tearing feet - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Cean Duv Deelish"

Whose mad hands tear the sky - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

Tear the fresh rose from the garland of youth - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]


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