Potential Titles: Scale

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Veined shells and burnished scales - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Too much hung inside the scales - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Tones composed in probability scale notes - Mike Allen "Pulse"

Brave enough to scale the skies - Maurice Baring "Icarus"

Scaled the silver ladder of thy dream - Maurice Baring "Shelley"

That scale the speed of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"

The sea flashing its gold scales - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"

A shallow breathe of scaly skin - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"

Scales of dreams - Yvonne Caroutch

To gamble on their scales and the wealth of their breath - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

Into Dante's Kinsey scaled inferno - Brody Parrish Craig "Us Let the Radio Play Along & I"

Scaled the fence in silence - Meg Day "The Permanent Way"

These scales cannot be balanced - Rebecca Dunham "Black Horizon"

Scaling the mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"

Which will swallow your rattlesnake, scales and all - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Tip the scales in light's direction - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"

Explode off the glass scales of skyscrapers - Ian Goh "Firework"

Balanced on the scales of thought - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

To balance your side of the scale - Tom Hall "The American Slave"

No golden weights can turn the scale - Frances E.W. Harper "A Double Standard"

And still the scales balance - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"

On a scale between dirt and sky - fahima ife "consider the dial"

And claim all things feather, skin, scale - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"

The purple damask of their scales - Li Po "In Reply When Lesser Officials of Chung-tu Brought a Pot of Wine and Two Fish to My Inn as Gifts" transl. by Burton Watson

Entelechy wrapped in scales of life and death - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

The universe whose scales shine brilliantly - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

And wisdom's mountain scale - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"

I'd scale the walls of hell - "Lost Love"

Scale the ramparts of eternity - S.M.M. "Surrender"

A shattering of murky fins raining into silver scales - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

And scale the bastioned nights - Don Marquis "At Last"

Pure and clear as diamond scale - H.P. McKnight "Acrostic Tribute to God's Messengers, Chaplain and Mrs. C.L. Winget"

Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword - Marianne Moore "An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish"

As formal as the scales on a fish - Marianne Moore "The Steeple-Jack"

A drop of time assaulted by scales - Pablo Neruda "The Clock Fallen into the Sea" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The silent scales of their music - Grace Nichols "If I Were to Meet"

As you scaled duty's rungs - Grace Nichols "Kittitian Girl"

A fragment of the spectrum of Bahamut's shining scales - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

Of humbler position in the scale of creation - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Horn and scale both less and more than dead - Paisley Rekdal "Philip Larkin's Koan"

Who have scaled high sunsets - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"

Balanced like scales at nought - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Rippled and twisted in sliding rising scales - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"

Strange, sprawling scale of barbarous tones - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"

The weight of tech against Thoth's scale - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"

Zither of chromatic scale - A.E. Stallings "Momentary"

Titanium scales rhyming across curves - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Cascades changing in scale, not shape - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

And scale the steep stair with a bound - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Their scales studded with tiny barnacles - Lisa Zimmerman "Lake at Night"


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