Potential Titles: Island
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somethingdarkerWe're all on our own sinking islands - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
As the ocean knows this island - Lauren K. Alleyne "Nothing to Declare"
Letters sent by island aunts - Julia Alvarez "Aficionados"
An island I can't visit - Rae Armantrout "Either Side"
Anchors under islands haunted - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
Call back that lost island - Geoffrey Brock "Odysseus Old"
Taught us to be islands - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
Night winds galloping toward the islands at the end of the sea - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
My island is full of maiden ghosts - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
From the willow-stitched islands - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Private islands made of water bottles - Chris Dombrowski "Weekly Apocalyptic or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule"
The dead are islands - Ed Falco "Morning Voices"
Less than an island between them - Kimberly Grey "The Functions of X and Y"
Of islands where the lotus grows - Tom Hall "One Wish"
To the island of the brave - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"
An island pulling up its roots - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"
The island of my fears - Major Jackson "Let Me Begin Again"
Melting ice and brown islands of bulrush - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"
Upon an island speck of time - James Weldon Johnson "Life"
An island braceleted by seas - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
The islands of memory - Monique Laederach "Penelope"
Islands tinged with the colours of Paradise - Li Po "The White River at Nan-Yang" transl. by Arthur Waley
Distant islands in the field of time - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Standing stones form distant islands - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Break grief into islands - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"
This island the Wind God inhabits - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
Was born like an island - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Where the moon island dreamily floats - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"
Lone island of the saltless sea - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
Overspread the metamorphosed island - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
Toward the last green barrier island - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Barrier island that shields us from a dark horizon - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
The true gate to paradise is on an island - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Islands dreaming in the middle sea - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Island of Madeira"
Mountained islands jutting up - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson
to walk an island of seashells - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
an island of seashells within the rings of Saturn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
And sought the island of enchanted skies - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"
Our island sang four chanteys - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Stitched the island quiet - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"
Pulled at the island's fallow gardens - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Smoke"
We envy islands of flame - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #10" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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As the ocean knows this island - Lauren K. Alleyne "Nothing to Declare"
Letters sent by island aunts - Julia Alvarez "Aficionados"
An island I can't visit - Rae Armantrout "Either Side"
Anchors under islands haunted - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"
Call back that lost island - Geoffrey Brock "Odysseus Old"
Taught us to be islands - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
Night winds galloping toward the islands at the end of the sea - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
My island is full of maiden ghosts - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
From the willow-stitched islands - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Private islands made of water bottles - Chris Dombrowski "Weekly Apocalyptic or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule"
The dead are islands - Ed Falco "Morning Voices"
Less than an island between them - Kimberly Grey "The Functions of X and Y"
Of islands where the lotus grows - Tom Hall "One Wish"
To the island of the brave - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"
An island pulling up its roots - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"
The island of my fears - Major Jackson "Let Me Begin Again"
Melting ice and brown islands of bulrush - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"
Upon an island speck of time - James Weldon Johnson "Life"
An island braceleted by seas - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
The islands of memory - Monique Laederach "Penelope"
Islands tinged with the colours of Paradise - Li Po "The White River at Nan-Yang" transl. by Arthur Waley
Distant islands in the field of time - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Standing stones form distant islands - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Break grief into islands - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"
This island the Wind God inhabits - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
Was born like an island - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Where the moon island dreamily floats - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"
Lone island of the saltless sea - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
Overspread the metamorphosed island - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
Toward the last green barrier island - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Barrier island that shields us from a dark horizon - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
The true gate to paradise is on an island - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Islands dreaming in the middle sea - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Island of Madeira"
Mountained islands jutting up - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson
to walk an island of seashells - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
an island of seashells within the rings of Saturn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
And sought the island of enchanted skies - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"
Our island sang four chanteys - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Stitched the island quiet - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"
Pulled at the island's fallow gardens - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Smoke"
We envy islands of flame - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #10" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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