Potential Titles: Need

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Repairing the things in need of repair - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"

We need every bit of luck we can hold onto - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Unafflicted by a need to breathe - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

To avoid the sight of needy eyes - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

A multitude of orphan needs - Julia Alvarez "Gaining My Self Back"

How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

Need a wind to strike sharply - Maya Angelou "A Georgia Song"

Will not need your bribes - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Needed some help from old friends - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"

earned through bitterness of need - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Not needing the support of words - Elizabeth Bartlett "I Think I Am"

the need of believing - Elizabeth Bartlett "only this"

A stone the builder needs - Ardelia Maria Barton "Nature's Plan"

Need the scorching of my breath - Max Bodenheim "Rhymed Conversation with Money"

We all need places to disappear to - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

I need all the nutrients I can get - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"

Nobody needs your damn armada - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

I needed to fire an arrow of my damn own - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"

My lost diamond, who only needed a setting - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"

No more need to name me - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"

Knows the voice of need - Bliss Carman "Over the Wintry Threshold"

Just a little need for air - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"

No one ever need fall - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"

Beyond the need of chant and prayers - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Steps"

Makes you chairs when you need justice - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

The memories that need me to exist - Adam Clay "Only Child"

In a need beyond desire - Lucille Clifton "1st picture searching for the ox"

To dower the moment's need - Benjamin Copeland "Niagara"

In forlornest need and longing-plight - Danske Dandridge "A Question"

Needing the succor of sleep - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"

Remember this smothering need - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"

More strings than she needed - Diane DeCillis "Physics for Dummies"

Who tells his need to Sunday bells - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"

Requires sorest need - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life I: Success"

Seasoned with need - jayy dodd "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"

Needed a scalpel to locate scruples - Stephen Dunn "Building a Person"

Revealing our need for angels - Stephen Dunn "From the Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs"

What joys accrue to the needy - Stephen Dunn "You'd Be Right"

As if some day I'd need the flies - Kathy Fagan "At the Champion Avenue Low-Income Senior & Child Care Services Center"

All we need of storms - Andrew Feld "Not Included in This Landscape"

Had no need of my words anymore - Annie Finch "Edge, Atlantic, July"

When need and grim hunger come by - "The Flower of Nut-Brown Maids" transl. by Eleanor Hull

No rites we need that shun the light - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Know that love needs nurture - Mary Weston Fordham "For Who?"

That I need learn to let go with the heart - Robert Frost "Wild Grapes"

Who says I need a partner to dance? - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"

Reckless in our need for the possible - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

In the darkness of her need - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"

Ashamed of needing more than water - Andrea Gibson "Said the Wishing Well"

Each age needs its revisions - Carmen Gimenez "Flat Earth Dream Soliloquy"

The only parachutes we need - Jenn Givhan "Of Color of Landscape of Tenuous Rope"

Each verse of our living needs - Rae Gouirand "At the Rough Table"

Until want and need cannot be separated - Rae Gouirand "In Lieu of Questions"

When ignorance was patron to my need - David Gray "Despondency"

Not needing our sanctification - Leah Naomi Green "Kaddish"

Not needing even our silence - Leah Naomi Green "Kaddish"

Should need protection from the crows - Linda Gregerson "Another Diana"

All it needed was patience and eons - John Grey "The Computer vs. My Personal Evolution"

Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"

Willing the door open with your need - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"

Has no need of sadness - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"

The stifled need of you - Ruth Guthrie Harding "In a Forgotten Burying-Ground"

Thrown open to the need of stars - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"

Ripe to be harvested for bitter need - F.W. Harvey "Harvest Home"

Turn need into want - Terrance Hayes "Elegant Tongue"

Need no prescient sibyl - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

In the hour of need and day of trouble - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"

Nothing can need a lie - George Herbert "Courage"

Carrying the dark water of need - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"

Rich with ripe sorrow, needful of no word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Laughing at the bulk of the need - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

Finally surrender the need for control - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"

A dark geography of need - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Affirmative Action Babies"

Where love needs no speech - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"

Need for other hearts broken differently - Courtney Kampa "Ars Biologica"

I am the water you need - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

a bridge you will never need to cross first - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

Has neither need nor power - Joyce Kilmer "For a Child"

This immediate need for movement - Amy King "You Make the Culture"

We need not dissemble our darkness - D.H. Lawrence "Shades"

Needed a better mirror for her pursuits - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"

We have lost the need for tears - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

My need roams history - Denise Levertov "The Past (II)"

Knows the need for a transcendent blues - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

What needs edge of proof - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

The trappings of desires disguised as needs - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"

That death need regret - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Song of the Sleeper"

Sacrifices at the altar of your need - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"

Needs a black clarity of vision - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

Never needed any other emotion than power - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"

On a winch in need of oil - John Masefield "Spunyarn"

No need to display a poker face to yourself - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

Needed a stage that fit - Jamaal May "Intake in the Ward"

Things unrelated to my need - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"

Exchanged for smaller needs - Shara McCallum "Dear History"

Need trade no more with hate - Samuel McCoy "Dirge for a Dead Admiral"

Can strike for the stars at need - Louis J. McQuilland "The Ballad of Sir Kevin O'Keane"

Holding the violent breath of my need - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

Whenever I need to boil the wool of bat - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"

Even evil needs a home - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Eternal Stand"

Riding her horses of need - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Because every life needs a hidden place - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stone House"

The hours are distributed according to need - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

Even God needs two versions of Creation - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

My father never needed a compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"

A need that ruins - Carl Phillips "Erasure"

Bad brakes and a need to stop - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"

With a need for fire in human form - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 666"

Needs no sleep - Jack Prelutsky "The Wizard"

Who needed to cross the border - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "If this is my face, so be it"

Carry our need to speak - Sina Queyras "Years"

What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

Who made a meal out of need - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"

Sufficing all our needs - Charles G.D. Roberts "O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs"

No fabled muse need I - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet I"

For every need of my love's craving - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"

Love and hate braided in mutual need - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

This latest means of never needing air - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"

Needed no dismembered star to guide you - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Wrong to think that we need saving - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"

As carrions of need - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"

Cats sneered at our pathetic need for feline love - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"

Building things that don't need to last - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"

The orchestration needs tufts of black shadow - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

And mute the mouth of our eternal need - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"

Needs another to chime against - Maggie Smith "Perennials"

The anxiety of needing a revelation - Richard Solomon "Searching for Pablo"

High festival I need not miss - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

Wise words suppress the need of swords - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

What the curlew needs not - Edward Thomas "For These"

Take what we need of light - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"

Had no need of moons and suns - Katharine Tynan "A Song of Christmas"

Her captive flames must needs burn - Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil"

Yolks needed to bind portraits to walls - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

And, at the end, need no Paradise - Wang Chi "Tell Me Now" (translated by Arthur Waley)

No need to tell our errand - Arthur Weir "Pere Brosse"

The pinnace needs a swifter sail - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"

The fortress needs a tower - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"

Need some proof of loss - Katie Willingham "Salt (Disambiguation)"

The strength that mountains need - Nancy Wood "Sacred Love: A Ritual"

Nor does my soul need an audience - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"

So unruly are my needs - Jenny Xie "Letters to Du Fu"

The snare of need - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"

In the business of multiplying needs - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"

No need to believe in thoughts - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"

Nor had I further need of breath - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"

Need a jukebox for a throat - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Inside me a need to tell the truth - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983"

What I need before evaporation - Felicia Zamora "Devil's Tongue"


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