Potential Titles: Start

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Swallowed the item you chose to mark the start - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

And the dream sensor starts the dream deactivator - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"

Now I'm ready to start seeing the world - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

You must always start with something - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Started fresh from their sources - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Impatience"

Starts off for an imaginary place - Rae Armantrout "Imaginary Places"

The woodland starts to the echoing horn - Maurice Baring "Wagner"

Always starts inside a single heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"

They waited for the seeds to start - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

Start crying down the wrath of Baal - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Blaster Bill" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]

Some pile of wreckage that started it there - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

The shape of a note starts with loss - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Started stealing stop signs - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"

Start on one side of the day - Jericho Brown "Crossing"

How never to start the night empty - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

Start abrupt in Joy's sweet neighborhood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The domino that starts the chain - Taylor Byas "Love Poem Attempt 3/?"

Starting a brawl over scone crumbs - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

Where trauma starts and karma loops - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

Then start a moon garden - Chen Chen "i love you to the moon &"

And dithering echo starts and mocks - John Clare "The Woodman"

To the place of starting again - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"

Everything of reverie starts to crumble - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

Landscape of start extravagance - Diane DeCillis "Power of Suggestion"

May stop chattering and start to hum - Anne Evans "A New Variant"

Home is where one starts from - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

start speaking in decibels - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Started just outside our faces - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"

Where the fountains of gladness start - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

When frozen rivers start to run - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"

I come to where everything starts - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer

A bad dream that never started - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"

Waiting hours, before the brazen frenzy starts - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

How long ago you started to wander - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Of carbons from the start of time - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"

Before all the firmament starts to fall apart - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

Saw my lightning finish from the start - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

The power my rooted limbs to start - James Weldon Johnson "Before a Painting"

And start the wheel of eternity - James Weldon Johnson "The Judgment Day"

Laughed until it made the teardrops start - Marie L. Johnson "The Snow Man" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Start speaking an imaginary language - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

And the Caravan starts for the dawn - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

The start of a single step - Alfred Kreymborg "Adagio: A Duet"

That like vipers start - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

No time to start a new game - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

Hangs in the air like the start of heartfelt applause - Adrian Matejka "Soave Sia Il Vento"

Where all gold starts - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"

Starts one way to end another - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

Started husking corn at dawn - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"

Quick as blushes start - George Marion McClellan "In the Heart of a Rose"

Rhododendron start the process of shadows - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

To start infinity again - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"

I start shouting with my hands - Lesyk Panasiuk "A Wartime Dream" transl. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

In gazing burn and start - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "The First Christmas Apart"

Myth as it starts - Carl Phillips "The Life You Save"

Start forgetting to ask - Carl Phillips "Of the Rippling Surface"

Starting a century of fires - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

To grow stars, start with moon dust - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"

So many fires start in my head - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

I will start again tomorrow - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"

a series of false starts - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"

That snakes and ladders to its shaky start - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

You had never started and would never stop - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"

Through the warm starting of my hoarding tears - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

nothing waiting to start again - Edwin Torres "In Each Look Our Years"

Where the hickory trees start themselves - Bradley Trumpfheller "Loom"

start with any miasma dispersed - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

Before you start regretting - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"

So every day starts with you - The Cyborg Jillian Weise "I Want Your Fax"

Never start to hide your heart - Margaret Widdemer "If You Should Tire of Loving Me"

Arguments no one started - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

Where reed-beds start and quiver - Francis Brett Young "The Gift"

In sunlight at the start of summer - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"


My paws no good for fire-starting - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"


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