somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Nest

Make me part of your nests - Francisco X. Alarcon "Prayer of the Fallen Tree"

As from the old nest birds escape - John Albee "Evolution"

Old wasp nests fallen by the door - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

Woman in the nest of the phoenix - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"

Each pear a phoenix or a phoenix nest - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Makes a nest of inbound hulls and masts - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

The vacant nest and silent song - Emily Bronte "Death"

Tossing crumbs of hornet nests - Calef Brown "Coven Tots"

A wrecked and empty nest - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

The deserted nest in silence sways - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Where the oriole's nest is swinging - W. Wilfred Campbell "A Wood Lyric"

Your whole body is composed of nesting places - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"

The phoenix builds her spicy nest - Thomas Carew "Song"

As magpies attacked their nest - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

Holding a vacant nest in her hands - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"

A nest of flames leaping - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"

Wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Makes a coffin of your nest - William H. Davies "A Bird's Anger"

When rocked in starry nest - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

Build a nest from the stillness between - Diane DeCillis "Nest"

And ruin her pestilential nest - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

Build their improbable nest of sunlight - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Builds her nest of moss and spider webs - Camille T. Dungy "Natural History"

With her ear against a dead wasp nest - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

In the nest of my inkstained fingers - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani

Nested like a doll within right now - J. Everett Feinberg "Renaissance"

Whose nests are littered with knots - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

A nest of black hair for the birds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"

Nests in a tangle of veined violets - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Overtaken too far from its nest - Robert Frost "Acceptance"

Beautiful birds nest inside your mind - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

The shadows nesting in your neck - Carmen Gimenez "Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love"

Stepped in a papery nest of ground wasps - Paul Guest "Walking the Land"

As the starling hides in the maize her nest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On Ne Badine Pas Avec La Mort"

Covered nest of passions - Charles Heavysege "Magnanimous and Mean"

Gathers milk from the dragon's nest - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"

Stitched our little nest of silence - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Between Work"

In the narrowest nest in a corner - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Your World"

Low-built nests where robins sing - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

His nest in the cypress trees - Fanny Kemble "Eastern Sunset"

On the edge of another's nest - Jane Kenyon "Three Crows"

Let the birds build nests out of your lies - Vandana Khanna "Fable"

Praise not the wasp & the paper nest - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

A nest of robins in her hair - Joyce Kilmer "Trees"

In a nest of straw and baling twine - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

The wasps' nest in the rafters, broken - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

Crows shall build in the eagle's nest - Andrew Lang "The Sudden Bridal"

A nest of continual jangling - Aimee Le "American Poetry/The Age of Hypocrisy, Part II"

Cradled in the nest of your neck - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

A tight nest of broken eggs - Philip Levine "Blood"

Into an actual nest of suspended song - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

A nest of clean teeth - Ada Limon "World Versus Girl"

Flew away to line the nests of birds - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"

As the nest enfolds the bird - Jeannette Marks "The Nest"

A nest of jittery ties - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Nesting doves in the verdant grass - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"

Constructing cyberpunk nests from anti-bird spikes - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"

The great migration of the material abandoning the nest - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

In the misery of a fallen bird's nest - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

Any straw will help a nest - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Only the nesting gulls would hear - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

A wasp nest on the back porch - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

The nest of modified illusions - Marianne Moore "England"

Woods filled with nests and whispers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner

Fills its nest with lemons - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: I" transl. by William O'Daly

In a nest of volcanic witches - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf

Build the nest on the sea - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"

Dinosaurs nest in digital gardens - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

A child sleeping on a nest of bones - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"

In Arno's vale you made yourself a nest - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Will let sparrows build their nest there - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"

To warp hell into a nest - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

The squirrel deserts his nest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "House Hunting"

Thy punctual nest - Theodore H. Rand "The Loon"

Empty nest of eyelashes & dandelions - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

The traitorous earth that scorpions nest in - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Sleep in a nest of flames - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Whose nest is like a watered shoot - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

This broken chorus of terror and nest - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"

The hold of our first fiery nest - Teresa J. Scollon "Poem to My Brothers and Sisters"

Nests in the crooks of their granite limbs - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The lightest wind was in its nest - Shelley "The Recollections"

A lone crane go over to its inland nest - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"

The nest that long was full of rain - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"

That birds nest in the crooks of clouds - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

In her nest a lone grenade - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"

Dreams of the abandoned nest - George Sterling "The Night Migration"

Seek him at the eagle's nest - "Superior Nonsense Verses"

Hid my heart in a nest of roses - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Some hidden nest in brighter lands - Richard Chenevix Trench "To England"

The swallows who nest in the beams - Tu Fu "The River Village" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell

And my heart is the empty nest - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"

Where rock doves would be brought to nest - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

Nested inside each thimbled throat - Ocean Vuong "Seventh Circle of Earth"

With their nests of new leaves - Lisa Zimmerman "Lake at Night"

Within the space of a swallow's nest-door - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Leaving its wasp-nest flaws - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

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