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Mysteriously enlisted in a V formation of Canadian geese - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

Two wingless geese flew up the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Reached the moon, upborn by geese - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."

Alarms of southbound geese blaring - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"

The witches of Norway pluck their geese - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]

Opening the view to thousands of landing geese - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Geese falling quiet as stardust - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

While the air lifts geese, indifferent - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"

Wild geese moved like a wedge between sky and sagebrush - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Geese in flight become the Wild Hunt - Stephen Leggett "So Happy to Have a Coat with Pockets"

Wild geese arrive but bring no letters - Li Yu "[Since we parted, spring half over]" transl. by Burton Watson

Wild geese go south again - Liu Ch'e, Emperor Wu of the Han (157-87 B.C.E.) "Song of the Autumn Wind" transl. by Burton Watson

Wild ducks and geese at rest - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson

Where even the wild geese wither - Kenji Miyazawa from "General Son Ba-yu" (translated by John Bester)

Grow from geese to swans - "Nonsense"

Guarded by angry geese - Achy Obejas "Volver"

Flights of autumn geese clearing the clouds - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

Set paper boat songs alongside egrets and geese - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

The wild geese in a winged wedge - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"

Listen to the love calls of wild geese - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"

Wild geese chasing trains - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"

I have been a mother to geese - Gerald Stern "Egg"

The geese have their heaven - Gerald Stern "Grass and Water"

A ribbon of geese drifts high above - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"

Geese drift, backs to a west-wind gale - Wang An-Shih "Hair white" transl. by David Hinton

To fly like those two wild geese, rising with beating wings - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]


A goose arrives at his bedroom window - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

The brightness of goose feather snow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

And every goose a swan - Charles Kingsley "Young and Old"

a goose opens its chest to a sound - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"

The goose of To-day still is Memory's swan - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

Where many a stubble gray-goose preens - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"

The grey goose winge that was there-on - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"

Today the goose is made of steel - Kristen Tracy "Having It?"


Stolen by Baba Yaga's wicked swan-geese - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"


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