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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-08-02 02:31 pm

Potential Titles: Hawk

A hawk that took possession of this electric creature - Duane Ackerson "Raven Rules"

When thirty hawks are high - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"

Two hawks courting in a dead drop - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

Hawks hold up the highway - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

When wind and hawk encounter - Leonard Cohen "The Mist"

Free with the hawk and the wind - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"

My mind has such a hawk - William H. Davies "The Hawk"

That sees the shadow of the hawk - Toru Dutt "Savitri"

And the scream of the night hawk is heard - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

The whimper of hawks beside the sun - Robert Frost "Pan with Us"

The wind a hawk, and the fields in snow - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"

A hawk skims the exterior - Brenda Hillman "A Short Rhyme for Amiri Baraka"

The partridge red with blood of the hawk - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Storefront merchants hawking our wares - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

The hawk the dove shall wed - Andrew Lang "The Sudden Bridal"

Steel hawks against moonlight - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

A brave hawk on high wings soaring - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

A hawk that loves my shoulder - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"

A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Watched a pigeon disappear inside a hawk - Ruth Madievsky "Ficus"

Or rudely blame the famished hawk - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

The small, bitter hawks of grief - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"

Frolic among butterflies and hawks - N. Scott Momaday "Death Song"

The hawk hammered its flight - Pablo Neruda "American Kestrel" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The watchful hawk on high - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"

Fling the hawk at her quarry - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Time melts when white hawks come - dg nanouk okpik "When White Hawks Come"

Quiet as a hawk in hall - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

They know when the hawk looms - Ciona Rouse "Red-Shouldered Hawk"

A flock of sparrows safe from hawks - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

Pillows filled with hawk feathers - Frank Stanford "In this House"

Crows and hawks wheeling above - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson

Ghosts hovering like hawks - Alison Swan "The Language of Field Guides"

The hawk's grey fleck along the sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"

Heard the hawks at twilight play - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Your hawk feather a weathervane - Cynthia Zarin "Still Life (for Rose)"


Hawk-eyed hunters of solace - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

Twin gods hawk-headed and immense - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"

Hawk-skied, carrion-clean - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

Dream upon the night-hawks peopling heaven - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"


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