Potential Titles: Blackbird

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A flock of blackbirds that only comes back later - Duane Ackerson "What If"

Blackbirds broke veins in their throats - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"

The blackbird's golden flute - Marie Hedderwick Browne "The Blackbird"

The blackbird has fled to another retreat - William Cowper "The Poplar Field"

No blackbird bates his jargoning - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XX: Two Worlds"

Without the cries of blackbirds overhead - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

A blackbird flying so quickly west - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

The blackbirds make the maples ring - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Where the blackbird sings the latest - The Ettrick Shepherd "A Boy's Song"

Blackbirds were the only music - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"

And the blackbirds built their strict songs - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"

The chattering blackbirds' merry riot - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

A loose flock of blackbirds sweeping over - Vievee Francis "Clarity"

Blackbirds sweeping over the metal roofs - Vievee Francis "Clarity"

The blackbird's hymn is sweet - Joseph Grant "The Blackbird's Hymn Is Sweet"

The time it takes a blackbird to understand - Joy Harjo "Desire"

Blackbirds in a heaven of blackbirds - Joy Harjo "Desire"

A blackbird laughing in the frozen air - Joy Harjo "Transformations"

Words like a blur of blackbirds - Conrad Hilberry "A Thin Song for a Girl"

And the belated blackbird paused - William Dean Howells "The Pilot's Story"

magpies that flay blackbirds - Tanque R. Jones "Hany"

Wafted on the blackbird's sunset song - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

High and clear as a flock of blackbirds - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

A choir of constant blackbirds - Ada Limon "Return to Rush and Flutter"

The blackbirds were singing to the thorn - John Masefield "Enslaved"

The blackbird's second brood - John Masefield "The Scallenge"

Already eye level to the flocking blackbirds - Adrian Matejka "I Say the Thing for the First Time"

Blackbirds settle to scavenge - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

Takes advice from blackbirds - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

Listened for the early arrival of blackbirds - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Let loose by the blackbirds - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

Count all the blackbirds - Adam Scheffler "Florence, Kentucky"

The blackbird sings at the frontier of his music - A.E. Stallings "Blackbird Etude"

Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush - Edward Thomas "The Brook"

Only the blackbirds know my thoughts - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie III"

Plums lie open to the blackbird's beak - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Heard the blackbird's jolly whistle - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

Days as careless as a blackbird's song - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"


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