Potential Titles: Bleed/Bled

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Of journeys where salt tears bled - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

A thousand Persephones lie bleeding in the Lethe - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Perplexing breezes bleeding through - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

The earth bled till the moon shone red - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"

Not to bleed into ruins but to embrace them - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"

Sunlight where a ruby bled - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"

Their wounded hearts afresh would bleed - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

When the heart is freshly bleeding - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

I bleed and the sand grieves - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"

Bind the wounded heart that bleeds - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Buildings that bleed no natural light - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"

Sweet bleeding into salt salt drinking in sweet - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

My heart is quick to bleed - Countee Cullen "Wisdom Cometh with the Years"

White as ash bled of heat - H.D. "Simaetha"

After the storm the firmament bled - Chris Dombrowski "September Miniatures with Blood and Mars"

Writhe and bleed beneath the tread of the centipede - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Or paint with bleeding stroke - Max Eastman "Thought of Protagoras"

Bled out through the bone - Camonghne Felix "'But in what way does the blending of two slightly different cells bring about such a renewal of life?' --Freud"

Glorious buttercups that bleed - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"

Leave those dreams bleeding - Nikki Grimes "Jabari Unmasked"

A tale of severed ties to break the bleeding heart - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"

The bush with the bleeding breast - Robert Stephen Hawker "Aunt Mary"

A fog that bleeds for days - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2005: What Dreams Are These?"

A bleeding heart can never beat as strong - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"

Bleeds through the fragility of linear time - Irene Inatty "Ours"

Bleeding carbon at the crease - Marcus Jackson "Evasive Me"

And rust began to bleed through - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"

The bleeding note of rapture - Helene Johnson "The Road"

That mystic bleeding stone - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

Where some buried Caesar bled - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Till our bleeding feet spurt compassion - Kevin Killian "Free"

With dusk's slow bleed - Nate Klug "Jasmine"

Bleeding its fires upon the mist - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"

Until it bleeds lipstick - Aimee Le "American Poetry/The Age of Hypocrisy, Part II"

Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Marching still with bleeding feet - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"

As we bleed out at sunrise - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

Bleeds from a hole in his still uncertain future - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

A demon bleeding in the basement - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

A city that bleeds its saline soil - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

Jewels bled from weeping crowns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

That blue that never bled to red - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

Bleeding in the dust of rank despairs - Christopher Morley "After Hearing German Music"

Until it bleeds dense lunar silence - Jaye Nasir "November"

And silence bleeds me dry - Pablo Neruda "Someone" transl. by William O'Daly

Who bled where no wounds were - Wilfred Owen "Strange Meeting"

Agony where valor bleeds - Walter S. Percy "The Singing Death"

And fall on bleeding streets - Willie Perdomo "The Making of a Harlem Love Poem"

And journeying must bleed - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

When we kiss my lips shatter like bleeding glass - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"

Our dreams bleed out upon strange altars - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"

Twin suns bled to ash behind their moons - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

The chaff from bleeding wheat - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

The line that I had drawn with bleeding thumb - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Bleeding in its branches - Charles Simic "A Book Full of Pictures"

That bleeds in cloud and darkness - Clark Ashton Smith "Solution"

All the old scars of former battles bleed - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"

My heart in bitterness bled - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"

When brave hearts bleed and faint ones break - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

A voice bleeds beneath my ribs - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Sheen that bleeds blue beauty- Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"

From the seven wounds bleeding - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "Foreshadowings"

The bleeding wounds of the pomegranate - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"

To bolster the heart that still bleeds - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


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