Findings:
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
- There was always the blue of you
- The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
- Was it ever there?
- No shit, there I was
- She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- She was so tall, and I was so in love
- She is and was
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- Besides the part where she was the only one
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- She didn't know what outside was anymore.
- She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
- I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
- She was never mine. I always shared her.
- She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
- She was free
- little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
- She was the seed of a strange tomorrow
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- There was a young lady of Riga
- There was a land where lived no violets
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- There was a man and a woman
- I remember, there was one
- There She Goes
- The flowers smiled, but she was gone
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- There was a baby in China
- A knock there was upon the door
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- Once there was a way...
- There Was A Friend
- Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
- She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
- If there is a heaven, she is there.
- There is nothing growing here, in the space between she and me
- She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- She was so quiet that nobody heard her
- She was too beautiful to be human
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
- He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- When she was bad
- She was cilantro, jalepeno, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- There was once a Man
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- There was a time when I was a better person
- There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- and there was this girl
- Where's the kaboom?
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- Was There a Time
- There was a cold day
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- There Was No Leak
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- There was a little girl
- She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- She was locked in time
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- I was there
- The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
- She just sat there
- She was cilantro, jalapeño, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
- She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
- She was so pleased to learn that she was right
- Existentialism is that girlfriend who cheated on you. Postmodernism is who she was with.
- The House on the Island Where She Was Born
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
- Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
- I was tired. It was late. She was Russian.
- She always was devious in her beauty
- There were only twelve raindrops, she counted them on the windshield under heavy soft skies
- She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
- Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
- The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
- She was steady
- For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
- She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
- she was just the dry smell of gasoline
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
- She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- To a girl who thought she was moving away
- She was very beautiful. Y'know?
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- She Was 18, It Was Summer
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
- She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
- What the hell was she thinking?
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- There was an old lady
- There was a rose that faded young
- every day she stands there, waiting. every day, she's gone when i get there.
- She knew what she was doing
- She dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- There once was a girl named Irene
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- One hour there was sunlight
- She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- she was waylaid by an octopus
- In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
- She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
- piano outside in the snow. and she was spinning
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- Before you, there was me
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- There was no one waiting for me...
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- There was a time before
- There Once Was a Farmer
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- Boom boom!
- Boom Shakalaka
- boom (user)
- he/she
- She Walks in Beauty
- she being Brand
- The picture she drew in my notebook
- A chorus of phones each time she calls
- And then, she expressed frustration with life in general
- Any woman who thinks she is pro-life should ask herself
- She asked me to copy my poem into her notebook
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