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somethingdarkerAirstrike:
airstrikes littering the litanies of my existence - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
Ambush.
Armistice:
The grateful armistice of sleep - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Assail.
Assassin/Assassination.
Assault.
Attack.
Battle.
Beleaguer.
Beset.
Blockade:
Spraying black plumes across the blockaded sunset - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Bombard:
Bombarding Earth with heavenly debris - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
The bombardments and aftermath - Mike Allen "Space War"
Brawl:
No equal & opposite reaction to the everyday brawl - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"
Starting a brawl over scone crumbs - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Better to clear keep of ev'ry brawl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Breach:
A breach in the wall of darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Camouflage.
Cease Fire:
A cease fire for even the wilder kingdom - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"
Civil War: See Civil/Civil War.
Combat.
Command.
Commandeer:
Commandeering sight like caravans - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"
Conflict.
Conquer/Conquest.
Conscript.
Crusade.
Defuse:
The undefused bombs our bodies hide - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
Detonate:
Acid imbalances that detonate - Carmen Gimenez "Redaction"
Detonation is his promise - Christopher Morgan "Promised Detonations" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]
Set to detonate into an unknown future - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"
The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Dodge.
Duel.
Enlist:
Mysteriously enlisted in a V formation of Canadian geese - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
Enlists a fresh haunting - Luther Hughes "My Mother, My Mother"
Feint:
In a hands-behind-back colloquy of feints and nods - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
The oracular feint of a joke - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"
Feud.
Fight/Fought.
Flank.
Foment:
Fomenting revolutions on alien planets - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Jumping into the System"
Fortify:
Your ramparts green with briar fortify - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Fortified by wisdom's splendid armor - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
And fortify your self in your decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"
To outgrow a fortified spiral - Amber Flora Thomas "Shed"
Fray.
Genocide:
My genocides folded into my wallet - Roger Reeves "Brazil"
Who passed before the genocide began - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "Correspondence with Apologies"
Grapple.
Harry:
Now but a memory to bless and harry me - John Freeman "The Chair"
Hijack:
Hijack the next spaceship and travel to Mars - Julie Babcock "Dick and Jane Burn Down the House"
Hijacked the Doppler radar screen - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"
Undertake the hijacking of language - Prageeta Sharma "Poetry Anonymous"
Hit.
Insurgence.
Insurrection:
The insurrection of a flea - Maxwell Bodenheim "Inevitable"
Full of hot surges of insurrection - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
Sorrows quell our insurrection - F. Hartmann "Endlich bricht der heisse Tiegel" transl. by James W. Alexander
Invade/Invasion.
Kick.
Maraud:
By chance found the marauder's den - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Marauding me with meak [sic] mercies - Saeed Jones "Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe's Dog in Beloved"
Marauding mouse and rebellious rat - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
March.
Marshal.
Martial:
Two opinions in the martial synod - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
No queen of martial might - Shaemas OSheel "Roma Mater Sempaeterna"
With all the array of bold and martial show - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Melee:
In an ancient melee of night flowers - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"
Mission.
Muster.
Mutiny.
Onslaught:
Lashed by an onslaught of echoes - Mary Jo Bang "Part of a Larger Picture"
Be defiled in his onslaught - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 22" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Pacify:
So many attempts at pacifying this planet - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
Parry:
That no mortal hand can parry - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"
Patrol.
Punch.
Raid.
Reconnaissance:
Genetic reconnaissance at birth - fahima ife "our general banality"
Recruit:
Must recruit exhausted power - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
Limitless recruits from Fancy's pack - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"
Recruited into the legions of evil - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
Rout.
Sabotage:
Mixing kindness and sabotage - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
Their favorite verb is sabotage - Monica de la Torre "The Script"
Sally.
Salute.
Scout.
Scrimmage:
Scrimmaging the hordes of Hell - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
Scuffle:
Sway to keep up with their scuffles - Sarah Getty "Channel 2: Horowitz Playing Mozart"
Shoot/Shot.
Siege/Besiege.
Skirmish:
The muffled skirmish of the rain - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"
Slash.
Smite.
Spar:
Sparred the light for windows and won - Gaia Rajan "Dent"
Stab.
Strafe:
Strafed by the Milky Way - Leonard Cohen "The Lists"
Ducks strafing the unfrozen pools - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
Subjugate:
Calculated and subjugated under the hivemind queen - Jason P. Burnham "A Journey Through the Dystopiaverse" [Strange Horizons 9 June 2025]
Surrender.
Surveillance:
Surveillance feeds on death - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
With rational surveillance as its cause - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Convert surveillance into invasion - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
Caressing surveillance cameras and blowing whisper kisses - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
Terrorism:
Terrorism in the domain of speech - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Tournament:
All the achieving of their tournament - H.I. Burt "From Their Dust"
Hold a lengthened tournament for flashing gold - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tourney:
Of tourney won in Arthur's lists at Camelot - Martin I. Griffin "The Ride of Prince Geraint" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.30, Sept. 1873]
Self with self in secret tourney - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Clash in tourney on the least of points - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
Truce.
Violence/Violent.
Volley:
Rides on the vollied [sic] lightning through the heavens - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. I"
The quick unerring aim of volley'd thunder winged with flame - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
our small volley of prayers & dreams - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Vollied lightnings cleave the air - Henry Kirk White "Time"
Wallop:
Crops walloped in their places of birth - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
War.
Warfare.
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airstrikes littering the litanies of my existence - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
Ambush.
Armistice:
The grateful armistice of sleep - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Assail.
Assassin/Assassination.
Assault.
Attack.
Battle.
Beleaguer.
Beset.
Blockade:
Spraying black plumes across the blockaded sunset - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Bombard:
Bombarding Earth with heavenly debris - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
The bombardments and aftermath - Mike Allen "Space War"
Brawl:
No equal & opposite reaction to the everyday brawl - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"
Starting a brawl over scone crumbs - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Better to clear keep of ev'ry brawl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Breach:
A breach in the wall of darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Camouflage.
Cease Fire:
A cease fire for even the wilder kingdom - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"
Civil War: See Civil/Civil War.
Combat.
Command.
Commandeer:
Commandeering sight like caravans - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"
Conflict.
Conquer/Conquest.
Conscript.
Crusade.
Defuse:
The undefused bombs our bodies hide - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
Detonate:
Acid imbalances that detonate - Carmen Gimenez "Redaction"
Detonation is his promise - Christopher Morgan "Promised Detonations" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]
Set to detonate into an unknown future - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"
The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Dodge.
Duel.
Enlist:
Mysteriously enlisted in a V formation of Canadian geese - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
Enlists a fresh haunting - Luther Hughes "My Mother, My Mother"
Feint:
In a hands-behind-back colloquy of feints and nods - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
The oracular feint of a joke - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"
Feud.
Fight/Fought.
Flank.
Foment:
Fomenting revolutions on alien planets - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Jumping into the System"
Fortify:
Your ramparts green with briar fortify - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Fortified by wisdom's splendid armor - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
And fortify your self in your decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"
To outgrow a fortified spiral - Amber Flora Thomas "Shed"
Fray.
Genocide:
My genocides folded into my wallet - Roger Reeves "Brazil"
Who passed before the genocide began - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "Correspondence with Apologies"
Grapple.
Harry:
Now but a memory to bless and harry me - John Freeman "The Chair"
Hijack:
Hijack the next spaceship and travel to Mars - Julie Babcock "Dick and Jane Burn Down the House"
Hijacked the Doppler radar screen - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"
Undertake the hijacking of language - Prageeta Sharma "Poetry Anonymous"
Hit.
Insurgence.
Insurrection:
The insurrection of a flea - Maxwell Bodenheim "Inevitable"
Full of hot surges of insurrection - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
Sorrows quell our insurrection - F. Hartmann "Endlich bricht der heisse Tiegel" transl. by James W. Alexander
Invade/Invasion.
Kick.
Maraud:
By chance found the marauder's den - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Marauding me with meak [sic] mercies - Saeed Jones "Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe's Dog in Beloved"
Marauding mouse and rebellious rat - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
March.
Marshal.
Martial:
Two opinions in the martial synod - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
No queen of martial might - Shaemas OSheel "Roma Mater Sempaeterna"
With all the array of bold and martial show - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Melee:
In an ancient melee of night flowers - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"
Mission.
Muster.
Mutiny.
Onslaught:
Lashed by an onslaught of echoes - Mary Jo Bang "Part of a Larger Picture"
Be defiled in his onslaught - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 22" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Pacify:
So many attempts at pacifying this planet - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
Parry:
That no mortal hand can parry - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"
Patrol.
Punch.
Raid.
Reconnaissance:
Genetic reconnaissance at birth - fahima ife "our general banality"
Recruit:
Must recruit exhausted power - John Clare "The Harvest Morning"
Limitless recruits from Fancy's pack - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"
Recruited into the legions of evil - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
Rout.
Sabotage:
Mixing kindness and sabotage - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
Their favorite verb is sabotage - Monica de la Torre "The Script"
Sally.
Salute.
Scout.
Scrimmage:
Scrimmaging the hordes of Hell - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
Scuffle:
Sway to keep up with their scuffles - Sarah Getty "Channel 2: Horowitz Playing Mozart"
Shoot/Shot.
Siege/Besiege.
Skirmish:
The muffled skirmish of the rain - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"
Slash.
Smite.
Spar:
Sparred the light for windows and won - Gaia Rajan "Dent"
Stab.
Strafe:
Strafed by the Milky Way - Leonard Cohen "The Lists"
Ducks strafing the unfrozen pools - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
Subjugate:
Calculated and subjugated under the hivemind queen - Jason P. Burnham "A Journey Through the Dystopiaverse" [Strange Horizons 9 June 2025]
Surrender.
Surveillance:
Surveillance feeds on death - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
With rational surveillance as its cause - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Convert surveillance into invasion - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
Caressing surveillance cameras and blowing whisper kisses - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
Terrorism:
Terrorism in the domain of speech - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Tournament:
All the achieving of their tournament - H.I. Burt "From Their Dust"
Hold a lengthened tournament for flashing gold - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tourney:
Of tourney won in Arthur's lists at Camelot - Martin I. Griffin "The Ride of Prince Geraint" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.30, Sept. 1873]
Self with self in secret tourney - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Clash in tourney on the least of points - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
Truce.
Violence/Violent.
Volley:
Rides on the vollied [sic] lightning through the heavens - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. I"
The quick unerring aim of volley'd thunder winged with flame - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
our small volley of prayers & dreams - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Vollied lightnings cleave the air - Henry Kirk White "Time"
Wallop:
Crops walloped in their places of birth - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
War.
Warfare.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
