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somethingdarkerAmbuscade:
Storm the ghosts in ambuscade - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"
An ambuscade of lights - Francis Thompson "New Year's Chimes"
Ambush.
Armada:
That proud armadas' trampled shards - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Nobody needs your damn armada - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Armada of the sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
Beyond the wrecked armadas - Humbert Wolfe "England"
Armaments:
Accumulating stars and armaments - Pablo Neruda "Do Not Ask Me" transl. by Miguel Algarin
Arsenal.
Banner.
Barracks:
The black hole in the barracks - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
Barrage:
The creeping barrage of occupation - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Rippling through the barrage of bubbles - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"
Barricade.
Bastion.
Battlement.
Belligerent.
Breach.
Bulwark.
Camouflage.
Casualties:
Tally the casualties of war - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
a war always claims casualties - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
Cavalcade:
The avenue with its cavalcade of trucks - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"
That radiant cavalcade - Anna Hempstead Branch “While Loveliness Goes By”
Giant cavalcades of marshalled Doom - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
In nodding cavalcade advancing - Walter de la Mare "The Unchanging"
Cavalier:
To be so cavalier with their bliss - Kaveh Akbar "What Seems Like Joy"
La Mancha's cavalier reposes - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Chariot.
Citadel.
Convoy:
A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Crossfire:
Another halo to shake loose galloping into the crossfire - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
Dreadnought:
Sees the dreadnaughts scouring every main - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"
Old maid or dreadnought - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"
This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Fort.
Fortress.
Galley:
Galleys miss appointments with the tides - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Those shining galleys of the stars - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Galleys waiting for the gale - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"
Gilded galley-slaves of Mammon - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"
Garrison:
Strange garrisons of emerald-mailed chameleons - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."
Militant:
Into this milieu of militant affection - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"
Oriflamme/Oriflame:
Golden oriflames and tents of pearl - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"
Bearing Lucifer's oriflamme - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
The rose shall be my oriflamme - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"
Rampart.
Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.
Revolt.
Revolution.
Revolutionary.
Ricochet:
Ricocheting towards each other - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]
Deflecting the ricochet against that anarchy of dusk - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
The sun ricocheting off the sea - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
A ricochet from a sea surge - Charles Wright "Outscape"
Shellshock:
Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"
Stockade:
The stockade and the bastioned gate - Laura Da' "The Honest Tongue"
Strategy:
A pure cruel strategy - Daisy Aldan "Frozen Frames of a Last Meeting"
Silence itself is strategy - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"
A strategy for ignoring history - Louise Gluck "Parable for the King"
My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Tactic:
Runs on tactical forgiveness - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Van.
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Storm the ghosts in ambuscade - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"
An ambuscade of lights - Francis Thompson "New Year's Chimes"
Ambush.
Armada:
That proud armadas' trampled shards - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Nobody needs your damn armada - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Armada of the sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
Beyond the wrecked armadas - Humbert Wolfe "England"
Armaments:
Accumulating stars and armaments - Pablo Neruda "Do Not Ask Me" transl. by Miguel Algarin
Arsenal.
Banner.
Barracks:
The black hole in the barracks - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
Barrage:
The creeping barrage of occupation - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Rippling through the barrage of bubbles - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"
Barricade.
Bastion.
Battlement.
Belligerent.
Breach.
Bulwark.
Camouflage.
Casualties:
Tally the casualties of war - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
a war always claims casualties - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
Cavalcade:
The avenue with its cavalcade of trucks - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"
That radiant cavalcade - Anna Hempstead Branch “While Loveliness Goes By”
Giant cavalcades of marshalled Doom - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
In nodding cavalcade advancing - Walter de la Mare "The Unchanging"
Cavalier:
To be so cavalier with their bliss - Kaveh Akbar "What Seems Like Joy"
La Mancha's cavalier reposes - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Chariot.
Citadel.
Convoy:
A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Crossfire:
Another halo to shake loose galloping into the crossfire - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
Dreadnought:
Sees the dreadnaughts scouring every main - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"
Old maid or dreadnought - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"
This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Fort.
Fortress.
Galley:
Galleys miss appointments with the tides - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Those shining galleys of the stars - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Galleys waiting for the gale - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"
Gilded galley-slaves of Mammon - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"
Garrison:
Strange garrisons of emerald-mailed chameleons - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."
Militant:
Into this milieu of militant affection - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"
Oriflamme/Oriflame:
Golden oriflames and tents of pearl - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"
Bearing Lucifer's oriflamme - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
The rose shall be my oriflamme - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"
Rampart.
Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.
Revolt.
Revolution.
Revolutionary.
Ricochet:
Ricocheting towards each other - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]
Deflecting the ricochet against that anarchy of dusk - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
The sun ricocheting off the sea - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
A ricochet from a sea surge - Charles Wright "Outscape"
Shellshock:
Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"
Stockade:
The stockade and the bastioned gate - Laura Da' "The Honest Tongue"
Strategy:
A pure cruel strategy - Daisy Aldan "Frozen Frames of a Last Meeting"
Silence itself is strategy - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"
A strategy for ignoring history - Louise Gluck "Parable for the King"
My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Tactic:
Runs on tactical forgiveness - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Van.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
