somethingdarker | Feb. 7th, 2010

Feb. 7th, 2010

( Briar )

Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

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( Brass )

Beyond the heavy brass-bound door - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

Your brains puddled in a brass-capped mason jar - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"

Brazen.

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( Bramble )

Shut my bramblewood door - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson

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( Brother )

While linked in closest brotherhood, invincible - "Cor Unum, Via Una: God Bless Our Native Land!" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Children of some banish'd brotherhood - Irving Sidney Dix "Fairies of the Frost"

With the steel of brotherhood - Fenton Johnson "Children of the Sun"

With your patchwork flag of brotherhood - Vachel Lindsay "Sew the Flags Together"

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( Breed/Bred )

Half breed son of Pisces and Aquarius - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

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A shore strewn with protozoa bracken - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"

Beneath a bracken sheet - Joyce Kilmer "The Mad Fiddler"

The bracken all aflame - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"

The bracken of your invasive self - Carl Phillips "Civilization"

The bracken curtain for my head - Sir Walter Scott "Song from 'The Lady of the Lake'"

Let me resurrect beyond the bracken - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

Bracken upon my memory - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

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Cold gliding in the thorny brake - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

Clamorous with many brakes and bells - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"

Through field and brake of thorn - "The Poor Clerk (Ar C'Hloarek Paour)" (Translated by Tom Taylor)

Brake of time - Gregory Corso "Bomb"

Bad brakes and a need to stop - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"

Linnet in the wild-rose brake - Oscar Wilde "La Bella Donna della Mia Mente"

A line of brake lights blazing - Charles Rafferty "Daylight Moon"

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( Bristle )

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The careful brushstrokes of a fire - Julia Alvarez "Tom"

The birth of a brushstroke - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

A close mess of buttered brushstrokes - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"

Brushstrokes of a painting half-finished - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

the brush strokes' elliptic fusion of calm and motion - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

Uses tears and exacting brush strokes - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Brush.

Stroke.

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Not all his dread artillery could breach - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Breach the blue of my bones - Gary Jackson "Multiple Man: Guest-staring me & you"

That tapers down to salt poured in the breach - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"

A breach in the wall of darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

the humpback whale breaching the slate screen - David Maduli "alameda point"

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( Breathless )

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( Bread )

Breading and olives and cherries - Joseph Lease "America [Try saying wren]"

Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"

For the miracle of breaking my hands into breadcrumbs - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"

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( Brood )

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( Brutal )

Fraudulent windows in a Brutalist structure - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"

( Brute )

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The jangle of silver bracelets - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"

Death with a name on a bracelet - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"

A bracelet adorning the land's pale wrist - Chris Dombrowski "Was it a sign? I think it probably was"

An island braceleted by seas - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Necklace of days bracelets of hours - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

My bracelet made of jasper - Jim Moore "Diptych: My Bracelet"

The weight of a bracelet she can't afford - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda III"

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( Break )

( Broke )

Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"

Breakdown way more wicked than Noah's flood - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Breaker [water].

Breakless chain, and iron thrall - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

A doorknob statement, a breakneck goodbye - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"

Far beyond the breakpoint - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"

Breakwaters of eternity - Ruben Dario "Poets! Towers of God!" (translation by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva)

Broken Heart.

Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

This cloud-break that ravels the night - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"

Heartbreak.

Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The thyroid and the pancreas joined the outbreak - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

Respected the pause between lightning and skybreak - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

( Unbreakable )

Unbroken.

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( Brick )

Whose brickwork base the cunning Romans laid - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Dragons in embossed brickwork marching - William Carlos Williams "March"

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( Brink )

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( Brew )

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Nothing can your sinews brace - James Ballantine "A Golfing Song"

The lilacs brace themselves for this sort of blue - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"

Grasp your bracing challenge - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"

Brace before the rain - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"

Brace the arms that help the winches round - John Masefield "Spunyarn"

Brace for summer's aftermath - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

The lilies braced their narrow shoulders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

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( Brand )

Rebrand & rewrite their Dadaist daydreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

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( Brazen )

Brass.

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( Brine )

Salt.

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( Bridle )

Unbridled.

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( Broom )

Twirls a baton of broken broomstick - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"

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( Breeze )

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( Brief )

In those beautiful, too-brief moments - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

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( Brittle )

The color of brittle-mindedness - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"

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( Bright )

Sitting there so bitter-bright - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

The bright-heeled constellations - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

Bright-shielded Mars, who leads the host - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Between her fingers crystal-bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell

Gleaming fish that gasp in the death-bright dawn - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Firebright blessings of fallen leaves - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

See you nova-bright and radiant - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Sun-bright splendors on the noonday rest - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The heavy torture of sorrows unbrightened - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

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( Brown )

A brownstone for hummingbirds - francine j. harris "Wetland"

Who quaff the nut-brown ale - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Song of a nutbrown hen - Donika Kelly "Bower"

Grapes of purple-brown and gold - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

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( Brave )

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Will not need your bribes - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Bribing the quiet madness of evening - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Incurable Mystic Answers Western Ambitions"

Bribe a passage to the skies - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

He has bribed the thorns - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Warlord's Garden"

The bribery of coffee poured from flasks - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

To bribe the weary pilgrim back - Rev. William B. Tappan "Stanzas" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Bribed you with architecture - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

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( Brimstone )

Sulfur/Sulphur.

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Ploughing breakers across both sea and night - Paul Cameron Brown "The Draper's Cloth"

And the breakers talked with Death - J.T. Fields "The Captain's Daughter" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

Burst by the breakers from the land of death - Harry Martinson "Aniara 59" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Plunge into billow and breaker - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Spouting breakers were the only thing a-lee - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"

Skipped between the breakers jubilant and sunk - Dean Young "Speech Therapy" [Poetry Oct. 2010]

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Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

The ingredients of a witches' broth - Robert Frost "Design"

Paper spoons in a broth of wind - Wayne Miller "Nocturne"

Added a mint leaf now and then to hearten the broth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"

Dispensing with justice the broth and the bread - A.D.T. Whitney "The Big Shoe"

Dandelion broth instead of duck soup - Dean Young "Handy Guide" [Poetry Nov. 2011]

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( Bronze )

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( Brook )

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( Bridal )

( Bride )

Bridegroom.

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( Breath/Breathe )

Breathless.

Dream-figments then are gone like breath-prints - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Breath-prints on a window, handwriting in snow - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Breathtaking presumption - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Breathtaking vistas of bodily hell - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Low-breathed music's echoed measure - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Low-breathed air and inwoven melody - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

Ripe and summer-breathing clover-flower - John Drinkwater "The Midlands"

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( Branch (botanical and not) )

A myriad-branching, cloud-aspiring tree - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The walnut-branches hold me - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

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( Braid )

Beneath a trillion leaves cloud-braided - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"

Aphrodite with unbraided hair - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Plaiting basil in her hair - John Masefield "The Widow in the Bye Street"

Knit straw plaits for the nest's nice lining - James Stephens "Fifteen Acres"

The flaxen hemp still plaits its chain - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

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( Bridge )

Bridge-builders of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

The drawbridge of the mind - James Baldwin "Conundrum (on my birthday) (for Rico)"

Footbridge.

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( Brilliance )

( Brilliant )

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( Brim )

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( Bring )

( Brought )

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( Broad )

Its waters will keep broadcasting - Iris Jamahl Dunkle "House Empty Speaks a Loud Truth, 2018"

The film exists as broadcast radio - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

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( Brush )

Time was a brushfire burning - Mary Jo Bang "The Still Knife Still Suspended"

Fevered blaze of backyard brush fires - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Brush and brushfire was unburied and unbound - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]

Brushstroke.

A nervous brushwork of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"

Pack my toothbrush and my cyanide molar - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"

Feral cats in the underbrush - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"

Hiding in the underbrush with hopes - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"

Into a bat's wing-brush of air - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

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( Bruise )

Crawl, half-bone, half-bruise - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

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( Brain )

half minutes of fire in my brainstem - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"

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( Breakfast )

Mistress of the breakfast nook - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

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( Brow )

An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"

Heaven's fire in dark-browed storms - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

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( Breast )

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When your braggarts of planets fade - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"

Let the braggarts go sleep in the gutter - Henry S. Leigh "Anacreontic (for a Cavalier Tea-Party)"

Bragging of knowledge and vision - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Mere lees is left this vault to brag of - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Has left my braggart blood - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

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( Bridegroom )

Bride.

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Five thousand in sable and brocade - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson

Brocade and sonnet marathons - Billy Collins "Nostalgia"

Stone gargoyles leering and brocade drapes licked with fire - Rita Dove "Hades' Pitch"

In filmy gossamer and soft brocade - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Sea Spell"

A bolt of brocade and foliage - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

Wantons go in bright brocades - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

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