somethingdarker | Mar. 8th, 2010

Mar. 8th, 2010

Wake up in childhood's crypt - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

Lonelier aisle or darker crypt - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"

this crypt dust settling my bones - Porsha Olayiwola "The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man!"

Entering the crypts of kings - Charles Simic "Windy Evening"

Closes the soul in a crypt of dread - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"

Corpses from the crypts of memory - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

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( Crumb )

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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( Creature )

A mirror-creature in a red dress - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

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( Crater )

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Apostate to my father's creed - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Their creeds with an iron twist - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"

Winnow the creeds of men - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

An older, dreamier creed behind - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

A creed is the shell of a lie - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

Tedious argument and fruitless creed - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"

His creed a wreck of hollow towers - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"

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( Crocus )

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( Cradle )

Merciful skies, uncradle your mist - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

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( Cross )

Webs and dim branching, cross-firing - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"

The crosshairs of a hidden life - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"

Hiding from the sniper's crosshairs - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"

A crosshatch of deletions and smears - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson

Cross-hatchings of the nettle - James Whitcombe Riley "A Barefoot Boy"

Crosshatched with a lacquer frieze of ink - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"

Crossroad.

The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"

Held crosswise to the budding day - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"

A sky cross-stitched and beaded - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"

A whole crossword puzzle of ladder and corridor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"

The satisfaction of crossword puzzles - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"

Circle and loop and double-cross - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"

What thresholds of welcome have you crossed and recrossed? - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

Latest monarch of a star-crossed line - Maurice Baring "Epitaph

Through some starcrossed lineage - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Star-crossed diamonds on the coffee cup - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

a recursive forest thicket of uncrossability - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

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( Create )

Creation.

Angels of a creative god - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"

delivered her the ashes of my creative fire - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

( Creator )

And find the uncreated light - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Habit of Perfection"

Martyrdoms of uncreated things - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

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( Creep )

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( Crash )

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Crazed gnats in the fallow - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

Looking in like the crazed bells of silence - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"

But crazy has places to hide me - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"

Tasted the bittersweet roots of this crazy world - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

Primroses grown crazy with sorrow - Alice Notley "World's Bliss"

Time spins like a crazy dial - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Like a crazy quilt stretched on a line - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

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( Cricket )

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To combine the functions of creator and critic - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"

In critic's hands beware - Anne Bradstreet "The Author to Her Book"

His critic friends had surely cried - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"

Under the microscope of cultural critics - Stephanie Heit "The Murderer: Primetime"

Where critics teach the ignorant - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Enable me to eavesdrop on your critique - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"

More critiques than a prophet - Lynn Powell "Aubade for the Muse"

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Frowning at their crumpled scrolls - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

As winter crumples in thunder - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"

The self's delicate apparatus crumpled - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

Over the crumpled bodies of laundry - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

A crumpled shock of joy - Jane Wong "The Waiting"

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( Creak )

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Beneath a sky of cryptic stars - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."

In the cryptic center of my head - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"

With cryptic tokens of the slain - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"

Omens cryptic & golden, poisoned & red - Ann K. Schwader "Wind Shift"

Cryptic concert in their wake - May Swenson "Three Jet Planes"

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( Crouch )

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( Crime )

In a house of quiet criminals - Claire Millikin "Night Insects"

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( Craft )

Witchcraft.

Night's impecunious craftsman - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"

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( Cruel )

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( Crystal )

( Crystallize )

( Crystalline )

A crystal ball lowered into low-hanging helium - Ian Goh "Firework"

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

On geometry's inverted crystalware - Pablo Neruda "Doctor Francia" transl. by Jack Schmitt

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( Crest )

Dark alleys between night-crested waves - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Beside the violet-crested spring - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"

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( Crack )

Play crack-the-whip in the abyss - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"

A white stucco ceiling with its million spider-cracks - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

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( Crook/Crooked )

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( Crimson )

Reposing in the crimson-curtained west - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Swung in crimson-sphered completeness - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"

From Troy's doom-crimson shore - James Elroy Flecker "The Old Ships"

Encrimsoning the lips of our surprise - Max Eastman "A Visit"

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Create.

( Creation )

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( Creek )

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( Cry )

To stir like a battle-cry - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Songs for the People"

I outcry the eagles - Noor Hindi "Breaking [News]"

The querulous outcry of the loon - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

Shivered with outcry of eldritch voices - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"

The howling wind is their war-cry - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"

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Cream spun around into butter - Elizabeth Alexander "Butter"

Spread the pastry with sweet cream - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"

As the coffee deepens its creamy sweet acidity - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"

Full of iron and clotted cream - Elizabeth Metzger "Control Feast"

The lily lifts its creamy cup - Alfred B. Street "The Upper Saranac"

Ice Cream.

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( Crush )

Promethean will uncrushed and calm - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

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( Crisp )

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( Crowd )

Through the dense-crowded streets - Arthur Weir "Pilot"

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( Crescent )

Silver-limbed and crescent-crowned - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

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Rich the crops that fall - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Promising a crop of dust - Conrad Hilberry "Radiation"

wilting like the wind-touched crops - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"

Strip each stalk of its stolen crop - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

The one crop that never failed - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

That crop-eared horror who haunted deserts - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

Crop-grower of infertile seed - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"

Barefoot and shadow-cropped - Jenny Xie "No Animal"

A sharecropper of loneliness - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

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( Crust )

Dons her star-encrusted veil - Cora C. Bass "Life's Temple"

Which encrust the side of the wave - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

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The crevasse of each experience - Rae Armantrout "Versed"

Walk to the edge of the crevasse - Steve Denehan "The Crevasse"

In crevasses between root & bone - Felicia Zamora "The Exercise of Forgiving"

( Crevice )

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( Crocodile )

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( Crown )

A crownless king laid low - Ardelia Maria Barton "Man Defying the Dying Sun"

All the crownless, ruined years - Clark Ashton Smith "Recompense"

A pale and crownless rose - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"

The sad ones discrowned in the night - A.E. "Love"

Such hopes as time discrowns - Algernon Swinburne "Past Days"

And ascends flower-crowned to her vernal throne - Mrs. E.C. Stedman "Flight of the Birds" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

If you'll share there my ivy-crowned cot - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The uncrowned king of thought - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Uncrowned, disrobed, bereft - Winifred Welles "Exile"

Silver-limbed and crescent-crowned - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

In a crown-fire forest blaze - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"

Bounty of the grape-crowned year - Caroline D. Swan "Stars of Cheer"

To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore - John Milton "L'Allegro"

Crown-jewel of our fame - Benjamin Copeland "Hail to the Chief!"

Of all the rose-crowned year - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"

Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

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New persistence flexing in a crucible - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

Crumbled in one red crucible - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"

Now the crucible is breaking - F. Hartmann "Endlich bricht der heisse Tiegel" transl. by James W. Alexander

The heart must be a crucible - George Marion McClellan "Love is a Flame"

That dares and endures the crucible - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Raking the cinders of a crucible - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

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( Crawl )

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As the crab does the cuttlefish - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

There's no letting go of a crab - Kurt Cyrus "Hotel Deep"

An old crab with barnacles on his back - T.S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

A little village of crawling crabs - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"

Bitten by a crab loyal to the hydra - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

The sweet ache of crab still bright - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

Prowling the wetlands for ghost crabs - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Hermit crabs in shells just the size for sleep - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Becomes Our Mother"

A hermit crab seeing nobler shells - Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins"

The hermit crab who keeps me company - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

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( Crane )

As Sandhill cranes must thread the meadow - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

Evidence of traffic and sandhill cranes - Alison Swan "Signs"

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( Crow )

Here's the crow's-foot for a sign - Don Marquis "'King Pandion, He Is Dead'"

Long after the roosters had crowed his name - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"

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( Crackle )

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( Crease )

The flutter of your creaseless heart - Maggie Nelson "The Beginner"

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( Crag )

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( Catacomb )

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( Crumble )

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( Credit )

The pain of faiths discredited - Coningsby Dawson "A Brave Life"

That angry time discredits and disowns - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

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While the burning sun her crew did freeze - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles

An unpaid wrecking crew - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"

The goblin pirate crew - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A More Ancient Mariner"

Dead Nelson and his half-dead crew - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"

In the chant of a home-faring crew - Algernon Swinburne "At Sea"

None of this vulgarian crew - Henry van Dyke "A Bunch of Trout-Flies"

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( Croon )

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( Crossroad )

Road.

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( Cramp )

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Or the crescendoing moment - Leila Chatti "The Rules"

gold crescendo and silver muting - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"

Time like a crescendo - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"

Measuring the crescendo of the brasses - Jean M. Snyder "Rhythm"

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