somethingdarker | Apr. 2nd, 2010

Apr. 2nd, 2010

( Daughter )

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A date with the glamorous dark - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"

Warring factions agreed up the date and final form - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Our hands filled with bread and dates - Mari Ness "Sisters"

The garden of dates and pomegranates - Bruce Smith "Garden"

Between two dates of death - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"

The outdated map on his wall - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"

Hid in death's dateless night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"

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( Daisy )

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After night burst the dam of day - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

My grief a loose dam - K. Iver "Anti-Elegy"

The dam that holds back the universe - Ted Kooser "Telescope"

Arsenic slurry caged behind a dam - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

A real crack in an imaginary dam - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

Huge beams from broken dams above - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

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Dazed by the lack of gravity - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Epilogue: A Story for After"

With the daze the day begets - Terrance Hayes "Twenty Measures of Chitchat"

Dazed by the flaming splendor of his wings - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

The daze of nature's chlorophyll dynamos - Joanne Merriam "The Bather"

Under the dazed and distant sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Dazed all the dark with sweetness - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"

Look into the shadow with moon-dazed eyes - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

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( Daybreak )

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( Dandelion )

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( Dangle )

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( Darkness )

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( Darken )

Through ever-darkening years - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VI: A Parallel"

When the sun has slit its wrists into the undarkened sky - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

Dark.

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( Darkest )

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( Dante )

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( Dash )

As the dashboard races to a waiting disaster - Mary Jo Bang "Before the Absolute Perfection Dying Achieves"

Against the dashboard of stars - William Brewer "In the Room of the Overdosed, an Ember"

The keys are on the dashboard - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"

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Daunting mountains and bitterroots - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"

Paler be they than daunting death - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Those in high places daunted - Seamus Heaney "Anything Can Happen"

Fetched the daunting echo back - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXI: Hell's Gate"

Hide our daunted eyes - D. H. Lawrence "Winter-Lull"

Dauntless.

Undaunted.

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( Danger )

( Dangerous )

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( Dare )

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A dainty mosaic mortared in his courtyard - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Dainty as Daphne's divinest - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Spring Violet"

All dainty things of earth and sky - Henry S. Leigh "Not Quite Fair"

Far from Cinderella's dainty glass slippers - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"

The dainty diagrams of frost - Theodore Maynard "The World's Miser"

Around the dainty tip of Whitman's pen - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Dainty antennae for the touch and withdrawal - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

From thy dainty chalice steals the balm - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

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( Dagger )

Such meaning in a dagger-day - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

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Wolf dark matter gulfs in gassy gulps - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Dark matter & a castle of leaves - Paul Cameron Brown "Red Fox (Red Horse Lake)"

A dark matter that calls my name - Cecilia Caballero "Octavia Said You Cannot Know How Deeply People Feel Their Ancestors"

Dark matter funneling through his veins - Tina Chang "My Father. A Tree."

Through doors of dark matter - Saeed Jones "Anthracite"

Sing your heart out at all that dark matter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"

Dark.

Matter.

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'I' will be no more a datum - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Between our walls of phantom data - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

Born swimmer in the data stream - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"

Hope in a binary data stream - Matthew Zapruder "Sad News"

Recorded memories and data points - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Out under the field of data-points - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

Somewhere in the blank spaces of the data-set - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

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( Daydream )

Day.

Dream.

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( Dazzle )

In our god-dazzled night - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"

Eager eyes I might undazzled raise - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Undazzled with its glorious infamy - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

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( Dart )

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( Dance )

Milkweeds dance-standing as the wind passes - Ray Young Bear "John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956"

Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"

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( Dark )

golden butterfly against the cave-dark - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

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]

Darken.

Darker.

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From her dark-gnarled yew-tree lair - Walter de la Mare "Snow"

Darkling.

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Dark Matter.

Darkness.

Advertise a propensity for dark-red - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Had traveled darksome ways - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"

Full of the dark-stooping night - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"

By this dark-winged planet - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"

To the shores of silent-dark and back - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

The vowel-dark grapes of autumn - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

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( Dawn )

Powerless before the dawn-borne rains - Li Yu "[Blossoms of the wood have scattered]" transl. by Burton Watson

Dawn-dream of my heart - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"

To rail at the dawn-watch wind - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson

Still in its prehistoric silver-dawn atmosphere - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

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Daily.

( Day )

Such meaning in a dagger-day - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

The daybeams creep along the serried pines - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Above me the day-blind stars waiting - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

Talked in mellow day-ends - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"

Daylight.

Face more pallid than a daylit star - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"

I hold my breath, daylong, yearlong - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Where daylong the sniper watches - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"

Dayside anger splits hydrogen and oxygen apart - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"

Dayspring of the desolate - Benjamin Copeland "Gold, and Frankincense, and Myrrh"

Hauling remnants of light from these daystars - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

The day-star of celestial Hope - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

Everybody's dark side is daytime somewhere - Andrea Gibson "Daylight, Somewhere"

No help in that daytime moon - Lynn Powell "July's Proverb"

you have given birth to daytime visions - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Daydream.

Where Dante's dream-days are - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"

Doomsday.

Everyday.

Our glory-days in the rear-view mirror - Andre F. Peltier "Miyagi's Wisdom and the Lunch-Table Debates"

Where the kettle whistles midday - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

When mid-day is all in flames - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VII"

The motto of modern-day dowsers - Thomas Lux "Indigo Felix:"

And carry me into a seven-day kiss - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"

Noonday.

Adds water to the soup until payday - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

Rent due & payday missing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"

Pondering the dreams of someday when - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"

A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"

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( Daffodil )

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With dauntless feet and sound of silver bells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Thought has a pair of dauntless wings - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"

Of dauntless, silent violets - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"

A stainless cause and a dauntless fight - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"

Where dauntless nerve and intellect combined - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"

A brave and dauntless band - Nancy Byrd Turner "One Mile to Toyland" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Daunt.

Undaunted.

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Of morning in dalliance with night - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"

May dally with imaginings - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

That dallied with a crimson rose - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Where Time has dallied with the Parthenon - David Gray "The Luggie I [sonnet]"

While I dally with the Night - George Martin "Aspiration"

Dally with false surmise - John Milton "Lycidas"

That we dally with hearts till their treasures are ours - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

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( Damn )

( Damnation )

Of gnats, amyl nitrate, and goddamn rain - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"

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( Darker )

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( Darkling )

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( Damage )

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( Damp )

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( Daily )

Dirty from the detritus of dailiness - Alberto Rios "The Secrets in the Mirror"

Day.

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Dappled with rain and emptied smudges - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Upon the dappled curtain of the sky - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"

Fleeter be they than dappled dreams - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Dappled with the moon's beam - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

Waiting for the dappling of sky - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"

Hung on dappled foxglove bells - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

Crying into the dappled sea - Frank O'Hara "To the Film Industry in Crisis"

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