somethingdarker | Apr. 3rd, 2010

Apr. 3rd, 2010

( Defer )

In deference to the dew - Susan Coolidge "Menace"

Banked their fires in deference to the sun - Linda Gregerson "Chronic"

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A deluge and then a digging out - Kim Addonizio "Darkening Then Brightening"

Silence that deluged the larynx - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Like a deluge on the dykes - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"

Our deluge of tears was constant and true - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"

No deluge of flame could surprise - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"

The world before the deluge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

A deluge of presence - C. K. Williams "Scale: II"

With scathing breath the deluge-fire of a descending hell - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

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( Defeat )

Lie spent in star-defeated sighs - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XV"

sticks and stains and leaves its undefeatable marks - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

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Desolation.

( Desolate )

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( Despair )

The pang of death-despair pass over - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson

Desperate/Desperation.

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( Decide )

Decision.

When the smoke lifts its decisive wheels - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Undecided at my window - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)

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Deceit.

( Deceive )

Deception.

Undeceived and watching there - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

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( December )

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( Despite )

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( Deer )

Musk deer and flying squirrels quarrel by the stairs - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

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( Deliver )

That sweet music of deliverance - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "France: An Ode, 1797"

A deliverance that bequeaths - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Till only ladders bring deliverance - Ann K. Schwader "Last Light, Frijoles Canyon"

My grief in a crushed delivery box - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

Undelivered ashes of stars - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

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( Destine )

Destiny.

And time has shadows waiting in predestined ways - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

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( Delay )

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( Delerium )

Delirious.

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( Dear )

Far-fetched and dear-bought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"

Endear.

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Better than the waste of time's devices - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

The stairs inside the tripling device - Mary Jo Bang "The Transformation Anxiety Dream"

Engraved with delicate devices - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIX. The Amulet of Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds

A homing device for navigating paradise - J. Patrick Lewis "Great, Good, Bad"

Built of stencils and explosive devices - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Velvet stiff with gold device - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"

Emblazoned with extinction's bleak device - Ann K. Schwader "Climate of Fear"

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( Decline )

Their undeclining circles drew - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Old Watch"

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A deluded wakeful thrush - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"

The power of your deluding wine - George Sterling "To Life"

( Delusion )

Threading the world's delusive maze - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

Hope's delusive, glittering beam - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

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( Dense )

( Density )

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

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( Detail )

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( Define )

( Definition )

To redefine the sky - Stephen Dunn "Cut and Break"

Liquid timeless motion undefined - Max Eastman "To the Ascending Moon"

Some spell of undefined control - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"

An upward agony of undefined desires - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Every hope more vague and undefined - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

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( Delirious )

Delirium.

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Deft carriers of mysterious things - Cora C. Bass "Ours Is the Choice"

Deft subterranean digs - Howard Futhey Brinton "The 'I Told You So Club'"

Where the treasures dropped down and deftly hid - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

Your scarlet foot so deftly placed - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"

Deft seeds blown from a thistle-head - Edward Dowden "Wise Passiveness"

By some determined deftness - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"

A fatal deftness - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"

By hands trained to deftness - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Strand of Wampum"

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( Depend )

( Decade )

Wet eyes hungry for decades-old debts - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

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( Defend )

( Defense )

A sword among defenseless men - Pablo Neruda "Dead Gallop" translated by John Felstiner

To celebrate an indefensible sleep - Jay Wright "Sasa"

By equities of self-defence - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

To cross the lines of self-defence - Leonard Cohen "The Letters"

A path towards its well-defended heart - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

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( Deaf/Deafen )

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Love is larger than declaration - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"

Signed a declaration of repentance - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

Their Queen's approach declare - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Declared war on the sea - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"

Remorse declares that bitter state - Lionel Johnson "Experience"

Declare all passions obsolete - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

That will not declare itself - Wallace Stevens "Metaphors of a Magnifico"

An absence declares its blunt self - Wendy Xu "Writing Home"

Before declaring myself a better failure - Maged Zaher "Untitled"

Undeclared war echoed from my step - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"

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( Decree )

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( Delight )

Liquid litany of heart-delight - Margaret Houston "In the Garden"

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Inside your destructible heart - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

( Destruction )

( Destructive )

Vowed to make the next model indestructible - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"

In a reckless, indestructible surge - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"

as indestructible as your will - Evie Shockley "du bois in ghana"

A self-destructiveness no memory can repeal - Charles Wright "Homage to Samuel Beckett"

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With devious feet, and void of fixed intent - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

A mind devious and fair - Stephen Dunn "Lucky"

The dust of devious ways - George Allan England "The Finish"

These wide rooms of devious line - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

No devious track was theirs - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Without such devious love - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Shared Plight"

Devious ways tangled with blooming - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"

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( Dewdrop )

Embellished with a nectar-dewdrop net - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 177: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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( Demand )

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( Devote )

( Devotion )

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Defiling wonder that he never knew - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"

Creeping down by waterless defiles under an iron midnight - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Undefiled graffiti of gods - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

Sleep comes dreamless, undefiled - Crosbie Garstin "Nocturne"

Draughts of slumber undefiled - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Retrospection"

In the undefiled abyss of what can never be - Edward Thomas "The Word"

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The wintering den of stars - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Step from the mouths of your dens and speak - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

A den of dark and deadly mazes - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles IV"

In the Seven Sleepers' den - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

Though driven for refuge to cavern and den - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

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Desk and counter and rock-quarried gold - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"

A bomb on his desk at all times - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

A chair for a voice, a desk for the wind - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"

Puddled in lamplight at your midnight desk - Mary Oliver "West Wind 6"

Mercy at the makeshift desk - Gerald Stern "Places You Wouldn't Believe"

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( Despise )

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( Deadly )

Dead.

Death.

Deathless.

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Dead.

Deadly.

( Death )

Deathbed shooting star - Atom Atkinson "closet with the letter 'd' on either end"

In a variety show of deathbed ways - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

To capture time on its deathbed - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "An infinite outing; or the cemetery"

The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

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

The pang of death-despair pass over - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson

The death-dews of Chaos - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Phantoms of some old storm's death-driven Titans - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

A pack of death-hounds guarding me - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

Deathless.

The crimson death-lights dance - Virna Sheard "Crosses"

Cruel dawn, with icy, deathlike eyes and hollow voice - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

I am the noise with deathly thoughts - CM Burroughs "God Letter"

When Emily's deathly fly calls to her - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Emily Dickinson]

Exalted, deathly, silent, and alone - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

Alarmed by the heart's death-march notes - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

To put a death-mask on tragedy - Mary Jo Bang "The Role of Elegy"

Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Between the pizza and the death ray - Leah Bobet "Her Hero"

Day's death-robes glitter fair - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Haunted by the death-scenting shark - Cale Young Rice "Haunted Seas"

The stars, their death-watch keeping - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]

A thousand death-winged messengers - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

The heat-death of prime time television - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

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Dead.

Deadly.

Death.

( Deathless )

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( Deepen )

After a wine-deepened dinner - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"

Deep.

Deeper.

Deepest.

Deeply.

Depth.

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( Deeper )

Deep.

Deepen.

Deepest.

Deeply.

Depth.

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( Deepest )

Deep.

Deepen.

Deeper.

Deeply.

Depth.

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( Deeply )

Deep.

Deepen.

Deeper.

Deepest.

Depth.

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( Depth )

Deep.

Deepen.

Deeper.

Deepest.

Deeply.

Deflecting horizonless depthless light - Philip Lamantia "Untitled [To see this evil from its core]"

A mirror depthless and deceitful - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

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( Desert )

Deserted.

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( Destiny )

Destine.

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( Definite )

Past these indefinitely tensed lines - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"

The indefinite unshapen dawn - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

Strives unguided towards indefinite ends - V. Sackville-West "To a Poet Whose Verses I Had Read"

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( Defiant/Defiance )

Defy.

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( Denial )

Deny.

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( Departure )

Depart.

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Seal edges & delete evidence of my escape - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"

this deletion will not be permanent - Eunsong Kim "[i wrote something here but deleted it because i realized that it's]"

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

Life deleted of its old raw fire - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"

Amplified by murderous deletions - Ocean Vuong "Dear Rose"

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Whirled and tossed into delicious dancing - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

Why vex me with delicious hints - Henry Kendall "Aileen"

Bright as the sun's delicious radiance - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

My delicious dark happiness - Mary Oliver "Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen"

Growing songs more delicious than your maps - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Faint tints of long delicious light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"

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the shape of unanswerable desperation - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

The desperation of the moon - M.L. Liebler "Winter Meditation"

Combustible with desperation - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Goes to the Next Whisky Bar"

The desperation of unstruck piano keys - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

( Desperate )

Despair.

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As the sea develops pearl and weed - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVII: The Wife"

Develop immunity against this violence - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

From a solar myth developed - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

A negative developed in mercury - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"

Stray chunks of the undeveloped moon - John Updike "Phoenix"

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( Devise )

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( Deserve )

Assault of undeserved perdition - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Of gratitude for mercies undeserved - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

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( Devour )

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( Deal )

Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

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( Deck )

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( Deserted )

Ashes of the sun-deserted gold - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"

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( Decay )

Three ramparts undecaying - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull

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( Destroy )

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( Dead )

Where the deadened nerves so soon forget - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Deaden the might of the gale - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"

Gods deadened by the weight of waiting - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

Asleep within the deadest hour of night - Robert Nichols "To ---"

Deadly.

Death.

Deathless.

Long-Dead.

every dead-ash sun a crumbled cipher - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"

Pasteboard riddles and commedia deadpan - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

Dead ringer in the wind, but worst - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

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

Long dead before Hollywood dividends could ever come - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Dreamless long-dead Amen-hotep lies - Edward Thomas "Swedes"

Shake crisp leaves from long-dead trees - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

An elegy for the not-quite-dead - Jackie Wang "Refuge"

The undead life between my pages - Mary Alexandra Agner "Book of the Dead Woman"

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Sleeping in a state of detachment - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Detaching the unnecessary trash in orbit - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

Go free in detachment - Kim Unsong "Detachment"

The way detachment can resemble confidence - Carl Phillips "Everything All of It"

Detached from earth and earthly voice - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Detached dance of gnomes - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

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( Deny )

Denial.

As undeniable as smoke - Yesenia Montilla "High Stakes"

Any saint whose zeal is undenied - Walter S. Percy "A Forgiveness"

Sailing the path of the undenied - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Song"

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Dells where the gold bee drones - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"

The linnet in the rocky dells - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"

In dells of rose and meadowsweet - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Snared young foxes in the dells - Walter de la Mare "The Isle of Lone"

A glowworm golden in a dell of dew - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

The spell of tree, wave, and dell - Alfred B. Street "Racket River"

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( Deceit )

Deceive.

Deception.

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Our methods of deception - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen H"

No shimmering deceptions of the sun - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

The minimally required deception - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"

When the days became deceptive - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 2: How not to drown in desire"

A deceptive kind of knowledge - Joseph O. Legaspi "Kissing My Father"

Sincere in self-deception - Margaret Widdemer "An Old Portrait"

Deceit.

Deceive.

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( Degree )

Significance degreeless in a dandelion - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

An eddy of fate, degreeless - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

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( Decision )

Time yet for a hundred indecisions - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Decide.

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A determination from the chimeric neural net - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"

With determination and a brush of bells - Audre Lorde "For Craig"

( Determine )

Toward a defined but indeterminate place - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

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( Debris )

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( Delicate )

( Delicacy )

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What is the opposite of devastation? - Dawn Lundy Martin "The Laceration"

Over devastation I salute you - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"

They move in a slow wheel of devastation - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

Put up with the devastation of wind - Zheng Min "Poverty" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Devastate the path - Andrew Motion "The Ring"

devastating years of industrious complexities - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"

Seen for us the devastating light - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"

Canopied with devastated clouds - Richard Siken "Dirty Valentine"

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( Descend/Descent )

Fountain of undescended love - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"

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Debating with angels at the door - T. Holley Chivers, M.D. "The Bright New Moon of Love"

The Debateable Land between their place and ours - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

The issue of the grand debate - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

The debate of wings and song - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Old, harsh voices of debate - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

By a dark canal debating - Francis Brett Young "Testament"

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Dragged to the mind's deadend - Margaret Atwood "A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum"

Each axis dead-ending - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Charge through dead end streets - Stephanie Heit "The Shock Machine: Neuromodulation Master"

A labyrinth of dead ends and false openings - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

Flicking all the dead ends off - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"

Dead ends that seem like lucky breaks - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

Write poems about dead ends - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"

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On each slant of decor and rhyme - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"

Decorated in the strong songs of survival - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

A decorative speed of thought and soul - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"

We decorate the treachery of time - Max Bodenheim "A Visitor from Mars Smiles"

Decorated with lost lures - Katherine Edgren "Muskies and Reveries: Reverie on the Invisible Twitch"

With an empty bullet for decoration - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

Redecorate paradise - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"

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Derides Pan's lost dominion - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

That guides and derides and controls and outlives - Arthur Stringer "The Meaning"

Divided from heaven and derided of dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Derision won't change the Body - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"

Idomitable hope or vain derision - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Chromatic fifths of derision - William Carlos Williams "January"

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Describe a wraith's response - Rae Armantrout "Lengths"

Describe what color is not - Monica de la Torre "No mode of excitement is absolutely colorless"

This space my palms describe - Nava EtShalom "Proposal"

A tongue of light describing a refuge - Rumi "A Just-Finished Candle" transl. by Coleman Barks

Describing term as boundary - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"

Too late to describe the world - Rachel Zucker "The Death of Everything Even New York"

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( Design )

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Defiance/Defiant.

( Defy )

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( Dew )

The death-dews of Chaos - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The gold, unlaced, dew-drunken daffodils - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Dew-drunken daffodils shouting the dawn - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Jangled freshets to a dewless land - Michael Field "From the Highway"

Dewpoint and a level field - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

Enchain dew-soft darks in silence tender - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Drunk on honey-dew and violet's breath - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

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The democratization of dark energy - Bryan Byrdlong "Ode to Black Air Forces"

Would make a plutocracy of our democracy - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "To the Oracle at Delphi"

Democracy's full moon, obscured - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

The democratic nature of the shroud - Miller Oberman "Taharah"

The rude democracy of bone - A.E. Stallings "The Cenotaph"

Zero gravity democracy - Vickie Vertiz "Only we make beautiful things just to destroy them"

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( Desolation )

Desolate.

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( Deep )

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Knee-Deep.

Deepen.

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Grant me the tragic deepness of the cup - Helen Hay Whitney "Pity Me Not!"

Depth.

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( Depart )

Departure.

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( Debt )

A band of debtors who refused to pay - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

The demise of debtors' prisons - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Indebtedness to oxygen - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXVI"

Like dawn indebted to light - Nicole Sealey "object permanence"

The skin stretched over lifedebts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"

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( Deliberate )

With a thousand small deliberations - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

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( Desire )

Not yet desirous of relief - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"

Weary of undesired joys - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"

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( Demon )

Of a memory in demon-haunted men - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

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( Devil )

Snow with its devilish and silken whisper - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Poison thy mouth with deviltries - Walter de la Mare "Mrs. Grundy"

A dust devil gathering wind - Tyree Daye "The Death of Jimmy as the Dog He Always Was"

A sudden dust devil spirals in - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

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