somethingdarker | Apr. 5th, 2010

Apr. 5th, 2010

The stags and does may frolic - Harold Acton "Werther-Introspection"

Four fleet does at a gold valley - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Watched a doe chewing sage - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Lost as a white doe in winter - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen e"

Brought a lily-white doe - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Lady Clare"

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( Doctrine )

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( Doll )

In this doll's house lived together - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"

Paced their dollhouse walls - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"

The doll's house looking on the Park - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

The violent side of paper dolls - Claire Millikin "Paper Doll Eyes"

In the ragdoll physics of this world - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"

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( Don )

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( Dome )

Ice feathers across the biodome - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

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( Doubt )

A doubt-driven distance between - brian g. gilmore "the lansing negro"

Of soot and self-doubt - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"

Sent them forth undoubting - Annie Rothwell Christie "Welcome Home"

Memory's talk is undoubtably true - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"

( Dubious )

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( Dominion )

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( Downward )

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( Dolphin )

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( Dozen )

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In tabernacles & doleful churches - Cyrus Cassells "Ready! Aim! Fire!"

Doleful tokens to his fame combine - "The Christian Hero's Epitaph" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Strike doleful marches to the field - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

With singular heart and doleful dreams - Pablo Neruda "Ars Poetica" translated by Angel Flores

The doleful thousand-paged wheel - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

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Dim and aimless on a dolorous way - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

One with the daughters of dolour and night - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

And leave her dolorous mansions - John Milton "Verses from the Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

The capital of money and dolor - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Keyed to dolor and delight - Clinton Scollard "Night by the Sea"

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Wherever the last domino of my body falls - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

The dominoes of murder and betrayal - Mike Allen "Space War"

A domino sequence of nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Utopian Longing Becomes More Absurd"

The domino that starts the chain - Taylor Byas "Love Poem Attempt 3/?"

Another night of apocalyptic dominos - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"

Clouds playing dominos - Matthew Zapruder "You Have Astounding Cosmic News"

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On his way to a donkey-headed nowhere - Mary Jo Bang "P Equals Pie"

The donkey stole the lion's skin and brayed - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

This donkey with a charmed voice - Alice Notley "Poem [You hear that heroic big land music?]"

Bells on the collar of an invisible donkey - Carl Phillips "Entire Known World So Far"

This curious donkey whose burden was joy - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

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Lilies on every doorstep - Hilda Conkling "Easter"

Sitting on my doorstep this Sunday - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"

Written on the doorstep in lava - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

Black lava on the doorstep - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

Turn away and leave it crying on the doorstep - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Placed his head on your doorstep - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (9)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

From clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Sacrificed at the builder's doorstep - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Threshold"

Door.

Step.

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( Double )

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

Ever is a double-edged word - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"

Views it with her double-eye - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

Whatever double-hung treason - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Watching the Election Results Come In"

Our love double-knotted, saddle-stitched - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

An orchid doubled-over with white blooms - Joanie Mackowski "View from a Temporary Window"

Crown you double-tongued and quicksilver - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

Pretending the Doubleworld was acceptable - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"

The sun on the celandines lie redoubled - Edward Thomas "Celandine"

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To look adown the cavernous abyss - Claude Halcro "Niagara"

Adown the clefts of under-space - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

( Down )

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

A downcast silent regret - Frank J. Medina "Loneliness"

One field sparrow song down-falling - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

Football players firing glory-cannons downfield - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Small rivulets still flowing downhill - Jane Hirshfield "I wanted to be surprised."

What the FBI already downloaded - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

Downpour.

Anguish rushing downriver - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Irma Gate of Heaven"

The down-rushing arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

The downside of any evening's bright exchanges - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"

While someone else's fortune drifts downstream - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"

Two old swans landing downstream - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"

See eels wandering around downtown - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

The pale down-trodden aster lifts her head - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"

Downward.

Downwind through the winter weeds - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."

Five downy fledglings in a row - Edward Dowden "In the Cathedral Close"

Cobalt perfect from downy barbs to vanes - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

A dropdown menu of dreams - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

This new century of cosmic meltdown - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Upside Down.

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( Dormant )

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( Doom )

Doomsday.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels - J.C. Squire "Sonnet [There was an Indian]"

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

Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Doomward the broken gamesters' ranks - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of One-and-Twenty"

Of thrones foredoomed to fall - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

The knight foredoomed of grace - Edward Dowden "The Trespasser"

We fools self-doomed to motley - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

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( Doorway )

Door.

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( Downpour )

Down.

Pour.

Rain.

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Flowers of the dogwood blow over the pale anemones - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Your initials carved in dogwoods - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"

A city of starlings and dogwood - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

A moment of lilac or dogwood - Linda Pastan "The Happiest Day"

The dogwood blossoms cast a light - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"

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( Dollar )

Dollar bills for his index and ring fingers - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Lay dollar store boats in the gutters - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

Your dollarstore deities - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Black Dragons"

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( Done )

Forever half done departing - Carl Phillips "From a Bonfire"

Among her other half-done projects - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

Compromise and things half-done - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

Undone.

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( Door )

Knob/Doorknob.

Doorless for entering - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"

The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks

Doorstep.

Doorway.

Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Within the space of a swallow's nest-door - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Pour defiance at his palace-door - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Trapdoors in the tiers of heaven - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

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Dock and harbor clap with specters - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Easy prey for the dockside phantoms - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

The dock and depot waiting - Conrad Hilberry "Quatrain"

With dock and ragweed filled - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"

Fugitive lives docking in Halifax - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"

The neighbor's boat not yet docked - Kevin Young "Halter"

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A document in calligraphy so dragonish - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

One document at dawn - Han Yu "Written on My Way into Exile When I Reached the Lan-t'ien Pass and Shown to My Brother's Grandson Hsiang" transl. by Burton Watson

A ripped-out document of laughter - Ilya Kaminsky "A Cigarette"

Folded document of hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Facebook Notes"

The fog's irregular documents break open - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

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( Doomsday )

Doomsday-storms rage round about - Friedrich Schiller "The Peasants"

Day.

Doom.

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( Dove )

A ring-dove let fall a sprig of yew - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

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Dodged Miro's famished halo of animalcules - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Pressed upon a slippery, dodging ghost - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"

An alien familiar with dodging horizons - Diane DeCillis "The Myth of Father"

Creek dodging crooked rocks - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

Trying not to blame me for any danger I dodge - Jzl Jmz "Drenched in Reflection"

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( Dog )

Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"

With its hard spine & dog-eared corners - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"

The dog-star of treason grows dim - "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

The green night-baying of the dog-star - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Found them in death's dog-teeth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Loose the storm-dogs from their bed - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Sofly sighs the gracious wind]"

Hears the wild dogs at the gate - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"

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( Domain )

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( Dower )

Offer you a dowry of plucked lotus - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

Your dowry of sunset and cloud - Theodore Maynard "The Joy of the World"

not my down payment or my dowery - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"

That virtue still endowers - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

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