somethingdarker | Apr. 6th, 2010

Apr. 6th, 2010

( Dragon )

Climbed from the shallows to don your dragon-colors - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"

The dragonseed breeding of current and bone - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

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The evil flames of driftwood - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

A driftwood relic in my hand - Max Eastman "A Dune Sonnet"

Washed up onshore like so much driftwood - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Picking a path through the driftwood - Matthea Harvey "Nude on a Horsehair Sofa by the Sea"

Shape me into driftwood - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"

Place driftwood in my left hand - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"

Drift.

Wood.

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( Drench )

My rain-drenched reflection - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"

Frozen, rain-drenched, sad betrayed - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

A thought of storm-drenched fields - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"

I hang in the undrenched intervals - Camille T. Dungy "There are these moments of permission"

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Like a secret honeycomb adrip - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"

( Drip )

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( Drop )

Build a backdrop of the faceless - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"

A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"

Set against an infinite backdrop of space - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"

Against a backdrop of bare time - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Raindrop.

A frenzy of riverdrops, riot of current - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

Teardrop.

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( Dreamless )

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( Drink/Drank )

Drunk.

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( Adrift )

( Drift )

Driftwood.

The smoke-drift of puffed-out heroes - Wallace Stevens "The Course of a Particular"

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( Drizzle )

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( Drain )

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Time holding its own drape - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

In a valley draped with gold - John Philip Bourke "The Pilgrimage"

Memories draped by the beneficent spider - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

This dense huddle of gentle bark and quiet drape - Ellen Rowland "What Branches Hold"

Fantasy forests draped in graying waters - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 18" transl. by Katherine Silver

Draperies for archaeologists to number - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Her jewelled robes, her granite draperies - Samuel McCoy "A Sweetheart: Thompson Street"

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The quaver of the dragon-fly - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 V"

Breathless squadrons of Dragon Flies - Paul Cameron Brown "Orange Lichen"

The golden lilies afloat with the dragon-fly - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"

A conflagration of dragonflies - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"

A dragonfly keeps coming back to the same dead twig - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"

Dragonflies draw flame - Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"

Brief as a dragon-fly's repose - James Russell Lowell "Scherzo"

And dragonflies if they happen - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"

Bright air alive with dragonflies - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"

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The margins of our human drama - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"

This ruefully apocalyptic drama - Mary Jo Bang "E Is Everywhere"

The hours stage their jumbled drama - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

The drama of the included - Maggie Nelson "On Turning 27"

The blizzard's peace and drama - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

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( Drums )

The drumbeat of a ghost - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"

On the dusty earth-drum beats - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "Rain Music"

We shall know by the kettle-drums - R.L. Gales "Waiting for the Kings"

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( Dreadful )

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( Draft/Draught )

How to flee from such a flamboyant backdraft - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"

Rise on anger's updrafts - Cornelius Eady "Running Man"

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( Drowsy )

In melancholy drowsy-sweet - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"

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( Dread )

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( Dreamland )

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How deeply drugged on daily sorrows - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

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

Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

Danced it to dust and drugged it with the rose - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"

The sun-drugged stars - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"

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From the quiet dark file drawers of imagination - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Finding a balloon in a drawer - William Brewer "Resolution"

Rolling neat into pine drawers - Ching-In Chen "American Syntax"

Hidden in a drawer of wilt and weeds - Vandana Khanna "Goddess in the Dark"

The sharpest knife in the drawer - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

The drawers you dare not open - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

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Their years they fill with dross - Paul Bewsher "To Hilda"

On his bonfires burns the thorns and dross - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"

No Dross to purge - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"

Wrought your baser dross to bars of golden thought - George L. Moore "Keats"

In selling hours of dross - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"

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( Dress )

Patience in the form of gravity overdressed - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Redressing grief's worst wrongs - Algernon Swinburne "Benediction"

Undress.

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( Dregs )

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( Drive )

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

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

A dream of stardrives shattered - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"

Both alike are wind-driven weeds - Yin Shih "Parting from the Courtier Sung" transl. by Burton Watson

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( Drought )

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( Dream )

Daydream.

Dreamland.

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

Of a dead-dream basement - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"

The dreambike had eyes on its spokes - Duane Ackerson " Proof of Existence"

To make my dream-children live - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "A Prayer"

The port of dreams-come-true - Clinton Scollard "The Spectral Rowers"

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

Dream-dark piers of speech - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

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

This cup of golden love dream-deep - Jeannette Marks "Beside the Way"

Falling on dream-dimmed eyes - W.B. Yeats "He tells of a Valley full of Lovers"

One handful of dream-dust - Langston Hughes "Dream Dust"

Budgets of dream-dust - Edwin Markham "The Wharf of Dreams"

Disappearing into dream-emptied pockets - Carmen Gimenez "Be Recorder"

An engineer's dream-feat of astonishment - Chen Chen "In the City"

Dream-fish to beguile - Alpha Angela Bratton "Slumber Song"

In the orchard of dream-fruit fair - Joyce Kilmer "White Bird of Love"

From the dream-laden moon - Joyce Kilmer "Prayer to Bragi"

Like the Dream-ladder Jacob slept by - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

In this wild dream-like snare of mortal shocks - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Dreamlike before me floating - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

From the dream-mist doubtful and dim - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

the unzipping of dream-ravaged flesh - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"

Gather the loveliest of the dream-rushes - Jenny Boully "The more Alice reaches out, the more her dream-rushes"

Suctioned into a dreamscape - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"

Stairs and steeples in the dreamscape silence - Richard Solomon "Silence"

The tatters of a dream-scarf that unraveled - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

The dream-shapes you weave - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"

Dream-shod forevermore - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"

The dream-side of a pennyroyal river - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Stretch but a claw toward the dream-voiced pipes - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Map pins on a dream-warm itinerary - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"

The dreamwork of trees - Lisel Mueller "Why I Need the Birds"

From each pole a dream-wreath drops - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "Hop Picking"

Dusk-dream of my soul - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"

Of the sun's half-dreamt decay - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"

The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"

Decades I've been pipe-dreaming - Marcus Jackson "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government"

Into an undreamt vista of stardust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"

Eros of the unthought, undreamed - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"

Such undreamed distances as the last planets see - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

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( Dry )

Matches near bone-dry trees - Alise Alousi "Lynndie's Other Voice"

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( Dreary )

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( Droop )

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( Draw/Drew )

The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"

Your only script is the indrawn breath - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"

In their long-drawn elliptical orbits - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

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( Drunk )

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

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

Only to return moondrunk, bramble-laden - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"

Drink/Drank.

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( Drown )

Undrown from the incivility of this world - Niki Herd "The Stuff of Hollywood"

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Daybreak is a drill sergeant - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"

Let silence drill its hole - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

The drill that strikes like a condor - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

In the crevice drilled by dawn - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Language drilled through ice - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"

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( Drag )

Full of drag queens & revolutionaries - Diane di Prima "City Lights 1961"

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