somethingdarker | Jun. 5th, 2010

Jun. 5th, 2010

( Fly/Flying (verb forms) )

( Flew )

The urgent chirper, fledgling flier - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"

Flight.

( Flown )

The hunter's dart outflying - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "I Wonder"

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( Floor )

The wailing from under the floorboards - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Beneath the floorboards of my thought - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

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( Fool )

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( Afloat )

( Float )

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( Fleet/Fleeting )

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Only the old dead dreams a-fluttering go - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"

( Flutter )

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( Flicker )

Trace flame-flicker in the grain of yellow birch - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"

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( Fly (Insect) )

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( Flint )

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( Flatter )

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( Flax )

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( Fleck )

Downs of gold beflecked with shadows' flight - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell

The flood-flecked talon's law - Pablo Neruda "Interstellar Eagle" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Where the sun-flecked shadows lie - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Pouring white-flecked fire - Florence Kiper Frank "Dawn in the Hills"

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The soft comfort of flour between my fingers - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"

Whitened by a fine silt of flour - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"

The dense earth of flour and rancor - Pablo Neruda "Rosas (1829-1849)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Became flour and sand - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Your small breath troubles the flour - Kiki Petrosino "Confession"

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( Flux )

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( Flit )

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( Flare )

Memories scorch us like solar flares - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Out-flares dynamite and meteorite - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "egret"

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Colour fluid as the South - Harold Acton "Old Woman"

Whose veins are filled with fluid fire - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

And the fluid elements quarrel - Joseph Campbell "The Whelk-Gatherer"

Creator of fragile, fluid things - Nikita Gill "Gaia"

Love in the fluid shape of a saxophone - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

A fluid holiness of spirits - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

In my flagons fluid iron - Lola Ridge "To the American People"

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( Flake )

Rust-flakes erupting from the lungs - John James "After Guatemala"

Snowflake.

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( Flaunt )

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( Flock )

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The insurrection of a flea - Maxwell Bodenheim "Inevitable"

The fleas congregating to party - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 3: Sufferation"

Mixes with the blood of the flea - Lucy Ives "First Husband"

Two fleas under the wing of a gull - Mary Oliver "West Wind 1"

Those fleas that escaped earth and fire - William Carlos Williams "Complete Destruction"

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Fledgelings in a world ill begotten - Paul Cameron Brown "The Elysian Fields"

Fledglings the size of rhinos - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"

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

The urgent chirper, fledgling flier - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"

Where Science trains the fledgling bard - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Trains the fledgling bard to fly - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

The fledglings of my care are gone - Thomas O'Hagan "Ripened Fruit"

New-fledged and wondering - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Our scarce-fledged hopes and blighted joys - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet VI"

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( Flower )

They bloom blood-flowers in the tearful dew - "Adonium" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

Always a sparrow flitting in the flowerbeds - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia

Brandishing flowerbuds of desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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]

Face the flower-formed mirror - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Evening comes with an onslaught]" transl. by Burton Watson

Burned with tears and flower-melt - John Ciardi "Abundance"

Wormseed oil and nightshade flower-shine - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"

From time's full-flowering bough - Algernon Swinburne "Change"

And all my heart-flowers withered - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"

Until the Hell-flower dies down - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

Let us revel amid the shield-flowers - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Wildflower.

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Flagons full of cool Lethean spray - Benjamin West Ball "Invocation"

Flushed from a fairy flagon - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

Reckon the morning's flagons - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XLII: Problems"

Poison kept in crystal flagons - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

In my flagons fluid iron - Lola Ridge "To the American People"

Like two flagons yet unfilled - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"

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A garden inside my own ribs aflourish - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

( Flourish )

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And lash the wet-flanked wind - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

Five dogs screaming at his flanks - Mary Oliver "Dogs"

Flanked by all that is unfamiliar - Clint Smith "FaceTime"

Flanked by the fragrances of honeysuckle - Bradford Tice "Milkweed"

Five thousand coffins guard each flank - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"

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Husbandry to pluck golden fleece - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"

Lap us in light and cooling fleece - Danske Dandridge "Silence"

Their fleeces charged with gold - Walter de la Mare "Nod"

Fall asleep under the fleece of shadow - D.H. Lawrence "The Little Town at Evening"

Elysian creatures robed in fleecy light - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Have shorn your golden fleece - Safiya Sinclair "Center of the World"

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Outside flick of life at the mercy of these coming winds - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

Nonlinear slapstick meets slasher flick - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"

The flick of snake in our eyes - Dorsey Craft "Rainy-Day Games with Kyle"

How the stars are flicking off like lightbulbs - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Flicks cherries into the dark - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Flicked a full dozen flies - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"

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Flip off this lightbox and its scroll of dread - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Match you every coin you flip - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"

Flipped pebbles at timorous minnows - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Spoon mirror flipping us upside down - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Irony being the flip side of sentimentality - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

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Which Flora with false smile has clad - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Bends the flora to her spells - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"

the flora of the open palm closing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

Wearing a steadfast floral crown - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

Until absorbed by yellowed floral wallpaper - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

The wreaths brought from the floral shrine - James E. McGirt "Victoria the Queen"

an exhaustive primer of floral specimens - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

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( Flight )

Fly/Flying.

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Leaving a streak of fluorescence in your hair - Quincy Scott Jones "Why Wake Up Happy"

dream of sugar's refined fluorescence - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Fluorescent critters drawing ribbons in the air - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"

Fluorescent truant of heaven - Mina Loy "Moreover, the Moon--"

Fluorescent heads aimed inward - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Under the florescent butts of night's cigarette - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

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( Fling )

( Flung )

Resume its far-flung harvests - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"

Far-flung blossoms of desire - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Granite and steel upflung became my fountains - William Rose Benét "The City"

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( Aflame )

How best to enflame the holy fire - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

( Flame/Flaming )

The dark enflamed with error - Miguel Murphy "Hot Tub"

Whose folds are flameless moons - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"

Set down your flammable colors - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"

Into stacks of inflammable gold - Linda Pastan "The Poets"

( Compound words containing 'Flame' )

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( Flash )

Bring just a flashlight and an alibi - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"

Where a cigarette is my flashlight - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Flashlight mimicry - Ada Limon "Publicity"

Flashlight prying through the night swamps - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

Those flash-storms of rage - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"

In the sunflash of trumpets - Billy Collins "The Parade"

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( Flaw )

A flawless crystal coldly clear - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Sphered that eye of flawless diamond - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

With the flawless band of inner solitude - Christina Rossetti "The Thread of Life"

Unflawed by absence - C. K. Williams "Elegy for an Artist: I. The Rehearsal"

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( Fled )

( Flee )

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Set our slow old sap aflow - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

( Flow )

In a bloodflow motion - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"

Inflow of jewelled waters - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Cannot outflow its appointed tide - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIV--Moonlight at Sea"

Overflow.

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House finch weaving its song - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Phone the finch with the crowded beak - Brenda Hillman "Girl Sleuth"

The myriad finches in the grain - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

Knotted in the throat of a finch - Naomi Shihab Nye "Problems with the Story"

Feeds on what the finches leave behind - Elizabeth Spires "Moment Vanishing"

The finches threaten one another - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"

Your family around you nervous as finches - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

When the zebra finches felt the first pinch of climate change - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"

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Guarded indifferently by deer, ducks, and flamingoes - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"

Flamingos are pleased to ignore us - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"

The flamingo opened the doors - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt

In her famine waisted flamingo gown - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

The pale flamingoes of the dawn - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"

And the flamingo messengers will come - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

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( Flap )

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Gravity and time flex - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Consciousness Self-Learns"

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

A warring machine flexes, exploding - Janet Kauffman "A Warring Machine"

Silent beyond the flexing of metal - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

A flexible field trip to nowhere - Monica de la Torre "Theorem of Sorts"

We are still in death's stern and inflexible power - "The Emperor's Rout"

Her omniscient inflexible flowers - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 12"

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Flinching not to flame or bolt - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

A hurt beast flinching at the light - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Comfort and covert for the flinching will - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"

Unflinchingly parading their bursts of rebellious orange - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"

Because he dove unflinchingly to retrieve Earth - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"

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To be fluent in confidence - Raymond Antrobus "I Want the Confidence of"

The fluent motion of delight - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

To stir my fluent blood - Claude McKay "Absence"

Shimmering under the fluency of skies - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

All fluent in nothing - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

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( Flesh )

The fleshless earth's outjutting ribs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

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( Flood )

Climbs the crimson-flooded air - James M'Carroll "Dawn"

Flakes of flood-birthed moonlight - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"

The flood-flecked talon's law - Pablo Neruda "Interstellar Eagle" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The flood-gates of the rivers of heaven - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

The moon's floodlights burning - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

Deep flood-mark of beauty - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"

Had taken root in the floodplain of your hands - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"

Drained floodplains and eucharistic jimson weed - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

Between its flood-torn shores - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Floodwater pulling me down - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

The flood-wave and the second ebb tide - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer

On the time-flood's heaving waves my name - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"

Through wind-flooded canyons - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

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Inhale the scent of long-unstoppered flasks - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

In a flask of fire - Lucie Brock-Broido "Girl at the Border of Her Own Allegory"

The bribery of coffee poured from flasks - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

His flasks and alembics proposing a toast - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

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The frost has stopped flirting with the dunegrass - Ching-In Chen "Simulacra"

Go to the factory to flirt with the specters of labor - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Night is flirty words with fiends - Randall Mann "Realtor"

Flirting with volcanoes to retrieve your arsenic - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

And e'en in Eden flirted with the Snake - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

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( Read more... )

Nothing so flagless as this piracy - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

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( Flavor )

Withered, flavorless, lost to stale air - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"

Continually brews garlic-flavored moonshine - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"

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( Flush )

Flashed out from the flame-flushed skies - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

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