somethingdarker | Jun. 7th, 2010

Jun. 7th, 2010

Befriend.

( Friend )

All the friendless way hedged with offence - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"

Friendless and all alone on this unsweetened stone - W.H. Davies "The Example"

Nor fell Misfortune's friendless sway - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"

( Friendly )

( Friendship )

Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

As a beggar walks unfriended ways - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

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( Frame )

A framework that keeps stars in place - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

Littered with laundry-frames and clotheslines - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

Reframe that choice as sacrifice - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"

magicians knew spectacle was struggle reframed - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"

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( Frail )

Vaguely outlined and bubble-frail - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"

With the bright frailty of foam - Sara Teasdale "A Little While"

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Their wounded hearts afresh would bleed - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

But only fill afresh his meed of laughter, his cup of tears - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"

( Fresh )

crocodile at the edge of a freshwater marsh - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

Refresh.

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( Fraught )

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( Frog )

The burble of the bull-frog in the well - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Bogs churning with bullfrogs - Diane Seuss "Curl"

Tree frogs blossoming after a country rain - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"

When the tree-frogs chant in choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

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( Fragrant )

Cool-rooted flowers fragrant-eyed - John Keats "Psyche"

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( Front )

Once I saw Mountains angry, and ranged in battle-front - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Red upon the forefront of the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Imprisoned in the crowded quarters of front yards - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"

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( Freight )

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( Frown )

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( Frantic )

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( Fraud )

Fraudulent windows in a Brutalist structure - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"

Of Reason's piercing ray defrauded - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"

Defrauds the mirror - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

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

To frolic on eternity's dread brink - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Frolic with the true October - T.A. Daly "October"

A rose torn in the careless frolic - Eleanor Farjeon "Fairy-Time"

In those light and frolic days - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"

And frolic with the water-borne moon - Li Po "Autumn Cove" transl. by Burton Watson

Full of frolic wild - George MacDonald "Song"

Frolic among butterflies and hawks - N. Scott Momaday "Death Song"

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( Froth )

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( Fruitful )

Fruit.

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With fearful footsteps, and affrighted gaze - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

( Fright )

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( Frontier )

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( Frenzy )

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Tuned to the frequency of longing - Anthony Butts "Voices' End"

Radio town singing dead frequencies - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"

The flickering frequencies of your sweater - Carmen Gimenez "Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love"

Switch to the frequency of flame - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Frequent division, occasional subtraction - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

Frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Gifted with the frequent fate of dusk-lit hope - William Moore "Expectancy"

Such an infrequent guest - Anna Grossnickle Hines "An Invitation"

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And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

Laid a rich state on frugality - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A banquet in his frugal house - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet III from Second April

Feeding the partisans from frugal larders - Adrienne Rich "Char"

A frugal meal of walnuts - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

See the frugal sight of another sun - Jay Wright "Boli"

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Carefree laughter echoing in the dark - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"

Wandering by the carefree stream - Fenton Johnson "The Miracle"

Ashamed beside the carefree fish - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson

( Free )

( Freed )

( Freely )

That in dreams I may wander freer - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Freer yet its currents swell - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

Free-born bird with echo babbling after - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

A broken elevator trying to contain its freefall - Alise Alousi "Skip"

Your free-range genesis - Lynn Powell "Needing the Baroque"

The last freestanding rebellion - Faylita Hicks "The Fantastic Life of My Guardian Angels"

The waves prefer their cold free-will - Lermontof "[One wave upon another leaps]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Guilt, that rent-free tenant - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Wind-free in meadows - Louis Golding "To A.L.O."

The yoke-freed oxen low - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

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( Fruit )

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

Cull time's sweet first-fruits - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Whose fruitage beautiful allures each sense - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VII--Midsummer"

Felled their rich fruit-bearing orchards - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Fruitful.

( Fruitless )

Under old, red-fruited yews - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"

Which is spirit-fruit of reverence - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

White-fruited cocoa shown against the shell - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

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Blossoms with a thousand thorns afret - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"

( Fret )

Fretful and full of fire - Henry Kirby Benner "Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico no.III: Monterey"

Knocked fretful at the portals of the morrow - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Through one short space of fretfulness - James Weldon Johnson "Life"

The fretwork of disaster - Rae Armantrout "Resounding"

The thankless fretwork of the serpent - Joyce Mansour "Embrace the Blade" transl. by Carol Cosman

To the music of rock-fretted rills - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"

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The fractaled branches of three oaks - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"

Each dance has the fractal precision of chaos - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

A fractal branching of mistakes - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

A range and scope of fractals - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

invades fractally by rhizome and root - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

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In shooting skies and freckled stars - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Gold and silver freckles burning five-pointed holes into the bone - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"

My freckles mapping where I begin - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #81"

Pear-green and freckled sky - Richard Scott "Peridot"

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Captured in frustration on his canvas - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Unpunctuated by frustration - Corey Marks "Broken Music"

Inside a whirlwind of frustrating storms - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"

A demon of frustrated dreams - Mary Oliver "Flare"

This month of flood, blackout and frustration - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

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( Fragile )

equals the power of your intense fragility - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"

Endure with less fragility - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"

Bleeds through the fragility of linear time - Irene Inatty "Ours"

The fragility of a porcelain bowl - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"

Used to disguise fragility and fractured dreams - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"

And basks in the warmth of these still-fragile stars - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

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( Fragment )

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( Fragrance )

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( Fracture )

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( Frost )

And blood-frosted cake - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Frostbitten false fire - Andrew Feld "Best and Only"

Eerie lightning shot from frostbitten fingers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Look coldly at us with their frostbitten eyes - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

Frostbite around the corner - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"

Across these frost-flocked rows - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"

Thus the Frost-King lost his kingdom - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"

Which frost-sprites laughing cast - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"

Pass, frost-white ghost - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"

Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"

Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

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( Freeze )

( Froze )

In the freezerspill of smoky Arctic starlight - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"

Tungsten for the fireflies' freeze tag - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Your horror froze-over to silence - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Snap-frozen in the blizzards called down by Baba Yaga - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"

Ducks strafing the unfrozen pools - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"

Woke to wild unfrozen prattle - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"

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( Fraction )

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( Fray )

Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

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( Freedom )

Between freedom and unfreedom swans swim - Zheng Min "Naked Exposure #9: The Wings of Swans" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

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( Fringe )

A series of flame-fringed ridges - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 10"

Who skirt the fog-fringe of eternity - Thomas Runciman "Sonnets VI"

Frothing all the reed-fringed margins - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

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( Frigid )

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Had expected a fennel frond - Brian Blanchfield "In Their Motions"

Darting along their green flickering fronds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Kelp fronds torn from their buoys - Katie Ford "Koi"

Fronds unfurl from the joints of older ones - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

Palm fronds crossed into the stars - Melissa Range "First South"

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