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Jul. 9th, 2010

( Grope )

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( Graveyard )

Grave.

Yard.

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Hither, all the Grecian Nine - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"

Phoenicians destroying Greece for Persia - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"

The diamond light of Greece - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "To the Oracle at Delphi"

The damage Greek has wrought upon your tongue - Scott Cairns "Loves"
Envied not Demosthenes his Greek - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses II"

The voice of a drunken Greek god - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Let Fame with wonder name the Greek - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Where Greeks profaned the Law - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

The brazen giant of Greek fame - Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"

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( Grief )

Grievous day of wrathful winds - Susan Coolidge "Outward Bound"

Beneath his grievous load oppressed - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Paused at every grievous door - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"

Comes in a box with grievous dimensions - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"

Take possession of such a grief-blasted heart - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"

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( Gravel )

Pea gravel clicks and walks - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

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( Grammar )

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If our grievance they but knew - Richard C. Adams "To the Delaware Indians"

Beyond the grievances of the bare elm - Lou Barrett "Retrieving a Frozen Newspaper"

Governs by grievance and old scores - Joanna Klink "New Year"

Spluttering grievances of a thousand years' past - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

But the day erased the grievance of the moon - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson

With ancient grievances and souring schemes - Philip Schultz "Sadness"

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( Grace/Gracious )

Stiffly ungracious to the wind - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

ungracious as a wasp - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"

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( Grateful )

( Gratitude )

a student first of ingratitude - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"

How not to utter the ungrateful thing - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"

The surprised and ungrateful eye - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

Ungrateful creatures with their own lives - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"

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

graffiti me out of doubt - Regie Cabico "A Queerification"

Graffiti on the stonework - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Into a graffiti of surrender - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"

A heart graffitied fuchsia on the street - Sahar Romani "Sign"

demands we graffiti on the levee wall - C.T. Salazar "River"

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Neither grafted nor grown, neither gather'd nor blown - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

Swarms with rows of grafted halos - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Graft their gods upon empires - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Grafted through dying elms - Claire Millikin "Salad Bar"

Left within it graft of alien fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

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Grappled spikes and crags of fire - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"

And grapples with great winds - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"

To grapple with your tenfold power - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"

Who shall grapple with lions - George Sterling "Beyond the Breakers"

Grapple with crowbars - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"

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And leave a metal grace, a graven joy - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"

On His hands a name is graven - Frances Ridley Havergal "The Welcome to the King"

Towers squatting graven and cold - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Uncovering the dictates of graven line - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Graven on tendon and bone - George Sterling "Earth Song"

Orbs that graven monsters clasp - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

Engrave.

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No grinning imps deform our blazing hearth - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

And cruel monsters grin - "Hirmos" transl. by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Grinning orange against the black - Rachel Kolar "Twinkle, Twinkle, Lantern Jack"

Crooked grin of ice cream persuasion - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Expects a grin at every word - Henry S. Leigh "Men I Dislike"

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Metaphoric explosion and grotesque hyperbole - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"

With each daily repetition of this grotesque performance - 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"

Grotesque with demonic aura - Mary Hickman "Still Life with Rayfish"

A thousand shadows of the pure grotesque - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"

Male poets of the lavishly grotesque - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

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Living in a grotto of fear - Ellen Bass "Pushing"

The late dark cloisters of the grotto - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen a"

Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Go down to the grotto with your headlamp and crowbar - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

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To the fevered city's toil and grime - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Grimed with the smoke of furnaces - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Haunted by grime and green water - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"

My flags are the chimneys' grime - Helen Hay Whitney "The Wanderer"

The river flows begrimed and troubled - Henry van Dyke "Sea-Gulls of Manhattan"

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( Grove )

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( Grudge )

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And the grown-up phrases jangle - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Against the grownup world's uncertain horrors - Boris Dralyuk "Universal Horror"

Trolls are grown up by the time they turn eight - Daniel Errico "The Three Brothers of Maladime"

Filtering through the waiting of the grownups - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"

Grown up to be a storm - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"

Grow.

Up.

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( Greet )

Reduced to the greeting card section of CVS - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

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( Grape )

The blood-grapes drip for you drinking - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Bounty of the grape-crowned year - Caroline D. Swan "Stars of Cheer"

grape-green and wounded - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

No purple vein from the mellow grape-heart bursting - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

A grapestone choked Anacreon and hushed his song - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

In the grapevine of Babylon - Bruce Smith "Garden"

Neighbored by the wild-grape - Louise Imogen Guiney "Late Peace"

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( Grail )

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( Grasshopper )

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( Graze )

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( Grip )

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

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( Groan )

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imagine his growl filling the wind - Lucille Clifton "imagining bear"

Huge with a cold load of growls - George Garrett "Or Death and December"

Still the tiger's famished growl - John Gay "The Council of Horses"

Growling apples and dirt - Maggie Nelson "Shiner"

Growls at nothing but his own heartbeat - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"

The fierce storm-lion's distant growl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"

Gathers a new world under it and growls - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

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Grandfather of the hunt - Kwame Alexander "Animal Ark"

An infinite number of grandfathers - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

As my grandfather misrepresented it to me - Amy Newman "Untitled [20 November]"

A grandfather fossil asleep underground - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"

crawled inside a grandfather paradox - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"

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An incarnation of grandmothers past - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Prayers of grandmothers current and ancient - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

The love language of my grandmother's hands - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

The misfortunes of all grandmothers - Angel Leal "The One Who Counts to Transcend"

The same mauve petals my grandmother wore - jessica Care moore "She Was"

The feverfew my grandmother grew - Judy Patterson Wenzel "'Twas a Beautiful Day"

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( Grave )

The wind will be the gravedigger - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver

That gravely murmurs meek desires - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"

And those stars so gravely still - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

Dark trees, gravely conferring - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"

Dandelions bowing gravely to themselves - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

Bend gravely and resume their silences - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"

Sings upon the earth grave-riven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"

The gravestones of our early curiosities - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"

The groom among the gravestones - Sonya Taaffe "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death"

Still as gravestones and as hard - Jane Yolen "Baba Yaga Has Tea with Kostchai the Deathless"

Graveyard.

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Gravitate to ways of shame - George Martin "Marguerite"

( Gravitation )

( Gravity )

Climbing the beanstalk down the gravity well - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

Far from the deep yearning of gravity wells - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"

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( Great )

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( Grim )

Robber-bands of grim-faced years - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"

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( Grow/Grew )

Crop-grower of infertile seed - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"

Curtailed by the ever-growing Christmas trees - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"

Grown-Up.

With the bitter twist of ingrown laughter - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"

Set thick with moss-grown boulders - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Amble by orchid-grown marshes - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Outgrow.

Overgrown.

Braving the dead undergrowth together - Mouna Ammar "Daydream"

Pace up the weed-grown paths - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"

While eating wood-grown fruits - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"

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( Gradual )

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( Gray/Grey )

( blue-grey/grey-blue )

Dug from still quarries of grey-black air - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Into your grey-brown landscapes - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

The gray-fly winds her sultry horn - John Milton "Lycidas"

Dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"

Where many a stubble gray-goose preens - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"

An arrangement in rust and gray-green - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"

The gray-green fruit of the juniper - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

The gallant greyhounds swiftly ran - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"

An oceanic circus of gray-light - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"

Grey-mossed and lichened by centuries - Arthur Colton "The Poet and the Fountain"

All my thoughts go fluttering gray-winged - Jeannette Marks "Proem"

A leaf-gray shadow that sings - Hilda Conkling "Tree-Toad"

Dust on the sage-grey desert - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"

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( Green )

Unified mix of greenery, gravity, and water - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

Perched with robins and jays atop the greenery - Andre F. Peltier "When War Broke Out"

Bordering on cool but tinged with bitter-green - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"

The deep-green forests of that epauletted century - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Fission-green flaw deep within - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Where the gold-green waters run - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"

grape-green and wounded - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

An arrangement in rust and gray-green - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"

The gray-green fruit of the juniper - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

Green-barked yew supports the sky - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The green-eyed dog upright on his throne - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Green-faced violin players guarding vertical streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

A greenhouse I entered alone - Kiki Petrosino "Pastoral"

Toward the greenroom of John Wilkes Booth - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

Ink of the green-skinned holly - "Colum Cille the Scribe" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The green-skinned, black-skinned garden of Osiris - Bruce Smith "Garden"

One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

The long, green-white reverie of the horizon - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"

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

And grief re-greens the sky - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 5. Broken"

The sea-green shadows of your dream - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"

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( Granite )

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( Grant )

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( Grasp )

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( Greed )

Those greed-swayed kings of sugar - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"

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( Grind )

Each working the grindstone in turn - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Where Life is at her grindstone set - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Who have turned the Devil's Grindstone - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "He Went for a Soldier"

A fist of grindstone petals - tiana nobile "Petals"

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A storied purple destiny of ships run aground - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

The sleepy seals aground - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"

( Ground )

Hallucinations that unite ancestral backgrounds - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"

Arrived in flux and the background radiation - James F. Yockey "What If"

Foregrounding first in the fey realms - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

The switchgrass pale and starved for groundwater - Molly McCully Brown "Virginia, Autumn"

Ground zero for crowds of absence - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

A playground for your dreams - Shara McCallum "Penelope"

The playground of youth and of ghostly tradition - Morris Tyler "Under the Arch I Passed"

Underground.

my foundation ungrounded from laughter - Porsha Olayiwola "The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man!"

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The grating roar of pebbles - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"

Released from dungeon grates - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

While Charon's keel grates on the beach - Horace "To the Companions [Ode 17, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

Squinting down into iron grates - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

The harsh and grating strife of tyrants - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

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( Grass )

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

One grass-blade in its veins - Francis Thompson "All Flesh"

Grasslands extending as if without limit - Mary Soon Lee "The Sign of the King"

Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

Will welcome you with sweetgrass and sage - N. Scott Momaday "Song of Longing"

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Feed a thousand chains of regret through greasy barrels - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Leak the grease of wayward stream - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Bright lipstick comes off with grease - K. Iver "1987"

Stinking of axel grease and gasoline - Daniel Johnson "In the Absence of Sparrows"

Streets greased with whiskey - Maggie Nelson "Wish Fulfillment"

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Banding now in groups colossal - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

And filled the gazing group with dread - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"

All breathless grouped o'er crucibles - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"

A group of silver birches, bursting into blood - Duncan Campbell Scott "The Fifteenth of April"

rendered as a grouping of ovals - Monica Youn "Study of Two Figures (Ignatz/Krazy)"

Regrouping thread by thread - Maxine Kumin "The Zen of Mowing"

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( Grand )

( Grandeur )

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Includes both edible and inedible grain.

( Grain )

Tough-grained calamities - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Streams through our sandgrain skulls - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

( Granary )

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