somethingdarker | Jul. 10th, 2010

Jul. 10th, 2010

( Gulf )

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( Gun )

Sweet melody is the undercurrent of gunfire - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"

Gunfire barks its questions - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"

The dust motes grew gunmetal - Kristina Erny "Abduction"

That motion is salvation granted at gunpoint - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"

Gunpowder.

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

An alluring rhythm of gunshots - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Out of the gunshot of the devil - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Splintery shovels and midnight gunshots - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

Smelled of grass and gunsmoke - Kinsale Drake "(Re)location"

everyone knows how to run through gun smoke - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Playing cards with machine guns - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"

Machine-guns, tapping a code in Morse - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Of the piano and machine gun - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"

Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

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( Guilt )

Guiltless at my soul's command - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

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( Guardian )

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( Guest )

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With the guidance of no star - Russell Green "De Mundo"

( Guide )

A misguided advertisement for new desires - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Misled, misguided barques - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"

By the midsummer moon misguided - Algernon Swinburne "Flower-Pieces: II. Love in a Mist'

A butterfly born of misguided hierarchy - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"

Strives unguided towards indefinite ends - V. Sackville-West "To a Poet Whose Verses I Had Read"

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( Gunpowder )

Gun.

Powder.

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Emerged first in a trickle then a gush - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Sing aloud the gushing rills - William Cullen Bryant "March"

Where the roaring torrent gushes - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Though it must be culled with a gushing tear - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The robin's mellow strain in wild notes gushes - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Gushes sour light across the sheets - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"

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When the law leaves a dream gutted - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"

To free the deadly hope from your gut - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

Will malady your gut with moths and stars - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

Gutted by fire and disaster - Muna Lee "Vendor of Green Coconuts"

Could fathom the guts of shadows - William Carlos Williams "Sub Terra"

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( Guile )

Spinning the guileless hours away - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

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( Gutter )

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( Gull/Seagull )

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for the heart that only guesses - Elizabeth Bartlett "step softly"

Lumpy with guesses - Sue Budin "Jay's Room"

Set him conundrums to guess - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Life's secret is not guessed at yet - Lucy Larcom "November"

Playing a guessing game with their gaze - Joanne Merriam "The Bather"

Rushes on my mortal guess with immortal things- Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"

Guess the number of seeds in a cucumber - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"

Bundled guesswork disguised as intention - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"

Asleep, in dreams unguessed - Babette Deutsch "Silence"

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Thieves of a guise remotely fair - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"

Are offered me in the guise of jewels - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

And through the changing guises - Amy Levy "Sonnet"

Death in many a varied guise - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

In the guise of two pressed thumbs - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"

the wolf in a guise of three heads - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"

Ribboned and archaic as guisers' masks - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"

Flow onward in a sadder guise - Miss H.J. Woodman "The Maiden's Burial"

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( Guitar )

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( Gust )

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( Guard )

Guardian.

Entrusted to the bodyguard of the temple - Manal Kara "[Country people enjoy dogs ...]"

Wading out to sea to lure lifeguards - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Not all of our safeguards are weapons - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Who surrounds himself with crystal safeguards - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"

My fancied safeguard made my snare - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Each day unguarded by the angels - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]

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