somethingdarker | Aug. 5th, 2010

Aug. 5th, 2010

By the help of the Hornet - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"

Tossing crumbs of hornet nests - Calef Brown "Coven Tots"

Varying as flying hornet's sunshine-smitten wing - F.W. Harvey "A Philosophy"

The belated hornet humming - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Solitary Woodsman"

A paper lantern the hornets fill - Jacques J. Rancourt "Where to Begin?"

Like a storm of hornets - Kay Ryan "Hailstorm"

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( Horror )

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( Hound )

A pack of death-hounds guarding me - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

Hell-hounds on her heels - D.H. Lawrence "Purple Anemones"

The dragons of the air, the hell-hounds of the deep - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"

Dog.

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( Hover )

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( Holiday )

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The worn steel of belt-hooked hammers - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"

( Fishhook )

( Hook )

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( Horn )

The foghorn booming in his ears - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

Through the lighthouse foghorns knocking - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

The fog-horn's warning tone wake echoes from the cliffs - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

Through the spiral of a French horn - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"

Strains from that mighty hunting-horn - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Down on the sharp-horned ledges - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

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( Horse )

Your name vanished on horseback - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Ninety-three years of horse-drawn dreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"

Like horse-hoofs running sheep - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

Horseman/Horsemen.

Horseshoe.

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( Homer )

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( Hostile )

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Behead each hollyhock crown - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

Lit the torch of hollyhock - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Before the curtsying hollyhocks - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W--"

Vigil with the hollyhocks - Ezra Pound "Piere Vidal Old"

Making dolls of hollyhock blossoms - Molly Raynor "Grandy, 1939"

Always tearing at the hollyhocks - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait"

Where hollyhocks stand tall - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell

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( Host )

The cloud-host, vanquished, took to flight - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

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( Hole )

Keyhole.

Bury justice in loopholes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Samaria Rice, Tamir's Mother"

Crooked growth means it can be a loophole - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"

And a loophole can be a means to freedom - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"

Forcing itself through the pinhole of grief - Teresa J. Scollon "Words, Poems"

A rabbit-hole opens inside you - Timothy Donnelly "The Driver of the Car Is Unconscious"

Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

Sink holes consume fields of gold - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

Wormhole.

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( Homage )

Do half-homage to the God of Laws - George Meredith "Society"

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Instructing the horsemen to pass - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Horsemen brave in war's array - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

four horsemen summoning apocalypse - Mary Soon Lee "What Cacti Read"

Scores of iron horsemen rode - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Dreams that run like black horsemen - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Horse.

Man/Men.

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( Honeysuckle )

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( Hostage )

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Let dew fall on horseshoes - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf

Throwing tires like horseshoes - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

Throwin' horseshoes at the moon - Tom Russell "Throwin' Horseshoes at the Moon"

A horse-shoe rusts above the door - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

Horse-shoes on the ceiling-rafters hung - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Horse.

Shoe.

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( Home )

Many a homebound ship - Walter S. Percy "I'll Be Watching on the Shore"

Making music for my homecoming - Maggie Nelson "After the Holidays"

Like home-coming swallows that seek the old eaves - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "In an Album"

In the chant of a home-faring crew - Algernon Swinburne "At Sea"

Pains of the extinct homeland - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Exiles in their own homeland - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

To dig the homely artichoke - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"

One of those old homemade heartbreak songs - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"

To mix with nuts and home-made cake - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

Homespun warp of circumstance - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Homestead and harvest had vanished in fire - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Homeward.

( Homing )

know the terror of unhoming - Shailja Patel "Solstice Re-pot"

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( Hoard )

Squander the year's unhoarded gold - George Sterling "Untitled Poem"

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( Homesick )

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( Honor/Honour )

Dishonour that from slanderers came - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Gunpowder to shake the dishonored branches - Pablo Neruda "The War (1936)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Penelope, who usurps and dishonors nothing - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

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( Honest )

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( Horizon )

Event Horizon.

Deflecting horizonless depthless light - Philip Lamantia "Untitled [To see this evil from its core]"

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( Homeless )

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( Honeycomb )

Honey.

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( Hourglass )

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( Hopeless )

Hope.

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Serpents' long obstinancy of horizontal persistence - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"

Where the adder darts horizontal - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"

Move horizontally below the earth - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles

Nightmare billboards of horizontal gone wrong - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"

As long as the ozone and the horizontal rain speak - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Poised horizontal on glittering parallels - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"

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Drag me upward in horrible mercy - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson

Upon horrible crimes and murders ghastly - Henry S. Leigh "Romantic Recollections II"

To trace some horrible semblance - Henry S. Leigh "The Vision of the Alderman"

And horrible vices their poisons distil - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

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( Hoof/Hooves )

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( Hollow )

In the Kingdom of the Hollow-at-Heart - Charles Wright "No Angel"

The fruits of hollow-heartedness - Alexander Pushkin "[I've overlived aspirings]" transl. by John Pollen

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( Howl )

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( Hoarse )

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( Holy )

Unholy.

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( Honey )

( Compound words containing 'Honey' )

Honeybee.

Honeycomb.

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( Hood )

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With horoscopic dread - Howard Futhey Brinton "Breaking In"

Consult the disdainful horoscope - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

And all my horoscope said today - Ada Limon "Farmers' Almanac"

Despite our gloomy horoscope - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"

Each twinkle reads the horoscope - Sam C. Reid, Jr. "Summer's Night"

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Stepping with hospitable sorrow around the bodies - Youna Kwak "After"

A new covenant of hospitality - Henry van Dyke "The Camp-Fires of My Friend"

Inhospitable of eldest time - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Surviving the inhospitable increase of gravity - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"

Wrecks on its inhospitable shore - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Time"

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The flame at the hotel bar - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"

Call to book a hotel in hell - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

In the hotel beyond estrangement - Susan McCabe "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"

In a hotel room for fifteen years - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

If grief is a hotel - Josephine Yu "Veneration of the Anxious"

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However bright his tools or sharp his skills - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"

However slight the winning - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League"

However quiet you refuse to be - John Gallaher "Advice to Passengers"

However sad the season - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"

Not always in lightness, however - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."

Where all must lose their way, however straight - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"

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( Hold )

( Held )

Foothold.

My handhold on the planet is no longer tiny - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Holdover from last season's wilds - Jake Skeets "If Fire"

Uphold/Upheld.

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( House )

Through alehouse curtains glowed - Edmund Blunden "Sheet Lightning"

Melodious in the ale-house - "The Hosts of Faery" transl. by Kuno Meyer

A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

From slanderous charnel-houses burst - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

Welcome unto this dungeon-house - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

The notes of my glasshouse erudition - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Lord of ten thousand households - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

Of the shadow on the household - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"

Nor was the houseless wanderer e'er driven from his hall - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

Vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

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

My loyal friend, the house wren - Ira Sadoff "Once I Could Say"

Tower of the secret icehouses - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly

Host of breath rehoused - Philip Metres "We Are All God's Poems"

No rest-house for the heart - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

In a teahouse of the mind - Elizabeth Spires "Tea"

And unhouses the land - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"

Alone in the winter-house - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"

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( Hot )

in a hot-scarlet sash - James Whitcombe Riley "The Circus Parade"

Hot-wires the sun with its speed - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

Better grasp the red-hot steel, than touch another's gold - A.L.O.E. "Ragged Boy's Hymn"

Fingers of red-hot steel - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"

White-Hot.

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( Horde )

Will drive the goblin-horde away - Auguste Angellier "The Ivory Cradle" transl. by Henry van Dyke

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( Hope )

Hopeless.

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Like the afterhours inside a library - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"

( Hour )

Entombed with the hourless night - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"

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( Homeward )

Home.

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( Holly )

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( Honeybee )

Bee.

Honey.

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Slinging hoop in the dark - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"

Jumping hoops of water - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"

Watch morning jump through a flaming hoop - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"

through the fiery hoop of the sun - Valzhyna Mort "Belarusian I"

On the hundred hoops of its belly - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"

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