somethingdarker | Sep. 13th, 2010

Sep. 13th, 2010

( Immense )

( Immensity )

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( Implacable )

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( Imagine )

Chime in silverly across the half-imagined wind - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Reimagining can take place at the root of time - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

As a self-imagined Atlas - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"

Unimaginable/Unimagined.

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An immeasurable distance sizzles between them - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory II"

Immeasurable records of surmise - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 3"

An immeasurable wheel turning for evermore - Longfellow "Rain in Summer"

Answering to limitless immeasurably far-outlying Hades - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Up the immeasurable abyss - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

The sea's immeasured lyre - George Sterling "The Swimmers"

That one immeasurable moment at sunset - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"

Measure.

Measureless.

Unmeasured.

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( Imprint )

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( Impossible )

On the carpet of impossibility - Amy King "You Make the Culture"

Begotten by despair upon Impossibility - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

The impossibility of making a day - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Knowing the impossibility of getting there - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"

Possible/Possibility.

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( Importance/Important )

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( Impulse )

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( Imperfect/Imperfection )

Perfect.

An unperfect actor on the stage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"

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A rout of dreams most impotent - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lonely Burial"

In swaggering impotence caught and confess'd - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

A chord long impotent in me - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Roused by the battling impotence of wars - Geoffrey Dearmer "The Sentinel: An Episode at the Evacuation of Gallipoli"

A school of impotent songs - Cheryl Dumesnil "A Million Silver Minnows"

The impotence of the lighthouse - Luciano Folgore "The Submarine" transl. by Anne Simon

Impotent glimpses of the Game displayed - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

Potent.

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Unstoppable beats fiery impact every time - Rae Armantrout "Lie"

An impact with enough dominion to annihilate - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Asteroids mathematically on track for impact - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"

Heard me swallow the impact - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

Impact of charged atoms in ceaseless vibration - Lola Ridge "Russian Women"

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Those impetuous claims that drew me forth - William Cory "Amavi"

Impetuous round her axle rolls - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Bright, impetuous avalanche of glory - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

An impetuous wind - D.H. Lawrence "Study"

Galaxies of women, there doing penance for impetuousness - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

Displayed the wrecks of its impetuous course - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Transforms all that is impetuous - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #8: A Century's Waiting" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

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By the blown fuse of an imploding star - Derek Adams "Historian's Guide to the Galaxy"

In response to an imploding code - Mary Jo Bang "Too Late, Louise Said, Means"

Will implode silent on our signal - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"

Imploded into existence - Lawrence Joseph "On Nature"

Answers imploding into yourself - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

The implosion of zero time and in(de)finite degree - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

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Still imploring flame - Hart Crane "Legend"

Then the sunshine implores - Grace Paley [untitled]

And booming guns implore - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"

Imploring to be sheltered and credited - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"

Implores a poet's power - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."

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And honour on my days impress - Christine de Pisan "[Very God of Love, who art of lovers Lord]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Kneel to be impressed by ashes - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"

By herself impressed on the tide - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"

Wear its deep impress of changes - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Impress thoughts of more deep seclusion - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"

Strong impressions of eternity - Lawrence Joseph "In Parentheses"

The impressions come with their various degrees of intensity - Keith Taylor "What's Needed Now"

Makes no good first impression - Jane Yolen "Little House in the Wood"

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Impaled on the pinnacles of a brassy skyscape - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"

Sweet beats of jazz impaled - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Impaled on slivers of wind - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

The for-sale sign impales the front pasture - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"

Impale the sky on silver spears - William Watson "A Child's Hair"

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( Immaculate )

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( Imperial )

Empire.

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( Impose )

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Imbibes a tone of nature-nurtured truth - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"

From life, I have imbibed this best of lessons - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

In words alone this doctrine I imbibed not - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

All the vehicles for imbibing - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"

All of joy imbibe the dew - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

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Impartial lightning strikes the water - Mary Jo Bang "The Doctor's Monster Is Drowning"

The impartial laughter of the sea - A.E. "A Midnight Meditation"

The same impartial sentence is awarded - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Half erased by the impartial storms - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Rendered our bodies impartial - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

The impartial sun laughs down upon the battle - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"

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( Impend )

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Imperious sanctities - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Yielded to custom's imperious demand - "The Emperor's Rout"

Fly from the tents of our imperious lords - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Light imperious talk of water freed - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"

Harsh time's imperious child - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"

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A solitude impervious to my woes - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Close fitting, impervious still to rain or dew - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]

Impervious as unmelting hail - Lola Ridge "Ward X"

Impervious to vertigo - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Impervious in its momentum - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"

Pervade.

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The implicit sweetness of speed - Joshua Bennett "Preface to a Twenty-Volume Regicide Note"

The simplicity implicit in sea-sponges - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"

And to the rabble yield an implicit deference - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And to them I yield implicit credence - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

If implicit could be nailed to the wall - Thomas Lux "Nullius in Verba (Take Nobody's Word for It)"

every other element implicit - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

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( Imaginary )

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( Imagination )

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( Immortality )

Immortal.

Mortal.

Mortality.

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( Immortal )

Immortality.

Mortal.

Mortality.

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( Imps )

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( Impatience/Impatient )

Patience/Patient.

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( Imprison )

Rooms where the time-imprisoned gather - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Prison.

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No lagging pulse impedes our sleep - George Lunt "Skating" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]

Impede the slow steps of the pompous ages - William Watson "History"

An impediment of your own creation - Alise Alousi "Poetry"

Fearing no impediment - Carrie Law Morgan Figgs "We are Marching"

The straining sails of unimpeded ships - Witter Bynner "Grieve not for Beauty"

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Surrender some imitation of splendour - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

Learned to imitate each other's breath - Michael Dumanis "The Forecast"

The still life outside imitating art - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"

imitating them in oily pigments - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

Lace with its chemical imitation - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

Whether to imitate duration or mimic passage - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Natural"

Imitating their fields - Alice Walker "Why War Is Never a Good Idea"

imitations of the fruit's spectral physics - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

Holding a cheap imitation in my hands - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea

Their imitative and incendiary hymns - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

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To the muse impart the laurel crown - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall

Imparting joy, suggesting grief - James Weldon Johnson "A Passing Melody"

Venus' soft voice imparting its joy - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (13)" transl. by Dennis Daly

One grief to both impart - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

Imparted their charms to embellish their graces - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Too deep for language to impart - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

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( Improvise )

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( Immediate )

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( Immerse )

( Immersion )

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The afterimage of ancestral pain - Irene Inatty "Ours"

A flickering afterimage of the nightmare rain - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

( Image )

Where swirls of silver imagery sweep - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Dock Drama"

listen for the thoughts of their lost mirror-images - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"

A torus-image whose empty center we sought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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