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 )

( Impossibility )

Possible/Possibility.

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( Importance/Important )

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( Impulse )

The waters lift impulsive arms - Cora C. Bass "Our River"

Mastered by desire impulsive - "The Kalevala: [Proem]" compiled by Elias Lönnrot, transl. by John Martin Crawford

Impel.

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( Imperfect/Imperfection )

Perfect.

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

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( Impotence/Impotent )

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"

The ridged wings of Chicxulub's impact - M. Frost "Pterosaur" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]

Heard me swallow the impact - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

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

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( Impetuous )

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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"

A mass of questions that implode or decelerate - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "The Boxwood Sketches" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

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"

Bends no more than the still imploring flame - Hart Crane "Legend"

Call on me from the darkness and implore - Nora May French "The Outer Gate"

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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( Impress )

Fables that far outshine false first impressions - Adam Ford "The Strangers Came" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]

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"

A welter of other pseudo impressive formula abound - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

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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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A hallow'd countenance, imbued with care - Edward Edwin Foot "Thought"

Stone and mortar to imbue with light - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

With one sad color are imbued - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

Imbued with fruit and varnish - Rimbaud "The Minx" (translated by A.M. Juster)

soles imbued with the prophecy of dirt - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

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The various implements of war are lodged beneath - Euripides "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Pick and spade had been his implements of industry - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"

With all the modern implements of learning writ - Edward Edwin Foot "On Shakespeare"

Like iron implements twisted - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"

Curses being the implements of gods - Herbert Woodward Martin "Standing Beneath Grapes"

Implement of blade and wheel - Robert J.C. Stead "The Plow"

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( Improve )

Seed are but sands when unimprov'd they pass - "My Grand Climacteric. 1802"

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( Immaculate )

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( Imperial )

Imperialism's face and the international wrong - W.H. Auden "September 1, 1939"

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

Strength from out those depths imbibing - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Trumpeter of Säkkingen: First Part. How Young Werner Rode into the Schwarzwald" transl. by Rebecca Brünnow

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( Impartial )

Partial.

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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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( Implicit )

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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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( Imitate )

( Imitation )

Their imitative and incendiary hymns - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

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( Impart )

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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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and impel his pride in shaping - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Which impelled the recreant warriors to renew the fight - Euripides "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

My wandering steps impel - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"

A single wheel impels the whole machine - Friederich Schiller "Friendship" transl. not credited

From insurgent deeps impelled - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Impulse.

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A hoof implies the presence of the whole horse - Blas Falconer "This Is Not a Horse"

A saddle implies a horse and a rider - Blas Falconer "This Is Not a Horse"

The message implied in howl and cry - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

All implied and folded in the first - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

The threat a son implies - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata 8"

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