somethingdarker | Dec. 3rd, 2010

Dec. 3rd, 2010

Twirling in the lee of the short hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The unwelcome shark gliding beneath our lee - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

From treacherous quicksands or from leeward shore - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Spouting breakers were the only thing a-lee - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"

To rest in the lee of the high hill land - Henry van Dyke "Turn o' the Tide"

Like tigers on a lone lee shore - Sherard Vines "Permission"

Seven tides graced our lee shore - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"

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can feel your face like a crucial lever - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

The lever finds its fulcrum - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Hinging on a lever and a handle - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"

Levers and gears designed to conceal - Maggie Smith "Voting-Machine"

Where words have no leverage - Tommye Blount "An Act of Love"

Trying to leverage this slippery trait of memory - Bogi Takács "The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast a Spell"

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( League )

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No attempt made to sort elemental lead from verb lead.

( Lead )

( Leaden )

Leader without Machiavellian teeth - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

Be the leader of a nation of woe - Edwin Torres "Viva la Viva"

( Led )

By guileful Hope misled - James Beattie "Retirement"

Misled by glamour from heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"

Even more by luck misled - Tommaso Campanella "XXXI. To Poland" transl. by John Addington Symonds

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

When the moon-led waters flow - Henry Newbolt "Cities Drowned"

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( Learn )

A machine-learning algorithm to calculate the odds - Edgar Kunz "Willrobotstakemyjob.com"

Relearning familiar sin - Michael Lauchlan "Interferometry in Hell"

With the effort to relearn these names - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"

( Unlearn )

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( Less )

Where errors were not lessened - Anne Bradstreet "The Author to Her Book"

One's gain was not the other lessened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"

Which earns but lessened gravity - Mary Karr "Lifecycle Stairmaster"

( Lesser )

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( Let )

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( Least )

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( Lesson )

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Who holds your tongue captive - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"

Whose breath whets the edge of the guillotine - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"

A basket of twig and hair - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"

The perfect and then the broken - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"

Born and lit and broken - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"

The moon ghosting a hole through a rainbow - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"

The rainbow's rage to efface the moon - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"

Withdraw from this orbit of mirrors - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"

His elaborate head-piece of smoke - Dana Levin "The Gods Are in the Valley"

In the sarcophagi of parentheses - Dana Levin "The Gods Are in the Valley"

Two angels gather at the empty chest - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

Peeled back as petals - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

The frigid cauldron that is life - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

The voiceless thousands at the edge of the curtain - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

Go on with this mortal vision - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

The new heart like a lamp - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

And pry your breath out - Dana Levin "Instructions for Stopping"

Decide if it's a kiss or a bullet - Dana Levin "Instructions for Stopping"

The ceiling of private dream - Dana Levin "Letter to GC"

A bullet-stream of oyster shells - Dana Levin "The Living Teaching"

She had a parched heart - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

Poised for hours in her spun palace - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

Hand-fast to her twilight appearance - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

Thimbles of blood and bite - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

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

With your round guillotine of a mouth - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

Spin inside your paper house - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

Long arcs between sets of plunge - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

Releasing thought balloons - Dana Levin "A Skull"

Ready with a pin - Dana Levin "A Skull"

On the banks of your mental styx - Dana Levin "Styx"

For the double audience of smoke - Dana Levin "Styx"

Thirty seconds of yellow lichen - Dana Levin "Watching the Sea Go"

Thirty seconds of coil and surge - Dana Levin "Watching the Sea Go"

Kelp with its open attitudes - Dana Levin "Watching the Sea Go"

Terror and the hope ribboning through - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"

The oracular feint of a joke - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"

Trick candles on the victory cake - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"

Stone children in bibs and hats - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"

Winds trying to hold each other - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"

The You who keeps disembarking - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"

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( Legacy )

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Everlasting limbos void of time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Limbo disguised as purgatory - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"

In the gritty limbo of scrub pine - Gregory Pardlo "Antebellum"

To drink from Limbo's waters - Alexander Posey "The Deer"

In that limbo of dreamless sleep - Isaac Rosenberg "The Blind God"
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( Leash )

Unleash.

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A cake with kinder leaven - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

A leaven of mirth most bitter sweet - Elinor Jenkins "The Letter"

Of heavenly bread the accepted leaven - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

The world's bitter leaven - Lola Ridge "A Toast"

No bright leaven arise from the beloved dust - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"

The bread of sorrow leaven - George Santayana "Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set]"

Wine and bread without lees or leaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

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At the mercy of the gorgeous and lethal aurora - Jaswinder Bolina "Apologia Matilde"

Transforms in the lethal rain - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup"

The bird's long, lethal strain - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

With stinging gas and lethal vapor - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

The menace of that lethal time - George Sterling "Of America"

Particular in its lethality - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"

that sheaths its lethal secret in silence - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

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( Legion )

The shining legionaries of the suns - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Crowned and throned by lightning-legions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

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( Lees )

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We take up space in their ledgers - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Ledger of its last minutes - Chris Dombrowski "Windowsill"

a green mark in the cosmic ledger - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"

Reveal the private ledger of your birth - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

A ledger traced in salt - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"

Thundering over ledgers of clay - Richard Solomon "Last Defense"

Hauling out the secret ledger - Art Zilleruelo "Arrangements"

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( Leave (not botanical) )

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The mortgage closed, outruns the lease - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"

That he yields in lease to tenant dreams - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

All those leased words - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"

The forests where silence has lease - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

On leases of short-number'd hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"

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( Ledge )

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And pronounced myself legally dead - Ruth Madievsky "Ficus"

Vagrant flowers of legal pestilences - Pablo Neruda "The Beggars" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Time's psychological and legal assault - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

Some colors have always been illegal - Sue Budin "Passport, 1954"

Menacing random and illegal patterns - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"

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A leviathan with no proper name - Joshua Bennett "In Defense of Henry Box Brown"

A few witches have seen Leviathan - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Truth is a leviathan - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Call my name, leviathans - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"

A myth to hook my leviathan jaw - Rajiv Mohabir "Vestigial Bones"

Shock of leviathans prone - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Of that leviathan so rare - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Sinking of the Titanic"

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Leftover reasons to be alive - Brody Parrish Craig "Full"

Its leftover words in my mouth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

Surviving on a plate of dirty leftovers - Pablo Neruda "The Celestial Poets [Canto General]" transl. by Martin Espada

Full of leftovers and moldy lemons - Robbi Nester "Rot"

The table of history littered with leftovers - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer in Lisbon" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

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( Lean )

A lean to in a starved storm - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

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( Level )

Spoke in weather-leveled voices - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"

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( Lethe )

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At leisure contemplate this clown - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

The hieroglyphics of his leisure hours - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

The lumberjack's alphabet covers loss and leisure - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

The leisure of the wheat - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"

Sour leisure gave sweet leave - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"

With love's leisurely vanished pace - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"

No work but leisure - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Knitting"

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( Leather )

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( Leg )

Five-legged pocket spiders - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

Long-legged Naiads appear in the willows - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"

Forests shrill with one-legged goblins - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

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( Lens )

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( Leopard )

Snow leopards, wolves, and honey bees - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"

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Lest the ghostly perfume smell too sweet - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

My head unturned lest my dream should fade - Thomas Hardy "The Shadow on the Stone"

Lest I sink down beneath my load - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Lest they should poison Hell - Louis J. McQuilland "The Poisoners"

Lest the living flame to ashes turn - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"

Lest ambition make us fall - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"

Lest their last fruit be tears - Francis Brett Young "Testament"

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( Left )

Blues played lefthanded - Harryette Mullen "Page 5/sun goes on shining"

Made friends in a left-handed trance - "Nonsense"

Who know my left-handed handwriting - Danni Quintos "Quintos"

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Botanical leaves only.

( Leaf/Leaves )

Gold apples set with silver apple-leaf - H.D. "Lais"

Instead of cheap bay-leaves - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

Which deep-leaved June had hidden - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"

Painted with four-leaf clovers - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

Yield rose-dust and ivy-leaf - Clark Ashton Smith "Sepulture"

The chestnut tree admires her large-leaved shadow - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

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

Breaking through leafless brambles and dead leaves - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

A magic in the leafless wood - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

A storm in leafless wood - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XV"

Striking the leafless poplar boughs - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

Dryads from the leafless oak or budded elder - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Singing down the leafless aisles to the budding year - Lloyd Roberts "Spring's Singing"

Leaf-loss and worried sprout - Jennifer Chang "Pastoral"

Flame to my leaf-mould - Jeannette Marks "You"

The leaf-red fire warmed no one's hands - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

Holding a bucket full of leaf-song - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"

Adverbs from the leaf-talk of the elves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"

Singing among the oak-leaves - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"

Entwined with flowers and poison-leaves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"

Quaint jars with rose-leaf memories - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Received the rose-leaf soul - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

Will mount again into rose-leaves - William Carlos Williams "History"

From out the thickleaved oaken shade - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

That shines unleafed in winter rain - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Each white-fire-leaf of a star distinct - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"

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( Legend )

A dimestore magic trick in legendary light - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"

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( Length )

( Lengthen )

The wavelength of euphoria - Fady Joudah "Taurus"

The small range of wavelengths called the visible - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"

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( Leak )

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( Lemon )

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( Leap )

My festival upleaping from an ember - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"

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