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A dream of interlinking hands - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"


Link )


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List )


Progress is a blacklist - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"


A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"


Wishlist of crossed out verbs - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"


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Litter )


To float through star-littered fields - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"


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Alight/Alit.


Light )


Late November's agate-light - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"


Beacon-lights of ages fled - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"


Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"


Candlelight.


Myriad corpse-lights glimmer on their way - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

Leaving a corpselight burning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"


Daylight.


The crimson death-lights dance - Virna Sheard "Crosses"


Firelight.


Flashlight.


The moon's floodlights burning - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"


spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"


Watch an entire reel of gaslight unfold - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"


At night when her gold-light is spent - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]


An oceanic circus of gray-light - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"


Dusk-airs and breaths of half-light - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"

Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

Quickly shifting puddles of purpler half-light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Headlight.

Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"

Highlights the potential for interruption - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"

Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"


Lamplight.


River sends her laughter-lights - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"


Flip off this lightbox and its scroll of dread - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"


Lightbulb.


Lighted )


Lighten.


Lighter.


Lightest.


Light-Footed.


Gliding over sheets of light-glazed silver - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"


Lighthouse.


Lighting.


Lightless.


Lightly.


In lightness of wonder rise higher - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Possesses the pleasant lightness of tea - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

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

The jasmine lightness of the moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"


The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"


What is born massless at light speed - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"

That scale the speed of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"

Before accelerating toward the speed of light - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

As if it were penicillin or the speed of light - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"


The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"


Light Year.


Kicked at cardboard, gaped at red limelight - Aldous Huxley "The Ideal Found Wanting"

the limelight not meant for you - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"

Bruised by the stone glare of the limelight - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"


Tinged her eyes with love-light's dawning - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]


these jangling night lights fixed to a spirit pleading - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"

Nightlights going unused in the swinging forests - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"


When the Northlights shake their spears - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"


By the flamethrower's pilot light - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"


An angel lit by a red-light district - Shannan Mann "In Hell"


Can afford to burn a rushlight - Henry S. Leigh "An Old Cynic"


Searchlight.


Read poems by snow-light - Hilda Conkling "Poems"


Spotlight.


Streetlight.


Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

By torch-light and alone - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"


The eaves of the unlighted hall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"

And the dead planets race unlighted - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

Unlighted through blind space - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

Forlorn as that unlighted chamber - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


Watchful as window-light - Tarfia Faizullah "Acolyte"


Witch-lights of laughter - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"


The winterlight consumes the field - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"


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The chariot wheels of burning levin - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'" [An archaic term for lightning]

Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"


Lightning )


Lack the rigor of a lightning bolt - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

Whose scalpel cut a lightning bolt - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

That mixes vodka and lightning bolts - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XI" transl. by William O'Daly


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


My spine a lightning rod for shudders - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Lightning-rods for plumes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"


Her sky grows dark and lightning-streaked - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"


Open, lightning-struck and gashed - Janet Kauffman "A Body Walking in Clothes"

Some tower tumbles, lightning-struck - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"


Hail blazing in sheet-lightning - H.D. "Simaetha"

With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"


To hide our white-lightning past - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"


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How dare the water belittle my thirst - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"


Little )


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The leonine billows ramp and roll - Edward Dowden "Sent to an American Shakespeare Society"


Lion )


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A compass pointing in all directions of lifelines - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

lifelines to be colored with earth - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Hands"

Lifelines sewed back up with the wrong stitches - Angela Liu "Dark Patterns"

The river's lifeline joins itself to winter - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"

Old stories etched on the lifeline of my father's palm - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"


Life.

Line.


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Listen )


Silence goes unlistened to - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"

All the streamsides and unlistening vales - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"


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Limit )


Primal sculpture illimitably trapped in stone - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"


The limitations of desire - Stephen Dunn "A Circus of Needs"

The limitations of structure - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: I"

The limitations of their Infinite - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"

Fastened by the measure of limitation - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"


Limitless.


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Echoing in the lilt of their voices - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Crooning a lilt to corn and rye - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Tragedy of Pete"

Colour and fancy and lilt - Zona Gale "Hokku"

What lilt signed your step - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

Lilting back to the land of air - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Hill People"


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Lizards rushing into limestone - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"

Some Texas limestone golem - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Tossed against its limestone - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"

The stone forest alive with limestone - Khadijah Queen "Reclusionary"

Through limestone caverns of mistakes - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"


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Your mind is a twice shattered lightbulb - Mary Jo Bang "The Game of Roles"

Lightbulbs on a birthday cake - Calef Brown "Birthday Light"

Light bulbs aflicker in so much dark - Stephanie Heit "The Shock Machine: Neuromodulation Master"

How the stars are flicking off like lightbulbs - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Reasons to buy hammers or light bulbs - John McCarthy "The Key"

The sharded self of the lightbulb - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"


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The spoil of listless minutes - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Faun: a Fragment"

The suns and every listless star - Willa Cather "Evening Song"

And builds a stage to mime its listless tragedy - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Listless dust by fortune blown - William Dean Howells "The Mulberries"

Tired of listless dreaming - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"

Noises upon listless ears - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

Hiding the listless sun - Ann Whitford Paul "My Dog and I"

The listless oars suspended - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"


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Liquid )


The liquified despair of our ancestors - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

pain liquified & indelible - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"


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Your shine enlightens but yourself - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Suggests the possibility of enlightenment - Monica Youn "Study of Two Figures (Ignatz/Krazy)"

And enlighten his darkest dreams - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"


Lighten )


Light.

Lighter.

Lightest.

Lighting.

Lightless.

Lightly.


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Love me in the lightest part - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Man's Requirements"

Lips whose lightest word is dear - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]

The lightest wind was in its nest - Shelley "The Recollections"

Or ruffle the soul's lightest plume - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines VI"

No lightest echo lost - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"


Light.

Lighten.

Lighter.

Lighting.

Lightless.

Lightly.


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Lime )


Of million bees in old Lime-avenues - Martin Armstrong "Honey Harvest"

the limelight not meant for you - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"

Bruised by the stone glare of the limelight - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

The stone forest alive with limestone - Khadijah Queen "Reclusionary"

A mixture of whitelime and brine - Angela Figuera Aymerich "Women at the Market" transl. by Hardie St Martin



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Limitless )


Limit.


Terpsichore ruled with unlimited sway - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Unlimited protein falling from the sky - Keith Taylor "One Species to Mourn"


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Amid the calm and liberal air - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Liberal growth demands untempered heat - William Cory "Amavi"

Liberal to each breeze that blows - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

Tune his liberal wealth of song - Darrell Figgis "[Beloved, hast perceived a throstle tune]"

A beggar may be liberal of love - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"


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Beyond the roofs and lids of our limits - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

Another hammer blow on the coffin lid - Julia Alvarez "Famous Poet, Years Afterward"

The coffin lid of a ghost - Julia Alvarez "Famous Poet, Years Afterward"

Morning twilight slowly raised its lids - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Slammed the lid down on the twilight - Mary Szybist "What If I Could Look At You"

By the quivering lid of an averted eye - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"


Eyelid.


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No distinction made between untruths and reclining in this post. Sorting them would be work.


Lie )


Lying )


With the drops of the deep-lying dew - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"

Submerging the low-lying stars - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"


Falsehood.


Lay.


Liar.


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How a lone bomb can erase a lineage - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"

{in the long lineage of spite} - fahima ife "of being nameless"

The weapons littering his lineage - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"

Lineage of tower and turquoise - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Without lineage or language - Wallace Stevens "So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch"

Through some starcrossed lineage - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the Ù† of it all"


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Limbs )


Silver-limbed and crescent-crowned - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"


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Live )


Adjust such live-long growth to rules - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"


Outlive.


Each knot a way to relive the day - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"

Horror relived in every iteration - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

The horizon's volume relived as a tremor - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"


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Each destination swims lithe as otters - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Consults the GPS"

How the fleet, lithe poppies ran - Helen Hunt Jackson "Poppies on the Wheat"

Lither than the asp - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Each laughing Fay and lithesome Fairy - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Elfin Song"

A lithe gnarl of live oak - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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Wear only Death's livid, dreadful white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Plague with livid pinions - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

A windless land of livid dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

Livid as the stealthy hands of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Medusa of the Skies"

Now leaps a livid lightning up - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Soft as August's livid purple figs - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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In the livery of a lie - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

Robed in the livery of spring - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

New-liveried in sulphur flame - Rev. William Crowe "The Spleen"

Liveried in a kind of white - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"

Clothing the earth with a livery of lightnings - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

In the combined livery of bird plus snake - Marianne Moore "Like a Bulrush"


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Life )


Afterlife.


Life-blood )


The skin stretched over lifedebts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"


No lifeforms exploded from your soil - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"


Pointing to the life-giving water - William Carlos Williams "The Motor-Barge"


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


Count with lifeless breath - John McCrae "Penance"

Pale about the lifeless fountain - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"


Lifeline.


Lifelong )


Joy sufficient for my life-old thirst - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"


Hobbies to cheer immortal lifespans - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"


Though fiercer thunder drains my life-springs - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]


A lifestyle fueled by vodka - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"

The cyborg lifestyle has its thrills - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"


Lifetime.


Preventing the evolution of xenophobic metalife - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"


Some small folded breath of otherlife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"


Still Life.


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No linearity in a flood - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Let the string be knotted on its linear axis - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

Shatters linear discipline - Laura Da' "Twelve Gates"

Have given myself to the linear - Myronn Hardy "To the Linear"

Bleeds through the fragility of linear time - Irene Inatty "Ours"

From the prisons of linear time - Matthew Olzmann "The Earthlings"

The linear zipper of return - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"


Nonlinear slapstick meets slasher flick - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"


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Lip/Lips )


That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"


Mouths closed so tight they're lipless - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"


Lip-read the heavens talking on in light, syllabic stars - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"


Lipstick.


Drawn outward by the vampire-lips of Sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"


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Lift )


Veil after unlifted veil - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"


Faint warm fog unlifting - Cale Young Rice "Haunted Seas"


Uplift.


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Lily )


Robed in red and sea-lilies - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"


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