somethingdarker | Dec. 6th, 2010

Dec. 6th, 2010

( Lore )

The folk-lore of each of the senses - Wallace Stevens "The River of Rivers in Connecticut"

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( Loyal )

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Longed to pour galaxies down his throat - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Rooted in the things unknown but longed for - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"

( Longing )

In forlornest need and longing-plight - Danske Dandridge "A Question"

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( Lord )

All the splendor of her lordliest days - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "The Venus of Milo"

Overlord of many kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

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( Lofty )

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( Loose/Loosen )

To a mind tired of loose ends - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"

Having tied all the loose ends - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Loose end of a rainbow dangling - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"

Unloose.

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( Lost )

Half-lost memories of some old dream - Emily Pauline Johnson "Low Tide at St. Andrews"

Lose.

Loss.

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( Long Ago )

Ago.

Long.

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( Long-Forgotten )

Forget/Forgot.

Long.

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( Lot )

Just a trifle discontent with his lot - Henry S. Leigh "The Crusader's Farewell"

The tiring task of casting lots on the cost of a human spirit - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

In the backlot of my father's skull - Wo Chan "Such As"

Parking Lot.

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( Lonely/Loneliness )

Alone.

Lone.

Lonesome.

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( Love )

A love-fire sharp like pain - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"

That carved these love knots - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Our bodices with love-knots laced - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Broken love-knots, quaintly curled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

Soothing her love-laden soul - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

The loveless, hearthless arctic night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

Descends into the loveless dust - W.B. Yeats "From the 'Antigone'"

A love-lorn nightingale among owls - Rumi "Thou Didst Go to the Rose-Garden" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Lover.

A cursed bouquet of love-me-nots - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata: On Faith"

Poison in meal most lovingly made - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

So lovingly made with iron fire - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Unloved in the hourglass of dust - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Ruth and Matthew Mead

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( Loud )

Battle's loud-lunged shout - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

January's loud-seeming sun - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Loud-spoken in the jargon of the day - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"

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( Loom )

In sullen packs that loomed and broke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"

( Looming )

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( Load )

What the FBI already downloaded - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

Truckloads of gravel between us - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

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( Loaf )

Sugar-loaves from Paradise enriched our bread and milk - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

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( Loop )

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"

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( Looking-Glass )

Glass.

Look.

Mirror.

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( Loathe )

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The sleep of a sunken log at the river's bottom - William Archila "Childhood"

Salvage logs now kilned and carved - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

Dew on the crooked stem of a crooked log - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"

Raptures through logs of sound - Marie-Ovide Dorceley "Sojourner"

With cloven logs to keep alight - Thomas Hardy "The Wood Fire"

Cleanse with the burning log of oak - "Yule-Tide Fires"

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( Long-Dead )

Dead.

Long.

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( Low )

( Lower )

Low-breathed music's echoed measure - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Low-breathed air and inwoven melody - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

Low-built nests where robins sing - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

Allowing lowercase sand to spill from me - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"

Underground tunnel to the lowest rung - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

Draws her favors to the lowest ebb - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"

A crystal ball lowered into low-hanging helium - Ian Goh "Firework"

As lowly spices gone to sleep - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature IX: The Grass"

On the bright sward in lowly homage kneeling - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

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

Could not pierce these meshed and low-slung skies - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

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( Lover )

Love.

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( Lovely )

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( Lose )

Loss.

Lost.

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( Loss )

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

Lose.

Lost.

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( Loam )

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( Locusts )

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( Loan )

Lend/Lent.

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( London )

Made it to Londinium on a donkey - Bernadine Evaristo "Amo Amas Amat"

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( Loon )

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The local jail is everywhere - Zaina Alsous "Violence"

The will of a local spirit - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"

Encased in a local thunderstorm - Billy Collins "Mappamundi"

Sculpted in local clay - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Serves local purposes - Kay Ryan "Double Floor"

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( Lonesome )

Alone.

Lone.

Lonely/Loneliness.

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( Lone )

One lone-wind-whipped weed - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

Alone.

Lonely/Loneliness.

Lonesome.

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( Lodge )

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( Logic )

An inference clean against logical laws - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"

Logicians of city and state - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

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( Loiter )

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( Lotus )

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( Lock )

Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"

Interlock.

Landlocked behind the barbed wire - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"

Nailed in lockers sealed with beeswax - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"

In vain the locksmith changes keys - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"

The roaches march in lockstep - Mike Allen "Ascending"

Heavy with padlocks, bolts, and cording - Oliver Herford "Rudyard Kipling"

Dry snow under the storm-locked sills - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Unlock.

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( Look )

Looking-Glass.

Lookout soldiers who watch the sea - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"

Overlook.

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( Long )

( Longer )

( Longest )

walk the longness of autumn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VIII)"

Its billion-mile-long pocket comb - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"

Where daylong the sniper watches - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"

Headlong.

Terracotta for a lifelong love - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"

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

Long Ago.

Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Long-buried springs in my heart awaken - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"

Long-Dead.

In their long-drawn elliptical orbits - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

This emanation of a long-endured despair - Henry S. Leigh "To a Certain Somebody"

Long-Forgotten.

Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

To reanimate the long-inert pendulum - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"

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