somethingdarker | Jan. 4th, 2011

Jan. 4th, 2011

( Melodious )

( Melody )

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Every flower brings bitter meed - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

But only fill afresh his meed of laughter, his cup of tears - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"

From vain pursuits and vainer meeds set free - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

The meed of high and shadowless renown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Wring from grasping hands their meed of gold - Helene Johnson "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"

The Meed of such most hellish Hate - John Spateman "War"

Receive your meed of Dark - Eugene R. White "Reward"

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( Mermaid )

And the mer-folk weeping - Charles William Wallace "Thus Life's Tale"

No mermen in its sea - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Self"

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( Membrane )

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( Meteor )

The meteor-bearer of our parting breath - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"

To alert me to approaching meteorites and mad dogs - Duane Ackerson " Proof of Existence"

Out-flares dynamite and meteorite - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "egret"

Glistening in the continuous rain of meteorites - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"

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A tangled mess of silky string - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

To the heaven of messy souls - Brenda Hillman "Split Tractate"

The mess of crows that fills the apple tree - Danusha Laméris "Omens"

Committing to this orbital mess - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

A close mess of buttered brushstrokes - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"

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Meter of organ and sense - CM Burroughs "Body as a Juncture of Almost"

My loom's blue metered weft - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 15"

Gravity would turn off its meter and wait - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

A formula in yards not meters - Ann K. Schwader "Minions of the Moon"

Forgotten news whipped against parking meters - Mary Karr "The New Year"

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Meticulous crushing fog - Marianne Boruch "There Ought to Be a Law Against Henry"

Meticulous and serious love - Gwendolyn Brooks "The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith"

And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

A meticulous sanity - Kate Knapp Johnson "For Now"

Meticulously depicting what's hidden - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

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A metropolis of memories - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

The minarets of an organic metropolis - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Seeking nectar in a grey metropolis - Sue Budin "On Hearing of the Imminent Crash of a Satellite on Earth"

the metropolis is a labyrinth of serpents and ghouls - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

Up on a midtown metropolis edifice - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"

Upon the gold clouds metropolitan - John Keats "Hyperion"

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( Mesh )

As clouds enmesh a star - Louise Imogen Guiney "Chaluz Castle"

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( Melancholy )

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( Medusa )

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Flashing shooting stars into the mercurial mass - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Something for the mercurial stomach - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"

That mercurial measure of contact - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"

Lurks mercurial in the blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "As in ... Afro-Pessimism?"

Lead to mercurial doomsdays - Mina Loy "Lunar Baedeker"

( Mercury )

Quicksilver.

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Memorial.

Thy memoried sun - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 2"

Masses of memoried flowers - Ivor Gurney "To His Love"

Memorize.

( Memory )

The spell of half-memories, the touch of half tears - William Moore "Dusk Song"

And explore your memoryscape - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"

Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

Remember.

Remembrance.

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( Mead )

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When the merciful snow cloaks me - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Every merciful and smiling lie - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Merciful skies, uncradle your mist - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

( Mercy )

Coming to the mercy seat - Julia A. Baker "Mizpah"

And only we should reach her mercy-seat - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

Whom unmerciful Disaster followed fast and followed faster - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

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The metaphysics covered with poppies - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell

Metaphysical betrayal - Alice Notley "Betrayal"

My body diffusing into metaphysical residue - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

We live beyond the metaphysician's fingertips - Charles Wright "Dude"

The metaphysics of the quotidian - Charles Wright "Tomorrow"

Physics.

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( Accord/According )

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A meat for every mind - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"

Broken meat for empty bellies - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Hare"

On royal meats I've fed - anonymous? "The Royal Court"

As an egg is full of meat - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Aunt Chloe's Politics"

Growing slight on tomorrow's meat - Natasha Oladokun "Black Credit"

Remember the strange meat of your dreams - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

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( Meal )

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( Merry )

To hear the merry-sounding reed - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"

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( Measure )

Immeasurable.

Measureless.

Uncertain measurement of time - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"

Unmeasured.

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( Memorial )

Above the heights of immemorial hills - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"

Out of immemorial chaos - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Immemorial vigil lapst to dream - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"

One picture of that immemorial land - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"

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( Meet/Met )

( Meeting )

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( Melt )

Burned with tears and flower-melt - John Ciardi "Abundance"

This new century of cosmic meltdown - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Meltwater frozen for millennia - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

The relief of snowmelt - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

Unmelted by the powerless sun - Tim Newcomb "December 2013"

Impervious as unmelting hail - Lola Ridge "Ward X"

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( Method )

my methodology is breath - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Any methodology for rising - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"

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( Metal )

The dust motes grew gunmetal - Kristina Erny "Abduction"

A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"

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( Menace )

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( Mean )

Content with meaner prey - John Clare "The Woodman"

The meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

( Meaning )

Cast meaningful shadows - Matthew Zapruder "January"

A meaningless refrain to empty walls - Marie Hedderwick Browne "My House Is Left Unto Me Desolate"

The meanness of the future - Jennifer Chang "Signs"

( Means )

( Meant )

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The avaricious words of a meager, petrified man - Maxwell Bodenheim "Nondescript Typist"

With meagre counterfeit of ancient rite - H.D. "Projector"

Meagre as a gnarled root - Mitchell Dawson "Asperities: Threat"

Faith and its meager rations - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen h"

Miserable sons of meagre soil - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"

In love with a meager stipend - Su Tung-p'o "New Year's Eve" transl. by Burton Watson

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Stretched and curled like a meandering river - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 2: How not to drown in desire"

Meeting those meandering down - Thomas Hardy "Snow in the Suburb"

Tilt and meander of wonder - Jane Hirshfield "As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us"

Where the deep Mississippi meanders - "Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon"

When the meandering became too strong - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"

That meanders the ominous cliffs - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 10" transl. by Katherine Silver

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For your famous mechanical salvation - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"

Finding mechanical solutions to mathematical problems - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Blow through an empty station on a mechanical wind - Edgar Kunz "Good Deal"

To explain about mechanical pigeon spies - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"

Accuracy moving deeper than mechanics - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

The mechanics of staying afloat - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

The sly mechanics of her strength - Yona Harvey "The Subject of Surrender"

Accounting for celestial mechanics - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"

Teases string theory and quantum mechanics - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

The mechanisms of late capitalism keeping us fed - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

the aftermath of failed coping mechanisms - Rachelle Saint Louis "Manman Ak Pitit"

Invent new mechanisms of caring - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Mechanisms of angelic thought - Wallace Stevens "One of the Inhabitants of the West"

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One medicated season slid into the next - Edgar Kunz "Day Moon"

Medicinal veridian of evergreen - Cynthia Hogue "in the meadow magenta"

A tangle of medicinal weeds - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

( Medicine )

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Sweet-smelling melons swelling on the ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

A dish of melon sliced to smiles - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Rose water, sugar cane, and summer melons - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

Stumbling on melons - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Honey in the belly of pale melons - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

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( Merit )

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The pocked metronome of tennis balls - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"

Turn every head into a cautious metronome - Roger Reeves "Brazil"

Could answer the metronomes of blood - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"

Refusing the heed of a metronome - Jenny Xie "Distance Sickness"

The metronome of regret - Josephine Yu "Narcissist Revises Tidal Theory"

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The late prism of the metamorphic world - CM Burroughs "The Vital System"

Where the stone horses metamorphose into birds - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

Fiery metamorphosed catapault - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"

Metamorphoses into a wet thorn - Carolina Ebeid "Scripts for the Future"

As night begins its metamorphosis - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"

Overspread the metamorphosed island - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"

Their entrenched metamorphosis - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament I"

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( Mere )

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( Meek )

Idly pluck a thousand meek-faced daisies - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

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( Messenger )

Message.

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( Merge )

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Immeasurable.

Measure.

( Measureless )

Unmeasured.

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Must do more than meditate and pray - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Meditating on time's ruins - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"

All the shadows secretly meditate - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours VI" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Or focus meditation on a stone - Derek Adams "Skrying"

Makes music of our meditations - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"

By centuries of baffled meditation - Maxwell Bodenheim "To a Man"

On soft-winged sails of meditation - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"

Listens to the wind's mediation - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

A daily majesty of meditation - Wallace Stevens "Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly"

A meditative measure of wind and rain - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"

Greet each other on the meditative path - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

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( Message )

Messenger.

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( Memorize )

Memory.

Remember.

Remembrance.

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Things I cannot mention - Hilda Conkling "Rambler Rose"

The goal your folly mentions - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"

Too new to mention - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"

Starving to be mentioned - Mark Irwin "'Who'"

Your name mentioned on the news - Ishmael Reed "A Black Genius"

Marked each spot he mentioned - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Though unmentioned in geography - "Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon"

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( Metaphor )

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( Mend )

From hearts that stay unmended - Margaret E. Sangster "From Paris to Chateau Thierry"

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