somethingdarker | Mar. 19th, 2011

Mar. 19th, 2011

( Orphan )

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( Orchid )

Amble by orchid-grown marshes - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

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Oriole hopping from branch to branch - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Where the oriole's nest is swinging - W. Wilfred Campbell "A Wood Lyric"

Orioles come for the oranges - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

When whippoorwill and oriole are done - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love VI: Song"

her laughter calling to the orioles - Gary Jackson "Fly"

The oriole with experienced quest - James Russell Lowell "The Nest: May"

The orioles sang in chorus - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of Big Plans"

Enticed by oriole voices - Po Chu'i "Spring River" transl. by Burton Watson

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( Ornament )

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( Orchestra )

Orchestrating every movement of a proper family - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"

Could orchestrate the building of cities - Amari Low "Themself"

The orchestration of meaning - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

The orchestration needs tufts of black shadow - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Must orchestrate the shattering of mirrors - Enrique Villasis "Birds in Flight, 1965"

Dazzle and chaos orchestrated cacophony - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

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( Orion )

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( Orpheus )

The orphic song half sung - George L. Moore "Keats"

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( Orbit )

Speeding up your orbital velocity - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

Increasing your orbital radius - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

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

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( Orb )

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( Orchard )

Whom the sea-orchard shelters from the west - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

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

Mighty organ of a thousand keys - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Down by the Sea"

Ghost organs blush without blood - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"

The organ sounding off the melody - Keith Leonard "Museum"

His ears are stone to the organ - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Third Movement"

Born of a vision-mad organist - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"

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( Oracle )

Even the rain could feel oracular - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

The hard oracular orifices of tree bark - Aditi Machado "Rhapsody"

Married to something oracular - Z.G. Tomaszewski "If I Last the Night"

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

Foretell/Foretold.

Prophecy/Prophet.

Seer.

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The vexed ore no mineral of power - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"

The molten ore of the great stars - Edward Doyle "Chime, Dark Bell"

The ore in my blood - Donika Kelly "Archaeology"

The brackish tangs of the raw ores - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"

Mine your memories for ore and liberation - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]

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( Origami )

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( Origin )

Doves originating in silence - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Originating from a single cast stone - Ashanti Files "Ripples"

( Original )

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Opening a doorway to the extraordinary - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"

A tumble of extraordinary rocks - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

( Ordinary )

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Deferred the hour ordained - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

A whim that ordains blood - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Ordains its own unwinding - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid

Who ordained the eight winds - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Creation of the Winds with their Colours" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Whom she ordained to feed her holy fire - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

a new day preordained by my captors - Tanque R. Jones "Morning Time"

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( Order )

( Disorder )

Undermining the rules of a well-ordered universe - Timons Esaias "Dark Matter"

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( Orange )

bitter oranges unafraid of cosmic dust - Alise Alousi "Burnished in Future Time"

Bitter orange and almond milk - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Real as a bitter orange - A.E. Stallings "Sublunary"

A bonfire of burnt-orange - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"

Mountains turned hazard-orange mid-air - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

In vain with orange blossoms scents the gale - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

The wreath of orange blossoms on her brow - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Glacial orange blossom of silence - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: II" transl. by James Nolan

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