somethingdarker | Apr. 2nd, 2011

Apr. 2nd, 2011

A great impassable gate of tumult - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"

Creates one great impassable division twixt us and our desire - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"

Through impassable armour of iron - Zheng Min "Images of the Heart #4: It" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

( Pass )

Before they can tempt any passerby into rescuing them - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Encounter only Death, the Passer-by - William Theodore Peters "Death and Love"

Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

Waving passports in the still air - Regio Cabico "Mango Poem"

A passport to hell - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"

Without passports or means of escape - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"

A country we have no passport for - Charles Wright "No Entry"

The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"

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( Past )

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( Path )

Footpath creeping through the long grass to the door - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

A catalyst for pathfinding and strength - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"

Pathless.

Pathway.

yesterday I was warpath and daydreams - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"

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( Pattern )

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( Pause )

Early in the era of the pause button - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"

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( Pay )

Which o'erpay the power of Destiny - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Adds water to the soup until payday - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

Rent due & payday missing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"

Payment.

A bullet hole in the pay phone - Mahogany L. Browne "On St. John's and Franklin Avenue"

( Paid )

Cloaked in a prepaid identity - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"

A tiger well repay the trouble and expense - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Tiger"

To be repaid by darker hate - "The Misanthrope"

Have repaid my love with guile - "The Misanthrope"

Repays their cost of tears - Isaac Rosenberg "My Hours"

The unpaid labor of angels - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

An unpaid wrecking crew - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"

That clears to-day of unpaid debts and future fears - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

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

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( Patch )

Eye-patches and clockwork hands - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"

Patchwork.

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When each particle and anti-particle collided - James F. Yockey "What If"

( Particle )

Inability to grasp wave-particle duality - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"

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( Pavilion )

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( Pan (deity) )

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( Pageant )

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Some usages of 'palm' are ambiguous as to whether the tree or the body part is meant. I suggest checking both posts. Palm (body part).

( Palm )

Take no more solace from the palm-girt wells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

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( Pang )

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Falls to the asphalt of a final parking lot - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

In parking lots with moons in my mouth - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Reruns and parking lots and reruns of parking lots - Ada Limon "The Worth of a Thing That Is Not a Thing But a Number"

Smash a snow globe in a parking lot - Ruth Madievsky "You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies"

Vacant parking lots like dark hallways - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"

Plant vegetables in a parking lot - Alison Swan "Detroit"

Midnight's neon parking lot - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

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

Lot.

Park.

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( Party )

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( Patrol )

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( Parallel )

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( Parasite )

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( Payment )

Pay/Paid.

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( Pain )

And mercy deals the pain-inflicting blow - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Adversity" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Quick and painlessly employed - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Too sweet painsong in passages of night - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 28"

Painsong for sorcerers - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"

A pair of painstakingly clean hands - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

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The partridge dreamed not of the falcon's foot - Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst "Midnight"

Pointed the ghost of a partridge - Chris Dombrowski "The Hunt"

The partridge red with blood of the hawk - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

The drowsy beat of partridge wings - Archibald Lampman "April"

Where now only the partridges fly - Li Po "In Yuch Viewing the Past" transl. by Burton Watson

The partridge sleeps in the wheat - Gabriela Mistral "Sleep Close to Me" transl. by D.M. Peeinella

A petrified fleck of partridge - Ira Sadoff "The Soul"

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( Pair )

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( Patience/Patient )

Impatience/Impatient.

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( Pane/Windowpane )

Window.

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( Panic )

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What the pagans called god - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

In lost pagan caverns dark and deep - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited

Will never soothe the pagan in me - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"

Wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"

A pagan suckled in a creed outworn - William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much With Us"

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( Pall )

Watery pallbearers heading seaward - Carl Phillips "Swimming"

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A parable you don't understand - Nickole Brown "Parable"

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

Atomized parables of descent - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

In parables and symbols of remorse - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

giving parables in answer to every mathematical equation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

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Salute us back with empty kitchen pans - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

The kettles and pans would play and prance - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Panned the contents for every nugget of twinkling hope - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

The quiver of oil in a hot pan - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

With a pan of coals on either hand - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

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If you feed me with thin parchment - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

We were footnotes on a charred parchment - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

Manumitted by parchments and decrees - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"

Fame's parchment to fill - J. Hunt, Jr. "The Cottage"

The parchment for the afterlife - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"

We write it on parchments of time evermore - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Refugees are dialectical beings"

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( Pandora )

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Along the Parapet of Night - Coningsby Dawson "Daybreak"

Ruin and fallen parapets predict my fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Built their parapets in the air - Thomas O'Hagan "Langemarck"

Brick parapets burning cold orange - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

From parapets of light - Herbert Randall "To the Standish Guards of the Old Colony"

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( Pavement )

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Some usages of 'palm' are ambiguous as to whether the tree or the body part is meant. I suggest checking both posts. Palm (tree).

( Palm )

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( Panther )

Stark hours of panther-footed dark - Coningsby Dawson "Unanswerable Questions"

Sunset-panthers past her run to caverns of the Sun - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

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( Paw )

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Such a parcel of rogues - Robert Burns "Fareweel to A' Our Scottish Fame"

Fiery parcels all undone - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"

The string of my thoughts' parcel - Helen Parry Eden "To Wilfrid Meynell"

Parceled out in sixteen-second afternoons - Conrad Hilberry "Hurtle"

A parcel of vain strivings tied by a chance bond - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"

Bring peace to us in parcels - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

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( Pardon )

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( Parrot )

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( Parent )

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( Pathless )

Path.

Pathway.

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( Page )

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( Passage )

Passageway that are their own harvest - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"

No longer passengers - Rae Armantrout "Previews: Happening"

While the passengers sleep in crygenic tanks - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"

Passengers of the mortal train - Pablo Neruda "The Bordellos" transl. by Jack Schmitt

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( Pallid )

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( Pasture )

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( Paint )

Suggest the uses of paint thinner - James Marcus Schuyler "April"

A bed of painter's hands - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"

A landscape painter at pop punk court - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

Rooted at one level in the painter's art - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

The painter must learn his art anew - Arthur Macy "A Bit of Color"

Two big planets of unpainted silence - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"

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( Pale )

Yearning for the pale-eyed star - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Song of the Watcher"

In pale-mouthed despair - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXV"

Phantoms of the pale-white stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Morning Pool"

Golden and phantom-pale they lay - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"

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( Paradox )

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( Pace )

All other furious faiths outpace - Coningsby Dawson "Abandon"

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( Partner )

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( Pathway )

Path.

Pathless.

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( Pack )

Ice-packed in dreams of freezing - Adrienne Rich "Rauschenberg's Bed"

Never unpack the rucksack of happiness again - Carl Adamshick "Loss"

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( Pave )

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Parsing old and new ocean kinships - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"

Prickly, cussed, hard to parse and tough to handle - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

A tongue of gold parsing the dust motes - Rachel Pittman "The Quickening"

Parsing the dust motes into glyphs - Rachel Pittman "The Quickening"

The unparsed language of water - Jim Harrison "Spring"

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Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

Waving passports in the still air - Regio Cabico "Mango Poem"

A passport to hell - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"

Without passports or means of escape - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"

A country we have no passport for - Charles Wright "No Entry"

Pass.

Port.

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The patchwork of time staring back - Nikita Gill "Dark Days"

a patchwork of frayed acceptance - Tanque R. Jones "Hany"

With your patchwork flag of brotherhood - Vachel Lindsay "Sew the Flags Together"

Remnants handed down as patchwork - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Over a streaming patchwork countryside - Elizabeth Spires "Nightgown"

Patch.

Work.

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Tremulous with pathos of a half-told tale - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"

Eloquence, pathos, or wit in cold blood - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Like pathos in a dandelion - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

An eddy of pathos surfacing beyond hearing - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

The moon is the mother of pathos and pity - Wallace Stevens "Lunar Paraphrase"

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A long parenthesis of lens - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"

and death i think is no parenthesis - E. E. Cummings "[since feeling is first]"

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

Into a final set of parenthesis - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"

Learning to hide inside art's ecstatic parentheses - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"

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Pawning our milky eyes for any clues - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

The hostages I pawn for my release - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

To pawn his soul the sinner goes - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

They first tax the nation and then pawn the land - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

A pawn on the chess board of intellect - A. Van Jordan "'Integrated School Books' Apeggio"

a chessboard pawn that rears up into a castle - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

pride keeps you from the pawn shop - E. E. Cummings "La Guerre"

The pawnshop renting space in my head - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"

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( Passion )

( Passionate )

The clock's never ceasing and passionless chime - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"

Be passionless in the room - Richard Hughes "The Image"

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( Palace )

Pour defiance at his palace-door - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Heard the bitterns call from ruined palace-wall - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"

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( Paper )

On a runway paved with flypaper - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

The mad swirl of leaves and newspapers - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"

When I kept my belongings in paper bags - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

Before the paperboys can deliver the day wrapped in plastic - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"

Paper-wager and victory-rake - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"

Becomes confetti circling in a paperweight - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Signposts in sorrow & paperwork - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"

Sandpaper.

Wrapping a scoop of snow in tissue paper - Carolyn Forche "Night Shift in the Home for Convalescents"

Invented plums and tissue paper - Laura Kasischke "The Pain"

Beer as thin as tissue paper - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

Wallpaper.

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( Parade )

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( Paradise )

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( Parched )

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( Part )

The cobras are partial to grass - Barry Pain "Martin Luther at Potsdam"

Where the partial precedes the whole - Maggie Smith "Voting-Machine"

Corrupt by over-partial looks - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVII"

( Parting )

Joy that seems the counterpart of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

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