somethingdarker | Apr. 3rd, 2011

Apr. 3rd, 2011

( Pearl )

Of mother-of-pearl and moonshine made - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

Knew pearl-powder was still sweet - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"

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( Perfect )

( Perfection )

Imperfect/Imperfection.

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( Perfume )

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( People )

In all that unpeopled day - W.S. Merwin "Paper"

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( Peak )

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( Peal )

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( Pent )

All wild things unpent - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

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( Pensive )

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( Pebble )

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( Peer )

Peerless.

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( Pelican )

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( Pencil )

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Impenetrable as its own beauty - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"

Attacking the necessary and impenetrable wall - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Ride the lightning, answer the thunder, penetrate the whirlwind - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Austere walls no voices penetrate - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

A thread of ice penetrating the human sciences - Lucy Ives "First Husband"

Built to penetrate heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

With penetrating of successive masks - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

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( Penitent )

Penance.

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( Peony )

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Pepper is all flattery and insolence - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Pepper and orchid behaving thus - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Clean as soap, crisp as pepper - Dorsey Craft "Domestic Poem"

Peppered with a million spent moths - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

The heady perfume of pepper-scented roads - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Swaddle of electric pepper compressing - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"

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The borders of peripheral vision - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

Caught elegy's peripheral glance - Claire Millikin "Rooms Before Television"

the peripheral inkling of a meteor - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Saw-edged teeth in my peripheral vision - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

( Periphery )

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( Persephone )

Nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

The harshness of grim Proserpine - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

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( Pear )

Pear-green and freckled sky - Richard Scott "Peridot"

A be-jeweled lair of pear-milk for the deer - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

The pixy-pears burn in yon hawthorn tree - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

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( Persimmon )

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( Pen )

Echoing tones your touch unpenned - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

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( Perch )

Window-perched cats and foraging chipmunks - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

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( Penance )

Penitent.

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( Peace )

Peaceless they fell - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)

The blaze of peaceless stars - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

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This pedlar's pack of mine - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Line's a Speech"

Too busy peddling my fire - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

Peddlers of the gorges - Lu Yu "I Had Occasion to Tell a Visitor about an Old Trip I Took Through the Gorges of the Yangtze" transl. by Burton Watson

Peddles the notions of the hour - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

'Twixt Yankee pedlers and old gods - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

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Erratically indexed.

( Perhaps )

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( Perplex )

Endlessly lifted to the perplexity of your smile - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

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( Penny )

Those penny-ante Xanadus - Boris Dralyuk "Bargain Circus"

And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

Of bread one pennyworth - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

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Imperiled by the current and the wind - Boris Dralyuk "The Catch: On Translation"

( Peril" )

( Perilous )

Divine accomplice of those perilous-sweet - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

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Imperishable blue this bitter sky - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

Fate gazes back imperishable blue - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

( Perish )

The perishable chalice of your grace - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"

Like all things that are perishable - Nikita Gill "Reminders About Healing"

Her perishable souvenir of hope - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

What the perishable flesh might hide - Mark Van Doren "The Last Word"

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Articles of their own impermanence - Thomas Lynch "Lessons from Berkeley"

taught me more about impermanence than betrayal - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"

This is the lost, impermanent light - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"

( Permanent )

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( Perpetual )

Want the perpetuity of circles - Gregory Djanikian "Children's Hospital, Emergency Room"

Possesses the perpetuity of nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"

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( Persist )

Persistence.

Persistent.

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( Petty )

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( Person )

Personal.

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Drink peppermint tea with the ghost of morning - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"

Put peppermint in my hair - Jordan Jace "I Want"

Mittens and rose colored peppermint creams - Miriam Clark Potter "The Dream-Ship"

The music of so many peppermint candies - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

And make peppermint resolutions to the New Year - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"

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Assault of undeserved perdition - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Not perdition only but a star - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Over the yawning gulf of her perdition - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Though we civilize perdition - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"

The realm of perdition engraveth thy name - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"

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( Peel )

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

Liquid ticking in a petrified railway station - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"

Petrified words to reveal the infinite - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"

A sphinx has elicited Medusa to petrify a centaur - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"

Elicited Medusa to petrify a centaur - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"

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

Punctures this petrified silence - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 6" transl. by Katherine Silver

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Death in one bright peerless day - William Talbot Allison "Vanishings"

Giant strength and peerless height - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Ageless aristocracy of a peerless soul - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"

Where the sun-crowned souls sit peerless - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

The peerless apples of the Hesperides - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Peer.

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( Permit )

Permission.

To resist the stroke of unpermitted Paw - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

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( Persistence )

Persist.

Persistent.

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( Persistent )

Persist.

Persistence.

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Through heaven's rolled, impersonal blue - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

( Personal )

More symbol than personality - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"

Your own personalized orange revolution - Jena Osman "To the Reader"

Person.

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( Petal )

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

Walks the paths of the petal-strewn park - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

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Persuade the squirrels to teach me - Clive Bell "March"

Tried to persuade the moon - Chiyuma Elliott "When I Was a Wave"

By fantastic wiles persuade the passions - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Persuade to drink that charmed cup - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Quibbled each morning with gravity's persuasion - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

The bland persuasion of some breeze - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Crooked grin of ice cream persuasion - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Where all persuasions & equations lose their grip - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah V: Through Certain Angles"

All the swift persuasion of the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Their most persuasive dead - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

The wind's persuasive violins and bells - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"

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( Perimeter )

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( Pestilence )

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And taffy's thick as peas - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"

In pink velours and pea green checks - Oliver Herford "John S. Sargent"

Stripping the pods from garden peas in the suburbs - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

Pea gravel clicks and walks - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

A proud sweet-pea that scorns to be a vine - Oliver Herford "The Bachelor Girl"

Sweet-peas with wings for flight - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"

Sweet pea twisted through my hair - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

buried in a garden with snow peas and basil - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

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The music of a peasant people - Fenton Johnson "The Banjo Player"

Now bid the peasant pay no tax - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

And tax not the peasant's plough - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

For a peasant century's bread - Adrienne Rich "1941"

That which peasant's scythe demands - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

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( Peacock )

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( Peach )

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With imperceptive blankness - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Necessary and imperceptible as air - Camille T. Dungy "There are these moments of permission"

Telescope aimed at an angle no other could perceive - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

The form of a perceived star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

A green that can only be perceived in dreams - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson

Who in the blade perceives the grain - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

( Perception )

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Stood outside the gates of permissible sound - Brenda Hillman "Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind"

( Permission )

Permit.

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For pence doled out by kings - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The scornful earth-flung pence - W. Wilfred Campbell "Pan the Fallen"

Give twopence for the chance - John Clare "The Woodman"

Mingle our pence for some bread - "Jack Jingle and Sucky Shingle"

Who made their pence of gold - John Masefield "Esther"

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Darkness hangs our room with pendulums - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

With weights and chains and pendulum - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

This pendulum of snow - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LIII"

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

a pendulum from knowing eye to mystery - Stephanie Jean "Recommendation"

Little clocks with silver pendulums - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"

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Performing the functions of arithmetic - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Tune up the poems performed to Marsyas' flute - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

The ballet can't perform without fairy tale - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

To be the calculus that no one else can perform - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Unafraid and willing to perform miracles - Philip Schultz "Enthrallment"

And clouds perform dream symphonies - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

With each daily repetition of this grotesque performance - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

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Pervade the yielded avenues of sense - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Language to pervade the heart - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"

Power pervade the living lyre - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Pervades the air my spirit breathes - Jennie Earngey Hill "My Tribute"

The million airs that you pervade - Henry S. Leigh "The Subjects of Song"

Pervaded by blood and metal - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner

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