somethingdarker | Apr. 6th, 2011

Apr. 6th, 2011

( Pilgrim )

Pilgrimage.

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( Picture )

Sky-pictures of silver and sapphire - Alfred B. Street "Buttermilk Falls: Racket River"

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( Pinion )

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( Pick )

Preserve handpicked days in memory - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"

Any pickaxe disguised as love - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"

The intricate Steps of pickpockets - Charles Simic "Classic Ballroom Dances"

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( Pinnacle )

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( Pigeon )

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( Pigment )

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Nothing so flagless as this piracy - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

The goblin pirate crew - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A More Ancient Mariner"

Plundered of her gold by pirate Fate - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"

Drunken pirates in a silent film - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Eyes for pirate fellowship - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

Pirated the redness of the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 84: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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( Footprint )

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( Footstep )

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( Pipe )

My own bouts of pan-pipe sickness - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

Decades I've been pipe-dreaming - Marcus Jackson "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government"

A bonfire of cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

The shrill-piped curlew's song - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"

Hitch-hike on the tailpipe of a car - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"

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( Pitch )

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( Pitiless )

Pity.

Silence and the sharp unpitying stars - Archibald Lampman "Winter Evening"

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( Pity )

Pitiless.

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( Piece )

Centerpieces on another table - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"

A masterpiece, personally signed - Sid Farrar The Year Comes Round

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Their piecemeal, choked descent - John Updike "Americana"

In this glittering piece-work world - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"

Of ghosts inhabiting timepieces - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

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Pilfers from every port of the wind - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A More Ancient Mariner"

With pilfered shreds of learning - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

Pilfer the last tomatoes of August - Deborah Garrison "Long Weekend at Your House"

Amalgams of pilfered string and whittled sticks - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"

Ask for the trinkets you've pilfered - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

The gallant strain of a pilfered ant - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

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From pen to particle to pixels - Elmaz Abinader "Losing Words Fast"

Each pixel half reflecting my face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"

Seagulls swirl in pixels above - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"

May sun spattering them with pixels - Kevin Killian "Free"

The pixels of light depicting the world - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"

The pixels deciding when to flicker - Carmen Gimenez Smith "Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love"

The pixilated arcs of a black box - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

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( Pierce )

The moon-pierced warp of night - Amy Lowell "Apples of Hesperides"

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( Pillar )

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( Pillow )

suburb of identical, pillow-mint homes - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."

our pillow talk of acceptance & cigarette ash - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "A Blues For Eunice Waymon"

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( Pin )

Sun hanging from clothespin - Lou Barrett "Kore"

Thoughts ugly as clothespins - Leslie Sainz "Sonnet for Ochun"

Clothespinned across a buzzing canvas of vermillion - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Hairpin.

A pincushion of flickering lights - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

To be seen by my pincushion eye - Mary Jo Bang "The Circus Watcher"

Forcing itself through the pinhole of grief - Teresa J. Scollon "Words, Poems"

Not a pinpoint of silence between - Amy Lowell "Summer Rain"

Out of our pinpoint nothingness - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"

Hands pressing pinpointed targets - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Balanced on a pinpoint of time - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"

Pinprick.

Pinwheel.

Beyond the underpinnings of exits - Stephanie Heit "Window Dressing"

Various underpinnings or overthrowings - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

The skinning gales unpin the winter's robes - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"

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( Pinch )

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And pilot it through danger's gate - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto II"

Piloted by tinkling bells of hope - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"

And the pilot stars emerge - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

Guided by quantum pilotage - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

The fatal pilots of the spider - Cesar Vallejo "Spider" translated by 'The Friend'

Piloted by dark despair - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

The pilots of the stars of tears - William Butler Yeats "Anashuya and Vijaya"

Unskilful in pilotage - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"

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Pining sore for change to healthful ground - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

Still pining on Negation's desert isle - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

Pining in vain some hothouse plant to meet - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

As pining captive quits his cell - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Pining for chaplets of laurel - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

To quiet all repinings of the heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

For other notes repine - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

Pine [tree].

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With pinpricks emitting memory's wavy threads - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"

This pinprick emits no light - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"

The pinprick that resets the elements - Mary Jo Bang "A Ballet Based on the Number Three"

Pin pricks in a watery bed sheet - Mary Jo Bang "When April Was Beginning, and End"

A pinprick of light just out of reach - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

The dark pinprick well of sweetness - Mary Oliver "This World"

A night filled with pinpricks instead of stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"

Pin.

Prick.

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( Pine )

Pine [longing].

Heard a pinecone fall - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Invitation"

Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"

Buried whispers in pine needles - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

Fallen pine needles under fallen snow - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"

Further down pinewoods' blood horizon - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"

Treasure spilled near the shrub-pines - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

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A pickled fig left to dry in the sun - Ana Castillo "These Times"

Some vines with little pickles - Sydney Dayre "A Letter to Mother Nature" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Pickled in a jar of ink - Angel Garcia "Vestiges"

Outside the old pickle shop - Diane Seuss "Curl"

Pickled in a vat of tears - A.E. Stallings "Olives"

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( Pilgrimage )

Pilgrim.

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( Pink )

A marble made of hot pink plastic - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"

To sing of pink-hued vapors - Adolf Wolff "Excuse Me, Muse"

An orchard in its pink-tipped bloom - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"

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( Piano )

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( Pile )

Twelve hundred high-piled years - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Ideals higher than the piled-up clouds - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson

Huge twig-piles of words - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

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In the glorious picnics of the past - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"

In the quiet picnic of consciousness - Billy Collins "Going Out for Cigarettes"

Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Its celebration was a picnic in a cemetery - Margaret Ross "Saturday"

I don't picnic on Sundays - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

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Where newborn pieties spark and strike - Joan Houlihan "Turn of a Year"

Desire and piety crowd into one place - Harry Martinson "Aniara 37" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

How the volcanoes stand piously over the water - Ariel Francisco "On the Shore of Lake Atitlán, Apparently I Ruined Breakfast"

Unlash your evening eyes of pious grey - James Stephens "The Cherry Tree"

Foresnatching fate with impious haste - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]

That draw their fellows deep into impiety - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

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The pigs demand the sacrifice - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

A real pig with a wig in flames - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"

Keeps a box of baby pigs - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

The pigs hold up the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

Pig whispers and games of chance - Karen A. Romanko "Bosch in Hollywood"

You can't expect a pig to care - Kristen Tracy "Urge"

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( Pit )

Of pit-baked avarice - Kyle Dargan "But My Chains"

Mid snares and pitfalls scattered - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

With Pitfall and with Gin beset - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

That pleasures are pitfalls prepared to deceive - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

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The pirouettes of any pliant cane - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque"

A jet pirouettes toward the airport - Sarah Freligh "In this Poem, We Will Not Glorify Sunrise"

Spinning his eyes in their own pirouette - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

This solitary pirouette on the head of a spindle - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The wobbly pirouette between song & dust - Adrian Matejka "Soave Sia Il Vento"

Some flame-red salamander pirouetting - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

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The white pin wheel of heat - Paul Cameron Brown "Cienfuegos"

Pinwheels that tilt when we exhale - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"

A pinwheel blur of silver spokes - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"

Why the sun's a scarlet pinwheel - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"

Jet-streams of oxygen spun like pinwheels - Ian Goh "Firework"

A pinwheel gathering glitter - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Snowflake Wakes"

Pin.

Wheel.

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The intrepid pith of the magnanimous cosmos - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Invincible pith and marrow of the world - Amy Lowell "The Congressional Library" [excerpt]

Died in the pith of August - Kiki Petrosino "Elegy"

As though marble should be pithed with flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

This hollow at the red pith of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

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