somethingdarker | Apr. 7th, 2011

Apr. 7th, 2011

( Plain )

Had taken root in the floodplain of your hands - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"

Drained floodplains and eucharistic jimson weed - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

Let the ice-plains echo - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

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( Plato )

The mean annual rainfall on Plato's Republic - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"

Always true to the Platonic ideal he dreams of - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"

Cosmic mysteries trapped in Platonic shells - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

Its Platonized embodiment of worth - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

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( Plough/Plow )

Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

Her plowshare eaten up with rust - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"

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( Pluck )

The park is winter-plucked - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

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( Plea/Plead )

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( Plunder )

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( Plague )

Bring this plague ship to port - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Plague-wind, over a sterile shore - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

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( Pleasant )

A universe out of pleasantries - Rae Armantrout "Vehicles"

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( Please )

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( Plot )

A seed in Time's neighbor-plot - Mary Carolyn Davies "Songs of a Girl"

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That add up to more minus than plus - Rosebud Ben-Oni "So They Say-- They Finally Nailed-- the Proton's Size-- & Hope-- Dies--"

Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"

Zero plus anything is a world - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

In the combined livery of bird plus snake - Marianne Moore "Like a Bulrush"

Plus signs and hummingbirds - Jack Ridl "It Was Last Night, I Think"

My ghost is my plus-one tonight - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"

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( Plunge )

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( Play )

Plastered the whole world with their playbills - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Green-faced violin players guarding vertical streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Players with obsidian eyes - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"

Football players firing glory-cannons downfield - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Playful ghosts snagged in the trees - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Playfulness Mozart forgot to score - Clive Bell "To Lopokova Dancing"

The labor of its playfulness - Robert Bly "Thomas and the Codfish's Psalm"

A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"

Playmate.

Plaything.

A specter's gem in the shadow-playtime - Stephen Vincent Benet "Boarding-House Hall"

And the years replay like a foreign movie - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"

Details unbearably clear in the replay - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

Unplay the summer's blight - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"

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( Pleasure )

A bloody lance of heaven's displeasure - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"

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( Plume )

( Plumage )

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( Plan )

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( Plum )

Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

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( Pledge )

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( Plane )

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Leave toys and playthings to the crowd - Tommaso Campanella "LVII. To Ridolfo di Bina" transl. by John Addington Symonds

She stole my playthings first - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His"

Playthings in the hand of Fate - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"

Playthings of the sun and wind - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

A plaything for judgement - Edwin Torres "Sutra"

Play.

Thing.

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( Plummet )

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( Pluto/Plutonian )

Hades.

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Playmate of the verdant spring - Caledfryn "The Cuckoo" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Playmates of the mountain-storm - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

We were playmates of the wind - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"

A playmate of the Northern Lights - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Laughing Blood"

Tameless playmate of the wind - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

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Play.

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( Plate )

The iron-plated breast of Night - Charles William Wallace "Sonnets of Life I"

Old trophies, missing years and nameplates - John McCarthy "Ashley, Indiana"

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Arachne plies her gossamer loom - Benjamin West Ball "The Authoress of The Mysteries of Udolpho"

Ply the hook amid the yellow corn - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"

To ply these frigid currents of the deep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

No longer ply the living water - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Till Death shall ply his sieve - Christina Rossetti "The Thread of Life"

Plies the hooked staff and the shortened scythe - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

The muskrat plied the mason's trade - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

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( Pleiads/Pleiades )

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( Plant )

A spirit-planted, fadeless flower - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

Unplanted, unsown, blooming alone - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

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Charring my soul's most stubborn plank - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Walking the plank of a coffin board - Elizabeth Bishop "Visits to St. Elizabeths"

A plank one might walk to horizon's edge - Chris Dombrowski "Epithalamium"

Death that extends itself with golden planks - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Walked my plank of uncertainties - Leslie Sainz "Sonnet for Ochun"

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( Plastic )

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And represent you in your plight - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

Possessed by the plight of eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "More About Captain Simmons"

Solace of man's fallen plight - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"

Mine inward plight is one that stands alone - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

All those plighted vows forgot - John Goldie "And Can Thy Bosom?"

Plighted faith renewed with every kiss - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"

In forlornest need and longing-plight - Danske Dandridge "A Question"

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Stains of rust on mounds of plaster - Robinson Jeffers "Summer Holiday"

Corridors of tile and jaundiced plaster - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

Plastered the whole world with their playbills - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

The foreign smell of plaster - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"

Plaster crumbles on the lonely walls - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

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( Planet )

The blue gauze of planetary motion - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"

Irradiate as the astral glow of planetary lustre - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

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( Place )

( Birthplace )

Commonplace.

Displace.

Darkness in thy dwelling-place - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

From the hiding-place of memory - Walter de la Mare "The Journey"

Myrtle bushes and fresh hiding-places - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner

Vast, profound, primeval hiding-place - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

( Misplace )

Found a resting-place for laughter - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"

On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Misplace.

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