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"

Borne upon the steam-ploughed current - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]

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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"

Must look for recompense unpleasant - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

What can mean these unpleasant surmises? - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

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( Please )

I am so much displeased with you - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Ill-Timed Levity"

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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 )

obstruction is a kind of foreplay - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"

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

( Player )

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"

Rustles beneath the wind in playful whim - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

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

Playmate.

Plaything.

Weeping in the playtime of the others - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Where village towers in play-time ring out - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

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"

A quick replay of all my dawns - Mary Karr "For My Children"

This part replays itself - Thomas Lynch "A Dream of Death in the First-Person"

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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Airplane.

( Plane )

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Surrendering to a piece of plywood - Tyree Daye "Friday Night on the Hill"

A plywood squirrel perched on cement - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

A barge of plywood and empty milk cartons - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Four letters in painted plywooden proclamation - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

Nothing but queries and plywood - Brian Teare "Long After Hopkins"

Ply.

Wood.

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Playthings of intellectual exchange between like minds - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"

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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( Plenty )

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Absorbs this pliable light - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"

The delicate toy of too pliant a will - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

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

Language by your skill made pliant - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Pliant with the strength of rooted things - Lola Ridge "Kerensky"

Earthquakes that grew pliant - Patricia Smith "Sacrifice"

Ply.

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( Pluto/Plutonian )

Hades.

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( Playmate )

Mate has no post as of 15 June 2025.

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"

Catch yourself in a plate glass window - francine j. harris "Reflections in a Pool of Hair"

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( Ply )

Pliant/Pliable.

Plywood.

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( Pleiads/Pleiades )

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( Plant )

Implanting this desire of objects new and strange - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. I"

implant dialects as if they were lilacs - Regie Cabico "A Queerification"

Implant their poisonous venom - "The Misanthrope"

the plant cycle of sublime season done - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"

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"

On pine planks over the umber mud - Philip Levine "Drum"

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

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( Plastic )

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( Plight )

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

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The Porous Plaster wins because it sticks - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

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 )

( Planetary )

Lost within hibernation and missing mother-planet - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]

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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"

The clue to my secret lurking-place - Susan E. Wallace "The Mistletoe Bough"

Misplace.

My body is a place-holder for my wandering soul - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]

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"

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Steer toward the placid stars - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

While motionless its placid surface lies - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

With placid aspect and a silent tongue - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Falls on the placid brow of sleep - Felicia Hemans "Invocation"

Placid with blue serenity - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Trust in God"

Reshaping fear as placid science - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"

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