somethingdarker | Apr. 8th, 2011

Apr. 8th, 2011

( Poem )

( Poet )

I can write similes of serenity & poetic sermons - Regie Cabico "Morning After the Election"

In tinsel trappings of poetic pride - George Crabbe "The Village"

Poetics of debt and redemption - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Place Your Bets"

Initiate the poetics of my history - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

( Poetry )

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( Polar )

The million lights of the polar-star - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs III"

Under the ward of the Polar Star - Frank L. Pollock "The Trail of Gold"

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( Polish )

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( Pound )

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( Pocket )

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

A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"

The pocketknife seducing the orange - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"

Your pocketknife rage and love - Michael Lauchlan "Dad and I, in a Snap"

Whirling tanagers sucked in a wind-pocket - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"

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( Possible/Possibility )

Impossible.

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( Poise )

Love in counterpoise to silver glitter - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

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( Port )

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( Point )

Far beyond the breakpoint - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"

( Checkpoint )

Recorded memories and data points - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

Dewpoint and a level field - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

The diamond-point engraving done by air - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"

Gold and silver freckles burning five-pointed holes into the bone - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

That motion is salvation granted at gunpoint - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"

Our spirits join at journey's midpoint - P'an Yueh "Thinking of My Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

The needlepoint of language - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

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

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

The pivot-point of bliss - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

Sharp-pointed skeletons of ancient geometric trolls - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

Within the still-point of the song - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"

The final touchpoints of calligraphy - Rumi "Sanai" transl. by Coleman Barks

Vanishing Point.

As if zero were already a viewpoint - Mary Jo Bang "The Bread, the Butter, the Orange Marmalade"

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( Pool )

Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"

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( Poor )

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( Portal )

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( Possess )

( Possession )

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( Posture )

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( Pour )

Downpour.

My lament in bitterness outpoured - James Clarence Mangan "The Fair Hills of Eire, O!"

To that abysmal love outpoured - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"

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( Power )

Into overpowering white - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"

( Powerless )

Butterflies on power lines - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"

Symphonies of spirit-power divine - Herbert Randall "The White Pine"

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( Pomp )

Through pompous motions blown - David Gray "Sonnet"

Incursions toward the pomposity of ants - Frank O'Hara "To the Film Industry in Crisis"

Impede the slow steps of the pompous ages - William Watson "History"

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( Portion )

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( Porch )

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( Portrait )

Release from the mind's mad portraitist - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

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( Potential )

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Sapped of their strange, dark potency - Tim Pratt "Making Monsters"

( Potent )

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( Poplar )

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( Potter )

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Two stone posts and a gate between - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

To take his post as sentinel - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"

Stone torch posts mark her trail - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

Posting missives of hidden love for strangers - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"

Like a lost mitten on a fencepost - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata 8"

Down the avenue of lamp-posts - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Lampposts and cracked teeth - francine j. harris "to the man on the bus"

Mileposts on that road of dread - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."

Every outpost a starry capital - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

Outposts filled with Saturn's mercenaries - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

Surveyed our vacant outpost - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"

Postcard.

Signpost.

When Walt's celebratory song becomes a post-apocalyptic dirge - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Walt Whitman]

Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"

In this post-modern Canaan - Richard Solomon "Ba'al Teshuva"

A post-tribulationist vaudeville act of God - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

The chains postwar empire was reforming - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

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Pondered the annihilated earth - Henri Cole "At Sixty-Five"

Pondered the redundancy of rain - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Flame"

Ponders with strange old eyes - A.E. "Mystery"

Pondering the dreams of someday when - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"

In search of things to ponder - Edward van de Vendel "The Bottommest"

The bluest star and the imponderable water - Jay Wright "Kumu"

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( Powder )

Gunpowder.

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

In a powder-mill with a lighted match - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

In that star-powdered night - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

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( Pole )

Electrical poles held up by a neighbor's twine - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Pulled from the fog by a fishing pole - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"

Pole-star of my darkest hours - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

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( Pod )

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( Porcelain )

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( Pot )

A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

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( Poison )

Entwined with flowers and poison-leaves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"

Raised on poison oak and poppies - Ada Limon "Territory"

And all the rivers run poison-red - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"

( Poisoned )

Priestess and poisoner she goes - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

( Poisonous )

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( Pomegranate )

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Could starve in this impoverished light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

( Poverty )

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The words pollinated the dark - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"

Pollinating the white face of the moon - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

The garden song calls the pollinators - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

In the absence of ancestral pollinators - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

( Pollen )

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

A wisteria poked its lank blossoms through the cloudbank - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Poking through the pestilential ash - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

A poke of the pitchfork, a drop of fire - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

sold for poker chips - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"

With petty larcenies and pokers - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"

No need to display a poker face to yourself - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

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Position fear between our eyes and feet - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

Nor retire to any position - LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs "Cling"

To estimate one's position without instruments - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

Told time by the sun's position - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"

Of humbler position in the scale of creation - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Formed from plunges and positions - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"

Electrons blur and clarify their positions - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

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( Politics )

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A city polluted by the past - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Polluted hands of mockery - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"

Swam in its polluted river - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"

Under the pollution of a hunter's moon - Donika Kelly "The Three Birds of the Milky Way"

And makes silence pollute the air - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"

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( Portent )

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( Poppy )

In the numbing poppy-juice found peace - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

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