somethingdarker | Jun. 2nd, 2011

Jun. 2nd, 2011

befriend radical thoughts and nightmares - Grisel Y. Acosta "Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic"

Radical in the dark room - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

The first radical road out - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"

Our radical love of breath in motion - Tanya Lukin Linklater "Ewako"

Nothing radical in being the enemy - Danez Smith "anti poetica"

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( Raft )

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All moss and radioactive daffodils - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

In that raging, radioactive hue - Aimee Le "Praise Poem for Mtn Dew"

Point to our radioactive elements - Joanne Merriam "Surface Properties"

Radioactive to the end of time - Vijay Seshadri "Memoir"

Radio active [sic] garbage buried at the core - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

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The mice ransack our rations - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes"

Ransack earth for riches rare - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Strewings of ransacked moonlight - Robert Hass "First Things at the Last Minute"

The fields we must ransack anew - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

God as he ransacked the world - Charles Rafferty "An Adulterous Spring"

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Rational thought with an axe beating on the forest door - Mary Jo Bang "And As In Alice"

In prayerful, rational geometry - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

With rational surveillance as its cause - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Offering up their gray matter to irrational half truths - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"

With touches of fruitful irrationality - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"

Added to an irrational number - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"

In the midst of irrational things - Walt Whitman "Me Imperturbe"

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( Range )

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( Race )

A minnow down some wild mill-race - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VIII: To a Forgotten Triton"

( Outrace )

Useless for gift wrapping and relay races - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

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In splendor of irradiant rain - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Phantom suns in self-irradiance drowned - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

Ropes of firecrackers that irradiate the past - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"

carry it blazing through your irradiated life - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"

( Radiance )

( Radiant )

Radiate an amazing cloud of bees - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 33: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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( Rain )

( Acid Rain )

Frolicking dragons in cloud-and-rain dark - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton

Downpour.

To survive the fate-rained slaughter - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Rainbow.

His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"

Frozen, rain-drenched, sad betrayed - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Raindrop.

( Rainfall )

Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

the slip of a rain-glazed rock - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

( Rainless )

Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Ten thousand miles of rain-soaked autumn - Wang An-Shih "Wandering at Delight-Mind Pavilion, Sent to My Sister in Ch'ien-chou" transl. by David Hinton

And from the hurt in rainsong - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sweet Distress"

Water on a rain-spattered stone - Chris Dombrowski "Inscription"

Beneath as rainstorm of summer stars - Rebecca Dotlich "Room of Place"

Rain-surcharged and sun-forsaken - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

To rest in the shade of the metal raintrees - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"

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( Raise )

The paragon of paltriness upraised for all to see - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"

What throne can dawn upraise - Winifred Welles "Exile"

Rise.

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( Raiment )

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( Rattlesnake )

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( Rare )

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Rivals Homer's god-enraptured dreams - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

And hear the enraptured lark - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

What enraptured hosts burn on the dusky heath - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Call of the Sidhe"

Enraptured birds that flew from deeps of old - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Winds of Angus"

Bodies enraptured by the abounding earth - Robert Nichols "Fulfilment"

Dance with unmeasured mirth, enraptured - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

( Rapt )

( Rapture )

Vain the roses' rapturous breath - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"

The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"

Hushed into a rapturous dream - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

The burden of our rapturous psalm - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"

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( Raven )

Lance and drain this ravened sky - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"

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( Ransom )

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Raucous and willful, loud as thunder - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"

The raucous needle of winter- Pablo Neruda "The Drowned Woman of the Sky" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The raucous applause of the waves - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

In time to the raucous tide - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

The raucous crows' raw caws - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

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( Radio )

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( Rash )

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( Ravine )

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( Rat )

A slave in the rat trap of disgust - Rudolph Valentino "Slavery (To E.A.P.)"

Legs entwined in that old ratty blanket of inevitability - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

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( Raw )

raw-red from offering white flags - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"

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The teeth hot in the mouth of a raccoon - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Raccoons too ready for their close-ups - Dorsey Craft "Women Tell Me How to Be Safe"

The sly raccoon with craft inborn - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Husking Time"

A thoroughfare for raccoons and opossums - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"

Masked Carnivale raccoons & fat possum shadows - David St. John "Venetian Farewells"

The raccoon's prowl was almost silent - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

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( Razor )

Those razor-sharp moments you catch - Lore Graham "Absence"

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Racked by such mad dance of moods - Léonie Adams "Apostate"

The tempest's rack outstripping - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "I Wonder"

Whose inmost soul hard bondage racks and wrings - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

That racked our world with ice-age winds' unsparing song - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And the storm's red rack in the sky is burning - Harriet Monroe "Hope"

Traveling the planet under racks of final sales - Idra Novey "Value City"

Balance their haloes on hatracks - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Between the mirror and the shoe rack - Valzhyna Mort "My Father's Breed"

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( Rag )

Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"

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Ghost forests raked by bears - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

Raking the white spent embers - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

To rake the moon from out the sea - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"

Raking the cinders of a crucible - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

To rake over the dead ashes of a burnt out love - Rudolph Valentino "Cremation (To G.S.)"

Paper-wager and victory-rake - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"

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The rambling underground affairs of moles - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

The rough ramble of wordlessness - Tommye Blount "But the Weather, the Weather"

To ramble in the twilight after supper - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A rambling bramble binds his knees - John Masefield "The Dead Knight"

Rambling on the steaming savannas - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"

A ramble of mystery, pattern, accident, and surprise - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

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( Ravage )

the unzipping of dream-ravaged flesh - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"

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( Rave )

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They raze Cygnus with worries for the next day - John Grey "Skywatching"

How winter razes the shoals of heaven - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

Raze the world once and raise it twice - P. H. Low "Ode"

Praise to razed skylines & ruins - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

From my memory raze one hour - Anna Cora Mowatt "To My Sisters: Written After Their Departure for Europe"

A forest razed down to its knees - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

The hulks of burned out houses stand unrazed - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"

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The treasure trove she raided while we dreamed - Duane Ackerson "Driving Across Idaho"

Through the red thunders of a Zeppelin raid - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"

A raid on the inarticulate - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

And robbers arm them for the nightly raid - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Meets the demons on their raid - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

When our enemies sweep down their raiders - Li Po "Weep Not, Young Women" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

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( Rather )

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( Rattle )

Cardboard crammed between wind-rattled panes - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

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( Random )

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( Rapid )

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The mice ransack our rations - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes"

Faith and its meager rations - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen h"

Compendium of first person rations - Hailey Leithauser "Memoirs"

Provide rations of sand - Thomas Lux "Vaticide"

In these last rations of the Martian cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Mountain fruits served for rations - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson

The usual ration of air - Josephine Yu "The Failed Revolutionaries Apologize to Their Foreign Sponsors"

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drop squeezed from an enraged zero - Kaie Kellough "if who"

( Rage )

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( Ray )

Cold and rayless in the starless gloom - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

In the rayless house of darkness - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Boundless fields of rayless polar night - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Sequoyah"

By the first swift sun-ray slain - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"

Unraying yet, more pearl than star - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

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That has derailed my dreams - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"

( Rail )

That stood on the railing, puffed up with sky - Chloe Honum "Devonport"

Pushed grief under the railings - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

( Railroad )

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

Parallel to the railway track - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

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( Rampart )

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( Ravel )

Unravel.

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( Rainbow )

In this rainbow-gored, crickety world - Dean Young "Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns" [Poetry April 2013]

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And buy Repentance at a curssed [sic] rate - "An Answer to The Pleasures of a Single Life: or, the Comforts of Marriage Confirm'd and Vindicated" [1709]

A beggar Pilate rates thee - Michael Field "Blessed Are the Beggars Matt. v. 3"

No negative interest rate environment - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Offer trips to heaven at tourist's rates - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Your dynasty regenerates at the same rate - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"

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( Rafter )

Horse-shoes on the ceiling-rafters hung - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Bats at noontide rafter-hung - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"

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No ram appears to stop my hand - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

A ram for the spirits of the road - "The Book of Odes: No.245. She Who First Bore Our People" transl. by Burton Watson

A young ram leapt from the copper depths - Mari Ness "The Restoration of Youth"

Rams straining beyond the gate - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Remember the ram's horn baritone - Brandon Som "Resistors"

Ploughed it with a ram's horn - "Three Acres of Land"

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( Ravenous )

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Casting forth all rancour from thy heart - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

I 'gainst my friend no envious rancour feel - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Without rancour or spleen - "The Golfer's Garland"

From waste lands sown with rancour - T.M. Kettle "To Young Ireland (Written in 1899)"

On the walls a rising rancor - Pablo Neruda "Insomnia" transl. by Alastair Reid

The dense earth of flour and rancor - Pablo Neruda "Rosas (1829-1849)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

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Marks the dust bath of a jackrabbit - Lucy Griffith "Attention"

Moved the jackrabbit from the road - Louise Mathias "Larrea"

The mind like a jackrabbit bounding - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

( Rabbit )

A rabbit-hole opens inside you - Timothy Donnelly "The Driver of the Car Is Unconscious"

Across a nettled field riddled with rabbit-life - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

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