somethingdarker | Jun. 3rd, 2011

Jun. 3rd, 2011

Without my presence at your rebirth - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"

allowing obstacle a rebirth as reason - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Awaiting rebirth after apocalypse - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

( Reborn )

Birth.

Born.

Unborn.

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Joy.

( Rejoice )

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Realization is a real formula for reluctance - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"

A realization beyond decay - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Scalar"

Realized that the stakes are myself - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"

Will realize that I foretell their doom - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Simply realizing that she does not wish to go - David St. John "The Park"

A creature moving about in worlds not realized - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

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The wearied ox at eve familiarly reclines - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XI--Sunset"

Reclining love will make the heavens dance - Natalie Clifford Barney "A Parisian Roof Garden in 1918"

Three times reclined on Thetis' breast - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."

And recline on his golden door - Jos Charles "A Sonnet [I sat in windows]"

Where Pan reclining plays - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

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That distort perception into refraction and destruction - Etel Adnan "Night"

Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Refracted into the prisms of the past - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

Only if refracted first - Carl Phillips "Torn Sash"

Refracts discreet components of a beauty - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"

Calling you into a mirror refraction of a future - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

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( Reel )

Newsreels captured the death of a star - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Unreels in the road of the days and nights - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

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To repel the darts which treason had hurled - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

Wallace repell'd and smote the myriad foe - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

That repels the footstep of the living - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

Repelled by millions of sea shells - Marin Sorescu "The Sea Shell" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Always repulsed by your effort - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Comes down to the repulsion of electrons - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

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( Repair )

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His transient respite past - William Cowper "The Cast-Away"

Raise up my strength in death's respite - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

So deadly when our respite's gone - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Protean Glimpse"

Respite risks entrapment - Diane Seuss "Weeds"

Because my gloom gets some respite - James Stephens "Skim Milk"

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In our restricted sphere - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Forms refused the restrictions he imposed - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

And seem from all restrictions free - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Sappho's restriction was only the sky - Dorothy Parker "Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror"

Amid mirth's unrestricted din - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

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( Respond/Response )

To unresponsive walls of stone - Douglas Malloch "Inspiration"

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( Revolution )

Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.

Revolt.

Revolutionary.

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( Rearrange )

Arrange.

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( Reflex )

Where Heisenberg's rules are reflexive - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

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( Regret )

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( Rein )

Cord-reins of sunbeams wrought - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Reinless run of wind and sun - Charles G.D. Roberts "Wayfarer of Earth"

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( Remorse )

Remorseless.

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( Reject )

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( Respect )

Sign'd by a dozen respectable men - Henry S. Leigh "The House on the Top of a Hill"

In time may become a respectable frog - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

No design of self-respect or self-knowledge - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

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( Reason )

In the dawn of a reasonable doubt - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"

Includes all reasonable ends of knowledge - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Unreason.

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( Recognize/Recognition )

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( Rebel )

( Rebellion )

( Rebellious )

Revolt.

Revolution.

Revolutionary.

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( Reflect )

Ten acres and a sky-reflecting pond - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

On its clouds a soul-reflected light - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Star-reflected gardens walled with night - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Reflection.

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( Reach )

They sit high in unreachable trees - Julie Babcock "Philomel"

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( Read )

Cardamom flavored with a cup-reading at the end - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"

Only a mind reading God could unfold - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

So that the next reader will know - Tony Hoagland "Field Guide"

Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"

Reread Aristotle by waning light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

Rereading the many translations of water - Matthew Thorburn "Loneliness in Jersey City"

A scroll within the tomb Unread forever - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Those unreadable receipts at the bottom of a purse - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"

Gilding the edges of unread books - Danusha Lameris "Dust"

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Irresistible silence on the edge of a ruin - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"

In your irresistible unspent force - Lola Ridge "Reveille"

Armed with irresistible secrets - Kristen Tracy "Half-Hatched"

( Resist )

Resistless.

In her storm-resisting grace - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

An unresisting jumble of debris - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Now unresisted steals the changeless sun - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

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( Retreat )

Some still-retreating goal - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"

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( Return )

Immortal migrants, the ever-returning stars - Cale Young Rice "Passage"

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( Reef )

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( Rest )

Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Never-resting time leads summer on - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

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

Restless.

Unrest.

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( Refusal )

( Refuse )

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( Remember )

Smile translucent as a half-remembered sunset - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

This half-remembered light - Donika Kelly "Brood"

Memorize.

Memory.

Remembrance.

Unremembered/Unremembering.

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The glorious day's renown - Thomas Campbell "The Battle of the Baltic"

Eager to take the riches of renown - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

The meed of high and shadowless renown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Through cycles of renown - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Canada"

Naught is left of her renown - Katherine Tynan "The Riders"

In the zenith of his great renown - Joseph R. Wilson "An Actor's Epitaph"

Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

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Full of drag queens & revolutionaries - Diane di Prima "City Lights 1961"

Revolutionaries the bullets cannot kill - Martin Espada "Wake Up, Mario"

More revolutionary than a nun - Frank O'Hara "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art"

Where ducks study the revolutionary texts - essa may ranapiri "Hinemoana"

A revolutionary of sundered words - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"

Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.

Revolt.

Revolution.

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( Rebuild )

Build/Built.

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The recent abuses of math - Jim Daniels "Treaty"

A recent abundance of acorns - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"

Prisoners who've recently overthrown the jail - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Of shadow recently fleeing - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh

That town of wood recently carved - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The First Journey" transl. by Alastair Reid

Conscious of the recent stains - William Somerville "The Chase"

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With hoarded sweets replenished - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"

Could replenish privacy - Jennifer Chang "The World"

Replenished from the sleepless root - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

Indulgence in ritual without replenishment - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"

With their gifts of replenishment - Mary Oliver "Of Goodness"

No replenishment of unmarked light - Jay Wright "Kumu"

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( Reproach )

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( Residue )

( Resound )

Resonance/Resonant/Resonate.

Sound.

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( Resplendent )

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In her lonely retrospective flight - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"

A retrospect of sin behind me - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Read storm warnings in retrospect - Terry Blackhawk "Wild Bird Rescue in Key West"

The future's only visible retrospectively - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"

Holding high his retrospective lamp - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

A holy star in retrospection's sky - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

Retrospect in Time's reverted eyes - William Watson "Autumn"

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Where bombs have revoked bodies - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"

Revocation of the tears - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Revoking anger's privileges - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"

Revoked edge of water and dry land - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

The irrevocable, raw dusk - Cyrus Cassells "Clarinet"

The distant beat of Spring's irrevocable feet - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: II. A Road Song in May"

Word and work irrevocably done - John Greenleaf Whittier "Response"

Whose mandates unrevok'd remain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

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( Release )

It is her silences binds me unreleased - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

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( Remote )

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( Remain )

An anachronism about to be remaindered - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"

Remnant.

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( Redeem )

( Redemption )

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( Realm )

That single realmless point of time - D'Arcy McNickle "Man Hesitates but Life Urges"

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( Reckon )

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( Religion )

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( Reconcile )

Over the muddy waters of reconciliation - Julia Alvarez "Fights"

But with a spirit all unreconciled - Adelaide Crapsey "To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window"

Chivalries of air, unreconciled - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

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( Relief )

( Relieve )

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( Rear )

In the rearview oblique glimpses - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"

Looking back from the rearview and parked alone - Joseph Millar "Job"

Our glory-days in the rear-view mirror - Andre F. Peltier "Miyagi's Wisdom and the Lunch-Table Debates"

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( Recede )

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( Repent )

The endless chain of unrepentant years - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"

Brought by an unrepented deed - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

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( Reply )

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( Reclaim )

Let his weakness die in self-reclaiming dust - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Claim/Unclaimed.

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( Reign )

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( Region )

Their voices ring through the echoing thunder-regions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

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( Remembrance )

Memorize.

Memory.

Remember.

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( Restless )

( Restlessness )

Rest.

Unrest.

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A revelatory metaphor for greed - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to Pink Floyd"

( Revelation )

Reveal.

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Tread those reviving passions down - Lord Byron "On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"

Revive one blossom for Thy bliss - Helen Parry Eden "Post-Communion"

Would revive my second heart with new legacy - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Still may revive the delights - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."

Caught the universe that just revived - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

Revived bitterness - Marianne Moore "The Past Is the Present"

The New Moon reviving old desires - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

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( Avenge )

( Revenge )

Avenge.

Vengeance.

Vengful.

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All the recessed corners of the world - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

A shadow recessed in shadow - Wo Chan "my mother's face"

In the dark recess where one weeps for Grendel - Shutta Crum "Always, there are mothers"

recessing against a train of No - Ruth Ellen Kocher "She Manifests Her Own Ineffable"

Flew the dark recess of God's mind - Louise Mathias "Quandary"

What enchanted sinister recesses - Francis Brett Young "Doves"

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And retain the landmark's weight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Retained from those lost nights our fathers slept - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

That image of despair retain - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

As long as the money retains no memory - Tony Hoagland "Ten Reasons Why We Cannot Seem to Make Progress"

Still retain their purity of functional design - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

Retained its vivid crimson hue - Dr. John Leyden "The Mermaid"

Knowledge that I seemed incapable of retaining - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"

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( Require )

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Fading redundancies - Rae Armantrout "Heaven"

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

Red with redundance of blood - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

In his void of redundancy - Robert Pinsky "Stupid Meditation on Peace"

Redundancies of rain - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"

The full redundance of their golden store - T.J. Terrington "Autumn"

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Ignorance can result in one of them devouring you - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"

And all the long results of time - Arthur Colton "Epilogue to a Book of Unimportant Verse"

Apply the transitive property and consider the results - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

A thousand pathways in one spot resulting - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems VI"

See each result and glory - Walt Whitman "Savantism"

A result of the means - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"

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Long before time really got rolling - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Drink if you really thirst - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Sacrements"

Go on without really moving - G.E. Patterson "The Keeping Room"

Never really left the Forbidden City of your heart - Alexandra Seidel "The City that Wasn't There"

That really walks the long roads with me - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"

It's not nihilism if there's really no point - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Like the child I never really got to be - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"

Real.

Reality.

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Reeking spoil for savage hands - Percy Adams Hutchison "The Swordless Christ"

Sour with the reek of the years - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"

a crevice that leaks god and reeks magic - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

before sin might reek of permanence - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

In the reek of iodine and blood - Francis Brett Young "After Action"

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( Refresh )

Fresh.

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( Reverie )

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With me its single lost refugee - Mike Allen "Space War"

New refugees to the afterlife - Ken Chen "Pre-credit Sequence for the Film About the Camp"

Refugee of the seraphim - Chris Dombrowski "Bird in My Boot"

Will be a refugee forever in heaven - Adil Tunyaz "The World in the City of Kashgar" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Refugees in the nation of the seen - Jenny Xie "Alternative Endings"

Refuge.

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( Revolve )

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Her anatomy in irregular stars - B. K. Fischer "Week 30 (Maternity Bathing Suit)"

Thread space with our irregular journeys - Naomi Shihab Nye "Necessity Is Only 8 Miles Away"

The fog's irregular documents break open - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Irregular composition of a will - Jay Wright "Sasa"

Who regularly follow their appointed time - Etel Adnan "Surge"

A regular pattern of being selfish - Carmen Gimenez "Ode to People Who Hate Me"

A regular murder of dirt - Maggie Nelson "Losing Heart"

Into all the regular disguises - Tim Seibles "Naive"

The importance of regular hecatombs - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Your staircases looping themselves with infinite regularity - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"

The tempered regularity of falling leaves - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

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( Remorseless )

Remorse.

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( Reptile )

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Learn the Second Reverence - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

A god for some fair soul to reverence - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"

With reverence to esteem - John Henry Newman "Relics of Saints"

Which is spirit-fruit of reverence - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

My teeth bared in a smile of reverent awe - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Floors where reverent feet once trod - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

Only when touched by reverent hands - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"

Darkly reverent years of reading - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"

Could revere the simplest flower - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Hymn Written for a Sunday School"

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Listening to you recollect a lifetime - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

( Recollection )

Recall.

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To play regardless both of time and space - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"

Run the line straight through regardless - M.C. Childs "Electrical Symbols"

Now each regardless of a fall - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"

Regardless of the harvester's denials - Paisley Rekdal "Vessels"

Regardless of the consequences expressed - Matthew Zapruder "Canada"

Disregard.

Regard.

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A feast of family recipes - Rasha Abdulhadi "Your Grandma Wishes I Wore Miniskirts"

The gamble of the recipe is salt and sweat - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

The recipe of who we are now - Andrea Gibson "Daytime, Somewhere"

Recipes as old as the cauldron - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

Their spirits whisper old recipes - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"

The recipes like confessions - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

ruining our recipe for reanimation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

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Made & remade by longing - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"

Deep in the center of my remade bones - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

Memory of the land and the hands that remade them - Paul Tran "Terroir"

The river that remakes me in its image - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"

Remake the world as wreckage - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts"

Who remake the debt, all the foundations - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Can never remake the thing I have destroyed - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

No hope for desire to remake life - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

To remake the world each night - Joyce Sidman "Night-Spider's Advice"

Made/Make.

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Reciprocal, illicit beyond touch - Wo Chan "the shoes"

Bringing gifts we can't reciprocate - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"

Best if we don't always reciprocate their hunger - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

The eternal reciprocity of tears - Wilfred Owen "Insensibility"

Tenderness as reciprocity - Sina Queyras "The Couriers"

Reciprocal will be their name - "Song of the Screw"

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The acanthus, the molecules of resin - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

As with crackle of golden resin - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

Who saves the resin of the torch and the oil of the lamp - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

A new star stained with resin - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The First Journey" transl. by Alastair Reid

Splendid in its beads of resin - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

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A recital of our uncertainties - Sarah Mangold "The Atom No. 18"

Reciting lists of all the varieties of bush and bird - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"

To hear ice recite The Iliad - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"

We recite the songs our makers wrote - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

The starlings recite the zodiacs - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Qassida"

Recite to that zero - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

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What the experts refer to as history - Carl Adamshick "Colorado"

References to the serpentine after - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"

Each reference is a wandering - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"

Slimming its index of references - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"

My mind as amnesiac reference - Stephanie Heit "Do You Have a Living Will"

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( Resistless )

Resist.

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Its fragile refined petal's belligerent fragrance - Margit Kaffka "Father" transl. by Laura Schiff

dream of sugar's refined fluorescence - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Bought refinement by the pound - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"

With fingers thrice refined - John Presland "Tapestry"

Rituals of resignation and refinement - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

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By learning to relinquish it - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

Relinquishes self and will and want - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: Christ Human"

What I know I must relinquish in time - Li-Young Lee "To Hold"

Slow to relinquish cold - Khadijah Queen "The Rule of Opulence"

Her fatal gifts relinquish or resign - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

When we relinquish breath - Clara Ann Thompson "Life and Death"

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( Revolt )

Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.

Revolution.

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No longer reliant on gravitational pull - fahima ife "the coming of darkness informed us it was time to join the circle"

Relies upon time and erosions - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"

The mind can on itself rely - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

Rely on chewing your lip and symmetry - Ted Kooser "A Perfect Heart"

Must rely upon ever new adornments - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

We rely on the welcome of strangers - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

Except in shards of unreliable memory - Zilka Joseph "Once Upon a Shabbath"

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( Remind )

( Reminder )

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In one mingled soul reside - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

And stab yourself where memory resides - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

You reside in every dream - Naomi Shihab Nye "On the Old Black Canal Road by the International Hotel, Guangzhou"

Stolen secrets in the cleft reside - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 4"

The hymn that resides in our silence - Eric Wang "I Roll Up to the Club in a Gundam"

What resides behind your eyes - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"

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Resolutely through centuries of remorse - Shutta Crum "All That is Left"

Be welcome in resolute darkness - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'"

With orbs that are so resolutely far - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Kissing resolution on the lips - Risalet Merdan "Today Is a Day to Write Poems" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Outcomes and aftermaths without resolution - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"

And make peppermint resolutions to the New Year - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"

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Reverbing even the hum of stone - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

( Reverberate )

( Reverberation )

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No bright reversion in the sky - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

When one of our myths reverts to abstraction - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"

Their blue reverts to swelling reveries - Max Bodenheim "Baby"

The desolate heart reverts to those far moments - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Reverting to the old knowing words - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Retrospect in Time's reverted eyes - William Watson "Autumn"

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As if smoke revises the story of the air - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

Revisions to the Napoleon machine - Mary Jo Bang "For the Final Report"

Spins in an act of revision - Russell Brakefield "The High and Lonesome Sound: I. Fiddle"

For a hundred visions and revisions - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Each age needs its revisions - Carmen Gimenez "Flat Earth Dream Soliloquy"

On the condition that you never attempt revisions - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

Always was a matter of revision - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"

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( Renounce )

Under winter's blanket renunciation - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"

A renunciation of the known - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 4 (February 1923)"

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( Renew )

by responding ways cloaked with renewal - E. E. Cummings "Amores (X)"

The longing for renewal - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"

Renewal of life's secret spring - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

New.

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Recoil before that sorrow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

whose warmest heart recoiled at war - E. E. Cummings "i sing of Olaf glad and big"

From the dizzy brink recoil - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Feel the long recoil of earth - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Recoiled at my knotted thorns of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Reeling before that fierce recoil - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Even the future recoils - Jenny Xie "Melancholia"

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A resonance of thrumming spruce - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Resonance beyond our wildest dreams - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"

The resonant and ancient darkness - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

A resonant meteor of the North - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"

Resonant as the hum of a growing tree - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"

The silver resonant humming in the depths - fahima ife "a night in which my spirit cowers"

Warbler voices resonant under the blossoms - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Until something resonated in the very air - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

The resonating filaments of a song across the abyss - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"

The resonating box of the body - Robert Bly "How David Did Not Care"

An arc of atoms resonating with distant stars - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"

Resonate with illusion - Edwin Torres "Ellabyrinth"

Resound.

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( Reward )

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( Reversal )

( Reverse )

The closer you are to an irreversible apocalypse - Catherine Barnett "Amor Fati"

The irreversibility of rain - Victoria Chang "OBIT [The Blue Dress]"

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( Real )

Reality.

Really.

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( Reality )

Just mirrors of unrealities - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Real.

Really.

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( Restrain/Restraint )

Those boundless breadths of forest unrestrained - B.B. "Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The unrestrained fleet of bone - Joshua Bennett "Clench"

The unrestrained innocence of your intentions - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

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The restorative pulsing of the blood - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"

( Restore )

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( Reflection )

Reflect.

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With rebuke for the reproach - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Rebuked by a sense of the incomplete - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Rebuke the raging of the deep - Benjamin Copeland "Out of the Depths"

Rebuking half in jest - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"

Rebuked a moment's vain desire - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"

Arose in silent rebuke and defiance - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Seem a rebuke to the light - Anthony Madrid "Quinceanera"

Beneath the stern, unjust rebuke - Rebecca "The Heiress" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

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Don't even register as touch - James Arthur "Wind"

No ambition to register - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"

The heart to register its trembling - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"

Observers might register consternation - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

Against the solemn register of his losses - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

Art is a register of light - Adrienne Rich "Plaza Street and Flatbush"

No register of season - Katie Willingham "The Golden Record"

Pre-registered for her own eventual absence - Rae Armantrout "Hoard"

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( Rent )

Guilt, that rent-free tenant - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

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A buoy that the ocean resents - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Resented the sun's excess - Jamaal May "Per Fumum: Through Smoke"

Will blur angles of resentment - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"

Learned the language of resentment - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

A fugitive resentment in your eyes - T. S. Eliot "La Figlia Che Piange"

The old resentment lasts like death - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

Where old resentments roil - Conrad Hilberry "Blackout"

The resentment of thousands of years - Zheng Min "A False Image" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

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Never leave the reservation - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Not to celebrate anything without reservation - Keith Taylor "In the Presence of Large Predators"

( Reserve )

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Though the gods and the years relent - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

( Relentless )

Unrelenting.

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( Reed )

Where reed-beds start and quiver - Francis Brett Young "The Gift"

Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"

Frothing all the reed-fringed margins - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

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( Recall )

Recollect.

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( Revelry )

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( Repeat )

( Repetition )

these unrepeatable needles of rock - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

The unrepeatable contour of this breath - Arthur Sze "Transfigurations"

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( Reveal )

They caught me half-revealed - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

Sweet as victory half-revealed - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Revelation.

A vaster heaven of unrevealed stars - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

With rains of unrevealed desire - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

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Life's first, irreplaceable lover - Galway Kinnell "December Day in Honolulu"

( Replace )

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( Recover )

Another irrecoverable day - Kay Ryan "Say Uncle"

those unrecoverable legends - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

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( Red )

Blood-Red.

Advertise a propensity for dark-red - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

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

Stands alone in its iron-red power - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"

The leaf-red fire warmed no one's hands - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

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

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

Before they made the red carpet shine - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

Weighed down with many a red-cheeked little Cain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

Hurl in space a red-eyed star - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

The red-foamed riot of delirious strife - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Under old, red-fruited yews - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"

Red-glazed candles of petition - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

a burglar caught red-handed - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"

Better grasp the red-hot steel, than touch another's gold - A.L.O.E. "Ragged Boy's Hymn"

Fingers of red-hot steel - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"

Teetering on red-lacquered stems - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

An angel lit by a red-light district - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Red-mouthed storms behind them - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"

Burnt to red-purple in the cup - H.D. "Prisoners"

Jagged as a red-rose thorn - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"

Behind the rich silence of red-running sunsets - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"

A bridge redshifts toward oblivion - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Little flowers made from red tape - Matthew Olzmann "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz"

A rust-red share in an empty furrow - Algernon Swinburne "Sorrow"

The savage eyes salt-reddened - John Masefield "The Watch Below"

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( Recur )

( Recurrent )

Dreaming as gray recursion - Jaye Nasir "November"

Occur.

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( Remnant )

Remain.

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Where memory resigns to shadows - Elmaz Abinader "Save Yourself; Remember Nothing"

The mute sky resigns itself to Night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Early to the storm resign - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

With your scarf of resignation - Tony Hoagland "Disappointment"

Or his crown and kingdom, for ever resign - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

Her fatal gifts relinquish or resign - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Rituals of resignation and refinement - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

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

To represent me in my absence - Rae Armantrout "Exact"

To represent the shapes required of love - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

Truer representation of the hours' ruse - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

As my grandfather misrepresented it to me - Amy Newman "Untitled [20 November]"

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For love, hope, reprieve - Simon Armitage "Maundy Thursday"

Be reprieved from the shadowy challenge of death - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Morning comes with small reprieves - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"

Without hope or rumour of reprieve - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"

The irreprievable instant of stern time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

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Distilled from a banana republic in fire - William Archila "Spirits"

The republic my kisses founded - Pablo Neruda "Night XC" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Beneath a fresh republic of stars - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

In the republic of the winking stars and spent cataclysms - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"

Of all republics the Atlantis - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Obscure the republic of memory - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

Red Republicans settling with sin - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

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Reputed to feed on sand - Chiyuma Elliott "J-572 (431) I"

Sold my Reputation for a Song - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Ambitious to extend my reputation - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"

And a reputation for death - Mary Oliver "Maker of All Things, Even Healings"

Smoke's reputation - A.E. Stallings "Burned"

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Your wicked minds requite - "The Children in the Wood"

Requited with a pocketful of eggs - Walter S. Percy "Cherries"

And Mars requites me for my pain - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"

As casual blessings the forlorn requite - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

His unrequited trust pierces her - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"

Unrequited love can make an avalanche - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"

Give us our unrequited, forsaken nights - Charles Wright "Detour"

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Turns out tempered resilience outlasts regimes - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Each seasonal chorus colored with resilience - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"

Trust manifested from generations of resilience - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Memory to disarm the most resilient - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"

To disarm the most resilient bully - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"

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Death is a natural resource - William Brewer "West Virginia"

The resources expended to release you - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"

Love without resource or peace - Jenny Johnson "Aria"

This room made warm by our own resources - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

From the full resource of some purple dome - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

Resources sacrificed to other crises - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"

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Couldn't be held responsible for his subconscious - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

We hold the present responsible - Fady Joudah "Epithalamion"

A light along the edge of responsibility - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"

List the responsibilities of a needle - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"

King of nightmare and responsibility - Philip Schultz "Enthrallment"

our responsibility to make the answer - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

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A rehearsal for the Exodus - Adolf Wolff "On Seeing the Garment Strikers March"

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Bruised and irremediably bereft - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

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Not for piping empty reeds - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Among the vocal reeds - "Flora: a Vision"

Breathe the thrilling reeds for wine - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"

A song among the golden reeds - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

Clumps of reeds where there is no water - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

A perilous foot that treads the reeds - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"

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The red resumé of hazel trees - Pablo Neruda "The Frontier (1904)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

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Our close resemblance turn'd the tide - Henry S. Leigh "The Twins"

Language of resemblance choose - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

for the sake of resemblance & record - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"

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But consider the time irretrievably wasted - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"

Must again retrieve from nothingness - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Cannot retrieve you from rock - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Refrain"

Retrieve a few invisible souvenirs - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

This sudden hour retrieves the purpose of the past - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"

May still retrieve its heart's Eurydice - John Presland "February"

Because he dove unflinchingly to retrieve Earth - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"

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a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

A reduction to absolute zero - David Salisbury "On Mars"

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Disregard.

Regardless.

Wandering unregarded through the cosmos - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

Dust cries to the unregarding dust - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

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How we relate the world through our skin - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Having related one thing to another - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

The curiosity of ghosts relating boneyard tales - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"

Molten mixings of related things - Wallace Stevens “Someone Puts a Pineapple Together”

Things unrelated to my need - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"

Unrelated to jealous ears and eyes - William Carlos Williams "These"

Restore our relations with stars - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"

Memory and all its clear relations - T.S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

Bear dim relations to our common doom - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

In relation to moons past - Kamilah Aisha Moon "What Is Believed In Is True"

Worried over the difficult relations of triangles - Naomi Shihab Nye "Ducks"

The relationship of experience to sight - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Relationships our ancestors forged - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

A continually illegitimate relationship - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"

Relatives on other planets - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

My relatives are the salvage bodies of history - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Relatives of the hammer - Pablo Neruda "Solar Ode to the Army of the People" translated by Richard Schaaf

Our relative the air - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

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