somethingdarker | Jul. 2nd, 2011

Jul. 2nd, 2011

( Savor )

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( Saint )

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( Safety )

Bluff a flock of dragons with a safety pin - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Safe.

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( Sanctuary )

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Of a song that outsang the lark - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"

( Sang )

Sing.

Singer.

Song.

Sung.

Unsung.

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( Saddle )

Our love double-knotted, saddle-stitched - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

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Fit to sally forth and trample each plopped heart - Rita Dove "Girls On the Town, 1946"

Swift with satire as with sally - Harry Graham "The Last Horsed 'Bus"

My world too has its sallies and withdrawals - Mei Yao-ch'en "Shih-hou Pointed Out to Me That From Ancient Times There Had Never Been a Poem on the Subject of Lice, and Urged Me to Try Writing One" transl. by Burton Watson

Make brave sallies at the stars - Lola Ridge "Amy Lowell"

Grieved in Florence for April sallies - Anne Spencer "Life-Long, Poor Browning..." [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

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( Sappho )

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( Sail )

( Sailor )

The surging wake of full-sailed summer - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"

Cuts full-sail through boundless swells - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton

Soft-sailing waters where fears no longer shake - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"

And the top-sail dripping wine - Herbert Randall "Off"

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( Sacred )

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Saunters into the world daring us to stay - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"

While hours sauntered past - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

Laughs with the wind as it saunters past - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Sauntering through a mile of sun - Katherine Hale "Going North I: White Porches"

Weightless silver saunters in - S*an D. Henry-Smith "heavy altar (no elevation),"

Until the truth saunters in - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"

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( Sad )

Sad-aisled avenues of evening stars - Arthur Stringer "Persephone"

Mocks sad-eyed Ishtar and her mourning maids - William Talbot Allison "There Sat the Women Weeping for Thammuz"

Under a willow-maze you went unsaddened - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 41"

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( Sage )

In vast infant sagacity brooding - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

The smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

A music of sagebrush and bluebonnetts - N. Scott Momaday "Death Song"

Dust on the sage-grey desert - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"

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( Saturday )

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( Sake )

Forsake.

Keepsake.

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( Sacrifice )

Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"

Once grim with sacrificial fires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"

Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke - Claude McKay "Enslaved"

Built for terror and self-sacrifice - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Doo-Wop"

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( Sand )

Quicksand.

My goosebumps heavy as a sandbag - Mouna Ammar "Finding Me"

Sandbagging the river of dreams - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

A whole sandbar full of herons - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson

The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"

Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Streams through our sandgrain skulls - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

Pursued the colts among the sand-hills - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

The children the sandman goes to see - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"

Quite unknown to the brown sandman - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"

Sandpaper.

A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"

Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

The countryside startles into sandstorm - Wang An-Shih "Autumn Wind" transl. by David Hinton

Scuttle into sand-tubes and hide amongst the spinifex - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

The rainbow of the salt sand-wave - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Thy chain shall prove a sand-woven rope - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Go sprinkle the sea-sand upon their eyes - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"

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( Sanctify )

( Sanctity )

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( Satisfy )

( Satisfaction )

Dissatisfaction's clinging net - T. Sturge Moore "Renaissance"

Unsatisfied.

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( Said )

Say.

Unsaid.

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( Sacrament )

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( Raindrop )

Drop.

Rain.

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Ferris wheel with tickets for sale - Stephanie Heit "Solar Eclipse"

Snatched at each telegram of Future Sale - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

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

Easy sales of lasting pleasure - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"

The for-sale sign impales the front pasture - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"

Sell/Sold.

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( Saffron )

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( Sandal )

Sandalwood and mandrake - Nicole Sealey "and"

With silence-sandalled Sleep - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Soft-sandalled in misty ways - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

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( Sackcloth )

Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.

Sack.

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And a bitter store of arid sarcasms - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell

Lines of quaint sarcastic prose - Edward Edwin Foot "On Shakespeare"

Bitter, unreasoning, sarcastic jeers - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen

Sarcastic barks from the starlings - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"

With secret and sarcastic mien - Paul Verlaine "Le Faune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

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Salute us back with empty kitchen pans - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Salutes the pilgrim's eye - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Salute the crocus lustres of the stars - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

With a glad salute to omnipotent Apollo - Geoffrey Dearmer "Tell Me, Stranger"

Saluted the arrival of webby darkness - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

Touched its head in poisonous salute - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Saluted the lions three - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

Over devastation I salute you - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"

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( Sapling )

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Giving a gull a sack of gold - Cornelius Eady "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"

Ripped open again his sack of grain - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

While she burns like a sack of dry ice - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

Rolled home with brown sacks in our laps - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Clenched like two small sacks of stolen nickels - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"

Your forebear was the sack of winds - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"

Sackcloth.

The sack-draped backs of the cattle in their kingdom - Adrienne Rich "Peace"

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( Savage )

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( Sabbath )

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( Sap )

Pine-sap torch flames to brighten our struggles - Wang An-Shih "There's a Huge Pine Beside the Road, and People Think It Promises Enlightenment" transl. by David Hinton

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( Sawdust )

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Pumped a saline shot of sadness - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "magenta"

A city that bleeds its saline soil - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

Give us salinity to float in the betweens - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"

( Salt )

Born of nothing but salt-air - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"

The salt-chased seas uncurled - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"

The burden of a salt-encumbered tide - C.H.B. Kitchin "Eschatological Sonnet"

Salt-king on the shore - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)

Lone island of the saltless sea - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)

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

A fine old salt-sea scavenger - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"

Through the cloudless salt-seeped heavens - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Brimmed with salt-spiked tears - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Glided over the salt-stained water - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

When your dreams ebbed salt-thick - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

Of blood & saltwater prayer - Joshua Bennett "Praise House"

The eye's sudden and narrow saltwater - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Where red saltwater waves carry calcium east then west - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author

Heaven's motes sift to salt-white - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"

A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"

Brine.

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( Satellite )

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( Sable )

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( Save )

Unsaved in the wilderness - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Stranded Lamb"

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( Salvation )

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( Sapphire )

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Said.

( Say )

Tracing gray skin around the unsayable - Brenda Hillman "The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice"

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( Satin )

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( Saturn )

Held the saturnalia of Red Death - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Held months so saturnine - E.J. Pratt "In Absentia"

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( Sandpaper )

Paper.

Sand.

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( Satyr )

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( Salvage )

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( Saw (past tense of See) )

( Saw (tool for cutting) )

( Chainsaw )

A hacksaw through the evening's calm core - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"

A violin plucked with a hacksaw - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Sawdust.

Saw-edged teeth in my peripheral vision - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

The sawmills of the night - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

With the whine of saw-mills and whirr of hidden wings - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"

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( Satan )

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Love in the fluid shape of a saxophone - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

Eternity an unblown saxophone - Langston Hughes "Sport"

A saxophone that tells on me - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"

Windy saxophone revolutions - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

The bleating saxophones that come after - Adrian Matejka "Strange Celestial Roads"

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( Safe )

And bid them rest safe-anchored - E. Nesbit "The Island"

Safe-conduct and a proud retreat - Helen Parry Eden "A Parley with Grief"

Not all of our safeguards are weapons - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Who surrounds himself with crystal safeguards - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"

My fancied safeguard made my snare - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Safety.

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Elbowed thru a Deadwood City saloon door - Paul Cameron Brown "Ace of Spades"

Each raw saloon was raising Cain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"

Standing in the dust of saloons and public squares - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen

Sidewinders in the saloons of fools - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

The fetid breath of the saloon - Dennison Woodcock "The Ruined Home"

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The edge of that insane remembering - Mary Jo Bang "Like Someone Asleep in a Cinema"

Makes little jests at the bells' insanity - D.H. Lawrence "Week-night Service"

A wall between today and insanity - Walter Dean Myers "John Brambles, 55, Numbers Runner"

Played tricks on insanity - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Sane and destructive to fear - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Poor Man's Club"

Denounce the sane as vicious - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"

That through blood run sane - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

( Sanity )

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