somethingdarker | Jul. 3rd, 2011

Jul. 3rd, 2011

( Scourge )

Unscourged by Superstition's rod - Thomas Campbell "Hallowed Ground"

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( Scythe )

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( Scratch )

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( Scent )

Stirred by apple-scented wind - Clara Shanafelt "Fantastic"

Haunted by the death-scenting shark - Cale Young Rice "Haunted Seas"

Crossing the fern-scented frontiers - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Melt into a faintly honey-scented mist - Tim Pratt "Angel Bites"

The heady perfume of pepper-scented roads - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

The megaplex of popcorn-scented tranquility - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"

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

Which spread like scentless, soundless fog - Boris Dralyuk "Universal Horror"

The azure blaze of scentless flowers - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"

With snow-scent and lavender bless you - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

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( Scatter )

Your body in chalky backscatter - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"

For scattershot revelations or shortcuts - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"

This scattershot of crow and jay - Hailey Leithauser "Dolor"

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( Scale )

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Within the sceptic darkness deep - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"

Breaks the sceptic chain that bound my soul - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]

More skeptic yet of evil - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

i made theater of skepticism - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"

The careless sceptic's idle mood - Lewis Morris "The Lesson of Time"

Two sceptic children of the world - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

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( Scaffold )

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( Scrap )

Bury my soul in a scrapbook - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

Not all records are for the scrapbook - Alberto Rios "Taking Your Olympic Measure"

Kept a scrapbook of ghost stories - Jennifer Wong "Calling the dead"

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Scant with lean ears of harvest - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Scant wine from grapes of pain - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"

Too lifted for the scant degree - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXIV: Too Much"

From his pack's scant treasure - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Where scant flowers bloom - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IX: To that Rare and Deep-Red Burnet-Moth Only to Be Met with in the Burren"

In thy scanty mantle clad - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

By scanty fruit and tardy grain - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"

Shared our scanty meal in bitterness or glee - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

Circling the track of my scanty bread - Katri Vala "Winter Is Here" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahoksas

Spread a scanty board too late - John Greenleaf Whittier "Greeting"

No riches from his scanty store - Helen Maria Williams "A Song"

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( Scare )

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( Scorpion )

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A thousand eyes in vulgar wonder scanned - A.Y. Campbell "The Dromedary"

And scan the skies for crows - Walter de la Mare "The Scarecrow"

Scan the sky for the hunter - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"

Scanning the cans on the grocery store shelf - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

The same sky the Babylonians scanned - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

Too infinitesimal to be scanned - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

Scan the renovated skies - Dorothy Parker "Recurrence"

While the horizon scans her - Lauren Russell "Exposition"

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( Scour )

Singe-scoured and full of disbelief - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"

The cooking pot sentineled by unscoured stone - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

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( Screech )

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Trace these scribbles of old gold - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Science"

Alongside the atlas's scribbled road - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen J"

Scribbled with retribution - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"

Prefer crossed out, scribbled over monuments - Rosamond S. King "Do not trust the eraser"

Your rafters are scribbled with adage and rhyme - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"

Have scribbled myself inside it - Maggie Smith "Written Deer"

Scribbled hints in footprints - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Forest News"

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( Scorch )

How to Go Unscorched - John Updike "Outliving One's Father"

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( Scarce )

Our scarce-fledged hopes and blighted joys - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet VI"

( Scarcely )

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( Scandal )

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( Sceptre/Scepter )

Sister of ebon-scepter'd Hecate - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

The frozen sorrows of unsceptred days - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Hurled unsceptred to my glory - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

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( Scrape )

Skyscraper.

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( Sculpt )

( Sculpture )

Clay for any clumsy sculptor - Sterling A. Brown "Effie"

The sculptor saw the god in marble - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"

Which poet and sculptor count as unforeseen - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

The nature of his magic as yet unsculpted - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

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( School )

A schoolhouse filled with dust - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"

Student.

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( Scream )

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( Score )

Over-scored with faded words and stained with time - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"

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( Scene )

Fair scenery for song birds - Nathalia Crane "The Three-Cornered Lot"

Shift the gorgeous scenery of the sky - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

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( Scripture )

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The scowl my father wore in exile - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"

As an ambush of tigers scowl - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"

The trackless void of scowling space - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

The withering scowl of envy - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Stamp'd and scowl'd like any bandit - Henry S. Leigh "With Musical Society"

But never so fell a scowl - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Blacker the great crag's scowl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"

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The sentry of his high religious mood - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"

Sentried with all my Sight - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"

And Love keeps sentry - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

Nor feared hell's gloomy sentry - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Proem"

Mute, unsentried walls and turrets climb - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"

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( Scarf )

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( Scissors )

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( Scorn )

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And shall I fight with scarecrows - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

The scarecrow standing sentinel in the dark - John James "Scarecrow"

May attach to scarecrows - Marianne Moore "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight"

We planted ourselves next to their scarecrows - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"

Spreading its arms like a scarecrow - Charles Simic "The Scarecrow"

Likewise props up scarecrow silences - A.E. Stallings "Sestina: Like"

Scarecrow punting at the moon - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

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The pride I trampled is now my scathe - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

With scathing breath the deluge-fire of a descending hell - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Beneath a scathing sun - A.M. Juster "An Apostle Falls"

Charred by scathed hopes and Hate's undying brand - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Vivid as the lightning's scathing flash - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Scatheless through the sin-lit dark - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"

Untouched by the axe, and unscathed by the plow - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

Turning round with face unscathed - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"

Navigate among charmers unscathed - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

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( Scheme )

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( Screen )

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( Scarlet )

When the scarlet fever delirium claimed him - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Their glories, scarlet-stained and golden - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

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Scavenging for the divine - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"

Four dividing into two scavenging pairs - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"

Scavengers for stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

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

Harvested fields scavenged by crows - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"

Blackbirds settle to scavenge - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

Who scavenge the fields for lost souls - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Scavenged from the winter beach - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

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( Scrawl )

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( Scroll )

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Your only script is the indrawn breath - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"

The invisible scripts of our minds - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to Pink Floyd"

Reading the mysterious script of you - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

In the copperplate script of its shadows - Ted Kooser "Moon Shadows"

Astral mysteries script our lives - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

The clouds' disintegrating script - Chase Twichell "Never"

And stop at the one with the golden script - Charles Wright "I Shall Be Released"

The blood-script of tall grass - Janet Kauffman "By the Time You Think Weaponry"

The post-script at the end of her letter - Waitman Barbe "The Fly Leaf"

Into unscripted days past - Wendy Xu "Pledge"

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( Science )

Regret turned like a sunflower toward that scientific sun - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Defined as beyond scientific understanding - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

The scientific world and all its hauntings - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

Patience and pain on the part of the scientist - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"

foster public rivalries with megalomaniacs and mad scientists - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

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In the gritty limbo of scrub pine - Gregory Pardlo "Antebellum"

Scrub off the oddities and freedoms of its difference - Paisley Rekdal "Wild Horses"

Scrubbed clean of war - Patricia Smith "Giving Birth to Soldiers"

To scrub away the silk threads of pain - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

In a thousand miles of ugly scrubby waste and desolation - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Land unscrubbed to rust - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"

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Scrambling for pennies in that patch of clay - Will Carleton "Wealth"

Your atoms scrambled and refused - Millie Ho "3D-Printed Brother"

Rooks came home in scramble sort - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

In the scramble for merit and power - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Into lost and scrambled pathways - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 9" transl. by Katherine Silver

Scrambled pathways into the bonfire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 9" transl. by Katherine Silver

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The scald of rattlesnake weather - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"

Spider webs across the scalded earth - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

And wheel into the scalded sky - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Fight like scalded wildcats - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

My scalded eyes no longer brook - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

The pain scalding us toward each other - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"

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To scalpel the skin into vain grace - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"

The symphony of scalpels silenced - Mary Jo Bang "Sure, It's a Little Game. You, Me, Our Minds"

Needed a scalpel to locate scruples - Stephen Dunn "Building a Person"

Whose scalpel cut a lightning bolt - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Waking with scalpels arrayed on my chest - Patrick Phillips "Having a Fight With You"

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Wrapping a scoop of snow in tissue paper - Carolyn Forche "Night Shift in the Home for Convalescents"

A thousand million scoops, and seven hundred stairs - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"

The great black night scooped out - D.H. Lawrence "New Year's Eve"

Scoops the white crest off a wave - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"

Scooping fuel into cobalt-glazed bowls - Joanne Merriam "Improving on Nature"

When you scoop a sunbeam up - Lola Ridge "Jude"

Scoop up the shallow moonlight - Lola Ridge "Ward X"

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( Scope )

Kaleidoscope.

The only refuge of microscopic particles - Anthony Butts "Apogee"

Put the moon in a microscope - Leonard Cohen "The Change"

Under the microscope of cultural critics - Stephanie Heit "The Murderer: Primetime"

Set my periscope on breath of dreaming - CAConrad "Neptune.4"

Stretched a long periscope toward the multiplying horizons - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"

Periscoping centuries pursue - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Our aches sing beyond joints and stethoscopes - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Duplex for the Sick & Tired"

Telescope.

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( Scar )

Cynical, moon-scarred and old - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"

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