somethingdarker | Jul. 4th, 2011

Jul. 4th, 2011

( Seven )

And carry me into a seven-day kiss - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"

A seven-foot cyborg on a quest - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

In the Seven Sleepers' den - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

Climb a seven-story mountain - Richard Solomon "Orpheus at Fifty"

In a seven-walled prison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

A heaven in their sevenfold hells - Theodore Maynard "The Soil of Solace"

At the bottom of the seventh circles of hell - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"

Through the seventh Gate I rose - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

On the seventh night of the seventh moon - John Wieners "For Huncke"

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( Seat )

A mid-June avalanche unseated the peak - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Loose coins in my memory's backseat - John Olivares Espinoza "These Hands, These Roots"

In the backseat of their eternity - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2"

Close-seated in one crimson boat - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

Satan sits by the judgment-seat - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

And only we should reach her mercy-seat - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

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( Seize )

Who can boast of other seizure - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

Shape themselves around that one bright seizure - Rita Dove "Prose in a Small Space"

my seizure breaking word and world - Joseph Lease "The Dead Lands"

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( Serenity )

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( Sew )

Hand-sewn and set to memory - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"

The grasshopper works at his sewing-machine - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"

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From sun far-set or moon unrisen - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

( Set )

And drive away the hell-set dreams - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

To reset eternity's clock to the far side of midnight - Charles Wright "Little Elegy for an Old Friend"

Setting Sun.

Ordering the setups and scenes - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

Buds unset by mortal hand - "Flora: a Vision"

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( Second )

Out of a storm of secondary things - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"

Infinitely second-hand - Aldous Huxley "On the 'Bus"

A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

Nothing but secondhand details - Randall Mann "September Elegies"

Who appreciates secondhand revelations of wolves - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"

Capture in that second sight - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Witch and troll and second sight - John Greenleaf Whittier "Abram Morrison"

Parceled out in sixteen-second afternoons - Conrad Hilberry "Hurtle"

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( Search )

Searchlight.

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( September )

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( Sense )

Gloved your arms with Common-Sense - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Who know no void nor common sense - John Updike "Song of Myself"

Sensible as Sancho Panza - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"

Like sensitive steel in the air - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"

A sensitive abhorring dust - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

A brother to the insensible rock - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

With senseless runes bedabbed - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"

And the dream sensor starts the dream deactivator - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"

The Sensory Deprivation Tanks for Life Resistant Arrivals(tm) - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"

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( Service )

Beds that couldn't hold our ordinary serviceable dreams - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

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( Seek )

Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Hide-and-Seek.

The honey-seeking, golden-banded - H.D. "Orchard"

Where the wonder-seekers crowd - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

Sought.

Unsought.

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( Serpent )

Where the coiled sea-serpents dwell - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"

Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Slays the serpent-haired Medusa - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

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

That cloak the Amazon and its serpentine tributaries - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Past the serpentine border of eels - Conrad Hilberry "Music"

The rhythms of serpentine rivers - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"

Darkly prisoned and long twined by serpent-sorrow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

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( Sentence )

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( Seraph/Seraphim )

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( Sea )

( Sea: Assortment of compound words )

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( Secret )

( Secrecy )

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( Season )

Off-season aeriform alphabets - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"

Seasonable for mourning-time - Brenda Marie Osbey "On Contemplating the Breasts of Pauline Lumumba"

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

Seasoned with need - jayy dodd "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"

seasoned by tears and rage - Tanque R. Jones "Chitterlings and Collard Greens"

Seasoned with sorrows and blasted hopes - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Adjust the various seasonings to taste - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

Hear eclipses' seasoning - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."

Where seasonless imagination heeds no commands - Lou Barrett "Kore"

The seasonless monotonies of walls - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"

In the shower of an unseasonal rain - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

I bask in eddies of unseasonable light - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

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( Sell )

( Sold )

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( Secure )

Hemming security in steady stitches - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"

An overlapping pattern of simulated security - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

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( See )

( Seen )

All the end foreseeing - George Meredith "Phaethon"

The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"

Overseeing the sacred sea - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 23. E-Abshagala, the Temple of Ninmarki in Guaba" transl. by Sophus Helle

Dawn oversees percolating coffee - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

Unseeing/Unseen.

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( Settle )

Unsettle.

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( Seal )

Unsealing the mystery of Virgo - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

And could words unseal the spell - John Clare "The Meeting"

Unseal the shut, the hidden places - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"

Shall unseal its honeyed story - Susanna Moodie "The Maple-Tree"

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( Sear )

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( Seldom )

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( Sensation )

From the dark edges of the sensual ground - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"

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The lulling sentiment of forward motion - Mary Jo Bang "One Could Say the Train Is Resting"

Ideal and failure, sentiment and lure - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"

Sentiments sitting beside my bed - Frank O'Hara "Dolce Colloquio"

The last sentimental cricket inching home - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

Our sentimental friend the moon - T.S. Eliot "Conversation Galante"

Irony being the flip side of sentimentality - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

The waters won't be sentimental - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

Unsentimental consequence of gravity - Robyn Schiff "Oak Gall Wasp"

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Follow a sequin thread of dead things - Cynthia Cruz "Final Performance"

Buckets of sand, sequins of clay - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

Sequins fastened to sunbeams - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"

The sequin tree shaking its spangles - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

A skirt shimmering with sequins and lies - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

And every molecule sequined - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks VIII: Talking About It"

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To trust life is a series of orbits - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"

A series of flame-fringed ridges - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 10"

A small series of miracles - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"

A series of calculated crashes - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"

A series of sonic knots - Kiki Petrosino "The Departure"

a series of false starts - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"

A series of constructed incidents - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"

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( Seem )

January's loud-seeming sun - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

A mass of black, unseemly stone - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Imperfect Thoughts"

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( Serene )

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Seduced by the memory of its birth - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Algebra and geometry breathing seducing words - Michelle Dang "Calculating U"

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

Seduced by the second beautiful harvest - Dante Micheaux "The Second Beautiful Harvest"

But the memories will seduce - Tim Newcomb "Grandfathered In"

We follow seductions of light - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Bees' quaint seduction of apple pie - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"

The seductive gasp of nowhere - Stephanie Heit "Window Dressing"

Sons of the seductive night - Claude McKay "Exhortation: Summer, 1919"

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With the serried logic of a dream - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"

The serried hosts of falling waters - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Crowded close in serried phalanx - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

The daybeams creep along the serried pines - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

And roll upon our serried lines - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

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( Seashell )

Sea.

Shell.

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( Sentinel )

Star-sentinelled from our humanity - Edith Wharton "Heaven"

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( Seep )

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

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( Seethe )

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( Sequence )

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( Serious )

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( Searchlight )

Light.

Search.

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( Semblance )

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( Several )

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Touch the chords of a sepulchral lyre - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"

Of sinister sepulchral hens - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf

To crumble and form sepulchres for woes - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

As lamps in sepulchres - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

The secrets of the sepulchres of hell - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

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Herself.

Himself.

Itself.

Myself.

The prospectus of looking at oneself - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"

Ourselves.

( Self )

( Selves )

( Compound words with 'Self' )

Selfish.

Themself/Themselves.

Yourself/Yourselves.

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( Seeds )

The dragonseed breeding of current and bone - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

Seed-black of the waiting heart - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Discard the shriveled seed coat - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"

Joy the seedling of a dream - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Identical seedpods strong on a vine - Gary Snyder "Why I Take Good Care of my Macintosh"

dead dry pods holding dormant soulseeds - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

We are Starseeds every one of us - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

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The servants of an unborn year - Arthur Colton "The Shepherd and the Knight"

Despair is still servant to the violet - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

Made servant only to salt - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

The servants You have inherited - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

His servants are the wind and rain - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"

( Serve )

Stark against the light box of servitude - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"

Freedom from servitude so infinite - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVII. Perhaps to Vittoria Colonna. Love's Servitude" transl. by John Addington Symonds

in the servitude of strangers - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

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Letters are inseparable from loss - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [a curve billed thrasher]"

In our lives a separable spite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"

( Separate )

( Separation )

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The sediment at the bottom of my heart - Julia Alvarez "In Spanish"

Repetition with a twist of sediment - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"

The slow sediment of forget - Cynthia Cruz "Riding"

Sediment of the sun - Federico Garcia Lorca (trans. By Sarah Arvio) "[To find a kiss of yours]"

Sediment of the day wiped clean - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

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( Selfish )

Self/Selves.

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By Time's all-severing wave - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"

Which none on the earth can dissever - Robert M. Hart "The Birth of Our Banner" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Dissevered by suns no longer - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"

( Sever )

First and deepest severance - Chen Chen "First Light"

In a season of severing and severances - Marwa Helal "the days is numbered"

Softly-severed tangle - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

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( Seaweed )

Dance on seaweed-strings for clapping hands - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

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( Seer/Seeress )

The storm-seers failed to tell us - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Foretell/Foretold.

Oracle.

Prophecy/Prophet.

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Deep in your most sequestered bower - James Beattie "Retirement. 1758"

Under the pure sequestering snow - Witter Bynner "Passing Near"

The things sequestered from the world - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

On the scarred bench sequestered - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Straining to win that soft sequestered note - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

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A sermon preached by a sparrow - Willis Boyd Allen "A Sermon by a Lay Preacher"

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

The stony sermons of the street - Austin Dobson "Prologue"

Thy wild-rose sermons - Ellen MacKay Hutchinson "June"

Sizzles a sermon from the stove - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

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( Setting Sun )

Set.

Sun.

Sunset.

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( Send )

( Sent )

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( Seam )

The light of the seamless sky - Leonard Cohen "Roshi's Poem"

Their seamless smiles, their measured words - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Out of the seamstress and the ghost - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"

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