somethingdarker | Jul. 5th, 2011

Jul. 5th, 2011

Enshrine.

( Shrine )

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( Shut )

With a flutter of hope and of dark-shut doubt - D.H. Lawrence "Perfidy"

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( Shy )

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( Shipwreck )

Ship.

Wreck.

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( Shudder )

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( Shawl )

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( Shrivel )

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Shore.

( Shoreless )

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Sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter - D.H. Lawrence "At the Window"

( Shake )

( Shook )

When he blunders the formality of a handshake - Christopher Morgan "Promised Detonations" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]

A handshake that becomes a squeezing contest - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

A box of ash, a handshake, and the rest is your problem - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

Came hurtling from shrapnel-shaken skies - Geoffrey Dearmer "Dedication: to Christopher Killed, Suvla Bay, October 6th, 1915"

Unshaken.

To smooth waters upshaken from the deepest deep - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]

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( Shock )

The policeman's voice an aftershock - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"

His dreams slouched into an aftershock - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"

Between the solar shockwave and Earth's rattling - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]

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Nine tailors with their shears - "American Parody of Swinburne's 'The Creation of Man'"

A pair of shears cutting countrysides into shapes - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Die before the shears of Atropos - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

She shears the web of winter - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"

Working dull shears in one hand - David St. John "Iris"

Mugwort sheared to resemble a lawn - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

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( Shift )

Sun dogs at the heel of their ever-shifting north - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

Makeshift forests - Carol Frost "Circus City"

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

Who shapeshifts in an effort to please - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"

Shapeshifting sleeper agents hiding in plain sight - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

From the chaff of shiftless falsehood - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

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( Shackle )

Unshackled sail the ambient air - E.C.S. "The Encaged Bird to His Mistress" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]

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( Shaft )

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( Shelf )

The bookshelves connected heaven and earth - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"

While yet the snow-wreaths to the rock-shelves cling - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"

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( Shop )

In my barbershop of thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Before the War, We Made a Child"

The pawnshop renting space in my head - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"

An aficionado of the wilted, the shopworn, and the free - Ted Kooser "In the Alley"

Workshop.

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Rowed his captain's Saint Bernard ashore - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"

The lees of the Atlantic washed ashore - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"

A tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore - Edward Hirsch "Widening Sky"

Came ashore crowned with salt and sea glass - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

( Shore )

Washed up onshore like so much driftwood - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

From seashores to the stratosphere - Samuel Hazo "High, Higher, Highest"

In fable and folklore from farmyard to seashore - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"

On the seashore of endless worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 60"

Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

Shoreless.

against the shoreline's erratic discipline - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

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

Traces borderlands of dream clear through river and shoreline - Wang An-Shih "Dream" transl. by David Hinton

Through river and shoreline sands to the end of dreams - Wang An-Shih "Dream" transl. by David Hinton

Where waters wash with exquisite music shoreward - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"

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( Shade )

A lampshade exhausted by light - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"

Whose path the darkest clouds o'ershade - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXII: Unhappy Bride" transl. by Sir John Bowring

What frowns o'ershade the weeping soul - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

A sunspot, parasol-shaded, kin to the trees - Monica Ferrell "Poetry"

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( Shield )

Bright-shielded Mars, who leads the host - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Let us revel amid the shield-flowers - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Frost whorling across a windshield - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"

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( Shod )

Dream-shod forevermore - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"

Walking with feet faith-shod - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

As the soft-shod hours passed - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

The tramp of storm-shod Mars is near - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]

Unshod to meet the flints - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Cheerfulness Taught by Reason"

Dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"

( Shoe )

Horseshoe.

Through shoelace and nuclear waste - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

Tying the shoelace to the stone - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"

A dream of walking shoeless - Mary Jo Bang "Visiting"

Shoe Rack: See Rack.

Snowshoes bite the trail open - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

A tattered flag's ragtime softshoe these lines will never do - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

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( Short )

Emotional shorthand and jade cockroaches - Marianne Moore "England"

A star shorting out and out - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"

In short-lived moods of thoughtful silence - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

On leases of short-number'd hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"

A short-term loan of agate - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"

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( Shout )

A battle-shout from Marathon - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Give shout-outs in code - francine j. harris "would like to first thank god"

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( Shred )

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Enshroud.

( Shroud )

Set the rose-shrouded sundial in shadow - Louise Morey Bowman "Green Apples"

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Shoot [plant].

Shooting Star.

( Shoot/Shot )

Their bloodshot octaves of consequence - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

A blood-shot eye in the black mask of night - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

On which the stars could pierce like elfshot - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"

An alluring rhythm of gunshots - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Splintery shovels and midnight gunshots - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

Out of the gunshot of the devil - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Outshot the level rays of flooding sunlight - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

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

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

Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

Every shot-through winter scene - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

Looking through the sunshot deep - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"

Hostage to the hazy upshot - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

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( Shimmer )

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The shale night filling with rain - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"

Through the canyons of sandstone and shale - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

Became black slick hid in shale - Tiffany Higgins "Samba in the Sky" [Poetry Nov. 2013]

Garden of scaffolding and shale - Erika Meitner "Ghost Eden"

Fall down the increments of shale - Wayne Miller "Nocturne"

Discern salt from iron or shell from shale - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

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As the shuttle sped and reels unwound - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Web of Dreams"

The silent shuttles of life's loom - Benjamin Copeland "The Font, the Altar, and the Tomb"

Vacant shuttles weave the wind - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

The last weft of Fate's whirring shuttle - A. Pickler "At Achensee, Tirol" transl. by T.M. Kettle

Golden shuttles flung by spirit hands - Ita Aniol Prokop "Gold" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.29, Aug. 1873]

Shuttles of shadow and light - Theodore H. Rand "Fairy Glen"

Keep the ceaseless shuttles flying - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

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Ashamed.

( Shame )

Their shamefaced grays and reds - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

A shame-faced galaxy - James Galvin "My Second Angel"

Shameless and still radiant - H.D. "Fragment Forty-one"

Shameless spillage or sharp portrayal - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

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( Shiver )

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( Sheath )

Revenge unsheaths her murd'rous dagger - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

To unsheathe whatever torches they would - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

The great AVENGER unsheathed his awful sword - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

That moon-like sword the ascendant dead unsheathe - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

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( Shoulder )

an industry of inertia in their shoulder blades - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"

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( Sheep )

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( Shepherd )

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( Shrill )

In ecstasy crickets outshrill on another - "Night Fall in the Ti-Tree"

The shrill-piped curlew's song - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"

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( Shoot (plant) )

Shoot/Shot.

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Fanged house, shirt of flame - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Wear silence as a tattered shirt - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"

Coatless and a shirt of briar - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"

Across the shirt of the icy firmament - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Washed the shirts of seven men - John M. Synge "On an Island"

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With shrewd and wayward spite invade - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book (1765) II"

The shrewd and curious wind - William Dean Howells "The Empty House"

Convention's shrewd Bacchante - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"

Negligently shrewd and empty in their chatter - Vita Sackville-West "Irruption"

And the wind bit shrewd and sharp - Clinton Scollard "Ballad of the Eve of Yule"

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( Shadowless )

Shadow.

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( Shun )

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( Shark )

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( Shadow )

Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal-shadows - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Deep-shadowed from the candle's guttering gold - Siegfried Sassoon "The Dug-Out"

Enshadowed under falsehood's spell - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]

Foreshadowing April's face - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"

Beside the glory-shadowed gate - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"

Half-shadowings of the thing I meant - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"

Stamped hyacinth-shadows black on the pavement - H.D. "Cities"

Both leaf and leaf-shadow are lost - H.D. "Evening"

Overshadow.

Will the Quiet Folk scare him with shadow-faces? - C. Hilton Brown "Hamish: a Scottish Terrier" [To Your Dog and to My Dog. PG. 1916]

Then heart would join with lips at shadow-fall - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

The lonely shadow-girdled winds - Bliss Carman "The Pensioners"

About their shadow-haunted circle clings - Rennell Rodd "On the Border Hills"

Their Shadow-King in silence leads them - Miriam Clark Potter "The March of the Shadows"

Twisted in a pallid shadow-knot - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

When we shall meet in shadow-land - James Aldrich "Viola" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]

Dusky depths of shadowlands - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Elusive spirit of the shadow-land - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"

In the shadow land between streetlights - Ann K. Schwader "Mardi Gras Postmortem"

Shadowless.

A specter's gem in the shadow-playtime - Stephen Vincent Benet "Boarding-House Hall"

Some perverse shadow puppet flailing - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

The shadow-stitched perimeter of childhood - Carl Phillips "Why so this Quiet"

Tradition built this guarded shadow-wall - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"

The fish in shadow-waved herds - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

Stair-shadow and churning kindred-trees - Wang An-Shih "Sun west and low" transl. by David Hinton

Unshadowed haunts of darkling Doom - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

Unshadowed flame of phantom suns - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

Violet-shadows to haunt the shade - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

A wind-shadow wandering over the water - D.H. Lawrence "A Baby Running Barefoot"

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( Shorn )

Wind-shorn and struggling still - Dorothea Mackellar "High Places"

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( Shakespeare )

Snippets by William Shakespeare.

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( Shooting Star )

Shoot/Shot.

Star.

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( Show )

Nor bitter irony a truth foreshows - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"

The canvas for another sunset showstopper - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

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( Shallow )

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( Shutter )

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( Shrapnel )

Came hurtling from shrapnel-shaken skies - Geoffrey Dearmer "Dedication: to Christopher Killed, Suvla Bay, October 6th, 1915"

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( Shine )

( Shone )

Wormseed oil and nightshade flower-shine - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"

Moonshine.

Outshine.

Starshine.

Filled with wide-shining wonder - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

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( Shape )

The dream-shapes you weave - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"

Replaced his compass with a heart-shaped clock - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Reshaping fear as placid science - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"

The grim shapeless weight of erosion - Jim Daniels "Treaty"

Who shapeshifts in an effort to please - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"

Shapeshifting sleeper agents hiding in plain sight - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

That lies are often truth-shaped - Nikita Gill "Questions for the Daughters of Nyx"

The wedge-shaped engines of the sun - Harold Acton "Ventilation"

a slender dimness in the unshapeful hour - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

The indefinite unshapen dawn - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

The unshapen dust of earth without a face - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

All unshaped unbidden miracles - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"

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( Sharp )

Flowers with knife-sharp petals - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"

Whispered queries marlin-sharp - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

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

On sharp-edged, malachite wings - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Down on the sharp-horned ledges - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Sharp-pointed skeletons of ancient geometric trolls - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

Sheltered by sharp-speared gorse and the berried junipers - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"

Tornado's sharp-toed steeds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

Sharp-tongued flame of death - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

And drown her keener silence, silver-sharp - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Snow-sharp breath - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"

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( Ship )

Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"

Big cloud-ships with sails spread out - "A Big Playfellow" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Fire-ships through the tamed seas glancing - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"

Hardship is a limit not a failing - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

The shipless seas of heaven - Douglas Malloch "March"

Cut from an awkward block of ship-wood - H.D. "Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4"

Shipwreck.

Spaceship.

A list of starships decelerating toward us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"

Another wave of time-traveling starships - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Like desolate seas unshipped - Louis Golding "My Lady of Peace"

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( Shoal )

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( Shriek )

Crammed full of phone calls and supershriek demands - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

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Egg/Eggshell.

Seashell.

( Shell )

With spoons of clam-shell - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

In shell-game catastrophe - Mary Jo Bang "N as in Nevermore"

Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"

Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson

Toys of tortoise-shell and jasper - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

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( Shatter )

And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years - Sarojini Naidu "Life"

Where trees unshattered took the wind - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"

Escaping with the last unshattered mirror - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"

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A wind to shuffle the kings to sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"

Let me triangulate icy shuffling under snow - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

As he shuffles the wind aside - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

A deck of cards shuffled by a pro - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Burning the Old Year"

The silence shuffles heavy dice - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"

The shuffling of all ants be done forever - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"

Whisper in a foot-shuffle vortex - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

A rolodex reshuffled for memory - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]

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( Shard )

( Shrub )

northward fire twists around the shrublands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

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( Shovel )

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( Sheer )

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After learning to shave the gleaming steel - Katie Ford "Koi"

Silver shavings whitened with milky oil - Philip Levine "Drum"

Dynamited, shaved to the seam - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

A blade that's shaved the dead - James Whitcombe Riley "Charms I: For Corns and Things"

Shavings fragrant as cumin - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

In his murky unshaven dream - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"

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( Shower )

A turquoise chain of sun-shower rain - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

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( Sheet )

As he closed his balance-sheet - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Bedsheets being ripped to prayer flags by the wind - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"

With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"

Runways jeweled with wrenches and sheet metal - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"

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Fallen leaves that curled and shrank - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"

Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

( Shrink )

( Shrunk )

Look at Grief unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes - Sara Teasdale "Lessons"

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( Sheaf/Sheave )

Oat-sheaves drooping in the western sun - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

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( Share )

A sharecropper of loneliness - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

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( Shelter )

All darkness rendered shelterless - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

Unsheltered, cut with the weight of wind - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"

To view the dim unshelter'd Waste - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "The Fall of Needwood"

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( Shed )

Thought all bloodshed would be pastel - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

Unshed.

Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"

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