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Jul. 11th, 2011

( Somewhere )

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( Soldier )

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( Soak )

The demons climbed from the blood-soaked soil - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Hummed our grief-soaked lullabies to the rapture - Rita Dove "Transit"

Ten thousand miles of rain-soaked autumn - Wang An-Shih "Wandering at Delight-Mind Pavilion, Sent to My Sister in Ch'ien-chou" transl. by David Hinton

Into the star-soaked nights - Jenny Molberg "Civilization"

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( Solar )

Memories scorch us like solar flares - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Our spiritual solar-kings - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"

Solar System.

Warned how these solar winds would leave - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"

Solar wind strokes the ice-wall into light - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

dust carried by solar wind - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

A solar wind too strong to ride - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

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( Sole )

Who slumbers solely in insomnia - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Solely in that cherished Rose - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

United solely in their desire - Carl Phillips "Captivity"

Where the sole-thoughted Dante waited him - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

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From the sorrel leaf and the henbane bud - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Before the daisy and the sorrel buy their brightness back - John Freeman "The Wakers"

Star-like gems which blow beside pale sorrel - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]

The ragged fires of the sorrel's cresset - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

The dewdrop on the sorrel-blade - Lola Ridge "Fame"

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( Sorrow )

A heart high-sorrowful and cloyed - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

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

Some gentle spirit sorrow-fed - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fire-Flowers"

Disappear upon the sorrow-mingled pathway - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Garret" transl. by Frank Sewall

Such sorrow-soothing music - Francis Fahy "Killiney Far Away"

By the sorrow-struck heart - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

Hot beneath this sorrow-studded shield - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

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( Solitude )

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( Somber/Sombre )

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( Soar )

Jerusalem its dreams outsoared - William Rose Benét "The City"

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( Source )

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( Solitary )

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( Soul )

Born of high-souled hope - Algernon Swinburne "To Dora Dorian"

That meteor-soul divine - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

The soul-blight of a nation - Leslie Pickney Hill "So Quietly"

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

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

Played with soul-sinews cracking - Herbert E. Palmer "A Game of Chess"

Clear of the saddest soul-stench - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

Do not accept, we whisper down the soul-webs - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

The fire of the star-souled Lucifer - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

At Mammon's soulless shrine - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

Quiet soulless winter - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"

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( Sound )

To hear the merry-sounding reed - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"

A cup full of sea-sound - George Cronyn "Song [A cup full of star-shine]"

Soundless.

How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

The looped soundtrack of then - Carol Ann Duffy "The Map-Woman"

Cicadas for a soundtrack - Alison Swan "In Medias Res"

Resound.

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Sang.

Sing.

( Song )

Sang.

Sing.

Singer.

Sung.

Unsung.

( Song )

Birdsong.

Shrill evensong the cricket sings - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"

Commence catalyst and evensong - Asiya Wadud "Shorn, treaded red"

Holding a bucket full of leaf-song - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"

Too sweet painsong in passages of night - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 28"

Painsong for sorcerers - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"

And from the hurt in rainsong - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sweet Distress"

Wheeling, songless and full of grace - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

In the timeless throat of the songbird - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Under the birds' low song-swept radiances - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

Entwined in a songwaltz of welcome - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

The softly swirling undersong - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

Its undersong of silence born - John Presland "A January Morning"

Echoes of war-songs - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XI--Sunset"

Listening for wind-songs in the tree heights - William Moore "Dusk Song"

The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

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( Soil )

Unsoiled by worldly dust - Tao Qian (translated by James Hightower) "Returning to the Farm to Dwell I"

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( Solid )

From solid state to a state of change - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Our failures have solidified - Robert Bly "The Spiny Beast"

Spindrift and ozone solidified - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Solidifies what once was vapor - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

And feel solidity's foundation stir - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

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( Solemn )

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In spite of a society that favored a monochromatic landscape - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Whom now and then society permits to speak - Henry S. Leigh "Men I Dislike"

Supposing Society starves them outright - Henry S. Leigh "On Corpulence"

In solemn troops and sweet societies - John Milton "Lycidas"

Petrochemical societies trying to hide the sun - John Trudell "Voices Catching Up/Lompoc Song"

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( Sour )

Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

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( Sore )

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( Soothe )

Such sorrow-soothing music - Francis Fahy "Killiney Far Away"

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( Sober )

The sobriety of a machine - Jordi Doce "Guest"

From the paths of strictest sobriety - Henry S. Leigh "An Unappreciated Crichton"

To teach our sober-footed hours to fly - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

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( Soon )

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Now drain we up the social cup - "Autumn" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

In social converse with the man of straw - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"

What's next in the social roller derby? - Paul Cameron Brown "Dash Into Realism: Escape Pad from the Sixties"

The bloodless doll of social lies - Julia de Burgos "To Julia de Burgos" transl. by Grace Schulman

Incense of the social weed - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"

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For a solar system beyond sable incarceration - William Archila "Saturn's Country"

Set into motion a new solar system - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"

How the solar system closed its vaulted gateway - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The solar system's burning heart - Allan Wolf "The Sun: A Solar Sunnet, er, Sonnet"

Give the light and warmth to solar systems - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."

Solar.

System.

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A solution to the seven deadly sins - Mary Jo Bang "The Numbers"

Finding mechanical solutions to mathematical problems - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

On each solution a mystery waits to leap - Harry Martinson "Aniara 33" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The only advertised long term solution - Anahita Monfared "The Manic Depressive's Alphabet"

A wilderness of new solutions - Naomi Shihab Nye "Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things"

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The sordid boast of stone and brick - Max Bodenheim "City Streets"

Earth's sordid desires that are thronging - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"

Scarred with sordid rust of years - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

Whose sordid views to earth alone are given - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]

Clad in cynic garb of sordid hue - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Above the sordidness of all deceit - Rudolph Valentino "Cremation (To G.S.)"

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( Solace )

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Somehow brighter through the cloud of memory - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"

Somehow silent in lines of flesh - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Augur somehow upwards from the gravel bed - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Remembering somehow a way through panic - Carl Phillips "Correction"

And somehow more betrayed - Carl Phillips "From a Bonfire"

Think somehow loyalty weighs more - Carl Phillips "Something to Believe In"

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( Solomon )

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( Solve )

Who seek to put unsolved things away - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]

A lush, unsolvable labyrinth leading deeper into ambiguity - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"

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( Sort )

These knots of unsorted dreaming - Khaled Mattawa "Trafficker Monologue"

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( Soundless )

Sound.

Walk beside us with unsounding feet - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"

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( Sod )

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Stars draining in their sockets - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

The deep sockets of your idealistic skull - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

Empty eyes in vacant sockets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

A zigzag fire leapt in our sockets - Lola Ridge "The Everlasting Return"

As candle-flames that near the socket - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

The eyes from their sockets of fire - Charles William Wallace "There's a Laugh"

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( Socrates )

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( Soot )

Ancient algae, reptile tread, soot-filled skies - Shutta Crum "On the Beach"

The tail feathers of soot-mottled birds - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

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( Soup )

Retire to that soup-bowl of oblivion - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"

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( Something )

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Seek.

( Sought )

Wardens of the far-sought gold - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"

Unsought.

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( Sonnet )

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To somersault around the plains - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"

To know of violence is to somersault into it - Jessica Kim "Montage"

Two specks somersaulting right through the screen - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"

Somersaulting in continuous turns - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"

Allowed them to turn somersaults - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Whose somersault never got off the ground - Edward van de Vendel "Here's the Idea"

Gladness somersaulting from the eaves - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]

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( South Wind )

South.

Wind (noun).

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( Sovereign )

Before the sovereignity of sharper gales - Ann K. Schwader "Lavinia in Autumn"

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( Soft )

This softly tendered now - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"

Soft as wind it passes - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]

Soft as August's livid purple figs - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Reddest, softest island of my last planet, last aureola - Dean Young "Colophon"

Enchain dew-soft darks in silence tender - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Stirred by some soft-footed breeze - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"

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

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

Softly-severed tangle - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Softly-swaying pillars of dark flame - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

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

On soft-winged sails of meditation - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"

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Ensorcelling as their unearthly clear eyes - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

( Sorceror )

Thrown open to the bewitching evening's twin sorceresses - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

( Sorcery )

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( Someone )

Someone Else.

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( Someone Else )

Someone.

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( Sorry )

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A tote bag full of ceramic souvenirs - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"

Souvenirs from jet lag and weeping - Marianne Chan "Viewing Service"

Pack years in my bags like souvenirs - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

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

With the bright souvenirs of this day - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

Her perishable souvenir of hope - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

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( South )

Alarms of southbound geese blaring - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"

( Southern )

Our myriads swarm in the southlands warm - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

Terror of the southland beech - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Seas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Southward a rival's stealth - Emily Pauline Johnson "Canada"

Southward fled the arctic bird - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"

The last gray feather to southward goes - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"

South Wind.

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Red ash of the dark solstice - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"

The dark solstice of his dream - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"

Lived long in a low solstice - Danez Smith "anti poetica"

The wind attendant on the solstices - Wallace Stevens "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"

Sunrise on some ancient summer solstice - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

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( Sob )

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( Son )

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( Sow/Sown )

Unplanted, unsown, blooming alone - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

My team unyoked, my fallow unsown - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse

Withered unsown - Amy Lowell "Before the Altar"

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( Sometimes )

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( Soap )

Joy, which is also a dishsoap - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

Getting stuck in a puddle of dish soap - Dean Young "Colophon"

Altered its taste to bitter dishsoap - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"

A soapbox famous for its speeches - Charles Simic "Le Beau Monde"

The shallow sea inside the soap dish - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

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In the poniard there's somewhat great and generous - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Could do somewhat for our common good - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

I fear lest somewhat dreadful might ensue - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Somewhat of the making's eager pain - Ivor Gurney "Song and Pain"

And somewhat more free - Langston Hughes "Theme for English B"

Took a somewhat smaller price - Henry S. Leigh "Etiquette"

Gone somewhat within the veil - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

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