Jul. 12th, 2011

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Spirit )


The falling star sinks in spiritless death - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson


A spirit-planted, fadeless flower - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"


Symphonies of spirit-power divine - Herbert Randall "The White Pine"


Spiritual )


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Spice )


Spicy )


Rich spice-fields and perfumed sands - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"


With the pungence of sealed spice-jars - Amy Lowell "A Lady"


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Sprang an immortal to the blaze of day - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Sprang to kiss the sun - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

Sprang from his good grey steed - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"

War's red rose sprang blooming - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]


Spring )


Dayspring of the desolate - Benjamin Copeland "Gold, and Frankincense, and Myrrh"


Though fiercer thunder drains my life-springs - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]


There's a mainspring to the bee - Vachel Lindsay "Another Word on the Scientific Aspiration"

To find whatever mainspring made things go - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"


Life's fountain springing from eternity- Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Springing from the arms of night - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"

Springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Beauty springing from the sod - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"



The springless January of his beginning to be gone - Mary Jo Bang "No Exit"


A cold conspiracy of blood and springwater - Geoffrey Brock "The Rat Snake Gospel"


Sprung )


A sky-lark in his strength upsprung - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"


Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"


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Span )


Absence held in the handspan - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"

Hobbies to cheer immortal lifespans - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"

The ballet of wingspan - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"


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Every chanting sprite that lit the sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Plagues inflicted by these angered sprites - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

Where drowsy sprites sip clover-sweets - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"

While sister sprites wake laughter - Theodore H. Rand "The Crystal Spring"


Which frost-sprites laughing cast - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"


That sea-sprites weave in vain - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"


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Spite )


Dropping brambles and silky-spite - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"


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My spleen's above the power of words - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]

Without rancour or spleen - "The Golfer's Garland"

The spleen doesn't ask twice - Randall Mann "A Better Life"

Who late fell a martyr to malice and spleen - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Made up of slander, corruption, and spleen - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Tasting within the bitter dregs of spleen - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"


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Sparkle )


The stars sizzling like 4th of July sparklers - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"


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Spurn )


Empty shells on sea-spurned sands - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"


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A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"


Water on a rain-spattered stone - Chris Dombrowski "Inscription"


May sun spattering them with pixels - Kevin Killian "Free"

In molten spatters of bud and bloom - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

In a spatter of spiteful rain - James Whitcombe Riley "A Windy Day"

Spatter a few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"

Charred with the spattering of rockets - Iris Tree "[Tranquility stirred by a sudden spasm]"


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Spine )


Wiser for the spiny-edge - Carolina Ebeid "Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts"


Backbone.


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Hell bent on spawning a moon - Hailey Leithauser "Romance"

Up the river to spawn in eclipse water - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Spawn of the years - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

Arsenals spawning wealth - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Where the silences are spawned - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

As a seashell spawns a pearl - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 5: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley


The vast pool of heaven star-spawned - Robert W. Service "The Land of Beyond"


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Spike )


Dark-spiked rosemary and myrrh - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

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


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Starlight bespangles the way of your dreams - Dorothy Parker "Lullaby"


Spangle )


The smoke of fire-spangled passion - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

With zodiac-spangled zone - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"


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Spot )


With spotless wave and crystal tide - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"


Knotted together under the spotlight - Samantha H. Chung "Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024"

Terror of the spotlight and audience roar - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

barter in the currencies of bravado and spotlight - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

Luminous in the sun's spotlight - Yvonne Zipter "Seeds"


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Spy )


Through the spyglass of trust - Elaine Equi "Round Corners"


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

The seal's wide spindrift gaze - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

And the spindrift strikes the glass - Thomas Hardy "The Curtains Now Are Drawn"

Standing drenched with the spindrift - John Masefield "Sorrow of Mydath"

Tossed you the spindrift born of its fretting - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"

Write on these spindrift pages - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"


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A splutter of broken sentences - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

The spluttering light of this specific flame - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Tomatoes in a steady splutter - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Spluttering grievances of a thousand years' past - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

Torches spluttering silver fire - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The spluttering of fierce tongues - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver


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Spool )


The perpetual scattering that unspools the world - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

The stem of your body unspooled - Kiki Petrosino "Study Abroad"


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An hour's lull in the space-time continuum - Simon Armitage "Gravity"

Since imagining precedes space-time - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"

We're on the same sheet of space-time - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

Who cry like ravens at spacetime destroyed - Ann K. Schwader "Void Flyers"

Echo in real air and space-time - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"


Space.

Time.


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Spider )


Where the orb spider continues to spin a hole - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"


A white stucco ceiling with its million spider-cracks - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"


In winter's spider-eyed light - Judy Jordan "Prologue"


Spinning with spider-hands the miser's web - Iris Tree "Smoke"


As Satan spider-like stalked the orb of dark - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"


Sunlight climbing a thread of spider's silk - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

Spider's silk in a gentle breeze - Ted Kooser "A Glint"


Spider-Web.


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Spark )


Sparkless for lack of knowing better - Jennifer Chang "Sonogram"


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Speak )


Clenched tight on godspeak shrapnel - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"


Silver-speaking mirrors of desire - Robert Bridges "Ode to Music"


Tears are the language of the unspeakable - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Undertake terrestrial forms of everything unspeakable - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Folios of unspeakable sorrow - Claire Millikin "Linear A and B"

Enfolding but the cold, unspeaking dust - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"


Spoke )


Bespoke mirrors for our escaping faces - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "With a third eye, I see the catastrophe"


They carry shards of their half-spoken dreams - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"

Only the half-spoken promises of Heaven - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"


Loud-spoken in the jargon of the day - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"


A spokesman of the night - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"


The omnipotent outspeaks in thunder - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"


Unspoken.


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In their heart of hearts a throne of special glory - C. L. Graves "The Old Matron"

Will make you a special loan called Time - Tony Hoagland "Marriage Song"

To guide your hand along with special art - Ted Kooser "A Perfect Heart"

A cruelty special to our species - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"


Memory's daylight is especially brilliant - Felix Cortes "In the Beginning There was the Light"

And especially when it becomes routine - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Placed in your especial care - Henry S. Leigh "Clumsy Servant"


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The spectacle of stars turning in on themselves - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

magicians knew spectacle was struggle reframed - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"

An order to each spectacle - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"

A tree breathing through its spectacles - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"

Before the spectacle of our lives - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]


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Spindle )


Buried under sleek pavement and spindly landscaping - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."


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Receding on the path of dark spruce and roses - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"

The spruce's fair free limbs - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"

Born of spruce and fading light - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Portrait of My Father as a Pianist"

A resonance of thrumming spruce - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Balsam, hemlock, spruce and pine - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"


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Spray )


The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"


Blackberries straight from the unsprayed vines - Chris Dombrowski "The Forbidden"


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Space )


In a silence of vacuumed, black-space sky - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"


Immense sea-spaces haunt your memory - Edward Dowden "Swallows"


Bearer of fire and space-invader - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"


Through the space program and into the ancient sea of stars - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"


Hijack the next spaceship and travel to Mars - Julie Babcock "Dick and Jane Burn Down the House"


Space-Time.


I want to spacewalk in time with you - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"


Adown the clefts of under-space - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"


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The sky spitting dust and light - Tina Chang "Celestial"

Spitting white ash smoke - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

mouths like hard candy spitting - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

A black crow spits out white fog - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Deaf Old Man"

Spitting smoke and cinders at the moon - John Masefield "A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent"

Standing near the spitting fire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"

Spitting against the wind - Philip Schultz "Googling Ourselves"

The spitting foam and the ice-fanged caves - Marian Thanhouser "Home"


A jarring shard of reality to be spat out - Michelle Wirth "Campus"


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Spear )


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


Whetting a spearhead on an asteroid - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"


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Speech )


Held speechless by the vine - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Old Bell"

beheld night's speechless carnival - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IV)"

That still and speechless hour - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

Whose speechless song being many - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"

Speechless in a foreign country - Richard Solomon "Crossing Borders (For Ray Helfer, M.D.)"


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Speed )


Sped )


Night outspeeding light - Algernon Swinburne "One of Twain"


That scale the speed of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"

Before accelerating toward the speed of light - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

What is born massless at light speed - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"


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Spell )


Spell-bound vagabond of spurious birth - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Spellbound, listening to the voice of Time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Spellbound, silent, down a shimmering track of light - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"

The spellbound horses walking warm - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"


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Spend )


Spendthrift.


Spent )


To gather the days misspent - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"


For the rapture of storm-spent eyes - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"


Unspent.


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Sphere )


Swung in crimson-sphered completeness - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"


Where spheral voices blend - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"


In a silent spheric tune - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"

On our spherical, miracle merry-go-round - Allan Wolf "The Sun Did Not Go Down Today"


Or unsphere the spirit of Plato - John Milton "Il Penseroso"


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Spill )


In the freezerspill of smoky Arctic starlight - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"

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


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Spin )


Lines like spokes to a spinning wheel - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

Flax in search of a spinning wheel - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"

Queen of the loom and spinning wheel - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"


Spun )


The glass globe of hand-spun conjurings - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"


Homespun warp of circumstance - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


Calls thy thread misspun - Benjamin Stillingfleet "Sonnet"


Confiding in our threads of life unspun - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"


That improvised word-spun truth - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"


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Splinter )


His many-splintered arrows of light - Francis Brett Young "Phthonos"


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Spread )


This far-spread conflagration of the fields of snow - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"


Outspread.


With gorgon-figured veil o'erspread - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"


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The dreambike had eyes on its spokes - Duane Ackerson " Proof of Existence"

Upon the spokes of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "In His Image"

A pinwheel blur of silver spokes - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"

Spill out from the spokes of his wheels - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"

With glowing spokes of red - Richard Le Gallienne "Sunset in the City"

Trembles in the outward spokes - Stephen Leggett "For a Little Wheel"

Lines like spokes to a spinning wheel - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

Spread quivering spokes of gold - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"


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