somethingdarker | Jul. 16th, 2011

Jul. 16th, 2011

( Sustain )

As stars confess the all-sustaining sun - Benjamin Copeland "By Many Paths"

To find a sustainable ecstasy - Charles Wright "Tutti Frutti"

Seekers after sustenance - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"

Your sustenance is refusal - James Galvin "Alpenrose Growing by the Door"

Coax my own sustenance from the earth - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

Find sustenance in shadows - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"

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( Surround )

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( Surrender )

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( Supply )

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( Subdue )

( Unsubdued )

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( Sunk )

Sink.

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So lost in love's supremacy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

In proud supremacy of guilt alone - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

To jeopardize my own supremacy - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

For three days hold supremacy - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

( Supreme )

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( Suspend )

The willed suspension of belief - Carl Phillips "Spring"

In stale suspension - Kay Ryan "Homage to Joseph Brodsky"

High and moon-suspended fountains - Clark Ashton Smith "Artemis"

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( Subtle )

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( Substance )

More substantial than their own joy - Charles Rafferty "Blackbirds"

An insubstantial repository of final words - Ennis Rook Bashe "How to Hallucinate Your Zombie Lover"

As insubstantial as a sunset - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"

An unsubstantial, fairy place - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"

Light's flame with self-substantial fuel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

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( Survive )

A member of the fiasco survivor's club - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands, II"

The blood of survivors coursing through my veins - Kwame Dawes "Land Ho"

Like a fire lit by a survivor - Louise Gluck "A Work of Fiction"

Final, ultimate survivor of an order obsolete - Harry Graham "The Last Horsed 'Bus"

And is survivor at its overthrow - "Jonathan to John Bull" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

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( Surprise )

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( Summon )

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( Survival )

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Sun flowers and sumac opening greedily - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"

After the sumac's banners fall - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"

Red sumac stains on their hands - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"

Slopes crowded with sumac and maple - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"

A sumac grows on the altar - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"

Between ditches of sumac - Alison Swan "The Language of Field Guides"

Setting sumac hedge aflame - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"

Its body a copse of sumac - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

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Asunder.

( Sunder )

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( Sum )

Test of all sumless agonies - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"

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( Sublime )

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( Suffocate )

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Brimstone.

( Sulfur )

Garlands of sulfur-colored seaweed - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Lead paint and sulfur dioxide - Matthew Olzmann "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now"

Form the sulphurous grain of war - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"

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( Sun )

Moon and Sun/Sun and Moon.

Sunless.

Sunny.

( Sun: Assorted singleton compound words )

Waves that murmur on the sunward beach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

And pressing blindly sunwards - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"

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( Surface )

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( Sundial )

Dial.

Sun.

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Sang.

Sing.

Singer.

Song.

( Sung )

Unsung.

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Subside to fragments of defeat - Max Bodenheim "City Streets"

the cattails grew so high that the longing nearly subsided - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"

Leaf subsides to leaf - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Listen to the noise subside - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Heard the cry subside in vacant skies - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Then one by one subside again and pass - Harold Monro "Solitude"

At times when storms subside - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems IV: Revoke Not"

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Midsummer.

( Summer )

Ripe and summer-breathing clover-flower - John Drinkwater "The Midlands"

In the summer-land of dreams - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

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( Suggest )

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( Survey )

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Has a surplus of truths - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

With a surplus of cranberry wine - Dorsey Craft "The women my husband ought to love"

Her surplus of hatred today - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"

From surplus of gratitude - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

Sure of a surplus in the heart - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

Surplus hardening to archive - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"

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( Suffer )

Abandon the hunger-suffering vulture - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

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( Sunrise )

Rise.

Sun.

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Setting Sun.

( Sunset )

Sunset-panthers past her run to caverns of the Sun - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Sails out to sea at sunset-time - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "Little Sunset Ship of Dreams"

Set.

Sun.

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( Sunshine )

Shine.

Sun.

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( Summit )

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( Sullen )

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Suspect of easy heavens - William Brewer "Ode to Suboxone"

Even the prophets suspected they were mad - Scott Cairns "Late Results"

The nothing it suspects we are - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

The stream suspects the keel - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Solvitur Acris Hiemps"

( Suspicion )

Thick with suspicious walls - Sandy Florian "House"

Each ancient and suspiciously free - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"

( Unsuspected )

Conspiratorial unsuspicious activity - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"

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( Sunbeam )

Beam.

Sun.

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Sun.

( Sunless )

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( Sunday )

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( Sunlight )

( Sunlit )

Light.

Lit.

Sun.

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( Surge )

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( Sugar )

On the other side of sugarcane - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

Rose water, sugar cane, and summer melons - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

Sugar-loaves from Paradise enriched our bread and milk - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

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More swift compelled submission - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

A war against 500 lifetimes of submission - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"

Submissive to your cause - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Submitted to the nine-tiered palace - Han Yu "Written on My Way into Exile When I Reached the Lan-t'ien Pass and Shown to My Brother's Grandson Hsiang" transl. by Burton Watson

Submitted to that tingling dance of atoms - Robert Hass "State of the Planet"

Submit to its first fall - Jay Wright "Imule"

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( Suburb )

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( Suit )

Wearing a swimsuit on Thursday - Aimee Le "That Girl"

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( Suitcase )

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( Sunflower )

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( Support )

Beautiful unsupported lies that simulate a universe - Humbert Wolfe "The Skies"

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( Sure )

Unsure of the usefulness of inevitable things - Ada Limon "A Little Distantly, As One Should"

Unsure if I am jealous of the web or the fly - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

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( Surf )

Body-surfed the hollow waves - Mary Karr "For My Children"

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( Surpass )

The unsurpassable openness of the circle - Mina Loy "The Dead"

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( Submerge )

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With those I never succeeded to love - Julie Byrne "Sleepwalker"

The multiplied inheritance of each succeeding moment - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

( Success )

Proving his beauty by succession - William Shakespeare "Sonnet II"

With penetrating of successive masks - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

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Patient toil does not suffice to win - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Heart-Throbs"

Nor sun nor stars sufficed - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"

What the soul has made suffice - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

A fistful of absence suffices - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The throne"

Sufficing all our needs - Charles G.D. Roberts "O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs"

( Sufficient )

Scores of insufficient names - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

your mission statement was always insufficient - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

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( Suck )

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The trick of deep suppression - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene III"

The noisy thunders of my heart suppress - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"

Ceremonial hostess of suppressed rage - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"

For whom they suppress their tears - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"

Wise words suppress the need of swords - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

Expel your suppressing cells - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

From landscape to unsuppressed conjunction - Charles Wright "Homage to What's-His-Name"

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( Subtract )

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( Surmise )

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( Sudden )

( Suddenly )

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A subway tunnel through the turnips - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

The subway, eye of a concrete needle - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"

Across the marquees of legions of subway cars - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"

Stumbling drunk through the subway turnstile - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

Pinned between subway and overhead train - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"

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In passion's suppliant sea - Elizabeth Bridges Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 35

And raised my suppliant hands on high - Anne Bronte "Despondency"

The supplication of a dead man's hand - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

Blood of old supplications - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin

Unburdened by any supplication - Charles Wright "Little Ending"

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We were supposed to fight the dragons together - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"

When I forget what I'm supposed to be remembering - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"

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

Families are supposed to be circuses - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"

Suppose the boat should be upset - "Milking Pails"

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Let down the lightning from a sultry sky - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Sultry clouds her blazing eyes bedim - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Whispers of sultry ages - B. Higgins "Gallipoli: An Epitaph"

The lace the sultry copperhead sheds - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Sultry hum of hermit bees - George Martin "Marguerite"

The gray-fly winds her sultry horn - John Milton "Lycidas"

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