somethingdarker | Aug. 2nd, 2011

Aug. 2nd, 2011

( Tatter )

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Stars taunt us by a mystery - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

Boasting and bitter taunt - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Strand of Rhuddlan" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Ere he taunt the sun - Louis Golding "Silver-Badged Waiter"

Taunts me with just one memory of the past - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"

Taunting the rocks' long shadow - Audre Lorde "Change"

No peg to hang their taunts upon - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

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( Talon )

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( Tarnish )

Made of sweet, untarnished silver - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

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( Task )

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Speak with tasseled exactitude - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

The tasseled trees frown from the wall - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"

The morning sun with its golden tassels - Christopher Kondrich "Clearing"

Lonely perfect tassels to the wind - Isabel Neal "Drought Essay"

Like tasselled grapes to Tantalus - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"

Tossing the elm-tree's tender tassels - Francis Brett Young "England--April, 1918"

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( Table )

the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"

A tabletop scattered with ruins - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"

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( Tail )

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Who do not tax their lives with forethought - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

In times of action get new taxes - John Donne "Love's Growth"

Taxes every power you know - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Heroism"

To tax the poor plutocrat out of existence - Harry Graham "What's in a Name?"

They first tax the nation and then pawn the land - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Now bid the peasant pay no tax - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

And tax not the peasant's plough - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

A way to pay the infinite tax - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

Sold the ox to pay taxes - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson

Collecting the tax on honey and wax - John B. Tabb "The Tax-Gatherer"

We had paid our taxes off our veins - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

With crowning brilliancy and rich rewards untaxed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

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( Taste )

To consider the aftertaste of bark - Deborah Ruddell "The Woodpecker"

leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

Delight to spice the tasteless years - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"

To snatch the untasted cup away - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"

Where some joy untasted yet awaits - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

The burden of untasted death - Hazel Hall "Flash"

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( Tantrum )

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( Tap )

Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"

untapped talents and salted bravado - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"

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Discards those weevils on tarred roads - CM Burroughs "Elegy for a Server"

Bitter outtakes from tar - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"

Distilled the tar of cigarettes - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

The river sweats oil and tar - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Tarred by the vampire's pitch - Frank J. Medina "Who Was the Fool?"

When water undresses into tar sands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"

preserves the tar from a borealis - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

Buckets of bubbling tar and champagne - John Yau "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden"

Landed on a tar pit's surface - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Nothing drifts in a tar pit - fahima ife "recrudescence"

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To aid the tardy steps of reason - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

By scanty fruit and tardy grain - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"

The tardy zeal of future days - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

In the habit of tardy remunerations - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"

Easy vow of tardy kindness - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"

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( Tame )

In tameless hearts shall live - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

Tameless heart in battered frame - George Meredith "The Last Contention"

Tameless playmate of the wind - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

Untamed.

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( Taint )

Its blood dried up with treason's fever-taint - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

With a spirit-tainted breath - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"

Charms of taintless air - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

( Untainted )

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( Tapestry )

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I knelt at the tabernacle of chaos - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"

In tabernacles & doleful churches - Cyrus Cassells "Ready! Aim! Fire!"

The first tabernacle to Hope - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

The tabernacle reconstructed - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

Picking open a tabernacle - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

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

The tailor's eye which knows by sight - Mary Jo Bang "Still Life with Glasses"

Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

The tailor of histories - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"

A tailored suit for bones lost - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

Tailors of the light - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

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Masters of many talents render account to me - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

Booked the best talent in Tartarus - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"

Wasteful action is corruption of the purest talents - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

As wind ripens their talent for exodus - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"

untapped talents and salted bravado - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"

The jealousy knifed inside the mortal talent - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

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A fanfare of tambourines and glory - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"

They tambourine the light on the wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Makes a tambourine of the wind chime - Jaswinder Bolina "Phantom Camera"

Our tambourining and fireworking distractions - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

The far-off music of a tambourine - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

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Riding the cab of an iron dungeon - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Beauty a hackney cab of commerce - Mike Tyler "Palazzo Tartaruga"

( Taxi/Taxicab )

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Kept her tally of the years - Louise Morey Bowman "The Witch"

Tally the casualties of war - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

To tally my suspicions from a distance - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

The wind will tally our losses - Erika Meitner "Untitled [and the moon once it stopped was sleeping]"

Than all your tally of the sunsets - Lola Ridge "Time-Stone"

Tally the abandoned attempts - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint John the Dwarf: Against Giving Up"

And scored a flock of zeroes on my tally-board - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

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( Tattoo )

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Free as the wind to linger and tarry - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Wandering, wandering all the world over]"

Would not tarry if I could be gone - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr "Sonnet [I would not tarry if I could be gone]"

Light in all the city tarried - John Davidson "London"

Repair where the hill foxes tarry - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Too great to tarry questioning - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Beauty that tarries not, nor satisfies - Dora Sigerson "Unknown Ideal"

Nor let the grass of tarrying grow - William Watson "Lines (with a Volume of the Author's Poems Sent to M.R.C.)"

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From a digitally tagged snare - J.M. Allen "One Mistake"

Not all of our tools have price tags - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Playing "tag" in the very midst of the throng - "Dolly's Promenade" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Plays tag among the melon vines - Miriam Clark Potter "Thanksgiving Kitchen Song"

Build separate homes from red tag items - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"

Tungsten for the fireflies' freeze tag - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

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Entangle.

( Tangle )

Untangle.

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( Taper )

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A place on the tablets of fame - Edgar A. Guest "Looking Back"

To interpret the tablet of laws - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson

Upon the tablet of the human soul - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The tablets of exponential seeing - Alice Notley "Individual Time"

Could efface from memory's tablet - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

On the tablets of the night - John Oxenham "God Is Good"

Might trace the tablet of the mind - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"

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Sharp tang of other waters known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"

the bitter tang of the dream he'll become - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

The endless tang of the universe - Pablo Neruda "First Travelings" transl. by Alastair Reid

Tang of salt in the walls - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

The brackish tangs of the raw ores - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"

Released tangy dews and ozones - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

Harvest fruit tanged with sulfur - Stephen Yenser "Petition on Santorini"

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Through the lavish tangerine of dawn - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"

Inside the scent of tangerines - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

Aroma of basil and tangerine washed over - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Peel an alien tangerine - Trace Peterson "With a Petroleum Coating"

Of apples, victory, tangerines, and smoke - Carl Phillips "Archery"

With citrons yellow and tangerines still green - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

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A handful of intangible ash - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"

Still intangible power floats out of the sky - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

more tangible than yellow - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

No tangible good to stop for - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Grown tangible and true - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

Some tangible byproduct - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"

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Tape snaking through a stealth machine - Mary Jo Bang "An Autopsy of an Era"

Err on the side of caution tape - Brody Parrish Craig "Traverse"

Little flowers made from red tape - Matthew Olzmann "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz"

Amidst onions, and turnips, and tape - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

And make a mixtape of time - Nuola Akinde "Mothering"

A rainbow tapework as a token of goodbye - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

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( Taut )

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( Take/Taken/Taking )

To the banquet of bones will betake him - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Breathtaking presumption - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Breathtaking vistas of bodily hell - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Their estimating, census-taking eyes - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"

Bitter outtakes from tar - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"

Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Undertake/Undertake.

( Took )

Overtake/Overtook.

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( Talk )

Adverbs from the leaf-talk of the elves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"

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( Tartarus )

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( Talisman )

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( Tall )

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( Target )

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( Tale )

Fairy tale characters switch roles - Alise Alousi "Skip"

The ballet can't perform without fairy tale - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

Every fairy tale requires a bridge - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"

As one remembers in a fairy tale - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"

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