somethingdarker | Aug. 3rd, 2011

Aug. 3rd, 2011

The tease of sunny days - Stephen Dunn "Salvation"

Behind light words that tease and flout - Robert Frost "Revelation"

Corners where small hilarities gathered, teasing - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"

Their little axes hack and tease - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Teases string theory and quantum mechanics - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

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Accompany the sympathy with a tenor of all tomorrows - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"

An acre of semisweet tenor notes - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

The waters boom like tenor bells - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"

Heard the tenor voice of grief - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"

The particular nature and tenor of the energy - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

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( Tears )

Rinsing my eyes of smoke-tears - Hilda Morley "Song of the Terrible"

Lightning through tear-blurred pages - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

Teardrop.

Till those tearful winds abate - Irving Sidney Dix "March Wind Blow"

The tearful-beaded rain froze into gems - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Nostalgia and tear gas have the same acrid smack - A.E. Stallings "After a Greek Proverb"

Tearless.

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( Temper )

Of happier-tempered coffee - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Acid-dipped, and sky-tempered, storm-bathed - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

less temperamental than red - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

Temperamentally unfit for death - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

Liberal growth demands untempered heat - William Cory "Amavi"

The untempered supervision of the sun - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"

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( Tend )

Spring chores too long untended - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson

Where the fields lie lonely and untended - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"

Though untended, we may bloom - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"

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( Tempt )

Temptation.

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Keeps your rage room temperature - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

The precise temperature of a tear - Chris Dombrowski "Ghazal in which End Word Repetition Is Implied"

Operating at temperature extremes of absolute zero - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

Take the temperature of the soul - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

In the temperature of heaven - Wallace Stevens "The Hermitage at the Centre"

Where endings approach room temperature - Jenny Xie "Misconjugate"

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( Ten )

That flares like the ten-colored turquoise - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

( Tenfold )

Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"

Splash at a ten-league canvas - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

That has a ten-mile voice and shines as far - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"

On each tenth returning sunrise - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

That could embrace a tenth part - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

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terrace my piece of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "lesson on five fingers"

In terrace beyond terrace, pinnacle above pinnacle - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Long, terraced lines of circling light - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"

Where the precious airs are terraces and roadways - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Among the shadows of the Terrace of Night - Po-Chu-i "Dreaming of Yuan Chen" (translated by Arthur Waley)

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( Ten Thousand )

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( Text )

Not the textbook definition - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

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Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

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

( Term )

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( Tender )

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( Terrible )

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( Terror )

Tools of a terrorist undertaking - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"

A poet armed with a terrorist's sonnet - Pablo Neruda "I Begin by Invoking Walt Whitman" transl. by Teresa Anderson

Terrify.

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( Tea )

Teacup.

In a teahouse of the mind - Elizabeth Spires "Tea"

A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

A trumpet in the tea-tree - Furnley Maurice "Neely Lorst"

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A tendon of faith and escape - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"

Fantastic tendons to the sky - F.N.W. Bateson "Trespassers"

The tendon bands that hold my soul - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"

Will the poems have tendon and teeth? - Liv Mammone "Fear"

The living tendons of a flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"

Graven on tendon and bone - George Sterling "Earth Song"

The nerve endings of tendons are fueled by the sun - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"

Stirred by the tendons of the wind - Jenny Xie "Distance Sickness"

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Ghost of a former tea-cup - Yona Harvey "Posting Bail"

In a teacup's worth of dirt - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Floats in the teacup of your dreams - Philip Lamantia "Celestial Estrangement"

A tea-cup of ashes or so - Carl Sandburg "Pool"

Fills a teacup with champagne - Ocean Vuong "Aubade with Burning City"

Cup.

Tea.

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The television yōkai glares white - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Demanded that we confess on television - Scott Cairns "Late Results"

The heat-death of prime time television - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Inside the TV's square corners - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

And stare long into the TV's ether - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

Watched the Revolution live on TV - Mina Florea "Remember"

Has only worshipped in the true church of TV - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"

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A temporal embezzlement siphoning away my time - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Clarity of the temporal fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

A temporal trespass deliberate - Linda Gregerson "Dido in Darkness"

An edifice of temporal flame - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"

The meaning of each temporal blame - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Ciphers equally temporal and mystified - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"

Passing on his temporal elm-wood bier - W.J. Turner "Death"

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( Terrifying )

Terror.

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And its pale tenement of clay - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Build and share a tenement of stars - Witter Bynner "The New World III"

Her voice forgets its tenement - Scott Cairns "Homeland of the Foreign Tongue"

Logic to the shape of tower and tenement - Michael Mesic "Gaudi"

No door the tenement requires - William Wordsworth "A Wren's Nest"

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( Tent )

To-morrow my untented soul will range - John Oxenham "Nightfall"

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That far terrain between Promise and Apology - Jericho Brown "Ganymede"

Imagined differences in terrain - Sue Budin "False Borders"

Through blue juniper terrain - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"

For the lost terrains of Xanadu or Johannes Kepler - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

Where the false terrain begins - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Panorama"

Avoiding the only safe terrain - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"

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( Teardrop )

Drop.

Tear.

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The hour's tedious orbit - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"

That follow like a tedious argument - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Drift tediously to the end of the world - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

Toiling through the tedious night - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"

( Tedium )

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( Teach )

Beneath us the teachers - Robert Bly "Gratitude to Old Teachers"

A gentle fiery teacher - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"

Will make you a teacher of kings - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

( Taught )

Half-taught in anguish - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Grief"

The wind once blew itself untaught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"

With magic spell had taught my untaught heart - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Yet untaught by shame and art - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

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( Tell )

Will realize that I foretell their doom - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

By prophets long foretold - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"

Conscious of the thing foretold - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"

As a spark foretells a flame - Sara Teasdale "From the Sea"

Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

Told and retold by millions of bodies - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"

( Told )

Tremulous with pathos of a half-told tale - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"

All those mistold stories for destiny - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

Untold.

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Attacked by particularly territorial and predatory flocks of clouds - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

( Territory )

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( Tendril )

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( Texture )

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( Phone )

( Telephone )

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( Temporary )

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( Tenant )

This bewildering space untenanted - Mona Gould "Loud Silence"

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This testament offers no sound or silence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

A stubborn testament to an accident - C. Dale Young "Myth"

Through its testament of cold light - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"

Have been writing dismal testimony - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"

Testimony of mass assassination - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"

Gathered testimony of terror - Denise Levertov "El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation"

Shelved for years without testimony - Claire Millikin "Doll Mothers"

Ineffable testimonies of the love that permeates existence - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

A broken testimony, the history of a world dissolving - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Intertwining destiny testifying for a hopeless cause - Mike Allen "Pulse"

They wait their turn to testify - Martin Espada "Mad Love"

velvet ants and paper wasps testify - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

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( Tempest )

Snatched in tempestuous eddies - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Through the tempestuous years - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

From the world's tempestuous sea - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

The clouds of battle-tempest - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"

To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Tempest-fires and surging storm - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

Like a sparrow tempest-tost - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"

By sheeted rain blown tempest-wild - Theodore H. Rand "The Opal Fires Are Gone"

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( Temple )

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( Teeth )

Found them in death's dog-teeth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

Loved darkness with my needle-teeth - J. Federle "Possession of the Farmer's Son"

Wax bells of siren-teeth - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"

hurling herself teeth-first at the windows - Jennifer L. Knox "How old is Maggie?"

( Tooth )

A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"

So many have a sweet tooth for belief - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"

Meal planning with a sweet tooth - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"

A tooth-ache in each spoonful - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles I"

The toothache of tragedy - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"

From skeletons with toothless jaws - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"

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( Tearless )

Tears.

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( Temptation )

Tempt.

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( Tension )

Tense.

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( Tense )

Tension.

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( Test )

But leave the truth untested - Christina Rossetti "Winter: My Secret"

To hold by faith a heart's untested gold - George Sterling "Intimation"

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( Tether )

The tether-thread coiled around her wrist - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Smaller than a molecule, untethered - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"

Without his esteem, untethered, the string snapped - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Five American Sentences"

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