somethingdarker | Aug. 7th, 2011

Aug. 7th, 2011

( Trace )

Retraced the broad arc of our years - Geoffrey Brock "Mundane Comedies. II. Leaving Kansas"

Retrace her silent footsteps - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"

On paths that memory retraces - George Sterling "Mirage"

The benefit of its traceless disappearance - Jim Daniels "Birth Marks"

( Tracery )

A spell for becoming untraceable - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen B"

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( Trail )

Ornate with worm-trail tracery - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

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( Tragedy )

( Tragic )

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( Tremble )

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( Trouble )

Untroubled.

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( Transform )

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( Translucent )

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( Tribute )

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( Trespass )

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( Tribe )

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( Tryst )

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Transcending the ordeals - Kim Unsong "Faith"

Knows the need for a transcendent blues - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Break free and transcend the transparent boundary - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"

Knee-deep in transcendental drifts - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

No fury in transcendent forms - Wallace Stevens "A Quiet Normal Life"

Some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"

To transcend becoming strange - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

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( Trash )

A kind of trash can never emptied - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"

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( Tread )

( Trod )

The pale down-trodden aster lifts her head - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"

When by untrodden paths I go - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice

Through paths before untrod - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

The untrodden kingdoms of the deep - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

In some untrodden region of my mind - John Keats "Psyche"

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( Tranquil )

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Sped with travail of the moon and stars - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

The travail of the ages - Benjamin Copeland "Christmas"

Came to him in straits and travail sore - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Through travail of ignoble midnight streets - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

The tides of Time in travail - George Sterling "The Spirit of Beauty"

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( Treacherous )

( Treachery )

Treason.

Traitor.

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( Triangle )

Triangulate its distance from Earth - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"

Let me triangulate icy shuffling under snow - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

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( Translation )

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( Trade )

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( Tropic )

A jellyfish swam in a tropical sea - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"

Tropical birds and rare perfumes - Julia C.R. Dorr "Maud and Madge"

A tropical fog of breath - Heid E. Erdich "Another Touch"

The brown feet of tropical rain - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"

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( True )

The needle of quick joy point truly - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"

We found truly together - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)

These truly are the brave - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"

To aggravate the truly menacing - Frank O'Hara "Chez Jane"

Truth.

The hollow, the base, the untrue - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"

Romantic and silly and untrue - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

Barren-hearted and untrue - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

Which make the best philosophy untrue - Henry David Thoreau "Winter Memories"

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Trace ownership in treaties and deeds - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

A curse for treaties, bonds and laws - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

Made treaty with Time to stand still - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

In a treaty at the dawn of time - Rena Priest "The Index"

there are birds making treaties with the sky - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

Our long rope of broken treaties - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Holes"

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Shared my lonely walk on this tremendous brink - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

Having sworn by Styx tremendous - George Meredith "Phaethon"

That unnamed, tremendous chord Arcturus sounds - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Ascription"

Ask some tremendous thing to prove her - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"

Tremendous in a coat of fire - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."

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Imperial trove of stolen stories - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

The treasure trove she raided while we dreamed - Duane Ackerson "Driving Across Idaho"

A treasure trove of purple lilacs - Mary Jo Bang "The Fable of a Fabric Woven with Resistance"

Troves of lost sons from the old world - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

A trove of pearls and stones - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"

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The avenue with its cavalcade of trucks - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"

Past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"

Left a truck full of shivers - Xan Forest Phillips "War on Drugs"

Truckloads of gravel between us - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

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My share of the people is the transit of their ghosts - Najwan Darwish "A Violet Darkness" transl. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Trace the secret transits of our joy - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"

A kind of witness in transition - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

In search of a transitional object - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Iron in a forbidden transition - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"

( Transitory )

Transient.

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( Transmute )

Mutable/Mutate.

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Truant in my search - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

The truant hour came back at dawn - Emily Pauline Johnson "The King's Consort"

Fluorescent truant of heaven - Mina Loy "Moreover, the Moon--"

How truant years have flown - John McCrae "Then and Now"

My truant spirit outward looks - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Student.

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( Trophy )

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( Trunk )

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Trimmed with cinnamon straws - Charles E. Carryl "The Walloping Window-Blind"

If tranquil hope but trims her lamp - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Eternal Years"

Has doffed her gaudy trim - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

Being sad in their fantastic trim - Paul Verlaine "Clair de Lune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Nature's changing course untrimm'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"

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( Tree )

The green twilight of the forest-trees - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"

Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."

Sunlight, treefall, decaying signals, shade - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Carrying her fever over the treeline - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"

Their underground tree-root syllables - Chen Chen "I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule"

( Treetop )

Spring from knots in tree-trunks - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"

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( Trajectory )

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( Transfigure )

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( Tradition )

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( Traverse )

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( Troop )

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( Treasure )

( Treasury )

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( Try )

Finding untried ways to interlock - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Who bent his daring sail to untried winds - Rev. William Crowe "On the Death of Captain Cook"

Untried pilgrims of life's stormy sea - M.P. "The Vales" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]

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Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

( Troy )

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( Trial )

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( Traffic )

A country of trafficless roads - Chen Chen "When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities"

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entrenched in their desire to flee - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

Splendors trench on narrow lanes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

Good at trenches, bad at bridges - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"

Life-blood in the trench Ulysses made - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Shadow"

In your trench coat of solitude - Tony Hoagland "Disappointment"

The fight of others in the trenches of Mars - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

Ancient scars of trench and tomb - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

Form trenches for the frailer flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "In the Hardt Wald"

Their entrenched metamorphosis - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament I"

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( Transparency )

( Transparent )

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True.

( Truth )

Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"

Teach us the hard-truths and hurt - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Sweet those inscrutable untruths - Mary Jo Bang "Crossed-Over, Fiend-Snitched, X-ed Out"

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( Trillion )

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( Trip )

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Tramping millions drifting from one pole - Maurice Baring "Beethoven"

And hear the tramp of thousands - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"

The wind that tramps eternity - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

To tramp the dusty roads alone - John Masefield "In Memory of A.P.R."

Tramp them underfoot like pebbles - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

The tramp of the weird spirit-horses - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "Foreshadowings"

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( Trust )

Distrust/Mistrust.

( Entrust )

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( Trellis )

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( Trickle )

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Phantoms of the transfixed mind - Max Eastman "To the Ascending Moon"

Whose eye transfixes with a fiery dart - Sir Nizamat Jung "V: Unity"

Transfixes joy's brief crown - Arch Alfred McKillen "Lone Cello"

Nightingale with her ecstatic pain transfixed - John Presland "The Deluge"

The poet appalled and transfixed - Adrienne Rich "Char"

In the transfixed air - John Updike "Americana"

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( Trifle )

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( Trill )

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The stairs inside the tripling device - Mary Jo Bang "The Transformation Anxiety Dream"

Where they joined their triple flood - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"

Triples with each turning season - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

In the triple growth of bramble and hawthorn - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

In white triple tiers of glittering gates - Herman Melville "The Maldive Shark"

Reply to the triple winds - William Carlos Williams "January"

The wind's fugue tripling her internal rhythm - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

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( Trout )

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When the trump shall wake the sleeping - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

( Trumpet )

Come not trumpet-tongued from Heaven - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"

A trumpet-voice of phantom hosts - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

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( Triumph )

( Triumphant )

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Fit to entrap a Syren in her dreams - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

the amber yellow that entraps life - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

Respite risks entrapment - Diane Seuss "Weeds"

( Trap )

Spiderwebs and mousetraps - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

Trapdoors in the tiers of heaven - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

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( Trample )

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( Triton )

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( Tremor )

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( Trick )

( Trickery )

Trickster.

a scrawl of hands weaving witchtricks - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

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( Travel )

( Traveler )

Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

Far-travelled herald of some distant storm - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

Another wave of time-traveling starships - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

not enough prime numbers; and not enough time travel - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"

Athwart the untravelled wilds of space - B. "To an Evening Cloud" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Down the blue fields of the untraveled Infinite - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

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( Trickster )

Trick.

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( Track )

His horses keep the arrow-track - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

The dog that backtracks in autumn - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf

Trackless.

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( Truce )

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( Translate )

The utter silence of the untranslated stars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"

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( Trance )

Stop entranced before some tempting shop - Martin Armstrong "Miss Thompson Goes Shopping"

In difficult dreams entranced - Olive Custance "The Storm"

Entranced by calm of midnight hours - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

The roses entrancing the night - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"

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( Train )

Of freight trains lacking finesse - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

And stars a freight train passing - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"

Into the crease the freight train hits - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

As the Devil's sabbath-train whirls by - James Russell Lowell "The Black Preacher"

Textured and untrained - Quenton Baker "[we are]"

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Where no transience is nor time - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 13"

Pause in the transience of all things - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

The permanent transience of all things - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

( Transient )

Transit.

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( Trackless )

Track.

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( Traitor )

Treachery.

Treason.

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( Treason )

Traitor.

Treachery.

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( Trinket )

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( Tremulous )

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The memory of trauma in our roots - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Despite the trauma of expulsion - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (3)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Where trauma starts and karma loops - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

The vascular trauma of hurt in my blood - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"

Hold the memory of trauma in our roots - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

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A tumult, a tempest, a true tribulation - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"

In the day of tribulation - Benjamin Copeland "Christus Consolator"

Tribulation shall curse thy blessings - David Gray "Ezekiel"

A post-tribulationist vaudeville act of God - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Ripened in hours of darkest tribulation - Joseph R. Wilson "Words to Mendelssohn's 'Consolation'"

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