somethingdarker | Aug. 9th, 2011

Aug. 9th, 2011

A turf war with time - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"

Evicted on the victor's turf - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"

The pile of turf against the wall - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

The turf alone tells whence he sprung - D.F. "Monument and Turf" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.725, 17 Nov. 1877]

Between the swell of turf and slanting branches - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

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( Tune )

From twain spheres with hearts distuned - Thomas Hardy "Side by Side"

Fine-tuning the orchestra of lies - Airea D. Matthews "From the Pocket of His Lip"

The poet's star-tuned harp - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Sleep"

Some jarring note, some tuneless string - Fanny Farmer "The Sky-Lark's Song" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.429, 20 March, 1852]

Hear these tuneless numbers - John Keats "Psyche"

These tuneless strains of wrong - Lewis Morris "Cradled in Music"

Tune up the poems performed to Marsyas' flute - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

How untuned your lyre - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"

An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"

The true concord of well-tuned sounds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"

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( Tumble )

Tree-tumbling fury of collapse - John Masefield "Biography"

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( Tuck" )

Untuck the universe from my waist - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

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( Turquoise )

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( Tulip )

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( Turn )

Time with ever-turning multiplying wheels - Iris Tree "The Complex Life"

With fearless foot and heaven-turned eye - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

But today was a turncoat - Mary Jo Bang "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be"

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

My head unturned lest my dream should fade - Thomas Hardy "The Shadow on the Stone"

Leaving most of the world unturned - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Upturn.

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( Tumult )

( Tumultuous )

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In love with turbulence - Louise Gluck "Aboriginal Landscape"

The whirling turbulence of her sonnets - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

Have learned the turbulence of names - Jay Wright "Kumu"

So deep a flood of turbulent despair - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"

Without such turbulent hope - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Tasting the turbulent fury of living - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

And turbulent unrest unto ourselves - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"

In the turbulent stream of change - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

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And flings their turmoil to the sky - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a River Steam-Boat"

A narrow turmoil of troubled fire - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

Turned toward some invisible turmoil - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

The flaw and turmoil of the lower deep - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"

Full of haste and turmoil - Henry van Dyke "The Tribe of the Helpers"

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( Tumbleweed )

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( Turret )

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Quiet as an empty bathtub - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"

Bubbles in a bathtub slowly swelling - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

A sinking ship in the bathtub - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"

All these sharks swimming in the bathtub - Ada Limon "Fin"

the bathtub full of your spring weeds - C.T. Salazar "River"

A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Stepping through a lava tub - Arthur Sze "The Radiant's"

Bath/Bathe.

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( Tuesday )

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A voyeuristic tug at suffering - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"

Tugs a rusted chain - John McCrae "The Captain"

Tugged by forest's feral animals - Claire Millikin "Prizewinners of the Apocalypse"

Tugging black thread of tunnel - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: The Parade"

Tugging at the moaning bells of death - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"

A perpetual tug of war - Monica de la Torre "Equivalent"

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