somethingdarker | Oct. 3rd, 2011

Oct. 3rd, 2011

( Vengeful )

Avenge.

Revenge.

Vengeance.

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( Vengeance )

Avenge.

Revenge.

Vengful.

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( Verge )

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( Vegetable )

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( Venus )

A magic marker Venus de Milo - B. K. Fischer "Week 30 (Maternity Bathing Suit)"

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I try to be accurate about the number of L's in the source text, but I have difficulty reading combinations of lowercase i and l accurately in sans-serif fonts (also why 'Philip' versus 'Phillip' is hard for me). At any rate, many of the double L versions here appear like that in the source. Dictionary checking seems to indicate that the single L is preferred in US English, but...

( Vermilion )

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( Vessel )

Insects, vessel-like roots reaching for foliage - William Archila "El Mozote"

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( Vertical )

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( Vesper )

Presiding over vespertine flowers and dusky courts - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"

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( Verb )

Because subject-verb agreement cares not for self - Amari Low "Themself"

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( Veer" )

Unveering with all winds point still the same - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VIII"

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( Veil )

Full-veiled in peerless robes of light - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]

When the mortal spirit weds a half-veiled immortality - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Unveil.

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( Verse )

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( Version )

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( Vex )

My vexation renewing itself daily - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

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( Vein )

One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

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Ululation in blue vests - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Thunder's grave black vest - John Clare "To the Clouds"

Put on again the vest of many pockets - Jane Hirshfield "Vest"

The poppies vested choir - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"

Vested by gravity - Claire Millikin "Baby Alive"

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Drew vectors that would tear through fragile forms - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

A vector extends from her emptiness - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Only vector of purpose - Galway Kinnell "The Past"

Walk vectors of sweet nothings - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"

Pulped and vectored like a virus - Bruce Smith "Ferment"

Memory contains no vector - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

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( Venture )

And tidings of unventured ways - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

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( Venice )

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Remove from you all the little vestiges - Witter Bynner "Undressing You"

Then felt resurrection in a vestige of water - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

The vestige of his small world - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"

To catch the last vestiges of someone's history - Levi Romero "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"

Lighting up vestiges almost divine - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

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Less envenomed than the mouth of Truth - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

A century hence will envenom a lover - Edward Dowden "Unuttered"

( Venom )

Which turns a sudden venomous asp - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

Of hell-fire, of the venomous flame - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Of some black lily, still and venomous - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"

A venom-fanged hydra prowls my chest - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"

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Treble circumstance must confirm the verdict - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"

She who seals their verdicts - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

From which powers and verdicts spring - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 21. E-Tarsirsir. the Temple of Baba in Girsu" transl. by Sophus Helle

Cancels the verdict with indignant hand - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Receive the verdict from on high - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

A verdict against creation - Philip Levine "Magic"

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The bruised & bloodied vocabularies of the urban night - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"

Vocabulary of doubt and down - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

Your vocabulary not rooted in fair exchange - P. H. Low "Ode"

The whole vocabulary of the South - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

Hot flash vocabulary - Barbara Hamby "Ode to American English"

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Vinegar Time must scour the cup - Stephen Vincent Benet "Wisdom-Teeth"

In the hyssop, vinegar, and gall - John Castillo "Thoughts on Good Friday"

How did you come to this vinegar wind - Pablo Neruda "Elegy" transl. by Jack Schmitt

In fragrant buckets of vinegar and thyme - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"

For but a bowl of vinegar and gall - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"

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( Verdant )

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Where swarming vermin hailed it god and lord - William Rose Benét "The City"

With what vermin else infest - William Cowper "The Cricket"

Of vermin beset by ancient plagues - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

As the vermin shunning light - Adolf Wolff "Our Lady of Infinite Mercy"

Cling like vermin to the earth - Adolf Wolff "The Toilers"

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Speeding up your orbital velocity - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

The velocity of water - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Epilogue: A Story for After"

In velocity if not in direction - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

The velocity of the burning world - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

A fire of enduring velocity - Pablo Neruda "Guayaquil (1822)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A spiritual escape velocity - Tommy Pico "Junk"

Akin to the velocity of a spinning star - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"

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( Velvet )

Dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"

Velvet-winged spirits of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"

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Contests with stolid vehemence the march of culture - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

Hot protestings changed to less vehement moods - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

Your decibels and vehement budget - Alice Notley "The New Brain"

Wounded by vehement cries - Sara Teasdale "New Year's Dawn-- Broadway"

Day's vehement tumult - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"

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Vertigo under the infinite sky - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

the simple, vertiginous depth of problems - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

Dreams haunted by vertigo - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

The vertigo of possibility - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

Impervious to vertigo - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

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The vestibule to experience - Marianne Moore "Reinforcements"

The horse of weeping in the charming vestibule - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Fluctuating through an endless vestibule of time - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

In his jasper vestibules four hundred bloodhounds bay - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]

Be it his Vestibule to hope, and light, and peace - B. Simmons "Westminster-Hall and the Works of Art, (on a Free Admission Day)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

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