somethingdarker | Nov. 2nd, 2011

Nov. 2nd, 2011

( Wanton )

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( Way )

Down alleyways of dreams - Countee Cullen "Harlem Wine"

Halfway.

Roads burn fuses into nightways - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Roadway.

Continents traveling the skyway - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

Someone underway and expressing it - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"

That brings the wayfarer his recompense - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Wayfared at the nadir of the sun - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"

Keep watch over the wayfarers - Richard Jones "Rest"

Met in random wayfare - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"

My ancient way-fellows convene - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

In some vile alley of the night waylaid - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Frowning cliff and wayside stone - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"

Trodden underfoot like wayside flowers - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

No dust upon the wayside thorn - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"

At many a wayside worshipped - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"

A little way station just beyond silence - Charles Wright "Future Tense"

Before they became wayweeds - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

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( Wave )

Firm as the wave-beaten rock - Frank E. Smedley "The Enchanted Net"

The flood-wave and the second ebb tide - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The rainbow of the salt sand-wave - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

The fish in shadow-waved herds - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

Sun-wave or heart of star - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

Sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight - George Meredith "An Orson of the Muse"

Watching each wavecrash reverberate - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

The wavelength of euphoria - Fady Joudah "Taurus"

The small range of wavelengths called the visible - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"

Through the waveless mirror-seas - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"

Vessels, wind-forsaken, on the waveless waters lie - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]

The waning tide of a waveless sea - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Dolly" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, no.113, v.III, Feb. 27, 1886]

Inability to grasp wave-particle duality - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"

All the dancing wavers rejoice - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

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As a wary duck parted from its mate - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

That offer wary windmills to the Rich - "Nonsense"

The wary dog stands by - Duncan Campbell Scott "A Flock of Sheep"

When night makes life unwary - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Sticky threads to catch unwary insects - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

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A few kilowatts of your wanting - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"

One hundred megawatts of butter - Elizabeth Alexander "Butter"

Its belief, glittering mad & megawatt - Chen Chen "In the City"

From the cold wattage of loneliness - Elmaz Abinader "In the Throat III: Mind to Gut"

The dim wattage of time - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

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

A belt of fire at my waist - Pablo Neruda "Letter on the Road" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

Tie a red flannel string around your waist - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

In her famine waisted flamingo gown - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Ankled and waisted with bells - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"

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Beneath this walnut shade - William Cowper "Epitaph on a Hare"

The walnut-branches hold me - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

How bears the walnut tree - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"

The walnut cracking on the gravel - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"

A frugal meal of walnuts - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

In the season of walnuts - Zohra Saed "Walnuts in Nangarhar"

Sunshine trembles through the walnut-tree - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Old Love and the New"

Blackbird shouting in the black walnut tree - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

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( Warrior )

War.

What wildly spurring warrior-wraiths are these? - Rennell Rodd "On the Border Hills"

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( Wage )

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( Ward )

( Warden )

( Warder )

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( Wane )

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( Waste )

Wasteland.

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( Waver )

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And humble reeds bewail the shepherd's pain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

( Wail )

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( Wand )

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( Warp )

To alight upon the wind-warped upland thorn - Thomas Hardy "Afterwards"

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Boys who wager swans - Diana Marie Delgado "In the Romantic Longhand of the Night"

And I will wager my golden crown - "The Game of Dice" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

The wager standing for centuries - Joseph Millar "Job"

Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Paper-wager and victory-rake - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"

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The condemned warehouse of my chest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Up from the shadows of a factory warehouse - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

From warehouses at the edge of the city - Edgar Kunz "Doors"

To enter the wilderness of warehouses - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

Warehouse of profundity - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly

House.

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( Wasteland )

Land.

Waste.

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( Watchman )

Man/Men.

Watch.

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( Waft )

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( Wax )

The sky tore strips of wax paper - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

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I live under the wallpaper of the house that no longer belongs to me - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"

Dresses your life in the tidiest wallpaper - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

The wallpapered shadow of a secret self - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"

Until absorbed by yellowed floral wallpaper - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Eating the wallpaper's yellow - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

The horse of the wallpaper powdered with roses - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Paper.

Wall.

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( Wasp )

With her ear against a dead wasp nest - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

A wasp nest on the back porch - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

Leaving its wasp-nest flaws - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

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Civil War: See Civil/Civil War.

( War )

The chains postwar empire was reforming - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

The howling wind is their war-cry - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"

( Warfare )

War-god banners lead us - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"

While the devils beat the warlike drum - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"

yesterday I was warpath and daydreams - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"

Warrior.

( War-Song" )

Concise as a wartime telegram - Marcus Jackson "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government"

Not with the war-voice of our elder clay - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]

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Envy will empty your wallet - Hailey Leithauser "Loneliness"

Carry yesteryears within our wallets - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"

My genocides folded into my wallet - Roger Reeves "Brazil"

a ghost haunting my wallet - Sam Sax "Politics of Elegy"

Where wallets are guns - Bruce Smith "Garden"

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( Wan )

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( Warble )

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Await.

( Wait )

The universal ballad of the waiting room - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"

the waitress takes moonbeams into her mouth - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"

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( Wall )

Thrice three times it was enwalled - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Solar wind strokes the ice-wall into light - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Heard the bitterns call from ruined palace-wall - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"

Building seawalls higher and higher - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"

Bruised from battered jetty and sea-wall - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"

In a seven-walled prison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

watched a star burn through your wall-length windows - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Wallpaper.

In her wind-walled palace - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

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( Walk )

How the sea keeps beating up the boardwalk - Mary Jo Bang "Think of Jane and the Regency Era"

Outwalked the furthest city light - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"

Sleepwalk.

I want to spacewalk in time with you - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"

An itch thief-walking the coral of the brain - Rickey Laurentiis "I Saw I Dreamt Two Men"

Unwalked all the roads - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

Walk upon the unwalked - Robert Bly "Gratitude to Old Teachers"

A walk-around dance of rain and dew - Russell Brakefield "Rag"

A weed stalk is the devil's walking stick - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

A walking stick of silk - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"

Witch hazel going wild along the walkway - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

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( Wander )

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( Want )

Valorous deeds, fathomless debt, or unwanted magazine subscriptions - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

Spectral and unwanted as I am - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"

Under the light of that unwanted dawn - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

Hexes, unwanted gifts, and othersuch hexes - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart" [sic]

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( Warm )

Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Map pins on a dream-warm itinerary - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

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( Warn )

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( Wash )

( Awash )

In the gleam of the gold-washed sea - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Deep on moon-washed apples of wonder - John Drinkwater "Moonlit Apples"

Because the black dresses sit unwashed - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"

Highways burnt then whitewashed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"

The adagio echoes in that whitewashed cave - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

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( Watch )

To rail at the dawn-watch wind - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson

The stars, their death-watch keeping - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]

And the ever-watchful sniper - Robert Graves "Limbo"

O'er which they had kept night-watch - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The dim reaches of a watchdog's yawn - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

The chained watchdog Will no longer springs - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]

A watchfire that smoulders and dwindles - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Kept vigil with the watchfires of the sky - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

His watchfires cores of menace in the gloom - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

In the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"

Watchman.

Will be a watchword and a battle hymn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"

The deep watchword of the rushing storm - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

To solve the doubt, watchword and countersign - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

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( Water )

Breakwaters of eternity - Ruben Dario "Poets! Towers of God!" (translation by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva)

Mixed with a dull hush of brookwater in the moss - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Feast on jade by the clear-watered shore - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Floodwater pulling me down - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

crocodile at the edge of a freshwater marsh - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

The switchgrass pale and starved for groundwater - Molly McCully Brown "Virginia, Autumn"

Meltwater frozen for millennia - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"

Filled with rose-water and myrrh - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

( Saltwater )

The secret of seawater - Dorothy Tse "Cloth Birds"

Erasing myself with seawater - Brenda Shaughnessy "Identity & Community (There is no 'I' in 'Sea')"

A cold conspiracy of blood and springwater - Geoffrey Brock "The Rat Snake Gospel"

Submerging mountaintops in stormwater - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Underwater.

And frolic with the water-borne moon - Li Po "Autumn Cove" transl. by Burton Watson

Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"

The rain has shelved its watering can - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize

beats against the wall of the waterless - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"

Creeping down by waterless defiles under an iron midnight - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"

Penguins fly through watersky - Eileen Spinelli "Water-Wings"

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( Waterfall )

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( Wade )

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( Waltz )

Entwined in a songwaltz of welcome - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

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