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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-03 10:31 pm

Potential Titles: Scars

The dead who carry no scars - Rasha Abdulhadi "sirens and silence"

Mineralizing scars into my becoming - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"

Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

This scar is how I talk to you - Raymond Antrobus "Closure"

Half-captured happiness had left a scar - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"

Seared me white with burning scars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"

Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"

A garden of twined scars - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"

Scarred by a thousand winters - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"

Dim green or torn with golden scars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Attach themselves as scars - Lucille Clifton "sorrow"

As the mist leaves no scar - Leonard Cohen "The Mist"

And bare each stony scar - Christopher Pearce Cranch "December"

Wore scars and rashes like empirical clothes - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Would no longer scar his autumnal heart - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Fire Eater"

Its scarred face an old mirror - Carol Ann Duffy "Tall"

The genesis of a scar - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

Seared with slavery's mortal scars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"

Knots where his growth scarred him - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"

From the scars of toppling hills - Louis Golding "A Journey South"

To coat their battle scars with gin - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"

The pitiless scar of Time's sharp claw - Mona Gould "Mirror"

The fragrant shadows scarred with light - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"

Soul's unrest and spirit's scar - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Where heal the spirit's scars - Ivor Gurney "Camps"

That goes in defiance of danger and scars - "The Harp of Old Erin and Banner of Stars" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Striking an electric scar - Georgia Heard "Room of Nature"

The sudden scarred face of the moon - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

Or distance deeper brand the scar - Jennie Earngey Hill "Distance"

Scarred with sordid rust of years - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

Without the armor of its scars - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"

Reflecting scarred light - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"

Amongst my most quiet scars - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

And scars are worn for honor - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, Concluding Song of Dawn: A Morn of May"

Scars on the chests of the birds - John James "Sonata"

Scars the cruelest cannot crease - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

The scarred geography of my left arm - Camisha L. Jones "Scars"

Scarred with the chronicles written by flame - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"

Scars laid while I slept - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"

Despite these mortal scars - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

A cruel scar on his shell - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"

Splits into scar and crackle - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Dark scars between seasons - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Tore my heart out and hid the scar - Dorothea Mackellar "Riding Rhyme"

Two new scars since yesterday - Furnley Maurice "Master in Equity"

Forever with a scarred, closed fist - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"

The rock language of all your elegant scars - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"

The inevitability of a scarred life - Erika Meitner "What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence"

That pricked his scars with memory - George Meredith "Lucifer in Starlight"

The coat lined with a thousand invisible scars - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"

Scar over in the colour of sand - Abdushukur Muhammet "My Name" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

The scars that mark their hearts - Harryette Mullen "Still Waiting"

In the heights of the newly scarred planet - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Voices" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Dry moon poured upon scars - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

His words on your face as scars - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Against the stars and scars of a city - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

Though a new Helen bring new scars - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

We live with our battle scars - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"

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

If my heart be scarred and burned - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"

Can travel by my scars - Walter S. Percy "The Blazed Trail"

Memory itself but a scar - Carl Phillips "The Need for Dreaming"

Stitches itself a whitened scar - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"

On the scarred bench sequestered - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Following you up stairwells of scarred oak - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

The scar of her sandal thereafter - James Whitcombe Riley "Dolores"

A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

a fingernail scratching the scars of yesterday's ruins - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Scars across the face of night - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"

Each question leaves a scar - Ann K. Schwader "Wolves of Mars"

Through the hour that scars and sears - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"

The deep scars of love - David Shumate "Passing Through a Small Town"

Scar tissue's calligraphy writes on his body - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"

Scars of plunder, time and warfare - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"

All the old scars of former battles bleed - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"

We are more than our scars - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Gorgeous scars won from wrestling with a forklift - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Not grateful for your scars - Edwin Torres "Three Spots under the Shade"

each grain of rice leaving a scar on our skin - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

And scarred with many a knock - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

Seen without its scars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"

How water and wind scar them - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


Cynical, moon-scarred and old - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"


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