Potential Titles: Color [category]
Aug. 3rd, 2012 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somethingdarkerIncludes some very broad interpretation of the term 'color.'
Color/Colour.
Alabaster:
The portico hung o'er a flight of alabaster - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"
Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Highways like ribbons of alabaster - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson
Amber.
Amethyst.
Aquamarine:
Staring into aquamarine and amethyst - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Aquamarine Pisces gems for eyes - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Angled slats of aquamarine - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Argent.
Azure.
Beige:
A beige wool loathing of prudence - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
The barren beige of dirt reduced to dust - Mary Jo Bang "It Says, I Did So"
Black.
Black and White.
Blood-Red.
Blue.
Blush.
Brass.
Bronze.
Brown.
Burgundy:
Burgundy air under the Japanese maples - Brian Tierney "Catering"
Burnt-Orange:
A bonfire of burnt-orange - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"
Cerulean:
Michelangelo enameled in cerulean - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"
Near the cerulean margin of our streams - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Piercing the cerulean vault of heaven - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"
Flying from former fires into cerulean skies - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
In the cerulean depths of slow oblivion - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
Chartreuse:
The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Chromatic.
Chrome.
Cinnabar:
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Spoons of jade mixing magic cinnabar - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson
Citrine:
Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Clear.
Cobalt.
Colorless.
Copper.
Coral.
Cream.
Crimson.
Dapple.
Dark Blue:
Stars in their dark blue bow'rs - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]
Follow the dark blue blades of kale - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]
Under thy dark-blue gates - "Sean Dana"
Day-Glo:
Cuts the Day-Glo sun to pieces - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Dun.
Ebon/Ebony.
Emerald.
Fluorescence.
Fuchsia.
Gloss:
From vivid crimson paled to fainter gloss - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Heightens the gloss of each bitter scene - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Gold.
Gray/Grey.
Green.
Hot Pink:
A smear of hot pink on the asphalt - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"
A marble made of hot pink plastic - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"
Incandescent.
Incarnadine:
Winking glimpses at incarnadined flame - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
Indigo.
Ink.
Invisible.
Iridescent.
Ivory.
Jade/Jaded.
Jet.
Lavender.
Luster/Lustre.
Magenta:
Toward the magenta shroud of its fate - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie
A frenzy of magenta flowers - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"
Mahogany:
In unfettered mahogany abandon - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Maroon.
Matte:
Matte black backlit with raw opal - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Some truer me in knots of matte and glowing rage - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast"
Mauve.
Monochrome:
Wearing gray coats and monochromatic expressions - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
In spite of a society that favored a monochromatic landscape - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Peeling clouds from the monochromatic sky - Adrian Matejka "Unfunky UFO"
Mottled.
Multicolor:
Legacies rolling out like multicolored marbles - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Nice Voice"
Navy Blue:
Navy blue around a fake significance - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"
Ocher/Ochre.
Off-White:
Mustard yellow, off-white, and mocha brown - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
Olive.
Onyx.
Orange (color and fruit).
Pastel.
Pewter:
Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"
Pewter on a porcelain field - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"
The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"
The fire-lit pewter glowing - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Pigment.
Pink.
Plaid:
Plaid patterns push against bloodroot - John McCarthy "General Electric Monitor Top"
You'd better leave your plaid suitcase - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Purple.
Quicksilver.
Red.
Rose (mostly the flower).
Russet.
Rust.
Rutilant:
Patron saint of the rutilant and cindering - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"
Sable.
Saffron.
Sapphire.
Scarlet.
Sepia:
No sepia set of nostalgic names - Mary Jo Bang "A Boy at Play Is an Actor in a Tragedy"
Which through the rock of Sepia time hath worn - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Blue cut from the sepia cloth - Christopher Kondrich "[I Speak into the Color Blue Cut]"
The sepia of this desert city - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"
Sienna:
Living in the sienna's myriad mazes - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Silver.
Sky Blue:
black neon wrapped in sky blue linen - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
Tan:
Out of the barrow he shovels the tan - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Beaches foam-laced with rainbowing suntan oil - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Tawny:
That spilled their colors in your tawny bronze - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
Teal:
Warn each other in teal or celadon - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"
Technicolor:
the house disguised as a technicolor sunset - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Technicolor and twilight-made - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"
Lost in the technicolor thought of it - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"
Tinge.
Tint.
Tourmaline:
To lay tourmalines and tinted glass - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"
Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Translucent.
Transparent.
Turquoise.
Ultraviolet.
Umber.
Verdant.
Vermilion/Vermillion.
Violet (color and flower).
Viridian/Veridian:
Medicinal veridian of evergreen - Cynthia Hogue "in the meadow magenta"
an intermingling of viridian and chetwode horizons - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
Stones under the moss of the viridescent storm - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Vivid.
White.
White-Hot.
Yellow.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
Color/Colour.
Alabaster:
The portico hung o'er a flight of alabaster - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"
Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Highways like ribbons of alabaster - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson
Amber.
Amethyst.
Aquamarine:
Staring into aquamarine and amethyst - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Aquamarine Pisces gems for eyes - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Angled slats of aquamarine - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Argent.
Azure.
Beige:
A beige wool loathing of prudence - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
The barren beige of dirt reduced to dust - Mary Jo Bang "It Says, I Did So"
Black.
Black and White.
Blood-Red.
Blue.
Blush.
Brass.
Bronze.
Brown.
Burgundy:
Burgundy air under the Japanese maples - Brian Tierney "Catering"
Burnt-Orange:
A bonfire of burnt-orange - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"
Cerulean:
Michelangelo enameled in cerulean - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"
Near the cerulean margin of our streams - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Piercing the cerulean vault of heaven - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"
Flying from former fires into cerulean skies - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
In the cerulean depths of slow oblivion - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
Chartreuse:
The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Chromatic.
Chrome.
Cinnabar:
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Spoons of jade mixing magic cinnabar - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson
Citrine:
Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Clear.
Cobalt.
Colorless.
Copper.
Coral.
Cream.
Crimson.
Dapple.
Dark Blue:
Stars in their dark blue bow'rs - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]
Follow the dark blue blades of kale - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]
Under thy dark-blue gates - "Sean Dana"
Day-Glo:
Cuts the Day-Glo sun to pieces - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Dun.
Ebon/Ebony.
Emerald.
Fluorescence.
Fuchsia.
Gloss:
From vivid crimson paled to fainter gloss - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Heightens the gloss of each bitter scene - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Gold.
Gray/Grey.
Green.
Hot Pink:
A smear of hot pink on the asphalt - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"
A marble made of hot pink plastic - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"
Incandescent.
Incarnadine:
Winking glimpses at incarnadined flame - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
Indigo.
Ink.
Invisible.
Iridescent.
Ivory.
Jade/Jaded.
Jet.
Lavender.
Luster/Lustre.
Magenta:
Toward the magenta shroud of its fate - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie
A frenzy of magenta flowers - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"
Mahogany:
In unfettered mahogany abandon - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Maroon.
Matte:
Matte black backlit with raw opal - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Some truer me in knots of matte and glowing rage - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast"
Mauve.
Monochrome:
Wearing gray coats and monochromatic expressions - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
In spite of a society that favored a monochromatic landscape - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Peeling clouds from the monochromatic sky - Adrian Matejka "Unfunky UFO"
Mottled.
Multicolor:
Legacies rolling out like multicolored marbles - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Nice Voice"
Navy Blue:
Navy blue around a fake significance - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"
Ocher/Ochre.
Off-White:
Mustard yellow, off-white, and mocha brown - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
Olive.
Onyx.
Orange (color and fruit).
Pastel.
Pewter:
Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"
Pewter on a porcelain field - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"
The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"
The fire-lit pewter glowing - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Pigment.
Pink.
Plaid:
Plaid patterns push against bloodroot - John McCarthy "General Electric Monitor Top"
You'd better leave your plaid suitcase - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Purple.
Quicksilver.
Red.
Rose (mostly the flower).
Russet.
Rust.
Rutilant:
Patron saint of the rutilant and cindering - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"
Sable.
Saffron.
Sapphire.
Scarlet.
Sepia:
No sepia set of nostalgic names - Mary Jo Bang "A Boy at Play Is an Actor in a Tragedy"
Which through the rock of Sepia time hath worn - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Blue cut from the sepia cloth - Christopher Kondrich "[I Speak into the Color Blue Cut]"
The sepia of this desert city - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"
Sienna:
Living in the sienna's myriad mazes - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Silver.
Sky Blue:
black neon wrapped in sky blue linen - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
Tan:
Out of the barrow he shovels the tan - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Beaches foam-laced with rainbowing suntan oil - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Tawny:
That spilled their colors in your tawny bronze - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
Teal:
Warn each other in teal or celadon - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"
Technicolor:
the house disguised as a technicolor sunset - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Technicolor and twilight-made - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"
Lost in the technicolor thought of it - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"
Tinge.
Tint.
Tourmaline:
To lay tourmalines and tinted glass - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"
Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Translucent.
Transparent.
Turquoise.
Ultraviolet.
Umber.
Verdant.
Vermilion/Vermillion.
Violet (color and flower).
Viridian/Veridian:
Medicinal veridian of evergreen - Cynthia Hogue "in the meadow magenta"
an intermingling of viridian and chetwode horizons - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
Stones under the moss of the viridescent storm - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Vivid.
White.
White-Hot.
Yellow.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
