Potential Titles: Lightning
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somethingdarkerThe chariot wheels of burning levin - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'" [An archaic term for lightning]
Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Flame to lightning in your mouth - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"
Ring and rinse like lightning - Harold Acton "Hilarity"
Lightning in the fragrance of linden - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"
The red lightning's zigzag track - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"
Let down the lightning from a sultry sky - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
Lightning leapt from her synapses - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
The clouds broke out in fiery lightning - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XL: Milica" transl. by Sir John Bowring
The lightning has no choice - James Baldwin "Conundrum (on my birthday) (for Rico)"
Ride the lightning, answer the thunder, penetrate the whirlwind - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Impartial lightning strikes the water - Mary Jo Bang "The Doctor's Monster Is Drowning"
An undaunted love of lightning and live wire - Mary Jo Bang "Inconsequent Moment"
Respected the pause between lightning and skybreak - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"
race the lightning out to sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
memory is of lightning - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
By the blasting lightning of his eyes - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Under their sheaves of lightnings - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien
Called Desire from his lightning - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
On her breaks the lightning - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"
In a bird-cage of lightning - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."
Lightning limned into a hellish door - C. Edgar Bolen "Lycanthropus"
The lightning and thunder rush of his thoughts - Bruce Boston "Alien Quarry"
Ready your wrists for my lightning - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
The house struck by lightning - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Lived in that box of lightning forever - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Shall hunt your lightning - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
I'd strike to the lightning of Heaven - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "The Convict of Clonmell"
Had their lightning thrones - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Inheritance Cistern Sweet Dominion"
The roar of waters and the lightning's gleaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall
In the Lightning flash arrayed in death - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
Nerves of lightning - Rosario Castellanos "Three Poems"
Lightning and thunder throw punches in the desert - Ana Castillo "Insomnia" translated by Sara Solaimani
Which shaped the lightning's fiery claw - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "The Artist"
arrive at the house of lightning - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"
Lightning bares each secret form - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Like lightning, through the billows flew - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
The lightning's flash their vengeful steel - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"
Strike lightning to the road - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
The gleam of the steely lightning - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"
The lightning flashes free - Allan Cunningham "At Sea"
Forked lightning rending the sleet - H.D. "Simaetha"
Ancient valleys reignited by more lightning - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"
The air broken by lightning - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
The lightning showed a yellow beak - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"
Lightnings played beneath his feet - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Lightning's pity picks you - Heid E. Erdich "Girl of Lightning"
Lightning's mark spares you - Heid E. Erdich "Girl of Lightning"
Could no lightnings rouse - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: III. A Poetry-Party"
Lay it out beneath the lightning - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"
Stealing prickly trinkets of lightning - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"
A blinding flash of dry lightning - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
Blossoms by the summer lightning crushed - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
A gradual flood of lightning - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"
Calls the lightning from its throne on high - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Field created by lightning - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
In rifts of voiceless lightning - L. Gielgud "Summer Delivery"
Kissed by the wild and loved by lightning - Nikita Gill "The Moon Goddess"
To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"
Riding upon the Lightning's wing - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
And the red lightnings threaten - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"
Harnessed his lightning steeds - Frances E.W. Harper "Death of the Old Sea-King"
Lightnings stir the darkest lairs - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XV"
The seraph Ecstasy, with lightning eye - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
The pure lightnings of exalted thought - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"
Clothing the earth with a livery of lightnings - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
And thread the path whereon the lightnings play - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The frozen lightning of the sycamore roots - Jackson Holbert "Two Pastoral Poems 1"
As by Heaven's fierce lightnings hurled - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
When vivid lightning rends the towering rock - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
His keen-tipped lance of lightning - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
And lightnings encircle it with adoration - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
With ladder struck by lightning - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"
Saw my lightning finish from the start - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Some wild machine fizzing with lightning - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"
Like thunder announces the arrival of lightning - Vanessa Jae "The Fear of Cyborgs to Believe in Flesh"
Stitch lightning to shadow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"
Lilacs and lightning strike - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"
The lightning wrote an unknown language - James Weldon Johnson "The Crucifixion"
Leaving the lightning's flash behind - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"
With lightnings on his brow - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"
Herald lightning and the crane's shrill cry - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
I am the rod to their lightning - Mary Karr "The Blessed Mother Complains to the Lord Her God on the Abundance of Brokenness She Receives"
Sparks skittered overhead in a lightning web - Mary Karr "Country Fair"
No terror in the lightning's glare - Fanny Kemble "The Wind"
One lightning storm away from igniting - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"
Does not heed the angry lightning's wound - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"
A spear of lightning for my song - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
Lightning out of your smothered dusk - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
Whose flame is the imprisoned lightning - Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"
Embroider them with lightning - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Your feet will be white lightning - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
Lightning flashes old ghost on my blade - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
And drag the lightning from its hiding-place - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Red lightning through my blood - James Clarence Mangan "Dark Rosaleen"
For the hypocrite flashes of lightning - Edgar Lee Masters "Front the Ages with a Smile"
Watching lightning open up the sky - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"
The word like a wave lightning and then thunder - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"
Taking lightning in the veins - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"
As the lightning night reveals - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Though lightnings track your wit - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Reading by lightning - W.S. Merwin "Just This"
Counts down the lightning - Jenny Molberg "Storm Coming"
Bright lightning on obsidian skies - N. Scott Momaday "The Rider of Two Gray Hills"
Streaks of precipitate lightning - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Under the lightning's muzzle fire - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Caught the lightning of the cold - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
In the cutlery of lightning - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt
For myself the oats and the lightning - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Bright cradle armed with lightning - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Joined the lightning flash and the ring - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Filled with teeth and lightning - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The root of a lost lightning flash - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Who dressed herself in purple lightning - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Was lightning and medusa - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Limbed with the lightning - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Eerie lightning shot from frostbitten fingers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
harvest as much lightning - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"
Soar on wings of lightning - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
Desire falls like black lightning - Ezra Pound "The Spring"
On lightning pinions wild and free - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Lightning's hand illumes the wall of day - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Blue-forked flowers of lightning - Lola Ridge "After Storm"
Of the fiber of lightning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Aimed at me his lightning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"
As owner of the lightning and the sun - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
The factory where lightning and thunder are made - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
wearing the coat of a flash of lightning - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
lightning through the fleeing window - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
night lightning strobes the raindrops - Ed Roberson "Nolan,"
As lightning would annihilate a leaf - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Waved his sword in the lightnings - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Rattlesnaked fang of lightning - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"
Lightning through the storm of ages - George Santayana "Premonition"
The fissure of the lightning leaves it unwounded - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
The lightning entering my veins - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #59"
With lightning in a jagged fret - Frederick George Scott "The Feud"
Prowling the living room for the lightning - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
The Spirit of wind with lightning eyes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Through my hair like lightning - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"
deserts build water so drink the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
the cactus wren finished the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Signatures of lightning - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
Chained and hurled with solar lightning - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
By the reins of invisible lightnings - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Threaded with lightning and hurt - Patricia Smith "Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing & Blessing"
When he rode to blast with the lightning - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
A stump with a jar of lightning - Frank Stanford "The Lacuna"
Unaltered by the lightnings - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Where our sharp, sworded lightning cut sudden - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Vivid as the lightning's scathing flash - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
She trains to translate lightning - Margo Tamez "I am the daughter my mother raise to confront them"
Lightning's thousand sulfur eyes - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
Struck by lightning or coincidence - Fiona Templeton "Why Say That"
Because their words had forked no lightning - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"
That hid the lightning in the cloud - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
Its lightning fringed immensity - Tso-le-oh-woh "What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet"
Of lightning's use and speed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
Transformers handed lightning - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"
Will lie in barns and laugh at the lightning - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
To order its wild lightning storm of meteor dreams - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Root and twist, burrow like lightning - Seth Wade "Did You Hear About the Neighbors?"
Now leaps a livid lightning up - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
One flash of Byron's lightning - William Watson "On Exaggerated Deference to Foreign Literary Opinion"
Bright lightnings of dread - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Vollied lightnings cleave the air - Henry Kirk White "Time"
Lightnings that precede the mighty storm - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Lightning through tear-blurred pages - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Words that called up the lightning - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"
Sent lightning across glass - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"
Lean into the lightning shaft of pain - Marguerite Young "Song's Preface"
Covered in shame and lightning - Matthew Zapruder "Schwinn"
Wait for a bolt of lightning's fire - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Lack the rigor of a lightning bolt - Dan Chiasson "Thread"
Whose scalpel cut a lightning bolt - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
That mixes vodka and lightning bolts - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XI" transl. by William O'Daly
Crowned and throned by lightning-legions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
My spine a lightning rod for shudders - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Lightning-rods for plumes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"
Her sky grows dark and lightning-streaked - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
Open, lightning-struck and gashed - Janet Kauffman "A Body Walking in Clothes"
Some tower tumbles, lightning-struck - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
Hail blazing in sheet-lightning - H.D. "Simaetha"
With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
To hide our white-lightning past - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
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Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Flame to lightning in your mouth - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"
Ring and rinse like lightning - Harold Acton "Hilarity"
Lightning in the fragrance of linden - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"
The red lightning's zigzag track - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"
Let down the lightning from a sultry sky - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
Lightning leapt from her synapses - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
The clouds broke out in fiery lightning - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XL: Milica" transl. by Sir John Bowring
The lightning has no choice - James Baldwin "Conundrum (on my birthday) (for Rico)"
Ride the lightning, answer the thunder, penetrate the whirlwind - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Impartial lightning strikes the water - Mary Jo Bang "The Doctor's Monster Is Drowning"
An undaunted love of lightning and live wire - Mary Jo Bang "Inconsequent Moment"
Respected the pause between lightning and skybreak - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"
race the lightning out to sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
memory is of lightning - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
By the blasting lightning of his eyes - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Under their sheaves of lightnings - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien
Called Desire from his lightning - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
On her breaks the lightning - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"
In a bird-cage of lightning - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."
Lightning limned into a hellish door - C. Edgar Bolen "Lycanthropus"
The lightning and thunder rush of his thoughts - Bruce Boston "Alien Quarry"
Ready your wrists for my lightning - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
The house struck by lightning - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Lived in that box of lightning forever - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Shall hunt your lightning - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
I'd strike to the lightning of Heaven - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "The Convict of Clonmell"
Had their lightning thrones - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Inheritance Cistern Sweet Dominion"
The roar of waters and the lightning's gleaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall
In the Lightning flash arrayed in death - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
Nerves of lightning - Rosario Castellanos "Three Poems"
Lightning and thunder throw punches in the desert - Ana Castillo "Insomnia" translated by Sara Solaimani
Which shaped the lightning's fiery claw - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "The Artist"
arrive at the house of lightning - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"
Lightning bares each secret form - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Like lightning, through the billows flew - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
The lightning's flash their vengeful steel - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"
Strike lightning to the road - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
The gleam of the steely lightning - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"
The lightning flashes free - Allan Cunningham "At Sea"
Forked lightning rending the sleet - H.D. "Simaetha"
Ancient valleys reignited by more lightning - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"
The air broken by lightning - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
The lightning showed a yellow beak - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"
Lightnings played beneath his feet - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Lightning's pity picks you - Heid E. Erdich "Girl of Lightning"
Lightning's mark spares you - Heid E. Erdich "Girl of Lightning"
Could no lightnings rouse - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: III. A Poetry-Party"
Lay it out beneath the lightning - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"
Stealing prickly trinkets of lightning - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"
A blinding flash of dry lightning - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
Blossoms by the summer lightning crushed - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
A gradual flood of lightning - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"
Calls the lightning from its throne on high - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Field created by lightning - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
In rifts of voiceless lightning - L. Gielgud "Summer Delivery"
Kissed by the wild and loved by lightning - Nikita Gill "The Moon Goddess"
To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"
Riding upon the Lightning's wing - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
And the red lightnings threaten - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"
Harnessed his lightning steeds - Frances E.W. Harper "Death of the Old Sea-King"
Lightnings stir the darkest lairs - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XV"
The seraph Ecstasy, with lightning eye - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
The pure lightnings of exalted thought - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"
Clothing the earth with a livery of lightnings - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
And thread the path whereon the lightnings play - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The frozen lightning of the sycamore roots - Jackson Holbert "Two Pastoral Poems 1"
As by Heaven's fierce lightnings hurled - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
When vivid lightning rends the towering rock - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
His keen-tipped lance of lightning - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
And lightnings encircle it with adoration - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
With ladder struck by lightning - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"
Saw my lightning finish from the start - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Some wild machine fizzing with lightning - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"
Like thunder announces the arrival of lightning - Vanessa Jae "The Fear of Cyborgs to Believe in Flesh"
Stitch lightning to shadow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"
Lilacs and lightning strike - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"
The lightning wrote an unknown language - James Weldon Johnson "The Crucifixion"
Leaving the lightning's flash behind - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"
With lightnings on his brow - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"
Herald lightning and the crane's shrill cry - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
I am the rod to their lightning - Mary Karr "The Blessed Mother Complains to the Lord Her God on the Abundance of Brokenness She Receives"
Sparks skittered overhead in a lightning web - Mary Karr "Country Fair"
No terror in the lightning's glare - Fanny Kemble "The Wind"
One lightning storm away from igniting - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"
Does not heed the angry lightning's wound - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"
A spear of lightning for my song - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
Lightning out of your smothered dusk - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
Whose flame is the imprisoned lightning - Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"
Embroider them with lightning - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Your feet will be white lightning - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
Lightning flashes old ghost on my blade - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
And drag the lightning from its hiding-place - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Red lightning through my blood - James Clarence Mangan "Dark Rosaleen"
For the hypocrite flashes of lightning - Edgar Lee Masters "Front the Ages with a Smile"
Watching lightning open up the sky - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"
The word like a wave lightning and then thunder - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"
Taking lightning in the veins - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"
As the lightning night reveals - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Though lightnings track your wit - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Reading by lightning - W.S. Merwin "Just This"
Counts down the lightning - Jenny Molberg "Storm Coming"
Bright lightning on obsidian skies - N. Scott Momaday "The Rider of Two Gray Hills"
Streaks of precipitate lightning - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Under the lightning's muzzle fire - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Caught the lightning of the cold - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
In the cutlery of lightning - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt
For myself the oats and the lightning - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Bright cradle armed with lightning - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Joined the lightning flash and the ring - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Filled with teeth and lightning - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The root of a lost lightning flash - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Who dressed herself in purple lightning - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Was lightning and medusa - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Limbed with the lightning - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Eerie lightning shot from frostbitten fingers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
harvest as much lightning - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"
Soar on wings of lightning - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
Desire falls like black lightning - Ezra Pound "The Spring"
On lightning pinions wild and free - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Lightning's hand illumes the wall of day - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Blue-forked flowers of lightning - Lola Ridge "After Storm"
Of the fiber of lightning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Aimed at me his lightning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"
As owner of the lightning and the sun - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
The factory where lightning and thunder are made - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
wearing the coat of a flash of lightning - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
lightning through the fleeing window - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
night lightning strobes the raindrops - Ed Roberson "Nolan,"
As lightning would annihilate a leaf - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Waved his sword in the lightnings - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Rattlesnaked fang of lightning - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"
Lightning through the storm of ages - George Santayana "Premonition"
The fissure of the lightning leaves it unwounded - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
The lightning entering my veins - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #59"
With lightning in a jagged fret - Frederick George Scott "The Feud"
Prowling the living room for the lightning - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
The Spirit of wind with lightning eyes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Through my hair like lightning - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"
deserts build water so drink the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
the cactus wren finished the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Signatures of lightning - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
Chained and hurled with solar lightning - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
By the reins of invisible lightnings - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Threaded with lightning and hurt - Patricia Smith "Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing & Blessing"
When he rode to blast with the lightning - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
A stump with a jar of lightning - Frank Stanford "The Lacuna"
Unaltered by the lightnings - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Where our sharp, sworded lightning cut sudden - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Vivid as the lightning's scathing flash - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
She trains to translate lightning - Margo Tamez "I am the daughter my mother raise to confront them"
Lightning's thousand sulfur eyes - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
Struck by lightning or coincidence - Fiona Templeton "Why Say That"
Because their words had forked no lightning - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"
That hid the lightning in the cloud - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
Its lightning fringed immensity - Tso-le-oh-woh "What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet"
Of lightning's use and speed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
Transformers handed lightning - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"
Will lie in barns and laugh at the lightning - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
To order its wild lightning storm of meteor dreams - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Root and twist, burrow like lightning - Seth Wade "Did You Hear About the Neighbors?"
Now leaps a livid lightning up - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
One flash of Byron's lightning - William Watson "On Exaggerated Deference to Foreign Literary Opinion"
Bright lightnings of dread - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Vollied lightnings cleave the air - Henry Kirk White "Time"
Lightnings that precede the mighty storm - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Lightning through tear-blurred pages - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Words that called up the lightning - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"
Sent lightning across glass - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"
Lean into the lightning shaft of pain - Marguerite Young "Song's Preface"
Covered in shame and lightning - Matthew Zapruder "Schwinn"
Wait for a bolt of lightning's fire - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Lack the rigor of a lightning bolt - Dan Chiasson "Thread"
Whose scalpel cut a lightning bolt - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
That mixes vodka and lightning bolts - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XI" transl. by William O'Daly
Crowned and throned by lightning-legions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
My spine a lightning rod for shudders - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Lightning-rods for plumes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"
Her sky grows dark and lightning-streaked - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
Open, lightning-struck and gashed - Janet Kauffman "A Body Walking in Clothes"
Some tower tumbles, lightning-struck - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
Hail blazing in sheet-lightning - H.D. "Simaetha"
With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
To hide our white-lightning past - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
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