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Bioluminescence/Luminescence.


A luminous starfield of questions - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

Flinging luminous lances of rain - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"

Thrilled to their depths with her luminous grace - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Rising, luminous, from its own bones - Rebecca Baggett "Chestnut"

Luminous is a better word than translucent - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"

Some modest, luminous thing - Robert Bly "The Threshing Machine"

Reward the luminous question - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"

Luminous and solitary as a firefly - Jaswinder Bolina "Panjandrum"

Rounding luminous its fair ellipse - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Luminous jets of boiling vapor - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Shows the power of luminous Truth to kill - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Never a sunrise mars the luminous air - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Asked, too, to be luminous and ruined - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"

that grow more luminous with exposure to the day - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

Luminous with planets to light the rain - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

Dubious and luminous joy - Andrew Hudgins "Blur"

Luminous like particles of flame - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

Then vanished in puffs of luminous smoke - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Luminous, ordinary and acute - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

Transubstantiation of the Luminous Ghost - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"

All her luminous garments gone - D.H. Lawrence "Town"

Spacious circles luminous with mind - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

The sky is a luminous scarlet arch - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

As radiant beams in a luminous shower of light - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

A crooked smile of luminous jest - Maggie Nelson "Sunday Night"

A gale of luminous vegetables - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A luminous spiral, a golden basket - Rena Priest "Tour of a Salmonberry"

Flung such luminous notes - Lola Ridge "Cactus Seed"

Luminously bonded to my past - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Forces what we denied into luminosity - Margo Tamez "Father replays the funeral in Dream #28"

Luminous and luring footprints - Sara Teasdale "In Memoriam F. O. S."

Luminous in the sun's spotlight - Yvonne Zipter "Seeds"


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