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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-06 03:36 am

Potential Titles: Six

Six impeccable threads of scorn - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Morente"

In no less than six languages - Diane DeCillis "Falling in Love at the Speed of the William Tell 'Overture'"

Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

The seven we loved, the six we lost - Katie Ford "Koi"

you'd speak only truths for six hours afterwards - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Six owls cloaked with age and dream - Louis Golding "Numbers"

Folding outward in twos and fours and sixes - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"

Mixing six simple ingredients - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"

The silence adding its six percent - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Bank Teller"

Six fat trout in my creel - David Jauss "Never"

6 lanes of life's constant motion - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"

Six daughters gather space and time - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

Six times more solitary - D.H. Lawrence "Baby Turtle"

Had passed six idle years - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

With six clever dogs for a quorum - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."

Stable your six dragon-steeds - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley

My quarrelling with the six kings - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine

An artichoke in six varieties of blue - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"

As though drawn by six dragons - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

On the wings of the six o'clock wind - Grace Nichols "Joy-riders"

Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Long poles upon which spin six hells - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"

Six wax candles still alight - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"

Six years the moon shone at mid-autumn - Su Tung-p'o "Mid-Autumn Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

With the flowers and fruits of the Six Seasons - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"

Spirit me into the six - Kevin Young "Eulogy"


On a six-foot stage of dust - Carl Sandburg "Old Osawatomie"


Only a sixth sense of faith or fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

A knife between the fifth rib and the sixth - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"


Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

The holy six-winged seraphim - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen


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