[Themes] May 2010

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May 2010

1. For my heart is a child
2. The scent of her beauty draws me to her place
3. The book of tales you knew by heart
4. Down an ocean road
5. Arms out in the rain
6. Past a sign that says ‘good love town’
7. The dream of a common language
8. I’m afraid to forget you
9. The friend and the foe
10. In fur and gold
11. I could be all that you want and more
12. The queens and the court jesters
13. All I have are stories, night thoughts
14. A poem can begin with a lie
15. The freedom of the wholly mad
16. A full moon on the first of May
17. Their bird wings severed like trophies
18. In the night sky
19. To murmur name upon name
20. Because I dream of her too often
21. I am choosing not to suffer uselessly
22. Love and fear in a house
23. My eyes flew open
24. Somewhere sunshine burns
25. No more dreaming of the dead 
26. I write it out in verse
27. What brought us to this
28. I dream in my dream all the dreams of other dreamers
29. From cloud to tumbling cloud
30. I am remembering you
31. The ashes of what you once were

Notes:

1. Bat for Lashes, Pearl’s Dream
2.  Adrienne Rich, The Lioness
3.  Adrienne Rich, Living Memory
4.  Bat for Lashes, Pearl’s Dream
5.  Bat for Lashes, Glass
6.  Bat for Lashes, Pearl’s Dream
7. Adrienne Rich, Origins and History of Consciousness
8.  My Brightest Diamond, We Were Sparkling
9.  Vienna Teng, The Tower
10.  Bat for Lashes, Trophy
11. Bat for Lashes, Siren Song
12. Bat for Lashes, Trophy
13.  Anne Enright, The Gathering
14.  Adrienne Rich, Cartographies of Silence
15.  Adrienne Rich, The Phenomenology of Anger
16.  Adrienne Rich, Living Memory
17.  Adrienne Rich, Origins and History of Consciousness
18.  Bat for Lashes, Glass
19.  W. B. Yeats, Easter 1916
20.  Adrienne Rich, The Burning of Paper instead of Children
21. Adrienne Rich, Origins and History of Consciousness
22.  Adrienne Rich, The Burning of Paper instead of Children
23.  Florence and the Machine, Blinding
24. My Brightest Diamond, Workhorse
25. Florence and the Machine, Blinding
26. W. B. Yeats, Easter 1916
27. Anna Ternhiem, No, I Don’t Remember
28.  Walt Whitman, The Sleepers
29.  W. B. Yeats, Easter 1916
30. My Brightest Diamond, We Were Sparkling
31. Bat for Lashes, Travelling Woman
     

Thank you, mods, for the opportunity to make the themeset again. Very fun.
All the best with writing--I hope you enjoy the themes!