Nat 5- Duffy Poems Flashcards
“too blue swapping for a cool grey”
The Way My Mother Speaks
“I am happy and sad like a child”
The Way My Mother Speaks
“browsing for the right sky”
The Way My Mother Speaks
“I am homesick, free, in love with the way my mother speaks”
The Way My Mother Speaks
“the inky tadpoles changed from commas to explanation marks”
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class
“The classroom glowed like a sweetshop”
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class
“A rough boy told you how you were born”
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class
“impatient to be grown”
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class
“Rural England”
War Photographer
“spools of suffering”
War Photographer
“half-formed ghost”
War Photographer
“A hundred agonies”
War Photographer
“Originally? And I hesitate”
Originally
“shedding it’s skin like a snake”
Originally
“My parents’ anxiety stirred like a loose tooth”
Originally
