Poems Flashcards
Remains
“Probably armed, possibly not”
“Pain itself the image of agony”
“His bloody life in my bloody hands”
“I see every round as it rips through my life”
“His blood shadow stays on the street”
“Tosses his guts back into his body”
Tissue
“Turned into your skin”
“Might fly our lives like paper kites”
“Fall away on a sigh”
“Raise à structure never meant to last”
“Pages smoothed and stroked and turned”
Exposure
“Merciless iced east winds that knife us”
“For love of God seems dying”
“Slowly our ghosts drag home”
“Is it that we are dying?”
“Air that shudders Black with snow”
Poppies
“Leaned against it like a wishbone”
“Spasms of paper red”
“Traced the inscriptions”
“Sellotape around my hand like a bandage”
“Hoping to hear your playground voice”
The prelude
“A huge peak, Black and huge”
“Went heaving through the water like a swan”
“With trembling oars, I turned”
“There in the mooring place I left my bark”
“Upreared it’s head”
Storm on the Island
“Spits like a tame cat turned savage”
“It’s a huge nothing that we fear”
“Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs”
“No trees, no natural shelter”
“Sit tight while wind dives”
Bayonet Charge
“Suddenly he awoke and was running-raw”
“Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame”
“Was he the hand pointing that second”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“Patriotic tear that brimmed his eye”
Kamikaze
“Like a huge flag waved first one way”
“Green-blue translucent sea”
“Her father embarked at sunrise”
“Strung our like bunting”
Checking out me history
“Bout de dish ran away with de spoon”
“No dem never tell me bout dat”
“Blind me to me own identity”
“I carving out me identity”
The emigree
“I comb its hair and love it’s shining eyes”
“It tastes of sunlight”
“The graceful slopes glow”
“I am brands by an impression of sunlight”
Ozymandias
“Stamped on these lifeless things”
“Colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
“Sneer of cold command”
“My name is ozymandias, king of kings”
“Nothing Bessie remains”
My Last Duchess
“My gift of a nine hundred year old name”
“I gave commands and then all smiles stopped together”
“She thanked men-good!”
“The curtain I have drawn for you”
“That’s my last duchess painted on the wall”
The charge of the light brigade
“Volley’d and thunder’d; stormed at with shot and shell”
“When can their glory fade?”
“Plunged in the battery smoke”
“Charge for the guns he said”
“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward”
War Photographer
“A hundred agonies in black and white”
“The editor pick out 3 or 4”
“Between the bath and pre lunch beers”
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London
“Youthful Harlets curse”
“Wander through this chartered streets”
