Poetry Quotes Flashcards
Mrs Tilschers Class - Loss
‘You ran through the gates, impatient to be grown,’
‘Mrs Tilscher smiled, then turned away’
Mrs Tilschers Class - Childhood
‘Skittle of milk’
‘good gold star’
Mrs Tilschers Class - Identity
‘A rough boy told you how you were born.’
‘This was better than home’
Mrs Midas - Loss
‘So he had to move out.’
‘Pure selfishness’
Mrs Midas - Isolation
‘I finished the wine on my own,
‘Separate beds.’
Mrs Midas - Identity
‘The woman who married the fool’
‘My dream mill burned in my breasts.’
The Way My Mother Speaks - Loss
‘I am homesick’
‘the end of summer’
The Way My Mother Speaks - Identity
‘The way my mother speaks’
‘The day and ever. The day and ever.’
Originally - Loss
‘Bawling’
‘The miles rushed back to the city’
Originally - Childhood
‘I stared at the eyes of the bling toy, holding its paw.’
‘Anxiety stirred like a loose tooth in my head.’
Originally - Isolation
‘Up an avenue where no one you know stays.’
‘Your accent wrong.’
Originally - Identity
‘I want our own country.’
‘I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right place?’
War Photographer - Loss
‘Blood stained into foreign dust.’
‘Home again to ordinary pain’
War Photographer - Isolation
‘finally alone’
‘From the aeroplane he stares impassively’
War Photographer - Identity
‘He has a job to do.’
‘Strangers features faintly start to twist before his eyes,’
