poetry

• Exposure

  Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow.
• Exposure

  Our brain ache in the merciless ice east wind that knive us
• Exposure - structure

  Continuous rhyme scheme

  Enjambment

  Half rhyme
• Exposure- extra

  The buryingparty, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, pause over half known faces. All their eyes are ice, but nothing happens.
• Emigree- language 


  It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrant, but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.
• Emigree- imagery


  My city takes me dancing through the walls. They accuse me of absence, theu circle me. They accuse me of being dark in their free city.
• Emigree- structure

  Free verse

  Enjambment

  Ceasrua

  Irregular stanza
• Emigree- extra


  That child's vocabulary I carried here like a doll, opens and spills a grammar. I can't get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight.
• Emigree- extra


  Ther once was a country... I left it as a child/ but my memory of it is sunlight clear
• Kamikaze - language 


  Dark shoals of fish flashing as their bellies / swivelled towards the sun
• Kamikaze - imagery


  He must have looked down down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green blue translucent sea
• Kamikaze - structure


  Free verse

  Regular stanza

  Minimal caesure

  Shift in narrative perspective
• Kamikaze - extra 


  A tuna, a dark prince, muscular, dangerous.
• Kamikaze - extra


  Only we children still chattered and laughed / till gradually we too learned to be silent
• Ozymandias - language 


  Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away.
• Ozymandias - imagery


  On the sand, half sunk shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkles lip and sneer of cold command.
• Ozymandias - extra


  My name is ozymandias king if kings, look on my work, ye nightly and dispare
• Ozymandias - extra


  I'm at a traveller from an antique land who said two vast chunkless legs of stone
• London - language 


  I wonder through each chartered Street near where chartered Thames near where the does flow
• London - imagery


  In every voice in every ban the mine forged manicles I hear
• London - structure


  ABAB rhyme scheme

  Anaphora

  Hidden acrostic

  Dramatic monologue
• London - extra


  The hapless soldiers side runs in the blood down palace walls
• London - extra


  The youthful harlots curse blast the new one infants tears