Poem

• 1 London


  1 I wander through each chartered street
• 2 London


  2 In every face i meet/marks of weakness, marks of woe
• 3 London


  3 The mind-forged manacles i hear.
• 4 London


  4 Every black'ning church appals
• 5 London


  5 Runs of blood down palace walls
• 1 Ozymandias


  1 My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; /Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
• 2 Ozymandias


  2 Nothing beside remains
• 3 Ozymandias


  3 Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away
• 4 Ozymandias


  4 The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
• 5 Ozymandias


  5 Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
• 1 Tissue


  1 Let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths
• 2 Tissue


  2 Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things
• 3 Tissue


  3 Never meant to last
• 4 Tissue


  4 If buildings were paper ... see how easily they fall away on a sigh
• 5 Tissue


  5 The sun shines through their borderlines
• 1 The Emigree


  1 There was once a country...I left as a child
• 2 The Emigree


  2 My memory of it is sunlight - clear
• 3 The Emigree


  3 The worst news I receive of it cannot break/my original view, the bright, filled paperweight
• 4 The Emigree


  4 It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants
• 5 The Emigree


  5 Like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar.
• 1 Storm on the Island


  1 We are prepared. It is a huge nothing that we fear
• 2 Storm on the Island

  2 Exploding comfortably
• 3 Storm on the Island

  3 Blast Pummels
• 4 Storm on the Island

  4 Bombarded by the empty air
• 5 Storm on the Island


  5 Tame cat turned savage
• 1 Bayonet Charge


  1 Hot...his...heavy
• 2 Bayonet Charge


  2 Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
• 3 Bayonet Charge


  3 A rifle as numb as a smashed arm
• 4 Bayonet Charge


  4 In what cold clockwork of the stars and nations
• 5 Bayonet Charge


  5 His terrors touchy dynamite
• 1 Checking Out Me History


  1 Dem tell me
• 2 Checking Out Me History


  2 Bandage up me own eye with me own history
• 3 Checking Out Me History

  3 Blind me to me own identity
• 4 Checking Out Me History

  4 Dem tell me about 1066 and all dat
• 5 Checking Out Me History

  5 De cow who jump over de moon
• 1 Exposure


  1 merciless iced east winds that knive us
• 2 Exposure


  2 but nothing happens
• 3 Exposure


  3 we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, / Like twitching agonies of men
• 4 Exposure


  4 What are we doing here?
• 5 Exposure


  5 We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy