Poems

• Ozymandias


  a shattered visage lies

  a sneer of cold command

  boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away
• London 


  charted Thames does flow

  mind forged manacles

  chimney sweepers does cry
• The prelude 


  troubled pleasure

  heaving through the water like a swan

  a huge peak, black and huge
• My last duchess 


  My last duchess painted on the wall

  i gave commands then all smiles stopped together

  notice neptune, though taming a seahorse
• The charge of the light brigade 


  half a league, half a league, half a league

  theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why

  into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• exposure 


  our brains ache

  the merciless iced east winds that knive us

  Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.
• storm on the island 


  we are prepared

  spits like a tame cat turned savage

  We are bombarded by the empty air.
• bayonet charge


  suddenly he awoke and was running

  bullets smacking the belly out of the air

  King, honour, human dignity, etcetera

  Dropped like luxuries
• remains 


  probably armed, possibly not

  tosses his guts back into his body

  then i’m home on leave. but i blink
• poppies 


  three days before armistice Sunday

  released a songbird from its cage

  hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind.
• war photographer 


  spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

  solutions slop in trays

  stranger's features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost.
• tissue 


  paper that lets the light shine through

  might fly our lives like paper kites

  turned into your skin
• the emigrée 


  there once was a country…

  i comb it’s hair and love it’s shining eyes

  they
• checking out me history 


  dem tell me

  but

  i carving out me identity
• kamikaze 


  her farther embarked at sunrise

  like a huge flag

  die