Poetry

Cards (42)

  • "in every infant cry of fear" - LONDON
  • "marks in every face i meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe" - LONDON
  • "mind forged manacles i hear" - LONDON
  • "it was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure" - THE PRELUDE
  • "the grim shape towered up between me and the stars" - THE PRELUDE
  • "there hung a darkness" - THE PRELUDE"
  • "we are prepared: we build our houses squat" - STORM ON THE ISLAND
  • "strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear" - STORM ON THE ISLAND
  • "the very windows spits like a tame cat turned wild" - STORM ON THE ISLAND
  • "thats my last duchess painted on the wall" - MY LAST DUCHESS
  • "will't please you sit and look at her" - MY LAST DUCHESS
  • "this grew, i gave commands; then all smiles stopped together" - MY LAST DUCHESS
  • "suddenly he awake and was running" - BAYONET CHARGE
  • "he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm" - BAYONET CHARGE
  • "king, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries" - BAYONET CHARGE
  • "our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us" - EXPOSURE
  • "less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow - EXPOSURE
  • "but nothing happens" - EXPOSURE
  • "cannon to the right of them; cannon to the left of them" - CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
  • "theirs not to make reply" - CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
  • "when can their glory fade" - CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
  • "her father embarked at sunrise" - KAMIKAZE
  • "enough fuel for a one way journey into history" - KAMIKAZE
  • "a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous" - KAMIKAZE
  • "dem tell me... dem tell me wha dem want to tell me" - CHECKING OUT MY HISTORY
  • "bandage up my eye with me own history" - CHECKING OUT MY HISTORY
  • "but now i checking out me own history... i carving out me own identity" - CHECKING OUT MY HISTORY
  • "bright filled paperweight" - THE EMIGREE
  • "i comb it's hair and love its shining eyes" - THE EMIGREE
  • "the white streets" - THE EMIGREE
  • "running children in nightmare heat" - WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
  • "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows" - WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
  • "he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care" - WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
  • "released a song bird from its cage" - POPPIES
  • "a split second and you were away, intoxicated" - POPPIES
  • "on reaching the top of the hill i traced the inscriptions on the war memorial" - POPPIES
  • "probably armed, possibly not" - REMAINS
  • "i swear i see every round as it rips through his life" - REMAINS
  • "tosses his guts back into his body" - REMAINS
  • "half sunk, a shattered visage lies" - OZYMANDIAS