Power and Conflict
Cards (15)
- Ozymandias (6)“I met a traveller from an antique land””Of that colossal wreck”“The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed””Sneer of cold command””Shattered visage””Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair”
- London (5)“I wander thro’ each charter’d street””Blights with plagues the marriage hearse””Runs in blood down palace walls”“Every blackening church appals””The mind forg’d manacles I hear”
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (5)“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward””Valley of death””Theirs but to do and die””All the world wondered””Honour the charge they made, honour the light brigade”
- Kamikaze (5)“Her father embarked at sunrise”“Like a huge flag waved first one way”“The loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous””Only we children still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learned to be silent””He must have wondered which had been a better way to die”
- The Emigree (5)“There once was a country… my memory of it is sunlight clear””It may be at war… but I am branded by an impression of sunlight””Child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll””I comb its hair and love its shining eyes””My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
- Checking Out Me History (4)“Dem tell me, dem tell me, wha dem want to tell me””Dem never tell me about Mary Seacole””Now I checking out me own history””Bandage up my eye with me own history”
- Exposure (5)“The merciless iced east winds that knive us””Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army””Is it that we are dying””The love of God seems dying””But nothing happens”
- Storm on the Island (4)“Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate””So that you can listen to the thing you fear””Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs””It is a huge nothing that we fear”
- Poppies (5)“Spasms of paper red, distributing a blockade””The gelled blackthorns of your hair””The world overflowing like a treasure chest””Released a song bird from its cage””Your playground voice catching on the wind”
- Remains (5)“On another occasion, we got sent out””I see every round as it rips through his life””Tosses his guts back into his body””The drinks and the drugs won’t flush him out””His bloody life, in my bloody hands”
- Tissue (4)“Lets the light shine through””A structure never meant to last””Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines””Thinned to be transparent, turned into your skin”
- My Last Duchess“That’s my last duchess painted on the wall””I gave commands then all smiles stopped together””My gift of a nine hundred years old name””If they durst””As if she were alive”
- The Prelude (5)“Trouble to my dreams””Dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being””The grim shape towered up””Far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky””Led by her”
- Bayonet Charge (5)“Suddenly he awoke and was running raw””Bullets smacking the belly out of the air””In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations””Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame””King, honour, human dignity, etcerta, dropped like luxuries”
- War Photographer (5)“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows””A priest preparing to intone a Mass… all flesh is grass””A half formed ghost””Eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre lunch beers””And they do not care”