poetry

Cards (37)

  • cotlb
    all that was left of them
  • cotlb
    rode the six hundred
  • kamikaze
    as though he no longer existed
  • kamikaze
    he must have wondered which has been the better way to die
  • ozymandias
    the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed
  • ozymandias
    look on my works! ye mighty and despair
  • london
    chimney sweepers cry
  • london
    i wander through every chartered street
  • london
    helpless soldiers sigh
  • my last duchess
    my gift of a nine - hundred years old name
  • my last duchess
    a heart ... too soon made glad
  • my last duchess
    then all smiles stopped together
  • the prelude
    strode after me with trembling oars
  • the prelude
    a huge peak, black and huge
  • the prelude
    small circles glittering idly
  • checking out me history
    but now i checking out me own history
  • checking out me history
    i carving out me identity
  • checking out me history
    bandage up me eye ... blind me to my own identity
  • bayonet charge
    threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame
  • bayonet charge
    king, honour, human dignity
  • war photographer
    a hundred agonies in black and white
  • war photographer
    before his eyes, a half - formed ghost
  • exposure
    but nothing happens
  • exposure
    merciless iced east winds that knive us
  • exposure
    is it that we are dying
  • remains
    his blood - shadow stays on the street
  • remains
    tosses his guts back into his body
  • remains
    i see every round as it rips through his life
  • emigree
    there was once a country
  • emigree
    but i cant get it off my tongue, for it tastes of sunlight
  • emigree
    but i am branded by the impression of sunlight
  • storm on the island

    it pummels your house too
  • storm on the island
    like a tame cat
  • storm on the island

    but there are no trees, no natural shelters
  • tissue
    might fly our lives like paper kites
  • tissue
    thinned by age or touched
  • tissue

    if buildings were paper