power and conflict poems

• ozymandias

  two vast and trunkless legs of stone
• ozymandias

  sneer of cold command
• ozymandias

  king of kings
• ozymandias

  half sunk, shattered visage
• ozymandias

  the decay of that colossal wreck
• london

  the charted thames does flow
• london

  hapless soldiers sigh
• london

  every blackening church appals
• london

  runs in blood down palace walls
• london

  i wander through each chartered street
• the prelude

  huge peak, black and huge
• the prelude

  heaving through the water like a swan
• the prelude

  with trembling oars i turned
• the prelude

  “no pleasant images of trees”

  “no colours“

  vs

  “huge and mighty forms“
• the prelude

  proud of his skill

  unswerving line
• the charge of the light brigade

  valley of death
• the charge of the light brigade

  was there a man dismayed?
• the charge of the light brigade

  “jaws of death“ and “mouth of hell”
• the charge of the light brigade 


  all that was left of them, left of the six hundred
• the charge of the light brigade

  when can their glory fade?
• exposure

  the merciless iced east winds that knive us
• exposure

  is it that we are dying?
• exposure

  slowly our ghosts drag home
• exposure

  for the love of god seems dying
• exposure

  all their eyes are ice
• storm on the island

  we are prepared: we build our houses squat
• storm on the island

  the wizened earth has never troubled us
• storm on the island

  spits like a tame cat turned savage
• storm on the island

  a huge nothing that we fear
• storm on the island

  exploding comfortably
• bayonet charge

  bullets smacking the belly out the air
• bayonet charge

  sweating like molten iron
• bayonet charge


  suddenly he was awake and running
• bayonet charge

  king, honour, human dignity dropped like luxuries
• bayonet charge

  his terrors touchy dynamite
• remains

  probably armed, possibly not
• remains

  sort of inside out
• remains

  tosses his guts back into his body
• remains

  blood shadow
• remains 


  he is here in my head when i close my eyes