quotes poetry

captain cook: “both of us…

.. altered, now we talk no more”

Captain cook: “the pond amid the willows..

…the ocean seemed to be”

Captain cook: “the life that cometh..

..after dwells in a darker shade”

Captain cook: “we lived again its pages..

..we were its chiefs and kings”

TMS: “no joyless forms..

..shall regulate our living calendar”

TMS: religious semantic field

“pray”, “spirit”, “souls”

TMS: “from earth to..

..man, from man to earth”

TMS spondee

“Love, now”

TMS: metrical deviation

“calendar”, “year”

Sunday dip: “the boldest ventures first..

..and the others go and follow”

Sunday dip: “beneath the..

..willow trees”

Sunday dip pronouns

“they”, “their”

Sunday dip: metrical deviation

“stoop”, “up”

MTMUTH: “my father’s..

..sheltering roof”

MTMUTH: “the old..

..hall door”

MTMUTH: “scents that..

..breathe of other years”

IRIR: “i’m farther off..

..heaven, than when i was a boy”

IRIR: internal rhyme

“pools could hardly cool”

IRIR: sun (2) “he never came…”

“peeped”

“a wink too soon”

IRIR: “the laburnum…

…is living yet!”

CAGS: “i know how soon..

...first the deep bell hums, then the evening comes”

CAGS: “where the..

..long boughs knit”

Island man: “his small..

…emerald island”

Island man: perfect rhyme

“soar” “roar”

Island man: imperfect rhyme

“sea”, “defiantly”

Island man: “grey..

…metallic soar”

Island man: quotes about London (2)

“dull roar”, “muffling, muffling”

Peckham Rye lane: “delicate babies..

..clutching drumsticks as weapons”

PRL: “crammed..

“..like a coconut shell”

PRL: “afro combs..

..and mobile phones”

"PRL: “angels gaze..

..from the rooftops like William Blake, radiating comfort”

PRL: “sun leaks..

..desperation, gunmetal droplets of perspiration”

Us: “if you ask me..

.. us takes in undulations”

Us: sea imagery (3)

“shore-like state”, “undulations”, “mexican wave”

Us: “the waves..

.. are too wide for words”

Us: “i hope you..

.. get where i’m coming from, i hope you’re with me on this”

Us: “maybe it’s a midlands..

.. thing, but us equally meant me”

IWWTBI: “desire to make..

..yourself understood, without saying a word”

IWWTBI: assonance

“lounge, mouth, without”

IWWTBI: “dying to be french…

..dying to shrug and pout”

IWWTBI: “to be able to say aloud..

..without embarrassment: bella! bella!

IWWTBI: german word

fremdlandischgehorenlust

Kumukanda: “literary..

..pretensions”

Kumukanda: “the language of..

..my father, and my father’s father, and my father’s father’s father”

Kumukanda: “my fellow.. (VS)

..initiates" vs “a village”

Kumukanda: “and though we both..

..needed a hug, he shook my hand”

Jamaican british: tricolon 1

“half-caste, half-mule, house slave”

Jamaican british: 2nd tricolon

“light skin, straight male, priviledged”

Jamaican british: “they don’t know how…

…to serve our dishes. they enslaved us”

Jamaican british: “i hate..

..dem jamaicans, i’m british”

Jamaican british: “boys at school..

.. made me choose. jamaican? british?”

The emigrée: blazon

“i combed its hair”, “i loved its shining eyes”

The emigrée: “My city..

..takes me dancing, through the city

of walls”

“the emigrée: “it may be a lie..

..banned by the state, but i can’t get it off my tongue. it tastes of sunlight”

the emigrée: “they accuse me of absence..

.. they circle me”

The emigrée: “they accuse me of being..

..dark in their free city”

The emigrée: light imagery

“bright”, “sunlight”

The emigrée: dark imagery

“darkness”, “shadow”