Poetry quotes

The lone and level

Sands stretch far away - ozymandias

Stamped on these

lifeless things - Ozymandias

Nothing

Besides remains - ozymandias

Marks of weakness

Marks of woe - London

The mind-forged

Manacles I hear - London

Plagues the

Marriage hearse - London

A huge, peak

Black and huge - prelude

(Which I

Have not) - my last duchess

My gift of a nine-hundred

Year-old name - my last duchess

Her looks

Went everywhere - my last duchess

Over my lady's

Wrist too much - my last duchess

Theirs not to reason why,

Theirs but to do and die - charge of the light brigade

Half a league, half a

League , half a league onwards - charge of the light brigade

Some one

Had blundered - charge of the light brigade

But

Nothing happens - exposure

Pause over half known faces.

All their eyes are ice - exposure

Mad gusts tugging

On wire - exposure

Exploding

Comfortably - storm on the island

Spits like a

Tame cat gone savage - storm on the island

We are/ It is a huge

Prepared / Nothing that we fear-storm on the island

His terror

Touchy dynamite - bayonet charge

Stumbling across

Fields of clods - bayonet charge

Raw-seamed hot khaki

, his sweat heavy - bayonet charge

Probably armed

Possibly not - remains

his bloody life

In my bloody hands- remains

But I blink

And he bursts again-remains

Crimped petals, spasms of paper red

Disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer - poppies

I went into your bedroom

Released a songbird from its cage-poppies

Hoping to hear your

Playground voice catching on the wind - poppies

And they

Do not care - war photography

Spools of suffering

Set out in ordered rows - war photographer

Belfast. Beruit. Phnom Penh

All flesh is grass-war photographer

There once was

A country - the émigré

I carving out

Me identity - checking out me history

On a green-blue

Translucent sea - kamikaze

Like little fishing boats

Strung out like bunting - kamikaze

Which had been

The better way to die - kamikaze

My city takes me dancing

Through the city / of walls - the émigrée

They accuse me of abscence … but my

Shadow falls as evidence of sunlight - the émigrée

Upreared

It’s head - prelude

Troubled

Pleasure - prelude

Bandage me eye / Blind me to me

With me own history / Own identity - checking out me history

Dem tell / Wha dem want

Me / To tell me - checking out me history

Paper that lets the

Light shine through - tissue

Sun shines through

Their boundaries - tissue

Credit card might fly

Our lives like paper kites - tissue

Turn into

Your skin - tissue