Love & Relationships GCSE Flashcards
(11 cards)
S29
“My thoughts do twine and bud about thee”
“As wild vines, about a tree”
“I will not have my thoughts instead of thee”
“I do not think of thee - I am too near thee”
“O my palm tree”
“In this deep joy to see and hear thee”
LP
“Nothing in the world is single”
“All things by a law divine”
“The waves clasp one another”
“See the mountains kiss high heaven”
“No sister flower would be forgiven if it disdain’d its brother”
“What’s all this sweet work worth, if thou kiss not me?”
NT
“We stood by a pond that winter’s day”
“The sun was white, as if chidden by God”
“Starving sod” “Ash” “gray”
“Eyes that rove over tedious riddles”
“The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing”
“A grin of bitterness swept thereby, like an ominous bird a-wing”
“Some words played between us to and fro”
WS
“Three days of rain and then a break”
“The waterlogged earth gulping for breath at our feet”
“We skirted the lake, silent and apart”
“‘They mate for life’ you said”
“Our hands that somehow swum the distance between us”
“Porcelain over still water”
“Icebergs of white feather”
SS
“From behind di chocolate bars”
“Vee stare past di half-price window signs”
“How much do you charge for that moon baby?”
“It’s priceless baby”
“Cos up di stairs is my newly bride…vee have made luv”
WWTP
“After long years, how should I greet thee? With silence and tears”
“Long, long shall I rue thee”
“The dew of the morning sank chill on my brow”
“Thy vows are all broken”
“Pale grew thy cheek and cold, colder thy kiss”
“They name thee before me, a knell in mine ear”
hello
hello
Walking Away hi nia
Like a satellite, wrenched from it’s orbit
With the pathos of a half fledged thing set free into the wilderness
Who finds no path where the path should be
The scorching ordeals which fire one’s irresolute clay
Gnaws at my mind still
Love is proved in the letting go
Follower
Shafts, furrow, bright steel-painted sock,
With a single pluck of reins, the sweating team turned round
The horses strained at his clicking tongue
An expert
I wanted to grow up and plough
All I ever did was follow
But today it is my father who keeps stumbling
Mapping the furrow exactly
His shoulders globed like a full sail strung
MAD
Any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands
The acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors
The lines still feeding out, unreeling, years between us. Anchor. Kite.
I spacewalk through the empty bedrooms
To breaking point, where something has to give
To fall or fly
BYWM
Your polka dot dress blows around your legs. Marilyn.
I remember my hands in those high heeled red shoes. Relics.
In the ballroom with the thousand eyes
I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello
You’d teach me the steps on the way home from Mass
Where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine
