War And Conflict Flashcards
(15 cards)
Ozymandias
“Nothing beside remains”
“My name is ozymandias, king of kings”
London
“I wonder through every chartered street”
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
Prelude
“It was an act of stealth”
“By day, a trouble to my dreams”
My last duchess
“Looking as if she were alive”
“She thanked men”
The charge of the light brigade
“Noble six hundred”
“When can their glory fade?”
Exposure
“Merciless iced winds”
“Flights of bullets streak the silence”
Storm on the island
“We are bombarded by the empty air”
“Strange it is a huge nothing we fear”
Bayonet charge
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“His terrors touchy dynamite”
Remains
“Sleep, and he’s possible armed, possibly not”
“End of story, except not really”
Poppies
“Poppies had already been placed”
“I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice”
War photographer
” a hundred agonies in black and white”
“He has a job to do”
Tissues
“Turned into our skin”
“Might fly our lives like paper kites”
The emigree
“I have no passport, theres no way back at all”
“There once was a country”
Checking out my history
“Blind me to me own identity”
“I carving out me identity”
Kamikaze
“This was the father we no longer loved”
“And tho he came back my mother never spoke again”
