Nothing New Under The Sun Poem by Reason A. Poteet

Nothing New Under The Sun

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verse, dimeter

Subtitle: The Year 1447

Babies are born
fathers die.
Men maneuver
cousins rule.

Consorts juggle
Wars are lost.
Rights are restored
Life goes on.

Fourteen hundred
forty-seven
Under the sun
nothing new.

Unless you
count Dracula.
also known as
the Impaler.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Author's Notes: Once upon a time, the year 1447 was the height of modernity. It was a time of art, science, music and technology. Vlad Dracul died in December 1447, some credit his son, Vlad, the Impaler, as the forerunner of Count Dracula.
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