Poems About: HISTORY

Pre-history, antediluvian Pacific Nation
Once flourished before “The Great flood”
Where humans learned 'Heart-activation'
‘Til angry sea engulfed their land beloved read more »

plantation scars
great-grandfather on the bed he cries
screaming for freedom read more »

Shopping malls abound in the city
hawkers and road side stalls vanish
FUKUYAMA says there is the end of history
Ispeak from acountry which is not developed read more »

THIS DAY IN HISTORY 11SEPTEMBER

CAN NOT FORGIVEN WE CAN DO SOME THING read more »

Yesterday is history,
Tomorrow is a mystery,
Today is a gift,
That's why it's called the present. read more »

We only hear of war and terrorism and crimes against humanity
In the World news headlines every day on radio and t v
Systematic abuse by so called soldiers on their prisoners of such we hear and see
And history repeats itself or so 'twould seem to me. read more »

To Hell or to Connacht was Cromwells's war cry
To poor Irish tenant farmers his cruel words did apply
Cromwell was a war criminal the facts never lie
To Hell or to Connacht were his words or die. read more »

For centuries man has fought,
he's sharpened his swords,
he's serated his knives,
he's holsted his guns, read more »

Language carries in it the history of a people
The history that begins way before
The conception of that particular language
Every myth, idiom, or story told carries read more »

This Land bronzed from the sunshine this Land as old as time
That's famed in song and story and by poets honoured in rhyme
The home of pademelon, koala, wombat, wallaby and roo
And magpie lark and magpie, lorikeet and cockatoo, read more »

In Ballarat where history don't fade
They still honour the Eureka Stockade,
The miners who fought some of them even died
For their rights to them that for years they had been denied read more »

A white cross with five stars in a background of navy blue
Men fought under it in eighteen fifty two
In Ballarat Town at the Eureka Stockade
Some miners died for workers rights there and history was made. read more »