Poems About: HISTORY

you were so good at subtleties
despite how you pretended
to be perplexed by metaphor,
or why our story ended. read more »

They marvel on the serenity
Of Nefertiti's symmetrical coutenance read more »

presidential race
obama he needs to work real hard
like turning white to black read more »

Glorious Greece in silver urn,
While pompous Rome histories burn.
From old to young a story's told;
Wealth built on blood and gold. read more »

The World's great Empires have gone to decay
They rose and they fell and each had their day
And one Super Power rise as another does fall
And the small will grow great and the great become small. read more »

What did we do?
What did we do?
From History it was all Written,
That man must never live to die, read more »

The birth of poetry.

Before the advent of the written word.
When all knowledge was passed on orally. read more »

The one on portrait hanging on the wall
Perhaps the best that history can recall
He lived and worked five hundred years ago
And still the legend of Leonardo grow. read more »

you're Gone

Waking up
With the sun read more »

He is out there with Nature his is a watery grave
The man who loved adventure but he was truly brave
His kayak was found capsized just out of Milford Sound
A day or two and he would be with family and friends and safe on solid ground. read more »

Men crucified the one millions now worship more than two thousand years ago
Yet many men they are as cruel today and any compassion towards others they never seem to show
And the gifts of compassion and empathy to the special few belong
And many far too many seemingly cannot tell right from wrong 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 »