History Poems

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
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The night has been long,
The wound has been deep,
The pit has been dark,
And the walls have been steep.
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One heavy day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city and directed my weary step to the spacious alley. I pursued the beckoning course of the rivulet and the musical sounds of the birds until I reached a lonely spot where the flowing branches of the trees prevented the sun from the touching the earth.

I stood there, and it was entertaining to my soul - my thirsty soul who had seen naught but the mirage of life instead of its sweetness.
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I wish I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my baby's very
own world.
I know it has stars that talk to him, and a sky that stoops
down to his face to amuse him with its silly clouds and rainbows.
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'My teacher wasn't half as nice as yours seems to be.
His name was Mister Unsworth and he taught us history.
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I said unto myself, if I were dead,
What would befall these children? What would be
Their fate, who now are looking up to me
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i am accused of tending to the past
as if i made it,
as if i sculpted it
with my own hands. i did not.
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Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,
in that gray vault. The sea. The sea
has locked them up. The sea is History.
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Density of the room
Filled with gloom
Ahead, nothing emerges
The four walls
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History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had--
it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
unlike writing, life never finishes.
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Bottomless pits. There's on in Castleton,
and stout upholders of our law and order
one day thought its depth worth wagering on
and borrowed a convict hush-hush from his warder
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Canonised when dead, cannonaded when in life,
Lofty your thoughts that savour of content
But loftier the craftmanship
More congruent in symmetry
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Little maidens, when you look
On this little story-book,
Reading with attentive eye
Its enticing history,
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Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness,
Like the flight of a moth which, had it known,
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There is a section in my library for death
and another for Irish history,
a few shelves for the poetry of China and Japan,
and in the center a row of imperturbable reference books,
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The white woman across the aisle from me says 'Look,
look at all the history, that house
on the hill there is over two hundred years old, '
as she points out the window past me
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I Am the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass.
Do you know that all the great work of the world is
done through me?
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For Lucy, who called them "ghost houses."


Someone was always leaving
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I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for
myself, and for these chants--and now I have found it;
It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither
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Black History is Our history
Black History is American history
Black History is World history
Black History is The history
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History of History

History of history,
Can you say it?
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It's a difficult time
a time of so much hate
a time of so much distrust.
People against other people
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Today I'm thankful for history…
Understanding the history of what makes us great should be taught
as well as the history that does not
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history
is a surface pool of water
stir the water
muddy the depths...
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History,
There is a history
Hidden
In history
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You hate how our history books are written
How it says the many races and beliefs we have smitten,
You want to read how we fought and won our liberty from Britain
But, not about the slaves or native Americans we had stricken.
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For sale: Putin's Russia. Greedy history.
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I trying to write the history
Of distraught and devastated mankind.

N.B. Suggested titles or secondary ones: History of Mankind, I Trying to Write, Re-write History, My Undrstanding of History. I Trying to Write, Re-write History, came it first to the mind.
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Itihaas, History/ Kalpurusha, The Immortal Representative of The Age (Hindi to English)

Prithvi ka itihaas, / Samya ka itihaas, /Manushya ka itihaas (History of Earth, / History of Time, / History of Man) Title: Itihaas, History
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