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THE real me
I don't have a common last name
(inherited from my
father), but I'm simple like
Silva from my mother...
I'm proud...
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Categories:
confidence, history, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
MoveYou sit there year after year looking at me as if you don’t care, you sit there picking your nose and smelling your polished toes, time is on your hand and you have got to...
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Categories:
history, books, business, deep, earth,
Form: Narrative
The BuffaloNo one’s exactly sure how this buffalo in the 1960s
Found its way to live in the heart of the city
How it separated from a sky stampede
How the great beast dropped its guard and refused to...
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Categories:
history, animal, city, earth, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Revolution
A myriad of steps we will take
to correct our predecessors’ mistakes...
So busy will we be
our own foibles we’ll not...
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Categories:
change, history, irony, satire,
Form: Couplet
Isla MannIsland woman, nautical mystery,
Shrouded in history, over the sea,
Longing to see her, when I set sail,
Ageless, Manx goddess, she's waiting for me.
Maritime woman, always mystical,
Ancient Manx goddess, from over the sea,
Nautical distance, I will not...
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Categories:
history, journey, mystery, sea,
Form: Acrostic
Heart Cast AwayHeart Cast Away
The heart, once cast away, is left to wander in the vast expanse of time, searching for solace in memories that now seem distant and surreal.
It's profound journey of healing, filling with moments...
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Categories:
history, break up, faith, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
PersiaPersia, my homeland,
an ancient domain
a realm of poets' refrain
memories of love's seasons renew
Eternal springs flourish under the sun
Where women are cherished, like morning dew
Not to be tormented, but wrapped in loves warmth
In a life of...
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Categories:
absence, history, humanity, passion,
Form: Free verse
A Wider Beam
Night after night, images flicker on the tube
Horrific images of ‘the enemy’ dying
Dying ‘Agent-Orange’ deaths
...
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Categories:
death, history, horror, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Talkin' the Night Away, Back in College in the 70's
I remember back in the day
talking the night away
with all of my Jewish friends
Could Hitler’s Germany ever happen again?
...
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Categories:
education, friend, hate, history,
Form: Couplet
I Hear the Boots of Krystallnacht
I hear the boots of Krystallnacht
marching in our streets
Heil, Hitler… Heil, Sinwar…
Heil, Hitler… Heil, Sinwar…
I...
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Categories:
cry, god, history, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Stories of LoveYou have compose stories of old of how the universe came about; you have brainwashed the world with the existence of old and frivolous literature that your ancestors have written; they cannot be tested or...
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Categories:
history, adventure, animal, blessing, creation,
Form: Narrative
Great Saint GeorgeGeorge faced the two ships of splendorous light
Entreated, and vowed to shatter the false gods
Openly soldiering on, through Christ’s name
Rome, heard this bright name and brought their wheel of swords
George even...
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Categories:
history, christian, courage, endurance, england,
Form: Acrostic
The Walls of EgyptI only remembered it for a minute second
Some dream bound for the black hole.
A minuscule moment it was
Slipping into the fabric of no dimension.
The actor forgetting their single stage moment
In the shortest act created...
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Categories:
analogy, desire, garden, history,
Form: Narrative
KNOWN JUST TO GOD AND ME
Categories:
death, grave, history, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
The Meteor is on its Way
O, how will we ever cope
The dreaded meteor is on its way
The weather mavens say ‘No hope’
that those dinosaurs...
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Categories:
animal, change, fear, history,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of History Poems
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Definition | What is History in Poetry?
Poems Related to History
past, yesteryear, yesterday, antiquity, good old days, ancient times, bygone times, days of old, days of yore, old days, olden days, story, account, tale, record, annals, relation, biography, autobiography, recapitulation, saga, journal, narrative, recital, version, diary, narration, report, epic, prehistory, memoirs,