Jesse Zerlaut Poet Free verse

The Museum

In the museum, you will find amazing history regarding
the relics of our past. Gruesome and grim in their telling,
a dark prelude to everything seen by the moon. 

But hold it delightful that these days are behind. That the 
awful atrocities of times gone by, are not a monolith towering
and looming over our future. 

Know then, that we need not be frightened by the opening of 
the book and the turning of the page. Take pride in the light 
we shine on our darker moments, a reminding of who we should 
never be, the vicious and vindictive tyrants of yesteryear. 

Let history bare truth in its will to patronise us over prior mistakes. 
We are fortunate to have the opaque plaques of reference to the 
crimes of time, and what is lost to the wind. 

May we never travel the same road twice. Finding ourselves victorious 
only by being continuously retold in annoying fashion that this is where
we've come from. Looking on with oval, hope-filled eyes, believing we 
now have the light to overcome the dark.


~Make a poem *2 Contest~ Hosted by: Shadow Hamilton

make a poem about light vs dark using the following words:

Awful, amazing, annoying.

grim, gruesome, delightful.

frightened, fortunate, finding.

monolith, moon, museum.

oval, opaque, opening.

patronise, pride, prelude.

vicious, vindictive, victorious.

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Frances Schiavina October 27, 2023 at 7:12 AM Congratulations Jesse on your well written thought-provoking poem featured on Poem of the Week. Jesse Zerlaut August 17, 2024 at 8:43 AM Thank you, Frances, I'm sorry for the delayed response!

Becca Teagan October 8, 2016 at 9:21 AM I always found these types of challenging a bit too challenging for me, but wow you did a great job with this. I love the concept you chose. Jesse Zerlaut October 9, 2016 at 2:11 PM Thank you, I wasn't the only one. I found someone else wrote about the same subject. It was interesting to note.

Wendy Rycroft August 3, 2016 at 3:58 PM Great poem x well written good words x Jesse Zerlaut August 3, 2016 at 8:07 PM Thank you Wendy!

Jack Horne July 30, 2016 at 2:25 PM love this thoughtful piece Jesse Zerlaut August 1, 2016 at 5:04 PM Thank you Jack!

S.Zaynab Kamoonpuri July 30, 2016 at 1:20 AM Wow creatively done on the past n museum archives. U wrote it in a very interesting way indeed. Kudos. Even the present has atrocities. But we can teach Peace n hope. Pls do comment my latest poem too. Jesse Zerlaut August 1, 2016 at 5:03 PM I agree we do have atrocities now, but we're more guarded about not repeating the same mistakes. They at times do happen, but as for example, we watch closely for anything that could turn towards mass genocide, and attempt to prevent it. Thank you for your htoughts, and I will be reading yours!

Andrea Dietrich July 23, 2016 at 10:32 AM this is one of the truly good ones I have seen for this contest. WELL DONE. Jesse Zerlaut July 23, 2016 at 3:59 PM Thank you, Andrea. I couldn't decide how a Museum was going to fit with the rest of the words. Then I thought about Museums shedding light on the past.