What We Did With the Past

A historians words
have often been heard
with wonder and amazement
Telling of wars, inventions, explores
everything memory can mintion
They are our eye's into the past
seeing events and reasons
Telling our  ears 
of triumphs and fears
of nations, kings, and religions
Scribes record the words
of their lords
on stone, papyrus, and paper
A glimps of the past
into mans hour glass
for futures information
Recording the facts
should never be laxed
with embelishments
prejudiced partition
Stories, myths, ledgends and fibs
told by polititions
There's always an old woman
a century old who can testify
to most of the truth
When the storytellers 
tell the tale
she can recall it from her youth
One stops to wonder
that from their Savior
they are only twenty souls away
Faith founded in memories
of the old and gray
We were given a mind
that collapses space and time
And with it create wisdom
up to date
Civilization is the creation
of all things put together
architecture, agriculture
technologies new inventions
Hundreds and thousands
of historians
with all different kinds of stories
Of how the past
has made the future
Our present day glory
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011


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Date: 1/19/2011 1:03:00 PM
Oh now this was so interesting John.A facinating read.Thanks for the comment.~Teresa~
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Date: 1/19/2011 10:53:00 AM
A splendid write -what a vivid description of history you have given -a tribute to your writing skill. However, history is not all truth and is mostly influenced by the writers bend of mind. I quote a Quatrain from my book Rubai'yat of Josh Malihabadi -A Drop & the Ocean: Historians and their perplexed plies/ Waves and whirlpools in what meet the eyes/ Each bearing vivid seals of authenticity/ History is that civilized book of lies. Thanks for commenting on my poem Stars Go To Sleep -Mohammad
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Date: 1/18/2011 9:40:00 AM
In history records were kept track of but as to how accurate they really are is a good guess. As to whose point of view they took makes it possible to have all kinds of stories. Lots to think about on this write. An awesome write it is. Love Phyl
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Date: 1/13/2011 3:19:00 PM
Good one..I especially like the last three lines..Sara
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Date: 1/13/2011 3:12:00 PM
Thanks for your compliment on "The Jungle" I really like this poem, especially the words: "Faith founded in memories" take care. Julie Heckman
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Date: 1/12/2011 4:28:00 PM
this is so well written...but history is largely inaccurate, a myth peddled to keep the masses living in ignorance...I look to the future when mankind will awaken to the truth vibrations and cast off the chains of subservience...
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Date: 1/12/2011 6:26:00 AM
very well done , john, with meaningful allusions to a woman whio graced us with the most important event in human history.. much delighted! :) nette
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