History April Poems

I made a good impression today April 19th, 2023...

getting fitted for a new pair of dentures
at Liberty Dental in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania;
The tab picked up courtesy
Aetna...

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April fools' day - ordinarily all manner of tomfoolery abounds

Written/updated since last year
unlike any other 
when out of this world
outlandish accouterments
people did wear
hermetically sealed
of even...

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HEROES IN EXILE
By Kyile Jacquin Carter  

waiting is about knowing
writing is about visions of self expression
identity is about place or time, Immigrants lives which...

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Self help addict needles unsuspecting reader 

Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow 
scouting...

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Young like April, winds
Settling in the limbs of oaks,
Just past the crisp whisper
Cerulean drifting, tides 
Graceful seas reminding me to 
Listen as secrets poured
Past the...

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April fools' occurs first day of fourth month

Ordinarily all manner 
of tomfoolery doth abound,
celebrated for countless centuries 
by different cultures, 
though exact origins remain 
shrouded...

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Spread
Love , it is the only way we can go
This is something we all should know.
We should spread it with all we say
Make it the...

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Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president...

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The Fog Local Gems 

Note: one of my oldest poems was written in 1972 when I was 16. Revised as a cherita.

The Fog 
The Fog...

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I. April 6, 2022

Cows, fowl on road
Not by will, with pigs - business -
Of life and death

II April 6, 1652
From Holland, van Riebeeck
Europe's willing men,...

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The night was perfect
on this unsinkable boat
as the man in the crow’s nest
kept watch.
He fumbled to find
his binoculars,
but they were gone.
“It’s okay,” he said,
vowing he’d...

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Booth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV... 
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").

Ever since early forerunners 
of twenty first century
mankind...

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“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.” 

From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue...

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So, the regimental adjutant is to command 3rd Company
As we escort three million francs to Puebla?
Leave it to the general to trust such a fortune...

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Fret and regret
Stall and won't settle
Hide and be always terrified
Stay 'til you go astray
Fake it and have no one to meet
Manipulate and be the subject...

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