History Child Poems

(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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Inked Confession

Innocence stolen
Defending my elders extremism
Fields of olives, roots never sowed by me

Dagger dripping red

Inch by inch the watermelons are mine
Dancing in glee, I bury...

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A young girl’s voice, lost in the data, cries out,
"Why are we here?"

Pixie Pixela, her words soft and low, murmurs,
"This world is yours, dear, a...

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I am not the nightlight, nor am I the monster under my bed that my father would tell me to fear. I never feared the...

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Never thought I'd live long enough to see a holocaust.
A holy slip of land whittled into a divining rod for carnage and death.
The footsteps of...

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O' What Is War But The Mad Child Of Greed And Hate


By uppity arrogance the mouse challenges the lion
And his haughty crown is fused nickel...

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We are the Kingdom the Savior decreed,
likened to Heaven, a promised seed,
our fore parents’ heritage, gifts from above.
Deliver us Father from a world without love.

We...

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Chloey was a concubine
By the time that she was nine
Gents who should have saved her
Said only she was mighty fine....

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The pair of a straight brave birth
That twice gives maternal mirth,
The victory screams louder
And bigger baby powder!

No more held as mystery
While pairs still make history,
Their...

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I smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags,...

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black rotten salad shoved in between my lips 
It was always the poison or a kick in the hips 
I would’ve thrown it away but...

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Started out life as a child
Cuter than the average bear if I do say so myself
Grew up in a small town across the river from...

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Oh my darling 
My Sweet 
Russian Queen
Mother of my home
Born of my dreams
Mother of my heart 
Hope sewn through our seams 
In our troubled history
Lost...

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I Ran 
Through the mists of hell 
Heaven 
Beneath my bleeding feat

History on a heartbeat
Running  on repeat 
Like your life 
Depended on it 

I...

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Yes, they told her
they will induce our
baby.It was the high
blood pressure,
it seems

I skipped out 
of work early
at twelve. The
maternity unit was
just up the road.

She sat...

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