History Didactic Poems

small
  & minute
trivial
  in size
      &stature
puppet-like
    low life
rural
   peasantry
dislayed
history
in
jest
  of
  ...

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ARTISTA
prosaic
  reality
in footnotes
to history

aspirations
  flowering
experience
   expressed
as emotions
flourish
&expound
in potent
     awareness
particularised
  addressed
articulated
literally
in
  conscious
     concepts
made credible

the improbable
contextualized
filling
  space
visited
  viewed
revered
or
  reviled
relevant
& irrelevant
vacuous
ostentatious
left - field
  avant-garde
conventional
traditional
yet
unpredictable
&
 unknowable
always
  personal
&individual
ever
  provocative
objective
   instinctive
& interpretative
the enigma
  made
   manifestto
to
taste or touch
see
  &feel
absorb
in
a unique
   moment...

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PERFORMISTA 
traces
of
  phenomena
in
  dilemmas
of
the unexpcted
egos
  of happenings
of instant
      history
with
no narratives
only
  assumptions
Perceved
&staged
      one-offs





...

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REALISTA 
life enhancing
  & naturalistic
likeness
 speaking
reality
 captured
   forever

history
 displayed
  in a frozen
impetuosity
of a moment...

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From Friar Thomas Aquino
AABBA cinquins did flow
With rhyme anapestic
the form did the trick
inspiring Lear et al to have a go...

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FREE VERSE
words
   framed
in
                  white  ...

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I
Never one to shackle one with the past
Yet humans use words to distort
Time, our guilt or responsibility
In that sense, the Past is a scapegoat
An escape...

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She is always silent
You never know,
Every day I search,
only to find her
one day, high
up in the sky,
where she always
could be found

This eagle who has built...

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In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,
a Norwegian was patented for his design.
His name was John Vaaler, and we've great reliance
on his smart invention, a...

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Those in the know,
Know that history will will always show,
That lack of cooperation will deal a hard blow,
To an overinflated ego,
And many a society disappears...

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On threads of wispy air,
in breathy undertones of political wind,
I can hear the quiet catastrophe,
the quiet ruination of our commonwealth.
I can hear the sleepy madness,...

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Nothing that you say 
Is ever lost; it's stored away 
Goes down in history 
In someone's memory 
And everything you do 
Is traceable to you...

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No part of the world part 2

As we established in the last lesson, Jesus taught that his followers would be "no part of the world"...

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Winter Solstice, Apollo, Sun god, Constantine had a say ...
For the first day of the week: Christian worship day
A strange connection: Sundays and SonDays For...

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From his hands white, hang blood
diamonds and fur, keys to boardrooms
and shoes shined for climbing
ladders, a cushion upon which to sit
at the table. The eyes...

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