History Elegy Poems
These History Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about History. These are the best examples of Elegy History poems written by international poets.
Categories:
elegy, angel, bereavement, death, devotion,
Elegy To the Uyghur KhaganateO Glorious and Wise Empire of the East
Slaughtered by cold winter’s wrath and the azure dragon
For this world had no place to lay...
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Categories:
goodbye, history, hope, memorial,
PsithurismThere was a sickly tree
In a barren clearing
In a burning country
On a mourning day.
A wild crown of branches
Haloed by concentric rings;
A rising wave of spires...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fate, fire,
1234 and 51234 & 5
These were the years we had
...
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Categories:
blue, death, death of
Give It a Name Part 1What name can I give
To a dream that is uncertain
To people who are unclear
To a feeling I am unsure of
To a message that is...
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Categories:
family, memory, missing you,
Roman HeadstoneIN MEMORY OF CENTURION
GAIUS LUCIUS MANIUS
PRIMUS PILUS FIRST COHORT
LEGIO VI VICTRIX
HE SPENT HIS PENSION
IN CISALPINE GAUL
WHERE HE RAN
AN HONEST BROTHEL
HIS FUNERAL WAS...
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Categories:
allegory, death, history, morning,
ElegyThey brought their music to the hills,
brooked no softening,
yet in time, the Appalachian mists
grew softer, the work less dire.
Their tunes recalled one Celtic root,
one that...
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Categories:
elegy, poetry,
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True LoveDeep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
( “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)
Deep...
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Categories:
death, deep, depression, heartbreak,
The Black TuesdayTHE BLACK TUESDAY
(Tribute to the Victims of the EndSARS Lekki Tollgate Massacre in Lagos, Nigeria; Tuesday, October 20, 2020)
Dark is the night,
Darker the soul,
Fathomless depths,
Stories...
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Categories:
africa, death, memorial day,
Game of Clones
Another puppet government,
strings attached gone
Proxy power given to the corrupt —
a foreign gameplan
played wrong
The latest Queen gambit
was an Old World maneuver, with
a neo-Roman tale...
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Categories:
anxiety, death, history, wisdom,
Antebellum ElegyPrologue
Abandoned and in disrepair the mansion
Is dark now; a story behind every stanchion.
It is an unwitting monument to a way of life,
Since foreclosed...
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Categories:
history, native american,
Real MonsterOh, if ever the devil donned flesh on this earth
'Twas that beast, Hitler, by length...
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Categories:
hate, history,
The Star of OmanThe Star of Oman
By Joji Varghese Kuncheria
The star that dawned the horizon,
For five decades is gone for ever,
But the legacy is going to...
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Categories:
bereavement, celebrity, death, feelings,
Cult of the MaskThe cult of the mask dictates:
that you must staple a facade to your face
or be given the stink eye-by the wolf pack
chastised and treated as...
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Categories:
america,
Eulogy of Tears___EULOGY OF TEARS___
(Chadwick Baseman's Tribute)
By: Artistic poet
Asleep against Earth,
In the whiskey dark,
Earthly time has stopped,
Existence deletes,
Slide the blade across your face,
Totally gone blank,
The career...
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Categories:
africa, america, death, death