History Epigram Poems

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field, goes through every point of pumpkin history.” 

—Ralph Emerson Waldo...

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Ides of March

In triumphant days, when ambitions surpass;
cowering in the throng of democracy
before the Senate, Caesar pled, “Show mercy!”
Love doesn’t conquer, but vengeance will.
 ...

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Passed a certain stage
Life is no longer a fairy tale
It's chronic. a novel !...

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'Made in Japan' once meant
     poor quality, cheap price

   'Manufactured in China' 
     ~ does...

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Whatever happened to 60's revolutionaries
  I asked my wife in earnest

B. Sanders stayed the course, she said
  And it's now his turn to...

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History can be
                a fallacy that almost
   ...

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HISTORY
HER-STORY
THEIR STORY...

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More polarization than in Poland
  or north of the Arctic Circle

Division rife on the left, not seen
  since H. Rap Brown and Studs...

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Time and fate have mocked us all,
be we great or be we small.
The same temptations Jesus thwarted
the Church, I fear, has ofttimes  courted.
Luther preached...

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Now, historians say the Babylonians invented soap in 2800 B.C.E
   Water, alkali and cassia oil ~ formula of hope in the 21st century...

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Quest

For years long I espoused the bedlam in my beneath 
I quest the solitary 
The more close I endured; the arouse of ignition was more
This...

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Ech day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Each...

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Social media rants and raves
   a lot like the letters of Scrabble
The end result, rather the same
   ~ scattered like those...

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TV creates a vegetable on the couch
  Unhealthy produce with a big-bellied pouch

Yet echo words of a prophetic 60's Sage
  -- The Medium...

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Westinghouse won the currency war,

but here’s what nobody can ignore:

Edison’s fame forever burns bright

for his phonograph, film, and long-lasting light!


Nov. 6, 2019
for Maureen McGreavy's Pithy...

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