History Free Verse Poems

Eco fuels at home are warmly cherished,
obligation calls and duly heeded,
in the past a smokeless coal,
allied to peat briquette the norm,
a less than ideal medley...

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I like roaming thrift stores
full of worthless things
lost treasures that I can hold
within my hands and mind
capturing a time gone
for a pretty hand painted cup
a...

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Our politicians of the 21st Century
Lack Insight 
The nature of true graft
The hardship 
Our hands have Laboured 
Of love for our community 
Together 
We were...

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I didn’t write this poem 
Because I was supposed to.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about my feelings.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about the...

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My grandparents talk 
about things that happened yesterday 
but do they really mean yesterday?
 or should they say 
that's from the past 
it's history 
yesteryear...

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Id love to write a poem that rewrites history
that unlocks consciousness 
that speaks from an universal experience 
that feels the rage of love 
and the...

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I was conceived in the warm haven of a mother’s womb.  Developing..........growing………. morphing……….through the epochs of time.  Then suddenly, on no day in...

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As if you were a bell chiming on the shores of oblivion,
A sweet murmur, yet dim, bathing in the cold waters of misunderstanding.
And the world,...

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Like twins, we share markers of a common history,
Civilization, and knowledge; a call for unity.
The carcasses of slavery and the slave trade
Are lost in the...

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We suddenly strolled down Lakeshore drive
facing Goethe street named after Wolfgang von
Goethe famous German poet just at the crosswalk 
while waving to the hidden Walter...

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In the tapestry of time, 
history became him.
He wrote of equality, 
in the face of adversity. 
He wrote of a diverse nation,
from the shackles of...

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(I only thought about becoming a serial killer)

I am laid back even when 
Standing on the loped off shoulders
Jereremy the ant
Jeff the ant
All the j
Auntie...

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Written: April 13, 2024  For Ink Empress Contest

Rumi Quote: “Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.” “Words can fertilize...

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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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He wears thick gloves when he strings the barbed wire,
fashioning a thorny fence from prickly metal spines,
reminding me that cattle like to know the boundaries,
the...

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