Farewell History Poems

Wham-o’s old Pluto Platter,
gets a brand-new name.
Fred and Ethel say farewell,
Dick Clarke gets his fame.

The Cat in the Hat is born,
Bogie has moved on.
Hurricane Audrey...

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This highway's mine, goodbye to Jayne,
so long, farewell, Virginia Plain,
strife was yesterday's heavy load,
life is tomorrow's open road,
it's time to hitchhike once again.

Heading where songs,...

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Philippines, my country of birth,
one of the countries in Southeast Asia.
It is an archipelago or group of islands,
with more than seven thousand islands.

Luzon, the largest...

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i am waiting for the right moment..
to tell the world that  i am not crazy..
to think and feel who i truly am..
i am who...

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victorian canal life - the reality (a true tale  from from my maternal heritage )

We left our abode 
     ...

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In seventeen sixty nine a child was born
in Corsica, Genoa's former vassal state.
Prior to his birth, his land had been war-torn,
Paoli's resistance did his birth...

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The Queen has answered her ancestral call
England is in sad reflex to her nightfall
My condolences to the Royal House
For Her Majesty can no more live...

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Never will I see pine trees,
or dream of whistling wind in leaves,
hear the moaning of the trains
in lonely nighttime southern rains.

Sunshine wakes a cross at...

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We all have roots from seeds
In and on the fertile soil of our lives
Where we are planted to need
The place we know as home to...

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Separation can be the death of a loving relationship, 
but can resurrection come too? 
Can one give a reprieve from
Braking bonds that bind. 

Threads that...

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Puffing languidly by blowing the whistle, there came 
the mementos of zig-zag meter gauged companion, 
The first consignment on the railroad track, locomotives shipped from...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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There was a man named Donald Trump
Votes counted - he went into a slump
Election swore he’d lost
No matter what it cost
Afterall, Biden wasn’t such a...

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It was late in gorgeous springtime, and I was teaching my class,
A lesson in African history, and the events of time's hourglass.

My fourth graders were...

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The Skatz had used up their precious time 
‘  through wasted study of mathematics, philosophy ‘and classical rhyme.

Those elusive green Peelers were the new...

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