History Irony Poems

  The world is wrong
    'We' are right

  Bang go our drums
     day and night:

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   A myriad of steps we will take
     to correct our predecessors’ mistakes...

   So busy will we...

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We went to Tegia to capture slaves
And we took some fetters with us.
But in the end, we Spartans were enslaved,
And they fixed our fetters on...

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I was born in the odds, 
I lived through it,
dotted the lines on my path
I was born among hyenas, 
these scrambling to stiffen the last...

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No other people has endured the constant persecution
     3,330 years of constant suffering
   From the Egyptian Pharaohs' enslavement and...

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In the saloon a lone, haggard cowboy
Had more than double his fill, one last sip
An imagined past of unlawful joy

Recounting the times he shot from...

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Archon of the west, whose spouse was the worldly Sophia
Who blindly abandoned his childhood lamb, to search for unseen light
Though the lamb could have showed...

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Bold Nietzsche declared, “God is dead,”
Humans have killed him, so he said.
Enlightened men, all widely read,
have purged his being from their head.

God decomposed and left...

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Giving someone something for nothing
    Worst idea in the history of man

  Yesterday's safety net expanded to universal permanent entitlements
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Fences

This side and

The other side

Inner and outer

Center and edge

Peace and conflict..

These oppositions

Tell the stories

Of lives past and

Present..it is the

Guts of history

And stories that

Seem as identities..

Grand...

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In the USA, Black History month is celebrated
In February, the month with the shortest days
Meanwhile in my world, I celebrate year-round, every day
In my heart:...

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There is a space still unknown
In the basement of my home
In the dirt there's gotta be treasure
Better go 'splorin' (for good measure)
A century ago, this...

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Woodrow Wilson, back then a progressive
  Now considered a wholesale regressive ~
     Just think, Hilary / DJT *
  ...

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We are human and frail
And it really is no shame,
When we make the odd mistake,
To accept and take the blame.
It seems it’s different in America
Land...

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Unsettled Calm

Why am I writing this, 
when they say... 
really no one cares? 
I don't believe they are right. 
The more "they" try to prove...

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