History Light Verse Poems

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
What a charming kid you are.
Across the silver screen you prance,
Though you can't act, or sing, or dance,
But for six whole years
Your...

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gorgeous kind-hearted empathetic
motivated lady godiva
usually dressed to the nines
taught her husband a lesson
showing off what he was missing
to the ones he referred to as commoners...

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The accomplishments of history
are extraordinary, good and bad
and not necessarily limited to these
two categories. In fact, I look on 
the record of history as I...

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Human Condition




The human condition
is like a coin: one side 
is Good, the other Evil. 
Men have invested heavily 
in this currency for centuries.
In fact, from...

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Anyone who’s studied
human history
from a perspective 
of age and longevity
should not be worried
if his view is defective.
Even king Solomon knew 
there was nothing new
under the...

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...or What's science got to do with it?

Galileo looked through a lens one day
And, boy, was he astounded.
The Earth wasn't flat as he'd been told,
It...

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the universe exists
to give humans a backstory
- no humans, no universe
it’s all heads
in the shape of our heads

history could be made up
and I know people...

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The llama has a name that everybody mispronounces.
"The double 'll', it sounds like 'y'," he patiently announces.
"The single 'l', it sounds like 'l'," proceeds his...

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Giovanni didn't trust Michelangelo,
He'd heard that for guys he was hot.
But for minimum pay of a florin* a day,
He was willing to give it a...

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the hapless toad
who croaked a verse
and moved the trees around him

did sway the branches
sway the leaves
at the most profound of meaning

and too did cry 
the...

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There are images in my mind,
    Yet they do not reflect.
With roots of fantasy and reality,
    That none can...

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Doership

Seems the mainstay

Of civilization..

The heroes of history

And of fiction..

A solid word

For the performers

With names featured 

In breaking news..

The persistence of

The breakage of

Doership......

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Time

No such thing

Apparently..

The Greeks found

Two kinds:

Clock and no-clock..

As these two tangle

And point to each other

Seeming to show

Time

No such thing

Apparently......

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All stories are

Stories of seeking..

No seeking..no story

Seeking is the story..

Stories..in fiction

In the history books

Science's discoveries

Personal events and

The nightly news..

All are stories of seeking..

Seeking is what...

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Vacation On Titan

options are always present and never employed
This poems too long though I hope you enjoy
See you on Saturn in 2 million years
 
Gentle...

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