History Literature Poems

Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, 
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.

Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise, a...

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I know the ending,
But I read it anyway.
I’ll pull the blanket tight around me
As laughter fades to death,
And there are screams,
And tears
that might even be...

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ihr kampf

 
snowball in the face   warming them         mid-laugh ; 
    ...

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The awful insignificance of history
is laid bare by the titillating lightness
and frivolous form of our real lives....

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What is poetry
Should be discussed
Is it merely a garland of words
Or something else. 

 Should  it be 
  Interesting or boring
  Loving...

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In greener days, when all was harsh and wild,
our stories were sparse and our facts were few.
So much to grow - ev'ry zeitgeist a child...

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Bold King Leonidas and his band of brave men,
Marched forth to meet their fate at Thermopylae's glen.
The Persian army, vast and fierce,
Hailed arrows down with...

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Beloved of Ba’alat, 
Consort of Ba’al,
Mistress of the Sinai mines 
Whose turquoise eyes
Unlocked the hieroglyphs 
Lining the promenade
Leading to the Temple of Hathor, 
Inventing first...

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"Love is the parent and original of ceaseless Pain."
-- the history of deep affection narrow

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A tiny figure bronze dark...

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I have taught, written, and spoken in the giant marketplace of Km.
I would speak and write in Egypt's marketplaces and all around its rim.
One day...

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It belongs to us! But we are surrounded 
Let's unite against them! But massive is their power 
I can see chains and locks, but ignorance...

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It comes wrapped up in clear mylar,
like the ones comic people use,
insides faded, creased and yellow,
big red letters boast of the west,
small rips and tears...

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Near nice allies need
to confront this beast in the 
moment to be brave.

Not in a memoir 
when you’re 75 and 
few feet from the grave....

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Qisa Khawani
Shamsa rani.....

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