I am the Boy Scouts who become
Official.
I am Charlie Chaplin film that
Makes you giggle.
I am the triangle shirtwaist
Factory fire.
I am Margaret Sanger the birth
Control supplier.
I am the Titanic sinks in
The ocean.
I am the Spanish flu
In motion.
I am the Red Baron takes
To the sky.
I am Rockefeller that
Billionaire guy.
I am the Coast Guard's first
Day on the job.
I am the first crossword
Puzzle to solve.
I am Tommy submachine
Gun in supply.
I am Mata Hari the exotic
Dancing spy.
I am the first Indy
500 race.
I am the Oreo cookie,
Can't wait to taste.
I am Mexico and Arizona
Become states.
I am World War One starts
To take shape.
I am the National Hockey league
When it was formed.
I am Daylight savings time when
It was born.
I am the international telephone
Line.
I am prohibition no alcohol
Or wine.
Turbo1904
Nobody here is God. However, we are to do good, not evil.
We save lives of animals, even the boll weevil!
Oh, how we weep over dead elephants!
But to save a baby from death, we say, I can’t !
Putin is a killer, what about you?
Afraid to be pro-life, what might others think of you?
One must fit in and say not a word?
Because the screams of a newborn will not be heard?
Murder is paid for in the USA.
Saddest of all, it need not be this way.
Hitler’s ideas are from Margaret Sanger.
Millions of Jews and now babies dead, from fear or anger.
And we think we are so innocent?
Watching from poetry texts?
Who are we, and what have we become?
When the value of an innocent human life we shun?
Catholics at Mass, on Mother’s Day, will be attacked.?
While free speech, is now in a DHS sack!
Americans who love God, have courage and speak up!
Stop fearing no popularity from the poetry cup.
God help us to be totally courageous!
Not supporting human life is so disingenuous.
5/6/2022
So many women,
Lost to time.
Mileva Maric,
Helene Kaufler-Savic,
Chien-Shiung Wu.
In a world of men,
Their lights in shadow,
We’ve left their memory to fade away.
The pedestal they deserve
We gave away.
Away to men who were so very wrong,
To men who took the freedom of others,
To men with brains, but no heart or humanity.
Aristotle,
Thomas Jefferson,
Albert Einstein.
These men of history, and many more,
With their large shadows
Bury the names of women who were their equals.
Names that time and history have erased.
Margaret Sanger,
Yuri Kochiyama,
Rosalind Franklin.
These women with minds as brilliant as those of they men with which they were forced to compete with,
These names which few know, but changed the course of history.
In remembrance of them,
A moment,
To the women that were lost.
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