History Poverty Poems

While in an antique shop, I came across a wood stove
The cast iron, covered in rust, had seen better times
I admired it as it stood...

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 Privileged classes are unsympathetic or unaware of the plight of the poor;
Their pride, prejudice and hate;

- Madame so am I the peasants have no...

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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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Humans' prominent promises were shattered
Mingling, striking, searing, poorly down-pattered
They react quickly and pause to stay conscious
And in the face of denial, that's just obnoxious.

Poverty appears...

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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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Pockets Of Wealth:
In my left
a president

not one
by God sent

In my right
a congress,

not one will
ever confess

In my back, 
left or right
the same, day
or night, could 
not...

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Pu Erh tea = shrinks fat cells & help promote weight loss (mornings)
  low-caffeine

* white tea = blocks fat absorption & increases metabolism and...

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Ashes and Thirst

Evil comes in all shapes, and all sizes. 
We have all heard this many times... before. 
But how truly large, or small can...

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The countryside was their homeland, 
Buried in the rich soils were their sons’ navel strings, 
Nothing of their history was bland,
Not even the stain on...

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Millennia-long a big challenge to feed
our hungry new blood and relations in need
by hunting, collecting and later with seed;
for fear of starvation we still deal...

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The Ukraine rain fell long and hard
From clouds above on high,
But what were shed 
Were tears of red
To spill on fields awry.

As storms of rage...

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Color my history book 
Manipulate the mothers and destroy the youth
They disguise truth because of the way I look 
The way my people look, the...

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Wandering in sepulchral silence among the artifacts
dredged up from the ocean floor after almost a hundred years
dinner plates, a diamond ring
a pair of patent leather...

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Night catches wing 
flies like dreams 
jumped in shifting revelations 
realities each new hue 
a shade with a difference  
a different order 
of a...

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Modernization will never complete Materialistically
It asks for moral and spiritual support
As man is too careless
To avoid repeating historical errors
As man is too selfish to share...

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