Rehashing Poems - Poems about Rehashing

Attila, Hannibal, and Genghis Khan Were comparing the many battles they'd won. Hannibal boasted o'er the Alps he had coasted On elephants and conquered the Romans. Khan's hordes did maraud both at home and abroad In places they'd ne'er make their home in. When Attila's turn came, he said, "I'm to blame For campaigns that make you look like babies. Of God I'm...

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Albert Einstein was an interesting guy, Indisputably smart and reputedly shy. His legacy's statistical, But had he been more egotistical, Instead of E=mc2, he might have called his theory "Me, myself, and pi". ...

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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 was, in fact, quite rounded. Pope Urban VIII then came along And said, "No, that's absolutely wrong, For, I, the Church, do not agree, and I'm the Wise One. It's just as plain as...

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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 shot. As soon as they started the session, Gio's senses said something was wrong. Mickey couldn't decide how to pose him-- Wearing armor, a toga, a thong? This went on for a while, and then...

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Lady Godiva wasn't trying to be cute When she went for that ride in her birthday suit. It was her husband's taxes she protested, All butt naked and bare-breasted, She only did as he'd suggested, so any argument was moot. The townsfolk of Coventry were warned not to peek, And no lecherous looks at the lady to seek. But one sneak did...

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The winter of 1621 in Plymouth was harsh as could be, The Pilgrims were sick and sorry they'd come, They missed their warm English beds and their tea. The still ambulatory shivered and shuffled about, As they grinched, and they groused, and they cried, 'til of 132 Mayflower passengers and crew, All but fifty-three of them died. The following spring a kind...

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"Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one." Whoever wrote this jump-rope song About Lizzie Borden got it wrong. Though she did give her stepmom ax whacks aplenty, By the coroner's count there were no more than twenty. Then before anyone could scold her or scoff, Lizzie took her...

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Columbus was not the slightest bit offended At King Ferdinand's dismissive sound When he declared the world was round, His was not a plan that very many comprehended. Though the queen, Isabella, thought Chris a fine fella, Her spouse wanted nor hair nor hide of it. "The horizon", he snarled, "marks the edge of the world." But Capt. C. was convinced that...

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You are a terrific slug, a sloth, unhurried, unmoved. I cannot sit around here any longer, so I am gone. I have dancing, skating, sledding, and living to do. You want me to become a couch sitter, but it is not to be. I have so much living to do, I cannot be pulled down into this mire. If you...

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I Where, oh where is Virginia Dare*, No one can find her anywhere. Her disappearance is the very worst, I guess that's what comes from being the first. *Virginia Dare was born on Aug. 18, 1587 in Roanoke Colony, Virginia, the first child born in the New World to English parents. Both the colony and all its inhabitants…80 men, 17...

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Where are the Heroes That kid's want to meet Not in the pages of comics But live here on our street's Who is going to ignite The kinks and the bends Where danger extends Along these trampled street's of woe Into the afterglow of childhood dreams Where god only knows The boundaries and rule's Or the form of tool's that will...

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