History Sound Poems
These History Sound poems are examples of Sound poems about History. These are the best examples of Sound History poems written by international poets.
In The SilenceIn your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...
Read More
Categories:
sound, analogy,
BellsIt started in three thousand BC
When for survival, warning sounds were key
These utility communications
Building sender-receiver relations
Secular signs, religious ritual
The use of bells became habitual
Calling to...
Read More
Categories:
sound, celebration, funeral, history, music,
Itan KosmouHe trained Seaguls to carry
letters and items.
He built a wheelbarrow that
later he help create a steam engine
using the blueprints from
the Ancient scrolls.
The weird...
Read More
Categories:
sound, character, future, history, music,
ChimeWe love those church bells,
do we not? Such chimes, such rings!
Are you a churchy type?
Or, like me, are you not?
Those bells we hear here
do have...
Read More
Categories:
sound, atheist, feelings, history, joy,
GinnungagapGinnungagap
Before gods and men, when only Darkness was extant, there was the primordial yawning void. In Norse mythology, this was known as Ginnungagap. To the...
Read More
Categories:
sound, stars,
Chinese Translations IiiChinese Translations III
Quiet Night Thoughts
by Li Bai aka Li Po
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Moonlight illuminates my bed
as frost brightens the ground.
Lifting my eyes, the...
Read More
Categories:
animal, mountains, nature, sound,
Gamble and HuffGamble and Huff
with all that rhythmic stuff
Throwing down and making 'em get down
to that sweet, soul 'Philly Sound'
The Jacksons, Teddy, Phyllis, and the Mighty O'Jays
sweet...
Read More
Categories:
sound, blessing, celebration, history, music,
Too Many Voices MoreI listen to the silence of the night.
Though we deem it quiet, silent just isn’t quite right.
I can hear the bristling of the leaves.
Imagination...
Read More
Categories:
sound, absence, abuse, humanity, moon,
We Heard a Whistle BlowThe whistles screamed that cold dark night
...
Read More
Categories:
memorial, scary, sound,
Unrest - a Sound of JumbosThey punch a fist in the air
Anger written on their faces
Those deaths of their own..
Having ignited hidden fires
Rushing over each other arsonist...
Reason and civility is...
Read More
Categories:
sound, anxiety, black african american,
ResearchSix titles,
Twelve number one
Contenders..
Best out four falls
If there is a draw
A ten minute finale
Will deside the winner
Four barrels(oak)
Filled with sand
At the bottom a
Title...
Read More
Categories:
sound, anniversary, business, culture, leadership,
Today's Sounds -- MusicToday's Sounds
Music rolls off the banjo, bluegrass
Active cheery sound, gland it’s around,
Folk music in little town passed down by word of mouth;
Family remembers and other...
Read More
Categories:
sound, culture, family, history, music,
Plunder Gainedthe influences of days gone by
we refferred to her as an Old Woman
she was only 26 but she used
the way someone else to
express her concern
him...
Read More
Categories:
language, music, song, sound,
Say WhatTAKEMBACH VIRAC MADE HIS LONG AWAITED RING DEBUT
ALONG WITH HIS MANAGER VIRAG CAME TO THE RING AND OUT WRESTED HIS OPPONET
AND GRABBED THE MICROPHONE AND...
Read More
Categories:
sound, analogy, history, music, song,
That Old RagtimeI can't help tapping my feet
to that rhythm and off-beat,
bright piano sounds so sweet,
brings bounciness to my mind
when I hear that old ragtime.
Joplin sure can...
Read More
Categories:
sound, appreciation, fun, history, light,