History Storm Poems

Whither The Fates Carry

Anchors aweigh in 1609, Anno Domini!
A convoy of ships laden with cargo set sail,
And departed Plymouth harbour to cross the Atlantic
For Jamestown,...

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Audra
Bringing freedom
Through their literature
Her Lithuanians name's meaning:
Stormy!



(About main character in "Words on Fire" by Jennifer A. Nielsen)...

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Storm


          in the noctilucent ether
          above our...

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A man clad in mystery
history would learn

The world in his debt
with fury to burn

Duty and honor
in marriage live on

With courage his mantra
—and battle his song

(Poem...

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My mind is laid bare its components 
& functions are under your razor's gaze

To compare…

My aged bones are yours to dig into…
My past, like my...

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In the wake of a ship, one struggles against the surge to get on board.
Falling behind is not an option, to miss this ship, one...

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In the book of fire 
& 
all that blazes
In the words of praises, 
Burning fast
They are hard bright
…it blares white.

This is my desire 
But...
What is...

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Another storm threatens to come in,
feeling my responsibility
for uncaring
and unresponsive history

Fearing you
more than loving us

Setting out your pails
and plastic tubs
to catch cold
and dreary drips

Impaled remembering
past...

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Two tears fell from furious eyes 
Both of growing size 
Though one came first and the other last 
Both of them made a blast 

The...

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God is not happy
He is furious
Nineteen lawmen standing in a hallway
While nineteen fourth-grade students get slaughtered
With an automatic rifle

Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam...

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When a nation cries, death rides the reaper is a stride, the loss of reasons in a Ludacris season, where men of nations think they...

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As sex and scars, mascara covers
The blood n liquor mingles on the bar
Draining to the vast caverns of my horrors 
While dark dreams coalesce in...

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To Babylon, we came...
To watch the rise of Tower 
The Tower of Cain
A fortress of dark n eternal pain

Stretching to the vaults of heaven 
to...

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And demons scream
Into the crowded sky
Of lands built in absence of mind
Of neon dreams, diners,
Haunted Malls n parking funeral lots
A ghost nation walking the wastes
Of...

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I.  The coming storm…

Looking into the distance along a windswept beach. Feeling the vast vault of alabaster sky. High! Feeling the cooling winds, as...

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