History Terza Rima Poems

LEGEND

A story based on fact – well, perhaps
It seems picky to suggest any correction
Many details, but also with some gaps

Back into history is the likely...

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ANOTHER TIME

It was another time, not at all like now
None thought history was in the making
Hard labouring with sweat on the brow

A full day’s work...

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I see them in the dank and dark
advancing in the midnight’s glare,
slithering back from daylight’s spark.

I lie awake in dark and stare
at visions, long past...

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This day the morning has not spoken
Cradled in earthly arms life remains still,
The great peace the east promised broken

After the raging fire an ice age...

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“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
- Werner Heisenberg

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Here, within this lucid dream, we call life
Stuporous...

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Mingled worths gleaned by contrasting instructions.
Disappearing as I meander amidst sun-soaked wisps.
History is storming, howling, and recoiling further convictions.

Current plans riding the rowdy wave are...

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Balanced through life's cup 
our climate changes as war grips many poor souls 
Caught victims in a maze poisoned by this pollution 

Trillions dropped in...

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Pony Express Christmas Card Ride

You asked about our Christmas here.
Do reindeer pull the sleigh 
to carry loads of gifts and cheer?

Hoofed beasts we have, they...

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I walk upon the quiet forest floor,
Where those before me walked in ages past,
And feel that I have been here once before.

This feeling is so...

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Global awakening came when sunrise met the sunset,
sparking a clash of conflicting cultures
Civilization came to the crossroads when east met west

Armageddon skies of doomsday vultures,
because...

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A Progressive Shadow

A series of real challenges and troubling world events 
In our twenty-first century give us a definite reason and
An urgency to pause and...

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In simpler times this one-room school was new.
Now, standing near her timeworn frame, I cry.
Yet here in bygone days fine children grew.

A belfry white, with...

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Italian version. (continued from first part)
Tale è l’orror  che assale la mia mente
Di quanto ho visto e rivissuto prima
Da ridurla al silenzio più opprimente.
Pian...

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Egli in tal modo il proprio carro aggancia
A quello del bieco suo alleato
Che adesso verso l’est la sfida lancia.
He in this way his chariot hooks
To...

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(for those in Kwangju: May 18, 1980)*
after Dante

Taking this peach within the mouth, the tongue 
hovers around its sunset skin like a lover
and its Sappho...

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