History Today Poems

   I remember back in the day
     talking the night away
   with all of my Jewish friends
...

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You can't have tomorrow,
Until you've had today.

But stay strong and tomorrow,
The pain might go away.

Yesterdday has been and gone into distant history,
Just live for today,
Tomorrow...

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   O, how will we ever cope
     The dreaded meteor is on its way
   The weather mavens...

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I made a good impression today April 19th, 2023...

getting fitted for a new pair of dentures
at Liberty Dental in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania;
The tab picked up courtesy
Aetna...

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A siren sounds and movement stops – 
Pedestrians stand still
While cars and buses hit the brakes
And silence reigns until

Another siren breaks the spell;
Two minutes to...

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Who defended Jews from Nazis in WW2
     A few brave souls here and there
   Foul-smelling smoke from crematoria arose
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Fifty years ago today
     an attack was well underway
     On Yom Kippur, October 6
   ...

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In this age of post-civility
    not to mention post-amiability
  I find most posts I read
    full of hostility......

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YESTERDAYS

They’ve all but disappeared
All of those forgotten times
Several thousand yesterdays
Mostly faint memory traces
Now just dust in the wind
Yet a few have taken root
Clinging onto their...

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I heard your encouragement so many times,
 worded ten million 
different ways
 that I forgot to listen for it anymore. 
Your love never came lightly,
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Geology and biology are both to me
Confusing studies that are more than weirdly wee
artistic sands of the beach by the sea
speaks to thee, and speaks...

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A Cinderella chariot,
Eight horses in the lead;
Two heavy looking crowns that seemed
Uncomfortable, indeed.

A scepter and an ermine robe,
An orchestra and choir,
With all that pomp and...

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I was a famous, learned historian, living a good life in prevalent today;
As vast, grey clouds must move on, once wild storms are swept away.

I...

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Through the lens of the present, view the past
     Do you think to yourself, Why couldn't it last 

  Yet...

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Where is your Superwoman today
Your triple A game to win every play.
To take the light to its height
To be the hand of nature and of...

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