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The Twentieth Century

I've never been to Heaven
      nor have I been to Hell

   But living through the 20th century
      I think I know it well

Categories: twentieth century, perspective, time,
Form: Rhyme

Twentieth Century Oz - For the Wiz

Mr Wiz, Munchkin Land
Be so kind to lend a hand...

Cartwheeling cottage? how daft is that
Landed quite safely, all level and flat
Some midget fellow said, who else heard that
I think ‘Wicked Westie’ might just have gone splat

Tin men and lions and blokes full of straw
Red shoes and rainbows and bricks on the floor
Witches determined to lay

Categories: twentieth century, dream, fantasy, film,
Form: Rhyme

Continuation of Brodskys History of the Twentieth Century

Continuation of Brodsky’s History of the Twentieth Century 

1918.  A flu pandemic in Spain takes hold, 
From Kansas over the seas in America bold, 
Women’s suffrage win the vote, 
Their opinion is not remote, 
Russia switches from the Julian calendar, 
To the Gregorian, the west’s larder, 
Russia agrees the world war to leave,
To forsake

Categories: twentieth century, business, car, history, leadership,
Form: Tail-rhyme

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Twentieth Century Man

requiem for the immaterial man
his pauper pockets clean but empty
he stitches his threadbare life with a careful hand
this is the latter half of the twentieth century man
and his well spoken mind sees the writing on the wall
knows the disease of market minded wall street dreamers
and the throw away class of the poor stranded in jails

he

Categories: twentieth century, beauty, universe,
Form: Free verse

Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

Mankind started this century with so much enthusiasm. 
What has happened to it all now? 
Has something gone wrong with mankind? 
Is he alarmed to live his life to the fullest? 
Why does he have the means to wipe himself out 
with bombs, viruses and weird science? 
All these questions can be answered 
if

Categories: twentieth century, conflict, history, international, power,
Form: Free verse

The Last Gasp Ot the Twentieth Century

The twentieth century 
fades into memory 
  The wars, the holocausts, the roaring twenties, 
the Depression, and the 60's are becoming 
the stuff of legend 
The years continue to roll on 
     Bolshevism in retreat now 
Will there be a better day soon? 
Make up your mind powers that be!

Categories: twentieth century, new year, time,
Form: Free verse

The Down Side of Twentieth Century North America

It can be seen all around us 
Hard times and its sounds
Companies closing down
Gas and fuel go up and staying unsettled 
Then they fall to their lowest in years
Melancholy awareness and tears 
War in other lands 
Religion and stained hands  
 Media melodrama
Families going homeless 
Foreclosure how sad 
To loss the only home you

Categories: twentieth century, confusion, life, people, sad
Form: Didactic