History Wisdom Poems

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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...You apply it to history
and the causes we fought
just fade away into nothing,
and everything is lost.
You think that slavery was bad,
that’s just your point-of-view,
you think...

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I see a contradiction that
grows clearer with each passing day,
once I think we all one know,
once saw as just part of the game,
a dynamic state...

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......The loss of Alexandria,
the burning of Ashburnham House,
the Grand Library of Baghdad
which the Mongolians tore down,
the countless Aztec codices
that the conquistadors all burned...
just thinking of...

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I was reading Aristotle,
because I am just weird like that,
and as I poured through ancient words
I was presented with the fact
that what I read from...

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love is fond gold, to freely give
not subject to space nor time

treasure of the flowered 60’s 
we foolishly squandered for a 
mere nickle and dime…....

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Dead Men's Words

What is it about dead men's words
That has people turning into turds
Reading, quoting these, gives them a right
Others to judge and them to...

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Found a feather today -- 
a pen of the great, soaring
past, of creative thoughts yielding
dips immortal...indelible on time
were the hands
of a Poe and Mozart

for me,...

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Summon your demons, devils, and wraiths,
visit moments of hurt and loss.
Replay what might have been, wrestle with regrets,
Do “if only” scenes haunt your past?

I follow...

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I wonder how different our world would be if throughout our history
we saw everyone as our sister and our brother….
If we realized how much we...

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What can
will be put to rest,

but each New Year
is a history
of our old – predilections
governing the heart and soul
of man...a nest of cupids and
demons~ bearing...

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WISE suggests the best utilization and application of knowledge.

INHERENT in every act of true wisdom is the presence of God.

SOLOMON is believed to be the...

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Aim to answer the big questions and go—
beyond the scope of science and religion,
challenging assumptions and beliefs.

Define concepts and terms,
explore the arguments and evidence,
find the...

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The earth moves in circles,

satellite of a physical center -- 

the dizzy nature of paths,
every forward motion a turn,
better soon to revisit worse
were there no...

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...They told us it was ‘tolerant’
to not care if people were gay,
just letting those folk live their lives,
how could it hurt us anyway?
They said that...

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