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evil empire ironyWhen 1953 began
Iran’s oil annexation plan
Meant seizing our stuff
But the CIA’s tough
And installed the Shah as he-man
Since Iran’s parliament was dead
And Muslims brutally bled
The people rebelled
But what came next spelled
By an ayatollah they’d be led...
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Categories:
bullying, evil, history, irony,
Form: Limerick
America's Slow Walk to DictatorshipThe Founders' fear of tyranny
informed their choice of polity.
They chose a form of government,
founded on the people’s power.
They acknowledged the hand of God,
in battles fought and victories won.
And knew the nation’s future state,
depended on...
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Categories:
culture, freedom, history, identity,
Form: Free verse
KnowledgeKnowledge honed by time
Copernicus theory vouge
Being receive now....
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Categories:
appreciation, education, history, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
StormThe power of man
Will come and go like storm
Strong, yet, it fades....
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Categories:
history, meaningful, perspective, truth,
Form: Haiku
Violin in The SunI looked towards the sun and see the heaven on the run, the heat is so high causing the animals in the field to fall down and die, fill up the reservoirs and dams and...
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Categories:
history, change, courage, deep, flying,
Form: Narrative
People's PowerPeople hire leaders
Force comes if there's travesty
People fire leaders....
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Categories:
history, people, political, power,
Form: Haiku
DauntlessQuote: 'Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution' (King John, act 5, scene 1, lines 48–53) - William Shakespeare
Mutterings of awful shame
(a child’s bones)
vie for supremacy.
Yet here you are, cowering incessantly.
You hide in a...
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Categories:
character, courage, england, history,
Form: Free verse
Gunfight in TucumcariDust swirls in Tucumcari,
Two shadows draw at noon,
Steel flashes, sharp echoes,
Silence falls, one man stands,
Desert sun claims the victor....
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Categories:
history,
Form: Tanka
Categories:
character, creation, culture, history,
Form: Haiku
Old Swimming HoleWas a swimming hole down south
where the bullheads chewed your feet,
Though there's no need to worry
if you didn't go too deep.
There were no steps to...
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Categories:
high school, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
JeansJeans were invented
Meant to be taken all day
Not to striptease....
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Categories:
culture, engagement, history, perspective,
Form: Haiku
A Place Not Meant To Be: 14#14: Revelations 23:1
Human chain meant Starman ... breathing room trips,
H**** sapiens chose ... plus naught minus,
the apocalypse ... opts total eclipse,
self-acquaintance, he splits us, Linnaeus,
Con temporaries times, countdown it chills,
Adolph & Stalin it ticks and...
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Categories:
bible, creation, earth, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
BodilyBodily
We are looking for in the universe.
In the hardening of the liquid.
Crustacean particles in the oceans and seas.
Fat that can be formed by proliferation of oxides in space.
Oil in grasses and plants.
The bodies of ocean...
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Categories:
animal, earth, history, life,
Form: Free verse
My Now is Just Your ThenAs the clocks creep,
unknown...
again,
my summer's call,
of Calendulas,
and Cotswold stone,
crumbles,
in compliance,
that this, beauty,
cannot be…here,
just for me,
alone.
...
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Categories:
beauty, extended metaphor, history,
Form: Free verse
When Silence SpeaksInelegant, the silence wakes and yawns,
pretending not to notice or to care;
while symphonies of chaos greet the dawn
and ashes of our Banner fill the air.
The few, with vacant visage cry the creeds
~march on with signs...
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Categories:
history,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of History Poems
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Definition | What is History in Poetry?
Poems Related to History
past, yesteryear, yesterday, antiquity, good old days, ancient times, bygone times, days of old, days of yore, old days, olden days, story, account, tale, record, annals, relation, biography, autobiography, recapitulation, saga, journal, narrative, recital, version, diary, narration, report, epic, prehistory, memoirs,