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History Poems | Examples of History Poetry

History Poems - Examples of all types of history poetry to share and read. This list of history poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of history poetry. This list of works about history is an excellent resource for examples on how to write history poems.
Dauntless
Quote: '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...Read the rest...
Categories: character, courage, england, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gunfight in Tucumcari
Dust swirls in Tucumcari, Two shadows draw at noon, Steel flashes, sharp echoes, Silence falls, one man stands, Desert sun claims the victor....Read the rest...
Categories: history,
Form: Tanka
Kowtow
China is kowtow The Great Wall was created By true loyalty....Read the rest...
Categories: character, creation, culture, history,
Form: Haiku
Old Swimming Hole
Was 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...Read the rest...
Categories: high school, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Jeans
Jeans were invented Meant to be taken all day Not to striptease....Read the rest...
Categories: culture, engagement, history, perspective,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: bible, creation, earth, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Bodily
Bodily 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...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, earth, history, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Now is Just Your Then
As 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. ...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, extended metaphor, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Silence Speaks
Inelegant, 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...Read the rest...
Categories: history,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member from here to there
fabled desert land mere whisper of what once was … humble Timbuktu...Read the rest...
Categories: africa, history, mystery, time,
Form: Haiku
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder
The monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder As origin of *****Sapien species surged ahead, harboring nascent predominance asper said primate reproductively bred, (albeit via incremental fits and starts) evolutionary forebears didst dread Tom Tom Club former members an American...Read the rest...
Categories: history, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ear Rocky Hard Place
Mesopotamia The Fertile Crescent once was ~ Then Babylon rose...Read the rest...
Categories: flower, history, humor, word
Form: Senryu
her's slip'd on she in mate's slops
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Categories: history, adventure, allegory, character, courage,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member From Pompeii
He appeared out of nowhere and convinced me to sit with him for a drink. His eyes were wide and glistening, his brow - of the knowledge within. I asked him his name and where he had...Read the rest...
Categories: history, death, fate, fear, for
Form: Free verse
Rubbles of a memory
High upon the rubbles, a country shall reign A generation to continue the lost struggles And they shall fight, a fight to exist And that fight shall be to rein and not be obliterated. Palestinians for the land of...Read the rest...
Categories: history, 11th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse

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