Histories Poems - Poems about Histories

...The knights that in histories lurk, They never wore spandex to work. O’er heroes today That dress in this way, The dragons, they snort and they smirk. ......Read the rest...

... Written: March 27, 2025, for Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose *********** Waves into twilight that is now absent. From flowers clipped just before their ideal flight. I......Read the rest...

...From Maurus' shore, a tide arose, not of ocean, but of faith, and shadowed Iberia's sun-kissed coast. Moor, a word that held a continent, a tapestry of Berber, Arab, threaded with the blacknes......Read the rest...

...In the Court of The Fisher King, He sits ceaseless, and unyielding. So weep his wounds and sores to the e'er senescent march of mortal ages. A King enshrined in stone, no bait upon that sim......Read the rest...

...The air is thick with the weight of things unchosen, paths untrodden, doors closed but never quite sealed. A shadow clings to every decision, the ghost of every road not taken, whispering — what ......Read the rest...

...I wake up at midnight To the sound of a summer storm, The breeze upon my face Feels so gentle and so warm. Then I'm looking down on An endless , clear mountain stream . . . Drifting through th......Read the rest...

...It's not wrong to wear an old hoodie that feels like a cloak of woven memories, to keep jeans that hug your body like a spell that knows you by heart, because some clothes are not just fabrics, but......Read the rest...

... Written: February 22, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama **************** Skating upon Saturn rings, we dance in the empyrean, while orbit......Read the rest...

...PAINTBRUSH Fingertips the bristles of a pagan paintbrush painting a Tree of Life on pacified cheekbones instead of in liver from whence it sprung now it burns to feed HeartSpace with wi......Read the rest...

...To The Forgotten Military history is written by the victors. Generals and politicians who stamp their names on the pages of books written by men and women in ivory towers. It is actually mad......Read the rest...

... Melodies, breathless as foggiest daybreak healing all my heart’s restlessness releasing the song, pure as the gentlest stream washing away the distance between happiness and pain, corre......Read the rest...

...We built this house On a dirt road at the edge of the forest And between two coyotes dens So it’s hard to know if the howling at night Is sibling rivalry or civil war Serenade or sacrifice Th......Read the rest...

...These are translations of Voltaire, one of the world's most prolific, best and most influential writers. Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was an amazingly prolific writer who produce......Read the rest...

...Touch, translucent, delicate and sparse, Awareness fleeting and fragile; Treasure of treasures, Lo and mark, Seeker born quick and agile. Peripheral only, inward glancing, Laughing at clumsy ges......Read the rest...

... Daylight fades away early Even though our day is not done. Clumps of snow shimmer in pearly, Enchanting drifts, reflecting the disappearing sun. My love stoke......Read the rest...