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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
from here to therefabled desert land
mere whisper of what once was …
humble Timbuktu...
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Categories:
africa, history, mystery, time,
Form: Haiku
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorderThe 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...
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Categories:
history, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Ear Rocky Hard Place
Mesopotamia
The Fertile Crescent once was
~ Then Babylon rose...
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Categories:
flower, history, humor, word
Form: Senryu
her's slip'd on she in mate's slops
Categories:
history, adventure, allegory, character, courage,
Form: Romanticism
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...
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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...
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Categories:
history, 11th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Cinco De MayoIn 1862, Mexicans were elated
As the French army was decimated
Today is Cinco de Mayo
Tacos—free Pico de gallo!
The Battle of Puebla is celebrated
Emperor Maximillian was fooled
by the Mexicans he thought he ruled
Carlota, the Queen, insane
Died back...
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Categories:
history, celebration, cinco de mayo,
Form: Limerick
THE real me
I don't have a common last name
(inherited from my
father), but I'm simple like
Silva from my mother...
I'm proud...
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Categories:
confidence, history, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Specific Types of History Poems
Read wonderful history poetry on the following sub-topics:
acrostic, american, black, haiku, limerick, narrative, rhyme, students, teachers
and more.
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,