History poems
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Poetree
© Sharon Esther Lampert
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The Restless Sunrise
© Sharon Esther Lampert
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Finite
© Sharon Esther Lampert
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Success in the Twenty-First Century
© Sharon Esther Lampert
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8th Prophetess of Israel: 22 Commandments
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Impossible
© Sharon Esther Lampert
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Sandstorm In Iraq
© Sharon Esther Lampert
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Sexiest Creative Genius in Human History
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Tsunami
© Sharon Esther Lampert
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Sexiest Creative Genius in Human History
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There Is No Flower in Darfur
© Sharon Esther Lampert
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Sexiest Creative Genius in Human History
8th Prophetess of Israel: 22 Commandments
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Altarwise By Owl-Light
© Dylan Thomas
Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house
The gentleman lay graveward with his furies;
Paradise Motel
© Charles Simic
Millions were dead; everybody was innocent.
I stayed in my room. The President
Spoke of war as of a magic love potion.
My eyes were opened in astonishment.
In a mirror my face appeared to me
Like a twice-canceled postage stamp.
A Historical Breakfast
© Russell Edson
A man is bringing a cup of coffee to his face,
tilting it to his mouth. It's historical, he thinks.
He scratches his head: another historical event.
He really ought to rest, he's making an awful lot of
History
© Robert Lowell
History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had--
it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
unlike writing, life never finishes.
Epilogue:XXI 'Tristram of Lyonesse'
© Algernon Charles Swinburne
OUR MOTHER, which wast twice, as history saith,
Found first among the nations: once, when she
Dream Song 129: Thin as a sheet his mother came to him
© John Berryman
Thin as a sheet his mother came to him
during the screaming evenings after he did it,
touched F.J.'s dead hand.
The parlour was dark, he was the first pall-bearer in,
he gave himself a dare & then did it,
the thing was quite unplanned,
Voices Of The Night : Flowers
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the Castle Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden
Stars, that in the earth's firmament do shine.
Let The Memorial Hill Remember
© Yehuda Amichai
Let the memorial hill remember instead of me,
that's what it's here for. Let the par in-memory-of remember,
The Ring And The Book - Chapter VII - Pompilia
© Robert Browning
There,
Strength comes already with the utterance!
I will remember once more for his sake
The sorrow: for he lives and is belied.
Could he be here, how he would speak for me!
Dream Song 35: MLA
© John Berryman
Hey, out there!âassistant professors, full,
associates,âinstructorsâothersâanyâ
I have a sing to shay.
We are assembled here in the capital
city for Dullâand one professor's wife is Maryâ
at Christmastide, hey!
Dream Song 79: Op. posth. no. 2
© John Berryman
Whence flew the litter whereon he was laid?
Of what heroic stuff was warlock Henry made?
and questions of that sort
perplexed the bulging cosmos, O in short
was sandalwood in good supply when he
flared out of history
Past One OClock ...
© Vladimir Mayakovsky
Past one oclock. You must have gone to bed.
The Milky Way streams silver through the night.
Im in no hurry; with lightning telegrams
I have no cause to wake or trouble you.
