#history poems on Hello Poetry

fraudelle Aug 2019

C D E F G A B
    C D E F G A B
         C D E F G A B
              C D E F G A B
                  C D E F G A B
                     C D E F G A B
                         C D E F G A B
Do re mi fa so la ti
Do nt
Re peat
Mi stakes
Fa ke
So rry
Ti lts

I wrote this poem 2 yrs ago... Lol

#history #music #mistakes

Kathleen Jul 2019

Exposure

Oh dear.
I fear I've made a history of myself.
All the paperwork is blowing in the wind.
Don't look at all my personal transactions.
Don't look at the mess I've made of my short life.
I've thought twice about the whole lot of it.
I've made amendments to every one of my thoughts and I don't trade in them anymore.
I've made memories I wish expunged from the record of existence.

#exposure #history #guilt #regret

Dominique Jul 2019

Rush armageddon

Yank the headlines,
They're just vintage tape disguised;
Force the months to run to you,
Unspool like tired ribbons in your cupped palms.

Be generous with the scissors,
Rip apart the snippets that candy the truth,
Commit glamour-shot genocide to avoid
That little green glint of jealousy in your eye-

It's a useless emotion, and time will fly
Quicker without it nipping your ankles-

But pull them, beat their crawl into a sprint
And if they won't come,
Commission extra strength from the wind

Until you're gurgling ink and it's everywhere,
Political names that mean less to you now
Heaving their last breaths on your fingertips
Like tired wasps drowned in honey.

Pull until Doomsday is splattered across your window
And the fruit is rotting in its bowl
And the frenzied radio is yelling
Like a banshee the slogan
That puts a layer of ice into your liver-

History repeats itself
And the blood runs like a river.

not/the/news

#news #media #doom #tragedy #history

arthur samuel papa Jul 2019

Tombstone memoirs

Sacrifices of first borne
Or second mothers
carried away by the wind
Always forgotten.

Sacrifices. Memories. Remembrance

#memoirs #history #recollection

T daniels Jul 2019

inner life

What sustains us
what protects us,
intimately interwoven
with our inner life.

Ages come and go,
the obelisk has fallen,
and yet our solar faith remains the light of the world,
the mother of beauty.

remember the emblem,
and the kaleidoscope of senses,
shining like diamonds in a heap of rock

#history #thought #world #humanity #earth #people

Tara Jul 2019

My mother's daughter

I have been practicing love instead of anger,
but how do I digest the pain my parents silently suffered,
or the losses my mother still reminisces each and every year,
tell me how can I respond with love when they taught my family self-hate,
to hate their home and hair,
to hate their skin and the clothes they wear,
how do I forgive generations of suffering,
and how they made my uncle a martyr,
brainwashed him to die in a war that could’ve been prevented,
how do I forgive the domino effect of life, that made their great grandparents **** mine?
love runs through my veins,
but anger lives within my blood,
I guess I saw it in my mother's eyes,
you can still love without forgiveness,
but it will take room in your mind,
build a home of sadness,
you’ll pass on to your child.

#memories #ancestors #history

LC Jul 2019

years later.

our paths diverged for a while.
experiences and wisdom made their marks
weaved themselves into our history.
self reflection and maturity
decluttered the space that we now inhabit.

when our paths converged again,
I was reeling from the impact.
my eyes and heart voraciously
immersed themselves in who he had become.
the smallest details were of the most interest.

the convergence added to our foundation.
the shared experience was sewn
somewhere in the tapestry of our lives.
the bright red thread of our meeting
will always catch my eye.

#love #heart #eyes #friendship #history #maturity #reflection #wisdom

Lae Jul 2019

K A S A Y S A Y A N

Papalubog na ang araw. Nakatutok ang mga bata sa harap ng gadget nila. Mga chismosang naninira ng kapwa nila. Lahat ay masaya sa kalayaang nadadama nila.

Lingid sa kaalaman nila ay may isang babaeng nakamasid lamang sa isang sulok.. Dala-dala nito ang alaala ng masakit na kahapon.

ISANG madugong nakaraan- mga bayaning dumanak ng dugo para sa lupang sinilangan. Mga iyak- sigaw at kapighatian ng mga pilipinong inapi nang mga dayuhan. Mga sakripisyong tiniis at inalay nila para sa kalayaan ng bayan.

Nasasaktan ang babaeng iyon. Nasasaktan ang ating Inang Bayan.

#tagalog #kasaysayan #history #bayani #philippines #prose #inangbayan #sacrifice #memories #alaala

Aa Harvey Jul 2019

My soul is hurting

My soul is hurting

Looking at the world with open eyes;
There is too much to despise.
If all you see is truth in lies,
Then love will break your heart, as it did mine.

My soul is hurting, my heart is sad and depression is my darkness.
I can no longer carry on living with this.
Love is light, love brings me happiness and love is the only cure.
Love is gone, love no longer exists; I no longer go through doors.

I walk the roads alone at night,
With no hope left in sight.
I have fallen too many times for no love,
That I no longer head towards any light.

(C)2019 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.

#hate #lies #love #history #pain #soul #depression #end #sad #alone

Aa Harvey Jul 2019

Naturally Evil

Naturally Evil

I have given up on love, I’m done.
I have seen enough.
I watch people claiming to be in love,
Living ordinary lies.
I see people pass each other and genuinely fake a smile,
As they tear apart each other’s lives.

I’ve seen the mighty heart fall to the weak,
In the hands of the cruelest defeat.
The hand of the person they are holding hands with,
Is the hand that will strangle them with a kiss.

I’ve seen mountain’s moved as living proof.
I’ve seen the worthlessness of this cause.
I have been a man with truth absolute.
Love is a nice idea, for you and yours.

The reality is, it is yet to exist.
I have seen ‘true’ love disappear.
The oceans of tears that have been cried,
Couldn’t stop the break-up of the year.

I have sunken beneath the waves,
And seconds later been replaced.
A rendezvous was so easily arranged…
I saw it on your face.

Left hand waving goodbye, right hand dialing.
Left hand blowing a kiss, right hand lying.
Beckoning and greeting as you are leaving.
I have seen them come and go, believe me.

The buttons on the dress,
The fall of Adonis.
The Fairy Princess,
And now gone is,
All the pointless love!

Earthquakes roar, there is nothing more.
No rise, no fall, just dust.

(C)2019 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.

#me #apathy #love #hate #lies #relationships #adultery #history #breakup #pain