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    Lugh
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Haiku and Tanka - 6. History

 



 

History Haiku and Tanka

 

 




Chronicle

Bound to turn again

History







Learning from the past

Looking toward the future

Hoping for the best



life, love, liberty

freedoms granted us by birth

our constitution?







Lessons learned

all time flowing pass

less unlearned



A victory gained

loss sustained, heavy debt paid

lessons wrote in blood








war, famine, and death

bringers of hatred, disease

corruptions of man



Times change as they will

Bard's song, News cast, Town Crier

Times change not at all

Wars, famine, greed, lust, desire

Assassination, death, fire







Treading roads travelled

Those well worn before our birth

Must we follow fate?

Turning from ancestral paths

Is the toughest choice we make.



cometh the bard song

to bring news of man beyond

our shores to teach us

the ways for us not to go

the ways for us not to be







times are a'changin'

spinning' quick outta control

now who's at the helm?

tell me please I gotta know

a real person or cruise control?



sing, sing grandmother

telling stories past gone by

chant, chant, grandfather

of days before your young eyes

give us the wisdom of your

years - tell of the Trail of Tears




Copyright © 2010 Lugh; All Rights Reserved.
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Marzipan

I'm not sure makind nor individuals really learn from the past. One can always hope. I think it is about selfishness, always choosing the things from the history that suits us best, not what is really good for us. I think we are blind to our mistakes. History can be something that teaches us to understand where we came from and shows the path we are on. Yet objectivity is something we don't posess no matter how we try to convince ourself.

 

I do love history, I want to know everything, the big picture, the small details the connections the lost connections. In the context of family history... objectivity is even harder to obtain.

 

Yup, made me ponder.

 

I really liked the part where you said that the most difficult thing is to go to the other direction as the anchestors. Yes, that takes bravery.

Lugh
On 06/20/2011 01:44 AM, Marzipan said:
I'm not sure makind nor individuals really learn from the past. One can always hope. I think it is about selfishness, always choosing the things from the history that suits us best, not what is really good for us. I think we are blind to our mistakes. History can be something that teaches us to understand where we came from and shows the path we are on. Yet objectivity is something we don't posess no matter how we try to convince ourself.

 

I do love history, I want to know everything, the big picture, the small details the connections the lost connections. In the context of family history... objectivity is even harder to obtain.

 

Yup, made me ponder.

 

I really liked the part where you said that the most difficult thing is to go to the other direction as the anchestors. Yes, that takes bravery.

Hugs Maria.

 

Thanks for the Review.

 

I'm glad the poetry keeps making you think. It's not so easy to do sometimes. History is the lens through which we filter our future.

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