History

I think it only fair to say
It was indeed
The devil's fault
For they did not know...

What do you know
Of the old cellar door
It hasn't been opened
100 years or more...

Prohibition began one hundred years ago in the USA.
People had their right to drink booze taken away...

The new year 2020 is only days away,
I will set this free on new year's day.
Hopes and dreams...

I reminisce from my earliest memories thru the eyes of a child, that infant was me so happily beguiled...

Dear Mythology
Would you like to be
The solitary ghost, blowing
Through time's...

Into the desert
under a starry canopy
I crushed red earth
beneath my sandal leather...

The first for nearly a century
Apt in these extraordinary times
The announcement we knew was...

Nothing but debris and wire ,
A cynical prison of endless fear.
Rubble left untouched because...

Both sides of the river
Towering cranes once stood
They’ve all been dismantled
...

Naval exercise is what we do,
Something experienced by only a few,
The sea can be lonely and...

Today I felt my heritage spring alive.
A meeting of long lost cousins,
looking at eyes that...

It has been half a century since the first moon landing.
It was a historical event that was...

A break with the past
A fresh start , A second chance
Renewed vow , All over it now ......

Now used as a stark reminder
Happiness of a distant past .
Never to be recaptured
Due...

This town, like every other town
looked normal to the naked eye
but like every other town...