I LOOK AROUND THE ROOMS (with thanks to Jamsbo Rockda & Lawrence Beck))

I look around the rooms of my house
In each room are books - many books
In those books are some truths - many
Also some lies - many a lie
I seek both - one begets the other- it must
Be said

Books on past history - can give a views
Of possibles - probables - of the future

Reading - is like archaeology - troweling
Through the pages one by one
Learning that the ancient Egyptians understood
The human body - better than the Greeks did
Though they did know out about the brain
Thought it were hart that mattered!
The ancient Brits - wheat production compares well with
With what Britain grew in the nineteen fifties - go figure!
The Romans - found out - Britannia - bread basket - Rome!

History teaches respect fore the past - our ancestors
History teaches us lessons - only us can see and understand
Or not - if not - well - then - history - will rub our noses in it!
Again and again - thuss - it - has always been - so!

ken d williams

The Dyslexic Wordsmith



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Written on 2015-05-06 at 10:33

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Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
There is a great deal to be learned from studying the past, I agee, but it's important to remember that what we think of as history reflects the present so much as the past.
2015-05-10


Jamsbo Rockda The PoetBay support member heart!
Yes, if we fail to understand the failures of our past then we are destined to repeat them. I love history, especially the characters that helped build the great empires. Nicely written Ken.
2015-05-07