Historical

Our optional prompt for the day challenges you to write a poem that recounts a historical event. In writing your poem, you could draw on your memory, encyclopedias, history books, or primary documents. If you’re interested in a little research, you might find interesting this collection of letters written during the American Civil War, or this collection of primary documents concerning South Sea voyages. Or perhaps you might find something of interest in digging through Europeana, an online clearinghouse of digitized materials from cultural institutions across Europe.

History is like a wave 
Carrying us foward 

Its power forcing us to look in one direction
With one purpose

I feel now, that the wave has broken 
And I am lost in the foam 
Of digital bubblebath