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Title:       Historical
Date:        2024-04-20
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2024_apr20_historical/
Word Count:  127
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> 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