NaPoWriMo prompt: 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.
Day 20 – Whose story?
Information’s rather scarce
the deeper we delve back
carbon dating gives some clues
but details we lack.
Moving to the written word
and records of some facts
helps us to begin to picture
how peoples thought and act.
So browsing through these archives
of history as we know it
how would I pick an era
to regale a budding poet?
So may stories written down
some were in the news –
Romans, Saxons, Tudor times
how am I gonna choose?
But I was born in sixty-five
and in history books I read
I see photos from my life
so I have to concede –
that I’M a piece of history
and as a primary source
not of his-story, but my story
I’m an expert, of course!
dawnfanshawe 