Showing posts with label Poland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poland. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

103. World War II

The crisis in Europe became a global one.
The allies,
Heroes of the previous war, needed to do something.
America tried her hardest to stay out of it.
The Roosevelt clan was in office again.
He told us not to fear.
The only thing to fear was fear.
In reality, he wanted to get involved.
He needed something,
Anything to take us into the war.
We couldn’t stand idly by while millions of lives were thrown to the fire.
But what could it be?
The date came
That lived in infamy.
Japan, the imperialist,
Sent her planes
Bombing every last ship in the harbor of pearls.
It was a swift and backhanded attack.
Roosevelt said, “That’s it!”
He gave speeches and rallied his men.
They went to Europe
They went to the Pacific
Fighting on two fronts.
Churchill did the same for Britain.
“We will fight them on the beaches”
“We will fight them in the air.”
“We will fight them on the seas”.
“Wherever we are we will rid the world of this great beast.”
They went to Africa.
They took back Poland.
They fought over London.
The allies made a deal with the devil of Russia
Because the Beast had betrayed the Soviets.
The evil one invaded and was pushed back by the same cold Napoleon faced.
Now Russia wanted revenge.
D-day, The Bulge, Normandy,
Finally the push for Berlin
The allied forces pinched and squeezed the blemish that the beast placed upon the earth.
The allies invaded the Axis lands
To make sure of their surrender.
The war in Europe were resolved
After the trial for the Beast’s great minions.
If only they could have kept him alive as well.
Whatever he gets now is still too good for him.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

74. Medieval Europe


The lands of Europe fell to war and strife.
The Franks made their empire.
Vikings invaded.
Muslims invaded.
Spain was captured.
Byzantium slowly eroded into nothing.
Their culture lived on in Kiev,
The future cause of problems in the world
Lombards took over Italy
Islam shattered.
The Holy Roman Empire came
With Charlemagne and the Carolingians.
The old Merovingian order fell.
Charlemagne expanded.
He tried to build from the ashes of the old empire.
Education was important
To clergy and people.
Christianity won many converts.
The dream of Rome lived on.
The great city.
The culture.
Charlemagne was the first to try to bring Rome Back.
Fourteen years before he died the pope gave recognition.
Then his death caused the empire to crumble.
As the years passed, Europe slowly organized.
Nations born of local tribesman.
England was born.
Scotland was born.
Ireland was born.
France, Poland and Denmark.
Trade flourished in Europe and routes were built.
Religion took center stage.
Churches got bigger.
More elaborate
As Rome was forgotten they became goth.
Hierarchies were formed.
Peasants on the bottom
Holding kings and nobles on top of pedestals
Knights gave them support.
With the flying buttresses of clergy
Directing masses
Chanting in middle way.
Some hoping an indulgence would pass their way.
Others rejecting such worldly goods
For simple monastic prayer.