Men today, gods tomorrow

sorenbarrett

Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Gandhi,

Kali, Parvati, Pavarotti,

Nefertiti, Garibaldi

Kennedy, Shelley, Ann Bonny

Michelangelo, van Gogh

Picasso, Plato, Poe

Galileo, Leonardo

Odin, Ramanujan

Beethoven, Edison

Darwin, Newton

Archimedes, Pericles

Cervantes, Hippocrates

Hermes, Hercules, Socrates

Hypatia, Tesla, Goethe

Spinoza, Vivekananda

al-Kahina, Buddha, Shiva

Gautama, Mother Teresa

Pythagoras, Copernicus

Jesus, Artemis

Mises, Erasmus

Sidis, Moses, Wallace

Anubis, Osiris

Aristotle, Quetzalcoatl

Doris Day, Johnny Ray

Faraday, Hemingway

Vermeer, Voltaire

Arthur, Fisher, Euler,

Homer, Alexander

Dawkins, Hawkins, Dickens

Kant, Descartes, Mozart

Heisenberg, Swedenborg

Planck, Ann Frank

John Stewart Mill, Melville

Boyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Zeus, Dr. Seuss

Bohr, Thor, Thomas More

Curie, da Vinci, Loki

Euclid, El Cid, Muhammad

Franklin, Stalin, Lenin

Lincoln, Washington, Napoleon

Ho Chi Minh, Chaplin

Mulan, Lozan, Tubman

Kepler, Hitler, Luther

Leibniz, Horowitz

Clark Gable, Cain and Able

Bach, Lock, Hitchcock

Pascal, Raphael, Maxwell

Einstein, Feinstein, Hammerstein

Turing, Pauling, Kipling

Langan, Genghis Khan

Marx, Rosa Parks

DiMaggio, Monroe, Brando

Mao Zedong, Carl Jung

Rosenberg, Lindbergh

Shakespeare, has no peer

  • Author: sorenbarrett (Offline Offline)
  • Published: January 28th, 2023 06:57
  • Comment from author about the poem: With time people are either forgotten or become legends how many names of gods have their origin in real men exaggerated and embellished over time.
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  • Views: 29
  • User favorite of this poem: jarcher54.
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Comments5

  • Doggerel Dave

    I'm still trying to unlock the code, Soren.......

    • sorenbarrett

      Thank for the read Dave. You mean the genetic code? The said they unlocked that some years ago. The only other code has the key in the comments about the poem. Many peoples names are not on here, I was going to put yours but couldn't find a rhyme and ran out of space.

      • Doggerel Dave

        I didn't know you were capable of BS, Soren; anyway I like to remain undercover, incognito and all that.
        Must have been a monumental task assembling that list and I remain unconvinced there is no hidden code in there somewhere. Mind boggling.

      • Bella Shepard

        As I read this poem I kept wanting to sing it to the tune of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire". You can read it slowly and marvel at the accomplishments of each individual, or read it fast and be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of what humankind is capable of. So creative dear friend, you always amaze me.

        • sorenbarrett

          Thank you so much Bella. Yea I remember that song as a flash from the past. Some how it may have been lodged in my brain as a seed. Thank you again dear poet, hope you will be writing another gem of your own again soon.

        • jarcher54

          There's a line missing. What rhymes with Barrett??

        • jarcher54

          It is interesting how a list can become a poem, or a sculpture, and take the mind and imagination places. A poem with one verb. Sweet.

          • sorenbarrett

            Thank you so much for the read and review. Yes they make art out of garbage. I appreciate your comments.

          • L. B. Mek

            Amen! to that last line
            such a fun read
            'Doris Day' eh? lmoa
            thank you, put a smile on my face
            line after line

            • sorenbarrett

              Thanks L.B. for the read and comment. This is where wandering thoughts can go.



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