Welcome to the poems gallery. We have collected poems which speak the themes we wish to present about the prominent people in the 1920's. We hope you enjoy. Footlight Flashes (Houdini) Oh Wizard of handcuffs, of bolt, bar and cell, How he glides from thy clutches nobody can tell; But he flits from thy bonds like a bird through the air, Leaving naught but his fetters and wonderment there. With steel chains you may bind him and shackle him fast, But he's vanished and gone ere a moment has passed; There is nothing can hold him the marvelous elf - Houdini, the mystery to all but himself. Straight jackets in which desperate maniacs pined, The murderer's cell that held death dommed confined, The handcuffs and shackles, locking fast arm and limb, Are but mockeries as fetters and useless on him. From strong box or steel boiler, where rivet and nail Have been driven in vain to make for him a jail, From every contrivance of bondage and pain, He escapes without effort and smiles in disdain. J.E.H. H.,J.E., Footlight Flashes, http://www.houdiniana.com/poems/poems.html He ripped at the sod along the base path As he ran in advance of a base. On his feet were your hopes and mine For a victory for the black man's case. And the world is grateful for the legacy Which he left for all humanity. Thanks, Jackie, wherever you are. You will always be our first superstar. Charles, Ed, Untitled, http://www.brooklyn-dodgers.com/part2.html Jackie Robinson was his name Playing baseball was his game. First black man on a major league team In 1947 he fulfilled his dream. Jackie Robinson was his name, He made it to the Hall of Fame. Unknown, Untitled, http://www.iup.edu/~njyost/KHI/bh.html Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein Einstein, Albert, Untitled, http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/harp/archives/1997.02/0232.html Einstein's Proof All lovers know time's not the same When parting as when meeting It speeds perversely to farewells And crawls when wanted fleeting Einstein's proof though pages long Reduced to the same equation Wherever speed or love abounds Time loses firm persuasion McGlauflin, Debbi, Einstein's Proof http://www.tmn.com/Community/debbimc/poetry.htm Albert Einstein Quotes from a man who believed in the Universe and people: Intelligence-------makes clear to the interrelationship of means and ends. Knowledge-------of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. The only source of knowledge is experience. We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Two things inspire me to awe--the starry heavens above and the moral universe within. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe Unknown, Albert Einstein, http://www.angelink-design.com/poem.html St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils April Einstein has come among the daffodils shouting that flowers and men were created relatively equal. Oldfashioned knowledge is dead under the blossoming peachtrees. Carlos, William, "St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils" http://slate.msn.com/HistoryLesson/00-02-02/HistoryLesson.aspl Created by Phil Crosby, Daniel Paholski, Matt Flynn, Don Vaughn. 2000.