Best Icon Poems

I hesitated for over a month – should I join Poetry Soup …
Would they like my poems and accept me in their group?

It is not my intention to be a famous writer 
I try and write with wit to make our lives a little brighter

I...

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RODIN’S NEW ICON

Should Rodin live today would he be inspired
To sculpt a marble sequel to THE THINKER
Modern ethos means fresh image is required
To become an old to new generation linker

[Perhaps in stone less pale, a little pinker!]

He might witness casts of posture stereotypical
And find there...

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Should I enhance my recognition
by defiantly treading on an innocent heart?
Or perhaps mine is a sin of omission,
fleeing with fame a la carte,
while thoughtlessly tearing another soul apart.

What reward can be found
as I stomp on another’s dreams,
leaving them quaking on the ground
where incivility screams
and not...

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They spied me in the sky, dropping bombs of love
on Ferguson, and bitchy women's  rooms; and rednecks' 
shooting range was next, the blooded boxing glove.

They spotted me in Tel-aviv and also in Tehran, collecting
Jewish kisses for the Iranian Imam.

They toasted me in the family...

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GIVE ME SOME TRUTH
John, was born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool
He met Paul McCartney in 1957 
John and Paul formed a close working relationship ... COME TOGETHER
Young and fearless guys with music as the common interest
Over time, it became a REVOLUTION
When we talk about John...

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I rise daily from troubled sleep attempting to make sense of imagery.
I magination inside me peeks, anxiety occupies blanks with grief
C onscious wars with angry speech, again I decide to rationalize.
O nward, up, fight - ours is not to reason why ours is but to...

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Some people “culture” holding
Maintains far the others
Their “unculture” scolding,
Assuming peacock feathers.

I, being a scientist with skill,
Always was close to all
Trying to achieve their will
For democratic culture call.

I think no culture may ever be for few
And common language can be used
To carry beauty and love for...

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His name is evoked with boundless esteem
By the strata of generations down the ages 
The prodigious son of our holy motherland
Who embodied valour and chivalry to the hilt.

He could have lead a princely life of comfort
By conceding the honour of his blessed land
But happily chose...

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It's just too goo to be true,

in a crazy little crew,

drawing the ramps up,
dynamic slapstick-

always having food as thought,

the pummel on row,

which is 9000ft straight towards physical steal;

entered into a falsehood-

through made gravity stick,
and unleash the past!

Every loop an iron cross,

all dishes lost,

the accident,

the belonging,

On-
Time,

a...

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"Aim for a thoughtful, creative mind”
he said, and we, as times rewind,
Think of India’s ‘Missile man’,
The one who made us believe 'We can'.

'People’s president’, he was called,
Patiently he listened, and problems were solved -
He never let a single one down -
The boy who came from...

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Reminded now of Albus Dumbledore -
The greatest wizard right since times of yore.
He was humble and tall,
Admired by all -
No one did dear Dumbledore abhor!


My first limerick 


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Behold the Angelic icon!
Who sings like an Amazon
Whose image changes my demonic heart
To an angelic heart

I crush on her
Like a butterfly crushing on nectar
I dream of the sweet calmness
That could come from her presence

I feel I'm in heaven
For her beauty is like that of heaven
She...

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My Favorite Me


I know I can be humble
If anybody can
'Cause I can take critiquing
And even a good slam
So roast me like a famous Star
I guess that's what I am
For I'm the best-est poet
You'll find in this here land

I really must admire 
My meter and my...

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an aspiration
forever immortalized
an anticipate
counteract  hostility
neutralizes those that oppose


life too short not to
look into the horizon
to reach magnitudes 
of importance to achieve
Icon in history books


4/14/2014
Contest Name: I, Icon 
Sponsor: Sheri Fresonke Harper...

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FOR DR. ABUBAKAR OLUSOLA SARAKI
Ilorin is bereaved again: another calamity has struck!
Ilorin has lost another pride of the community.
Saraki this time! Why has Mr. Death focused on us?
He has already extorted enough from us already
but his discontentment has prodded him
into snatching Saraki again. Ah! Extortionate!...

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