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Pharasaical Iconoclasm
And lies change perception
when given a platform

But perception speaks vague
when change slithers inside

Without force framing imagination
sight in a circular motion freezes

As the sun glints off...

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Categories: iconoclasm, art,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Iconoclasm
If you thought
You understood why
Religions have their purpose
In the scheme of things
Think again
Symbolism
Religious or otherwise
Impresses deep
Into your psyche
Nothing but
What you think you
Know and believe
May be...

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© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iconoclasm, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Unbridled Change
These days of changing values can be hard:
What once was just, today's considered wrong.
Some things encouraged now at one time jarred,
Abandoned now are values once...

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Categories: iconoclasm, change, conflict, confusion, integrity,
Form: Sonnet
Footpaths and Foresights
IN PRAISE OF FOOTPATHS
Across the land a web of footpaths weave
The veins that nourished nation’s interaction
Cross chalk down ridge, and sylvan lane, conceived
By feet of...

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Categories: iconoclasm, history,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Epitaph of An Abdicator
    There sat in opulent xanadu, the 
 demagogue of empirical hedonism, 
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:

gregarious, restive, much-awaited...

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Categories: iconoclasm, appreciation, education, eulogy, hero,
Form: Epitaph



My Artist Friend - Another Ten Words
Among artists, she is something of an anomaly—
Traditional and avant-garde, austere and baroque,
Yet a bona fide artist nonetheless. 
Amid the cacophony of modernism, 
Where iconoclasm...

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Categories: iconoclasm, allusion, appreciation, art, passion,
Form: Free verse
Theme of the Pyramid Scheme
Creationist scientists who dig
with astro-paleontologists
As they seek the bones
Of australepithecus

Foretold in the Book of Leviticus
& the Dead Sea Scrolls
Sounded by the deadly tolls
From the bells

Harbored...

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Categories: iconoclasm, courage, forgiveness, freedom, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things