Best Icons Poems

How firmly they stand,
the spires of history
that no one can destroy.
What a curious melange
of hate and love
and yesterday's antipathy.
Indifferent they are,
leaving us their basic legacy-- 
shining, mocking; it is their heritage,
and the winds of change have no effect
upon a single word.

Within their shadow is enshrined,
the...

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in the valley of stone icons and swing sets
  concrete angels with brightly enameled orange
 ribcages crash violently into one another.

They leave cracked cement with crawling
 octopus monikers throughout the dirt lines.

stretching always stretching out further.

 difficult, strange dandelions with austere stern continence's 
remain...

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Very common in human history
In name of faith- same
Some
-Monopolize hearts and minds of crowd -
Hijack the role of religion as the code of god
To gain the power and cast
The death and misery
Upon divided man
Icons of dark smoky
And insane
In theirs- faith
Bloody ritual thirsty
Fangs- their
Sectarian holds us...

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Platinum Icons

Their tale to tell is much the same
with looks that helped their claim to fame
Blonde and curvy, they got the jobs
In films and shows they flaunted their gobs

Deep, husky voices from too many fags
Scantily clothed in all the top mags
Make-up and peroxide over abundant
They...

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The I icons
Containing full of viruses
Delete it
From the head tops!...

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Empty eyes of the empirical sum
Empty heads of the ruling elite 
Change the channel on 
the TVs alternative news feed

Slip into the the next digital stream
Stream the unknown data 
Into the world wide oblivion 

Hear the open circuits buzz
As machinery Hummms

We bow our heads to...

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emblems
         regalia
          orchestrated 
             depictions-
postulate&elaborate
the mysterious,
courtesy of 
        ...

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Icons disintegrate and views
Long looked upon, now
draw their blinds tight 
Against warm air's tattered breath 
Whose crumbling words and sighs are stuffed between folded pages
Where shots ring out and
At the corner rounded
misadventures end...

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The icons have fallen. 
Watching them burn
Feeling their insanity
The neon turns
The lies are sullen 
They have sold their souls 
The media for the masses 
They wear the crowns
They hang upon the crosses 
They beg and plead 
The prayers are insane 
Inscribed upon a liar's brow
The...

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Barbie, Atari, He-man 
Batman, She-Ra, Ronald Reagan
Lower student loans, and landline phones
The Dark Crystal and around 5.2 billion people 
Andre the Giant’s Honeycomb commercial 
Rainbow Brite, Jem, and Rose Petal 
Welcome to the Jungle, Cheers! Metal 
Mike Tyson, Debbie Gibson, Teddy Ruxpin 
And the best...

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It’s Saturday morning, and even though it’s Thanksgiving break, Lisa and I are in her bedroom, in NYC, studying.

“Ok,” Lisa stops, looks up and says, “give me a 5ex symbol.”

“I.. I don’t have one on me.” I say, apologetically.

“NAME one.” she clarifies.

“Are there “5ex symbols”...

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You'll put up a statue
and say I'm a poet
When all of you worship
what I'll never know it

And go on to rhyming
what's left in the moment
When statues are showing
the glow of the loment

And I'll be impressed
when the honor is mine
And the statues are tumbling
for the last...

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