Best Marx Poems
The Marx 'Brothers'
Karl Marx was a historian and scholar
Groucho Marx whooped it up and hollered
Both of them were starved for attention
Neither of them honorable menschen *
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* 'Menschen' in Yiddish literally means 'men.'
But it is used to describe honorable, decent
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Categories:
marx, history, perspective,
Form:
Clerihew
Marx and Rand
Don't scream about equality.
Life's unfair, that's reality.
Just do the very best you can
to be a truly worthy man.
Productive work and mind said Marx,
beget the humanizing sparks.
Self-worth and self-respect, said Rand,
can make for ouselves a better land!...
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Categories:
marx, political,
Form:
Political Verse
A Paean For the Marx Brothers
THE MARX BROTHERS or The Unimportance of Being Earnest
I will praise the brothers Marx for their absurdity
As all ‘fools’ who mask high wisdom with the artless
May they lift our spirits faced with an adversity
The rejection of such gladness would be heartless
For when loosed of strictures rife with disapproval
Their spirits could create with wild abandon
Then without...
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Categories:
marx, happiness, hilarious,
Form:
Sonnet
Karl Marx House In Trier
Karl Marx house in Trier.
Know you where it is,
Abode of wisdom today we live,
Renown for industrial change?
Labour unite...still remember the say?
Man! It is a place to be,
Athenaeum of global change,
Rare to find in somewhere else,
X-rays of wars on man and growth.
Herein philosophy lived,
On the table under the tree he wrote,
Uniform of the legend intact...
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Categories:
marx, celebrity,
Form:
Acrostic
A Question of Marx
Do anarchists drink
Herbal tea because proper
Tea is theft?...
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Categories:
marx, funny
Form:
Haiku
A Belated Cc Das Kapital Wicked Candle Box Event For Karl Marx
Born May 5, 1818, in Trier Germany
to Heinrich and Henrietta Marx,
sans the third of nine children
(and second oldest heir)
Karl Marx thinking begot incendiary sparks,
asper his two most controversial publications
titled The Communist...
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Categories:
marx, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Jesus Christ and Karl Marx
Jesus Christ and Karl Marx seek lost children in the City of Gold
In shackled shack with weight of broken bricks on tin roofed promises
she rest her head against the precious paraffin cooker empty and cold
Five children to feed no milk in once beautiful breasts life sour and rancid
abused and battered and her husband long gone...
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Categories:
marx, change,
Form:
Free verse
Harpo Marx
Most people did not know that Arthur was your real name.
However, with your brothers, you achieved great fame.
Even though you could talk, you never said a word in your flicks.
Your fans loved all of your comical antics.
Harpo, how many times did you reach into your bag of tricks?
Your brothers and your agent once played a...
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Categories:
marx, dedication, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Classic Radio
Classic Radio
I crave classic radio!
Boston Blackie and The Shadow;
Captain Midnight; Fibber Maggie and Molly;
Ace detectives fighting crime;
Or comedians making up limericks in rhyme.
Keep the TV for my husband to watch now
As I wear earphones, letting him wonder how
It is I’m laughing so much through every hour
As snarky sleuths and Groucho Marks make our
Pups wag their...
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Categories:
marx, america, family, fun, history,
Form:
Rhyme
I Met Carl Marx In a Bookstore
I met Carl Marx in a bookstore
hanging around in the classics, waiting
some casual reader's mind to seduce
his weaver, painter, plowhorse, produce
a strange dream of worker equality
the value of labor, everyman matters,
An oxcart teeters, ideas splatter
into his subtile, beguiling reasoning
I read on, in a dream, this worker paradise
A place where each of our...
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Categories:
marx, political
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
created the communist manifesto
because looking at the capitalist world
the wealthy abused the poor
The wealthy enjoyed abundant lifestyles
well everybody else became slaves money
the wealthy getting wealthier
well wages were eroded
Marx was a trained economist
women died in the cotton factories of Manchester
by the time they reached twenty eight years old
killed by the cotton fibres, they...
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Categories:
marx, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
Father Marx
He was a herder of many sheep.
Often he whipped his tongue and spared the rod.
He lived for the Lord, for the harvest to reap.
With all his heart and soul, he loved his God.
What words can suffice to send off a soul?
A soul of a priest, a servant of He
Who by words so sacred, words that...
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Categories:
marx, death, death of a
Form:
Sonnet
To This Day
("Utopia and Terror Merit Badge", 2010, original oil)
To This Day
Even now over 175 years after Marx
Set a tide of revolution in motion
There are still ever expanding and encroaching
Tendrils and tentacles of his influence
In every aspect of our lives.
At the root of all this hope and change
Is the vision of an idealized society,
You could say a...
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Categories:
marx, perspective, philosophy, society,
Form:
Narrative
Whar Art Mine Fervent Zeal For Marx Brothers
Whar art mine fervent zeal for Marx Brothers?
While figuratively trout fishing
for ideas to write about
analogous (hook, line and sinker)
idea wormed itself into mind with clout
moment of awareness arose
without shadow of doubt.
As a long haired pencil necked teenage geek
zany Harpo, Groucho, Chico ranked as idols
mine most favorite slap stick until I reached
cusp of early adulthood, yet...
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Categories:
marx, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Marx on the Hudson
They used to call it the Empire State.
But the empire isn't doing too great.
Democrats in power, big ideas they plan.
Too bad for the middle class and the forgotten man.
Low-income high rise in your village
Middle class won't escape the general pillage.
Congestion and crime, they'll surely bring,
Practical doesn't matter, ideals are everything.
Landlords, its coming, statewide rent control.
They...
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Categories:
marx, new york, political,
Form:
Lyric