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Best Modernism Poems

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Premium Member Post Post Modernism
Post post Modernism

Who wants modernity in any case whether
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Categories: modernism, love,
Form: Free verse



Mother
A banyan tree that shields from tropical summer sun 
A symbol of selfless love and sacrifice 
A preserver of values that modernism has shun 
No...

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Categories: modernism, devotion, family, love, motherfor
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer Sounds Surround Me
I sit here in the park amidst a carpet of green speckled with buttercups and daisies
A pale blue sky above ceilings my room as I...

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Categories: modernism, nature, seasonsdaughter, summer, children,
Form: Free verse
My Africa
My Africa is not the poor image
Ravaged by war in the betrayal of anger,
Echoed sounds graduating through the village 
In a portrayal of dances and...

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Categories: modernism, africa, beautiful, betrayal, black
Form: Ballad
Design of a Beautiful Life
What would twice be without; the moon and the sun
The men and the women; that brought creation to the earth
The sun and the flowers; that...

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Categories: modernism, deep,
Form: Elegiac Lyric



The Wannabe Automatic Writer
when he was younger
he jammed out on the guitar, bore a fro &
then graduated from brown---
following this, him & his hippie gal got married,
popped out...

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Categories: modernism, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Frosted Flakes
He can't stop rhyming.
His mind races in cadence and timing.
Writing muses from within,
In both darkness and light, they begin.

Put to paper, in one pen stroke,
No...

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Categories: modernism, art, funny, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Church Without the Gospel
The church's voice seems so void
in this modern age so spiritually dim
where atheism and modernism in charge
controlling social opinion forever in film

so many churches water...

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Categories: modernism, christian, gospel, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Art Student
Art student or dashing sleek lass
Which are you
Which do you yearn to be
Or like me
A serenity seeker
Addicted to temporary loneliness
Wade in this airy temple
Where doom...

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Categories: modernism, art, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Behind the Wall of Sleep
Modernism abounds
Behind the wall of noise, lies
Tranquillity bay





http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/life-7.php...

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Categories: modernism, life
Form: Haiku
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: modernism, allusion, appreciation, art, passion,
Form: Free verse
A Word With You, Ts
A moment of your time TS Eliot
as I shall praise you with glory.
You are a genius,
an American now an English Gentleman
went to Harvard,
went to London,
Married...

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Categories: modernism, beautiful, beauty, dedication, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Variety
How many stupid do you need?
We’ve an entire variety of breed.

All of them are highly qualified.
In all absurd they’re specialized.

You can get from them only...

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Categories: modernism, community, conflict, corruption, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
Art Is Dead My Friend
ART IS DEAD MY FRIEND
ART IS DEAD.

Whitewashed and derailed,
By modernism vacuous hand.
That scream empty metaphors.
To cash rich sympathisers

And con-ceptualists scamming our intellect,
with their o so...

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Categories: modernism, art, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Afro Woman!!!
AFRO WOMAN!!!

She rules supreme in all climes
Elegant as the stallion she is in her prime
Resilience chariots her purpose to fame
A rugged activist, with a cause
As...

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Categories: modernism, motherwoman,
Form: I do not know?

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