Best Modernistic Poems

Modernistic poets
The unjust hatred of the
Rich is most profound...

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An Obscenity Trial
by Michael R. Burch
 
The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints
against whom several critics cited numerous complaints.
They accused him of...

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State of the Art (III)

These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that...

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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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"Expect great things; do great things" is a quote I once heard.

X, the 24th letter of the alphabet, is often used to designate a person.

Commitment,...

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Write me a pantoum carefully, poet
Constructed of a flowering design
As a quilt, colorful patches sew it
This pantoum other creations outshine 

Constructed of a flowering design
French...

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CHARACTER


Choices are by everyone made,
	Many some will try to evade.
Heavenly values should be kept in sight,
	While busily engaged in this life’s plight.
Awareness to what others...

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4-17- Silence

Psychedelic bubbles 
in my cooling hot chocolate
The frothy surface like the 
life giving neoprenic sludge
(hypothetical scientific origin)
Bubble’s spectrum slightly amiss
from rainbow hues
and universal in...

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Elegance Charm And Grace.
.
Elegance charm and grace
Decadence with a photogenic beauticians idealistic face
Stylish fashion a portrayal of high class Ladies at the time
For those of...

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Poems about Poems IV

The Toast
by Michael R. Burch

For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate...

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Unalterable sins,
needing a blood covering.
Modernistic attitudes and views,
that diminish the cross' message
being directed toward sparse filled pews.
While amplifying ideas,
misdeeds, lay hidden behind a mask.
Surfacing stories...

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The forgone days of my youth are spent
Replaced by memories of that day.
When my back was strong and unbent
Before time had left its mark this...

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A Sonnet
called

" Masquerade "
Written: by Tom Wright
8/4/00

Unalterable sins,
needing a blood covering.
Modernistic attitudes and views,
that diminish the cross' message
being directed toward sparse filled pews.
While amplifying ideas,
misdeeds,...

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Art deco inspired 
Channeling the forties
Clean crisp modernistic lines
Define an era of fashion and style

Art deco inspired
Research giving me plethora of new ideas
I steadily draw
Awaiting...

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Poems come in all shapes and sizes
Forms and formats, types, and themes
Comes a question that invariably arises
What about mere consciousness streams?

Must all poems have rhythm...

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