Best Modest Poems

I just want five minutes, just to pitch
My killer screenplay for a killer film.
The hunt for a serial killer
By glamorous profilers, nothing grubby
Or exploitive. Some partial nudity,
(Only if required). There’ll be a sexy
 
Enigmatic hero. First a, er, sexy
Sombre saxophone sighs; on a soccer pitch
Lies...

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A Modest Proposal
By Roy Merritt

Doctor Swift wrote it anonymously
His delicate modest proposal
His idea to save the poor Irish 
Was to make their children disposal

He was lampooning Petty and Bacon
Quite popular upon that year
Their notions of how society be taken
And socially engineered

He wrote of the poor...

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What is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of sorrow that engulfs us, rendering us incapable of envisioning a future radiant with hope? Though one's understanding of this somber...

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 "...and 
the modist 
carving 
into the 
closet 
door 
read: 

"I do not place my life, nor my trust, 
my belief nor my faith within 
the 
resume 
of man, 
nor within 
his cause. 

For he 
proclaimed, 
is but a 
mere 
farthing 
of his 
merest 
self;...

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A Modest Proposal

By Elton Camp

A solution to the nursing home problem found
There are two groups who must switch around

To nursing homes the criminals must move
The old folks to prison their lot to improve

Pensioners would get showers twice a week
And have interesting hobbies they can seek

For...

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He grew his own food,
And sewed his own clothes,
He owed no one,
But shared with everyone.

He rejected larceny, 
Refrained from intrigue, 
Spurned lust, lies and malice,
Spoke only kindness 
And practiced but prudence.

He was a modest man… are we?


All rights released into Public Domain...

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Frailty of Power and Strength of being Modest


Whoever is doing business
  Eye for detail must have
One could be doing dizziness
  Should one misbehave.

                    *

Our...

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A picture perfect
Heaven beheld modestly
Grass and sky alike...

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My cat thinks she’s got,
To use only her litter
Box inside the house.
Outside for hours she holds it;
Jets to box from doorway!...

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I promise
     Not to promise
Waterfalls
     from careless creeks

I vow
     not to allow
Expectations of mountains
     in handfuls of pebbles

I declare
     to be fair
about my dark
 ...

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I adore modest women,
so soft-spoken and
very elegant,
who aren't looking for men
to seduce without being
atrracted to  them!

There's a shortage of men,
and they try to get whomever they can,
ugly, handsome or good- for -nothing;
all they want is pleasure, not a friend! 

I love simple women
who are...

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The decor of laces,
And fragrance of lavenders,
In the land of Georgia,
With attire of antiques,

The melody of wind chimes,
Echoing in harmony with grand piano,
Like heaven is playing harp,
And pearls bursting everywhere,

O, the modesty of it all,
Dressed up in high class,
Candles in rustic brass holder,
Lighting up off...

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Love gently, love forever,
that you may be truly alone never.

Stand firm, stand for something, stand true,
that the one falling should never be you.

Fight strong, fight as one who defends,
that you may never lose your friends.

Live as yourself, live with virtue nigh,
that you may, in legacy,...

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Who gathered me
in his arms
to comfort me
the man who wore
the crown of thorns
the redeemer
of the cross....

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O' Jehovah
if I may have the honor,
let her be as beautiful
as petals of a flower.
Let her be as humble
as a beloved servant.
Let her be as joyful,
quiet and modest.
May she be as spiritual-
Just as you desire.

Teach me how to love her so deeply
she'll never wonder for...

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