Best Postmodern Poems

A covert curtain raiser pulls a string and marvels at an epic scene

	Though parsimonious in essence the stage appears rather obscene

		Black cross and pitch dark...

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get a job 
get a wife 
and a cheap PC
 things 
to survive postmodern strife
living in a world after LSD 
the world so deranged
I've come...

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Postmodern Blues

Our bare-footed ancestors
Diligently traversed the grassy pathways
On rustling vegetation air walked along
Sunshine and rain in turn tiptoed
To bestow canopy of reverence
They wished us to...

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Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent...

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"Conversations with a Daughter: Creeps"



Time creeps
my beautiful, clever, daughter 

Weirdos are us 
incorporated 

There's that beautiful laugh,
that beautiful smile

Who wants to 
belong here 

they keep...

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I thought poetry is
-name of Mesopotamia which was the first civilization to emerge in human history
-ancient cave peoples surviving life struggle 

I thought poetry is
-an...

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over there..>
lost time leaking away

collapse not into temptation
grant me/us peaceful solitude 
deliver us/me from erratum
inert/confined/lost
entangled in a weary knot
buried in dusty debris
suffocated by icy cobwebs
burned...

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gliding
  riding
     sliding


     flying
  rowing
glowing


sliding
 riding
    gliding


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...(((GlidingridingslidinG)))...


~/~/~SlidingridingglidinG~\~\~


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In color flouting leaves, those leaves of times:
In dream as searching for hope another rhymes,
They met the grass, everywhere,the grass of hope;
But neither fate nor...

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I remember the wind and the waves.
Maybe it's a vision from a past life,
  or the image from an old poem.
I start to feel...

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Truth is a fertile feisty feather 
pushed off to the academic side.

More complex truths are feathered climates
within which creative co-empathic minds 
transgenerationally reside.

Owl Medicine:

"At the...

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Where could you be tonight, Sinatra?
Love and Marriage
Love and Marriage
A chant I heard reverberate
As far away as the length of the waves 
I rode indisposed...

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I miss you, already
Your rough beauty
How you pretend to be wild
Being already postmodern.
The swings in your mood
Welcoming and repelling me,
Caressing me, bringing me down.
Your invitations...

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The colour of her Kohl uncertain,
She flips the pages of the magazines.
No hints, no clues, no advice.
Disgused as the voice of reason:
Common sense.
She paints her...

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Sure are the benefits of forgiveness, we all know—
All major belief systems say so.
But in actual life it doesn’t seem to happen.  
Instances of...

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