Icons Poems - Poems about Icons

Barbie, Atari, He-man Batman, She-Ra, Ronald Reagan Lower student loans, and landline phones The Dark Crystal and around 5.2 billion people Andre the Giant’s Honeycomb commercial Rainbow Brite, Jem, and Rose Petal Welcome to the Jungle, Cheers! Metal Mike Tyson, Debbie Gibson, Teddy Ruxpin And the best Christmas carolers are Gremlin Taxi, the DMV Scene, "What does the...

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The icons have fallen. Watching them burn Feeling their insanity The neon turns The lies are sullen They have sold their souls The media for the masses They wear the crowns They hang upon the crosses They beg and plead The prayers are insane Inscribed upon a liar's brow The icons have fallen The stadium is in silence Feeling the hum...

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Empty eyes of the empirical sum Empty heads of the ruling elite Change the channel on the TVs alternative news feed Slip into the the next digital stream Stream the unknown data Into the world wide oblivion Hear the open circuits buzz As machinery Hummms We bow our heads to empty icons Emojis, iPhones and Windows to some Empty Icons sit on...

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It’s Saturday morning, and even though it’s Thanksgiving break, Lisa and I are in her bedroom, in NYC, studying. “Ok,” Lisa stops, looks up and says, “give me a 5ex symbol.” “I.. I don’t have one on me.” I say, apologetically. “NAME one.” she clarifies. “Are there “5ex symbols” anymore?” I say, with air-quotes, “Who’s “Marilyn Monroe” today -Kim...

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You'll put up a statue and say I'm a poet When all of you worship what I'll never know it And go on to rhyming what's left in the moment When statues are showing the glow of the loment And I'll be impressed when the honor is mine And the statues are tumbling for the last of the rhyme...

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Icons disintegrate and views Long looked upon, now draw their blinds tight Against warm air's tattered breath Whose crumbling words and sighs are stuffed between folded pages Where shots ring out and At the corner rounded misadventures end...

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emblems regalia orchestrated depictions- postulate&elaborate the mysterious, courtesy of the profound...

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Platinum Icons Their tale to tell is much the same with looks that helped their claim to fame Blonde and curvy, they got the jobs In films and shows they flaunted their gobs Deep, husky voices from too many fags Scantily clothed in all the top mags Make-up and peroxide over abundant They could never ever be redundant Marriage was multiple, two a penny Own...

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The I icons Containing full of viruses Delete it From the head tops!...

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in the valley of stone icons and swing sets concrete angels with brightly enameled orange ribcages crash violently into one another. They leave cracked cement with crawling octopus monikers throughout the dirt lines. stretching always stretching out further. difficult, strange dandelions with austere stern continence's remain in between a backyard swing set and a stone madonna ...

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Very common in human history In name of faith- same Some -Monopolize hearts and minds of crowd - Hijack the role of religion as the code of god To gain the power and cast The death and misery Upon divided man Icons of dark smoky And insane In theirs- faith Bloody ritual thirsty Fangs- their Sectarian holds us in diffuse hate...

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How firmly they stand, the spires of history that no one can destroy. What a curious melange of hate and love and yesterday's antipathy. Indifferent they are, leaving us their basic legacy-- shining, mocking; it is their heritage, and the winds of change have no effect upon a single word. Within their shadow is enshrined, the totality of every lie and every truth we ever knew. Tread...

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