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Long Modernity Poems

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Premium Member Noneastern Family Politics
I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions 
of...

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Categories: modernity, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.

Encryption can be used to mask...

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Categories: modernity, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination, metaphor, passion, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member John and Jody Play Joyfully
Science is Fiction

Sir Popper popped the answer to the question of and whether science
holds truth and where and when for how long facts remain value’s 
         ...

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Categories: modernity, kids,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder

Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become darker

I am also affected and when news gets explosive when...

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Categories: modernity, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member South Africa 2019
A country of dreams has burst its rainbow at all ragged seams

In a state of affairs illusion of fusion and widespread delusion

The constitution hallucinates as night settles scores of deceit

Bereavement takes its toll in anger...

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Categories: modernity, farewell,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Frustration
Frustration

These days my frustration is digital in that `Brave New World'
                        ...

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Categories: modernity, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Happy Birthday O Banga Konya
(DEDICATED THIS WRITINGS TO THE BIRTHDAY OF SHEIKH HASINA, HONORABLE PRIME MINISTER OF BANGLADESH)

Today is propitious day of Bangladesh
Happy Birthday to You O Great Leader Of Bangla
Sheikh Hasina (Prime Minister of Bangladesh)

In the heart of...

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Categories: modernity, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Post Post Modernism
Post post Modernism

Who wants modernity in any case whether
                          ...

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Categories: modernity, love,
Form: Free verse
For Girls of Tomorrow
I
we’ve built you bridges that will lead you to tomorrow
the pieces of these skimpy mind of yours has been repaired 
down in the sea of knowledge have we made roses for you
love at large and...

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Categories: modernity, abuse, adventure, africa,
Form: Ballad
Eleven Pm Part Two
For once, man, be serious
This is liberty hall, you know
And all the fairies want a tumble
Even though that is mother-in-law…
You shouldn’t miscarry injustice!

Sure, fad, I apologize, really serious:
I’m quite un-particular you see
About who goes west...

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Categories: modernity, fun,
Form: Free verse
Sad Bye Soupians
My heart is heavy
My mind is clouded
My world has darkened

I pursued my heart's desire with all zest
But I've come to a point where I'm forced to rest
Fate has decided that I'm not worthy of life's...

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Categories: modernity, sadme, world, heart, pain, day, heart, me,
Form: Narrative
The Quiet Storm's the Worst
A Storm is brewing, quietly churning above.
Residents working to prepare a town tradition.
Mobilizing able citizens, attempts to guarantee success.
A hundred year tradition, the town's shining gem
Times are changing, still they cling to the past.
As if...

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Categories: modernity, allegory, allusion, corruption, destiny, religion, storm,
Form: Prose Poetry
This Is Me
Habitants of the wilderness;
Identify their beauty and acknowledge it-
They wear neither clothes nor makeup.
Yet,they still appreciate their differences;
Each of them in their innocent making.

I am a resident of the human kingdom,
I am a descendant of...

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Categories: modernity, africa, culture, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beautiful Beirut
As the moon smiles down on the sparkling Mediterranean
The gentle rolling hills
Reach bejeweled fingers into the sea
Spilling the overflow of sparkling lights
Onto fishing boats that dot the horizon
The irregular coastline, encrusted with diamonds, rubies, and...

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Categories: modernity, beautiful, city,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Who Are You --- Not For Contest
As the hourglass gets filled with sand,
they take time to ask me who I am,
but who are YOU?      to ask such a question...

Did I invite you into my world,
with bright...

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Categories: modernity, addiction, character, cheer up, fun, funny, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Ode To Mr Cave
As I journeyed along the countryside on a makeshift road off the main highway, I came upon two elderly gentlemen sitting together at a fork of that road. I introduced myself to Jack Cave and...

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Categories: modernity, people, retirement,
Form: Ode
Nyash Will Eat Man
When they said that we need to style up,
That we gotta live as the 21st century youths,
Young people who exploit their potential and aim at their dream,
Young men and women who know how best they...

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Categories: modernity, allusion, discrimination, emotions, relationship,
Form: Free verse
The Strength of Pain
As far as the eyes can stretch
Sand shines and glitters white to torment the eyes
In the ocean of land barren without life
A determined line of black souls 
Forges ahead their efforts
A sole upon sole they...

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Categories: modernity, black african american, day, future, may,
Form: Free verse
Mental Health
“It's not that we cant see the solution; it's that we cant see the problem”                    ...

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Categories: modernity, abuse, addiction, confidence, courage, encouraging, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Culture Chameleon
In youthful exuberance I become a culture bandit
Well exposed, but never really learning.
Modernity taking a toll as Papa and Ante chased the goods
For my sake they said... No mistakes... deed was good
Nanny TV with her...

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Categories: modernity, africa, community, confidence, cool, culture,
Form: Free verse
Culture Chameleon
In youthful exuberance I become a culture bandit
Well exposed, but never really learning.
Modernity taking a toll as Papa and Ante chased the goods
For my sake they said... No mistakes... deed was good
Nanny TV with her...

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Categories: modernity, africa, community, confidence, cool, culture,
Form: Free verse
The Renaissance
Tell all the worlds about the treasures found
Renaissance trace spellbound in the ancient form,
Tender and haunting; an era of time curves around
Past the present to a future beset with tech charm.

Historical pages cling romantically to...

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Categories: modernity, art, birth, culture, england, places, romance, time,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Small Wars In Paradise
"Small Wars in Paradise"



A small war in paradise
where the walls
are dripping 
hearts pinned 
with golden words

A ghost behind 
the eyes of a Fate
shines a light
on the self-righteous 
misinformed deux Moirai, 

advocatus diaboli -

what remains,
The Devil’s...

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Categories: modernity, future, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Seasons
There was a aseason

When love was love
the educated are uneducated
hunger was hung in daylight
when sins were seen in scenes

There was a season

when poverty was prohibited
obscenity totally abhored
the gods are justice par 
excellence
when people peopled with...

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© Onyeka Onu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: modernity, freedomearth,
Form: Free verse
The Lost City
My hometown, my lost friend,
Thank you for greeting me once again,
at a time when we both are lost.
When I wander your streets,
you also wander within me,
weaved into my thoughts.
Winding down to your core,
to the oldest...

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Categories: modernity, absence, allegory, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, best friend,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs