Long Modernized Poems

{Your death would be my own

{"I barricaded my heart,
After your death, So that nobody could strip away and clutch at the light,
That was left over after you deliberately left me,
Shattered into the pieces nobody,
Could pick...

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Bring Peace to Whole World

Introduction.

This is Jim Horn who loves writing poetry and posting it
on Poetry Soup. I also hate typing. It is now 0500 in the
morning and I am just starting to prepare my...

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IMAGINE  NIGERIA.
Imagine  Nigeria,
Becoming  a  sweet  fruit
Like  my  orange  juice,
Imagine  Nigeria
With  patriotic  youths
Who  speck  truth  and
Make  my  future  look
Good,
Imagine...

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The urge 

For we been equipped fellow citizens of 
Motherland, Africa she sang of, Poetic is 
It justice? just ice frosting dreams, hopes
Parliament a breeding citadel of perverse 
Codes that terms us labourers in our...

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Like every mortal since Adam and Eve's transgression, I'm not perfect,                        ...

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Kigali! You’re a dream differed
          An indefinite dream for unkeyed
          You break too many hearts
  ...

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the story of life
life is not a sugar 
Cain stick 
it is not sweet like 
we want any more 
intelligent human 
has turned it upside 
down 
they are now in charge 
we gave them the...

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Regal in me

As a puppet strung in a rope
I remained tying with my bloc
Ever since I opened eyes and 
Knew something with laugh
Regality soaked me as a morning loaf

As other I was said to follow...

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element of my surmised;
evening going to be surprised;
by t he click's you modernized;
this is just me up and on the rise;
clouds dancing in the skies
winds and currents walk on by
fire climbs, air tides too;
this is...

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I go by Derz
and I'd appreciate 
a minute of your time
to educate you with my words
of wisdom
excuse the slurs
I was higher than the solar system
that night was a blur, i was a victim
to the party...

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Milwaukee the City of Festivals
A festival for every season
Known for beer and cheeses
Cheese curds squeak as beer foams.

Old architecture are reborn
Modernized for this era
Museums within and near the lake
To arts and performances
In theaters across the...

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the megajails are coming &

with them, the richest country in the world which

without any irony whatsoever,

continues to lock up the largest percentage of its own citizens in the world &

then throws away the key,

hoping to...

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SNOWMAN’S LAMENT

(Written in reply to Margarita Lilico's poem, "My Icy Friend")

Each winter, lying flat and soft upon the ground,
I waited patiently for you to come around.

And, year after year, you would be there
To recreate me...

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Lovely people and angry people

This afternoon, in Lisbon, a charming march about saving the Sobreiro- tree, about 300 people gathered 
under the shade of the tree's big crown, recited poems 
and sang; my heart warmed,...

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To be in love.
Her heart was a hill that I climbed with slippery soles.
To be still in the moments of encouragement.
I'd slide down unable to catch my footing.
I acknowledge that I wasn't dressed for the...

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Round up the posse,
get ‘em vetted Oval Office ganksterized
Appoint the piggy snouts,
then send ‘em out
with metal sidearm power
Ancient oppression done got modernized,
old Egypt Memphis is new Phoenix on the rise
OK the corruption,
legalize the blind Corral...

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Through the Ages

I'm back in the streets of my childhood
no, there is no fanfare I have lived long
in a place with warmer hearts
Here, where I was born, I feel foreign 
so much so I'm not sure...

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While I was searching a book to read in my old school
Today maybe changed somehow modernized,
There were lot of rooms,
With many of the destitute instant of books.
Anyway, however, I was swerved..
This is my own school...

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Spring feels like seating on wagon clearheaded as judge 
A wagon jobber’s cart splashing water while passing a river
Temperate air blowing and whispering around 
A whim of holding my lover, haply defining life at a...

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At Seder 1 we helped prepare
The soup and matzoh balls served there,
The hard-boiled eggs and chicken dressed
In farfel flakes, which tastes the best.

At tables set to serve sixteen,
With kids and grandfolk on the scene,
We read...

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My fatherland oh Africa!
A robe of glory and glamour
spread on this terrestrial ball
with golden…green scenery
-a symbol of beauty and blessings

Africa! A mansion of might and memories
built on a dark rock…of mysteries
on which were engraved immortal...

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A freedom is an epic.
Indian’s freedom is a splendid superior spectacle.
The common idea of million minds
And the common battle for billion hearts.

More than trillion cones turned to craft few patriotic arts.
The voice of millions of...

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The Watergaw
by Hugh MacDiarmid
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

One wet forenight in the sheep-shearing season
I saw the uncanniest thing—
a watergaw with its wavering light
shining beyond the wild downpour of rain ...
and I thought of the...

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ACTIONS   SPEAK   LOUDER


Love your wife? Then say so -  but  better to  do the dishes, 
Clean the kids room, stuff she really wishes.
Love your son?  Then spend...

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I am President McKinley assassinated, 
Roosevelt takes office. 
   I am Einstein's theory of relativity as 
Promised. 

   I am the Harley-Davidson that was 
Created. 
   I am even...

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