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Modern Verse Poems

I am a poet - part one

...In a world of modern verse, I stand,
An old-fashioned poet, rhymes in hand.
I savour the dance of words on a page,
Where rhythm and meter command the stage.

Each stanza unfurls, and tales are t...

Categories: modern verse, introspection, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

June Recitation

...JUNE youtube RECITATION

IN 

SOUNDS OF MODERN VERSE...

Categories: modern verse, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Poem For My History Teacher

...I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the standards 
Of modern verse and composition, 
Lyrics f...

Categories: modern verse, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

To Pen, Or Not To Pen

...Perfectionist, I will never be.
Alas, not even in the land of poetry!

Why can I not a mistake make?
It's a poem, after all, not a bridal cake!

Few here, a true classical poem can pen.
Nor ca...

Categories: modern verse, perspective, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet

A Modern Verse

...distracted
         surrounded ,
         shackled
          thoughts
struggle
        to escape
finite
        observations 
         contained
by
constraints,
by
    scruples, 
erupt ....

Categories: modern verse, poetry,
Form: Verse

Another Modern Verse

...timelessness
              an unreality
metamorphiposis
           no place to go:
dusk
dark to dark
leaving tomorrow
at once  memories
surface:

set pieces
without location
mirrors of my...

Categories: modern verse, introspection, word play,
Form: Verse

A Modern Verse

...incomprehensible
          enigmas in words
clever:
          incomplete
verbs,adjectives,
                        nouns
talking to thenselves in verse

Who reads?  Who listens?

imaginativ...

Categories: modern verse, missing, poetry, words,
Form: Verse

Nothing To Say

...Sentences that make no sense,
Words that are likewise afflicted.
Messages that are at best dense,
A vessel of verbiage is depicted.

Such is the state of modern verse
Designed to be deciphered ...

Categories: modern verse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Three Davids I Have Known

...David the First

In an old photo
I’m being bathed by a boy
   looking quite bashful. . .
the first young man to hold me -
my mother’s only brother.

David Bunker

My first love note came
from...

Categories: modern verse, life,
Form: Tanka

Comatose

...COMATOSE

Some call it verse without the rhyme 
Marcel Marceau without the mime 
The wasted words get joined in prose 
and leave me mostly comatose..... 

Yes busted prose is comatose 
like c...

Categories: modern verse, adventure
Form: Rhyme