Modern Times Poems - Poems about Modern Times

Q Is AI really in charge, right now, of both ruling over and controlling this present 21st century's world's and system with the permission of the global elites and their current affiliate's. The governments of the world for example? A Yes Q: ...

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The price of decency in today’s world Is the same as it has always been: Your liberty or your life. If you give a moose a muffin After all Next you’ll have to invite them in For a glass of milk. And we all know how difficult it is To get a moose to leave your kitchen. And so it goes for the illegals Flooding...

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I ride to the store on horseback and saddle, I Leave him outside its distasteful to ride indoors, My horse stays there it waits it needs no shackle, I wonder inside my eyes beholden, This world I have found, It shines bright it glows with electricity, I wander I’m lost this place a city, I don’t know where to exist in...

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("Before And After Science", 2023, original encaustic) The Corruption of Modern Times aka Colonization of the Sacred There are traditions Passed down in ear-whisper lineages And Dead Sea scrolls Dream journeys and alien visitations These are the timeless traditions of the soul And as such have remained safely outside of time In little pockets and distant hermitages Where souls can breathe and thrive. But the...

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Being bigger, better, faster, stronger These modern times, a far cry from Being saner, kinder, gentler, wiser, Are a cancerous race to satisfy the insatiable. With our advance into abundance We have lost touch With the old world Of tradition, balance, moderation, restraint. Instead we now have all that we dream, Each of us a Midas Able to grasp If not ever hold. Able to spoil and...

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("Pandora's Box", 2014, original pen and ink and oil) Exposed for All to See In the world turned upside down, bad is good. And inside out, corruption long shielded is celebrated. For now at least exposed for all to see. It’s called the fall of civilization as what once held us all together, by holding us each back, collapses into narcissistic pleasure breaking tainted hearts and distorted...

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When my working week is full yet my bank balance stays barren....

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I’ve got a secret I’ll tell you that it’s true It’s not something I regret But it will be a surprise too The papers will want to hear A raise of your TV ratings it will bring It will be something they will fear I will say the nasty thing The more likes I get on Facebook Will make me smile even...

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arrows of summer breezes midnight streams galore bubbling brooks in me you got your hooks i thank God for you daily in peace with you astounds me the excitement within the warmth of you surrounds me hearing the water flow i spring into rejuvenation i thank God for you daily the ocean breeze is meant to blow through your hair the sun that follows is meant...

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Living a life so utterly blind In deep recesses of the mind Male or female who's to say So fluid in this day and age One's assimilation is what they claim No identity is one to shame So many choices in modern time Like a new born kitten don't be blind LGBTQI exists today Now non-binary comes into play Birth assigned gender, matters not Echoes in...

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There was a Jewish man from Andorra Who singed his rear end on a menorah Sparks flew to his feet Providing this treat He sure danced one mean Chanukah hora __________________________________________________ Notes: A menorah is the special Chanukah lamp lit for eight nights The hora is a traditional Jewish/Israeli celebratory circle dance...

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Modern Times Universal truths or Universal Studios? Can one distinguish any longer now That the Universe has shrunk to a Binary system of code, Arcane enough to keep most believing In a higher power, that is until Brown-out causes Questioning albeit fleeting like light, like fliker of a dying cathode ray the modern equivalent of firefly, A sad beacon warning of troubled seas, yet We sail forth steadfast...

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A generation seeks to build and create metal machinery electricity krytrons to make this globe go round expanding like a virus that knows no cure stupid boxes couch potatoes Clickers information out of context Drama at a pretext style to mock What's cool and what is not What use to simmer is now a crock...

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Past and Modern Times Once over Capital Confederate Flag was flown, And over the years my curiosity has grown; Center of attention was war fought long ago; What about all of this by us should we know. Questions went over and over in my mind; Answers to them always hope I can find; What if with Poet Laureate were to consult, In an...

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In this new world, the reality of insanity Elicits frail morality, losing deep values To cuthroat urbanity. We thirst for quick fixes And dismiss gentle formality although life Grants humanity its spirit’s wholeness— How can greed and power allow us to ignore Kindness, simple vitality borne from Hope, Our birthright amid mundanity? Is man’s dream Caged in temporal inanity where success Is appraised...

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