Modern World Poems - Poems about Modern World

Freedom is a bird with broken wings in the modern world, trapped in invisible cages of indifference

Freedom is a bird with broken wings in the modern world, trapped in invisible cages of indifference,
Reflecting destiny as a silent shadow, the immutable aspects of existence embrace us with cold arms,
Death, an artist of limits, carves the boundaries of our lives with the chisel of relentless time,
Each human being becomes a prisoner in their

Leviathan

One lone man against Leviathan
With its signals and its code
It’s forms and formulation
What’s a soul to do,
Bend and yield as a willow
Or stand proud and tall as an oak?

You tell me,
Or better yet ask Jonah
In the belly of the beast.

(8/22/24)

Modern World

Roses are black, cutting is blue
Maelstrom and hack, precise strike true

Napalm burst fire, hollow chess piece 
Tragic this pyre, reaper scythe cease

Plead cry beg scream, dying fashion
Guillotine gleam, bang cranium 

Click back hammer, finger trigger
Silver shimmer, flash and flicker

Dying quicker, so cold, shiver
Sever beats torn by asunder

Clown car’s lachrymose red ribbons
Town bars fountain vain, shark

A Keyboard Omen

Modern world with modern modems,
AI, Wi-Fi, modern day totems,
keyboard nostalgia, a typewriter App,
mind that modern knowledge gap,
discord, discourse, modern day omens.

Crying Wolf

("Howling Rock" - 2016, Castle Rocks, Idaho)

Crying Wolf

My phone is set to the tone of a trumpet horn
To signal incoming texts
And every time it sounds
I think of Robin Hood calling out for me.

I think he must have been a disciplined
And discerning fellow long ago
In his Sherwood Forest,
Because otherwise the woods would be filled
With his call
And

Modern World

(Alternative Earth series)

Come and talk to me softly as you sit by my side
on the big metal bird getting ready for our ride.
The engineer has taken a key from a big brass ring
and he’s taking up the tension in the sleeping spring.

The wings have started flapping, gently beating at the air
and the driver’s pulling levers

Beneath the Veil of Ignorance

In the vast expanse of existence,
Your world, I find, fails to captivate my senses.
Unfortunate days, like wayward wanderers,
Don the garments of absurdity,
Parading their disconcerting presence.

Each dawn arrives with a disquieting aura,
Clad in a haphazard ensemble of potluck fabric.
It seems that a patch of uncertainty
Embellishes every opinion conceived,
Nurtured within the confines of uninformed ignorance.

Amidst this absurdity,

Gunfighter Ballad For a Modern World

He was the world’s last gun fighter
And he always worked in drag
Carrying his six shooters 
In a special velvet bag.

No boots and spurs to jingle 
As in to town he rode,
Just patent leather sling backs 
High heeled and open toed.
He always arrived early 
Before the heat of the sun
Always so very careful
His mascara didn’t run.

And

Technological Transition To a Modern World

Technological Transition to a Modern World
David J Walker

The Earth comprised of earthy scent
Labored sweat 
		Grim regret 
80 years have sown

The Earth revised by measure lent 
The hunters net
		A daily threat 
90 years have flown

The Earthy prize a treasure spent 
A gamblers fret 
		An unpaid bet
100 years on loan

The Earth receives unearthly bent 
The loss offset

Magic Spell For a Modern World

Wart of hubris, sweat of cursed
Jealous eyes and greed at worst

Blood from pride, tears from pain
Some wretched feelings from disdain.

Sordid juices caused by lust 
One liberal dusting of distrust.

A pinch of squander on path to diet
Then splash of anger from disquiet

Two parts grease; on one’s own behalf
Once can of echo, from mocking laugh.

Grind chains of

Modern World

The modern world

Strange times we live
experience
is virtual
the real is harmful 
bad for the health.
The internet gives us link 
but our solitude 
is the same.
Famous women 
do not look factual 
like something made in a factory
we tend to be self-absorbed 
our feeling and thoughts
are truncated
into a massive none entity 
stalking the world 
while polar ice melt
and

This Modern World

I hardly recognize this
modern world
for it's changed so much
within my lifetime
I grew up
in a much different place
where people interacted
face to face
not through cutesy emojis
used in cyberspace
to express emotions on the internet
on such sites as Skype, Facebook, and Twitter
having never met
each other
in person
nor do they ever expect they ever will
for the meaning of a friend
has changed
to

When Among Them

Why is it so hard to be around people? I mean, maybe it's unfair that I should talk of the general public based on my experience of the persons that surround me and I have encountered but most of the time it's never a pleasant experience to be with them. You either detest them or

Not Wholly As It Should Be

Not Wholly as it should be

O holy city set in gold
 of thee both praise and woe are told.
 To three faiths the troubled home,
 we see the spire, the Wall. the Dome.
 Where once did graze the kid and lamb
 I behold a traffic jam.
 In Heaven's name, oh, tell us why
 property prices

Modern World

Crystal blue water
to swim,dive,play and enjoy
yet no life is there
-Swimming Pool

Peaceful residence
with all amenities,still
missing neighbourhood
-Apartments

Rich colorful foods
prescribed by doctors,still we
do not feel happy
-Medicinal Tablets

Can play anywhere,
anytime, but no playground,
no players to chase
-Video Games

Emoticons,texts
chats,stickers,still nothing beat
the handwritten mails
-Mobile phones

Technology rules
the world and controls humans
a boon or a curse?


Mar-04-2017

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