Short Modern Times Poems

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

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world poets’ nursery rhymes - kids’ dreamrockets at modern times...

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chivalry
of modern times
no less heroic



posted on September 28, 2018...

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Stubborn, never giving in frivolous ways,
remaining an example of manliness...
quickly fading in modern times. 
My image proudly set in stone,
a face battered by the fierce wind....

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Modern Times 

Artificial heart
Its batteries fastened to your belt
Be careful
Always have reserve batteries
In your pocket
Should you run out you have got
2 minutes 
To find and replace
So do not fumble and lose them 
On the floor....

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The rhymes of golden times 
                                          pour forth of golden minds
                                                     plagiarisms
                                                     exorcisms 
                                          demons of modern times...

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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 pot...

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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






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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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The old TV’s, with bulging backs,
Sit huddled with the trash;
Their value, precious once,
Has somehow vanished in a flash.

Discarded flat-screen boxes
Languish near what they’ve replaced,
A testament to modern times,
When cast-offs go to waste.

A jumbo flat-screen, I’ve been told,
Is one of life’s true perks.
For now, I’ll stick with what I have – 
My old TV still works!...

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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 eternity the given lot...

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The women danced singing:
 "Saul has killed his thousands
 and David his tens of thousands."
(1Samuel 18:7). 

Through envy and perhaps jealousy
Saul pursued David from that day onward;
Causing the Lord to be sorry that he made him 
(Saul) king.

In modern times just as in the old
A gifted or talented feat
Could cause eruption in the same way.
And men do not keep their word....

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Changes are they're hidden agendas?
To justify ones  point of innocence 
And control of one's power, opinions .
Closed eyes and mouths, Where's the compassion
Any changes in humanity , righteousness?

We the people are we truly equal ? In these modern
times any changes?

Protect and serve? In these modern times any changes?

Survival to thrive? In these modern times any changes?...

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FaceTime's not replace-time 
But I'd say it's second best
For connecting with your loved ones
Gives those missing-yous a rest.

You can see them, you can hear them
And, although you cannot touch,
You feel like you're right beside them 
And I like that, oh so much.

In these modern times, a distance,
Even that of many miles,
Can be narrowed using FaceTime,
Bringing happiness and smiles....

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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 more
I’ll make them look a bunch of sooks
This will be my best score.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Float away on a golden sea of dreams
Lie on a tropical beach in paradise as it seems
Whisper as the cool breeze is on my face
Have no care for the modern times rat race

Sip the cool juice in your mouth as it slides down
See the sea birds whirling as they make their sound
Count the waves as they slip on the white sands
Know there is nothing left that in your life demands.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Flowers, chocolates, songs, candle light 
dinner, poems. 
Some of the ways a gentleman seeked
the love of a lady.
Modern times, has relegated some of
these romantic manners of courting.

Once the gentleman gained the love
of his beloved, routine is the custom.
Causing in many occasions that love 
die.
Love is like a flower. You have to water 
it every day.






Nayda Ivette
9-13-2015...

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Kein Klagen hilft mehr 
Kultur erleidet Schiffbruch
Moderne Zeiten

Leer die einst vollen Kinos
Und Stille im Theater



No laments will help
Culture suffers depression
In these modern times

Empty once fully occupied cinemas
And only silence in the theater



No clamor ayudará
La cultura sufre la depresión
En tiempos modernos

Vacío una vez llenos cines
Y sólo silencio en el teatro...

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Have you ever heard the Civil War song “Aura Lee”?
You may find the tune has some familiarity.
Remember “Love Me Tender” by the late Elvis Presley?
“Aura Lee” has the exact same melody.
Somebody in modern times had the lyrics changed.
The words to the song became rearranged.
Never known for proper grammar was the late Mr. Presley.
In good English, he should have been singing “Love Me Tenderly”.
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IF I WERE A POET

If you consider me a poet
Then I shall write the words
That will put down roots
And push up into your soul
To flower and blossom there
Where one concedes beauty
Without dispute or challenge
As an icon for modern times
It would be so well deserved
Yet I still struggle with it all 
Recruiting rhyme and metre
With a soupcon of metaphor
To mould words into poetry
And win your heart forever...

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In modern times, it’s oh, so rare,
To find a doc who seems to care,
Yet I’ve met one beyond compare
And that is Dr. D.*

He’s patient, kind and oh, so smart.
What really makes him stand apart
Is his compassion, from the heart;
No one would disagree.

The oath he took says, “Do no harm”
And lucky, when I broke my arm,
His knowledge, expertise and charm
Were (yay!) bestowed on me.

*Dr. Aleksey Dvorzhinskiy...

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These days William Shakespeare’s “to be or not to be”
Isn’t the question, but a false dichotomy.

Now to be a woman and not to be a man
Is no longer integral to god’s perceived plan.

A nip and a tuck then some hormone therapy
Soon transforms into “they” what was born “he”
 or “she”.

In modern times it’s true all the world is a stage,
And gender fluidity is now all the rage.


January 8, 2023...

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Times fly and life passes by,
Nothing but aerodynamics 
And motion graphics,
Self motivated champs
And flying teens with automobiles,
Watching female cartoons
Projecting large moons,

Moors dreaming about freedom 
And albino's rejoicing in the kingdom,
The modern world simulated by
Politicians resulting in deserted cities-
and over populated Deserts,
Captured men and freed children
Such is life: the modern times,...

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I write nonsense

I write nonsense, just silly nonsense,
Yet if you look deeper within the lines,
Sometimes, Just Sometimes,
It’s a statement of modern times.

Touches of Irony and scepticism, 
You will find in subliminal verse.
But do not take it to seriously,
Even if it sounds a little terse.

I often write when I’m happy,
and occasionally when feeling tense.
But most of all, I just pen for fun,
I write nonsense, just silly nonsense.

Kevin Shaw 28/8/17...

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Where are the pure white fields of moonlit snow?
Where did the green fir trees holding crystal white mounds go?
Where are the perfect snowflakes that wisp slowly downward?
What I see now in front of me can only be called absurd

All I see is brown and gray slush, plaguing my entire sight
For this winter I dream I would surely give my best of best of fights
This stolen winter by the machines of these present modern times
How I wish them to disappear at the drop of a single dime...

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