Short Modernist Poems

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Premium Member Clerihew Brace

Patrick Henry Brace US modernist
at painting did not persist
His semi abtracts did not sell
and suicide was his death knell
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member Clerihew Roberts

William Robertsan individualist
yet a homely art modernist
Originally doing poster design
so pioneering Vorticist was just fine
Form: Clerihew

Minimalist Modernist

thinking like Stein but
drinking beer from a stein
remembering German days
not Paris

contradicting and refuting 
Gertrude's flowery words 
for
a muse is a muse is 

but 
don't 
include 
my Musa
Form:

Premium Member Clerihew Chavannes

Pierre Puvis Chavannes
in his day,a modernist man
He painted on a very large scale
on public buildings*. he left a trail

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/pierre-puvis-de-chavannes/fresco-for-the-decoration-of-the-pantheon-saints
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Pleasantly Surprised

Last Friday’s date with Miss Information
Turned out to be wonderful,
She was not what I expected.
Her name is Sophie 
And she’s never been woke
Somehow making it all the way through school
Without contracting the post-modernist contagion.
Bright, beautiful, well bred and read
She goes by Ms. not Miss
And if dreams come true
One day will be my Mrs.

(9/24/25)
Form: Narrative


Premium Member Doris

Doris my baby girl
Tubes and devices
Medicial technology
No matter the modernist

The pain and suffering
Doesn't quit still a part
When one has to have
Help for the damaged part

But you had a sense of 
Humor, said they had 
Used WD-40 and duct
Tape to hold you together

May the great physican
Be with you tonight
Greet you with the morning light
Bring you home where's your heart
Form:

Back Beat Transcended

Don't look back

In this theater of modernist art

And wish what was

Worth being hung

Worthy off the space on
wall and hanging holes
it was hung

Patronage in thrones have
spent well earned coin to see

In order to say they have

Been kneeling before like the
grace of ages 

Was and is till this day 

The artist is remembered for

Yet never wishes they we're

Because it was a throwaway

A B-Side track 

Never expected to attract

But somehow did

The Elusive Art

Funky Funkus For Fortunate Few
Real artists won't do alliteration
Modernist are we the folks
Seeking adoration
Post structuralism 
Is the old order
Annihilated are the Sonnets
And poetic formations.
Conversing  takes another dimension
Philosophising,  Looping, interlinking 
Elastic boundaries. Self-analysing.  
Sociolinguistic inventions 
Obeying but rejecting universal conventions.

Paradoxes reign in the world of poetic art
The art. The art. Why art thou so elusive?
Form: Rhyme

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