Short Realist Poems

too perfect
to last
no doubt



posted on August 21, 2018...

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I used to be an idealist
Now I have become
A realist with ideals...

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I'm an idealist and a realist,
For my ideas are not dreams but reality in motion....

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Mussorsky was so modest
& one of St Pertersberg best
Definetly a musical realist
for with lustrous scores did persist...

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Edwardo Chillida Juantegui
wit a sculptural style so free
Not abstract but more realist
with his art did indeed persist...

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Antoine Vollen realist
with breakfast piece did persist
A 'painters' painter it was said
a celebrity with srreet 'cred'...

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Walt Whitman junior,so sensual
with poems&essays so influential
Transcendental writer&realist
with verse libre did insist...

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Henry Wallis a social realist
with literal art did persist
A triangle scandal forced him to excile
givingup painting meanwhile...

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Armand Frnandez Arman
collected bits&bobs in a tin can
Visual rather  than a conceptual realist
with junk he did installations  persist...

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Jean Francois Millet ,a realist
picturing  peasants ,did not desist
Quiet time prayer 'The Angelus'*
more evangelical than strict religious


...

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American realist poet Robert Frost
wrote poetry that may have been lost
had he not gone to England, where he was embraced.
With his poems of the common, rural life we have been graced....

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Brussels Alfred William Finch a realist
to a neo-pointillist
but staying an artist was not his lot
the wheel turning to a pot from a dot*

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/alfred-william-finch...

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quixotic dreamer
constructing silver windmills
when she looks at him

rose colored glasses
optimistic attitude
giving them a chance

forever unite
a starry eyed realist
rebel who needs love...

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Optimist: “Look! It’s half full.”
Pessimist: “No! Half empty!”
Realist: “Such debates are
fruitless. Let’s all just share the water.”



February 25, 2022
entered in the Lind 30NR Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Chantelle Anne Cooke...

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6th decade I've  lived
On enemy world
Rain
Realist?
Another damned day
Of night
The good were redeemed 
The evil got theirs
Six decades of getting nowhere 
Nowhere but dead.

Are you part of the program man
Or are you part of the thing that sets us free...

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6th decade I've  lived
On enemy world
Rain
Realist?
Another damned day
Of night
The good were redeemed 
The evil got theirs
Six decades of getting nowhere 
Nowhere but dead.

Are you part of the program man
Or are you part of the thing that sets us free...

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No way!
am I a
pessimist,
a realist,is what
I say-
I am
not an ass,
donkey maybe
definitely,male not
a lass-
I talk
very slow,
but this I know
fresh sweet carrots help my
words flow-
slowly
one by one,
this pleasing drawl
holds all my many fans,
in thrall

Brian Strand...

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Is this glass of water half 
empty or 
half full.
This question hits me like an 
outrageous bull.
Does it make me an optimist.
Or a pesimist.
What about a realist.
But why not become an 
opportunist.
The one who drank the water 
to 
quench in thirst.
And is called a smart mister....

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He wears that thick black belt
but that doesn't make him a man.

He does heavy duty work but
he never goes, is he a man?

He is tough and talks a lot of trash,
does that make him a man?

He provides,utilizes,and compromises,
with his child and keeps child from going
through denial,come to think of it,he's a
                  man now....

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etcher
      draughtsman
self
portraiteer
         extraordinaire
of
bulbous nose
&
wild hair

realist
 rebel
        rule breaker
complex
flawed
       yet
           palette
            knife
to the fore

success love unhappiness
sadness
          in life
                 arrayed

such prolific
    persona art
                  displayed...

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Optimistic and realist both together and apart



Moments by moments are all we really have
Time spent together are all that we will ever
really share
Life is an enigma that passes by sometimes
in the middle of the night
Yet our love will remains forever bound from
this moment onward until the end of our eternal
life.




Copyright © Johnny Hadnot  2.6.2020...

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Andrew Newell Wyeth the artist
An American realist painter
Choice subjects were local land
And people around him
His art reflects plight
A father's hold
Keeping him
Very
Close  

Andrew Newell Wyeth-July 12, 1917-January 16, 2009.
His art has an emotional pull that seems to draw me in.

Inspired by Nayda Ivette Negron's contest favorite painter....

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(A) Optimist (B) Pessimist, or (C) Realist 

These labels that get tossed about are far too cut-and-dried,
and when we fail to act in keeping with the one applied
to us—perhaps since we were kids—we cause close scrutiny.
If “Optimist” feels sad, he is accused of mutiny.
I’m often A, I have been B, but basically I’m a C!



March 15, 2019, entered in Brian Strand's Standard Contest 195...

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David icke
conspiracy realist, not a nutter
as was first proclaimed
now he is a well respected researcher
and author.

when David Icke is demonised
this is usually done by someone
who has neither read any of his books
nor watched any of his presentations

the world of man
is a crooked one
and worse is to come
so keep an open mind
and do your own research



*thank you for reading....

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different drumbeats, separate Lives

he inhales the wind song

a static cling to yesterday

held in his heart until his melody fades

life, love, hope circle the drain

aging realist at one with his pain

love’s last aria

melancholy oboe resigns with setting sun
     
when two are no longer one 

chasm widens between haunting roars

tribal drums on opposite shores...

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