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Modern Life

This page showcases poems that address themes and events taken from modern life. Many of the modern poets showcased in the Author index make similar choices.
  • A Defence of Moby Dick
  • A Psalm for the Swingset
  • A Marriage Poem for Nora And Jamie
  • After the Equinox
  • Afterimage
  • Ancestral Echoes
  • April Fools
  • Automobile Fences
  • Do You Know the Way to Zhiq-Zhafej?
  • Engineer's Prayer
  • Farewell
  • Flying in Concrete
  • Freeway Dawn
  • Fugue for Toy Piano
  • Grace
  • Iftar
  • Indivisible
  • Land Rites
  • Love
  • Lullabyes
  • Mitch's Choice
  • Nature's Hymn
  • No Longer Treading
  • Omertà
  • Oversold
  • Plebeian
  • Rafflesiastes
  • Rescue
  • Rosemary
  • Song for a Seeker
  • Song-form
  • Spiral Staircase of the Old Hotel
  • Stripped to the Bonemeal
  • The Advertisement
  • The City is Recruited from the Country
  • The Commuter
  • The Fleece
  • The Future
  • The Modern Poet’s Word-Hoard
  • The Wood
  • To Consecrate Our Calamities, To Commemorate This Carnage
  • Toys
  • "viaticum"
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  • What a Perfect Poem
  • Whiplashed Sonnet
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