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The Data of Beauty

            The Data of Beauty Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem I met Miss Universe when I was just A boy of seventeen.  I’ve never quite Recovered from that moment.  I was thrust By accident to grasp...

Escapism = Carnevale Claptrap

Escapism = Carnevale Claptrap Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem Religion, fantasy, pornography And science fiction, even pink, pink verse Are merely magic.  Hearts’ geography Is what they master.  They...

Libation

                   Libation Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem Solutrean bison – By Museo de Altamira y D. Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 3.0 I sprinkled my best wine with dust from tombs, Presuming that...

The Sonnet in Its Little Room

Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem [Three AI image apps failed to get the format of this sonnet absolutely correct.  The one above is the umpteenth attempt by Bing’s AI. For the actually correct...

Simplicity and Complexity

 Simplicity and Complexity The modern Scandinavians and chairs By Shakers have their meaning just because Of life’s complexity.  The Cubist squares And glossed rectangularity give pause Like Philip Johnson’s house of cleanest glass. The house by Gropius in Lincoln...

  Olé Picasso!

  Picasso! Don’t look at nature after art to slight The art.  The point of art is not to ape But thinking.  Artists target to incite, Not prettify, but cause the mind to gape. To criticize a painting for a lack Of slavishness to facts is silliness Akin to faulting...