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Best Insubordinate Poems

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Falling Off a Horse
In the past during many a generation,
a horse has been used for transportation.
Usually obedient animals not needing a goad,
they are quite strong, and can pull...

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Categories: insubordinate, animals,
Form: Rhyme



Writing On the Ground
A ventured stroll away from talk
taking in all superfluous detail
allowing it to fill my corrupted senses
an escape from the tedium
it invites me to escape from...

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Categories: insubordinate, city, creation, environment, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Twisted Defeat
Soundless words gather in the mist of your ever-changing stature
Contorting banter smothers the landscape of your toil
Your soul is defined through pillage of thought and...

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Categories: insubordinate, happiness,
Form: Blank verse
I Hear Silence
Silent sturdy nothing ringing through my desolate unforgiving ears
A pin drops, a heart stops, a cry, a scream, still nothing phases my hearing of silence
My...

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Categories: insubordinate, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Darwin's Double-Dark Dilemma
Elder Darwin swims in ethology.
He rolls in his deep grave ecology.
He itches and scratches his dissonance
that survival of most fitted and dense
implies manifest destiny for...

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Categories: insubordinate, culture, death, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse



Blatent, Gonzo, Gangster Poet
I wish I had the balls of Bukowski,
I wish I had the genius of the Gonzo HST.
If I had the style of Gotti mixed
With the...

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© Ryan Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insubordinate, art, dedication,
Form: Carpe Diem
Land of Milk and Honey
Land of Milk & Honey. 
The president has banned the verb “work,” there are no job seekers 
or unemployed people, but those who administrate the...

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Categories: insubordinate, political, satire,
Form: Carpe Diem
Twas the Night Before Inspection
Twas The Night Before Inspection...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
through out Highland Manor, 
     property carpeted in lush green
(a...

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Categories: insubordinate, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Black Child
Watch out black child you
Know you've taken this tour before
You needn't become 
A tourist in your own life
Black child full of strife

Fragileness and fearless species
Fatalities...

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Categories: insubordinate, angst, blessing, child, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew
Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew...?

Methinks perchance man
     kind always vain
n'er did appertain
moral hike polar opposite
     from...

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Categories: insubordinate, america, death, destiny, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Secret Messages
—– My life at seventy-three, amazing, yet there are times when its blue. In context, a haibun is of the now, not the future, or...

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Categories: insubordinate, poetry,
Form: Haibun
''Trapped and Scared''
Oh' to see the look on my mothers' face.
Can she see my dismay of disgrace?
Tell the world I'll be a new mother.
My only thought is...

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Categories: insubordinate, teen
Form: Narrative
Hair
Untamed unruly 
Insubordinate strands coiled into a restrictive pose
Chemical warfare and arson to my scalp to straighten you out
For a while you complied but you...

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Categories: insubordinate, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Smaller Is Better
My life at seventy-two, amazing, yet there are times when its blue. In context, a haibun is of the now, not the future, or past....

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Categories: insubordinate, poems, poverty, words,
Form: Haibun
Pandemically Pacified
You can keep your suicidal suit wardrobe wars...drawers of destruction
In your consumption of insubordinate illusions...intrusions of insanity
~~~
You can keep your vanity and desired disease...appease the...

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Categories: insubordinate, conflict, corruption, society,
Form: Free verse

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