Best Insubordinate Poems


Premium Member 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 a heavy load.
Horseback riding is a past time many know.
On a country trail, it’s the way to go.

Sometimes, horses are animals with a mind of their own.
If they don’t like a rider, that person can be thrown.
Horses can be insubordinate and very fickle.
If you fall off a horse, it doesn’t tickle.
These creatures can be a very faithful friend.
However, they can cause injury that may be hard to mend.
Categories: insubordinate, animals,
Form: Rhyme

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 pleasure
Whispers and taunts explode without truth
Circling the antics of foolish affairs
Your respect stains below wicked feet
Gnawing the attentive to reap consideration of being great
Your masquerade was open to me
Groping the passive nature from within
Accepting the ignorance of others
Clutching the fight for happiness
Insubordinate dupe your talent is lacked
Gather your forces I am not coming back
Categories: insubordinate, happiness,
Form: Blank verse

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 the routine.
To open new ways of perceiving
at what has been seen before
yet never revealed afore.

Rarely a moment goes by
when the same view cannot take on a new hue
for the view is alive
pumping subtle life
into each crook and cranny
so that every microcosmic detail 
the tiniest of other earthly intelligence
are also offered the opportunity 
the same that we are given 
to flourish 
of making a worthy society.

Beneath our very feet
subtle signs are there
for us to perceive if only 
our eyes are able to notice.
Cracks and fissures around 
infrastructures hardened textures
allow glimpses of those forces
not insubordinate 
just seeking a share of living space
to echo their colourful vibrations
on our un-perceiving attentions.

An eye so keen to accept such notices
might be tempted to see
such sacred messages for us to feel or heed.
Madness may even encroach
to accept the design of such a divine creation
is at work edging around our corrosive borders.
Behind the corporal language
a communication so deep and so fine
no human sense could fully comprehend.
Unless we learned to abandon
our fleshy bony vehicles for a simpler primordial state 
surrender complete intimacy with all of creation.
Hearing unutterable whispers of shining comfort
through the cracks and fissures along 
the pavement, striding, roaming
surging up through gutters and drains.
The unsuspecting borders between nature
and our singular self-enhancing interactions. 

Life is surging,
urging us to manifest,
in joining in feeding on its royal bosom 
sharing in the feast of creation
so we, in turn, will return 
to nourish the elementary message 
of our purest love.
Categories: insubordinate, city, creation, environment, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry

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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 mind is so noisy sometimes but makes no difference to the outside
A love for sound that I will never know of, for I will always have to endure
Silence
A nuisance only I can suffer from in my own insubordinate thoughts
Although I can listen to you in the end it only means silence to all I have ever come to known
A sad end to a beginning that never reverses its true meaning
Never hides only seeks for its next victim to make bleed in a figure of speech 
Or just a reality busting out of its seems 
Something that a needle and thread cant just make into a new better form of you
No its forever who you are and all you will ever know
But even though you scream and cry or rationalize in ludacris ways or laugh or smile
Silence will eventually catch up to you retarding  all you know
And finally all you know will go leaving to a better place that silence is of no importance to all 
your ways
Live life 
Love hard
Dream away
For one day the silence you feel will be swept away 
Feeling and hearing all the sounds once again that use to keep you grounded
Silence is inevitable but can be obliterated by sweet sound
Categories: insubordinate, life
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 drive of Capone, left alone
To simmer with Lanskey, I'd be
The newest of new in the melting pot.
You either got it or not.
Mafia prose mixed with noble booze
And a refuse to lose, matched by who?
Nobody knows. Uncontested, irreverent,
Insignificant, insubordinate, yet,
Undeniably the truth, and proof that
No matter what the day and age,
No one can ever be the slave
If they pick up the definer of men...
...The Violent Pen.
© 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 state are on
duty. Since all is mechanized, digitalized and robotozied there is little 
need for citizens to do anything, but receive a monthly card to spend 
on food, clothes and other things, and they will be well enumerated. 
At last the masses have been set free from the toil of labour.    
They can sleep as long as they want, walk in the park or pursue sport, 
 meet in the evening and read poetry, with the understanding “work” 
is not mentioned, ‘cause the state know some poets are insubordinate
and will try to sneak in “work” by calling it something else. If the state 
censor find out the writer will be banned from all public gatherings and 
not being able to buy yogurt till he repents and writes nice things about 
the beautiful colour of plastic flowers, made by a robot called Rose.  
It has taken mankind thousands of years to reach this stage of maturity, 
and they will look up to the clear blue sky and say: “Truly this is Utopia.”
Categories: insubordinate, political, satire,
Form: Carpe Diem


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 always get tangled up in a mess
Arrested for disorderly conduct
Failing to yield to a comb
Robbing me of my sanity
This delinquency I can’t tolerate
So I had to lock you up
Categories: insubordinate, humorous,
Form: Free verse

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 of police brutalities,
Factual positions of self defense
Makes no difference, scarcity of
Wellness and wealth is what we

Are up against.
What's the matter?
Yearly prison influx
And prisons are fatter
Black child don't listen to chatter

Sometimes relentlessly defiant
Sometimes insubordinate
Sometimes CHALLENGING authority
Go with GOD, healthy dinners and
Unspent wealth

You are more than you think.
Find your worth
Do you know you are sacred
Act now black child
Save your cares for later years

Save your tears for lasting fears
Keep this knowledge, that the world
Is not always kind, not even most
Of the times not ever most of the crimes
Nine run, run

Guns drawn, shot down
In the prime
In the struggle
At the time
Black child leads the statistical

Jagged line, a sacred legend
To the race, velvet space 
Good love black child walk with
Dignity those whose DNA doesn't
Always shine on their skin

Cherish your grace. Black child
Categories: insubordinate, angst, blessing, child, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry

''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 how my family will suffer.
Young and alone,body still not fully grown.
Yet time,you insubordinate truth.
Lye the growth of fetus inside me.


''Mom, ''I'm Pregnant'' Contest
Statistic....More than 2/3 of all teens who have a baby
will not graduate from high school......
Categories: insubordinate, teen
Form: Narrative

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 past. Oh, references can be made, in context, to ether, with qualifiers. So, today, for me has been a quest, Japanese poem rules investigated, cross-referenced, and found abused. No expert am I, but I do seek the truth. No wish to disrespect, or be aloof, but, when there are rules it is for good reason. However, a thought just occurred reference Japanese to English syllable counts. Using the Japanese ‘on’ format, Nippon has four syllables, yet if used in an English haiku only two. So, if Nagasaki and Nippon were used in one line using the ‘on‘ format that would constitute 8 syllables, in English only 6. I have always been aware syllable counts varied between languages, my thought however, could be considered an insubordinate tongue in cheek account, read on.
—— Way back when, and as to how far back I don’t, or cant say, but what I can, is that over the eons of time, secrets have been transcribed, and passed between folk, ether conveying endearments, useful information, or as with senryu, cynical, or humorous comments on, ether ones own foibles, or those of others. Reference can be found that both tanka and haiku, (not 100% sure on the latter), were used secretly by lovers to confirm their love for each other, and the shorter the poem, the smaller, and more easily concealed was the parchment.
As to who came up with the restrictions, reference the syllable counts, and for what reasons I can only surmise, and that is smaller is better. Move over big guy.

me said nature
created the spoken word
transcribe it wisely
Categories: insubordinate, poetry,
Form: Haibun

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. Oh, references can be made, in context, to ether, with qualifiers. So, today, for me has been a quest, Japanese poem rules investigated, cross-referenced, and found abused. No expert am I, but I do seek the truth. No wish to disrespect, or be aloof, but, when there are rules it is for good reason. However, a thought just occurred reference Japanese to English syllable counts. Using the Japanese ‘on’ format, Nippon has four syllables, yet if used in an English haiku only two. So, if Nagasaki and Nippon were used in one line using the ‘on‘ format that would constitute 8 syllables, in English only 6. I have always been aware syllable counts varied between languages, my thought, however, could be considered an insubordinate tongue in cheek account, read on. Way back when, and as to how far back I don’t, or cant say, but what I can, is that over the eons of time, secrets have been transcribed, and passed between folk, ether conveying endearments, useful information, or as with senryu, cynical, or humorous comments on, ether ones own foibles or those of others. Reference can be found that both tanka and haiku, (not 100% sure on the latter), were used secretly by lovers to confirm their love for each other, and the shorter the poem, the smaller, and more easily concealed was the parchment.
As to who came up with the restrictions, reference the syllable counts, and for what reasons I can only surmise, and that is smaller is better. Move over, big guy.

me said nature
created the spoken word
transcribe it wisely
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 ego
In your tuxedo tailor-made by tyrants...compliance and conformity
~~~
You can keep your deformity and defamation...population desensitized
In your advertised agony and defeat...secrete societal sermons
~~~
You can keep your damaged demons & whores...centaur’s modern maze
In your tangled haze of hallucinations...limitations, and liabilities
~~~
You can keep your disabilities of discontent...disorient of discipline
In your simpleton slaved seduction...obstruction in obedience





March.31.2018
Societal Discontent
Sponsored by: Brendan J. Simons


'Happy Easter Everyone'
Categories: insubordinate, conflict, corruption, society,
Form: Free verse

Pathways

Resolved
to be insubordinate
a reckless gait upon
the shores of the mundane
craving moments of fury
though triumph ranks among
the victims of probability

And yet across the confidence
of this samurai troubador
strikes the villainy of self
urging a faculty too elusive
to be called critical but by
function

In this way destiny revolves by
a natural law unencumbered
fantasy overrun despite
jealous objections clinging
like threads to the electric
of life

Resolved
to be Excellent
© Aron Jacob  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: insubordinate, adventure, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Labor Day 2022

Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or 
become an artisan, entrepreneur, technician 
to side step getting rung, drafted 
like an oxen plow, commandeered and chide
by management as insubordinate 
till retirement or join kiln fields 
once the music died

from plane over exertion, yet nonetheless 
sweat of brow efforts praised I espied 
searching me noggin brief history re: 
aforesaid day, where barbecues fried
dispersed aromas recognizing efforts 
of workers with quality control as guide
grievances against danger challenged 
sense and sensibility stalwart did not hide
the shenanigans that took place inside
sense and sensibility 
without prejudice nor pride

boardrooms in tandem with glories of 
American made products from those
who put figurative nose to grindstone – 
just common everyday Jane's and Joe’s
who weathered extreme temperatures, 
whereby bodies froze
but thanks to those who battled elements 
at large and snatched doze

birth of brute efforts eventually 
earned reserved renowned
borne couple shy of 
nineteenth century, whence sound
of industrial silence replaced with 
parades where hoof beats did pound
burgeoning and bustling city streets 
echoed along hardened ground
fealty to country soldered 
with faith, federation union freedom 
and job security did thence abound,

which holiday underwent 
transformations as bustle
and hustle proved myth regarding 
land of milk and honey – 
from straining of muscle
whereby life, liberty and pursuit 
of happiness less of physical tussle 

set (thank you Masons and Dixons) 
cornerstone to an invisible 
complex edifice originally from New York
forgotten builders, farmers, machinists, 
et cetera who laid groundwork
wrought by destruction 
from Civil War largesse and pork
loosed from the bottle in 
Antebellum South, when off flew cork
freeing a genie, which became rendered
supremely courtly poet, i.e. this former dork.
Categories: insubordinate, america, appreciation, celebration, culture,
Form: Rhyme

Labor Day 2019

Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or 
become an artisan, entrepreneur, technician 
to side step getting rung, drafted 
like an oxen plow, commandeered and chide
by management as insubordinate 
till retirement or join kiln fields once died

from over exertion, yet nonetheless 
sweat of brow efforts praised I espied 
searching me noggin brief history re: 
aforesaid day, where barbecues fried
dispersed aromas recognizing efforts 
of workers with quality control as guide
grievances against danger challenged 
sense and sensibility stalwart did not hide
the shenanigans that took place inside

boardrooms in tandem with glories of 
American made products from those
who put figurative nose to grindstone – 
just common everyday Jane's and Joe’s
who weathered extreme temperatures, 
whereby bodies froze
but thanks to those who battled elements 
at large and snatched doze

birth of brute efforts eventually 
earned reserved renowned
borne couple shy of 
nineteenth century, whence sound
of industrial silence replaced with 
parades where hoof beats did pound
burgeoning and bustling city streets 
echoed along hardened ground
fealty to country soldered 
with faith, federation union freedom 
and job security did thence abound,

which holiday underwent 
transformations as bustle
and hustle
proved myth regarding land of milk and honey – 
from straining of muscle
whereby life, liberty and pursuit 
of happiness less of physical tussle 

set (thank you masons) cornerstone to an invisible 
complex edifice originally from New York
forgotten builders, farmers, machinists, 
et cetera who laid groundwork
wrought by destruction 
from Civil War largesse and pork
loosed from the bottle in 
Antebellum South, when off flew cork
freeing a genie, which became rendered
supremely courtly poet, i.e. this former dork.
Categories: insubordinate, america, appreciation, celebration, dream,
Form: Elegy
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