Best Nonconformity Poems

Nonconformity

All my life I have been controlled
Told what to think
Told how to behave
Told what was right and wrong
Don’t talk to strangers
Eat all your vegetables
Obey the rules that God set down millennia ago
Who made the decisions for me?
Preachers, teachers and parents were all guilty
Don’t use drugs...

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What I miss day and night,
is the nonconformity to realize
that we don't know anything...
Hence, this terrible emptiness
in the soul ...
  This hole in the solar plexus...
An incurable disease in this world
that we call, anguish... !...

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Confusion in all the most obvious places
On her face,
In his words
A collective silence to urge nothing said should leave this room 

A mark of intelligence 
Missed by a split second of hesitation
Its harder to talk with a drink soaring down your throat
But I can't say...

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Scrambling over each other, trying hard to be heard, interrupting, yelling out, being yourself.

We knew how to do this when we were two, and three, and four, but they socialized it out of us.

So we grew up un-learning our naturalness, un-learning our playfulness, unlearning our...

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When I saw her eyes were burnt sienna,
and her lips were purple plaid,
when she said she wasn’t my kid’s teacher,
boy, was I ever sad.
...

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