Best Rebelliously Poems

Paddy

His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short!  He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat colored coat always ready to play, go for...

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Agony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity 
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...

Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep in anguish... 
I'm tattered and torn in long-term grief because...

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"The Morality Police" 

hair showing
not used 
for drying feet

life 
of a young woman 
innocent

tortured, 
brutally taken
and murdered 

for what?

in the 
controlling hands 
of the Morality Police -

monsters are real, 
they do exist
there and here

many demons 
subterranean levels 
under skin, reptilian beneath;

the matrix 
is crumbling 
demonstrating...

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Withering wandering waves of a wasted will
The Nomad stands in solace within the silent still
Universal laws that lock and securely seal
Metaphorical minds that soon rebelliously reveal

Lachrymal light years that have gallantly gone
Pensive prisons meticulously molding a mortal pawn
Methodical madness mocking a soulless vessel
Where the deceived...

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HOMEWARD BOUND

DR. JAMES E. MARTIN 
July 13, 2006
Based on the story of the prodigal son



After being gone for several years, 
He returned home amidst many tears.
He had thought so many years ago
That he would to others his independence show.

Thinking that at home it had been...

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I have not ceased—
I have not.
The things of the past
Do not rot, do not decay,
But I have not ceased—
I have not.

Once the pitchfork's prongs
Did so deafeningly twang,
I shriveled and cowered,
And found myself prancing
With the headless chickens.

Beneath the naysayer's feet
Are six cockroaches:
One for good luck,
One to...

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Your life is a sandwich with many layers
Your knife slaughtered me as you bewitch my mind with thought-slayers
Coming undone by this bleeding hate-love relationship 
You tease me with insults that make me wanna cry, but I'll get a man's toughest grip 
I'm a Titanium ship...

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Imagine a small frail girl,
Sitting in the darkest corner of a poorly lit room, 
Only lit by the cautious sunlight that rebelliously shines through the crack in the curtain – if she dares
And thank God for that brave beam of light,
That ray of hope that...

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This is a poem about loss -

The sun and songbirds rose,
to see the snowshell soften,
to see the light less low,
to see the tropics-green 
crocus leaf 
          spear! rebelliously!
through the thick and the heavy 
white.

Green, all but...

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S trangely Secretive, Social, Sensitive, Strong, and Sensual,  
C autiously Courteous, Charismatically Critical, and Caringly Compassionate,
O bservant, Obstinate, and Obsessive, 
R ational, Rebelliously Resentful, and Resilient,  
P articularly Perceptive, Profoundly Passionate, Powerful, and a Procrastinator. 
I mmensely Intense, Imaginatively Intuitive, Individualized, and Inspiringly...

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Felt as if I were a stranger amongst family.
A mere shadow puppet on the wall.
The whispers that enraged me deeply.
From all the distasteful, shameful,
ungrateful words that had been spoken.
Utter silence drifting away,
the darkness starts to reign.
Sincerity's all so superficial beauty shines brightly,
blinding us from the...

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The tax bill came;
They could not pay.
Their bank foreclosed
That very same day.

           They dejectedly walked away!

Another child;
One too many to feed.
The abortion clinic 
"Took care" of their need

       ...

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Felt as if I were a stranger amongst family.
A mere shadow puppet on the wall.
The whispers that enraged me deeply.

From all the distasteful, shameful,
ungrateful words that had been spoken.
Utter silence drifting away,

the darkness starts to reign.
Sincerity's all so superficial beauty, 
shines so brightly.

Blinding us from...

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Thought I had the ugliest hair 
                    in the whole neighborhood;

     rebelliously stiff and coarse, hard-headedly  
    ...

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Felt as if I were a stranger amongst family.
	A mere shadow puppet on the wall.
	The whispers that enraged me deeply.
	From all the distasteful, shameful,
	ungrateful words that had been spoken. 
	Utter silence drifting away, 
	the darkness starts to reign.
	Sincerity's all so superficial beauty shines brightly, 
	blinding...

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