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Best Subversive Poems

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Subversive Valentines Day
Once I had a girlfriend and ex-wife.
Two ladies at the same time in life,
Mistake I made this day.
Not proud in anyway.
First mistake, second retake in...

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Categories: subversive, introspection, life, lost love,
Form: Limerick



The Fable of the Fox and Goose
There once was a fox, as wise as can be,
 He lived in the hollow of an old oak tree.
 Not so very far from...

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Categories: subversive, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Escaping Rhymed Detonation
Malevolent imploded uncontrollably, 
  twisting wildly maniacal posies
   amid diabolically toasted brainstem, 
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses 
  purging stinging speech patterned...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subversive, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member All the Dark Stallions
"All the Dark Stallions"



Calliope burns 
ecstatic bright star
fire brands, all her marks

both hands 
holding the ropes
firmly fast today 

slow burn 
tomorrow
warm whispers 

gently towards
the unlit...

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Categories: subversive, dark, romance, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Me This Matters
I feel more than a little out of place
As if my trusty pen does deface
The paper, that lies stubborn, blank,
My words hang heavy and outrank
My...

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Categories: subversive, evil, fear, freedom, power,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Perambulating In Jail
Perambulating in Jail

‘Hey you in the middle march on in median mediocrity’
No subversive elements needed no lateral thinking and
no thinking per se is required once...

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Categories: subversive, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Liminal Space-Surreality
Classical infusion Beethoven’s “ode to joy”
Playing on blaring audiophile speakers annoy 
Purposely looped to destroy vagrants with electronic music
Blends of subversive elements and anxious acoustic...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subversive, confusion, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
I'Ve Got Fire In My Soul
I know what it means 
To go to bed without food
To go to school without shoes
To yearn for Eqaul Education 
to free your mind
Just to...

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Categories: subversive, africa, class, courage, growth,
Form: Alliteration
Confession of a Dangerous Mind
I walk the path of Human Secrecy
I belong in no Shelf 
I put no labels to Myself
Hopeless of Heaven
Fearless of Hell
Unraveled my mind
Evoking turmoil in...

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Categories: subversive, dream, encouraging, how i
Form: Concrete
No More
No more creativity deemed on 
the exercise of rotten faculty
Nor burning intelligence’s 
penalty
Nor repression sold as 
suppression
Nor dissemination of distortion 
I shall be content at...

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Categories: subversive, hope, life, me, truth,
Form: Concrete
Laughter of Women
The laughter of women sets fire
to the Halls of Injustice
and the false evidence burns
to a beautiful white lightness

It rattles the Chambers of Congress
and forces the...

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Categories: subversive, beauty, for her, freedom,
Form: Ballade
A Night On the Town
A Night On The Town

While searching for a book, one that I hadn’t yet read
I stumbled upon a critter and this is what he said:

Although...

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Categories: subversive, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"



He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.

She met him on the...

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Categories: subversive, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Narrative
When Purity Poison To Contaminate
And repression funded mental 
assassination
I shall climb beyond the human 
heights
When consistency aided 
conspiracy
When mental discipline
Has become mental plaque
That contaminates the 
constraints
Of the pure at...

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Categories: subversive, betrayal,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member The Velvet Echo
"The Velvet Echo" 

Lives 
eclipse

one comes in
the other out

passing light
in empty hallways

corridors of subversive
romantic notions 

strange singing, 
the sounding lifts 

waves 
enticing,

smiles curiously 
unsure, in...

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Categories: subversive, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs