Best Subverted Poems

seeking elusive violets
     in shadowy patches 
           beneath jacaranda trees
 ...

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Santa stood in the warehouse
Full of nearly empty shelves
Last night they’d been ram raided
By a bunch of discontented elves

Recently infiltrated and recruited 
Into an association...

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Surely this will come as no shock,
But it makes me so happy 
When I think of your cooking,
I just imagine it and I start to...

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Gone is your presence, 
But forgotten not 
Is its place in my heart. 

Away from me you flew, 
Carried away by the storm 
As its...

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Uninvited guest;
progeniture subverted;
instinct or ill-will...?

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(c) John C Michaels, February 2017

I've posted two Haiku variants on the same theme: one is the traditional 5-7-5 form ("Cuckoo...

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my mind is all alone
             darkness clouds my very thoughts
troubled i am troubled...

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Death,  You that made my brother put his hands
 on his bosom
What have we done to pay your ransom

You filled my soul with emptiness
And...

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With your eyes full of hate 
As venom drips from your fangs, 
Your pores oozing contempt 
While anger courses through your veins 

A putrid cloud...

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Where hast thou gone? 
Sweet innocents of youth
Thy reverence of purity
And subservient of truth

With poisoned treachery 
Thy essence perverted
Ignorance and jealousy
Thy Inner beauty subverted

Heavy upon...

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Early Christmas morning,
Streets were silent and deserted.
The normal weekday bustle
Had been quietly subverted.

The supermarket sign that boasted
“Open every day”
Revealed its lie, for darkness was
The sum...

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Any would be dictator can easily
close down an open and free society.
In order to do so 10 steps must be put into play
and these 10...

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Sounds creep into my ear, sounds that have wandered 
over these valleys, mounts and plains, once debased by ruined man,
sounds that creep from the crevices...

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Left Tampa bound for home
And though all caution we exerted,
We've landed in Virginia
Since our flight has been diverted.

La Guardia said no more flights
Could land and...

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I drive an appetite that never tires; 
A gaping heart engulfing all it seeks. 
I own a will that constantly misfires; 
A mind subverted by...

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Spawning a precipice; you switched us off; no good reason
On second thought; no one should take credit or defame,
Unilateral is the only fair way to...

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