Conformity Poems

Premium MemberConformity Normal Court

Conformity Normal Court

How Can You Feel
Anything Real
With Values So
Artificial?

-Gray Squirrel

03-19-2025
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Categories: conformity, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberConformity

Butting heads, locking horns
the difficult child of three
if any one was causing grief
It was always going to be me,
the stubborn chip 
and that stubborn old block 
never at ease we two
so I left and made a life for myself
far from the one you knew,
you pushed too hard
to tie me down
I went and you felt betrayed
you
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Categories: conformity, dad, daughter, family,
Form: Free verse


The masks we wear

They taught us young, the fine art of concealment,  
Threads of ideals tightly woven, hard to unbind.  
What is perfection? What is normal?  
These are the whispers we inherit, soaked in like breath 
From mothers, fathers, teachers, friends,  
We’re shaped, folded, pressed to fit the mould,  
To wear the mask
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Categories: conformity, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse

The chemicals -Lost Truth

Like the earth and moon collide,
 In which we stand in a world full of lies.
 The mind is where we confide,
 Come with me to the end of times.

 Where mother nature cries, 
 And humans die.
 Long in disparity where I find,

 Myself alone but what’s to hide.
 Where I know its true
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Categories: conformity, angst, betrayal, career, culture,
Form: Rhyme

Conformity, Moulds

I remember being told

Since I started joining letters together

I was taught to fit them into words, sentences, stanzas or paragraphs

Let your creativity flow they said

How was i to do so?

Just jumble up the words in the voice of another

Be anything but elementary

Use bigger words, a flowery language

Make your writing eloquent and exquisite 

No one cares
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Categories: conformity, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThe Great American Make-Believe

Suburban resident pretense, a bleak uniformity.
I grew up among the repetitious homes,
isolated alienated, I wandered the conformity,
the endless square yards, the dull feckless syndrome.

Repugnant yet intriguing, a redundant singularity,
fabrications of fortified, fraudulent self-deception,  
blocks and blocks of suffocating, vapid vanity,
I endured the bland boredom like an endless inquisition. 

All history, all memory was recklessly
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Categories: conformity, america, anxiety, community, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Comfort in Conformity

Its common,
To not want to seem foreign,
The safety net of what's told,
Even though we're controlled,
Somehow we don't see the problem,
Because we're used to being patrolled
Into whatever we're being sold,
Thinking we've found gold.
No.
We're just thinking without a mind of
our own.
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Categories: conformity, community, deep, identity, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Shape of Conformity

Ice is water that held the container tight 
and found the shape of its containment just right. 
Water has no shape when not confined, 
No dish, no jar, or holding wall to design. 
Vapor is water without many friends 
Up from the heat and containment it assends.
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Categories: conformity, water,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Curse of Conformity




be a follower
afraid to be the real you
conformists all lose



just lap dog fame 
disingenuous is your name,
cookie-cutter fame


deceit fills your day
selling your soul to belong
empty shell on sand


2/27/2023

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Categories: conformity, community, evil,
Form: Senryu

Conformity

They kill horse don’t they
Economical strokes
Of the knife
That let the blood drain
Gushing at first
Into the sand
As they watch the light fade
From eyes that trusted
Then move on
To destroy more dreams
And things of beauty
To create a world of grays
For the colour blind
And one of conformity
To deter the poets
And the dreamers
They kill horses don’t they
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Categories: conformity, allegory, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe F-O-L-D Follow Our Logic Deviant

How are you my pet?
Have all you need?
Are you all set?
Have all your wants and needs met?

Good, now it’s time to pay 
With your vote for me today 
Prove your loyalty and appreciation 
To further our political masturbation
 
Of you my obedient pet 
Just obey 
And please don’t fret
 
We need your mindless conformity 
As
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Categories: conformity, america, corruption, humanity, identity,
Form: Rhyme

Conformity For Acceptance

George was to us The Deformed
And his bones The Malformed …
Then, to our rules he conformed,
After he was duly informed
And by us pointedly reformed
And-Lo!-George stooped looking deformed
Nor were his bones still malformed
For overnight, new ones had formed!

Just through his Conformity for Acceptance,
In him stifling Tiger of Resistance.
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Categories: conformity, change, character, desire, people,
Form: Rhyme

Wealth of Conformity

We are lucky and
          extraordinarily rich,
          when we conform
          with what little we have....
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Categories: conformity, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Light Verse

Lemming

I never felt I was a fool, always quick to sniff out a scam
or pick out a problematic part of an argument during a debate
I never considered myself a conformist
a fan of music, shows, and movies 
that were twenty or more years out of date
Wearing whatever I wished even though it wasn’t in fashion
I had
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Categories: conformity, abuse, bullying, childhood, confidence,
Form: Free verse

Conformity

Social influence that influence ones belief and behavior,
being the sheep idiom in suit of group as inferior identity savior.
Compliances and obedience for the hero or nymph resort,
names and numbers as taste for pleasure of the court.
Instructive expectations in order to avoid looking foolish,
becoming strong in unity of the mass psychology bliss.
Procrastinations to adhere to moral
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Categories: conformity, betrayal, discrimination, mentor, metaphor,
Form: Ballade

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