Nonconformity Poems - Poems about Nonconformity

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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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 it's out of character And it must suck to see me...

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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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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 potential. Sure, they say, we are going to help you with...

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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 because they rot your mind Their morals and ideas twisted my...

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