Short Subversive Poems

society’s scars
subversive subtlety---
soulless spirits seek

© Harry J Horsman  2011...

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It cannot really be too smart 
even if it knows your last cart;
A.I’s subversive,
just write in cursive;
Computers won’t know where to start....

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Are you the movie or the commercial,
the story or its cost

The question quite subversive
—in its drama most are lost

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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Contrived to be relevant
An extreme subversive 
of distorted concoctions
While having his stricken soul bare
And denigrated to a faceless crone
For his vicissitudes are an improbable casualty
Of a broken soul.......

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When I am old
I won't sit in a rocker
next to a window
watching the world pass by;
remembering the way things used to be,
wondering where years have gone
while eating a dinner of toast and tea.
Oh no, I will not do THAT... for
I intend to be a subversive senior!!...

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CONCEPTUALISTA
impenetrable
  fascinations
signified
ever
 in transition
of the trivial
visions
  validated
with
  unnerving
    perverse
provocations
 subversive
    & startling
extremes

generated
 to view
    inspire
      awaken
        surprise
 of
one mind
  into another
...

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Quarrelsome Questions

    quickly quirky quips
    quash quandaries quietly
    quells querulous qualms

    Right Results

    rapid repartee
    repress rhetorical rants
    ribs rabble - rousers

    Sweet Success

    swiftly satires skill
    silences sophistries spin
    stuns subversive scorn

    8 / 4 / 2020....

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Poet's Notes: A dead drop is a USB port embedded in a wall in a public area.  In is not connected to the Internet. People can come by and leave files on it or read what others have uploaded. It is a subversive way to share poetry, local music, and messages. 

Strange way to find love
Subversively romantic
Dead drop file transfer...

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I thought about thinking, pure meta-cognition
Reflective, reflection, creative ignition
So, breaking the lock, I slip into the engine
Subversive, cerebral, divine intervention
I arrive not in light but perpetual pain
I suppose this psychosis I chose is the same
As the beast in the mirror, mirror image of me
That I see softly sway from a branch on a tree....

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Cast in the shadows
Lost in the deep
Are suicidal thoughts
Merely for the weak

Mired in subversive thought
In waves of despair
Is a longing for nurture
In the fruits that we bear

Distanced from a reality
That may never be
Lies a broken angel
So blinded by hate it cannot see

Cradled in pestilence
Sloth spreads like mold
Death become imminent
As frost surrounds the soul...

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There’s nothing sylvan
about the Ivy League
Subversive in nature
all take and no give
In period camouflage
they feign to belong
Their hatchlings abhorrent
together they throng

Our country’s traditions
they chop on the block
What many have died for
their travesty mocks
And living entitled
they suck and they draw
Rewriting our history
—their lies become law

(The New Room: October, 2023)...

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A soul in flames daunting the discordant canvas, eradicating the supreme veil. To be 
drenched in apathy coincides inversely with the stench of a bitter legacy. Severed 
souls search asunder for a subversive scent, only to be oppressed in an overt art. 
Begging death for a drenching darkness to obliterate this dire desolation. Complete 
in nocturne this grotesque being of infinite hate commands coercively....

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B eginning of the end if they are allowed to exist
A nnihilation of our rights if we try to resist
N ot allowing terrorists more than a slap on the wrist

T rying to destroy the American way
H arboring criminals. Make honest citizens pay
E nding the freedoms that we know today

A nti-American subversive organization
C ommunist, Fascist, disrupting the nation
L ies and deception, their aspiration
U surping the constitution, their destination....

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Hearing subversive, oft-hand remark,
Callously spreading rumor on a lark.
Silhouette of angst o'er mind parks.
Deceitful soul's vast refuge a bulwark,
keeping mind's sentient eye in the dark,
Still short-sighted vision veils a quark,
But to dry, subliminal tinder won't hark.
Fueled consciences' flint strikes spark,
Fanning winds o'er tender psyche arc.
Singeing flame peels soul's, dense bark;
Contrasting light to mind painfully stark




quark: elementary particles having electric charges...

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