Unconventional Poems | Examples

Unconventional

    Pomp and Circumstance

      Pageantry’s paranoia

    Who can’t see through it

An Unconventional Perk

       ~ Four-Line Limerick ~

   A soda jerk I knew at work
   offered customers an unconventional perk
 
   When he pulled the handle on the Coke
     ~ Their seats would swivel, their rear ends twerk

The Unconventional Conflict

The brew in Mid East
Is a high back that trigger,
Being cook bigger.

Unconventional Love

You say you love me and yet
I feel you hardly know me

I say I love you and yet
I feel an aching emptiness within
and fail to have a sense of ‘we’

It’s curious and odd to think we are in love
when we have no clue where this can lead
even stranger is how we are ok with that

Somehow we’re defining and redefining love
as we try to understand what’s become of us



AP: 3rd place 2025

Do the Unconventional

Trapped behind a desk, first at school, then at work
    Why on earth are folks such awful jerks
  If we didn't like school, why continue to suffer
    Just because some boss made a great offer?  

  Rebel! Break out! Do the unconventional!
    Find a pursuit that's completely unmentionable
  Spend a year searching for the 'missing link'
    Move to the equator, build an ice-skating rink

  Heed my advice, friend, and you'll never be sorry
    Ta-ta and good luck! ~ Time for my noonday safari

An Unconventional Marriage

Jan and Nan were not just twins but best friends,
so when Stan got down on one knee, he got
not one, but two, to say “I do.” Some thought
him blessed; some found it strange, but Stan thought he
got a good deal: two for the price of one.
Til the day Ole Stan made one wife cry and
met the wrath of two. Jan and Nan said Stan
ran. But no one could ever be sure. The truth
is, though, that Stan did could not leave town ‘cause
he lies deep in the ground by the old cow
barn where the twins milk the cows each day. They
tell them to be strong and not take any bull,
then they smile and go in and leave the cows
to trod on top of Stan, who got his due.

An Unconventional Valentine

Let me contrast you with a rose in bloom
Whose unfurled buds exude a sweet perfume.
Eternal token of romantic zeal
On lease from heaven with a loving seal.

You, in comparison, with beard untrimmed,
Complexion florid and your vision dimmed,
Have no external beauty to extol;
Possession of long life must take its toll.

Not always temperate your moods break through
And like a rose you can be prickly too.
But though a shade of what you used to be,
You're worth your weight in gold to me!


16.08.19


'A summer's day re-do poetry contest sponsored by Michelle Faulkner

 (obligatory words used : temperate, buds, lease, possession, heaven, complexion, eternal, gold, untrimmed, shade)

Unconventional

Unconventional is how we first met,
Unconventional is what we are.
Walls were surrounding me, yet
You still tried to crash them.

Brute force was your might,
While quiet reserve was mine,
For some reason I was in your sight,
You resolved to make me yours.

Unconventional was what you tried,
Unconventional was just our way.
Unconventional meant having to bide
Your beastly modus operandi.

Unconventional meant that you needed 
To quit trying to crash through my walls.
Unconventional involved unimpeded
Ways to make me acknowledge you.

You abstained from mightily crashing
And instead started chipping away 
Little by little, no matter my lashing.
How could I know where we would end?

You soon became my best friend.
Soon after, I fell in head over heels,
Love, then I was your girlfriend.
From there, it seemed so simple.

Simple is not us though is it?
Simple went for a dive out a 
Window. Here is I now sit,
Wondering who we are.

Unconventional has been our life.
Unconventional no matter the strife.
Unconventional I am as your loving wife,
Unconventional is why I love you.

Unconventional Mingling

unconventional 
mingling which 
deviated from 
the norm created 
atypical interactions
in which the uncharacteristic 
irregularity became normal 
standard even within the 
land of relationships past

Unconventional Royalty

Canine the king and Feline the queen
Were not quite birds of a feather
In fact they fought like cats and dogs
When they were reigning together!

One dark night Feline ran away
Canine was real mad about that
He caught up to her the next day
They all said, “He's quick as a cat”

He barked at her, “I am the king”
“Bow down to me now on that mat”
That's when all of her claws came out
She said, “We'll just see about that!”

She fought him like a bear they say
And for Canine it was a loss
Don't underestimate the Queen
Or she might be your bear to cross

Unconventional Warfare

A convention of unconventional warfare
It’s the Olympics of BS, the mind boggles
Unrelenting coverage; I try not to stare
Through my thick, round minion goggles

Slogans chanted numbly trump reality
Still, there are three sides to every story
Windmills fall; eclipse goes to totality
Attention shoppers, Kool-Aid spill on aisle three

I’m trying to grasp, the mindset eludes
That would make you cheer deliriously
Reality, as it’s wont, invariably intrudes
While they wink conspiratorially

And speaking of warfare, it seems I’ve heard
Special ops uses aerosolized narcotics
So instead of feeding us the national turd
Give the politicians aerosolized antipsychotics

7/28/16

Unconventional Lovers

Pillows and blankets
Shaped in a 'V',
Bottles and pills
In a wrapper-filled sea.

Drool on our faces
Clothes on the ceiling.
These are the nights
My heart is healing.

My head on your feet
Your toes in my hair,
A repulsive aroma
Sweetens the air.

It's the puddle of glop
Is that yours or mine?
It doesn't matter
We'll both decline.

Though we both know it's yours
You somehow persuade,
And I clean up the mess
You swiftly evade.

I open the blinds
To see what we've missed,
You gripe and you grumble
But comply when you're kissed.

An hour to be active
Before it's once again night,
An hour to argue
And tickle and fight.

All showered and groomed
Clothes still on the ceiling,
These are the days
My heart is healing.

The sky turns to black
From the momentary blue,
But my day isn't wasted
When I'm wasting with you.

Unconventional Bride

From a distance, she sees
the groom in sweat;
moist with tears,
his lips tremble.
At the pace of voices,
she marches;
line of gazes: her path.

The contrast of white
against red;
petals are swept
by her trail.
Behind the lace
she gets a glimpse 
of tomorrow
and yesterday.

She kisses her mother, who smiles;
as well as her father, who cries.
Then she reaches the arms
of the man:
august in coat and tie.

Together, they walk the road
made of velvet and wilted rose:
This day, they may be them,
but later, they will be one.

This moment, though, 
makes her break;
and mourn like facing death,
for the image of bells and doves

is a mere illusion in her mind.

Today, the coil will be worn,
though not by the lady
in this poem.
For she is the one
in the weathered bench
sitting together
with the wedding guests.

Unconventional War......

Demi-gods,directives in whispers
pact made in secrecy,done indiscreetly

Originally defiled,by those whom beguiled
enslave those of light,to serve their might

Brood of the past in constant war
mandated slaughter of each,'till no more

Nature of nature in opposition
each in force gaining position...........

Unconventional God

the One Omnipotent God

does unconventional things

and many out there agree

until they find out that it means

His ways are passed finding out

but if we will simply obey

the world will see what God does

and hear what God has to say



{Bridge}

So who directs God's Spirit to do as they feel 

He's the One who leads and guides and goes where He wills

Teaching us as we follow Christ we become unpredictable

Getting to know Him, doing exploits, strong and unconventional 



Would you do what Jesus did?

Would you say what Jesus said?

If you could see and hear your Father

Be so unpredictable

Would you do it how He did it?

Would you say it how He said it?

If you could see and hear your Father

Be so unconventional  [Chorus]



those full of the Spirit of God

do unconventional things

and many out there agree

until they find out that it means

His thoughts are not their thoughts

His ways are not their ways

and those God directs perform

and speak like Jesus does and says

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