"individualists" poems - Hello Poetry

Where has our honesty gone? The world is spinning out of perspective Individualists More like conventionalists Wanting to be a free soul Instead, we’re losing control How do we define different? “Different A pseudo-polite way of saying something is unpleasantly weird or unacceptable” [www.urbandictionary.com] What about individual? “individual Individual's may actually conform, just to prove that they are individual from other individuals... There is no definition of an individual, for to define an individual is hideously oxymoronic.” [www.urbandictionary.com] All of these rules and ideologies Which become more like mythologies Giving us a…what… purpose? Because without one were all worthless? How does the media propel Drive some great minds down to hell But wait, sometimes those scars Are not the real person they are What about the girl next door Is she perfect? Or is she a ***** How come the prepped up **** Gets a thousand girls to put his **** -Y attitude towards What about all those hipsters “individualists” in all their glister PROTOTYPES We are always followed “To be, or not to be” Now THAT is a real question Why cant we all just BE F R E E Within our own minds Refuse ourselves to be confined But no matter where we go The world will be a tv show [scripted and masked] Because the crazy professor who screamed in the crowd Did a small scene from a movie out loud And the individualist across the street Got her haircut from Georgia O’deet While the artist down the road Saw his painting when it snowed Though its obvious we refuse to admit defeat Individual doesn’t march to its own beat

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Nov 7, 2011

Nov 7, 2011 at 1:42 PM UTC

bam

conformists.

Where has our honesty gone? The world is spinning out of perspective Individualists More like conventionalists Wanting to be a free soul Instead, we’re losing control How do we define different? “Different A pseudo-polite way of saying something is unpleasantly weird or unacceptable” [www.urbandictionary.com] What about individual? “individual Individual's may actually conform, just to prove that they are individual from other individuals... There is no definition of an individual, for to define an individual is hideously oxymoronic.” [www.urbandictionary.com] All of these rules and ideologies Which become more like mythologies Giving us a…what… purpose? Because without one were all worthless? How does the media propel Drive some great minds down to hell But wait, sometimes those scars Are not the real person they are What about the girl next door Is she perfect? Or is she a ***** How come the prepped up **** Gets a thousand girls to put his **** -Y attitude towards What about all those hipsters “individualists” in all their glister PROTOTYPES We are always followed “To be, or not to be” Now THAT is a real question Why cant we all just BE F R E E Within our own minds Refuse ourselves to be confined But no matter where we go The world will be a tv show [scripted and masked] Because the crazy professor who screamed in the crowd Did a small scene from a movie out loud And the individualist across the street Got her haircut from Georgia O’deet While the artist down the road Saw his painting when it snowed Though its obvious we refuse to admit defeat Individual doesn’t march to its own beat

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XXXVII PAR(R)APHRASES TO BE ENGRAVED IN BRONZE 1 The future A time bomb 2 Consumerism A snake That swallows its tail 3 A lot of talk about human rights Little almost nothing about human responsibilities Number one human responsibility To respect human rights 4 Return to democracy for what To see the same film over again? NO: To see if we can save the planet Without democracy nothing is saved 5 Third and final call Individualists of the world unite Before it's too late ----- --- ----- XLV ULTIMATUM Either they draw up once and for all The encyclical letter on survival Or I'll have to put it in writing myself Weeps at the top of his voice Your Lord Jesus Christ Of Elqui Domingo Zárate Vega Alias the eco loco of the north Hurry up! There are eternities but not so many The planet can't take it any more

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Mar 10, 2019

Mar 10, 2019 at 4:44 AM UTC

jiminy-littly

Two poems by Nicanor Parra

XXXVII PAR(R)APHRASES TO BE ENGRAVED IN BRONZE 1 The future A time bomb 2 Consumerism A snake That swallows its tail 3 A lot of talk about human rights Little almost nothing about human responsibilities Number one human responsibility To respect human rights 4 Return to democracy for what To see the same film over again? NO: To see if we can save the planet Without democracy nothing is saved 5 Third and final call Individualists of the world unite Before it's too late ----- --- ----- XLV ULTIMATUM Either they draw up once and for all The encyclical letter on survival Or I'll have to put it in writing myself Weeps at the top of his voice Your Lord Jesus Christ Of Elqui Domingo Zárate Vega Alias the eco loco of the north Hurry up! There are eternities but not so many The planet can't take it any more

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you and i are like anarchy overthrowing the constraints of previous hearts breathtakingly free and terrifying lawless unbridled dangerous you and i are like anarchy ridiculed and rejected for being foolish and torn apart by human nature you and i are like anarchy individualists alone but mutualists together perilously and constantly on the brink of collapse waiting for the other to pull away and leave us in ruins you and i are like anarchy because we only work in theory

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Nov 6, 2013

Nov 6, 2013 at 10:23 AM UTC

mal

you and i (a terrible metaphor)

you and i are like anarchy overthrowing the constraints of previous hearts breathtakingly free and terrifying lawless unbridled dangerous you and i are like anarchy ridiculed and rejected for being foolish and torn apart by human nature you and i are like anarchy individualists alone but mutualists together perilously and constantly on the brink of collapse waiting for the other to pull away and leave us in ruins you and i are like anarchy because we only work in theory

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individualists, freaks, eccentric, ****** oddball, offbeat, loser, not in clique, we must be outsiders all

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May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017 at 10:53 PM UTC