Best Civilizing Poems
Below are the all-time best Civilizing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of civilizing poems written by PoetrySoup members
Civilizing SavagesI stumbled over Paul Tillich's translation
of the MessiahMentor's Other Great Commission.
The Great Commission we learned in Sunday School
was to go out and convert the barbarians
and...
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Categories:
civilizing, bible, birth, creation, earth,
Form:
Political Verse
Trump: Persistently Steamy PoetryBy: Moji Agha -- June 24, 2016 -- Tucson, Arizona
Last dusk at a small Tucson park, my 3-year-old dear friend, Rafi,
insisted unhesitatingly on imitating, no,...
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Categories:
civilizing, anxiety, conflict, earth, funny,
Form:
Political Verse
Humanity- -Humanity - tormentor of my dreams
I discovered the people diverse the scream
Limitlessness - limitlessness - limitlessness!
My ephemerality I could not awaken limitlessness
Take thy transcendence from...
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Categories:
civilizing, anxiety, assonance, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Transcending Boundaries To TrashTranscending boundaries to trash
transacts through vulnerabilities to crash
into compost cash.
I see and feel strange conjoining
curious listening to speak with old as young.
We carry less allegiance...
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Categories:
civilizing, age, gender, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
Categories:
civilizing, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Rumi's Advice To EmersonI am the product of Rumi's advice to Emerson and Thoreau,
telling them to consolidate the spirit of compassion and truth in America
wisdom of Persians, layers...
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Categories:
civilizing, america, freedom, political,
Form:
Free verse
Bullets In the Soup PotBULLETS IN THE SOUP POT
I
BEFORE THE MIRROR
Sometimes, I sit on my sofa
Pondering on why war, poverty, hatred
and anguish has become a comforting bliss.
They say life...
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Categories:
civilizing, depression, fear, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Im GoodOur the knives not sharpened since long,
Or they have missed my Achilles,
May be my heart have pumped some valor,
Have I become a saint?
Since I’m aloof,...
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Categories:
civilizing, blessing, cheer up, growing
Form:
Sonnet
Employment TraumaMy protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He...
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Categories:
civilizing, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health,
Form:
Political Verse
For CarolynSomething prodigiously deep, profoundly placed on the mind
Do not pick it up in a rush ... for often we see better when
No light impale the...
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Categories:
civilizing, dedication, on writing and
Form:
Verse
God First AppearancesAfter
The retreat
Of the last cubic ice
The fire
Discovery,
And after,
Thousands of years
Of
Iron
Bronze
And tools
Testing.
After
The first form
Of calligraphic concrete was poured
After thousand of years of
Earth quakes,
Volcanic eruption,
And...
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Categories:
civilizing, art, inspirational, love, passion,
Form:
I do not know?
Healthier Democratic Days and NightsIn good government sectors,
Inside capital-driven outside energized urban environments,
In healthy cooperative societies,
In proper green-civilizing schools,
and domestically robust economies,
Outer boundary views
remain openly and resiliently cooperative,
while less...
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Categories:
civilizing, community, conflict, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Liberal Leftwings of FlightIt has been said
Charles Darwin was not happy
with leftbrain's Survival of the Fittest
without rightbrain's ecosystemic health roots
in Thrival of the Fit-in-ingest,
Which Bateson,
and other systemic ecologists,...
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Categories:
civilizing, appreciation, art, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
When Hope SingsWhen I am a healthy Norwich person
I hope to feel warm and joyful gratitude
for compassionate nonviolent communicators
past and present
With cooperatively nonpartisan
bipartisan
dipolar co-arising transportive projects
programs
processes
Voiced choices
to...
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Categories:
civilizing, earth, health, integrity, muse,
Form:
Political Verse
Categories:
civilizing, war,
Form:
Free verse