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Best Directive Poems

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Premium Member A Directive To Be
In leaving God 
The west got
Lost
The rest of 
History will
Tell great loss
A world of
Sorrows
And spiritual
Costs...

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Categories: directive, endurance, god, loss, missing,
Form: Rhyme



The Prime Directive Quiz ( P D Q ) Or Prolix Drama Queen Part Three of Three
‘Cause, Priests and Prophets Must Pray for The Reign…
and for Pre and Post-Op-Apocalyptic–Novocain ! …

Yet… It Doesn’t Matter, What Distress to You
 On the Planet,...

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Categories: directive, allegory, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Six-Word Couplet Series
Hard To Recognize
America's face, battered ...
Freedom's image, shattered.



Feeding Frenzy Fodder
Foundations of Democracy,
Shredded with hypocrisy.



Party Over People
Lady Liberty's fears,
Weeping rusty tears.



Truth Will Out
Veracity's tempest blows ...
Treachery's...

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Categories: directive, america, appreciation, corruption, humanity,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Midst Enthralling Sunset Delight
Here am I enthralled by sunset delight
while beholding celestial beauty blend with horizon's majestic sight 
in letting go of this day's triumph as well as...

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Categories: directive, appreciation, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love of Mother
Mother’s love … beauty of great excellence
Virtuous midst legacy’s prevalence
The best of human’s care-superlative
Expressing sublime kind heart’s directive.

Mom’s warm, sweet caress --- graciously tender
Soothes child,...

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Categories: directive, appreciation, beauty, encouraging, mother,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Director
Looking out through the panes
        of the window of time
     The curtains pulled back
...

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Categories: directive, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Functional Disorientation
At times, I let disorientation-exercise to be on the loose
Allowing mind toward relaxation-muse 
Imagining bursting colors of varied hues
Creating designs from beauty-clues
Brightly transforming frustration blues.

Awesome...

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Categories: directive, character, cheer up, christian,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Watering Terror
I'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time, 
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a...

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Categories: directive, anger, destiny, fear, hate,
Form: Epic
Ipad
This new technology 
Part of our essence 
Part of our physiology 
An inseparable alliance 

It wakes us up in the morning 
It tells us when...

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© Raj Napal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: directive, computer, culture, games, science,
Form: Rhyme
Simple and Consistent Truths
Disregarding time and circumstance, 
we must acknowledge ourselves as a series of simple and consistent truths, 
each one its own narrative of raw emotion. 
With...

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Categories: directive, conflict, destiny, hero, magic,
Form: Free verse
Dear Mom
Dear Mom:  

It was hard to understand,
The love you had for me. 
So I took the hand, 
Of a boy. 
Trusting in him, 
Only...

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Categories: directive, addiction, christian, death, growth,
Form: Rhyme
A Thought From Our Maker
There lay no death down below,
Endless oblivion, the song of the bone,
A path towards nowhere, where stories unfold,
The visions of the dead, a memory untold.

Ancient...

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Categories: directive, death, dream, freedom, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Only God Knows and Time Will Tell
Must I uphold my Prime Directive, 
Conjecture of pressure- 
The correct Direction? 
And would my Mind pass inspection; 
Is my Fate my own Objective? 
Catharsis...

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Categories: directive, change, god, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member "give Slam a Ham"
I know little of poet, Sam Slam,
But give him a slice of poet I am.
Of the prime directive,
I am over protective,
So slam your gums down,...

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Categories: directive, funny, love
Form: Limerick
The Illusion of Knowledge
This quaint perspective
Is quite selective,
Quite often, 
Giving anger and hatred the directive.

Habitual surrender 
To a pretender;
In certain circles an offender.
These days, too few of these...

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© Chad Greef  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: directive, beautiful, community, confusion, crazy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things