Best Functioning Poems
Below are the all-time best Functioning poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of functioning poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Functioning PsychopathEmotion has no place in the operating room, emotion cost lives.
Every time emotion comes into play, patients needlessly die.
In the operating room I am an...
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Categories:
functioning, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Just Another Medical IssueThey say it all makes sense now.
All these medical oddities I've experienced at such a young age.
My doctor insists that things have to...
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Categories:
functioning, april, emotions, health, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 7
Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 7
Janushirasana – Knee- Head Pose
In praise of Janushirasana
There are many Asanas
And postures in Yoga
Full of...
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Categories:
functioning, art, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
The Dying WaspShe vibrates, a chassis minus shock absorption.
A painting, the nude descends a staircase,
rings of Saturn etched in a vacuum tube.
Or Eniac of twisted cords and...
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Categories:
functioning, insect, technology,
Form:
Imagism
Mental IllnessMENTAL ILLNESS
Mental Illness is a sickness of the mind.
It’s the sickness that rarely crosses our minds,
yet, it covers a wide range of conditions of the...
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Categories:
functioning, mental illness, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Quintessential PlaceholdersYin/Yang
Ch'ang as "Constant"
natural law of growth and decay
yanging and yinning,
logically necessary alternation of opposites
universally permacultural law: exterior nature as inner conscience communicant
Interior Landscape of eco-Ch'ang...
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Categories:
functioning, culture, language, math, nature,
Form:
Free verse
I Have AutismI have autism, mild MR, and OCD. I had those mental disabilities since I was three years
old. Even though I'm autistic, I'm still functioning just...
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Categories:
functioning,
Form:
Epic
Diana, Nature's GuardianDiana, Nature’s Guardian
Defending purity, virtues, by preordained, destine.
With faithful diligence I oversee all life that’s birthed.
Celebrating nature as its radiant guardian
Fulfilling life’s desire...
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Categories:
functioning, natureworld, me,
Form:
Quatrain
The Lost SummerFrom June to September
I cannot remember
A damn thing that I did
What took me over
Was a monster called Bipolar
Which escaped from the shadows where it hid
And...
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Categories:
functioning, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental
Form:
Rhyme
In the BeginningIn the beginning God created the heavens and earth
And some think it all came by chance, what a big mirth
That life arose by itself from...
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Categories:
functioning, birth, christian, creation, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Six Brothers In HarmonyEvery one of my five brothers
and I strive to create harmony.
Our lives are lived in parallel
yet at times we work alone.
Other times we play well...
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Categories:
functioning, brother, music, together,
Form:
Sestina
Should You Leave MeYou are the curve starting my smile,
the infectiousness in my laughter,
the glint in my fulfilled eyes and
the wonder that turns me little girl-shy.
You gather...
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Categories:
functioning, angst, break up, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry StewPoetry stew.
My poetry stew has ingredients of goo
The ass end of a warm drink
The chaser for an anti depressant capsule
A five o' clock shadow
A...
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Categories:
functioning, beauty, depression, drink, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Love CanLove will crown you yet because Love Can
At the same time, it will also crucify you!
Love as sweet as honey was transformed into a closet...
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Categories:
functioning, love,
Form:
Free verse
AspA-s-p are three high-functioning letters
And while I imagine that some might do better
Here are some ways to bring them together
At the start of...
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Categories:
functioning, humorous, word play, words,
Form:
Light Verse