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Best Imperative Poems

Below are the all-time best Imperative poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of imperative poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Where Self Love Is Born
a fantasy land
dreamt up by sleeping child
a peaceful magical place
where self-love is born
imperative to her soul...

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Categories: imperative, love, self,
Form: Choka



Premium Member The Old Bear
The Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
    as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a...

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Categories: imperative, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Night Stanza
You called me "baby"
When your eyes streaked
In nudist dialect
Upon my strength

You begged to engorge
My palms
With cinnamon scented lotion

Taking me into melancholic forest
To sacrifice your shedding,...

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Categories: imperative, life, lust, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gun Shy
If guns don’t kill people 
Why are so many people dead
Another moms child 
shot in the head
Blackboards white chalk
splattered in Red
A teacher killed
For something she...

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Categories: imperative, america, angst, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Three Questions
To make changes in life for the better
No matter what condition we are faced with
Quite often urged by friends with good intentions
“Trust God.” “Just pray...

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Categories: imperative, upliftinglife, trust,
Form: Free verse



Long Distance Love Letter
My Darling Man:

My heart demands I share my emotions tonight, despite the affection and news I mailed in my earlier write.

I shall share with sentimental...

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Categories: imperative, longing, love, missing,
Form: Free verse
No Set Future
As I pass through time
in my physical vessel
I connect the rhymes,
balancing them on my mind's trestle.

My consciousness detaches
from emotion and commotion
and intricately latches
onto an outstanding,...

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Categories: imperative, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imperative, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Freeborn
FREEBORN

Now ‘cross the fields and woods bird songs ring out
Unbounded exultation to survive
Their voices each a freeborn joyous shout

‘I am still here, a presence, had...

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Categories: imperative, bird, life,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Death Comes
Death Comes

All arguments and denials were fruitless;
The deceased fell prey to the Master Thief.

The “One” whose icy-cold touch is . . .
Just Too Cold to...

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Categories: imperative, change, dark, death, horror,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Cleverness of That Young Traveler
Once his brown alpargata shoes trod countless miles,
imagination burst from his vivid, traveler's eyes...
He traversed valleys leading to azure mountains,
and heard a chant sung with...

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Categories: imperative, life, nature, nostalgia, peoplewords,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member The Sun Shines On the Righteous
The morality of justice 
     is the light of righteousness.
     Its virtue rises not 
  ...

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Categories: imperative, humanity, religious,
Form: Free verse
Suffer the Little Children
Suffer the little children that hide their pain
For these innocent victims, who’s to blame?

Although many a tragedy happen at home
Society, itself, inflicts harsh pains of...

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Categories: imperative, childhoodchildren, children,
Form: Rhyme
Judge the Poem
A colorful tapestry is every life
Painted in shades of fun and strife.
Every vivid shade of a bright tomorrow
Enhanced in depth by hues of sorrow.

Therefore it...

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Categories: imperative, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
The Universe Is Immense
How many people with foreboding palpitations
have I seen slip from middle age and slide into old age?
They slither into their last refuge, the dirt hole,
and...

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Categories: imperative, death, life, metaphor, peace,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs