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Best Nonviolent Poems

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


Premium Member Violence
Criminal reform - we think of those who deserve a second chance or are caught in a system where they can never make headway, or...

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Categories: nonviolent, america, anger, corruption, violence,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Building Tension
Written: February 15, 2024
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I ultimately rule over these...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonviolent, analogy, anger, mystery, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Math Problems
The problem of PolyNomials,
equivalent or not?
with Not PolyNomials
hides a geometric bilateral 
not-no means yes 
polynomial assumption
that was profoundly channeled by ZeroCentric Bucky Fuller.

1 Polynomial v...

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Categories: nonviolent, dark, humor, integrity, math,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Calls of Humanity
Calls of Humanity




Denial to live a full and free life,
Segregation on creed, colour black or white,
How much tolerance must have been,
A call for human dignity...

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Categories: nonviolent, black african american, rights,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member In Our Town
In my town
the spiritual warriors conjoined our nature conservancy advocates,
our homeless entertainers
mystics and muses 
incarnated all the green organic dreams 
of the food righteousness brigade,

Eternal...

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Categories: nonviolent, community, culture, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Whole Earth Patriotism
What is patriotism?

Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority.
Maybe superior health care integrity?

What is nationalism?

Usually positive values about monocultural 
monotheistic
monopolistic identity,
but I guess...

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Categories: nonviolent, beauty, culture, growth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Enlightening Systems
"Overcoming misleading [economic and political] metaphors
that are physically [naturally, ecosystemically, phylogenically] in [and of] 
your [ecological-organic embodied] brain
is never easy."
     ...

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Categories: nonviolent, blessing, humor, math, mentor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member New Neighbors
I am just finishing my morning meditation when I hear my doorbell ring. It actually sounds more like that buzzing sound you hear if you...

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Categories: nonviolent, depression, family, funny love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member That Gratitude Attitude
Gratitude
A co-empathic sense of trust,
awe,
appreciation of echo-resonant
deep-listening resolving life.

Gratitude 
Autumnal taproot harvesting spring-hope,
just as summer's nutritional maturation
unfolds Origin of fertile decomposing mindfulness.

Gratitude
Why Thich Nhat Hanh...

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Categories: nonviolent, beauty, culture, happiness, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hokey-Pokey Taoist Dance
What goes up
must come down.
What goes out
must come in.
What goes before
must have also come behind.
What folds
must unfold.
When time is knotted
it must unknot.
When space explains radiantly
convexly
then...

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Categories: nonviolent, joy, love, math, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Uniting States of Wisdom
We have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and...

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Categories: nonviolent, culture, earth, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Birmingham Intuition
If this be my last
nonviolent “Sit In” chance,
well then, “so be it!”

For “From a Birmingham Jail” contest...

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Categories: nonviolent, inspirational, visionary
Form: Senryu
Premium Member This Passionate Moment
Red hot and cool Green peace
passions bring us to this sacred 
synergetic EarthTime

More dialogue regenerative
when cooperative
so more redundantly competitive
when endless debate degenerative

Less producing fruit
of Future's...

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Categories: nonviolent, caregiving, culture, earth day,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Patriotic Rhythm and Blues
If you believe professional athletes
should punch their Free Speech Rights out
when they punch in their employment clock,

Why is it fair
to also believe
you have not twittered...

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Categories: nonviolent, bullying, earth, gospel, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Education As If All Deaths Matter
Political Science of Eco-Educational Vocations

Really? That’s my topic?
Didn’t Paulo Freire already do this one?

Oh, I see..ecosystemic learning and mentoring,
including pedagogical development systems
doing the best we...

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Categories: nonviolent, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs