Best Operative Poems
Below are the all-time best Operative poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of operative poems written by PoetrySoup members
ZebraAllow altruistic artistry among ailing american adversaries.
Bartering begins before begging beasts break brothers.
Capture calamity controlling catastrophe calming castration.
Dedicate decisions directed down dreary deaf disillusionment.
Eradicate equality...
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Categories:
operative, parody, people, social, kindergarten,
Form:
ABC
SixpenceOur Christmas dinner was served,
With traditional veggies and meat,
It’s a roast with the usual crackle,
Plus gravy to make it complete.
And then it is time for...
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Categories:
operative, christmas, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Prurient InterestsLast evening I noticed another disconcerting Trump headline.
This felt and smelled more like a deadline
for disintegration
than a lifeline,
a bootstrap, if you will,
toward integrity of health...
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Categories:
operative, culture, drug, fear, health,
Form:
Political Verse
A Right To LiveA right to free movement
A right to live
Where we want
Should be our perogative
We should not feel that we can not roam
Or decide to set down...
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Categories:
operative, dream, race, rights, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
GrainsYour soul is wearing a human carcass,
dress it up any way you like
but,
there’s your grain.
There’s your grain
And who imagined its potential?
Insignificant piece of earth
Scratchy little...
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Categories:
operative, philosophy
Form:
Free verse
Splashed Smiles LearningSaving a memory
because laughter splatters
across the room
rolling, clinking,
splashed smiles savored
like wine-mellow
with bursts of flavors
rolled along the tongue
Learning takes place
better when there is
laughter and smiles
invite...
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Categories:
operative, school,
Form:
Free verse
Gps and I Have a Covert RelationshipGPS and I have a covert relationship. She is my operative, I am her mission.
She seeks to get me places I am supposed to be,...
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Categories:
operative, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Narrative
God's Almighty PlanOne sex can't survive without the other
Every living thing must mate with another
Women need a loving man so they can procreate
Love is the operative word...
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Categories:
operative, 10th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Positive Political ProblemsMy fundraising problem with positive psychology,
said the good health doctor,
it is too social science squishy,
not leftbrain dominant enough,
Suspiciously ecofeminist
for natural science pathologists
Straight-White privileged proctologists
urologists
bicamerally challenged...
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Categories:
operative, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
New BeginningsToday we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need...
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Categories:
operative, nature, philosophy, political, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
Why LifeWhy does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of...
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Categories:
operative, adventure, earth, earth day,
Form:
Free verse
Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form...
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Categories:
operative, allegory, earth, environment, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Perfect Love, Optimal LifePerfect love is perfection,
it is rare,
if such love exists at all
it must thrive beyond boundaries of my own experience
either receiving,
or giving.
Could this perfection of synergetic...
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Categories:
operative, culture, love, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Chicken Soup FarmRelationships are like farming,
if you don't plant the seed,
you'll have no crop to harvest.
Rumi (M. Mafi, trans.)
Investing is like farming,
if you don't play the game,
you'll...
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Categories:
operative, earth, earth day, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Father Time's Surprising Taoist IntimationsTell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind,
which forms of integrative diversity
incarnate your highest priority,
most comprehensive,
social-political-economic-cultural issues:
1....
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Categories:
operative, analogy, culture, earth, games,
Form:
Narrative