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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


Zebra
Allow 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



Sixpence
Our 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
Premium Member Prurient Interests
Last 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 Live
A 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
Grains
Your 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 Learning
Saving 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
Premium Member Gps and I Have a Covert Relationship
GPS 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
Premium Member God's Almighty Plan
One 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
Premium Member Positive Political Problems
My 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
Premium Member New Beginnings
Today 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
Premium Member Why Life
Why 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
Premium Member Father Time's Interview
Hi.
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
Premium Member Perfect Love, Optimal Life
Perfect 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
Premium Member Chicken Soup Farm
Relationships 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
Premium Member Father Time's Surprising Taoist Intimations
Tell 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

Book: Shattered Sighs