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Best Paternalistic Poems

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


Paternalistic Bond: From Childhood To Adulthood
In silted apron blossoms baby
Incubating heat fondles canopy
From leafy trellis sprouts progeny
With briny tears, warmth grows quickly

Acorn melded to fertile tree
Succoring streams flow freely
Ballasted perch...

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Categories: paternalistic, allegory, caregiving, childhood,
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: paternalistic, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Daily Show and Tell
Dear Toni,

I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.

I'm also not sure where we...

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Categories: paternalistic, family, health, humor, patriotic,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Life Through a Thousand Deaths
Here life waits
with a thousand little discontinuous deaths, again,
right here in The Evolving Self's
sixth principle of preferable options for more humane revolutions
of evolution,
lurking behind Mihaly...

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Categories: paternalistic, blessing, freedom, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Sacred Spacemaking
Dear Neighbors,
community co-investors,
sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons
and an indoor
historical CommonSpace

Both, and all, sacred
to panentheistic me
and probably more mundanely secular
to monoculturing LeftBrain dominant
verbally rationalistic
you

And yet,...

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Categories: paternalistic, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Premium Member The Senior Luncheon
YouthGroup interviews WiseElder lunch crowd

Notes:

(1) What do you recommend for improving our long-term health prospects?

Question met with quiet,
not smug,
possibly embarrassed?
amusement.


Honey,
I'm eighty years old.
My goal is...

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Categories: paternalistic, age, childhood, health, meaningful,
Form: Political Verse
Perpendicular Identity
You stand tall and erect,
strutting about in your pretty peacock
liberal orthodoxy
Aristocratic academia
dressed in silken plumes of rainbow diversity
Boasting that you stand upright,
	ready to fight ...
Champion...

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Categories: paternalistic, political, social, symbolism, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Nationalist Committee Problems
A problem for more successful Nazi leaders
during the early exterminating 1940s
was what would they be
should they no longer have any reason to war against
the soon...

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Categories: paternalistic, earth, health, humor, success,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Blue Witness
As she lays down her blue brush
in a blue-trimmed cream 
dream stone basin 
of darkening water rush

She realizes
inside voice has been thinking
about double negative paradox
as...

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Categories: paternalistic, art, health, history, humanity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Pronoia Dialogues
What about you?
Is there anything you've been working on
for many centuries?

Well, as a son of Father Sun,
I have been moving toward family and tribal justice
within...

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Categories: paternalistic, creation, god, health, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Gods For Power
If God
and gods
and other paternal powers
resource love,
and not hate

And if we believe
that love fades
with encroaching fear

Which can overwhelm 
personal
and professional
and economic
and local
through global 
therapeutic,
and not...

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Categories: paternalistic, courage, earth, god, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The Best Vodka
Voting is the best vodka
******* ever drank
Gave 'em equality liquor dreams,
had 'em thinking they're something that they ain't
At least not in the eyes
of non-polite alt...

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Categories: paternalistic, black african american, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Slice and Dicey Ecofeminists
We could invite many ways
to slice and dice the prism
EcoFeminist.

I first ran into this label
when spoken by a sexual advocate
in the early 70s
at the University...

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Categories: paternalistic, earth, education, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Life and Death Rights
Liberal lovers
claim maternal rights 
to reproductive powers of yes and no,
maybe and not yet lives.

While conservative haters
demand paternalistic rights
to purchase and bear deproductive automated powers...

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Categories: paternalistic, abortion, health, humanity, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Paternal Storms
To Husserl's phenomena,
enchanting and disenchanting
healthy and pathological
and all colors in-between,
We might remedially add relationships,
cooperative and competitive
and all hues and cries in-between

To play our LeftEgo with...

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Categories: paternalistic, birth, history, integrity, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs