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Best Potentiality Poems

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


Premium Member Forecast
Today ...
Today the sun shined ...
Horizon-to-horizon it warmed, marrow and moat,
Tickling those things below that wait patiently for a turning.

     ...

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Categories: potentiality, analogy, life, metaphor, new
Form: Free verse



Conflict of Perception
Conflict of Perception 

I am amazed to see you fight out 
The perception people hold for you 
You do not look like a bright star...

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Categories: potentiality, conflict,
Form: Free verse
The Sacrifice
We have brought this upon ourselves:
This virus, this egregore:
This cult of individuality.

	Our right to die and bring others with us!
Truly an inversion of full potentiality:
	Others...

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Categories: potentiality, america, bible, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Heart Doesnt Know What It Needs
trees dilly-O sing.
mellow skies surmise —
they’re not quite blue, white nor gray.

knocking in front and back —
pileated woodpeckers, shockers
with crests, crafty
to home owls and bats,
like...

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Categories: potentiality, bird, imagery, spring, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Getting Older: a Reason For Celebration
" How old are you, professor?"* 

I turned around trying to locate the student who had
asked this unexpected question.

It was not hard to locate her....

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Categories: potentiality, age, happy, life, old,
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: potentiality, culture, love, nature, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Earth's Final Answer
A society
culture
religion
humane species
forgetting,
or more likely under-valuing,
how to regeneratively suffer loss
may never have learned to face our universal fear of death
as a badge of permaculturing respect,
dignity...

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Categories: potentiality, beauty, earth day, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Consecrated Lords Prayer
Hallowed be thy name "Love", thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is done in heaven. 

Please give unto  me...

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Categories: potentiality, angst, change,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Knowing Hate, Growing Health
He who is contented is rich
He who is determined has strength of will
            ...

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Categories: potentiality, anger, culture, fear, hate,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member So Many Struggles, So Little Time
Why does "sacrilegious"
mean struggling against sacred multicultural experience
rather than struggling with re-ligioning monotheistic divinity
as notnot dualling dividity?

How could prodigal sons and daughters
struggle against their prodigy...

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Categories: potentiality, anger, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Little Bird Told Me - 20 May 2020
Looking at flowers, then leaves, I began to wonder about the roots and seeds. Yes, I thought, that's what I learned in Biology, Botany, Biodiversity...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: potentiality, animal, bird, birth, childhood,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member God Is Humor Sensed
Love wants nothing to do
with the everyday affairs of men.
Love's only intention
is to catch the lover!

Rumi

God wants nothing to do
with the routine affairs of men,
God's...

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Categories: potentiality, confusion, god, humor, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Originality
O often one of a kind
R egularly
I llustrating success
G enerating excellent
I ntuitiveness
N ecessary triumphs
A part from the rest
L istening to potentiality
I nterestingly intended
T o be...

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Categories: potentiality, creation, inspiration,
Form: Acrostic
The Well
A well of crystal clear water, untainted potentiality 
Dug deep in the ground by a house of motionless morality
Refined, dainty dwellers of the house were...

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Categories: potentiality, grief, spiritual, house, fear,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love Prayer
Show me intimately passionate ways
to incarnate political and economic cooperative co-investment
potentiality, regenerative integrity,
show me our climatic ecological outcomes
uniting polycultural polypathic polymorphic paradigms
of Time’s evolving light-love...

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Categories: potentiality, happiness, health, heart, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things