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Best Prescriptive Poems

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


Premium Member Listen To Your Dog
Your dog has an indispensable dispatch,
a critical communique.
Are you listening?

Your dog is howling at sirens,
		          annoying...

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Categories: prescriptive, animal, dog, god, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Reverse Creation
Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise...

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Categories: prescriptive, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member The L Word
Liberal in restoring Love,
Conservatively against retributive Anger and Fear

The L word,
like the N word,
Labels no one with healthy political aspirations would want,
no conservative fellow-conservationist of...

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Categories: prescriptive, culture, destiny, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Games We Play
Yang, dear.

Yes, my lovely Yin.

Why do you map Game Theory
onto EcoFeminist Political Theory?
It comes across as either just confusing
or, even worse,
vaguely sexist.

Really!
How sexist?

Well you seem...

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Categories: prescriptive, birth, games, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Following Earth's Light
Borrowing from David Holmgren, Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond [Win-Elite v Lose-NonElite] Sustainability, 2002, p. 1

Health ethics are Beloved Community normative principles
used to guide action...

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Categories: prescriptive, creation, destiny, earth day,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Terrorist Deserts Into Bountiful Rivers
I'm continuing to read Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
although now with Antonio Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the [WinWin Creolizing-Bilateral] Conscious Brain."

Right now,
Dr....

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Categories: prescriptive, africa, body, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member My White House Interview
I was nervous about my newest client.
Not every Permaculture Designer gets a contract
with the WhiteHouse.
But, when the President called,
or twittered,
for an intake interview,
I guess it...

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Categories: prescriptive, caregiving, earth, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Political Transactions
Currency reifies values.
Cash represents value.
Capital iconically,
and capitalism idolatrously,
removes humanity
from Earth's gifting cooperative nature
as reciprocating nurture.

Value,
like organic interdependent nature,
does not grow by hoarding its icons,
but increases...

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Categories: prescriptive, beauty, blessing, community, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Great Expectations
A pandemic Christian evangelical error
disparagingly contrasts gospel privileged scripture,
root of all-powerful faith,
with inferior and erroneous Eastern religious traditions,

Like Buddhism
and Taoist
sanctuaries of well-governed enthusiasms,
and Hinduism,
and mysticism
and...

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Categories: prescriptive, analogy, green, health, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Becoming Polypathic
To become polypathic should feel regenerative, good, positive,
maybe even beautiful, graced,
like we are inviting only the positive karmic stuff of Earth
and humanity.

Pathology, on the other...

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Categories: prescriptive, creation, earth, earth day,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Cooperative Health Expectations
We might expect LeftBrain deduced beliefs and monoculturing values
to develop a discontinuously co-arising energy and information base,
becoming  dualistically dysfunctional,
degenerative
of Earth's limiting fossil-fuel declining energy,
and...

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Categories: prescriptive, destiny, happiness, health, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Original Invitations
Rather than Ten Commandments,
beginning with loving YHWH,
iconically accessible and yet mysterious
as ecosystemic Earth,
Native Americans
and perhaps all original people
mutually deploy Original Instructions,
both matriarchal and patriarchal,
intended to...

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Categories: prescriptive, caregiving, gospel, happiness, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Therapeutic Mentoring
Educational process,
like any ecosystemic change with progressive intent,
is not only about successfully transferring exegetical traditions
to the next hopefully all-consuming generation.
That may be the more surface...

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Categories: prescriptive, earth day, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Postelection Survey
This is not really a test.
More of a survey,
so there are no right or left answers.

Did you mean to say
Answers are both right and wrong?

Yes.
Isn't...

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Categories: prescriptive, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
When Panic Attacks
Me, I know it's not all in your head --
Some of it is also in mine.

I know the platitudes they spout 
And I know how...

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Categories: prescriptive, anxiety, beauty, growth, inspiration,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs