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
Listen To Your DogYour 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
Reverse CreationTaoist 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
The L WordLiberal 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
Games We PlayYang, 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
Following Earth's LightBorrowing 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
Terrorist Deserts Into Bountiful RiversI'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
My White House InterviewI 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
Political TransactionsCurrency 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
Great ExpectationsA 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
Becoming PolypathicTo 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
Cooperative Health ExpectationsWe 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
Original InvitationsRather 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
Therapeutic MentoringEducational 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
The Postelection SurveyThis 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 AttacksMe, 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