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Best Proactive Poems

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


Count To Ten
a sestina

To every zephyr comes a bold quest
and every squall can whisper regret.
Those who will take the deeper breath
are those who gain a discerning spirit....

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Categories: proactive, 11th grade, introspection, passion,
Form: Sestina



A Strong Hold of True Believers
They asked me to throw my life to the wind -
     to not desire anything.
They said do not seek a better...

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Categories: proactive, baptism, blessing, courage, self,
Form: Epic
The Equanimity of Never, Always, and Sometimes
N otice me when I am in a mood to
   E valuate my every move!
V oice your opinion to
   E scape...

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Categories: proactive, wisdom, words,
Form: Acrostic
A Conduit
A CONDUIT

This is the time when war should cease.
This is the time when those that seek inner peace should be appeased.
This is the time for...

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Categories: proactive, time, today, wisdom, world,
Form: Free verse
Dabka Is Resistance
Dabka Is Resistance

It’s not just a dance
(Though dancing it is)
It’s not just a great workout
(Though good cardio it is)
It’s not just a form of entertainment
(Though...

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© Aya Salah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proactive, arabic, celebration, culture, dance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Just the Two of Us
Memories of goodness from collaborating nakedness
are more than strong appetizing captivity from hot omelets and lasagna
serving as the foundation of a strong intimacy
planted in a...

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Categories: proactive, love, romance, romantic, sexy,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Bucky Fuller's Holonic Ghost
Let’s say the number 1
iconically speaks in Left-Yang Universal Language,
root of ecosystemetrics,

while PlaceHolder (0)
bicamerally dreams in Right-YinDiPolar ReGenerative PolyCultural Action,
health-flow of autonomic, enthymematic thought and...

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Categories: proactive, earth, earth day, health,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Empowering Passion
In passionate psychology,
powers of proactive compassion
are generally thought of in personal
and familial
interdependently relational
perspectives.

In political science,
large-scale powers for proactive compassion
resist reactive competition to merely overpower the...

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Categories: proactive, caregiving, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Modest Proposal To the Universal Dilemma of Human Melancholy
What is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of...

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Categories: proactive, depression, encouraging, hope, motivation,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Nature Valley's Spirit
The Spirit of the Valley never dies.
It is called the Mystic Female.
    The Door of the Mystic Female
    Is...

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Categories: proactive, earth, identity, math, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Peace Rings True
Speak gently when you offer criticism,
but don't be so soft as to sacrifice the truth.
          ...

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Categories: proactive, beauty, community, culture, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
A Strange Bedfellow
Woman Is Insulted,
By Challenging His Manhood;
Getting His Buddies To Rape,
Was His Way Of Reinforcing.

He, Not a Man,
Force Himself On a Feminist.
Give a Valid Reason While...

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Categories: proactive, childhood, confusion, daughter, depression,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Beloved Green Commons
What purpose do I choose to live;
remaining aloof from evil practice and intent?
What meaning can we find to live,
reversing "evil"
that could transcend our individual absence...

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Categories: proactive, anger, creation, evil, fear,
Form: Free verse
A Day With My Barber
A Day with My Barber


First he overcharged me the cut ‘fare’
As a fine for shaving my greying hair
  Then I learned his screwball motive;
“Growin’...

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Categories: proactive,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Watching Isms
There is a world of difference
between schism and jism,
but they both end up the same.

Just as patriarchal Roman Catholicism
overpowers living and breathing Christianity,
so too does...

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Categories: proactive, culture, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things