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Best Procedural Poems

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


An Open Letter To Poetry Contest Guidelines
I’m sitting at my desk typing on my computer. 
My head is a satellite broadcasting a disrupted signal. 
I can’t get a clear picture of...

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Categories: procedural, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Pastoral Passage - Church Crypt
Butterfly wing door vestibule builds anticipation  
Shuffled, carpet muffled greetings, familiar embraces            ...

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Categories: procedural, baptism, bible, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who Are You
In the Work That Reconnects,
we have a dialogue exercise
in which Person A asks Person B
"Who are you?"
several times over a few minutes,
as it feels right...

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Categories: procedural, anger, fear, health, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Poodle and Apple Strudel
A Poodle and Apple Strudel

To popular belief, it all had been according
And wondered if we really could be affording
To buy what some called the John...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: procedural, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Torture's Toxic Contagion
Torture’s Toxic Contagion
                  by Odin Roark

From where comes...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: procedural, evil, integrity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Climates of Ballistic Management
Senator Fuller,
a permaculture designer
turned architect of exterior landscapes
then public sector architect
of EarthShip cooperative interior landscapes,
is with us today
to tell us about why he supports Sanders,
at...

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Categories: procedural, destiny, earth, health, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Waiting To Exhale
WAITING TO EXHALE

Now that I have successfully alienated everyone else,
the time has come to liberate myself, having played  
this out in my mind…so many...

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Categories: procedural, depression, suicide, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Is Notnot Ecopolitically Great
On Religion:
God is great as notnot God,
otherwise anthrocentrically distorted sense of thermodynamic balance norms
within Earth's EcoSystemic Logic and Language WinWin Network
of historical enculturation.

On Science:
Deductive syllogistic...

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Categories: procedural, beauty, health, nature, power,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Social Justice
Social Justice

Social justice is the fair and just relation between the individual and society. 
I am an American
I just want fair and just treatment
wanting my...

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Categories: procedural, america, appreciation, assonance, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Loving Political Management
So what do U.S. national political candidates recommend
to resolve degenerative trends
to turn toward sustained slow-growth of bicameral political health
as cooperative economic wealth therapy?

I'm still waiting...

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Categories: procedural, earth, love, passion, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let's Be Kinder
In his essay "Let's Be Reasonable" 
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;

This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly...

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Categories: procedural, health, humanity, integrity, math,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member In Memory of Jacque Fresco
At the age of 13 he experienced the great depression,
and that event helped shape his social conscience.
Even as a child he could clearly see all...

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Categories: procedural, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Public Policies V Supremacist Comb-Overs
Public policies are program designs 
with regenerative health and safety vetted practices,
rooted in evidence of positive outcomes
and usually supported by some form of systematic theory
about...

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Categories: procedural, anger, fear, political, power,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Scoundrels of the Senate
Again these men comes to mind,
Paid to say yes and nay,
Lame duck,

Canker, ***** rapscallion minds
Incorrigible,
Political impostors detached from the humdrum of street cries
Maggots in honor
Damp...

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Categories: procedural, africa, analogy, corruption, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ancient Economic Empowerment
Economic science talks about wealth and money
but ancient green ecology peace warriors
walked toward cooperative health and species nutrition
rather than poverty 
lack of sufficient mutual investment
in...

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Categories: procedural, community, deep, food, health,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things