Best Procedural Poems
An Open Letter To Poetry Contest GuidelinesI’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 what I want to write.
The channel keeps changing as I switch between memories and then it happens.
A message...
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Categories:
procedural, how i feel, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Pastoral Passage - Church CryptButterfly wing door vestibule builds anticipation
Shuffled, carpet muffled greetings, familiar embraces
Piloted by Holy Spirit, seated hushed congregation
Ritual of ornate cathedral thanks...
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Categories:
procedural, baptism, bible, celebration, christian,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Are YouIn 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 to reprime this exploratory pump;
then person B does the same for person A.
The person hosting, facilitating, enabling
this reiterative question's redundant...
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Categories:
procedural, anger, fear, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
A Poodle and Apple StrudelA 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 B. Sloop
Bottom of sails looked like a hula hoop
While walking around we also just found
That when being on John B....
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Categories:
procedural, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Torture's Toxic ContagionTorture’s Toxic Contagion
by Odin Roark
From where comes these perpetrators,
These conscienceless mortals
Whose senses are quashed by orders,
By fear of demotion,
By allegiance to evil?
Who demands the allegiance
To insulated Washington...
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Categories:
procedural, evil, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Waiting To ExhaleWAITING 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 times I guess I have
finally acted on it—as you try to comprehend.
This “fault”—this “defect” in my head--an
incessant obsession and desire...
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Categories:
procedural, depression, suicide, drug,
Form:
Free verse
God Is Notnot Ecopolitically GreatOn 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 structural methods for learning positive
and negative correlations between nondual co-arising events
with optimal outcomes as notnot inductive
analogically felt trust
of deep...
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Categories:
procedural, beauty, health, nature, power,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Social JusticeSocial 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 fellow man and government
to represent, me
fairly
A measured explicit and tacit terms
for the distribution of wealth, opportunities
for personal activity...
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Categories:
procedural, america, appreciation, assonance, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
Let's Be KinderIn 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 reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback loops
of complex neurological relationships,
ecological analogical
experiential math
not reducible to algebraic...
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Categories:
procedural, health, humanity, integrity, math,
Form:
Political Verse
In Memory of Jacque FrescoAt 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 of the resources were still available,
but people didn't have money, purchasing power to put food on their table.
All of that...
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Categories:
procedural, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Public Policies V Supremacist Comb-OversPublic 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 why they appear to do more good than harm,
and at what cost compared to alternative strategies.
Producing executive orders
that are primarily...
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Categories:
procedural, anger, fear, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Scoundrels of the SenateAgain 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 squib temples of legislators
Dishonorable honorable,
Rotund circles of rascals
Fellows fit for the gallows
Clamping on huge figures,
While masses groan in penury and...
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Categories:
procedural, africa, analogy, corruption, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Ancient Economic EmpowermentEconomic 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 health-wealth trends.
Old cooperative economic leaders
and followers
measuring comparative values together
counted in nutritional value
accumulated by Yang dominating predators
and counter-counted
back in reverse time
remembering...
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Categories:
procedural, community, deep, food, health,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ceo Who Would Be PopeOnce within our time
we birthed a CEO
who would be Pope,
but might settle for Grand Wizard.
He was selected by a near majority vote
of a highly confused Board
anxious for economic and political climate survival,
terrified of degenerating anti-ecological prospects
especially during their own exclusive lifetime ego-claustrophobic watch--
fake divinely authorized...
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Categories:
procedural, anti bullying, earth, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Knowing My Left From RightMy unconscious Left
distrusts shadow Right.
And my reductive subconscious Left
mistrusts Win v Lose
Light v Dark
Ego v Eco shadow sacred Right
And fully conscious Left
polypathically trusts WinWin
Ego/Eco bilateral balance
ego Left with eco Right,
Positive as at least notnot Negative Energy
politically empowering Trust.
When Left plans high priority
policy practice procedural learning...
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Categories:
procedural, care, child, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse