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Best Subsidiary Poems

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


Premium Member Two Wrongs Worth a Right
Today, our first “All About Me” History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with “All About We”
full-octave
Zero-centric
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and...

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Categories: subsidiary, culture, earth, humor, integrity,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Fire God Speaks Out
Angry FireGod sneers sarcasm,
"Not warm enough yet?"
"Still too much clean water and air
and other healthy stuff,
like sun-baked red chili peppers?"

Excuse me,
I was under the impression
that...

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Categories: subsidiary, culture, destiny, fire, health,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Monster In the Machine
Mine is an existence binary and subsidiary.
My ode is to code.
I move only to algor-rhythms. 
I output from your input. 
I’m built to calculate, tabulate,...

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Categories: subsidiary, change, computer, future, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Father Time's Interview
Hi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form...

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Categories: subsidiary, allegory, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What I Didn'T Know
People, Places, and Things I Didn't Know I Trusted

I rather suddenly, and belatedly,
realized I trust the highest and best use for language,
for every community and...

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Categories: subsidiary, culture, health, love, political,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Declaration of Interdependence
When in the Course of Earth’s climatic events, 
it becomes necessary for cultures to resolve political bands 
which have connected Her with human nature, 
and...

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Categories: subsidiary, freedom, health, independence day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Not Your *****
Last night I was mesmerized
by James Baldwin
in a documentary
"I Am Not Your *****"
in which Baldwin reflects on
Medger, Malcolm, and Martin
who were shot in that order
within...

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Categories: subsidiary, community, health, history, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Perfect Love, Optimal Life
Perfect love is perfection,
it is rare,
if such love exists at all
it must thrive beyond boundaries of my own experience
either receiving,
or giving.

Could this perfection of synergetic...

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Categories: subsidiary, culture, love, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Empathy As Green Democracy
I don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal knowledge,
perhaps because it is not possible to change...

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Categories: subsidiary, education, health, history, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member If Time Is Money
Does your money derive from health-regenerative investments?

Well, what could that mean?

Do you make your money, honey, 
with both light and dark co-arising memory
of midway love...

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Categories: subsidiary, health, humanity, money, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member When We Need Health
Insufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also
more than sufficient ignorance
of our individual and collective participation
in comprehensive disease, weakness, loss, decay,
anger and fearful hatred
wilting climatic change
in...

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Categories: subsidiary, culture, health, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Darwin's Double-Dark Dilemma
Elder Darwin swims in ethology.
He rolls in his deep grave ecology.
He itches and scratches his dissonance
that survival of most fitted and dense
implies manifest destiny for...

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Categories: subsidiary, culture, death, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sun God's Original Idea
I'm not much of a writer,
more of an activist,
a doer,
timeless doing.

Anyway, my Yang side,
which you AnthroTribes might recognize as EcoJustice,
emerges from my PositiveYang/NegativeYin Balancing 
compassionate/revenge...

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Categories: subsidiary, earth, health, sun, time,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Loving Defiance
Punishing for revenge,
could this occur to natural systems
without capacity to imagine alternative futures?

Punishing others for their defiant behavior,
actions and words stronger than merely ignorant
bolder than...

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Categories: subsidiary, anger, fear, love, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member After School Jam Session
How was school today?

Fine.

Did you learn anything important?

Maybe. I'm not sure yet.

Really? What are you considering?

We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.

Maybe I skipped...

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Categories: subsidiary, culture, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs