Regressive Poems | Examples

Premium Member Sneak Preview of the 'Big Debate'

    My opponent will destroy democracy
      But my opponent will normalize hypocrisy  
    
    My opponent pays hush money to whores
      Well, my opponent snoozes in meetings and snores

    My opponent’s in cahoots with radical progressives
       But my opponent’s tax cuts are regressive  

    My opponent is in bed with Putin
       Well, my opponent for Iran is rootin’

    My opponent’s spending will stoke inflation
      But my opponent’s plans will increase starvation

    Enough!  Stop!  Cut!  Halt!
       It’s not all the other guy’s fault

    All this negativity makes one thing clear
       I’m voting for the first candidate I can cheer

Premium Member Solar Wrath

Noble northern lights
     illuminate the 
nocturnal sky
     (a gift from the 
     Solar Kingdom):
an extreme G5 s*T*o*R*m
hammers a little 
blue marble

BLISSfully violent
yellow god-star bombards
incorrigible northern Kingdom 
firing plasma out of 
       golden fingers
poking fragile magnetic womb
 mocking creeping missions
(led by mercurial demons
 floundering in forever wars)

Inept kings bathe in 
   stunning aurora
oblivious to wily 
worms chewing through
  the Global Brain
     reveling in regressive
     annihilation
(on a glorious bloody day!)

Click on the World
  vaporize your finger-->!
   mismanage escalation
meditate on
a yellow book 
 whispering wisdom
lying low
  inhaling/exhaling 
yellow dust (*~*~*)
whispering through flipping 
coins & changing lines
_ -- _ -- _ -- _ 
unable to access
  the Answer
in dimming light

Please reboot us
Please forgive us
Please END the Game
-----------X-----------

Premium Member The Trouble With Love

The trouble with love is that it ends
the thing about love how does it begin
one sided or shared, shy or no fear
love can be trouble, love can be trouble

Why must we fall into it
or lose it before we knew it
that love was always there
waiting to long it disappeared

The trouble with love is it obsessive
makes you possessive
childishly regressive
only to see it dismissive

Love takes all your time
wanting it solely thine
becomes a must need
showing your selfish greed

All you do to get it
anything you never regret it
than the ecstasy becomes a bore
lacking your desires explore

Never satisfy, love is lacking
that something you keep attracting
and before love really even begins
the trouble with love is that it ends.


Flowing Downstream Without Levees Or Windbreaks

some poems ask to be naked
they have no use at all
for punctuation
not even for an en dash 
an em dash nor hyphen

they play with a flowing  grammar
that must be read like water
or paddled through on a leaky canoe

the poet can then hide behind
these unchained words
while demanding to be truly heard

while of course
all the suggested literary pauses and in-breaths
can be just a matter of spacing

it is quite a scrabble game
one played with disjointed symbols
on blank tiles
a stylistic approach that can
if done right
be thought of as avant garde
or pointlessly regressive

but 

we all like a nude
a form without garb and baggage
and perhaps some of us wish
wish we could walk on water sometimes

Premium Member Change Ability

Woodrow Wilson, back then a progressive
  Now considered a wholesale regressive ~
     Just think, Hilary / DJT *
     What will you soon be ~
  Deplorable compulsive-obsessive  



  *If Republican, read 'Hilary'
    If Democrat, read 'DJT'
    Alternatively, read 'JRB,' -- (Joseh Robinette Biden)

Premium Member A Regressive Definition of Terrorism

They're truly dumbfounded as to why hordes of parents are pissed.
That their children are being labelled inherently racist. 
or perpetually oppressed...
When all children want to do is share a square of sand 
(no regard to the color of skin).

They're truly clueless as to why hordes of parents are pissed.
That they're children are being drilled with complicated topics of sex
When they don't even know how to spell or do simple math.

They're truly dumbfounded as to why hordes of parents are fighting back.
Against "teachers" and administrators who want to shove innocence down their dark rabbit hole of hormonal tinkering, genital mutilation and moral oblivion.

Let them grasp what a noun is before tossing funhouse pronouns at them.
let them walk a rainbow instead of constantly being slapped in the soul with a barbed version of it.
In short let them just be children... 
Fill their heads with the blossoms of literacy, kindness and respect.
Don't fill their hearts with the ball bearings of every societal tremor.

I'm dumbfounded as to why they fancy to call good-attentive parenting an act of terrorism.


Premium Member The Regressives

Punitively regressive are 'Progressives'
Defunding charter schools 
Crippling the academically aggressive

Denying school choice
to gifted students
from poor families ~
               without a voice

My Mantra

One should never stop sharpening 
One’s axe. This is an awakening
Where there is a will, there is a way
Let’s explore oh come what may
For new horizons always show
To understand many a hollow
Keep on challenging oneself
That’s the secret to success shelf
Avoid comfort zones that kill
Our latent talent and zeal
For stagnant water never does heal
Adding to the tasks just uphill
A little saving and huge strategy
Keeps you on par with all prodigy
Save bucks when there is a chance
So that thy life gets enhance(d)..!
Avoid the folks that are regressive
Surround thyself with people progressive..!!
Every moment and minute does count
For those who want to surmount
The apex chair in professional field
Flaunt thy attitude like a shield..!
Avoid monotony and boredom
Lead thy life with all freedom..!!

Premium Member I Drop

.
I - 
Me
Get-  Going
Learn -  Education
Acquire - Job territory
Fulfillment - Of desires
Experiences -  At  peak
reverse swing - Sets in
String returns - Swing
To base Rest - Home
A regressive-  Path 
A return to   Heart
know Me-  BE
@ Self
d
r
o
p rogress

Premium Member Highly Regressive

Abortion on demand and euthanasia
  Life as sacred -- out the window

Police-free neighborhoods of guns and gangs
  Innocents shot dead, no remorse, no pangs

Such desecration of Life is highly regressive
  Why, O why, is it deemed 'progressive'

Premium Member Turning Red

The same people who are demanding 
I put a suffocating thong over my face
are the same ones who lift sieves from borders
and invite in the slag along with the gold
the ones with no respect for law and order
the same ones that demonize all police 
the same ones who close an ocean 
because of a stray rogue on the beach
the same ones who claim
they can stop rioting with a hug and bubbles of love
the same ones that showcase the rarities in society
boiling our souls for the sake of blood ratings
the same ones that release violent inmates
into society to protect them from the flu
the same ones that are defacing honest Abe
the same ones that use retirement homes
as halfway houses for rapists and drug addicts
the same ones that rip toilets from their mansions
to avoid paying taxes-while raising mine...
that's why you can bet your sweet "regressive" behind
that my thumb will be turning red come November.

Premium Member Progression of Regression

Premier Stalin was a gangster
  an armed robber who
'became' a Marxist
  'progressive'

Murdered 120 million
  of his fellow Soviets
Seems to me his 'career'
  was regressive



_____________________
Thanks to Sand Blown for
the changes made to this
poem on August 22, 2020
Your question, well-taken,
S.B.!  Appreciated! ~gw

Hexakosioihexakontahexaphobia

i insist on suffocating slowly 
still 
i refuse to die 
imposing my will to weakness 
avoiding applying the “why”

implications are closing in, opressive 
my mind is open, fluid 
suggestive 
interposing meaning and form with 
the spoken and written letter

the light source filtered through all this 
wreckage 
the squeaking moving in, opressive 
regressive, the way my vantage remains 
a disjointed unit-whole

you persist, and i suffocate quickly 
you ask so nicely for me to die 
deposing my God damned will to power 
why do i seem to avoid the “apply”?

THE SYMBOL ON MY HAND IS BURNING

into the flesh, and back out from inside 
illuminates Prison, a chasm, a prism 
dividing a spectrum of impossible light

we wholly refract the soma, the psyche 
The Panic transforms into beauty inane 
compulsion, obsession, redemption, addiction 
we know we’re alive 
we perpetuate pain

'i Am'

Sharing space with myself
  replaying ‘what if’

Symbiosis conjoins
  the jazz in the riff

The progression regressive
  separation be damned

My shadow imploding
  —in a joyous ‘I Am’

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Premium Member Trinity Quotes

Equality;  There is really no such thing as equality. How can there be if we are all different. There is, however, such a thing as fairness, but not yet. Not enough, anyway.      Society;  It seems the more progressive society gets the more regressive it gets. So far, it seems.    Advice;   When choosing between money and fame maybe one should take the money instead. ha ha.

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