Dear Poetry SoupDear Poetry Soup,
I have known and enjoyed you since 2021
I decided this would be a lifetime connection
As you were personable, special and so much fun
When l first met you were friendly and comforting
You felt like home
But sadly you have changed of late
You are distant and our relationship is now unknown
Poets have become discontent and restless...
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Categories:
change, growth, happy,
Form: Rhyme
The Mirror
When I look in the mirror, I don’t see me; I see who I used to be.
A little lost girl who was so abused and so misused,
so ashamed of who she was, so helpless and so selfless.
Yet somehow, she refused to give in...refused to give up on life.
Even though she tried.
She used her books to...
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Categories:
anger, caregiving, change, character,
Form: Narrative
ChangeI’m nobody’s everything,
I’m just everybody’s nothing.
How can the world want me to change,
When the world has stayed the same?...
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Categories:
change, growing up,
Form: Free verse
waitingcontest 1395 : Brian Strand
submission : 10/7/25
w. a. i. t. i. n. g.
nights diss ~~
OLve
days
s l ...
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Categories:
allusion, change, character, courage,
Form: Other
Believe Your HeartSo calculated so planned that man,
Never telling a soul what he truly comprehends,
From years of watching his elders survival,
He masterfully knows how to cheer on a revival,
And smiles so gracefully to draw ppl in,
They all gauk he's so kind as if he lives with no sin,
The compliments egg him on and so his ego grows,
And...
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Categories:
beautiful, blessing, change, courage,
Form: Light Verse
Eden seedThe sun kissed by mountain goodbyes,
That’s how time flies,
With hope to rise,
And potential born of dedication,
Yet drowned beneath trepidation.
You’re the descended curse from Eden,
Grace misplaced, a soul still bleeding.
Ambiguous dreams, not synchronicity,
You are the seed of Adam and Eve,
Footsteps echo in melancholy.
You pray for wealth, not to be holy,
Chasing gold, forgetting the slowly.
But silence guards...
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Categories:
change, 7th grade, angel, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Virtuous WomanInspired to write. Right?
Rise up Queen ?? Take in the Scene you have everything you need to succeed no more heartbreaking, blood flowing, anxiety filled recollections of the past.
Coming into my womanhood letting go of the pain at last??
This is the year I no longer fight the devil on his level. His ceiling is my...
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Categories:
anxiety, beautiful, blessing, change,
Form: Free verse
KundaliniSponsor : Unseeking Seeker
submission : 8/7/25
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shakti faculty uncoils awake, rise
sacred kundalini life-force stream
connecting radiant spiral wheels gleam
ecstatic prana floods to paradise
creative energy winding serene
unifies with cosmic Supreme divine
sanctified exposed exalted benign
purified individual Soul seen
equal masculine and feminine poles
high frequency Source liberates powers
supersonic singular wisdom grow
gracefully presents fertility whole
hot bellied...
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Categories:
allusion, change, character, deep,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Change The SystemThey tell us we’re the future
yet 63% of us stand under twenty-five,
hungry for more than empty promises.
They say unemployment is only 6.8%
but when each job vacancy spawns nineteen hopeful faces,
those numbers shatter.
It’s not our fault alone
we’re taught to pass, not to prepare,
and leaders build bridges to nowhere.
change the system,
rebuild classrooms with real tools,
forge curricula in...
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Categories:
change, africa, community, courage, creation,
Form: Free verse
Confronting ShadowsLook closely at shadows following you
shading footfalls with a soft Lapis blue
Bits of yesterday mixed with tomorrow
Shadows reflecting days we could borrow
They belie the memories that we find
in their whispers of all those left behind
moments becoming shadows of our days
twisting, turning as our hair fills with greys
Shadows of moments that we now regret.
Promises that...
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Categories:
age, blue, change, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
In These Parts
In these parts,
Heavy dews cover fields and lawns;
It's very hot and humid in summer;
There are no breathtaking views,
No snow-covered mountains, no waterfalls;
And the weather changes rather rapidly.
In these parts,
Surrounded by trees, corn, and beans,
The canopy covers me from above.
A paved road separates me from the beans,
And sometimes I'm being held captive, it seems.
In these parts,
Black...
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Categories:
change,
Form: Free verse
The End To The BeginningThe End To The Beginning
A burdened remorse of forlorn futures,
Though ability lies in the hands of the beholder,
As rues and woes swallow thy thoughts,
But shall'nt one upon change ponder,
How beginnings lead to ends,
While they waltz with the former,
When a drop of reform wallows in self pity,
Must'nt one indulge upon polish,
Within ourselves lie our flaws, devoid...
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Categories:
9th grade, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Theater Of lifeTheater Of Life
We met as strangers stranded in the park,
Lonely as the night -
Wandering in wonder, will the train surface?
1:35am she thought to provide me warmth
Open arms, I drowned beneath her chest.
We sang, imitating the birds in the far away forest,
The wind sang along in uniformity, blended we thought!
Utopia was now newly found home,...
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Categories:
change, depression, fantasy, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Who am IWho am I that I can choose
To pick from my closet different types of shoes
Who am I that my feet are bare
When I only wish I had shoes to wear
Who am I that I have food
Whenever I'm hungry to eat
Who am I that I am hungry
And for food I have to seek
Who am I...
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Categories:
change, endurance, i am,
Form: Narrative
Layers of IntentionComing back to recapture and constitute whys,
To understand our train of thought, the path we seek with our eyes,
The external influence that suggests and surrounds,
Take it all away and what have you found,
Lay your heart bare and what do you see,
Under all the layers of your reasoning,
What you grip onto so tightly in order to...
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Categories:
beautiful, blessing, change,
Form: Light Verse
Specific Types of Change Poems
Definition | What is Change in Poetry?
Poems Related to Change
about face, adjustment, conversion, development, diversification, diversity, innovation, interchange, make over, metamorphosis, modification, remodel, renovate, revision, revolution, shift, switch, transform, transformation, transition, turnaround, variation,