Best Adaptation Poems

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Sonnet I

I saw morn's soft hands stretching to touch bright moonlight
Is but a fleeting blink betwixt man's death and birth
Dark unknowing is why we so oft fear the night
In that abject blindness, fail to see life's true worth
Alas! Such are...

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A woman said to the universe:
"Sir, see me as equal!"
"I hear you," replied the universe,
"But I can't see you 
Because that tall man's head is blocking your face."


Adaption from Steven Crane's "A Man Said to the Universe"

A man said to the universe: 
"Sir I exist!"...

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There was a king once reigning
Who carried a great, big flea—
And far from him complaining,
The flea filled the king with glee!
For to him that flea was dearer
Than even his only son,
And to make his preference clearer,
Raised it higher than anyone!

In ermine, silk and satin
The flea...

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THE ERLKING

[NARRATOR]
Who's riding so late through night so wild?
It is the father who holds his child.
He keeps the boy held close with his arm:
He clasps him tightly, he keeps him warm.

[FATHER]
My son, why hide you your face in such fear?

[SON]
Oh, father, see! The Erlking is...

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But how long should I flog myself?
Even when all else choose to beat me silly.
Or, if life be justified to change,
Should justice now lead to the gallows?
When I’ve only chosen to live life.
Or, is it just that I suffered dis-applaud
For living life on the basis...

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one thing would have to go. it's a root we all know. we know it well. it's what we are.
society 
lives on it. and it might be hard to take. really it just an idea. to set us apart. the
concept of ownership. 


okay now what...

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But why o why should I be made to apologize?
When the song changed
And the beat of the music followed
And was justified accordingly that such is life,
Then, why o why should I be made to apologize?
When I have only changed my dancing steps accordingly,
If the rules...

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It is a golden brown dawn
It is spring, snow is all melt gone
The grass is sprouting with weary patchy green
I wonder how it survived the harsh winter grin?
The grass was covered under snow pile
No air was there underneath the white sheath
How did it breathe?
No sunlight...

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Shaded damp forests 
let ferns grow equally well 
on soil and from rocks....

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When suddenly the rules changed
The rules and game mode changed
And I protested why?
Why do the rules need to change?
When the game and pitch is still of this life
But the experienced and vast in days’
They calmed me down, that such is life.
Then I chose not to...

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The grass is no longer strictly green
morning dew has turned to frost
it crunches in shades of yellow
when over it I walk.
The sky is clouded, over bearing
covering what was recalled
as springtime sun, and blue bonnets
fully in charge of the hill.
Nothing in this season
has been truly lost,...

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As i lay my head to sleep
I hear a sound, a scratch, a creep
A fall outside my bedroom door
Then silence, the sound exists no more
Again i hear a steady caw
A crow, as though, to something saw
Awake was i, for as i sit
Asleep in thought, my...

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An Adaptation of the Poem “IF” By Rudyard Kipling
			When


				By Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd 
				Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd 


When you can keep your cool,
When others loose theirs, all around you like fools,
With all the negative words of outburst,
Their words lash out at you...

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I was a kid when I looked up at the sky
I was a kid when I pointed my finger at that star
I was a kid when I made that solemn vow that night
I was just a little kid with a big dream
A small body with...

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I adapted to my pain 
And felt it's existence no longer 
Sometimes facing the unknown 
Makes it less a wonder 

My mockery became my amour 
And yes! it shielded me 
For in the absence of the sun
The moon must learn to shine 

A thousand times...

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