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Best Adapting Poems

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Premium Member When a Child Is Born
No words can express my elation at becoming a mother
Show my tears of joy on that perfect wintery morn
Go and show my parents our tiny...

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Categories: adapting, birth, growing up, moving
Form: Lento



Premium Member Fear
Fear, it's like a shadow in our hearts,
A feeling that can make us fall apart.
It's when we're scared of something near or far,
But we can...

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Categories: adapting, appreciation, dream, fear,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Maintain Your Integrity
Written: January 15, 2024
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Fiction, factuality, and fetching flavors.
Tangible, practical, natural perspective.
Can a warm...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapting, analogy, bereavement, character, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mental Illness
MENTAL ILLNESS

Mental Illness is a sickness of the mind.
It’s the sickness that rarely crosses our minds,
yet, it covers a wide range of conditions of the...

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Categories: adapting, mental illness, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nude Is Crude
I think I shall never see the beauty
In absurdity of human bareness.
The aide in whom God entrusted duty
Of our design was quite inept, I’d guess.
The...

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Categories: adapting, people,
Form: Dizain



Predictable
What were the odds they did not know?
So many, many years ago, according to the records 
they had left in there, it seems the answer...

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Categories: adapting, angst, art, bereavement, environment,
Form: Free verse
Ex Worker Bee
I used to be a worker bee,
And as far as I could ever see,
Would never have the sunshine time,
To sing a song, to pen a...

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Categories: adapting, retirement,
Form: Light Verse
The Power of Taking a Stand
I put my money to work
I put my words into action
Turning my thoughts into reality
Screaming the power of one 

We are misled by the world
Adapting...

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© Ben Ngaka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapting, courage, uplifting,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Accept Me As I Am
There are those who love and also those who hate.
Delusions of grandeur I will never myself create.
I am nobody special, I will never claim to...

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Categories: adapting, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blame
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. John Burroughs

This is not a sad poem,
but...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapting, angst, death, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Screen of Awareness
Re-entered with edited title

Like a complex computer is your brain.
Like A. I., always it’s adapting and changing too.
However, being human, it’s hard to train
traditions and...

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Categories: adapting, journey,
Form: Rhyme
The New Normal
the new normal

I'm isolated, waiting
at home with my wife
adapting like others
to our normal new life

a few days, no problem
a week, it's a breeze
but, nobody said
there...

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Categories: adapting, 7th grade, anxiety, funny,
Form: Rhyme
The Song Has Been Sung
You say that you want me but I don't believe 
as I sit in your silence uncovering me 
over thinking that you would even seldom...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapting, introspection, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vowel - Consonant
Arising to exuberant sunshine, I put on my ugly warm-ups amended for 
exercise.  Today I plan on moving until dusk, adapting my essence to...

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Categories: adapting, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aquatic Butterflies
Variations multicolored adaptations shimmering in the waters
Of hewed blue, beauties in the depths light show, yet these
Aquatic butterfly’s sting requires distances persuasion.
Deadly eloquence with a...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapting, adventure, beauty, inspirational, mystery,
Form: Free verse

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