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Best Adaptive Poems

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


George Gordon Byron Ballad Ukrainian Adaptive Translation
I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;
There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;
But the tear that...

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Categories: adaptive, absence, addiction, beautiful, courage,
Form: Ballad



Mastered Puppets
Mastered Puppets


Of the voices thrown and never shown their cries travel well
A starving sewn with a bitter bone of their life a quiet quell
With larval...

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Categories: adaptive, children, humanity, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imagination
This book of botanical images
in sepia depict the petals, veins, leaves
of exotic plants.  Listed alphabetically are illustrations
with a reader's favorites’ marked with string;
carefully indexed,...

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Categories: adaptive, beauty, flower, imagination,
Form: Free verse
I Am My Father's Son
They were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one...

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Categories: adaptive, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy Climates
In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not...

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Categories: adaptive, culture, earth, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry



Oh Crow- a Poem In Thy Name
The story of the thirsty crow,
heard during  school days as we grew...
How best in it its wisdom used,
to quench its thirst that summer day
An...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adaptive, art, beautiful, bird, ,
Form: Free verse
Wine Stewrad
I may not be in active, thus, I may be proactive,
They say I am knowledgeable, But I am also approachable,
Though I am not generalist, However,...

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© B S Sky  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adaptive, business, courage, dedication, school,
Form: Narrative
Space Queen

Abu-deeni,
Zekarian space queen
Ruler of the sacred realm, 
where resides the seven suns
that encircles the vast
Irthendai nebula islands
She, of regal royalty,
holds the scepter of cosmic fire
The...

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Categories: adaptive, adventure, imagination, science fiction,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Candle of Hope
I am in my newly adopted Green Sanctuary
enjoying our communal celebration
of all things nutritionally healthy

When the ecofeminist facilitator announces
it is now our time to light...

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Categories: adaptive, caregiving, celebration, earth, green,
Form: Political Verse
Kings and Queens
Magical glittering tin soldiers joyfully marching across resurrections big sreen ~

Adorned anew within these sweeping sentient hues of silver humanity; tete-a-tete....

Created beyond the faciled imagination...

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Categories: adaptive, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Lizard Kings
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Between two lands of mountain mist 
There lies the lower plain 
Where bone-dry desert sands exist 
In constant need of rain. 
Yet still proud creatures...

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Categories: adaptive, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Ecology of Sacred Earth
Reading Csikszentmihalyi again,
whose last name would be Csikszenti,
if Mihaly, his first name,
need not also bring up the rear of his family name,
which has nothing to...

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Categories: adaptive, earth, environment, health, political,
Form: Political Verse
I Am the Project Air Bridge
I am the Project Air Bridge, 
The veritable virus lord-cum-felon of duty fraud.
Fumaye's privileged his bridge that projects pompous airs.
Maelstrom, mammon coextend where it forks...

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Categories: adaptive, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Babies and Black Men Lead the Way
Babies and black men lead the way,
Shiny pristine heads, forceful and adaptive,
Contraception-less advocates of themselves,
Potential met only after forgiving the ***** while cherishing the teat....

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Categories: adaptive, black-african amer
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Evolution of Liberation
On The Evolution Of Liberation…

Once again
our humanity is taxonomically
mocked---no longer ¾
*****sapiens---a step
just below
that of being human.  Rather, 
today, we’re an endangered species---
a modern...

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Categories: adaptive, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs