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 TranslationI 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 PuppetsMastered 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
ImaginationThis 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 SonThey 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
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy ClimatesIn 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 NameThe 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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Categories:
adaptive, art, beautiful, bird, ,
Form:
Free verse
Wine StewradI 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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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
Candle of HopeI 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 QueensMagical 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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
Ecology of Sacred EarthReading 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 BridgeI 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 WayBabies 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
On the Evolution of LiberationOn 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