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Best Derivative Poems

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


Premium Member The Yohimbe Song - a Reggae Derivative
Yo
Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo… O…. Himbe
Erotic bark of exotic tree 
Yo
Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo...

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Categories: derivative, body, for her, for
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Beneath the Shattered
Test me
I am willing
To fail

Failure
Is not fatal
At all

All things
Are born to be
Broken

Break free
From the outer
Hard shell

Shells can
Hide the beauty
Within

With love
Flowing freely
We glow

Glowing
For all the world
To...

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Categories: derivative, birth, courage,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Earth Glow
He’s a creature small and lowly.
See him move along so slowly -
an earthworm.

He has no fins that he might swim,
nor wings that wind might carry...

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Categories: derivative, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Promise To God (Co-Written With John Moses Freeman)
Come December 21, two thousand and twelve
On the winter solstice, mankind may burn in hell
As man's Creator, I've sent multiple warnings
Nostradamus, the Mayans, Hopi Indians
All...

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Categories: derivative, devotion, faith, forgiveness, upliftingworld,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poet's Epitaph
"Xanadu of Oranges", the reporter wrote,
just one of many paper slips and notes,
left behind when the poet died, unquote.
To his very last moment, he had...

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Categories: derivative, introspection
Form: Sonnet



Scarred Soul
Feigned love cut you deep,
left your heart bleeding profusely
Blood red, rose-colored stains,
drip, drip, dripping trail leading out the door ...
time to mop up this mess...

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Categories: derivative, betrayal, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member "lol, For Christ's Sake" (A Blog)
(This is a Blog)
          How about a little humor, for we as human beings need it....

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Categories: derivative, introspectionlost, lost,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Try Not To Read
I try not to read
other people's stuff,
too much.
Cause when I do,
I'm left with
this disquieting feeling
that it's all been said,
and much better.
That's why I hate
that damned...

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Categories: derivative, allegory, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse
Mathematical Poets
They are bilingual,
fluent in a paradoxical
intersection of a line and a cloud.
Each language has a distinct cadence,
a unique inflection.
They can jump over the discontinuity,
the differential...

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Categories: derivative, appreciation, beautiful, high school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Power
The Power
Love,,,,,,the ,,,,,power,,,,,Of,,,,Something,
It’s,,,,,,,opposition,,,,,,,is,,,,,,Nothing,!,,had,,,,,
humanity,,,,,,,,,,,,rather ,,,,,be,,,,,,,,nothing,,,,zit,,,,nada,,,,,?
The,,,,,,,Power,,,,,,,had,,,,,,,to ,,,,,start,,,,,,,somewhere,,,,,
rather,,,,,,,we,,,,,it,,,,, not ,,,,,,started,,,,,
will,,,,,we,,,,,,cut,,,,,,off,,,,,our noses,,,,,,
to,,,,,spite,,,,our ,,,,faces,,,?

Will,,,humanity,,,cut,,,off,,,it’s,,,,own,,,,nose,,
the,,,,, thing,,,,,love,,,,,,created,,,,to,,,,,spite,,
God,,,,,our,,,,,,face,,,,,?

Some,,,where,,,,,before,,,,time,,,,,began,,,,faith,,,,,God,,,,love,,,,,
had,,,,,to,,,,,be,,,,,,interjected,,,,,for,,,,,,humanity,,,,
to,,,,,,become,,,,,the,,,,,,reflected,,,,,!

Can,,,,,,,,,we,,,,,,,not,,,,,,all,,,,,call,,,,,the,,,,nature,,,of,,,,it,,,all,,,,
love,,,,the power,,,,God,,,
Faith,,,,,,in,,,,,power,,,,,,
Created,,,,,,us,,,,the,,,tower,,
of,,,,,God’s,,,,power...?

Or,,,,,will,,,,,the,,,,,derivative,,,,mind,,,,,intertwine,,,,,,
into,,,,,,reflective,,,,,,,,,world,,,,,continue,,,,,,the
whine,,,,,,,,without,,,,,the,,,,,,power,,,
we,,,,continue,,,,,to,,,,sour,,
by,,,the,,hour,,,
in denial,,of,
God’s,,
Face,
The,
Power,
by
Faith!!
7-20-09johnmosesfreeman@yahoo.com...

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Categories: derivative, allegory, love
Form: Tail-rhyme
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: derivative, culture, earth, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Political Democracy of Economic Health
What are your values and disvalues of and for power?

What are the political powers and weaknesses,
incapacities,
of economic value?
What is not for sale?
What is available, but...

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Categories: derivative, destiny, health, philosophy, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hey God If U Only Knew Me, Take My Advice God Dammit
There's an inner/outter counter blank element that defines our earthly countenance transparent transpire to an irrelevant parlor non native nill given gotten gave, positioned ill...

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Categories: derivative, analogy, change, emotions, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member "naught"
Free Verse rhyme

For the cause of naught, all wars have been fought
For in Love’s true entity, God provided a plenty
For the cause of naught, hate...

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Categories: derivative, inspirational, lovegod, war, god,
Form: Rhyme
Dad Son Dad
Dad 
is all weather umbrella
is what they say...

             rain or shine 
 ...

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Categories: derivative, fatherson, dad, dad, son,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs