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Best Metamorphic Poems

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Premium Member Ten Thousand White Butterflies
Ten Thousand White Butterflies 

Soft walls undulate like liquid steel
Metamorphic pulsations
Iridescent glow
Spiritual guides
Ushering departed souls

Rippling contractions
From cocoon-like womb
Bringing forth new breath
Replenishing blown out candles
Eyes scrunched
Painful...

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Categories: metamorphic, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse



The Clown
There is a solace in his silence, a servant of his solitudes,
As he comforts in compliance, a jester to the multitudes…
He stands alone a neophyte,...

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Categories: metamorphic, angst, character, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Melancholy's Garden
Lost in a wistful arbor, where malaise blooms,
Mists flower in hypnotic bleak violet dusks
Shades of brooding melancholy  
Bruise my treasured bouquets of dreams
And plod...

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Categories: metamorphic, garden, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angel Calls
 M Angel  call L


When God calls little
children to dwell with 
Him above,
We mortals sometime
question the wisdom of 
His love.
No heartache compare with 
the...

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© Tom Larrow  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metamorphic, death, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silence S O S
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A million million life...

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Categories: metamorphic, silence,
Form: Free verse



Haitian Revolution
Abstract images to the debris of micro fibers.
Down to the Haitian survivors praying for Red Cross donations rather than meaningless 
conversations and commotions,
Across tech tonic...

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Categories: metamorphic, natural disasters
Form: Rhyme
Igneous Rock
Sedimentary and metamorphic rock
From earths mantle or crust
Host of tungsten granites and diorites

Intrusive extrusive and hypabyssal
Of batholths sills and dikes
Eruptions of subaerial volcanoes

Continental crust 
A...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metamorphic, faith
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Father Time's Interview
Hi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form...

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Categories: metamorphic, allegory, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Deposition............. (Ekphrasis)
A descending virgin makes his final sigh 
As crystalline flesh bleeds on sinful hands
Innocent blood flowing through marble veins
Impurities haunt Mary’s character again

As Crystalline flesh...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metamorphic, artson, character, life, son,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Set In Stone
Petrology, geology, call it what you may
Minerals of many are around us every day
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic are the main
Their seams grace our planet, they are...

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Categories: metamorphic, nature
Form: Quatrain
I Cry Rivers For the Ocean
Republican fountain flows black
 on blue seas metamorphic rock, 
draining the earth’s core dry.
Greed streams while oceans cry.
The sea is sick but I’m shell shocked....

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Categories: metamorphic, angst
Form: Limerick
Fools In the Wind
“What are we when we are not...?”

MAN:     A malevolent master making mountains of a mindless mass...
     ...

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Categories: metamorphic, analogy, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Melting Ice
Step out with me,
if you would be so kind,
on my melting island of ice.

Full-heated summer sun
feels good on our backs and shoulders
and faces turned down...

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Categories: metamorphic, culture, earth, god, identity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The Man Called Man
the animal called man is the hope
Of the undying world perfected with goodness
Constituted drive to recreate metamorphic beings
Bound profoundly to unmasked the universe of its...

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Categories: metamorphic, art, universe,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Ecotherapeutic Justice
When passion plants a multicultural seed,
then justice flourishes a polypathic trusting flower.

Permaculture and polyculture, 
grow holistic cause-effect karmic significance 
for our physical, and mental, political...

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Categories: metamorphic, blessing, culture, earth, nature,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things