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Best Mutation Poems

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Premium Member Banshee
BANSHEE


From out of the dusk, through a thin shaft of light
A dark shape appears on this cold misty night
A disfigured mutation, with a look of...

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Categories: mutation, horror, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



What the Eyes Cannot See
Kyoko walks alone in the morning tide, 
comforted for a fleeting moment by salty air.
She feels the same sand between her toes 
as when she...

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Categories: mutation, environment, loss, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Quietude
Quietude
          by Odin Roark

Quietude
Like a tree’s dark shadow
Knows only the absorption of all colors
Rendering the din...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mutation, peace,
Form: Free verse
No Free Lunch
A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
not obsessed with results,
demonstrating sporting spirit,
Anyone doing...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mutation, irony, satire, society,
Form: Free verse
Words of Love
Words of love have many spills, harboring heartbreaks in their chills,
Birds of song upon yonder hills, singing sorrows amongst the daffodils…

We get lost within adoration,...

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Categories: mutation, betrayal, conflict, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



These Poet Eyes
As the ink dries swiftly,
peer into the invisible thoughts
these poet eyes see

Blink  blink

The world is on the brink,
following dire voices
that speak darkly

Many underground secret...

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Categories: mutation, introspection, perspective, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Transmutation

In human form I was born. In human frame I will stay,
but for some other species, life doesn't transpire that way.
A wiggly caterpillar transmutes into...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mutation, body, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reverse Creation
Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise...

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Categories: mutation, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Godzilla
What could live beneath radiation's
Mushroom storm cloud?
The heavens are burnt asunder,
Horizons red dawn glows,
 With an eerie mist.
Lightening and thunder strikes,
Against fallout’s atmospheric residue,
Ashes debris...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mutation, character, imagination, international, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The Gold Rush
They must have thought that I was brought here to do the numbers....
Ninty-nine's einsteinium square dance razzle dazzle then you shuffle a masque ?
Halloween arrived...

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Categories: mutation, angel, baptism, birth,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Limerick Multiplication: Once An Optimistic Optician
Limerick multiplication : Once an optimistic Optician

   for Elodie 

Once an optimistic Optician
Looked deep into her Client’s vision
Saw worlds unknown to her
And lost...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mutation, fun, , cute,
Form: Limerick
Arrival of Our Long-Lost Cousins
To the people of the earth, we convey this greeting.
We are quite anxious for this long-awaited meeting.
Coming in peace, we are your cousins, as once...

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Categories: mutation, adventure, science fictionearth, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Life Itself
Titanium, 
Strong mental minded, behind it
Looking for the lost and found, but can't find it.
Sharp energy intense, timed it
No one can see the future -...

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Categories: mutation, death, growth, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Reverends Yacht
I’d extend an invitation
to all in the congregation
through this speech of inspiration
which is quite a compilation
yet I expect no adulation
and no gest of adoration
for in...

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Categories: mutation, corruption, dedication, devotion, paradise,
Form: Monorhyme
Angela's Dream
Such strange fat fireflies so early in the month of Beltane, pondered Angela, as she watched their ephemeral light brighten then fade.  Was she...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mutation, dream, fantasy, horror, insect,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs