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Best Transformative Poems

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


Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: transformative, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member It Appears I'Ve Disappeared
A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.

I had a...

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Categories: transformative, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Bridge
I walk towards you,
as you stand waiting at the center of the bridge.

Beneath my feet, aged timbers span the churning river below.
With each step I...

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Categories: transformative, adventure, child, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol Iii
Oakland County MI                   Democrats   ...

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Categories: transformative, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Soul of My Beloved
Yes, I have it right here in my hands.
       It thumps with joy and kindness.
    ...

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Categories: transformative, beautiful, heart, love, moon,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Spirit Leaves the Body Seeking Eternity
A Spirit leaves the body while crying aloud as
Cursing blind hate enters without conscience 
A Hell for the wicked casting names as called
Tears of love...

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Categories: transformative, allegory, emotions, feelings, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Originals
I don’t know that anything about me
is original – I mean, all of my atoms,
I’ve been told, once belonged to some
dimwit creature (hmm...) roaming the...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transformative, christian, growth, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A Baptism of Brigid
In the assure abyss of the Dead Sea, where the salt laden waves danced with a sapphire sparkle, ancient legends converged with modern marvels, 

A...

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Categories: transformative, baptism, blessing, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two

Rosalia’s Instruments of Evil and Debauchery
Rosalia needed certain tools or instruments of evil and debauchery...

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Categories: transformative, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Cost of War Through Peace
"The Cost of War through Peace"

She had spent 
some elaborate 
time 
with snakes,

learning
their ways,
yet in the very 
back of her mind,

in her memories,
she remembered
the stories...

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Categories: transformative, light, love, mother daughter,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Father Time's Surprising Taoist Intimations
Tell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind,
which forms of integrative diversity
incarnate your highest priority,
most comprehensive,
social-political-economic-cultural issues:

1....

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Categories: transformative, analogy, culture, earth, games,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Sustainable Sanctuary
I'm in the process of joining a Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary
communion of All Souls,
in Connecticut.

This is not my first time joining a new intentional good-faith...

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Categories: transformative, community, destiny, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Sebring: Alligators and Marshmallows
Sebring: long ago
humid heat leaches will
blue lakes and brown swamps
     “Caution Alligators”
transformative sunsets
clockwork storms and
     lightning balls
cactus...

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Categories: transformative, community, imagery, longing, memory,
Form: Verse
Premium Member What Goes Must Come
"One who does not know
really knows,
and one who knows
really does not know."
Laotse

Squirrel medicine
under-stands external relations
economies
of stimulus leads to response
leads to ever competitively hoarding stimulus,
toward ever...

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Categories: transformative, health, integrity, native american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Spirit Leaves the Body Seeking Eternity
A Spirit Leaves the Body Seeking Eternity

A Spirit leaves the body while crying aloud as
Cursing blind hate enters without conscience 
A Hell for the wicked...

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Categories: transformative, allegory, emotions, feelings, god,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs