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Best Transition Poems

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Premium Member Transition
I once encountered a mountain, I didn’t want to climb
So, I stood and viewed its beauty, left everything else behind
I once encountered pouring rain and...

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Categories: transition, change, inspirational, life, write,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Transition - For Adult Contest
The day I truly became an adult – oh I remember it like it was yesterday
The moment I gave birth to you my son –...

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Categories: transition, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: transition, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue October
Introducing: Leonora Galinta & Poet Destroyer

I was awoken by the effulgent smiles of sunlight 
Dancing on my window pane with great delight 
A jovial repartee...

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Categories: transition, adventure, beautiful, blue, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Time Between the Seasons
Between

Between dawn and dusky light
Lies the season of daystar’s delight

Between the summer and winter cruel
Lies the season of spring bursting renewal

Between black and white equivalence
Lies...

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Categories: transition, life, seasons,
Form: Rhyme



Who Am I
I am the ring around Saturn
spinning words as particles of ice and dust
with the power to transcend

I am the original chosen to be right here...

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© Humble B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transition, black african american, faith,
Form: Verse
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: transition, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Yesterdays
She swept the side effects of yesterday
Into an unknown place where
Longing transcends the ache
Of remembered years that cling
To wounds that never heal.

The haunting specter of...

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Categories: transition, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Wonderful Journey of the Butterfly
This beautiful journey begins
From a courtship routine
The male perch themselves on leaves
And create a glorious scene
Waiting for a female 
Just to fly on by
Now he...

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Categories: transition, adventure, beautiful, education, nature,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent...

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Categories: transition, adventure, community, universe,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Photographs and Poems
With my brightened lens, I watch you
mystically zooming in     zooming out,
and my eyes focus on the shutter where
 a hundred gulls...

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Categories: transition, art, beauty, film, words,
Form: Imagism
Deathbed
Lying in bed..
In my deathbed
Don't have much time..
I am filled..
with nostalgia..
Memories of which I will always cherish..
Within my deepest thoughts
I imagine I am a child...

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Categories: transition, death, deep, fear, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn
Autumn unreeled
Forests shaken hollow
               settling
      ...

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Categories: transition, autumn, beauty, color, environment,
Form: Free verse
An Endless Sea of Love
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My life is but a leaf atop an ocean flowing bliss,
on waves of firm conclusions built on reasons that I miss
I take each day as...

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Categories: transition, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Secret of The Rainbow
Where is the secret of the rainbow?
At the edge of one's own life?
Whence does it come, with those lovely pastel colours?
Is it a heavenly art...

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Categories: transition, rainbow,
Form: Free verse

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