Nâzım Hikmet began his career writing syllabic verse shaped by individual, national, and religious themes within a romantic aesthetic framework. In the early 1920s, during the Turkish War of Independence, he encountered socialist thought and gradually redirected his poetry toward socialist realism, which was emerging in early twentieth-century Russia. At this transitional stage, several of his poems were published in periodicals. Among them are five texts -“Bir Ders,” “Para Sultanlığına Ölüm!..,” “Nereye?,” “Şark’a Çevir Yüzünü,” and “Ehram”- printed under the signature “Ahmed” in Yeni Hayat and Aydınlık. Because their authorship was only recently established, these poems were excluded from his collected works and have not received critical attention. This article examines these five poems, focusing on their thematic and formal features. It briefly outlines the historical development and core principles of socialist realist aesthetics -class consciousness, the ideal of an egalitarian society, and a propagandistic function- then interprets the poems within this framework. The study aims to illuminate the poetic stance Nâzım Hikmet adopted in the early 1920s, at the threshold of his socialist poetry.