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Best Fable Poems

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


Premium Member Fable of the Night
O, my angel, how smitten are yearnings of lonely night!
Will lover’s fantasy enchant, dream of this dreary night?

Though alluring is its rhythm, are you aware...

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Categories: fable, romantic,
Form: Ghazal



The Fable of the Fox and Goose
There once was a fox, as wise as can be,
 He lived in the hollow of an old oak tree.
 Not so very far from...

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Categories: fable, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Eulogy For God
Oh, Lord! Lest one is asleep,
the purge to kill you,yet again,
is quite deep.
Some, who read your word in
the Bible, re-create it, with myths
that are long...

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Categories: fable, abortion, faith, god, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Was Beautiful Yesterday
Bha e brèagha an-de
(It was Beautiful Yesterday)


There was a sailing vessel
With many a sail proudly lapping in the wind
A flag of the Celtic honor, in...

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Categories: fable, angel, angst, bereavement, feelings,
Form: Verse
Midnight Romance
Midnight Romance

Dusk falls quickly on cerulean skies
Day morphs from ash of roses to sable
Our love's vision flashes before my eyes
Midnight romance, like an ancient fable

Charcoal...

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Categories: fable, desire, dream, imagery, longing,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Summer Nights
Summer Nights

Setting sun, the light is fleeting 
as this day in June’s retreating;
twinkling stars, the darkness greeting,
welcoming this summer night.

Sparrows in the treetops nesting;
daytime bustles...

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Categories: fable, night, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part One
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part One)

As the Raven cross into the dark pits
Those in torment went into heaving fits
Its shrieking calls, alarms even...

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Categories: fable, dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Magic Beans
It was magic beans you placed in my hand as we held
Ones you nurtured,  embedded deep within your love
I know because it tormented me with...

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Categories: fable, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the ruby spires -
there, among those Ruby Spires
          stood I, a-gazing toward the mist
     ...

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Categories: fable, adventure, beauty, science fiction,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
In the Name of Dove -With Ram R V
little Rock
               Doves at my feet
     ...

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Categories: fable, appreciation, bird, , cute,
Form: Shape
Premium Member The Lost Fisher Boy
Playing at night on rocky ground, he sprained his foot.
He hobbled onwards careful where his foot he put.
The lonely shepherds had long returned to their...

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Categories: fable, christmas,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Timeless adoration
“A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more than you love me?
Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you.
I've disappeared...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fable, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Mental Health
My mental health is complicated
Now euphoric, next sedated
Nightmares daily duplicated
All my friends are alienated 
Happy times? They're confiscated
Mental health is complicated 

My mental health is...

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Categories: fable, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gathering of the Golden Girls - Soup Convention
Four “Golden Girls” seated at a table
Grey streaks our hair, but minds remain stable
     Convention is underway
    ...

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Categories: fable, friendship, funnytime,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Poem For Michael
Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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Categories: fable, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs