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Best Fanciful Poems

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


Premium Member About Me
My life is like that of a commonplace horse
that stays where they’ve put her all day;
she lives very much like the others, of course,
accepting her...

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Categories: fanciful, imagination,
Form: Bio



Premium Member Life Through a Child's Eyes
finding shapes in clouds
or four-leaf clovers in fields . . .
the child’s eye searches

What does it mean to view life through a child’s eyes? For...

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Categories: fanciful, child,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Defying Predictability
With hair ablaze, a jester unconfined,
I scoffed at the mundane, its life declined.
My wardrobe, a riot, a rhapsody bold,
Mismatched socks my standard, stories untold.

In classrooms...

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Categories: fanciful, angst, character, conflict, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fanciful, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tale of Fairies
A long, long time ago in the land of Fays,
     lived a forest nymph of beguiling beauty.
    ...

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Categories: fanciful, fairy, children, joy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Colours of Parisian Nightlife
Lemon meringue sweet-laughter-light
fills shadows cerulean blue.
Café de Flore’s summer hot night
where dreams tangerine rendezvous.

Six strings strumming lavender notes
tones, violaceous lilac lace,
heartbeats' delicate music floats
on fanciful...

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Categories: fanciful, kiss, life, night, paris,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry, a Profound Sense of Beauty By Susan Ashley and Frederic Parker
In this wondrous world, we are bound
to the silent realms of our poetic soul

Where white doves flutter and sighing words whisper
as dreams are dreamt with...

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Categories: fanciful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Ravenous Wolf, Prowls At Our Home's Open Door
When Ravenous Wolf, Prowls At Our Home's Open Door

Of beauty, paintings,  flowers and smothering Art
Dares not the innocent truth- ever the race start
Or prisoner,...

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Categories: fanciful, art, conflict, courage, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Snow
On wings of swept sky, the dawn’s sun adorns
the shimmering snow in magical light,
from winter’s first snow on snug Christmas morn.

Innocent faces gleam, old are...

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Categories: fanciful, beauty, christmas, snow,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Suicide Prevention
You must be in so much pain to be considering this.
The hurt, the misery, the anguish, the agony;
you can feel it burrowing its way deep...

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Categories: fanciful, angst, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Scattering Blooms
Gathering a plethora,
of abandoned blossoms high and low,
a covered basket and pockets full.
Light footsteps through shady trees
releasing dainty blooms for me,
nature’s soulful aliment like a
rainbow...

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Categories: fanciful, beauty, flower, senses, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Traveler and the Rose
A strange blue rose - alone
midst an array of clustered flowers -
a few of them her friends -
the shy violets, lovely white lilies, and bold...

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Categories: fanciful, allegoryday, blue, rose, flower,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Poetry: a Profound Sense of Beauty - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
In this wondrous world, we are bound
to the silent realms of our poetic souls

where white doves flutter and sighing words whisper
as dreams are dreamt with...

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Categories: fanciful, appreciation, beauty, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
The Morn's Alive With Skylarks Singing
The morn's alive with skylarks singing

o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture,

the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer.

A sudden shower would see...

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Categories: fanciful, tribute, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member An Interview With a Skipping Stone- Potd
“Good Morning! I know you are busy. Will you stop for a while for an interview?”

Sir, what do you want to know? If only you...

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Categories: fanciful, freedom, journey,
Form: Rhyme

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