Best Folklore Poems

2 Peter 1:16 (KJV) “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”


If I spoke of all the sins I’ve known,
I’d leave my fears with...

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They say you fear what you know 
But you really fear what you don't know 
Or that's how the saying goes 

Legend has it that banana and milk can give man a best friend
Feed it and it will serve you to the end 
All its...

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History of folklore in T & T
Influence by West African and Creole Spirituality
Narrated and told around kerosene lamps, our folklore
Characters, deities in ancient tribes before

Legend and stories fused with intricate mythology 
Still inhabit conscious vulnerability
PAPA BOIS, the protector of forest, master of animal
DOUEN, child like...

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pine cone in the ground
one day a tree will grow there
will tell many tales...

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https://allpoetry.com/group/show/33202-Eastern%20Slavic%20Folklore%20Poet...

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The woodland beckons me, calls me within
It's musical chorus can be barely heard
A mystical presence, a tone prevails in the wind

I stumble on wild thickets on the ground
Absent of pathways, thorny brambles instead
Moving along on foot, not easy I have found

Wild sumac, and aggressive vines...

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When Filey's rebel rousing rats,
    Were terrorising local cats,
    Who would not engage in rodent wars
    Refusing even, to go outdoors.
    No match for rats, that scavenge scraps,
    Instead they...

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Reflected in the pellucid ripples
That thither upon the welcoming shore;
The majestic angel oak unruffled beauty tickles
The water's edge draped in orange honey ore.
Whose boughs dost bend like elbows on its shore,
To all who wilt hark to its chants and tales,
Of ghosts of former slaves
Appearing as...

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Don't eat the bear 
and the bear won't eat you
Don't stomp on flowers
Don't spit on the dew
If you are a bad person
your life will worsen
But if you are good  
then there's no need for cursin' 
Yoi yoi la la la la yoi yoi la....

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Mountains rise far above valleys below
As shadows morph into morning's hued light
Celestial shades cause mountains to glow.
Out of marauding mist birds soon take flight.

Menehune folk are known to abide
In mountain ranges or forests, they keep
Away from all humans, they seek to hide,
Live off 'aina with...

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Tír na nÓg - A Tragic Epic Saga

ye hear, of a leprechaun and a unicorn who met in a field’s corner
a he and she, she killed by a tree, when it fell he couldn’t warn her


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...For years they both lived there
in the crisp mountain air,
the rolling ridges were their home,
it was not written down,
so what pleasures they found
are only to history known.

Come several years later
word spread of some raiders
attacking the valley for cows,
some claimed that Winisook
from their stocks freely took,
they...

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Good Goddess Bona Dea
We celebrate Your rites
Female only festivals.
All men are out of sight.

You safeguard our fertility
As we worship at your feet
With flowers, wine and vine leaves 
And a serpent, when we meet.

So Bona Dea praise you.
Give us fruitfulness in birth.
Empower us to be feminine
And...

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[paraphrase of a Svan folk song]

Tamar's mother said, "Tamar,
You were born fully grown.
Child, I saw you in a dream
I looked into the starlit sky and saw
That you were the village
And you were the world."...

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In the year of 1880,
in Watertown, northern New York,
a man walked into an almshouse,
looked no different from other poor.

The man’s dress was quite slovenly,
he was clad in rough leather boots,
wore flannel strips around his neck,
and his hands were bandaged up too.

He was half-way through his...

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