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Best Folktale Poems

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Night Folktale
Its time to tell the truth untold,
why do we have to fight?
must we shed blood?
ever wondered why able bodied men 
go to war,and come back...

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Categories: folktale, war, war, war,
Form: Narrative



A Folktale
A folktale
There is a small country sharing part of its border
to a giant country, both have been friends for
over 300 years during world war two...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: folktale, best friend, blessing, death,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: folktale, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
Stories To Live By
STORIES TO LIVE BY

Oh! tell me tales that lift the spirit, energise the soul
Inspire a faith that gives the strength to drive toward a goal

Let...

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Categories: folktale, life,
Form: Couplet
Bold and Beautiful
BOLD

I made them majestic people from the land that formed.
Strength courageous in the way they have overcome.
Lack procrastination they continue their journey.
Today they are mystical...

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Categories: folktale, inspirational, strength, together, trust,
Form: Free verse



The Islands of San Juan - Timeshare
THE ISLANDS OF SAN JUAN - TIMESHARE

[FOLKTALE]

IN A PORTION, A SPELL IS CASTE.
THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED NUGLUMMI.
IN A TRANCE STATE, THEY EAT HONEY AND BEES...

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Categories: folktale, business, change, character, city,
Form: Free verse
Beam and Twist
Kind refreshing words,
like a soothing balm on wound,
make my long face beam.

sharp piercing words,
like great Esimuda's sword
twist my face to frown.








Esimuda was a legendary figure...

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Categories: folktale, happiness,
Form: Senryu
Nelia
She was standing there lonely
That beautiful girl
Her shape was so lovely
Her silhouette could tell
She was made

Her mind-sizzling smile wasn’t a folktale
You could see that when...

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Categories: folktale, age, angel, anniversary, beauty,
Form: ABC
For Today Is
Since it’s such a nice and beautiful day 
why not become a piece of cloud myself
or a stream of water, and go.

If it happens to...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: folktale, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Bedtime Stories
It was an old crow medicine show
At the border of Louisiana 
I was looking east toward savannah
Caught a train out of Jackson
Now I’m stranded somewhere...

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Categories: folktale, adventure, caregiving, life, music,
Form: Free verse
Folklore
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...

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Categories: folktale, 1st grade, evil, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
I Believe
I believe


I believe that true love will always prevail,

When soul mates reunite, it's much more than a folktale.

Once found, a love eternal that can never...

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© Rena Kay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: folktale, faith, hope, love, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Positive Impact
Night and day, a thrashing
     like an invisible whiptail
surge van hail,
doth swell me bosom
     excruciatingly, doggedly blackmail
capriciously...

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Categories: folktale, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ruins
It's about time we talk of ruins.
So, let us talk, for you never know,
How long ears of hope will remain receptive.

Your lips are missing, and...

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Categories: folktale, age, allegory, allusion, angel,
Form: ABC
Excess Use of Excuses
"Tales of tales of giving reasons"

"A centipede under the bed,
 Bring a stick to beat",

"All the sticks in feces"

"Go to river to wash",

"River remains full...

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Categories: folktale, abuse, dark, missing, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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