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Best Gretel Poems

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Premium Member Gretel
Gretel, 
my favorite 
puppy we ever had 
left us, over the rainbow bridge 
miss her...

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Categories: gretel, dog, miss you,
Form: Cinquain



Lily Letters of Jasmine
  Dear grandma, 
       you were my litchi  s u n r i s e, 
 ...

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Categories: gretel, deep, emotions, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remember the Ovens
Cuckoos hushed, rambling vines and plight.
Hordes of birch, beech, pine, spruce and oak.
Choke of darkness, forcing midnight.
Wax and breadcrumbs children-ditched folks.

Hordes of birch, beech, pine,...

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Categories: gretel, allusion, angst,
Form: Pantoum
Appetizers
APPETIZERS 

It licks it's raspy way across the land,
and peeks around and drools at our abode.
A plume of ash to blacken every man,
and leaves our...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gretel, death, fire, loss, Lullaby,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Villains Protest Re-Writes
So let me get this straight
(if I can use that word
in a totally non-offensive way)

Jack and Jill now get bottled water
Delivered.

Little Bo Peep
Keeps her sheep...

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Categories: gretel, fun,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Remembering Mrs Sully
Remembering Mrs. Sully always makes my face break out into smiling mode.
Her face was as craggy as a grave, there was an aluminum tooth on...

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Categories: gretel, character, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Baba Yaga
An eerie mist spreads across the swampy moors,
At midnight's tolling hour, beware peasant or royal,
Whom travels the hidden roads and lost by ways, lit
From the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gretel, adventure, fantasy, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The World's Playground
“The World’s Playground”

"Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses".

Jack the ripper, he slept with a whore, and became deadly ill 
Awhile his wife Jill...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gretel, culture, dark, death, language,
Form: I do not know?
Twisted Fairy Wings
Hey, what's your number?....,
.....,I'll call you.

Anyways, here's my story,.....

Twice down off the steps, I fell
cause of my flyer mileages
in a two fars, one near, four...

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© Marc Tabet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gretel, fairy, fantasy, funny, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Fairytale Footles
Cinderella
Lass knew
Glass shoe

The Emperor’s new clothes
So rich
No stitch

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Sees Ted
Flees bed

Hansel and Gretel
Cake Home
Bake Crone

The Three little Pigs
Skilled pigs
Build digs

Puss in Boots
Odd...

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Categories: gretel, animal, cat, childhood, fantasy,
Form: Footle
Land of Youth
As another night dies, I ask how did you sleep Momma?
When nightmares plague your vision, did you sleep ok Momma?

Cold winds howling like a child's...

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Categories: gretel, childhood, mother, nostalgia, urdu,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Theatre of the Absurd
THEATRE OF THE ABSURD


Puppets, all parts, perpetually working.
Tense strings, plucked, with novice fingers.
Ruby sawdust sparkles with the warm sun.
Puppets on strings, such silly things!

A play...

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Categories: gretel, anxiety, dark, fear, tree,
Form: Alliteration
Fairy Tales Gone Askew
It all started when Sleeping Beauty slapped Cinderella 
Then Snow White retaliated and hit her with an umbrella
as Ariel the little Mermaid's tail turned into...

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Categories: gretel, childhood, funny, parody, easter,
Form: Light Verse
A Quickie
If I were Hansel, you would be my Gretel. If I were Jaime, you would be my Cersei. If I were your brother, you would...

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Categories: gretel, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member When Nursery Rhymes Attack - Volume 2
Bird Brains

Mr Fox wore padded socks to creep up on some chickens
The chickens had CCTV and weren't such easy pickings
He snuck up to the coop...

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Categories: gretel, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things