Best Metrical Tale Poems
Below are the all-time best Metrical Tale poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of metrical tale poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Tale of Billy the KidWilliam Bonny AKA Billy The Kid
A Tale Of Billy The Kid
By Robert Gorelick
“Quien esta?”
Bang! It’s over,
you’re a legend now,
Billy.
Born in Hell’s Kitchen...
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Categories:
character, death,
Form:
Metrical Tale
'willow Weep''Willow Weep'
The willow
Tree
Is standing
There
Without a
Thought,
Without a
Care.
Anchored deep
It hugs
The earth,
No hint
Of laughter
None of
Mirth.
It softly
Sways
In gentle
Breeze
That barely
Touches
Other trees.
With slender
Leaves
And branches
Long,
Its cooing
Now
A mournful
Song.
But why
So sad,
This stately
Tree
That stands
So...
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Categories:
earth, imagery, nature, poetry,
Form:
Metrical Tale
As For Me I BelieveIt is the winter of 1980.
I’m twenty-eight years young,
Driving a red Mustang with glass T-tops,
Feeling all of my awesome sassiness, from toe
To Afro, when...
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Categories:
adventure, angel, blessing, christian,
Form:
Metrical Tale
A Goodnight TweetI was taking out my trash can
When I thought I saw a worm
But I realized it was a caterpillar
When the thing began...
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Categories:
bird,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Big JohnLet me tell you a story from the old wild-west;
Of a terrible lawman with a star on his vest.
His title was “Ranger”; not bound to...
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Categories:
Form:
Metrical Tale
Thoughts of the DayWe have a laugh, and drink a beer,
Play some golf, and hunt for deer.
Your patience and wisdom, is without test,
Your confidence and clarity, is at...
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Categories:
appreciation, fathers day,
Form:
Metrical Tale
The Road To HeavenThe road to heaven
It seems so long,
Its short, so short
Where time belong
It's curves, it's hills
And it's potholes, too,
Beat and bruise
As I stumble through
Tramplin' the dirt
And...
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Categories:
encouraging, endurance, heaven, journey,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Geese, Goslings and the BridgeGeese, Goslings and the Bridge
Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous. Such was the...
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Categories:
bird, family,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Bittersweet My Lover's SecretOh, where had my sweet love gone that morning
when later that day he’d met his death?
It was early January, cold and dreary
when he left unusually...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form:
Metrical Tale
A Fork In the RoadIt was the best of tines; it was the worst of tines.
It lay, distraught, in silence on the road.
He came around...
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Categories:
destiny, meaningful,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Don'T I BelongHidden though unsought
Ran from myself
Still got caught.
Mind, Body, Soul wrought.
Vengeance no longer mine
And yet I insist to ungently reside
Within the "desperate to love or to...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Victory Over the Enemy Achieved "Our Destiny is to succeed"! "Our fate was set up through not being exposed to"NEW Knowledge",so that we would fail! Our "HOPE" was and...
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Categories:
12th grade, 1st grade,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Jessica Casey - Part 2 - Seven Years LaterJessica Casey the punters dream- Sequel to Shy Julie
They came from near - they came from far
Bus ferry and train and some by car
THE...
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Categories:
family, feelings, humorous,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Yet I Smile With Sparkling EyesMy anger boils deep down inside.
Yet I smile with sparkling eyes.
Hot blood flowing vie chamber to chamber…
Thumping heart beats vexed closer to danger…
Drinking in downpouring...
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Categories:
2nd grade, anger, body,
Form:
Metrical Tale
BraveTrere stands a man who's brave. Had many close shaves, wasn't at all afraid, not even of the grave.
He was a total knave, would always...
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Categories:
appreciation, baptism, encouraging, forgiveness,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Kitty KatyKitty Katy, bigger than holsteins
Killed a St. Bernard
Pretty Kitty scratched up my blue jeans
Left my legs all scarred.
My big kitty scares the bejabbers
Out of my...
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Categories:
animal, cat, fear, horror,
Form:
Metrical Tale
DumbI remember a girl from the slums who's life was really humdrum.
To peer pressure she would succumb so her so called friends started calling her...
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Categories:
beautiful, blessing, education, encouraging,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Long WayWe belong freedom fight goes on to get where we are today we came a LONG LONG. WAYS...
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Categories:
adventure,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Cave Quid OptesAye did not heed the maxim be careful
what you wish for,
cuz now adversity not abate
perhaps...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Metrical Tale
A Grisly TaleAbout the lives of bears for years
A Czech and Pole were keen.
But neither had in their careers
A grizzly ever seen.
They therefore flew to Yellowstone
With data...
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Categories:
adventure, animal, humorous, word
Form:
Metrical Tale
Puzzling Puzzletrying to
solve the
puzzling puzzle
of swings
in mood
was not
an easy task to
undertake
that is
why in the
end the
puzzle was
left...
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Form:
Metrical Tale
CoolHe was super cool, would break all the rules, said the heck with school, stubborn as a mule, was labeled a fool.
Life became cruel he...
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Categories:
adventure, angel, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Metrical Tale
AfraidThere once was a man who was afraid he wouldn't make the grade, in the past he'd been betrayed so he spent most of his...
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Categories:
allegory, beautiful, change, future,
Form:
Metrical Tale
The Lesson of the ChicadeeThe Lesson of the Chicadee
The Chicadee has found the tube
Of little bird seed, then
She flew away to spread the news
To her flock to feed.
To share...
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Categories:
metaphor,
Form:
Metrical Tale
EllipseAt sunrise the heron soars effortlessly upon the breeze
waves roll in crashing upon the rocks and beaches
rising tides reach high upon the sands then fade...
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Categories:
appreciation, beach, beauty, bird,
Form:
Metrical Tale