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Best Retell Poems

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


Bodhi Tree
and I hunger for you, like a moth
longing for one last flicker of flame 
nestled deep inside my heart

the memory of my childhood worship sits...

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Categories: retell, appreciation, faith,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Just a Day At the Beach
From the tips, of her white foam caps
To the bottom of her swells
The depth of our Love for her
Only the Ocean can retell 
As we...

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Categories: retell, appreciation, beach, beauty, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Farm Sense
Shotgun shells, fireworks, an empty casing,
Burnt gunpowder sensed with imagined smell,
Bring a smile as the mind begins onward racing,
Of times past and grand stories to...

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Categories: retell, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member To My Fellow Poets
Dear fellow poets – the young and the young once,

Modern poetry to me is “today’s poetry.” It presents poetry from the hearts of current writers...

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Categories: retell, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Prose
Venus the Woman, Mars the Man
(TWIN FLAMES)

Like he pleaded for your friendship
Let’s say he did, alright he did!
Polite rejection would be great,
But all those “hellos” were as fake
He thought being...

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Categories: retell, confusion, crazy, crush, desire,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member How Fine Life Is To Man, When His Crops Are All Green
How Fine Life Is To man, When His Crops Are All Green

Yesteryear, I saw grapes hanging heavy on the vines
Such bounty was not all, bright...

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Categories: retell, appreciation, art, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Gift of Christmas
The Gift of Christmas

Some people say Christmas in this present time
Wanders lost
Through flashing ads and tinsel carelessly strung
On an artificial bough.

Some people say the Spirit...

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Categories: retell, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crannies In Time
Crannies in Time 

Resting beneath a pile of silken scarves and soft kid gloves -
Hatboxes filled with old tweed caps, cuff links bearing long lost...

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Categories: retell, life, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
We Are An Item
You and me,
we got a lot of storefront love
Yes, we got pockets full of
coupon passion
Discount tears are so ooh  ooh
out of fashion
‘Cause we got...

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Categories: retell, feelings, imagery, love, romantic,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Dante's Hell Translation Canto X
Now is going on through a secret way
Between the martyrdoms and the ground wall,
My master, and I behind him to stay.

“Oh highest virtue, who me...

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Categories: retell, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
A Father and Dyslexia
Daddy, your bed time stories were the best.
The extra prescision you took while reading a book,
To overcome your struggles and ensure you pronounced each word...

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Categories: retell, childhood, children, dad, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Touched By An Elephant
I felt as if I was intruding, invading her space,
When instructed, I reached out and touched her face.
I stood in awe before South Africa’s gentle...

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Categories: retell, africa, animal, farewell, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Christmas Tale
Outside my dorm window, the snow began to fall;
Everybody had gone home, but I didn’t have a car.
Christmas break started yesterday, they’re gonna throw me...

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Categories: retell, christmas, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member October Sky
The teacher dies having made her small contribution
to the colonization of other planets by motivating
a boy who would otherwise be a coal miner to become
a...

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Categories: retell, care, community, father, god,
Form: Verse
She Is In Love
A night before I saw her smile
And saw at dawn she smiled again
I saw her she was now in love;
She loved the fairness of the...

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Categories: retell, romance, romantic,
Form: Romanticism

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