Best Retelling Poems

"MY ARMS ARE SORE!" 
*silence*
"HEY!! DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER ROCKS?!?!"
*silence*
"FINALLY. I DID IT! *HEAVES* "
"CA-CAAW!"
"No. You have to be kidding me. This absolutely sucks."

Legendary Icaphus then forged a knife from a broken bone,
And legendary Icaphus slayed the bloodthirsty raven!

The wings of the bird still...

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The water of the firth
Glitters; glinting, clean.
Messenger of joy and mirth,
Yet tyrant,
cruel.

An ideal place to fish
for a young boy and his friend.
They are seven years old - grinning wide,
their rods well-tended.

But, what’s that? Some money
has dropped into the froth:
“Fear not lads, I’ll be two ticks!”
says...

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Telling
and retelling
our story,

Where we are from
and where we have gone
from there and here
and now 
surprisingly uninfluenced by choice
and education,
nature nurturing where
and when,
why
and how, our story begins

When my voice speaks with SkyMother
and FatherSun, by mutual choice 
personalities
only visible in prehistoric time,
then prophecies predict our eventual return,
by...

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This is a poetic retelling of an athletic 
	Event (a race)
That breathtaking
Nerve racking
Repetition
On a circle (tiring)
I don’t dream of things like this
Unless I’m an insomniac
I don’t deny that’s what I want
(because) it’s wretched

I don’t deny what’s dirty (just)
Because it contains dirt
Which, in a bucket, silently...

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