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Best Retelling Poems

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Premium Member Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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Categories: retelling, conflict, math, parents, political,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Winter In Yosemite
gentle flakes drift down
   to soften the valley floors
      while lacing the trees
     ...

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Categories: retelling, nature, places,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Eye of Horus and the Seat of Me
"Eye of Horus and the Seat of Me"



When I looked 
into 
your eyes
Blue Sky 
reflected in 
the Heart of mine

I sat true 
in the 
Seat...

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Categories: retelling, blue, faith, i am,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Greenearth Patriots
All organic parties
committed to EarthTribe
as My HomeTeam
could become EarthPatriots
experiencing every day EarthDay;
which, of course 
we are revolving through
together,
more resiliently 
than ecopolitically polarizing
AnthroSupremacist Apartheid.

Speaking from our...

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Categories: retelling, earth day, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Only For You
I just want to unveil
all my unspoken litany of love 
embossed in my silver scroll
when I think of you 
each silken silence.

the sigh I cast~...

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Categories: retelling, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Nostalgia
NOSTALGIA

N:  Never stop retelling
O: Our 
S: Stories
T: That made us stronger
A: And helped us to
G: Grow along the way
I: In peace or hardship
A: And...

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Categories: retelling, nostalgia,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Yellow Wood
”Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler...”       ...

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Categories: retelling, age, meaningful, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contentment
Remember watching the clouds breathe,
In endless sees of make-believe,
Erasing the summer blue, azure in fleeting
Moments, silencing the music of birdsong,
Softly chortling in rhythms, 
Hearts warmed...

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Categories: retelling, appreciation, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reverse Creation
Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise...

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Categories: retelling, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Star Wars Limericks
I write Star Wars limericks with aplomb.
'Cuz Star Wars is simply the bomb!
But they don't appear
On this nice website here,
They're at Starwarslimericks dot blogspot dot...

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Categories: retelling, funny, science fictionstar, star,
Form: Limerick
Are You Ready For Christmas?
Are you ready for Christmas~have you lifted the tree
Are your lights through Christ shining bright~for everybody to see
				(everybody should see)

Your good deeds and your gifts...

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Categories: retelling, faith, seasons, song-
Form: Ballad
Negative Self Talk
Failure is a funny old thing
All of your worst fears take to wing
Lies you have told yourself more than once
Leak right into your brain, like...

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Categories: retelling, anger, anxiety, depression, heartbreak,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Me and Me First
That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward:...

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Categories: retelling, political, society, world,
Form: Quatrain
Don'T Spread the Hate
retelling the words
of the past pain that she caused---
forgive her sooner...

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Categories: retelling, angst, childhood, friendship, introspection,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Recovering White Survivalists
I've now read evolutionary
and feminist historians
and economists
and political scientists
agreeing, in a side by side custody
of the over-specialized eyes
and ears
non-dialogical way

Not competing against each other,
except maybe...

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Categories: retelling, community, culture, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs