Best Retelling Poems
Below are the all-time best Retelling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of retelling poems written by PoetrySoup members
Bipartisan DissonanceWhen 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
Categories:
retelling, nature, places,
Form:
Tanka
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
Greenearth PatriotsAll 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
Only For YouI 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
NostalgiaNOSTALGIA
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
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
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
Reverse CreationTaoist 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 LimericksI 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 TalkFailure 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
Me and Me FirstThat 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
Categories:
retelling, angst, childhood, friendship, introspection,
Form:
Senryu
Recovering White SurvivalistsI'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