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Best Storyteller Poems

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


Premium Member The Storyteller
I entered the backyard through the trees,
  Throwing myself down into the white snow;
    I rolled until I was totally covered-...

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Categories: storyteller, childhood,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, 
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.

Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise, a...

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Categories: storyteller, freedom, girl, history, literature,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dad
Tonight I thought of you from a sight I saw
The 9 years of things from you, that saved my life
In ways no-one knows, hours it...

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Categories: storyteller, appreciation, father, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Jester
THE JESTER

Jester jingles
with madcap medusa-bells,
dressed in melodic-motley uniform.
A sea of foamy frills
frame the famed renaissance storyteller,
a creature feature
of phantasm for frightened children.
His ghost-white face
with comedic...

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Categories: storyteller, history,
Form: Alliteration
Fabricated Falsehood Collaboration With Silent One
In silence we admire the splendor of our universe,
surrounded by breathtaking scenery ever so diverse.
Golden Sun, pale moon and silver stars animate an artist's mind,
whilst...

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Categories: storyteller, betrayal, deep,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Who Do You Think I Am
broken people-
for in the end    we are all broken
stumbling and choking
disguising hurt

thinker    poet    storyteller
Richard Lamoureux

a deep...

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Categories: storyteller, poetry, tribute, writing,
Form: Free verse
Memories of Insomnia
Last night rolling over in my bed
with drooping eyes and racing mind
I boarded a train of random thoughts.
Only to find millions of flashes
that I couldn't...

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Categories: storyteller, memorial,
Form: Free verse
I Am
I am 

An explorer of truths shielded by mysteries
      A warrior in battles fought inside hearts
A muse that reveals itself...

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Categories: storyteller, art, blessing,
Form: List
Premium Member Shakespeare and More
Dedicated to my beautiful sister, Dr. Barbara Voglino, with thanks for introducing me to some of the greatest literature ever penned.  Love you, Sis!


The...

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Categories: storyteller, childhood, literature, sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Held Her To My Heart
 
My grandma and a rose are the same, each is
God's masterpiece but with a different name."
        ...

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Categories: storyteller, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Refurbished Fairy Tales: Cinderella, If the Shoe Fits Part I
Once upon a time...

Once upon a time, in France, a storyteller fella
Wrote of a girl named Cinderella,
Meant as a fairy tale romance.
Her daddy died when...

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Categories: storyteller, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Aquarius
An independent thinker and sometimes a rebel, and
Quite resistive to change-   always and forever,
Utterly loyal and faithful to friends old and new.
Amethyst my...

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Categories: storyteller, star,
Form: Acrostic
Its the Blues
In the dim-lit hall where the soulful chords weep, 
A siren graces the stage, secrets to keep, 
A silhouette in moonlight's tender glow,
A sexy blues...

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Categories: storyteller, blue, sexy, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Spinner of Yarns
I’m a spinner of yarns
Whose stories, when shared, can lift up your hearts.

They help you forget your sorrows.
They give you the strength and courage to...

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Categories: storyteller, poetry, words, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Started With A Blank Canvas
My life began as one big blank canvas,
a sweet baby girl loved:
the second child for my parents,
yes, I had an older sister by one year;
Suzanne,...

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Categories: storyteller, life, me,
Form: Narrative

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