Fairy Tale Poems - Poems about Fairy Tale

Happily Ever After

Once upon a time long gone …
The reigning queen let out a yawn,
And stood up from her regal throne
To trample down the hall alone

She ripped the crown from out her hair
And flung it out the window there,
It tumbled down the castle wall …
No knight or king did hear it fall

And off the ground it did

SEED OF FEAR Hansel and Grethel A Fractured Folk Tale

HANSEL AND GRETHEL*—A FRACTURED FAIRY TALE 
Poem written for and submitted to “The Seed of Fear Poetry Contest,” Jami Patterson, sponsor, August 5, 2025. 
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In the great city where towers scraped the sky,
lived an accountant with taxes too high.
His fingers trembled over empty ledgers, 
scary times calling for drastic measures.
  
No longer in democracy

No Fairy Tale Love

Love is strange
Oh so strange
One day strong
And then dead
Oh so dead
Left alone
Oh so alone

So you say
I’ll never love again
Can’t say I blame you
My old friend
For the same thing
Happened to me
And my tears
Still know no end

Just like me
You’ll never be the same
A reminder of 
Love’s cruel game
So drink up
And hear my tale
Of a love so strong
And

Revisionist Fairy Tale

She came to a peaceful, shimmering pond
and took out her pearl-handled witches wand.
"Make me beautiful as the swan who slides  
on your calm surface as she smoothly glides."
Since that day, at toll booths she doesn't pay, 
and, at intersections, gets the right of way.

False Pretense

Why do we pretend to not long for the heart of another?

Why do we let people we want to let into our world, stay on the other side of the glass?
Why do we overthink the little notes that Cupid plays when we see them?
Why do we withhold the flowers we picked for them?
Why do we

Cherub - A Partially True Fairy Tale

“I like it; go get it and stand it right there.”
The ‘It’ was a concrete bird bath
It was heavy as hell; about all I could bear
I struggled… my wife had a laugh

She’d seen it online; it was selling ‘as seen’
A gift bought for our feathered friends
Those birds seemed quite wary, why might that have been?
I

Once upon a time no fairy tale

From the start, 
you have made assumptions.
I had something 
or I was someone.
It was all 
in your wild imaginations,
I did not 
plan it to happen.
I meant no 
harm, was really innocent.
I did not 
lie, pretend or act,
To deceive, hurt 
or harm you deliberately.
Just that I 
did not know you,
Not well at 
all to correct you,
To

On The Morrow’s Morn - A Witches Tale

jabed in frilied thawn 
a witch blugued the trees
with her a wabled thag
did tread
and mollied at her knees

frool frool
the witch that dawn
opockied beebs and bubs
to seeb a charm
on the morrow’s morn
to make her beautolub

then to slame 
the wabled thag
who drooved a dan
with her
and he to seeb
some of the charm
wable he lover

and so that morn
agleeded frash
the

Fairy Tale Maigc Nine

Sweet as sugar daisy,
it’s that opening line.
Wild strawberry energy,
it’s that very first couplet.
Fairy tales start with poetry,
a quest for a thousand and one.
The ebb and flow of that journey,
follow along relax and recline 
this is the viridescent princess’s story.. 

Prelude To A Fairy Tale

Once upon a time
over the hills and far away,
near the sea there lived
a viridescent princess. 

She gazed at the waves
which seemed to appear so royal.
Still, they have freedom
that grace the scullery maids.

Rushing to the edge 
stopping short of going forward.
The story of life. 
Her crown seemed to possess her.

Forced to become rogue,
battle the storm below

Adult Fairy Tale

complicated book
hibernated, with its bear
on loose, checking in

mundane existence
both selfish - different ways
two hearts not yet one

the world divided
N.I.C.E is not - it is evil
science’s talking head

book makes my head spin
not my usual genre
just keep turning page

satisfying end
this trilogy on steroids
hence, skipped the first two

and not on purpose
but the story holds its own
adult fairy tale

When the princess kissed the frog on the lips

When the princess kissed the frog on the lips,
her heart burst in three painful double skips.
Then she sank to the floor,
dead as a nail in a door.
Yep ~ that's how they do fall sometimes ~ these chips.

Undergrowth With Two Figures - Van Gogh

“Hansel, why have we returned? I know that witch is toast
But what if she’s around here someplace as a blackened ghost?”

“Gretel, do you not recall, these flowers were not here
That when the witch was still alive these woods withered in fear.”

“But, Hansel, when we came as kids, complete with dirty knees
All we had to guide

I, too, have been to the land of Oz verses

I, too, have been to the land of Oz,
where everything is 
that never was,
where nothing is never
anyone's sole endeavor,
and where whatever is
is never just because.
When I arrived in the land of Oz,
I met a guy who claimed he wasn't who he was.
And neither was he who he'd been.
So, I was very confused when he did

A Morning In Fairy Tale Land

A tiny fairy 
A dragonfly...weary 
On a sunflower they flew 
The dragonfly sings 
The fairy wings 
And a beautiful mornings'...anew

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