Fairy Tale Poems - Poems about Fairy 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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“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...

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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...

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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...

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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.. ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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....

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“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...

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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...

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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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As the peas in a pod explode, That is how I feel amidst a lone road, Loosing you eye cannot afford, With the help of our God, Love is protected under a cloud. Like Vision and Wanda, We wonder, What awaits the inseparable goose and gander, For what our creator puts together; No man can put asunder, For where there is no retreat;...

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