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Folklore Poems - Poems about Folklore

Premium Member The Market Rasen Witch - Lincolnshire Folklore
upon the Rase a troublesome crone who meddled in the Rasen folk for she a witch! a witch! their slant and well she laid upon a cow a cursied blight a cursied spell and lo would not this neighbour’s cow go to the milking parlour so this neighbour’s daughter fraught and fair to seek a wise man, she that hour left in haste...

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Categories: folklore, dark, fun, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pixie
under a henge hides he and she near an ecurie for equine frivolity to neatly plait a golden mane then ride and play in pixie’s name at night near mid of star and moon to slake the pangs of puckish tune and well they may have built the henge in ancient time and dwelled there since ...

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Categories: folklore, fairy, fantasy, magic, mystery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Vinegar Tom
O Vinegar Tom your belly is long your head is of ox your body is dog you live with a witch do Devilish bids you dance to her song O Vinegar Tom ...

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Categories: folklore, character, dark, dog, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Sinter's Cross, Part III
...Since that day there has been a cross perched high atop the bluff, and when the town grew up they thought they should show him their love. That’s how we became Sintertown, their way to show respect, when the first cross rotted away the quickly built the next. The one you see now was installed back in nineteen-thirty, and it’s still standing proudly since they made...

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Categories: folklore, conflict, courage, death, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Sinter's Cross, Part II
...A warrior shrieked, pitched sideways, bled when he hit the ground, the Apache spurred their horses, looking to flank around. But John expected such a thig, he looked right and saw one, the Indian jerked violently, bullet through his eardrum. Just them a blast slammed into John, a round shot from behind, he rolled to see a man on foot, swung his pistol inline. At the same...

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Categories: folklore, conflict, courage, death, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Sinter's Cross, Part I
You see that there? That’s Sinter’s Cross, on the bluff by the stream, a cross has stood there with his name since eighteen eighty-three. That was the year John Sinter fell, but I’ll not skip ahead, I’ll do it right and tell the tale of how the man got dead. Sinter was a farm boy, like most, from Ohio he came, the sixth of seven,...

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Categories: folklore, conflict, courage, death, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Legends of old
When little kids ask for stories Regale them of our lore and its glories. Listening with rapt notice Tales of champions and menaces. One and all exclaim with awe Hearing about our Gods. They don't die Live within us and fly. Burn like a phoenix Survive with their tactics. Look beyond the veil When the fiercest quail. Never lose their light Even in the darkest of nights. With a...

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Categories: folklore, life, myth, mythology, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tir na nog - A Tragic Epic Saga
Tír na nÓg - A Tragic Epic Saga ye hear, of a leprechaun and a unicorn who met in a field’s corner a he and she, she killed by a tree, when it fell he couldn’t warn her ...

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Categories: folklore, dark, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Three Deaths and Honey, Please
In the darkness, all birds and bees and all angels here lie asleep. The twinkling stars look down bemoaning my plight, they frown Over the Panther that crawls above As black as night, upon the wall she prowls. Just above my grip, on the sewage pipe, The viper, the villains twisting my plight. Into the list adds the third, My anxieties, awake and...

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Categories: folklore, animal, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Isn'T Folklore
2 Peter 1:16 (KJV) “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.” If I spoke of all the sins I’ve known, I’d leave my fears with the love He’s grown, When He saved me – yes, saved...

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Categories: folklore, faith, heart, hope, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Spirit With Trees
** In Spirit with Trees ** I feel sad, feeling a kind of tragedy When I see that a storm has broken… has felled trees. Grass everywhere green, rises. Flowers splendidly gracing…And Blessed crops progress us all… But, The...

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Categories: folklore, beauty, creation, environment, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Bona Dea
Good Goddess Bona Dea We celebrate Your rites Female only festivals. All men are out of sight. You safeguard our fertility As we worship at your feet With flowers, wine and vine leaves And a serpent, when we meet. So Bona Dea praise you. Give us fruitfulness in birth. Empower us to be feminine And champion our worth...

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Categories: folklore, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slavic Folk Song
Don't eat the bear and the bear won't eat you Don't stomp on flowers Don't spit on the dew If you are a bad person your life will worsen But if you are good then there's no need for cursin' Yoi yoi la la la la yoi yoi la....

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Categories: folklore, animal, flower, happy, music,
Form: Lyric
Folklore
Hansel and Gretel Bread crumbs lead the way outside Witch in the forest...

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Categories: folklore, 3rd grade, adventure, betrayal,
Form: Haiku
Screw Etiquette
Today is an American folk event Unraveled by traditions and etiquette Vixens ask men on a date Women hoping to find a mate Sadie Hawkins Day we celebrate...

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Categories: folklore, crush, cute love, high
Form: ABC

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