Long Folklore Poems
Long Folklore Poems. Below are the most popular long Folklore by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Folklore poems by poem length and keyword.
Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
folklore, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
folklore, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Story About Santa Contest
Sponsor: Carol Eastman
Long before Christmas had become a jolly folklore,
I met a grandfatherly man...
He was clean shaven, tiny and crabby,
And always wore a floppy black suit, his name was Mr. Atnas.
See, I was at such...
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Categories:
folklore, christmas, joy, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Bionic Betty: Another True Tale From the Mental Ward
Betty was bonafide crazy. She had shot her husband after a night of drunken quarreling, and was in the state mental hospital instead of being in the slammer. She'd shot the louse in the stomach...
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Categories:
folklore, crazy, woman,
Form:
Narrative
Aroma Poetry
Mother nature oh! Rose of roses!
Mother of all flowers' and smell,
Ylang Ylang! You don't know what it causes!
An aphrodisiac turns you on like hell!
Sandalwood with its masculine warmth poses,
Rosemary clears the head, you can tell,
Peppermint...
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Categories:
folklore, beauty, flower, rose, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Precious Moments
Precious Moments
...
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Categories:
folklore, appreciation, innocence,
Form:
Rhyme
Four paths of tantra trika
1) Preamble
As breath’s created, sustained and destroyed,
we see trika, threefold aspect at play
through life, where we are by ego decoyed,
until we choose to make love our mainstay.
Beyond religions, scriptures and folklore,
let’s explore the direct path...
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Categories:
folklore, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Echoe Village
It was a clear crisp morning around
11 am or so konw one could be seen for miles
There was a diner sign hanging off it's post and
blinking from a shortage in the wires...
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Categories:
folklore, blessing, growing up, remembrance day, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Someone To Hold 5
Xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Oxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Seriously, madly in love once more
What am I waiting for? What AM I waiting for?
You ain't no bore and you're more exciting than a folklore
You are my future in store
So what am...
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Categories:
folklore, deep, emotions, faith, hope, lonely, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Burning Paper Houses
Slowly creeping out of winter
Would it ever be the same
If I showed up at your door
Out of breath, out of line
With a million excuses behind my manic behavior?
A video diary full...
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Categories:
folklore, betrayal, extended metaphor, imagery, loss, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Groundhog Day - Thursday, February 2nd 2023
The date of the celebration
(the second day of February) coincides
with medieval feast of Candlemas,
and its pre-Christian predecessor,
Imbolc, a day also rich in folklore.
An old Scottish prophecy foretells
sunny weather on Candlemas
means a long winter.
The tradition is...
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Categories:
folklore, 12th grade, 4th grade, 8th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
THE RUMOR
RUMORS USUALLY BEGAN BY SOMEONE SO FIXATED ON ANOTHER PERSONS LIFE IT COULD BEGAN ON THE SCHOOL YARD SOMETHING AS SMALL AS BEING JEALOUS THAT YOUR CLASSMATE HAS A SHINING NEW INK PEN WITH A...
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Categories:
folklore, allah,
Form:
Naat
Money
A long verse on an even longer subject
The eye of most everything is money
Their power over us is unsurpassed
Hey, got the dough? May call me “honey”
To get away, to buy me things, to have a...
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Categories:
folklore, money,
Form:
Rhyme
The People of the Enchanted Forest
The People of the Enchanted Forest
In times of folklore where many a tall tale told
The town folk spoke of mystic stories so bold
Of a forest, never seen by the likes of any man
Where mystical...
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Categories:
folklore, adventure, journey,
Form:
Ballad
SAMHUINN
SAMHUINN
Wi samhuin fast approaching
When people start tae dread,
The gates of hell burst open
For the festival of the dead.
Bane shanks lifts his scythe
And scrieves his words in fire,
Welcome tae this earthly plane
Or be cast upon the...
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Categories:
folklore, fantasy, fear, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.
They had the secret.
Not gold, not weapons, not prophecy—
but language that healed.
Real language—
not poetry,...
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Categories:
folklore, death, fear, horror, myth, science fiction, technology,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Year 6555
We're now in the year 6555, and I am feeling happy and so alive,
Above, sunshine pours like honey, as along the oceanside I drive.
Wind whips my hair around, beneath skies a deep sparkling blue,
Like the...
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Categories:
folklore, fantasy, future, imagery, nature, planet, time, travel,
Form:
Couplet
The Gunslinger
The Gunslinger
There once was a honest man, a man of iron and steel
Vengeance filled his heart, a lust for blood so surreal
No one knows what calamity has forged his evil ways
Or of what rages...
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Categories:
folklore, sad, violence,
Form:
Ballad
The Longest Journey
Heart, tempestuous and wild
Delights in the dance of contrast
Although knowing it will not last
Frolics about like a playful child
Mother and Father join the play
Name of the game is separation
Hide and seek, before their union
Foiled...
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Categories:
folklore, spiritual,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
In My Deepest Fantasies
Sunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled rampant penchant,
for titanic exploit extraordinaire beyond dimension heftiness,
a stimulant patently innocuous...
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Categories:
folklore, celebration, character, confidence, destiny, dream, imagination, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Seat of Kings
A stone round standing fortress crowns forever beauty
The name translated to english Grianan means sunny spot or sun temple
The land bows down inspirational the view
seat of the high kings dating back to 1700 B.C
Overlooking...
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Categories:
folklore, beautiful, green, inspirational, ireland,
Form:
Free verse
The Krampus
Beware the wrath of the Northern Polar boogie man,
The Anti-Clause, a legendary beast of nightmarish voracity,
From folklore mythology, a dark creature of demonic prowess,
Lurks in the hidden shadow realm, in a freezing forbidden zone,
Of...
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Categories:
folklore, christmas, fantasy, holiday, imagery, international, myth, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Our Mother a Literary Translation of Humayun Azad
We knew more about our mother. While, father was a revered persona , a bit distant.
Our mother was always an undertone in front of father, an unrecognized delicate privacy, worn out
Her lingering incomplete silences used...
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Categories:
folklore, mother,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter of a Sis
Dearest sister-in law,
Today, I met the person,
you tried in your match-making effort for me.
He was quite a nice one!
Although, it did not offer
stemming much of other thoughts,...
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Categories:
folklore, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Animal Chain Atocities
Animal Chain Atrocities
No longer a bucolic photo op
bedecking a cover of Life magazine
Free grazing
pastoral images
now but bewildered enslavement
Animal commodities
factory farms and feedlots
CAFO habitats raising
sixty billion a year for dinner tables
Chickens
Hi-Tech slaughter
football fields long
alethic poor
four walled...
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Categories:
folklore, animal,
Form:
Free verse