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People Once Upon A Time Poems

These People Once Upon A Time poems are examples of Once Upon A Time poems about People. These are the best examples of Once Upon A Time People poems written by international poets.


once upon a time
Once upon a time

In May, in the landscape where I used to live, dainty light green buses appeared, seemed to have no roots, fragile, pure...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: once upon a time, absence, bangla, beautiful, blessing,



Premium Member A Once Upon a Time Dream
A long long time ago (even not so long ago it sometimes seems),
I used to have what I perceived to be nice, practical dreams.

Not many...

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Categories: once upon a time, dream,

Once Upon a Time
ONCE UPON A TIME

Once upon a time
I was told to listen,
Listen to voices on radio
Chanting praises at something,
Something called democracy
And it made me new.

As new...

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Categories: once upon a time, corruption, hate, political,

Premium Member Once Upon a Time
There stood a castle on the summit of a hill
Now fallen to decay, hidden among bushes wild
It perched like an eagle’s nest on the steep...

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Categories: once upon a time, celebration, cute love, irony,

Once Upon a Time
“I remember before I tried meth, I asked people what it was like. They said “it’s like a burst of energy, a rush that takes...

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Categories: once upon a time, addiction,



Premium Member Once Upon a Time
It is a story for the ages that generations will long repeat
for when it comes to these two lovers…it was their destiny to meet.

Two ordinary...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: once upon a time, life, love,

Premium Member Once Upon a Time When a Bat Eater Ruled the World
Once upon a time:
a wet market bat eater
turned humanity into mask wearing
double ply paper hoarding survivalist.
Rapist and assorted ogres were being set free
making room for...

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Categories: once upon a time, confusion, dark,

Once Upon a Time
Started a blank canvas for people to stain,
Made to be perfect, sickeningly plain.
Somewhere I started taking my own train,
Trying to go against the grain.
But everything...

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Categories: once upon a time, growing up,

Once Upon a Time In Virtual Romance Land
Vast hollow hall, ambient glow entering slow on tiptoe
calls out “Hello! is anyone here?” 
Door hinge swing--by sight unseen
peripheral movement from the rear--none appear

One soft...

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Categories: once upon a time, allegory, allusion, fantasy, imagery,

Premium Member The Fallacy of 'Once Upon a Time'
A fallacy, that every 'once upon a time' 
is a beautiful fantasy, for some hold lies
Fairytales have a hero, but also a villain
masked in sheep's...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: once upon a time, evil, people,

Premium Member Once Upon a Time
I was born on the closing days of
The second World War  
In a small village of north-west of Greece
Up on the mountains.

The country was...

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Categories: once upon a time, age, life, nature, technology,

Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time in times forgotten
A land saw great conspiracy
nameless deleted scores of people
leaders sabotaged investigations

Journalists boycotted meetings
and refused to pen down issues
judges indefinitely...

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Categories: once upon a time, leadership, power, satire,

Once Upon a Time Far Away
Once upon a time, in a land far from far away, tiny people with big feet and small toes danced to a harmonic beat. 
They...

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Categories: once upon a time, adventure, children, deep, fantasy,

Premium Member Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time here on earth
Before the dinosaurs or Eden, for what it's worth
I lived a life that you n'er can ken
Which is why...

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Categories: once upon a time, earth, fantasy, imagery, world,

Once Upon a Time In Tipir
It was noon, he was in the bush, he enjoyed this type of living, he sometimes played with the animals just to make himself happy...

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Categories: once upon a time, africa, age, animal, best


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