Short Folktales Poems

Short Folktales Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Folktales by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Folktales by length and keyword.


Mother Heaven

Mother heaven , earth
Men cut off the navel-string
heaven soared up high


(Inspired by ancient Indian Legends and folktales)
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Strangers in the Night

Surely, we walked together...
But just like shadows,
Some cheap ghost climbs in nightly,
Pondering the same.

Were all our lives rich folktales?
Panic knots tighter,
As I must have lost your face—
The one that was mine.
Form: Other

Premium Member Murphys Tower of Books

Murphy is loving her reading tower of books.
Adventures, biographies, and suggestions to cooks.
Home improvements, that she will never do.
Mysteries, picture books, and Manga too.
folktales, fantasy, fiction and non-fiction galore.
All Murphy can say is, "Please bring me more!"
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Then Shall Sleep

Winter’s bite is in the air tonight and the moon is risen overhead casting shadows like the witches have aforesaid, but old folktales will not warm my bones nor sweetbread will provide, I’ll make my bed beneath the stars and scrubby heath, then shall sleep.
Form: Other

Premium Member Fourteen Frenzied Folk Dancers

Fourteen frenzied folk dancers telling fairy tales
Finding fifteen frisky folk singers, some with tails.
Friendly folklore frightening fools, freckles and more.
Forbidden folktales foraged by frisky faeries galore.
Fitting a folksy framework of fulfillment in field number four.
I am inspired to folk dance my way out there, my interest doth soar.


The Moon

Mother of folktales
Milking and waxing.
I wish you for a taste

We'll sing and have cocktails
Under your enamel masking
A night with you never a waste.

Your beautiful smile
Subdues the nights' dread
And gives comforts in sleep.
You light every mile
Of your milking spread
A delight worth to keep.

My eyes await you
The sight of your white hue.

12/04/2013
Form: Rhyme

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