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Tall Tales Poems - Poems about Tall Tales

Tall Tales Poems - Examples of all types of poems about tall tales to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for tall tales.
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... Time has weathered its walls, and nature has claimed it as its own, with vines and foliage covering every surface as if foraging for room. The air is thick with a sense of dejic-mystery and signi......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, art,
Form: Other



Premium Member Laugh Out Louder
... news depresses friends tall tales hurt their funny bone go tickle a lie ......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, cheer up, depression, uplifting,
Form: Senryu
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf. Despite countless factorial permutations & combinations, this cyber surfer avails left and......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, abuse, age, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Gramps
...Never knew my grandpa's, they were too old. I cannot now sing true grampus songs. I get all teary-eyed about those two dead and gonners. I dream of going fishing with them, listening to thei......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member my darling boy
... oh ... have you seen my darling boy blond hair, like corn silk, falling? lost, his sparkling absinthe eyes but still, my heart keeps calling I thought I saw him run away ......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, age, fate, growing up,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member In a World Gone Mad Part II
...Freshly awake from feeling trapped in a dream I drink Sleepytime tea in the dark and Read an article perfectly summarizing the modern world of Cluster B personality disorders - the underlying psyc......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, psychological, society,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member You Wake Up To Find Out Black and White Are the Same
...You Wake Up To Find Out Black And White Are The Same He said, yes, fear Fate when curves destroy the straight line When the circle turns into a huge blacken square And malignant rocks are the fo......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, art, deep, dream, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Soul
...“In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche I am but an illusion spun by myths and tall tales, The lure of an eternal afterlife The promise of Paradise.......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Cowboy Life Ain'T Dead
...They said the cowboy way of living has withered away and is long gone Least that's what I seen in the movies and heard in all them old country songs They tell me bout how them olden days and t......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
My Cheerleader Left For Good Today
...I heard your encouragement so many times, worded ten million different ways that I forgot to listen for it anymore. Your love never came lightly, never with levity but rather cast echoes wh......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, absence, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
...Glory to thermodynamics in general... and generation of heat in particular cuz yours truly spoiled with trappings of Western Civilization. How ideal I imagine to dwell in a self sufficie......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don'T Offer Me a Prescription
...let me take my shoes off And go walking in the rain Don’t give me no advice From your theories obsolete Just let me feel the “BIG BANG” From my head down to my feet Don’t share with me your "TALL TALES" About how you survived the night Just let me say at the end of the day That “I'M REALLY DOING ALRIGHT” Circa 1990’s......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, age, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Virtuous and Vicious
...He weaves coincidences and makes up stories, He creates stories and makes up myths, He spins tall tales— Is he a poet or politician? He loves with a passion like a man on a mission…......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Repristination
...Digging into and detecting deep roots gives me a thrill. Though raking up the foregone quarrels is a tiresome drill, Values I have lost in the name of modernization, Traditions that, like ancient ......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Ate a Piece of Toast and Other Tall Tales
...Attempting imagery after googling it once This was supposed to be the blurb But it's becoming the poem My measure of success Is getting it right, with minimal effort Because when I try And no......Read the rest...
Categories: tall tales, writing,
Form: Free verse

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