Oral and Improvised Folk Verse

Folk poetry (sometimes referred to as poetry in action) is poetry that is part of a society's folklore, usually part of their oral tradition.

Flyting or fliting (Classical Gaelic: immarbág, Irish: iomarbháigh, lit. "counter-boasting") is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse.

Bertsolaritza Basque pronunciation: [berˈts̺olaɾits̻a] or bertsolarism is the art of singing improvised songs in Basque according to various melodies and rhyming patterns.

A mutu is a type of improvised sung poetry found in Sardinia.

Ebyevugo is a genre of oral poetry in the Runyankore language, spoken by the Banyankore people of southwestern Uganda.

Buraanbur is a poetic form within traditional Somali poetry.

are a body of traditional literature in the Finnic languages whose purpose was to effect magical change on the world

The corpus of traditional riddles from the Finnic-speaking world (including the modern Finland, Estonia, and parts of Western Russia)

Izibongo is a genre of oral literature among various Bantu peoples of Southern Africa, including the Zulu and the Xhosa.

Oríkì, or praise poetry, is a cultural phenomenon amongst Yoruba-speakers of West Africa.

a traditional form of Malagasy oral literature and poetry, involving heavy use of metaphor

short, two line emotional lyric poems written by the Bedouins of Egypt

Waulking songs (Scottish Gaelic: Orain Luaidh) are Scottish folk songs, traditionally sung in the Gaelic language by women while fulling (waulking) cloth.