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A narrative poem is a form of poetry that tells a story. They are poems that have a plot, characters, and setting while presenting a series of events through action and conversations between two or more people. However, there is more. What is narrative in poetry (complete definition)?

Choices of Hope
His mean bulging eyes stare at me from behind the screen, and from the look on his face you could see that he has been meddling with my midnight dreams, for twelve long hours he...Read the rest...
Categories: america, betrayal, business, care,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Dorothy Doo Wrong
I have worked in ten schools as a school counselor. I have had twelve administrators over twenty-seven years. This one was the quintessential ridiculous administrator. Let’s call her Dorothy Doo Wrong. Dorothy Doo Wrong compartmentalized grades 3rd-5th. This ensures teachers...Read the rest...
Categories: school,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member From Loving My Job to Glad to Make my Escape
I loved my school counseling job Loved it, loved it, loved it. Until they moved me to another school part time. One weeksschool A - my home school. The next week school B- a school that loves me,...Read the rest...
Categories: school, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jack Turners Other Lifetimes
I had read about reincarnation and past lives and there was a suggestion. To ask a young child “who were you before you were GABBY.” On Saturday September 15th 2012 I asked my grandson Jack Turner “Who were...Read the rest...
Categories: spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Woodland Tale
A giant lived among the trees a woodland home of oak and elm of birch, of sycamore, a roof of leaves but treelings bothered, pestered him did run amok, did taunt and tease play and run around his feet did kick...Read the rest...
Categories: fantasy, fun, magic, tree,
Form: Narrative



Let The Wind Blow
In the wee hour of the morning I hear my spirit calling, I wasn’t sure how to respond to it but my emotion made me answer it. It was extremely dark outside and the street light...Read the rest...
Categories: america, clothes, creation, deep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Why Write
I write . . . to those who read, A written word to understand. For whom the pages turn the truth, ...Read the rest...
Categories: poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Meeting of Hearts
We are here on this very tentative and frightening occasion to commiserate and forget, celebrate and remember but, most of all, to chose that path which will lead us to the rest of our lives....Read the rest...
Categories: love,
Form: Narrative
Shades
He sits there with defiance in his eyes and listens to the choir as it sings the final chorus before it dies, the room was packed with critics and a mountain of problems was climbing...Read the rest...
Categories: america, beautiful, break up,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Quintessential Enthusiastic Medium
Poetry is your first walk in freezing cold snow a carnival of whirlwind words that often spin you around Poetry can be sorrow on the end of a cold tree branch drama, excitement, joy, disbelief, and humor Poetry may...Read the rest...
Categories: poetry,
Form: Narrative
When The Time is Right
I walked along the corridors of time staring at reality in front of me and the vision of the night with loose bolts flickering in the sky shaped my unknown destiny. I felt courage moving up...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, appreciation, business, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ledger of Love: PART II
Ledger of Love In the shadows of the Victorian night, Where candles flicker with amorous light, A forbidden love fiercely burns, In a pounding heart, passion yearns. Amidst the lace and satin array, Where masks conceal bygone dismay, A dance of desire,...Read the rest...
Categories: break up, emotions, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ledger of Love: PART I
Ledger of Love In the dim-lit chambers of the Victorian home, Resides a wife, her heart a silent tome. Once, love’s flame burned bright within her breast, But now a thin whisp, a ghostly jest. Her gaze averts from her...Read the rest...
Categories: confusion, desire, heartbreak, longing,
Form: Narrative
Beyond Rote
If we crammed their heads with facts and dates, Ignoring sparks and curious states, Would learning ever truly take root? Children, not clay, for us to sculpt and boot. Tolerance, not rote, a lesson grand, Understanding hand in accepting hand. "Unfold"...Read the rest...
Categories: care, children, education, growth,
Form: Narrative
How it all began in the beginning
Remember the young Meaning the unborn or Perhaps those who are Newly born? What right has an abortionists' Knives to demolish the innocent Lives of children resting inside of their mothers' wombs? Male and female, created He them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish The...Read the rest...
Categories: 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Specific Types of Narrative Poems

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Definition | What is Narrative in Poetry?

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