Narrative Poems | Narrative Examples

Army BRAT’S Always ‘Wanna’ Fly High The tradition necessitates that as a child born unto military parents Called by the beloved acronym Born Raised and Trained (BRAT’S) Be always on the spotlight as they augment and compliment The guys in uniform ever shifting from one place to another Military BRAT’S never quite settle born and raised as sojourners Born of a...

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Men in tailored suits and satin waistcoats, gold watches peeking out of their pockets, walked arm in arm with women in wide skirts ~ hooped, crinolined, elegantly sculpted. Their tight corsets tease each careful traipse, leaving traces of elegance and opulence... dotting the streets at Christmastime with exaggerated silhouettes. They kissed under mistletoe ~ hung in doorways, each kiss claiming a berry until none were...

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Every tribe, a savior That's why we have Different religion Every person, a choice That's why everyone Has who they endowed. Every time or season Someone is risen Base on some reasons To liberate his or her people So they don't live in bondages Suffering from past ancestral mistakes. If you don't wake up You'll always initiate Break ups Because...

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There are voices all around us Not loud, not obvious, But aching to be heard. Within this poem lies three unheard stories Three souls, each silenced by society A woman who smiles in fear. A boy punished for love. And a girl whose dreams shrink in the shadows. Their pain is different, But their silence is the same. This poem is for them For the unheard,...

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When you don't see love, Just go to the sea. Make the sea breeze As your love letter, To send your love for free. The sea is vast as ocean So as love is simple, Yet so unfathomable. The heart is one foot In between your head, Yet so far at a distance, So deeply felt unrestrained. The mind is green when tame While heart is red in...

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A cigar is appreciated simply, By observing how it is burned. From where it starts till it ends, The fire erases its way forward. As the smoke favors consume, It's like life how the story goes From birth to its maturity show. Going forward written as will, Like history unfold its all done, Read every pages up to the end. Retold its content to every...

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The wind stood still, the stars held breath, Two voices rose in life and death. One whispered start, one thundered close, Each pulled the soul where no one knows. Beginning sang with morning light: "Come rise with me, embrace the fight. Your dreams are seeds; they’ve just been sown— Why fear the path you’ve never known?" End replied in velvet tone: "But peace is...

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the person she was at eight a.m. did not recognize her three p.m. self She had thrown away two or three “I will never's" that day transmogrifying herself into a willing flexible chameleon no one else noticed, which amused her slightly but lightly Part of herself wanted to scream her new truth, but she was shy Her muse took the...

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(“Eye of God”, 2018, original encaustic mixed media) The Harsh Reality of Truth The harsh reality Is people get what they deserve, But it can be confusing ‘Cause you don’t always know If it was for something you know you’ve done Of something you did long ago In a different life, body, time and place. In the end Sooner or later The equation of Life Works...

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--- ## Love is a War I know what happened when the love that couldn't stay away from me for even a moment became distant. In that moment, I didn't break; I felt pain within the pain, and to assert my right over it, I hunted it down. Don't ask today, the game is over, Vaishali Baskaran....

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Without a word I slip out of bed and a thousand conversations run through my mind as I walk barefoot across worn carpeting. Two nights ago, I barely made it home while driving through a deluge and water on the roads. I defied the warnings and survived as bolts of lightning laced the sky. I was the storm. I was the silence. Now as the sun pokes...

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Tonight I ask my wife, Why did you marry such an idiot To which she replied, You weren’t such an idiot back then. My wife continually brightens my day, And that’s why I have And always will continue to Love her. (7/12/25)...

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"Exit music for a bad movie" that shining kingdom waits and watches numbed now to nightmares its falling cuckold leaders deliver fools gold hungry homeless open palms receive broken promises overflowing forgotten hymns and collection plates souls are worth blood in buried pain borders are drawn all are caged the marriages not made in heaven shelved for another day Candide Diderot. ‘25...

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The alpha males stand at the precipice of power each attempting to prove They are the greatest Resting on the backs of stupidity a nuclear war one percent chance of total annihilation of life on the planet As we destroy our ecological systems ninety-nine percent of the world dying from nuclear radiation and the direct...

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She met him one October day, When autumn winds had lost their way. Leaves whispered secrets down the street, And fate, unasked, had planned their meet. He smiled the way the sun might rise On empty fields and hollow skies. He spoke like pages dipped in gold, Of futures warm, of hands to hold. She, fragile as a half-healed scar, Believed his voice, his...

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