Best Narrative Poems
Below are the all-time best Narrative poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of narrative poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
ShadowIt was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...
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Categories:
dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Past-Life NightmareA child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.
Night...
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Categories:
autumn, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be...
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Categories:
death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
John LennonOn the day
that John Lennon died,
people were just going
about their business
as they did every day.
Mark David Chapman
was reading
Catcher In The Rye
void of his holy self.
He...
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Categories:
music,
Form:
Narrative
The Clouds"HOLDING HIS HAND"
*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?
"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...
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Categories:
angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Narrative
Dance To Love - POTD - A Visual Art Poem Tribute POTD 23rd June 2019
Maria Williams
Presents
Dance to Love
A tribute to my Dad, the late - Wilfred Forbes
She danced with wild abandon
she danced without a...
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Categories:
romantic, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
The Enchanted ForestThe woods were silent except for the shifting
soft sounds of his hooves as they fell upon
the forest floor. There he stood amid the...
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Categories:
adventure, fairy, fantasy, horse,
Form:
Narrative
Incident At Milton Creek Silver MineGiant balls of tumbleweed were blowing down the main street
And off the Sierra Nevada mountains there blew a fine sleet
It was late December in the...
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Categories:
america, christmas, december, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Survivors GuiltIt's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...
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Categories:
death, grief, how i
Form:
Narrative
The Land of the Midnight SunI went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...
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Categories:
boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form:
Narrative
The HomecomingIt was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...
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Categories:
america, father, home, mother,
Form:
Narrative
Walk TallI was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...
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Categories:
america, death, drink, drug,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...
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Categories:
america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative