Dramatic Monologue Poems | Dramatic Monologue Examples

I woke with blood in my mouth and no memory of the scab that sealed the rasure. I’m cat-spitting dog-growling peregrine-divebombing rooster-flogging badger-flipping hornet-stinging wolverine-ripping mad. I fired the sun for showing up late cursed the fridge light until yogurt soured in terror. God called I let it ring twice. The therapist said breathe so I swallowed my tongue now I speak in the language of things with canines. coyote-howl syntax vulture-vowel decay the guttural grammar of...

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The poems that never get read. Sitting in some pile of papers on the desk. They just didn't have it to go anywhere. Though they hold the stories of lovers and haters. Big men and little men. Winners and losers. Beauty and the beast! The World, what a place! The tales of great drama called the human condition. From the past and the future...

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I. THE WANDERING I was born with a life that bled— a seafloor womb dragging tides of fern and marigold char The priests brought saffron and fear crowning me with diagnosis They said: She is too empty They said: Fill her with figs with seed with stillness They said: Her belly speaks too loud Mute her O Plato old patriarch of phantoms my body was no beast— just prophecy you never learned...

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I feel your unrehearsed pauses-- the rustle of a blue shirt in leaving a tangy ache your firm lips make, holding back cold, collected words. This rendezvous ... a slow-fire quiver an ending which has it's own interment; and outside, night wrestles with time brittle dew against my eyes, dry mouth licking an estranged bite that reminds me of your frivolity ....

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This is a problem growing in direct proportion To the papers that we face very soon In everyone’s speech a pronounced distortion And half the class sleepwalking at noon I’m here chiefly to bring to your attention You may soon not understand us Because I for one, others by extension Shall be speaking nothing but Physics because James is moving about too excited Gerald...

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How can True trust Faith when lies begin to escape, You are the reason why I hide my face with a Smile or a Cape, Because I can't forget what you Took and what you keep Taking, My Heart keeps on breaking daily, that is why I am Inhaling, These Drugs I Breath, I just can't Believe, Life is full of...

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To ponder or not to ponder - that is the question. Is it a waste of my precious seconds, minutes, hours To dwell on the questions that plague my mind? I spend my waking and waning hours mulling and considering, Crashing waves of question marks and possibilities Dance around in my mind's eye, quelling the beast of sleep. A skeptical girl's...

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Oh death The fear of countless souls I adore your kiss I need you close When will we meet? When shall you come? It's too long a wait Please come tonight I don't know you I know life is a tsunami Perhaps you can rescue me Where shall we meet? Oh life The lover of the lifeless I've honored your presence I gave you my all Why...

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I've cut through life with grand experience. Now I'm old and standing on the precipice where a man finds what really matters. The dance of life gradually slows down, with nothing but a pocketful of memories. Facing that last hurrah and the joys and sorrows that make life all the more lived. ...

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Train up a child in the way that (she) should go and when (she) is old she shall not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 This Bible verse uses the first person singular masculine pronoun of he and not she; however, since this is my own personal journal entry, I choose to use the first person singular...

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O Gracious and Holy Almighty God and Everlasting Father, Have your redeemed children lost our first love for Thee? Is your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, no longer taking His center stage and rightful place in our all too hectic lives? Don't we know when it was the last time that watery tear drops Freely flowed from our eyes, when...

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O how it is so very clear that our departure in rapture's flight of 777 Is alas also so very near and it could be departing any moment of Every single solitary day. That is why Jesus tells us "fear not and Don't be afraid." When I am coming for my children in the middle Of that...

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When I open my eyes, I want to see you next to me, Forever and always. Your arms are where I belong, in the darkest of nights and in morning's dew. So, night and day, we are friends and lovers, forever and always. "I love you" is a mistake I'll make; my heart belongs to you forever and always. I...

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I know how many times I betrayed me. How many times I chose them over me. How much of my worth I gave to people who never deserved a second of my time. I gave my all to the undeserving. To the selfish. To the weak. To those who couldn’t even respect themselves, let alone me. I poured everything into nothing. But that...

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**Therapy Session** Some people insist that a demon exists within all of us. A rapist is nothing more than a thief, And it's clear that some public defenders Don’t have more intelligence than their clients. Remember, you are not obligated to serve as a juror in every case. With that understanding, creating a mental trend becomes straightforward. It's astonishing...

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