Angst Narrative Poems

Friday night was movie night
hotdogs plastered in crunchy green relish
honey colored mustard and red tangy ketchup
popcorn as salty as a pretzel, icy Kool Aid
and juicy...

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...The wedding was planned for that fifth year,
but when it came Rob sadly did say:
“I’m being deployed, they’re put us on alert,
I’m sorry love, but...

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Charlotte Wentworth married far too young,
to a man quite rich with old money.
It had seemed such a dream on the big day,
a year later it...

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...She said,”I need to talk about something,
that for a long while has bothered me.
For the first time in all of my life,
I do not know...

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The strongest woman that I ever saw
was born thirty-four years ago,
to loving parents who doted on her,
told he of the great places she’d go.

She was...

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Long ago, upon one grey and bleak November
That I shall forevermore remember,
I’d heard that my beautiful belov’d was untrue;
Then the rages of despair and anguish...

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It’s an enduring strain,
	and a constant fight,
to remain focussed,
	when failing sight,
defeats my writing
	of poetic lines!
Frustration oft rules,
	when I see few signs,
of what I’ve written,
	for all...

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WISH I KNEW YOU WHEN I WAS YOUNG

Looking back on those years...
Everything was fragmented.
Everything was made by nightmare.
I got a lot of questions to ask,
But...

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The world is a dichotomy,
The Yin Yang of life’s experience,
It is simultaneously banal,
And mysterious,
Happy and sad,
Exciting and bland,
Without small,
There would be no tall,
If there is...

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For thus  I am  entangled in a web of despair!
        A widow's orb of woven thread.
'Tis...

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headland harbored primitive biota abut
mint for exotic sole terrain sustaining 
sole terrain sustaining seeds, spores, spermatozoa, ova 
   seeds, spores, spermatozoa, ova ,...

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Let me tell you, about fear . . . 

      I was laying on my bed when I sensed a...

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I have traveled, long hard roads
Sailed atop, those stormy seas
Climbed the highest mountain tops
And dwelled among the forest trees

I have felt, the pangs of love	
And...

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Soul stripped.

Flesh ripped. 

Hope lost.

Time moves on not heeding the cost.

Hurt buried aside in the ditch.

Anger flares like a flip of the switch.

Fist tenses,
Wrenching blood...

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Her visits had become infrequent,
the woman in his late-night dreams,
but he was not certain why that was.

His intense affection he had declared to
this beautiful maiden,...

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(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling!)

If you can keep your head when your computer crashes
right after a new programme, removed essential caches!
If you can smile when...

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There's no sentiment in business 

loyalty counts for nothing at all

my employers couldn't care less

but there's no chance that I'll crawl

I'm nobody's whipping boy to...

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While stopped for some fast food and self-serve gas-
I saw her watching me watching her.
She was young- her late teens I guessed.  
I did...

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Brrr brrr brrr; Hello caller this is the wabc radio phone in; what would you like to talk about? I'd like to discuss my reaction...

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