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Hope Narrative Poems

These Hope Narrative poems are examples of Narrative poems about Hope. These are the best examples of Narrative Hope poems written by international poets.

cockney geezer by Roy Pett

I was born within the sound of Bow bells in the east end of London, this makes me a true cockney, I own a cock...

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Categories: england, humor, identity, london,

9 11 by Lionel Derbyshire

9 11
Of a very sad day of bereavement for the working class ..
when a father right at the top tumbled down for camera sensation and...

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Categories: america, courage, day, hero,

Those Were Da Days by Freddie Robinson Jr.

Workin' fo’ free from cradle ta grave
Laborin' sunup ta sundown e’eryday,
while Missy and Massa sat in da shade
Those were da days

Us darkies knew where our...

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Categories: nostalgia, perspective, slavery, song,

Letter to Watchman Nee by Mark Frank

I met your readings as a teenager
The words from your mouth blessed me
I started to mediate word upon word
Knowing the sacrifice, we need when we...

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Categories: education, love,

The Abandon Farm by Christine Phillips

I have always wanted something wonderful out of life
But my mother said there is always a price
It has nothing to do with land, money or...

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Categories: betrayal, change, corruption, destiny,

Meet On The Upper Floor by Christine Phillips

What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was...

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Categories: beauty, change, emotions, friendship

Maternity Ward Blues by Caren Krutsinger

The woman was older, had black hair, angry brown eyes, and wore a perpetual frown on her face. Chel had heard the nurse on the...

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Categories: baby, hope,

The Peasants Truck by Christine Phillips

Everybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot...

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Categories: angel, blessing, business, character,

Never Is Enough by mark palmer

Quietly with cap to hand he begs on the street
With Cross legs he waits with a sigh, 
Cold in the pouring rain, with his fingers...

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Categories: loneliness, lost, poverty, sad,

The Loneliest Place To Die by Jonathan French

Alone, naked, no life jacket, no hope,
treading water on the vast Pacific.
Drifting flotsam with thoughts;
nothing to feel but his own form
and shrivelling, salty-liquid apparel.
He could...

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Categories: death, loneliness,

When two worlds became one by David Smith

Once upon a time there were two worlds,
One for children and one for adults,
Each owing its existence to the other,
With the children awaking to a...

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Categories: age, allusion, analogy, anxiety,

The Haunted House by Carolyn Devonshire

Haunted places, haunted lives --
     Who knows the terrors trapped inside?
Out of gas and losing vigor, 
    ...

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Categories: horror,

The Black Man by Michael Barber

The Black Man

Hello to the world of the black man
Holding his roots to a foreign land
Raising issues that are hard to face
Knowing  evils of...

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Categories: africa, black love, character,

At this juncture, we all are in different moods and states by PoeticMonwa Monwa

At this juncture, we all are in different moods and states
One is happy, 
another is sad
One is smiling, 
another is crying 
One is celebrating, 
another...

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Categories: imagination,

Off-Key by Freddie Robinson Jr.


Francis Scott Key ...
a song provocateur, who spoke
most ungentlemanly

Scott “Don’t set ‘em Free” 
had to be 
the most rabid racist
you never wanted to meet

Francis the...

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Categories: perspective, slavery, truth, wisdom,

There Is Peace In The Storm by Michael Barber

The fear grasp our hearts as we set in the hallway until the storm passed by. Mom was always afraid and made us kids run...

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Categories: confidence, emotions, environment, growing

her flowers by RD McManes

she tried her hand at gardening
but failed in the attempt
plants grew lush and green
but the flowers 
never bloomed

the years were hard and lean
but, there was...

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Categories: dream, flower, heaven,

The Blue Wave by Christine Phillips

You have to see it to believe it
You have to experience it to know it
You have to feel it to understand it
You have to get...

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Categories: beauty, growth, happiness, history,

One Man's Lofty Dream by Sunlite Wanter

One Man’s Lofty Dream or "Lalalaloo, lalalaloo, lalalaloo."

In a country across a mysterious, unrelenting sea,
Lived a young man, another tongue had he with lofty dreams,
Fishing...

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Categories: faith, hope, success,

Woke Up In Australia by David Welch

Well the house was rock & rolling,
and the dance floor was pulsating,
I had myself too many drinks,
then drank two or three more.
All the ladies, they...

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Categories: adventure, celebration, confusion, drink,