Life Narrative Poems
These Life Narrative poems are examples of Narrative poems about Life. These are the best examples of Narrative Life poems written by international poets.
Reverse Osmosis of Life
(“Corpus Callosum”, 2017, original encaustic)
Reverse Osmosis of Life
It’s a two way street
The way reality exists
Divided into truth on one side
And illusion’s delusions the other,
And yet
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Categories:
life, perspective, spiritual,
Change
I don't remember the date,
But I remember the season.
There was no great quake.
There was no visible pain.
But deep inside of me,
There was a great change;
Not
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Categories:
christian,
What was his problem??
What was his problem?
He never did anything below the belt in this world.
What was his problem?
He never looked at a girl with the wrong sense
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Categories:
child abuse, deep, depression,
The Day the Beast Lost
I woke each break with cast a shadow on my chest,
a nameless weight that stole my needed rest.
It spoke in lies I dared not try
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inspirational, strength,
Nature of The Beast
It stalks in silent corners of the mind.
A whisper, jagged, dark, and undefined.
Its claws creeps walls we dare not show,
eyes ecstatic where our hearts should
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Categories:
courage, inspirational, journey, life,
STEADILY THINKING ABOUT THIS
Women will say it's men
Men will say it's women
They all throwing
Shades at each other
Defending their gender
Tendering different agenda.
Women will leave their man
Because
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Categories:
africa, community, dark, deep,
- Heart In The Right Place -
Memories from childhood summers
still tickling my stomach
Through overgrown paths
Red painted farmhouse
where flowers and weeds grew
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Categories:
happiness, humor, remember,
The Great Debate
(“Citadel of Light Merit Badge”, 2016, original pen and ink)
The Great Debate
The great debate in buddhism
Specifically in ancient Tibet,
Was between the sudden and gradualist schools.
Even
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Categories:
allegory, philosophy, spiritual,
The Heat of the Moment
(Cabin Sunset, summer 2025)
The Heat of the Moment
Settling into our new mountain cabin,
Dogs and humans equally overheated
In the shadeless August afternoon,
The only way to be
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Categories:
mountains, nostalgia, retirement, summer,
There’s a Hole in the Bucket
"There’s a Hole in the Bucket"
What an ugly world
when poets turn on each other
life is a bank of territories
left and right and lost in
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Categories:
humanity,
The Root of All Suffering
The root of all suffering is striving
For something we aren’t or don’t have.
Desire per se isn’t the problem at all
As it’s just a natural response
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Categories:
life, meaningful, perspective,
LIFE MISERY
Trouble created by
People
Solve by
People
Diseases created by
People
Cured by
People
Then they become boastful.
Know what
You're made for
So; you don't
Settle for
What you're prey to
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Categories:
africa, children, christian, community,
The Dismal Science and the Meaning of Life
(“Meaning of Life Merit Badge”, 2010, original oil)
The Dismal Science and the Meaning of Life
Supply and demand is as basic and Nobel a
Truth
As you can
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Categories:
appreciation, desire, religion, sorrow,
Head And Heart
When your heart and your head
Have a major disagreement,
Which body part should win?
Certainly not in every case,
But in 2020, my heart won.
Two of our dearest
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Categories:
love, math,
Blurring the Lines
The fakification of modern life
Is almost complete
As AI and disinformation
Crowd out the real and true.
If you didn’t see and do it
How can you even trust
It
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Categories:
culture, discrimination, society, truth,