Lyric Narrative Poems

Calloused canvas, etched with sun and rain,
A map of toil, where muscles speak their pain.
No crown adorns it, nor scepter's gilded shine,
But in its grip,...

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History’s Greatest Miracle Play

Let me tell you a story - Prologue

Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s...

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I have just read a lyric penned by Jenish Somadas titled "Sit Beside My Bed" which touched me very much.
As I have mentioned before in...

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change the narrative 
view the turning point 
as an opportunity to
create the space for 
positivity to grow
out of the negativity 
of the past 
start to...

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It was all in the late night,
they took everything away,
it was all in the late night,
getting home an early day
from a trip to the west...

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In a meadow lush and green,
by a lake grand as a sea,
there once was a lonely house
small and brown.

Inside it someone would wait
for a man...

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Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless...

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He existed alone,
So he decided to build;
To fill his emptiness,
With any sort of thrill.
He was merely a man,
He had his mortal needs.
He thought, I'll have...

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Well guys I’m going to tell you a secret
You don’t really know me
I have not been honest 
I am not who I say I am
Yesterday...

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My current avatar has a story:

I once posted this avatar and someone sweet (Craig Cornish) on the SOUP 
blogged about it and named me Betty...

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Dave made a comment about his cowboy boots so I simply had to weave this joke into a little narrative

An elderly couple moved to Texas...

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My love of poetry started when I was still a five- year old child
When my parents asked me to memorize verses and rhymes
With all my...

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Tonight I thought I shook off a roach. Swore I felt it approach. Imagined it crawling down
my throat. My Dad came out from the den...

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Fender strung upside down
 big hands pressing strings to frets.
 Woodstocks’ last scheduled act, Jimi 
 exercized his “Right to Free Speech.”
The world heard an...

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What's this hill in front of me?
Is it another love obstacle? No it can't because I've been through one before.
A few steps closer yet it...

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