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Memory Narrative Poems

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

THE ISLAND OF PEACE meditation by Pixie Dust


You are alone on a deserted island that has been filled with overgrown fruit 
and bare essentials.  The water is so clear you can...

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Categories: memory,

Rattling Rim Shot by Freddie Robinson Jr.


So you took your best shot,
but sadly it rimmed out
Rocket swish arc reached for the brightest star ... 
only to receive 
a missed blastoff launch...

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Categories: lost love, metaphor, slam,

Friends For Life by mark palmer

Satchels at the ready, two young girls to
School they go, new friends, these sweet dears
Are heaven sent, their zest for lift a spiritual sound,
Without pause...

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Categories: family, feelings, innocence, memory,

Muse In Space by M. L. Kiser

They say in space, no one can hear screams; 
so I go there in sleep just to scream.

OBE’s are one beautiful escape; 
muse must release...

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Categories: imagination, muse, space, symbolism,

My Five Senses by Carrie Richards

Tonight, the breeze renewed my senses,
as a reminder 
of the place I used to know 

I stepped down from the porch, outside my own thoughts
where...

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Categories: children, memory, nostalgia,

Our Love by Sithembele Mlenzana

You smiled, I also did.
I winked at you, you smiled again.
I saw a star upon me,
Shining bright like a Diamond.

I fell for you, and you...

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Categories: love, memory, relationship,

Pity Patty Peddy by Freddie Robinson Jr.


Peddy don’t know-no betta to do,
he just following his imaginary urges,
friendly suggestions from   TuSac Boy Blue
Sayin’ little Timmy and Sue
wanna play  ...

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Categories: child abuse, dark, evil,

My Five Senses by Maureen McGreavy



The pitch the peak of senses piqued
each completely


Let me see

searching my memory 
biking down Laurier
locking eyes with a hawk flying in the opposite lane
is probably...

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Categories: senses, sensual,

Fixed Gaze by Kevin Lawrence

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Categories: age, fear, grief, loneliness,

TRY by Danielle Brunelle

An angel sat alongside a steep cliff unable to fly,
She sobbed because her wing was broken,
But, she had not bothered to try.

The angel sat there...

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Categories: 12th grade, angel, inspiration,

Cup of Tea by RD McManes

Sometimes I drink tea to remember
fingertips crushing the dried leaves.
I never measure the amount,
adding pinches as I feel the need. 

I let the kettle whistle,
moments...

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Categories: imagery, remember,

The Teacher by Edmund Siejka

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Categories: life,

Oklahoma Clay by RD McManes

Most evenings, right around supper,
when the sky was streaked red
right before dark, the old man
would talk of Oklahoma-

the first time he hunted squirrel,
down by Coal...

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Categories: family, imagery, life, loss,

Daughter, Cry No More by Lovie Divine

In Loving Memory of my Father, James Nathaniel Gelsey 

I wasn't ready to let you go, but your departure from me, you knew, 
You said...

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Categories: bereavement, death, father,

Pictures left untaken by Marilyn Blackman

If I could develop the images and pictures in my mind, 
if I could turn back the hands of time, oh what a story they...

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Categories: allusion, blessing, creation, future,

Dear Depression by Nokuthula Lumba

Dear depression.
Hi old friend.
 Greetings to you from myself and writer's block... The two of us have developed quite a bond over the last couple...

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Categories: depression, gospel, spiritual,

Victor the Wrestling Bear by charles messina

Years ago when I was a lad 
I'll share with you a memory I've had 
Every year at the end of July 
The Iselin fair...

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Categories: memory,

Flirtation with Ecstasy by Mike Gentile

It was so long ago
yet, I can remember everything. 
Barely an adult, I was on holiday on the Islands

In the glow of tropical sunset, I...

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Categories: memory, romance, romantic, youth,

I Remember Alene by Laura Leiser

I will always remember Alene
for she had the wandering eyes of 
blindness. 
As a child, I would stare at her eyes 
fascinated, and not a...

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Categories: character, meaningful, memory,

THE BEST PARTS OF TIME NEVER PASS US BY by jack cooper

Where does time go
When time drifts by so slow
How does one really know
How to stop this ongoing picture show
When days get lost in the haze
How...

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Categories: confidence, deep, encouraging, imagination,