Sad Narrative Poems

The bug was eaten. I was sad. The spider was happy.
On a quiet summer July morning outside my home,
I took an insect class at The...

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All set for a journey of her own,
a lonesome soul, she lingers at the bridge.
That last glimpse, she dares not.
Fear wrenched wounded heart, 
her next...

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No Judgement Jamie always was told
that judging others was vile and cold,
all her teachers did proudly attest
that living life without judging was best.

And the media...

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The night- serene and dark,
We lay, mellowed in peace,
How silence would embark,
Down to its utter tease.

As no morning moves,
There’s news I don’t see,
only the outside...

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We though she was just feeling alone,
and we wanted to be there for our friend,
but what happened when we stepped inside
shocked both me and my...

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I first met Ed’s wife when he moved in next door,
it was hard not to see such a beauty,
nearly six feet, with long, honey-blonde hair,
and...

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Sheila dressed carefully, greeting first love in fits of anticipation,
Amid glittering disco ball promoting twenty-fifth year class reunion,
Drum master is at play, thumping Sheila’s traitorous...

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...But while talking at a diner on day
Autumn happened to make a remark
that being a woman meant giving life,
that pregnancy could bring joy to the...

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Autumn though of herself as a kind soul,
and she took great pride in her compassion,
she believed things could be made perfect,
and her voting reflected this...

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On that night the moon seemed hidden from her starry brothers
The kind of night not suited for the fighters nor the lovers
I ventured out only...

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She thought he would rage, clean blow his stack,
but he just nodded with a sad look,
said,”After what I saw, I can’t go back,
there are many...

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Hello Mother
It’s me the son you don’t remember
The son you were ashamed of and ready to give up on
I bet you have forgotten about me...

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One by one they left the nest
  Daughters and sons
    Their time at home done
      ...

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There was a big bad girl whose name was Sue.
Her flat flat feet were very ugly and big, too.
When she walked the ground nearly shook
And...

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Me happy
Though at times sad
Necessarily
My joy is heard
Happy me
Unshaken
Backward, no way
Forward, my way
Oh happy me
Why not smile
If done the mile
Now me happy
Oh happy me.

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Sometimes I'm lost in all this commotion in the world
I am very important
I am meaningful and thought about daily
And I don't like to be denied
I...

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  kaisers, kings and emperors fight for territory
  dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
  militarisation of memory and...

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  chieftains trade their loyalty behind the clouds
  like the high mountain king Carrantouhil commanding his Macgillycuddy Reeks
  men of begotten rank,...

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I just wish people would leave me alone
And stop asking me what happened to my phone
I had my phone out at school in the hall
But...

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When I was a kid on the bus,
I looked at all that surrounded us,
out the window I always gazed
seeing old fields, half-trees, half-hay,
beyond them rose...

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