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Sorrow Narrative Poems

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


The world is bleeding
In Ankara and Moscow,
the ground is crimson red ~
a carpet spread on fields once green.
Life’s fluid, like red gold,
flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers...

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Categories: grief, horror, sad, sorrow,



The Unpaid Debt of Sacrifice
(She taught while her child was sent home 
in the tongue of olden sorrow)

She stood before the class—
chalk in hand,
heart in shards,
yet her voice did...

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Categories: teacher,

Time can no longer fly
that day in December I remember—
I sucked on my soaked
            tucked-in socks
When I saw...

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Categories: cute love, i love

Silent screams of abandon
You came into my life~
just before the ink dried...
in my husband's condolences register.
You knew I was grieving, 
vulnerable, 
trying to hold my children’s lives together...

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Categories: betrayal, grief, innocence, sad,

Premium Member Of Loves, Once Borne
She was weaving a silken tapestry with long silver threads 
and golden memories from her life that hadn't yet faded
Drizzles of sorrow fell with every...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, poetess, sorrow,



The Agony of his Youth
The days swiftly passes by like lightening  rod exploding in  the sky, the winter breeze fades away, ushering  in the living Spring...

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Categories: absence, appreciation, blessing, business,

Premium Member I am not Bob the Builder
Located in Accra, near the Gulf of Guinea,
In the town of Ashaiman Ghana, 
There is an aspiration within me to become his source of hope.
Two...

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Categories: 9th grade, abuse, addiction,

Premium Member Rubicon Crossing

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Categories: anxiety, break up, first

Premium Member Purpose or Obliteration
I dreamed I was inside a bulb—
a cathedral of filament and glass—
not dead
not born…..
but shumming**.

Glass walls curved like time
sealed but translucent

my fingers curled around voltage
like...

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Categories: identity, imagination, introspection, philosophy,

Premium Member The Prismatic Self

Colossians 3:17-25 KJV Bible
"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and...

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Categories: art, creation, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Circle The Wagons
When the cold winds blow
And the hostile natives are restless 
It’s time to wake up, smell the coffee
And cut your losses.

What is there to push...

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Categories: conflict, encouraging, society, sorrow,

empire beyond the clouds
 from this temple way up high
I see the city of gold below me,
and it shines no more.
What I help build with my hands,
now condemns...

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© Markus Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: music, mythology,

Premium Member What Remains, When Love Outlives the Living

Under the cadence of footsteps on worn cobblestones,
At the café where steaming cups held time hostage,
Eyes met and lingered, a glance stretched into an eternity.
A...

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Categories: culture, emotions, heartbreak, imagery,

Premium Member That Moment

I awoke early that morning

to an unfamiliar familiar sound.

I rose from the bed with cacophonous singing

ringing in my ears, separated the curtains

with the breast stroke...

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Categories: imagery, loss, metaphor, symbolism,

Premium Member The Day the Earth Shook
The Day the Earth Shook


Today a place called Haiti, 
weighs heavy on my mind. 
A small island Country State, 
where life has been unkind. 

With...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, hope, loss,


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