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 bleedingIn 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 flythat 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 abandonYou 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,
Of Loves, Once BorneShe 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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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,
I am not Bob the BuilderLocated 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,
Categories:
anxiety, break up, first
Purpose or ObliterationI 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,
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,
Circle The WagonsWhen 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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Categories:
music, mythology,
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,
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,
The Day the Earth ShookThe 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,