Stress Narrative Poems

What happens in the past, stays in the mind. 

Sitting on the floor,  pen in hand, a wealth of books surround me, comfortable in my...

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Sitting watching the world, weary, contemplating life cold and dreary, 
Upon a rock within a mountain which I'd often tread upon before,
As I wallowed, spirit...

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I'm left alone
Left alone like an abandoned chick
Whose mother flew away
I'm like a hopeless wanderer
Stranded
Like a blind lost in the mist
I'm deep in pain's gist
I...

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Whenever you feel you're going through
God is always there for you
Yo problems cause yo mind to thinking
You find you're more at ease when drinking
Falling all...

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Let me tell you something you can’t tell anybody, not the principal, not my teacher, not nobody.
I stopped the ten-year-old midstream.  If you tell...

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Still
S – T – I – L – L
Stop, Think, Imagine, Listen, Learn
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Stop to position yourself not to move - Be Still
Think of the thoughts...

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...Harper said,”I’d no choice, I had to be,
to save Ted from staring down a bad path.
We see what happens to men who won’t work,
rarely do...

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Deep down in America's southern land when I was a little lad,             ...

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Now I officially know what it feels like for a drug addict to be scrambling on the floor trying to gather the drugs they dropped....

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Halfway through my doctors appointment I notice my shirt is on inside-out. I discretely try to make my way to the bathroom without being noticed...

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I was walking down a Vermont road
to stretch my legs and blow off stress,
stone walls flanked the hard, brown dirt,
half-obscured by dead leaves and grass.

When...

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Banging your head against the wall burns 150 calories an hour
However, there are some definite side effects
Remembering to put on you jockeys or your bra...

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Yvonne was very, very, very happy.
She loved her mother.
She loved her brother Phillip.
And she loved swans.
Oh, did she ever love swans!

She loved the way they...

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The things they screamed at poor Laura
enraged Owen, and made his blood boil,
to harass a widow who’d lost everything…
Was there nothing left they would not...

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The industrial hull of the SUV 
Sways with the slightest wind taps 
And pothole shoves. Popeye’s signs, 
Golden shell displays, the lingering smell 
Of Premium-grade...

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Hectic thoughts
the mind is like a mall
up and down are ideas
busy shopping
although no money 
but tears are packed in the wallet
no payment
no sleep.

Drencho POET Loads
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I'm In Prison 

Who can help ?
I am in prison
I am arrested, 
Unfree
I am driven by my emotions
Abused by my feelings
So sad
I cannot find peace...

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...She said,”I need to talk about something,
that for a long while has bothered me.
For the first time in all of my life,
I do not know...

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The strongest woman that I ever saw
was born thirty-four years ago,
to loving parents who doted on her,
told he of the great places she’d go.

She was...

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People Think I'm Insane
When I'm in Pain 

Can I tell you a long story 
or you will say "no, sorry"
at times I think of suicide
but...

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