Home » Poems » narrative » stress

Stress Narrative Poems

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

The Kave-in Part 1 by Kelsey Graves

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: angst, depression, emotions, father

Who's By My Side by Drencho POET

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: heartbreak, hurt, stress,

Don't Get the Bottle - Get the Bible by Colette Dright

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: addiction, change,

I Would Like To Call His Mother by Caren Krutsinger

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: anxiety,

STILL by Florence McMillian

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

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: bible, blessing, dream, god,

A Good Father, Part II by David Welch

...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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: growth, motivation, parents, prayer,

Southern Summers I Recall by curtis johnson

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

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: america, boy, childhood,

Pill predicament by Robbie McClellan

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....

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: anxiety, crazy, depression, drug,

Dr office waiting room incident by Robbie McClellan

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: anxiety, crazy, giggle, humor,

The Critter Cascade by David Welch

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: animal, fun, humorous, light,

Bizarre Facts by Jack Ellison


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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: stress,

Yvonne's Swan Song by Mark Toney

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: anti bullying, bullying, children,

The Taking of a Hero's Wife, Part II by David Welch

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: bereavement, courage, loss, love,

Discount by Zachary Gilstrap

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: night,

No Sleep by Drencho POET

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
...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: stress,

I'm in Prison by Drencho POET

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: sin,

The Strongest Woman, Part II by David Welch

...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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: angst, children, life, strength,

The Strongest Woman, Part I by David Welch

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: angst, children, life, strength,

People Think I'm Insane When I'm in Pain by Drencho POET

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...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: pain,

A Poet Cursed by Denis Barter


It’s an enduring strain,
	and a constant fight,
to remain focussed,
	when failing sight,
defeats my writing
	of poetic lines!
Frustration oft rules,
	when I see few signs,
of what I’ve written,
	for all...

Read More

Details | Narrative |

Categories: health, stress,