Examples Of Narrative Poems - Page 2
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The Pig
Famous Poem
In England once there lived a big
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And wonderfully clever pig.
To everybody it was plain
That Piggy had a massive brain.Featured Shared StoryI like this poem because it is contrary to what is normal, as the pig tries to eat the farmer instead of the other way around and it shows the power of humans over all other living things....
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The Three Little Pigs
Famous Poem
The animal I really dig,
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Above all others is the pig.
Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
Pigs are courteous. However,Featured Shared StoryThis is an unanticipated and unexpected poem. Though the title sounds childish, it is a complete transformation of the story Three Little Pigs! Roald Dahl has a creative mind which I...
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Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf
Famous Poem
As soon as Wolf began to feel
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That he would like a decent meal,
He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
When Grandma opened it, she sawFeatured Shared StoryI love a good laugh - great fun. A good choice to be poem of the day in this festive season. Ann
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Cinderella
Famous Poem
I guess you think you know this story.
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You don't. The real one's much more gory.
The phoney one, the one you know,
Was cooked up years and years ago,Featured Shared StoryYes, Roald Dahl has a whole book of revolting rhymes like this one. You should read it. Hilarious.
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Out Out
Famous Poem
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
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And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could countFeatured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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The Ballad Of Rum
A dog wandered into our garden one day,
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A friendly old mutt, didn't look like a stray.
We never discovered whence he had come,
But we brushed him and fed him and the kids called him Rum.Featured Shared StoryOh my, Peter...in all the years that I have been reading about dogs, the poems, tales and stories always made me smile. Tonight though, reading your poem for the first time, something...
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Her Wedding Day
Gloriously she walks down the aisle,
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And already she can see his gorgeous smile.
That smile that is so soft and sweet,
That smile that makes her knees go weak.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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The Cremation Of Sam McGee
Famous Poem
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
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By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;Featured Shared StoryI love this poem! I have been looking for something for my project, and this poem just spoke to me. It has plenty of events, emotions and feeling for me to be able to fashion a short story...
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Paul Bunyan
Famous Poem
He rode through the woods on a big blue ox,
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He had fists as hard as choppin' blocks,
Five hundred pounds and nine feet tall...that's Paul.
Featured Shared StoryThis poem is easily identifiable as a classic, and it contains facts and emotions we all share throughout life at some time or other. Great reading and a great share. Well worth real...
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Keepsake
in Aging Poems
One day my dad was hunting, from his favorite hunting stand;
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'Twas a giant Oak with perfect limbs, under which two deer trails ran.
Now this favorite spot of Daddy's was as unique as it could be,
'cause a lightning bolt had burned a giant hole down through that tree.Featured Shared StoryMy aging husband, who just turned 70 in October, still takes his grandsons out bowing and hunting ever year. He helps build the tree stands and everything, teaching them the way of the...
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The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver
Famous Poem
"Son," said my mother,
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When I was knee-high,
"you've need of clothes to cover you,
and not a rag have I.Featured Shared StoryThe poem is a short, sweet, and precise journey of a great son-mother relationship. It takes one through the sacred and holy shares of time given by a mother in dedication to her child. The...
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Our Love Story
You entered the room and my heart skipped a beat
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I knew in an instant we were destined to meet.
As you looked up from the floor and your eyes locked on mine
A warm subtle chill crept up and down my spine.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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The Charge Of The Light Brigade
Famous Poem
Half a league, half a league,
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Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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Richard Cory
Famous Poem
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
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We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.Featured Shared StoryI read this poem as one of the mandatory literary pieces while in High School. Even at that tender age something about the absurdity of life struck me and it continued to haunt me. I tried to...
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"The Fire" In Haiku
in Haiku
I was in fire,
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The room was dark and somber.
I sleep peacefully.
Featured Shared StoryIt is a good poem. I like it a lot. It is also narrated well.
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The Raven
Famous Poem
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
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Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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'Twas The Night Before Christmas
Famous Poem
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
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Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;Featured Shared StoryI remember hearing this poem as a little youngster. I would also read this to my daughter and nephews each year right before Christmas! It is a wonderful poem to share with your family!...
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Paul Revere's Ride
Famous Poem
Listen my children and you shall hear
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Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now aliveFeatured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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Casey At The Bat
Famous Poem
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
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The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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Long To See Your Sweet Face
Two pink lines, we knew it was true,
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Sooner than later we would meet you.
I yelled for your Daddy and smiled just so.
He stood there in shock and a glorious glow.Featured Shared StoryI fell pregnant in 2012. I had the two lines come up on the test. I was excited but my partner (now ex) wasn't. He said he would throw me down stairs to make sure the baby doesn't survive. I...
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