Narrative Poetry
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.
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Lazarus Saturday: The Longest Way by Stewart Stafford
"Lazarus, come out!" Jesus said:
A dead man awoke in a burial place,
Wrapped head to foot on a stretcher;
He shook away the cloth on his face.
Four days dead, his soul was gone;
His sisters berated Jesus's late arrival;
The Lord did not doubt his power,
From the afterlife came his survival.
From a white light end to a dark revival,
Life cascaded in decomposing flesh,
His chest hurt as it rose and fell again,
Bloated and blotchy skin alive
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Backchannel Negotiation
by Stewart Stafford
I slumped out of the tarot parlour,
Drifted past the neon sandwich shop
with more than angel food for thought,
Replaying the revelation on a mind loop.
She said don't worry—which I did,
Everything I had dreamt or wanted
were my riches of decades past
on a distantly hazy New Year’s Eve.
That night, I chatted up a Hollywood starlet—
A shooting star rising across my eyeline—
Beautiful face and eyes, but acned skin,
It was her friend who drew my attenti
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