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.

The Odyssey
The Creep
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Iliad
The Canterbury Tales
The Aeneid
Paradise Lost
Inside Out & Back Again
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
The Crossover
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Metamorphoses
The Epic of Gilgamesh
William Shakespeare
Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth
William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

Stewart Stafford
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 ...more
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