The phenomenological interest to gain insight into the human being with lived experiences characterized as composite, diverse, ambiguous, vague, obvious, and concealed challenged this researcher in the process of doing life-world phenomenology. While researching the phenomenon of suffering, the author sought ways to intensify and evoke the embedded meanings in oral narratives, and he presents a model for poetic condensation of oral narratives to enhance the evocation of the meaning of suffering. Examples of narrated text are compared to the condensed narrative. Reading poetic condensed narratives of suffering has the potential to create a sense of the phenomenon responsive to and shaped by the way suffering is experienced.
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