Usually I don't highlight truly narrative poems, ones with a clear story that could be spoken or told in prose, but Amanda Schoen's "Dún Aonghasa" from Dialogist, vol. 1 issue 3, is an exception, it's great and works on multiple levels. It's interesting and eerie, it has a story but is more than that simple tale. It provokes without being cliche or into shock; it raises real unanswerable questions, almost philosophically.
Here's an excerpt:
[...]
Was it always so? Did wind and rain see the break of these stones?
Call it watchtower. Oracle. Garrison. The names we offer say more of us
than those who came before. No one’s sure what to make of these stones.
[...]
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