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Life Ballad Poems

These Life Ballad poems are examples of Ballad poems about Life. These are the best examples of Ballad Life poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Ballad for the Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube-Man
air rockets skyward
uppercutting inside
plastic neon flesh
contorting at inhuman angles
what does my body language spell?

ankles anchored into the Earth
to stay grounded as the wave
of time and...

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Categories: ballad, allegory, anxiety, funny, life,



Riding the lightening - continued
continued from part 1

Through corridors of steel and stone 
Her steps begin to trace. 
To face the fate that's now her own. 
With dignity and...

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Categories: mother son,

Riding the lightening
The clouds are hanging on the hill,		
it is a dreary day.
The gathered crowd is standing still,	
there’s rawness midst the grey.

Outside the prison gates they wait,
predicting...

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Categories: courage, love, mother son,

Premium Member I am a Virgin
I am a virgin, I have never been touched by a man since I was created.
I have never known  a man, I have never...

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Categories: birth, care, death, nature,

Premium Member I am a Virgin
I am a virgin, I have never been touched by a man since I was created.
I have never known  a man, I have never...

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Categories: birth, care, death, nature,



The Great 8
We started as 8 with the unique zest of life in our own way, but it was not to be for eternity for the first...

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Categories: bereavement, death, emotions, family,

Could have Should have
I could have been their time,
It should have been their time,
With the kids now in their own time,
And retirement giving them the time,
To take their...

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Categories: absence, age, analogy, angst,

A Dance of Truth and Silence
Truth, a blazing sun, burns bright and clear,
Its scorching rays both banish and ensnare.
It can ignite a fire, chase shadows out,
But fear may flicker in...

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Categories: silence, truth,

Premium Member Let Me Be Enough
. Let Me Be Enough 

Search for me
Pull me out
Of myself and self doubt
Snake charmer play your magic flute
Make me believe you love me too

Reach...

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Categories: change, emotions, forgiveness, hope,

Say Here Say Leora
Say you're tired of it and be done with it
Say hello again to the pretend I know what I am doing
All I know is well...

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Categories: abuse, culture, drug, science

The Wicked and The Wick and my humble Abode
Ripping nostalgia right out of my veins
Crippled curtains living in psycho domains
We demolished this city not just this city the World
I can't live slow enough...

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Categories: betrayal, character, drink, fire,

Still Be Missing You
I've got a lot for us to discuss,
Now that life is steadily on course.
We could have shared ideas and opinions
But Allah had exercised His majestic...

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Categories: africa, father son, loss,

Soul's Cry
In the depths of her eyes,  
I found a world untold,  
Secrets swirling like eddies.  
In a river of gold.  

Eyes,...

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Categories: growing up,

Premium Member Ballad Of The Wind
 When The Wind Blows, There The Great Orchestra Of Life
 The Silent Hymn Of The Sacred Skies,
 And As It Whisks Into the Fray...

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Categories: ballad, faith, spiritual,

A Brand New, Brand New Sweetie
A Brand New,
               Brand New, .... Sweetie!

Bettor Than The One, .......

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Categories: appreciation,


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