Sad Ballad Poems

Author Dana Redricks 
May 2, 2024

You don't miss a good thing until it's gone, when you're all alone and when your loved one is not...

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The pages written in my book
Are pages made of second looks
They tell the days of happy sad
And sometimes sprinkle crazy mad

The game is played and...

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No, sad-looking lady,
leave out you pathetic pity;
I left someone for your sake...
she had lips of honey:
wasn't it a big mistake?

Words that hurt aren't mine,
you shouted...

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Meanwhile at the Temple of Doom, 
the hearts of the "resistance", 
are burning...

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I have never seen her naked
I have only seen her happy
I have never seen her sad
I have seen her hurt 

I know not of the...

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One foot out the door,
The other stayed behind.
All prepared to flee,
Our situation, lead lined.

The last time we shared,
Before the door was slammed.
Yelling to be fixed...

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A Farmer’s Plight
The field is ready
The work is done
Toiling in the soil
Under the sun.
 We wait now for the monsoon rain
To end our hunger and...

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I'm the writer of my yarn
I am the painter of my doom
Thousands of phantoms here me warn
From opened window of my room

They walk and crawl...

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Tommy Lee was a Black man,
Born a poor man's son.
From the early days of his wayward youth
Tommy Lee was on the run.

He never had no...

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Fill your heart with not pain and sorrow
But remember me in every tomorrow
Although the living cause pain and grief
My going has given me a heart...

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I'm an orange monkey
in China I was made,
stitched with much affection
and garlanded with braid.

Purchased then on eBay
and wrapped to make a gift,
I was posted to...

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Do I owe you something...?

Where do I begin,
Where do I end...
Shall I count the years,
Or the moments we spent...

Why should I be liable,
When you've become...

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There was a horse, in this field,
White as any snow on Earth,
He looked sad as a sad owl,
But never pried for loneliness.

This is the only...

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 Dawne Gee really makes her best effort to inform you and me about what is real and what is the "Present Reality"! Dawne Gee.....Dawne...

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The banner I raised high in the air,
Singing "it is well,it is well, it is well with my soul"
Praying,"dear God,if ever we fail in life,
Teach...

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