Ballads
Long lonely ballads sooth my soul,
recounting loves which ne’r grow old.
With tales of lives, of toil and strife
which linger on the sharpest notes.
Laments pining through the key of D.
Songs sung in dissonant harmony.
Scratching, haunting, riddles
Whispering on whistle or fiddle.
And, Oh the maudlin harmony
which makes us all weep free
to know that other people cried
lost their loves yet survived.
So let me slide on glissando
Between the notes with vibrato
Let me heal upon the wail
of ancient memories.
Contest:Soul Tunes
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