Frederic Parker Poet Ballade

To Pay the Price

Darkness falls blood swept fields today
Haunting sounds come from shattered bone
Stench floats, hangs from bodies decay
and cries are heard in fields of stone
Terrified men will turn to clay
Anguished faces that have no name
They are stepped on as they moan
No questions asked or feeling shame

Moonlight filters trees burned away
Hearts turn cold while fatigue has shown
Blood sticks to boots from the footway
Each man apart feeling alone
Sees his name on a gravestone stay
From this wanted war that they blame
As some scream out from deaths they own
No questions asked or feeling shame

Army of men cry from the frey
and hear whispered sounds, dead men groan
The cursed memories they will weigh
Men curl in darkness, fear has grown
They had to pass through hell's archway
and found no heros or acclaim
Only meadows of death they've sown
No questions asked or feeling shame

The anger comes, they can't postpone
Dead men's faces fill their mind's frame
Their nightmares now will set the tone
No questions asked or feeling shame


I changed ABABBCBC to ABABACBC
contest Ballade
4/28/15

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Poet Destroyer A May 9, 2015 at 8:36 PM awesome win...pd

Robert Lindley May 9, 2015 at 7:15 PM Congrats on your win. Love this intense and deeply profound poem. Adding to my fav list and thanks...A7

Skat A May 9, 2015 at 5:58 PM Frederic, congratulations LOVE SKAT :)

Rob Carmack May 9, 2015 at 2:27 PM Congrats Frederic. I like the theme you chose for this.

Tonytocaa Camacho April 28, 2015 at 4:58 PM I hate war I hate the killing fields but without war there is no peace,they go hand in hand,like woman and man..till death do us part..good reminder of changes in need of dire repair or hell awaits,babies and family..are number One ..good one Frederick..thanks TonyTocaa Frederic Parker May 9, 2015 at 11:11 AM the only ones you call for war are those who have never been to war