August Ballad Poems

Born in 1915 at Birkenhead by the Port River Inlet 
A son of Port Adelaide  as one of the best youd get
In the days...

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Each year in August the teams descend, cricket foe morphing quickly to friend,
Bonds are forged on a pitch unique, camped on the banks of Reedybrook...

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he thought people would
buy his meat! He wanted
 people to taste his meat !
he like it when people
 enjoyed his meat!
he made processors to process
his...

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Author Dana Redricks
August 17, 2018

Bless me, Lord and make whole
I can't take this pain anymore
Bless me, Lord so I will be
made whole
Heal my body, my...

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Down in old El Casa Rio was a sheriff feared by all. 
People swore an oath that he was seven feet tall.
One morning in the...

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Marry when the year is new,
Always loving, kind and true,
When FEBRUARY birds do mate
You may wed, nor dread your fate,
If you wed when MARCH winds...

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There was the little girl,
She shared a hope,
Untied her headband,
And held out as rope,

For the Knight in Shining Armour,
Guarding the door,
The Armour was propped,
No Knight...

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From August 1914 to November 1918 the guns boomed
There were 700 million shells fired for soldiers doomed
And not every shell exploded when it was fired...

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I am a survivor, a warrior,
no matter how far I fall in this life!
My short time full of hurts and scars,
all my journals read like...

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Africa is my home
I have no other home
For Africa I live for
Give me Africa to live
I will make her my soul.

Asia is not my home
For...

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We will swallow hard this spit hanging in 
our throats for the love of our eloping country. 
We will soundproof  our ears before the
immediate...

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What stroke me most about
Jenna's beautiful eyes was their pure honesty,
nobody else taught me a lot;
this sea is a reminder of her stunning beauty.

Jenna's beautiful...

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An idiom by which she's always stuck
is 'having one's head buried in a book'
The truth behind it, she was unprepared
that morning as she went to...

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I was alone and broken
Inside my room and the moon light was shining over me
I was a disconsolate young girl 
With dark long hair
Honey-like eyes...

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  To her family she was coy
  but truly she would be their Joy,
  a country girl from Kingaroy -
  ...

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I want the dripping edge 
of my words
to be raw,
like wind in a hurricane
like creation’s power before it acted
like anger before attack
or lust before love
Intuition...

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 Void 

As the mundane morning
Came to an end,
I sat in the marquee 
Of my thoughts,
Every last flicker of sun,
Brings back the pain undone.
It longs...

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Long Ago

A moonlit August night, was it long ago?
You captured me with your glance
I felt the heat of love grow
You took my breath away
Head over...

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We have been friends ever since I was born,
 mother even dedicated me at your altar in joy,
Fear of you and your love make my...

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