Blue Ballad Poems

There is no other land that you could see
With borders found on crystal blue seas
A harsh land of blazing sun
Red dirt gets into everything undone

The...

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Sailing with you..
On a sailboat so far away from home..
Chrystal clear blue sea..
Sunrays streaming through the clouds..
Onto the two of us..
Tis the sea..
Tis only the...

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The news came down today
That you had passed away
One of the thin blue line
Whose life and mine were entwined 

And I was taken back to...

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it was odd
strange
kinda unlike what
you'd expect
they sat and ate
sushi, and dirty-rice
while listening to
polka
wearing blue jeans
and those pinkish purplish
elastic like vests.
they wore black cowboy boots
and these...

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A rose so fresh
Soft and damp with sorrow
So falls the rain
In vain,rose is drenched in fear
A week later God brings a sparrow
Enriching the flower
with twigs...

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Translation of YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG
By T. Wignesan
(Written by : Herbert Kretzmer)

(Variously sung in a host of styles, moods and orchestration by
exquisite soul-movers like...

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A lady so true
Loves the morning dew
She loves truthful ways
And never has lots to say
She is a flower in many ways
At times sunshine colors her...

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Author Dana Redricks 
April 17, 2019 

Myself got in the way
I knew I to go somewhere 
and pray 
Drawing in my sorrows 
thinking tomorrow 
When...

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Tripping through the green grass
Thinking at the time it would last
But as in all things there is an end
With the desert being hard to defend

And...

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Silent, dawn crept low and solemn
Over the Virginia valley
The misty orange haze of a pale sunrise
Cloaking the farmer's field

Blue and Gray, mixed with red
Life fleeing...

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5475 (The Butterfly Effect)

Took away my sanity, 
amongst all your depravity-
Everyone told me she’s a new leaf on the tree now
do everything you can do...

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On the morrow,
      When am fading
      Like the blue sky
     ...

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There was a scrumptious new boy in town.
We Seniors were agog, 
He went around the square twice 
On a Saturday night

In small town USA in...

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When the world has been putting you down
And all you feel coming down is a frown
I’ll be there to love and comfort you
For the world...

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Do you see the sun glint off the sea
A deep blue crystal you will see
As a breeze brushes the water carefree
And the gulls wheel and...

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A girl with her hand brushes her hair away
Across her face in just that way
As it renders an image of another girl who’s dead
A young...

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Author Dana Redricks 
March 13, 2019 

I wish we were here 
with us but now you're
but now gone to a better 
place I wish I...

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It’s the place where I belonged
In my room listening to my songs
The tree outside my window bent and swayed
Where I felt I could have stayed

My...

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In my dreams I still wear the blue
As I patrol the streets being strong too
And all the things I saw and have done
Are as clear...

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