Brother Ballad Poems

Of all the tales I've heard
And all ballads that I've read
It's one scary little word
That keeps sticking in my head

And unlike any other
This sets all...

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In the same town, in the same house,
two brothers were born
in a nice and calm countryside
where roses had no thorns.

In the same place, this morn,
two...

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"Parvati and Oxum" or "The Last of Us"
is the concern of a whorish woman
who grew up with five brothers 
and five sisters. Her father and...

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Despite the lectures

we sought one another
love her like a sister
she loves me like a brother
I left the table gathering
bits of conversation
chatting with others
I learned she...

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An Overview

When Villonia Beebe was a baby of three
She got it in her head to trim the Christmas tree.
She lit all the pretty candles,
Tossed the...

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In the shadows of the night, 
When sorrow tries to take its might.
My friends are like shining beacons,
 Erasing my pain and my demons.
With snorter...

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Author Dana Redricks
January 22, 2023

Don't worry about a thing, because your joy is coming in the morning light. Everything is gonna be alright just continue...

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The words on the next page of the letter
show us one possibility
The coincidence and inevitability of ease
Watching fireworks from an apartment balcony at night
Milk eats...

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Old Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews; he would not let them go.
So God devised a mighty scheme; his go-to guy was Mo.
His brother Aaron was...

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“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” John 14:1 of the King James Bible

In a reunion where believers...

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I hear them singing,                                           ...

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There was a boy
Playing on a swing
Deep in love with life
Loving everything

And he'd speak to God
When all alone
Making deals with God
'Bout his dreams and hopes

When...

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On a brutal winter night
We stood bravely side by side
Against snowballs launched our way
By the enemies of our kind

In a graveyard's mourning light
We both choked...

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A Saint's fate is in a sinner's hands.
A saint's decisions are to fix those of a sinner's.
Saints and sinners rely on each other;
Sinner's rely on...

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I felt I’d been to hell and back before we reached the reedy flat,
where the cattle mobbed before we crossed the stream.
Old Harry called me...

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