Childhood Ballad Poems

It was just this morning.  That it was. 
At the table there sat only three.
There was Tux, the foam Linux penguin.
The others were my...

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This is such a bad idea, right?
Listening to music, day and night.
I'm told my ears will eventually explode,
Just because I listen to Muse a load?

21...

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I had a father who loved two women:
one so faithful and sincere, the other 
spell maker and always showed a defying grin.
no, nobody in that...

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I have a deep true love and bond with winters cold,
born among snowflakes filigree;
though, I adore all seasons that unfold,
it is me-  who...

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I tell a tale of younger days
When I was just a kid
I went to school in war time
As many others did

We would collect the shrapnel
From...

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There are sad tears
in that boy's eyes;
Putin has invaded
his motherland.

The speedy missiles hit their targets,
buildings and houses are razed to the ground,
terrifying screams from unseen...

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I hear them singing,                                           ...

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imagine me
upon his knee

a little child so meek and mild
thrilled to visit our dear Santa
in the heart of old Atlanta
such a precocious little child

thrilled to...

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" THE TALE Of A YELLlOW  PONCHO" - Something OLD (posted in 2020)
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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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She took death hard
She gave up on living.
Though hoping for a miracle
She was praying for a blessing.
Seemed all her future plans. 
Washed-out with tides that...

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A Poem for the Grey Shrike written on Earth Day 2016

At sunrise while asleep
I was called by a bird tweet
Like a childhood song
So sharp so...

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Warm my heart touch the sky
Sail beneath these stars by and by
Winds carry my spirit see
Shaped clouded memory 

Sail unplanted sextant
Steer from journey’s door
Upon a...

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The Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters...

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Buds Forever

Shorty was a little dog, 
Curly was too. 
They played every day, 
until there was nothing else to do. 

Rolling on the grass, 
digging...

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