City Ballad Poems

Brick houses gone, wood houses gone
Family histories blown away
No photos or proof of life
2.8 billion dollars worth of damage

Devastation for a mile. 
One house standing,...

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most memories speak to the happenings of it's time
they make you try to understand what's going
through the minds of those who are stars
in the role,...

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Telling "White Lies"

My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four siblings,

experienced grinding poverty, no
matter...

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Our youth needed,and got a "Hero",in "The summer of 2014,15,16,17,and 18.Our youth needed and got jobs for those summers to help them fortify there dignity,and...

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My body is this tower
My bones are the iron beams
My eyes are the cameras on the walls
There are white lights in my seams 

My body...

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We all seek a satisfying drink that pleases our taste buds,and we drink all of that drink down to the last drop,because it hits the...

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You’d be a galah taking a bow
To be outside in the heat now
It’s 46.2 degrees C
And if it were up to me
I know where I’d...

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 SURSUM CORDA 

(for Ruth and Clement Mc Cormack, 
Bridgton, Maine)

“Come see us, we’ll talk about the job."

you were convalescent, generous, 
and anxious to get...

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T’was midnight when the gala ended,
In a distant city that never sleeps,
Where our two hearts first met aflutter
A memory my heartstrings dearly keeps,
As virtue and...

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The bright lights of the city
Have lured me away
From bushland plains and mulga scrub
from plains of rich red clay

Away from the serenity
to noise and toil...

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In the city, season's changes only barely leave their mark
for the city's far from nature with it's neon in the dark
The rush and ceaseless hustle...

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I am the bushland dawning
in the stillness of the morning
I am the sunlit plains
and the mighty river's flow

I'm the drought and I'm the flood
I'm the...

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At the top of the mountain, is a beautiful fountain
You can see beauty for miles, brings forth actual smiles
As far as the eye can see,...

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invoice number twenty seventy six
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15 violins
10 Chellos
10 bassoons
10 clarinets
5 flutes
5 tubas
10 French-horns
3 bass guitars
2 (pairs) kettledrums
2 snare drums
1 bass drum
1 chimes
1 tom-tom

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6 heads of lettuce
1...

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We sat and talked together that day
As he reminisced in his usual way
That old uncle of mine and me
How he had growing up in Port...

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The Soul Errand
To Sir Walter Raleigh Tomb.

Since my soul shall though go
Upon a thankless arrent too
I fear not to touch the best so
The truth shall...

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Hide away in fear,
For the dead begin their reign.
Try to escape and they think they are in the clear,
But according to the girl that is...

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WHEN THEY HEARD THE SOUND
THEY PAUSED TO HEAR
THE SOUND WHICH WAS CREATED
TO PLEASE THE EAR
THEY SMILED AND SAID
THAT'S GREAT FOR DANCING
THE KINDA SONG THAT STARTS
ROMANCING
THEY...

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People pass by and moonlight causes shadows to 
appear in the metropolis
Where are they all going?
I surmise that some are going to see family
while others...

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in the year 288 B.C,. on the planet Fulodtrey in the Galaxy Dillo-Sega 8
an asteroid that orbits the fourth planet nearest to the sun, has...

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