Community Ballad Poems

Ah-The Cina-Ma


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There is a story from Renmark in the Riverland
Of a man in the bush as his legend began
He was a shearer from New Zealand in...

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Screaming writhing violent
uncontrollable spasms of abandonment
immediately followed her (like Mary's lamb)
where e'er she went
verbal communication attempt didst rent
ear piercing outpouring

barrage heard clearly by vested gent,
a...

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Slenderly community 
The land of sobers
Enough for plunderers 
Ground of Ivory
Home of diamond and gold
Is now Magufulized 

No more embezzling
Lazy are working
Respecting their roles
No more...

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Once upon a time there was a sweet one-eyed gal.
She lived her life, alone, let’s call her Little Mal.
Her mother and father kept her in...

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SHE LAY THERE

Grievances were given
Everyone proceeded by
She lay there
The people talked
The people cried
She lay there
Memories of long and close
One in particular just stared
She lay there
She...

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his inability to find a person to answer
then someone reminded the others
of why he wished to know
his beliefs were supported by
others
people who wished to love
beyond...

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South Of The (United States) Border...
(Reigns A Welter Of Disorder)

Caravans comprising multitudinous
     peoples plodded a steady course
analogous to iron filings drawn...

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God bless the Soldiers dying young.
In an unfamiliar land, 
Caught by war's impatient hand,
Swept aside by fate before their song is sung.
God bless the Soldiers...

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to me, this is more than just a poem
that is why i must wait to choose a form
since i arrived here a couple years back
many...

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Hope no found, 
Life too short, 
Caterpillar on a hedge sword, 
Walking in a sensational trait.
Love abode, care abounds,
 
I could have leaved a million...

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One by one those behind the catchphrase
"an end to discrimination"
Took away freedom of association,
Freedom of choice,
The freedom to form groups with any rules that,
Might seem...

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The 'Beloved Community'
by
Rick Folker

One beloved community
in God's world
Where each soul honors
the Image of God in the other
Where neither Jew nor Greek
Woman nor Man
Delivers the 'manifest...

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verse 1
I come to resist you;;
As I come to embrace you; 
Wanted to caress you;
Just let me bless you;
Been praying and searching looking all over...

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You may sometimes despair, burdened by the day
But what is the anguish; share with me some of your pain
Do not for once worry; I am...

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Granfell tower is a symbol:
a charred monument of loss,
a bombed church's vaulted ceiling.
it is our grief;our heavy cross.

A scarlet tongue licks the ashes.
who unleashed this...

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I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and...

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Let us sit together
And let me dwell in your mist
And I will tell you a story
About city life versus rural life.

Now, the city has been...

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What do you need;
 how do you feel ;
why can't you leave;
 the hurt that you feel;
 let it reveal ;
the real, that's real;
 inside...

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