Holiday Ballad Poems

Why did you bother 

You don’t need me
You don’t feed me
And we’re not having fun
Why did you bother to come?
You don’t hate me 
You won’t...

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I meet her in spring
nothing special about it
we liked one another
and became intimate friends
season to season
holiday to holiday
making time to be with
one another
she's real special...

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There is a face lives in my mind, has been there since my birth
It may have been quite blurred at first, imagination knew it's worth
I...

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Driving down the distant highways
How can I survive 
Just me and my Cadillac sailing free and far
Gravity is pulling all my thoughts towards you
My comfort...

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There is a face lives in my mind, has been there since my birth
It may have been quite blurred at first, imagination knew it's worth
I...

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The sun sank into rusty chains
Ancient Mesopotamian constellations begin to spin
Shadows in the bushes
Sidewalks walking from the back
Cetoniinae trapped in glass
Your gaze runs through the...

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I hear them singing,                                           ...

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Where strong and sturdy currents flowed
In rhythms like the march,
There stood majestic girders
In a towering silver arch.

With pride, the span was erected
Above the swollen run,
Where...

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Beltane’s Night
On the eve of Beltane
The Earth’s call rang across hill and heather, towards ford and cliff
From tree to river the door calls, spirits of...

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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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Puzzles in Pink

Yesterday is just a dream. 
I took you everywhere, 
but you... do not remember. 

My little one, 
you cried and cried. 

We went...

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Home to Rest
(She said, "I love my room." 
The very happy feeling of being home.)

Today, 
my daughter came home. 
She was not crying this time,...

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The meanest female on Holiday Hill
Probably would be there, an old maid, still
Except for Dan, a randy, illustrious buck,
Who carried her off, to give her...

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Another One Down
And another one bites the dust. 

Marriage. 
My friend, my neighbor, the lady next door, 
Rampant miscalculations of being too nice, 
two people...

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Chickens

Are by far my favorite bird. 

They give and take very little. 
They kill the bugs on the property, 

Not by chemical intervention, 
but by...

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