Loss Ballad Poems

Author Dana Redricks 
May 2, 2024

You don't miss a good thing until it's gone, when you're all alone and when your loved one is not...

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We started as 8 with the unique zest of life in our own way, but it was not to be for eternity for the first...

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I've got a lot for us to discuss,
Now that life is steadily on course.
We could have shared ideas and opinions
But Allah had exercised His majestic...

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A life without pie

Come On we can't stay young
Tomorrow knows the past
We have no choice
Since birth 
You've been wild with a demon voice
In a forest...

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Many lives have been ruined
for the maddest race known to us:
does money define success or happiness?
Why has greed motivated and fooled
the smartest people around?

Luxury comes...

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Candle holders midst of darkness
A pleasant sight to see thee there
But that I'm in vale of death
In world of thine I'm nowhere

With grief that mingling...

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Farewell to thee, farewell my soul
My weeping eyes now cannot see
Thou to thy haunted room can tell! 
That thou forever dwell with me! 

The magic...

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She watches with loving eyes,
As her child grows and thrives.
Her heart swells with pride,
With every achievement by her side.

From the first smile and step,
To graduation...

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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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Oh, the ballad of love and loss
A tale that's oft been told
Of hearts that break and love that's lost
Leaves a heavy weight on one's soul

Once,...

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I met my wife in such a way, is hard to comprehend
Both went to music in the park, just following the trend
I sat there bathed...

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I saw this young boy standing there, and much to my dismay
Had a pretty young thing with him, so it sort of wrecked my day
Now...

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I lost the closest thing to me
And it's trapped in my head
Wake numb to no emotions
It's feels like I'm dead
Knew love because he taught me
Still...

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Ballad
by William Soutar
translation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

O, surely you have seen my love
Down where the waters wind:
He walks like one who fears no man
And yet...

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"A Blessing In Disguise"

Sometimes life shuts you down
Scatters all your dreams & makes you bound...
This time I was all about to quit
Everything was vanished &...

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