Memory Ballad Poems

As fate will play its role 
And legend will tell
For super stardom and limelight
The greatest have fell
The Silver Screen, fortune and fame
Rock-n-roll will never die

From...

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    Sponsor : Tom Woody 
Contest : Black Hole Love
Submitted:   16/7/25

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“Love embodies in millions of forms and frequencies, not all...

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In shadows thick where silence weeps,
The fog rolls in—its secret keeps.
A mournful veil, a breathless moan,
It swallows light, leaves hearts alone.

This cursed ground, where echoes...

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He wore no mask of murder’s face,
No blade was in his hand,
But still they called his love a crime,
And could not understand.
He kissed a boy...

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He's closed the blinds. His twilight dawns.
	A midday reverie.
Within his mind, a vision spawns,
	awash in mystery.
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A levee bursts, torrents crash free—
	a castle from a dream.
Atop...

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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 uncharted sextant
Steer from journey’s door
Upon a...

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[Verse]
It may have been wrong, but it felt so right
laying in your arms, throughout the night
some didn't like it, but what the hell
oh in our...

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1.	I received from my kind mother,
Her care, her tender and compassionate heart.
She sheltered us warmly in the cold,
Shielding us from storms with her embrace.
She would...

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We are the sons of valiant blood
with a past crowned with glory,
and that richness is still ours
to build a brighter tomorrow for others
who will come...

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How will I spend these endless nights,
This heart so thirsty, it calls for love's light...!!

It does not sleep, it cannot understand,
The thirst unquenched, no love...

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I though soldiers are adorning their horses for eternity 
    for immortality for life for instance? 
  Nor nightmare nor stone...

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One would wonder how the West came to the interiors 
   of Africa:
 For whether it was the first time or so many...

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“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.” 
– General George Pickett

Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with...

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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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Ripping nostalgia right out of my veins
Crippled curtains living in psycho domains
We demolished this city not just this city the World
I can't live slow enough...

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