School Ballad Poems

Very deep emotional and inspiring verse:

He was born from a grass thatched house in a remote village. His friends used to laugh him that he...

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She welcomes us into her husband's home,
Serves us with best dishes,
And refers to us as her beloved children

When daddy wants to get us new clothes,
He...

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Later on one evening
I sat down to have a think
Sitting in my easy chair
With a nip of rum to drink

Try to punish criminals
So that they...

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She who rest me
Might I labor
To understand
Her evilness
That she mocks
My beliefs

 66 burgers grilled rare ( mixture of chuck and brisket)
66 fried fish fillets battered...

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I don't see how it matters
Should we be brindle, black, or white
After all our colour
Is governed by our sight

So in a world of darkness
We would...

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This is a story about Freddie and Flo,
They lived in Baltimore a long time ago.
It might be called a May-September romance
And shows how love can...

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 To her family she was coy
   but truly she would be their Joy,
 a country girl from Kingaroy -
   ...

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Young James Pruitt was an ordinary boy;
he grew up in an ordinary town.
But set a spell, and I’ll tell a tale
of how some not-so-ordinary things...

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I tell a tale of younger days
When I was just a kid
I went to school in war time
As many others did

We would collect the shrapnel
From...

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I hear them singing,                                           ...

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Maybe one day at city square
I'll scream your name in a bullhorn
and post a flyer on every flag pole
my confession of loving you.

I have no...

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To my son Antonio,
As I am writing this, my deepest hopes are, it will reach you.
As my heart is overwhelmed, with both happy and sad...

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Airy Wells and Emmett Street were working class kids,
Just shy of a high school diploma.
Airy’s mom had a habit of drinking too much.
Emmett’s father was...

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Chance to Dance 



I could have been different if given the chance
If you only said yes to just one dance 
I built up the courage...

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America...

After 9/11, the country seemed reborn
Ready to shift from the shallow to the profound

What ever happened to the America that could have been?
What ever happened...

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