Dad Ballade Poems

She was lean, she was mean, a fighting machine.
Sixteen brothers had toughened her up.
She was secret woman, our little Arlene.
Raised on cold kerosene from a...

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This fact seemed pretty damn self-evident from just about birth on.
I seemed to inconvenience my family, especially my mother. 
So with my multitudes of half-sisters...

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Death of mother hallowed out silence 
   more painful then  buzzing power tool,
aye never again saw, 
   nor heard industriousness...

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a boon against strife 
wool worth effort and propensity 
to revel qua biological miracle re: said offspring 
did inadvertently teach me lessons of life 

to...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade “Le Chant Royal” 8

STANZA VII

The warning first comes from the job’s admin head:
“The Secret Service will persecute you...

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1935 I was born alive
something happen to me I was revived
And with the good Lord on my side
I lived again I was lost but found...

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Decisions, decisions, and consequences of balance,
deciphering the outcomes can leave you paused like the mannequin challenge.

One brain, one mind, and influential abilities,
mathematics can be the...

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Staring into the glass in the still dark of night
I can't see anything, pitch black, yet I know I caught a glimpse of your smile.
Banging...

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In the fifties, just a lad
Cheering locals with me Dad  
2nd tier, watch 'em play, 
Mannion, Peacock, Clough and Day 

Swinging 60s, working man...

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Over fifty 
When you are over fifty divorced and want to meet a woman 
– there may of them about- they all have a daughter...

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MENTAL CHESS

Marital disputes and arguments
So Clarry try asking her to do something mentally...not verbally less arguments that way..

if i said to my ex wife Christine,...

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I laid my heart upon your grave
That winter day when trees were bare;
Their withered leaves fell down to brave
The chill of winter death and share
With...

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Dedicated to all the children who were
Victims of the conflicts in Syria

You have heard more grenades crack at dawn
As bullets wizz beneath your pale sun-
O...

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Saw you 
in the crowd
in the show-her-off
got-a-girl crowd
I waved to you
a thank you wave
thank you for last summer

at the fair
by the water
after the movies
at the...

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Some stupid things said
weird things explained
I plan on losing sleep
and having bad dreams
in my bed
now you say you won't like how I sleep

I have little...

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