Prayer Ballade Poems

Clear truth’s known to spherical sight
Hidden behind veil of our mind
It is soul’s self-existent light
We see it not since we are blind
Being from the source...

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I will be here, 
to calm the storm within.
Just breathe, that's all you have to do now.
Be slow!
We will learn the fire to burn.
I will...

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Her eagerness to be successful
bought her to him to be alone
Her need and. desire to copulate
Made loving her less a chore
The wines and bread to...

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Sunbeams arouse me with their touch,
a caress that Spring breezes share.
At first, it does not feel like much
for an answer to a prayer.
And yet, it...

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Body decays, it’s clear we’ve lost our way 
A wasted life, measuring loss and gain
Unable to keep dark fear forms at bay
Gift of free will...

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Shadows move with the chill of morning
warm light through oceans of weed
spheres in echoes of yearning

Misty dew touching subtle senses
snowcaps horizons fare away
letting go of...

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To explain its efficacy to the point,
sympathy of nature becomes anoint.
The agreement of opposite forces,
like or unlike potential endorses.
Converged in multitudinous attraction,
divine utterance and holy...

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Lady Mary Berkeley

Once, long time ago a Lady of grace and elegance,
her child and spouse in glamorous remembrance.
Chillingham Castle in its prime of residence and...

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Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel


Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and...

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The critical tendency coming from the untruthful agitation of the mind,
while the disliking of our dislikes is the beginning to like all in kind.
Like the...

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When the pain labors in begging,
and the spirit is abused by ego stretching.
All wise words given not truly absorbed,
and the curriculum divine is distorted.
As pure...

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Fear led the day the minute the hour 
              Savoring every void...

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Forgive me for I can not be as strong as you claim to see

Alone is the only word to use to describe what I feel...

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My Love
Author Dana Redricks
December 17, 2017

For a long time I was seeking
And praying for true love
a love that would endure
Then one day my love
came into...

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(Oppressor say's)Old *****, don't you run no more;
  (***** says I already forgave you)
 (Oppressor say's)
Old *****, pick up da  shovel and stone;...

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