Summer Ballade Poems

I didn't understand why it happened to them
some insane reason to seperate
people who love one another
tieing the knot: she smiled
making the whole thing fit
pull the...

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the the story was finished
I thought you'd leave me alone
all that rejection
all the butterflies were gone
got scared to call you on the telephone
that's how bad...

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fantasy land
i live in a fantasy land
where i have it all sorted out
my mother's hand
and a green porch with flower bands lying around

in a summer...

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Able to see into other worlds it seems,
the star at dawn or a bubble in the streams.
The psychic nature in its spirituality,
highly sensitive to all...

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Above the twilight faintest glimmer,
end-summer evening turning to reddish dimmer.
The lonely star of love in dusky shine,
into the ocean of faint and far to prime.
Some...

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The large Starge
Is a large 500 gallon
Water tank that stands
16 feet high
It collects rain water
And it has a value
a one inch value
Neath the bottom
That is...

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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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I say goodbye to you 
and to your beauty.
I lost your scent
and I forgot my essence.

You are my sin and my repentance,
my orchards,  fruits...

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Moved my things
And said she didn't
Move it
tryin to make me
feel strange
she knows what
she's doing
Me constantly complaining
That aint me ya'll
Stop playin these games
It aint just you...

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whats the duration of love
when do the introductions began
are those in the background 
sought for their ability to soothout the foreground
causing the total package
to have...

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The Flowers and The Birds

Where is Lilly?
Where is Rose?
You forgot them
In the frost.

Where is summer
Golden dream?
I just lost it,
But I sing.

Where is sparrow,
Nightingale or lark?
They...

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Everyday I surrender for you like leaves in the fall, gracefully landing on the ground as the wind comes to a stall, the sun brings...

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Sitting on a squeaking swing
Alone in the dark as I think of you
A little bit of moon light
Through the leaves

A warm summer night
Next to a...

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I like the motion of the ocean.
And the crashing of the waves.
I like the sound of the whistle. 
Of a passing train.
There is nothing...

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Cloudy, dark sky, bare trees,  missing their leaves, blowing in the winters cold brisk wind,
White, dirty snow all around, ice covered sidewalks,  no...

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