Campfire
...If ever there’s a campfire, rekindled as the sun goes down,
where ghosts of articulated writers, return and gather ‘round;
raise their glasses to a toast to commemorate their rhyme,
I wish that I ...
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Categories:
balladeers, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing More Frustrating Trying Damndest To Kindle Memory
...(buzzfeeding, kickstarting, needling darn noggin)
An effort to recall word, phrase,
musician... indigenous tribe...
most frustrating literary
endeavor to das scribe
aggravating enough to sub...
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Categories:
balladeers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Bad, Mad and Sad
...Because my moods are fickle
One moment I long for company
The next moment I tickle
Changes in the litany
That entertains mood swings
Repelling targets for which I long
As on a butterfly’s win...
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Categories:
balladeers, poems,
Form: Free verse
Put Some Country Back In Country
...These days it seems that whenever
you turn on the country radio,
you hear pop songs endlessly sung
by people faking a southern tone.
Pretty-boys from the suburbs,
with pristine hats and frosted ...
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Categories:
balladeers, art, creation, how i
Form: Rhyme
The Wandering Minstrel
...In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace. A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow deli...
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Categories:
balladeers, music,
Form: Ballad
Rough Roads To Roam
...The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves th...
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Categories:
balladeers, culture, earth, humanity, planet,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet's Heaven
...Among the classic poets of fine rhyme -
are balladeers who weave with lines a tale,
the satirists and bards of the sublime,
and troubadours who sing a light rondel.
I close my eyes, i...
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Categories:
balladeers, heaven, poets,
Form: Dizain
Celestial Boon(Tagged By Carrie, Now Tagging Linda-Marie)
...Lyric poets, lovers of fine rhyme;
balladeers who weave with lines a tale;
satirists and bards of the sublime,
and troubadours who sing a light rondel.
Will my muse appear to me and show it?
Tha...
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Categories:
balladeers, happiness
Form: Rhyme
Old Song's Magic
...There, that songwriter-singer again,
this late-night song-talk show on TV,
he must be in his mid-forties still,
but looks much older than seventy.
He's got this strong smug ai...
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Categories:
balladeers, nostalgia
Form: Narrative
Fond Wishes
...Oh Lord, please take us to places unseen,
Back to endless skies, and plains emerald green.
Through the words and songs, of poets and balladeers,
Give us good strong memories, and only happy tea...
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Categories:
balladeers, cowboy-western, devotion, faith, inspirational,
Form: Cowboy Poetry