Whims
...All forms of poetry to seems like mimicking balladry
or whims?,
I pretend to hide and smile and laugh
but is overwhelmed by such a glee,
which upon life is following like woods o...
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Categories:
balladry, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
I Dream Poetry
...Stay steady and silently still,
Let me adore what your eyes do to my shivering quill,
I am led astray between my walls and your words,
Blinded by a cloud of these butterfly birds,
The weight ...
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Categories:
balladry, emotions, love, lust, romance,
Form: Free verse
The Sound of Snoring
...It is common knowledge to those who have shared rooms with the groom and those who have only shared houses with him, he snores
and no matter what one tries to do to stop him, or to dampen the sound...
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Categories:
balladry, humor, humorous, music, sleep,
Form: Free verse
One Last Ode - Parody of a Song
...A parody of “The Last Waltz” song written by: Barry Mason and Les Reed
One Last Ode
I wondered if I’d write ever again
Inklings of my hear...
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Categories:
balladry, parody, sad love, song,
Form: Lyric
Three Blind Mice On Duty
...When I was only two bricks and a ticky high I wrote my first ever treatise
Three blind mice unbeknown to me highly philosophical not just to please
The Gods of poetry duty bound on their quest ...
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Categories:
balladry, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Balladry World Is My Little World
...The balladry world is my little world
This is the little world of my own,
Where there is no little disturbance,
Where there is the heart, my feelings
And the pen on my hand,
Where there is no ...
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Categories:
balladry, happy, writing,
Form: Bio
New Day Poetry
...It's a new day, today, for writing
A day of new beginning
To start a visionary drive thru
New thoughts stewing
New ideas brew
Holding up, to spin a memory
Within mind, tenderly
Composing, rh...
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Categories:
balladry, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gateshead Music
...GATESHEAD MUSIC
Not a storybook place of rhymes and chimes of bells
My childhood England was dark and dirty,
And instead of the skirl of bagpipes or the weeping fiddle,
There were fa...
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Categories:
balladry, childhood, history, music,
Form: Free verse
Poet's Limbo
...(Of poetry, I open up the book
Turn past pages of contents and title
Enter upon the plank and set sail, then...)
I am swept away by the writer's winds, further and further
Through seconds on th...
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Categories:
balladry, adventure, introspection, visionary, world,
Form: Verse
Haunted Heritage
...Primeval campfire bards intone their tale
Of fairyland, where human beings dare not stray—
A nether-realm of water-sprite and fay,
Evoked by incantations and the banshee’s wail,
From out of ancie...
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Categories:
balladry, mysteryold, old, , memorial,
Form: Sonnet