Best Ballad Poems
Below are the all-time best Ballad poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ballad poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Ballad of the Poet*The Dead Poet*
Many blocks along the road,
Kicking down walls of heavy stones,
Yet no one could draw through the walls of her lonely bones.
A...
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Categories:
beauty, death, deep, emo, grief, sad,
Form:
Ballad
Ballad of an Unsung HeroVivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...
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Categories:
analogy, metaphor, political,
Form:
Ballad
The Ballad Of Poet Destroyer"The Ballad of The Poet Destroyer"
Destroyer, and creator of words
Flying high on the wings of a bird
Drowning every inch, by foes and friends
Where has she...
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Categories:
ballad, absence, courage, me, missing you, mystery,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
ballad, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
To Be With You -
I love you,
that's not hard for me to say,
its not a prediction, or a reflection, it just is
a motion in my heart's ocean,
an ocean named...
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Categories:
desire,
Form:
Ballad
Death of the Poet Destroyer~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~
Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...
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Categories:
birth, change, conflict, death, eulogy, life,
Form:
Ballad
Umbrella*I Will Cry*
If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?
I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...
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Categories:
ballad, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form:
Dramatic monologue
The Squirrel~My Nutty Squirrel Poem~
Up in a tree, on a branch
Now you see me, now you don't!
Sneaky and fast, I'm adorable
Now, why would you hunt or...
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Categories:
adventure, animal, beautiful, blessing, celebrity, funny,
Form:
Ballad
Love Beyond the PaleYou lay upon the warm wet earth
now ripped from limb to limb.
Your present shape denies the girth
of your form in its prime.
A life cut short...
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Categories:
ballad, abuse, devotion, lost love,
Form:
Quatrain
The StoneThe Tale below was carved one night
Upon the Stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
body, death, fantasy, kiss, love, me,
Form:
Ballad
Crying RiverCrying River (The Untold Ballad)
Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem...
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Categories:
beautiful, cry, deep, freedom, river, snow,
Form:
Ballad
Texian Macabre ArenaThe First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...
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Categories:
pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism, violence, war,
Form:
Ballad
Indian Girl--Virginia Slim--
Different eyes, the same world
Ancient skin, dirty Indian Girl
Smokey, eyes, exotic raven hair
---Now listen to the colors, of transformation,
On...
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Categories:
adventure, girl, life, native american, spiritual,
Form:
Ballad
BASTARD "All Children Are Beautiful"
His heart of white, deep shallow wells, -yet beautiful
He smirks with a grin, an ego that won't...
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Categories:
art, beauty, betrayal, child, cute love,
Form:
Ballad
This Song is for my MotherThis song is for my mother
Let her hear me cry
I couldn’t bring myself to write it
‘Til this darkened day arrived
A song about old promises
Made...
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Categories:
angst, death, dedication, depression, funeral, love,
Form:
Ballad
The Book Of Her Body
I lift you up, delicately
like a bouquet of flames in pink patient fever,
romantically, I rove your surface with fingertips that tingle,
the texture of your treated...
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Categories:
love,
Form:
Ballad
Six Thousand Suns From Yesterday You have seen three thousand suns
...
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Categories:
angst, beauty, love,
Form:
Ballad
Write My Life
When I first surrendered all to You
it wasn’t clear to me,
that You became the author;
my life, Your poetry.
The pages of my life were dark.
You made...
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Categories:
ballad, analogy, god, perspective, poetry, repetition, write,
Form:
Rhyme
LONGING FOR FATHER'S LOVEI am not a father
Nor I am a mother
I am just a daughter
That is growing better...
Father, you have been away
I truly wish you have stayed
Hugging...
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Categories:
absence, care, child, dad, desire, father,
Form:
Ballad
A Little SnowflakeThere once was a little snowflake
that was beautiful, cold and white
He was created up high within the clouds
during a storm one winters night
There were millions...
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Categories:
beautiful, children, snow, weather, winter,
Form:
Ballad
Categories:
society, war,
Form:
Ballad
Ocean WavesIn perfect rhythm
A gently flowing ballad
Perfect melody
Tugging at my heart
Softly lifting my spirit
Tickling my senses
A song of beauty
Calling to the universe
To maintain all life
Everlasting tune
Beckoning...
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Categories:
ballad, nature
Form:
Choka
Black PowderI lived in such a pretty home,
A spotless home I kept,
But somehow, from a place unknown,
Through every crack, black powder crept,
However much I swept.
On every...
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Categories:
dark, future, horror,
Form:
Ballad
Spring Fever’Tis Spring
(this is the real title, which I am unable to post this way in the title heading)
Rejuvenate! ’Tis spring.
Cruel winter’s lost its cling.
We...
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Categories:
spiritual, spring,
Form:
Ballad
Rebel Girl
She doesn't believe in quiet love
wasn't born to bleed shyly,
couldn't care about the cost of conquest,
Too beautiful to be bitter, and too young to be...
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Categories:
beautiful, beauty, best friend, body, desire,
Form:
Ballad