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,
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,
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Ballad
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,
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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,
Form:
Ballad
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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adventure, animal, beautiful, blessing,
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Ballad
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,
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,
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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,
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
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,
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,
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
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,
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,
Form:
Ballad
Categories:
society, war,
Form:
Ballad
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
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,
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
The Flight of BeboBebo was a bird
who could not fly
He kept flapping his wings
'cause he knew he must try
There were two other birds
that were laughing at...
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Categories:
bird, children, flying, fun,
Form:
Ballad
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2PART 1: THE MEETING
Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...
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Categories:
fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
Bloom Not, WolfsbaneBloom not, cruel wolfsbane
In this forward spirit of mine
Let the moon dim and wane
For love has diseased my kind
The girl was luscious in the...
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Categories:
adventure, angst, depression, devotion,
Form:
Ballad
BarbieBarbie
from Loch
March 5, 1990
I fell in love in a biker bar
with a girl in chocolate hair.
It swept around her like a smoky fire
and woke up...
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Categories:
cute love, drink, i
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Ballad
Lost Love - Gary FieldsLoss Lost Love
by~ GARY FIELDS
Why my love left?
I soon forget the reason's why
All that I remember
Is that she left such
An empty space
An empty trace
So many...
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Categories:
loss, lost love, lost,
Form:
Ballad
Slow Movin TightsI'm in me bath here, with a box of red cheer,
yeah a box of red cheer, beer's too bloody dear.
Me mind's wanderin twixt big...
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Categories:
me, red, women,
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Ballad