Best Ballyhoo Poems

ballade  (not a ballad)

This prince we see down on his knees
his wife beside him is no shrew,
Can she believe his guarantees?
He promises to say...

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willow’d lavender
zephyr of ballyhoo leaves
the purplish pleasure ~
a dizzy diadem of
poetic propensity

6/8/2020...

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Well, I woke up this morning
For my own prime time,
Hoping swarming senses
Might light into rhyme,
With caffeine and nicotine
My morning jump start
I was searching for the...

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My friends have already revealed that I'm in loved with you
That's why I don't know what to do nor to say.
And so am I confounded...

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Talk to me, don't run away from me.
Speak to me, you are in me
I am listening...


I never lied to you
  nor will I ever...

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Posted on Christmas Eve, happy cuz Trump soon leaves
America finally gets a reprieve from the lies he weaves
Well, pardon ME if you disagree, but he's...

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The Morning Rush

Early to bed early to rise, makes one healthy and wise....
So here I am,  wide awake and awaiting sunrise....

The millionaires, they sleep...

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Imagine a woman peeking out from the shower curtain…
   Accompanying captions on the side appear
   “I asked 100 women what shampoo...

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Who's the grandest marshal in my parade?
Who is the best of all the rest?
Who stole my heart without fanfaronade? 
Three questions I'll assess, 
and give...

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They’re building a subway
(They call it the Q)
To run underneath
Second Avenue.

It’s nearing completion
(But way overdue).
They’re hoping by New Year’s
To have its debut.

Construction’s so noisy
(If you...

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Whilst sitting on the Launch Pad
They await the final countdown
Their rocket – called TAKE 5, begins to shudder
The Captain is well known, and called BUTTERFINGER...

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Drowning in a sea of sound
Lost in the maze of materialism
Buffeted by a blizzard of ballyhoo
Straitjacketed by the strictures of science
Swamped with the mediocrity of...

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I know humor can hoist my heavy heart,
those times when I've made too much ado.
A joke upgrades angst to laughter's ballyhoo.
You sometimes forget what you...

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Meditating in the garden Gethsemane
Jesus decides to become agnostic
not believing the religion himself
perceiving a clearly telling prognostic

He sat within the still winds then
blowing all the...

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I wandered on a journey, in search of treasure,
priceless far beyond any kind of menial measure.
After weeks of hard trekking, 258 miles due West,
on 6/25...

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