Ballad Books Poems

I hear them singing,                                           ...

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During the essence of my last breath,
Know and bear in mind I was broken hearted,
Under the light and shadow of death
What is to live was...

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It creeps in like a careless whisper,
in cold nights and sleepy days.
It likes busy streets and hides in lonely places.
It rages a soft war, mind...

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Buds Forever

Shorty was a little dog, 
Curly was too. 
They played every day, 
until there was nothing else to do. 

Rolling on the grass, 
digging...

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Puzzles in Pink

Yesterday is just a dream. 
I took you everywhere, 
but you... do not remember. 

My little one, 
you cried and cried. 

We went...

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Home to Rest
(She said, "I love my room." 
The very happy feeling of being home.)

Today, 
my daughter came home. 
She was not crying this time,...

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Another One Down
And another one bites the dust. 

Marriage. 
My friend, my neighbor, the lady next door, 
Rampant miscalculations of being too nice, 
two people...

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Chickens

Are by far my favorite bird. 

They give and take very little. 
They kill the bugs on the property, 

Not by chemical intervention, 
but by...

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YOU WERE BORN 
with dreams and ideals
you were born 
with love and trust 
you were born 
with potential and greatness.
You were born with wings.
Don't forget...

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THE CAR HAS EARS 

  by Charles Eastland
  (also Kindle eBook:  Selected Poems by Charles Eastland) 

Shhh shhh…whisper 
that news about extra...

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I was browsing in a book shop today
And a book on the bargain table took my eye straight away
It had lost thirty dollars off the...

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she loves mi
beyond my scope or scale
she loves mi
and speaks it in sultry detail
I have love
for someone
I'm
in love with
connected by the heart
I miss her when...

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Whenever darkness & dusty cloud engulfed,
I moved, not knowing where to step though.
Joints often failed to hold my fresh, 
But I shivered to my feet....

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Hi, up there, its me, again.
It hasn't been a week since you forgave my bane,
Truly, one would say I deserve the cane
Since I have missed...

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Where are the people of God?
Where are the people who can stand for God?
Where are the new breed of our generation?
Where are the courageous men...

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