Ballad Light Verse Poems

"love letters"

as time moves I wonder my love letter to you
enveloped with a waltz and breathtaking ballad
it would reveal all telling the story of us
only...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VI

On the Horns of a Dilemma (I)
by Michael R. Burch

Love has become preposterous
for the over-endowed rhinoceros:
when he meets the right...

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(This is a parody of "Frankie and Johnny")

Charlie and Molly were playmates.
Golly, how they could play.
Mornings they'd meet at a corner
to plan how they'd spend...

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Gather 'round me, my dears,
I'll continue the tale
Of a princess and her pirate lover.
Of her crown unencumbered,
They pillaged and plundered
As they wandered the seven seas...

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Listen, my dears, and I'll tell you a tale
Of a princess, a pirate, and glory.
There's a shipwreck, a rescue,
A romance, a ransom,
And a handicapped whale...

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Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms...

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A sad sack of a man;
he sits on his balcony rail 
five stories high, facing out 
drunk out of his freakin' mind 
and still drinking!...

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We have come to you
Like the sun to the cloud does
Anything you can afford
Please,do,spare us.
We've been under this bridge
even the ants gossips us
Because we share...

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Edna Clouds,  dreamer,  catch-me-if-you-can, hunted by police, together with her man.

T’was Robin Banks, that set her heart a throbbin’, a needy chap who...

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Fred The Hawk and his wife were most frightening to behold.
No one got away from them; they were in a class so very bold.
They had...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Stranger
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: November/2011

I sing the ballad
of
a stranger -

Travel'n down
a lonesome
road -

I am
the soothing 
voice
in the wind,

singing
lyrics
that nobody
know's -

I have
churched
in the glow
of
angels...

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You asked me over to dine,
 And there we sat and drank some wine.

 The atmosphere was pleasant
 As I watched you cook our pheasant.

...

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Do you wanna hear my hear my heart's song?
The rhythmic beat of a bittersweet song
The sound thriving so strong
Do you wanna hear my heart's song?
How...

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Oh tiny tomatoes
I love you so!
I never thought 
I'd ever grow
Enough to even
Make a salad
But there's a few
To inspire this ballad
The planting season
Is nearly passed
It...

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Come to me baby, walk across the floor...
Take my hand my love and just close the door..
Move towards me as I start to dim the...

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