Ballad Memorial Poems

Bring down the curtain on this stage
to avoid shouts of dissent and rage:
favoritism is a terrible thought so appalling;
the worthiness of honor is to be...

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The soft sea breeze blows from the bay
A wispy cool flutters the as the trees have their say
Quietly the music drifts out to the trading...

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Do you stand up for the flag
Flying fluttering in the breeze
It doesn’t look half bad
It may be old fashioned if you please

But my father went...

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It was sunny and the wind was on the lake today
As I heard the flags fluttering away
The bronze plaques floated on the wall 
I reached...

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Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch

So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty...

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Don’t let grief eat you away
It’s not what they would want anyway
Remember the good times with a smile
When you want to visit with them for...

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How fast life goes! How slow we feel! 
When someone dear leaves us for real.
How hard it gets! How tough the deal! 
If they're sublime...

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I wonder and admire those people true
Who answered the bugle’s call those years through
For they were volunteers one and all
And how did they stay the...

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All the Anzacs have faded back into the past
And the old men now rest with their mates
We can hope they play 2 up and still...

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The Black Hills wept for Thee

East of the Black Hills of South Dakota, 
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota, 
Part...

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Eyecatcher watch the showery inky sky
Focus eyes saw a thousand stars go by.
They sang paradise tweet songs in the tree
While going up on all branches...

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The Great Lakes Engineering Works built a new boat
S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald, t'would soon be afloat
The people that owned her needed a name
President of the...

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On a lonely outback track the wind whistled through the glass
As the 4 WD turned the corner we weren't driving at all fast
Planted on the...

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Twas the day before Christmas and out on the range
Some strange guys were shooting some things that were strange
There were Springfields and Mausers and parkerized...

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Swing Alone

As I look out upon the sea of green, shielding my eyes from the sun’s reflection off the lake 
A soft breeze moves, pushing...

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