Ballad Teen Poems

I hear them singing,                                           ...

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Airy Wells and Emmett Street were working class kids,
Just shy of a high school diploma.
Airy’s mom had a habit of drinking too much.
Emmett’s father was...

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You made me rub you
I didn't want to do it
I didn't want to do it

You paid me damn you -
I was so scared I'd do...

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There was a scrumptious new boy in town.
We Seniors were agog, 
He went around the square twice 
On a Saturday night

In small town USA in...

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*written for my daughter Erin's birthday, to be sung by her boyfriend and his band(??)



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Love is a song in 26 verses
Love love love
The Beatles sing
All you need is love 
What about the romantic poets
Who sing along of love?
Keats? Joyce?...

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Sara tiptoes across
The kitchen floor
To get some heat
She opens the oven door

Sheets in the window
Sara calls them curtains
Mind weary, Soul hurtin'
Sara

Sara lives by the train...

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I only said it, to make you smile back
You wouldn't say it back

I like to shy away from the world
To silence the thoughts
don't have to...

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I don't believe in anything anymore
Actually lets be honest
I don't believe in a big amount of things
I don't believe in love
I don't believe in people
I...

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Blue above and 

Blue below,
 
Clumps of clouds,

Falling slow.


Airplanes surge but do not move.

The elephant passes in the room.


I try to sleep, 

to turn away,

Turning...

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I am the face of misery
My life, a dissonance of autumn and spring,
The years are written in the same
Lugubrious, nostalgic grey
How can it be the...

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Coming from the misty lake Lough Leane
Came a beautiful maiden of the name of Niamh
Upon a mare, for she is not from the world of...

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Now that you're becoming Undone
It's time to have some fun
In Deadman Wonderland

Khoon Tu Kao
Khoon Tu Kao
Khoon Tu Kao

The setting Red Sun of Kali
Shows it's time...

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Don thoust not know Deidre’s eode
Don thoust not know Deidre’s eode

I cunnan sense her embrace that felans gelic Tragedy
A Heart to hath, slipped beneoðan waw...

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Don’t you know Deirdre’s gone?
Don’t you know Deirdre’s gone?

I can sence her embrace that feels like Tragedy
A heart to have, slipped beneath the waves ...

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