Ballad Universe Poems

thee hour of the mind the hour the soul 
masters the hearts need for growth 
bestowed between the cunny desires
 
where the muses dance the...

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Driving down the distant highways
How can I survive 
Just me and my Cadillac sailing free and far
Gravity is pulling all my thoughts towards you
My comfort...

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Smoke ascended, swirling gracefully,
From the chimneys of mud houses’ kitchens,
As I bid farewell to my beloved village.
Lips of my mother, weathered and wise,
Moved in silent...

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Poetic Existence

Poetry is emotion,
Poetry is thought,
Poetry is perspective,
Poetry is all that I can see,
Every word,
Every place,
Every era,
Everything, everytime, everywhere,
By every mean all I see is...

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Volcanoes can engulf the land
in avalanching lava blaze
entombing picturesque Pompeiis,
for Nature has the upper hand.

Tsunamis raze an earthly strand
disrupting lives that cling to breath
in e’er...

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We look up at the sky at night
There is so much to see
Planets, stars, and meteors
Then, past vision, what can be

The further back the light...

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I

In need of washing my eyes clean with Holy Water,
For I've seen some evil that'll make satan scream.
Lo! Isn't the devil Man himself following his...

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 If you are a "Shinning Star"in "The Sky"; Happy Birthday!!! If you are a "Planet in any "Solar System"; Happy Birthday! If you are...

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This world turns and we all have our lives
On this earth we see around us
But if there are more galaxies than
Grains of sands in all...

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Joyous, scribing ballad
Underneath the moon
Starlight sprinkled lyric
Twilight's cosmic rune

Tending hearts romantic
Heaven's swirling shoals
Roiling objects skyward
Expanse, alighting souls
Each abiding wonder ...

Wrought amidst reprise
Omnipotent as thunder
Requited love's...

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The whole of a journey still to be traveled
is much like a novel begun
with threads of the story not yet unraveled
and windings of plot to...

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SURSUM CORDA 

(for Ruth and Clement Mc Cormack, 
Bridgton, Maine)

“Come see us, we’ll talk about the job."

you were convalescent, generous, 
and anxious to get your...

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I want to chart the stars
As I wander the universe a far
Wondrous sights I will see
A journey across the galaxy
And it might be one day...

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I stopped the car and looked around
On a hill overlooking our town
The noise started 10 minutes around
With a distant howling sound

The radio says it is...

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Have you told them, that I do not know.
I have no knowledge of this world.
I just know, I was born…
and I wonder is this what...

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