Ballad Verse Poems

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the minstrel tells stories singing ballad after ballad
still he starves to death on keys and tones

the bard tells tale after epic tale
still he lies alone...

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The night closes the windows, and
The sky has become a crystal house,
Shining crystal windows,
The Moon
Has sketched through them -
Through the entire alabaster sanctuary.
A single star...

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It was strange
the cars, 
like stand alones, all unoccupied,
dotting the dark wet stained streets,
the moon licking puddles 
like a stray dog thirsty 
checking its reflection...

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In blackness,
 I hear forked tongues 
whisper wicked witchery,
hope within arthritic 
  ink slowly f a d e s
as darkness descends  
upon snow-speckled...

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  I'm tired of singing to the moon, 
as ink flows in bruised hues, 
within my fragmented heart, 
used and shattered by censorious eyes~
ever...

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I’ve been sitting here so long,
My butts getting numb,
So I jump right up
And stick out my thumb.

He comes rolling down the street,
With the only smell...

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In my palm, let a spring of living ages drip,  
To breathe into you the ancestral land, without cross, without boundary,  
Lend me...

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Note:  In 1976, Richard Clayderman (real name Philippe Pagès) received a telephone call from a well-known French record producer, who was looking for a...

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I’m scared of what I could manifest if I tried
These after thoughts are traits, too defiant to ignore
Am I reading the room, 
Or am I...

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Life is a song, where you are the deep 
breathtaking words of your heartbeats,
in mellifluous melodies that play every day, 
beneath starlight and the shimmering...

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Life is a song,
Life is a ballad,
Each day write the lines,
Time scripts each verse.

Life is a symphony,
Dawn sets the tune,
Twilight permutes the harmonics,
Tomorrow determines the...

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“Life is a song in which everyone makes up the keys and harmony as they sing along.” - Mitta Xinindlu


In rhythms of light, softly glowing
Bringing...

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“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
Rumi

If life was a song,
what would be your refrain?

When instruments of fate performed
in...

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Written: January 2nd, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest

Rumi verse" Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear...

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DANCE WITH ME

Hey! come on,
get down, groove
to the beat. 
 
Fun with free style,
express yourself
and improvise.
Let joy, bliss show.

Take my hand, lead me…
swing to rock...

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