Ballad Water Poems

Balefire

What glory is a lighthouse with no storm to weather?
For there is no solace in harbouring a harpooned wanderer
Truth be told, I am the jaded...

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Shining amongst the golden sand, 
Was the gleaming sun, ever so grand, 
The tiny town was totally thrilled,
And all their excitement could not be killed.

The...

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Celia from 'A' 
  tenures the lot
Standing near those Grey
  Bay's rocky scabs
slapp'd by tide
Stagnant water
  Green at the feet.

 Into time...

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Ballad
by William Soutar
translation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

O, surely you have seen my love
Down where the waters wind:
He walks like one who fears no man
And yet...

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I hear them singing,                                           ...

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This evening in our flat there rose a flood
That made our rooms and entrance hall a lake
As unattended bath-taps churned the sud
Into a foaming torrent...

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With you by me at close of day,
we’re gazing out to sea.
Our sun-kissed bodies gently sway
to Neptune’s melody.
He lulls us with the gentle ease
of lapping...

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The crumbling stones
against the Canyon walls
they restore my thoughts
they once were mighty large
ingenious stones 
now they are crumbled
crumbled into the earth
these stones shall crumble
to nuruse...

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Water falls and tears drop
forever flowing day in and day out
the softness and hardness of the flow
emotional phenomenon gentle and strong 
the eyes cry like...

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The United Nation of Trees
held their annual Falling Leaves Conference.

I was invited as a silent witness
and a loudly investigating reporter,
recorder of curious water-bearing and leaking...

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The blazing sun beats me down
As the glare does its best to surround
The dirt is whipped by the dust devils
My world is a hell felt...

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What's with me I give to you
The fuel for your life;
I bring back the norm in those with the flu,
And put you on the path...

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*the lotus*


In the lake
by the old temple 
a lotus fell in love.

At a moonlit hour
she looked down 
seductively shedding
off her bridal gown,
sees the moon
like a...

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Water you are crystal clear 
And you pour,  you're in elucidating body that rises 
Onto the shore 
And I often wonder,  why 
You're...

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Mankind, I fear is losing
Its leaders, know not shame
They cast aside the helpless
The hopeless and the maimed
Their lawyers speak to justify
Their evil, soulless deeds
The lowly,...

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