Ballad Writing Poems

If I gave you a pen
as a gift from my heart
to write me the words of a song,
one I might hum
to a soft ballad strum
and...

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I recognised!
In that day,
The moment I saw you,
Led my eyes on you,
For the first time,
In that alley,
That I remember like yesterday, 
Standing like an angel...
In...

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Write Me
                your ballad of beliefs
    ...

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In the corners of our world
Lies a pain that we can't ignore
A cry for help, a call for aid
From those who hunger, cold and poor

Their...

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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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I hear them singing,                                           ...

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It so happened some years ago,
a story of the past it seems,
the room was wide and huge,
absorbing the echoes of her screams.

Her tale is told...

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The saddest tale that’s e’er been told 
Is that of pencil Sharp
He wrote so dark, so brave and bold
The critics on did harp

Disaster struck one...

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From both sides of the world we poets hail
Japanese Chokra and Russian Chatushka
Italian sonnet and African Kwansaba
Keenly delighting each other without fail

Within ballad a most...

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What Works
by Michael R. Burch

for David Gosselin

What works—
hewn stone;
the blush the iris shows the sun;
the lilac’s pale-remembered bloom.

The frenzied fly: mad-lively, gay,
as seconds tick his...

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(1.)
Soothing Dream, Bathe Me In Her Light
 
Of lonely night and vivid dread
sad supper and large empty bed
denying wind, sets soul to stir
romantic memories of...

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some poems stand out, outstanding,
         feeding my mind delicious, prime

      those ones,...

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Thinking of her day and night,
wrinkled, withering, hair turning white.

Wish I had time to write her a letter,
naw, she's alright, she always gets better.

I finally...

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CONVEYING A MESSAGE
THEY FOUND IT EASIER TO COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING
EXCEPT THEY KNEW
THAT EACH WORD SPOKEN
MEANT THE END OF THOSE YESTERDAYS THAT HAD
THEM TOGETHER
THOSE FRIENDS...

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Struggling through the verses
Not remembering some of
The words
Crooning the parts
Which should
Be soothed over
Keeping smooth
When words should be
In expression
Not keeping the melody
With the words
Introductions lack meaning
The...

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