Poems About: BALLAD

But isn't it poetry seeing your lover's face,
Yet you never keep count of every sighting?

And isn't the evening sky poetic read more »

With ink on her hands she wrote to me her truths
reading over her fingered letters
she gave onto my eyes her promises
and as her words echoed through me read more »

Since I am one without a literary degree
Of poets and poetry why bother ask me
Though I have a fondness of old fashioned rhyme
To free verse I would prefer it anytime read more »

For me far too much foofaraw
Your own conclusions on them and their work draw
Though modern poets and their poems in poetry the in thing
And their praises the literary critics sing. read more »

for Aidain Tuttle, one more for the road

'Last round, gentleman! ' He calls,
and we hoist the last of it read more »

The Winter mostly cold and dry
And little rainfall in July
And not much water in the creek and drain
By the old Town of Castlemaine. read more »

A tearful ballad, torn between the staves
Like hand-picked knaves you fight,
No rush to come to aid, to save
The forgotten foes. read more »

His poems and plays are literary gems his quotes popular today
A genius and a great poet with words he had a way
Incarcerated in Reading Jail he lived at a time
When for a man to love another man was looked on as a crime. read more »

In rhyme and song and ballad I have praised
Old Claraghatlea where I was born and raised
Some of the old fields there have their own name
Though time brings change I'm sure they'd look the same read more »

Oh sing us of central Victoria of places like Daylesford, Maryborough and Castlemaine
To that flat and open brown country that welcomes every dropp of rain
Where gold miners flocked to in their thousands a century and a half ago
And where some even amassed great fortunes in the goldfields of old Bendigo. read more »

She is gorgeous more than rose,
She is sweet more than goose.
Awesome more than Lily,
Adorable and Adorable more than Valley. read more »

She said to the ballad singer sing us songs of refugees
Tell us of those poor sad people from Lands beyond the seas
Who have fled wars and famines for a better life elsewhere
Yet our Governments won't help them doesn't life seem so unfair. read more »