Lonely Night's Cry
Its sort of a half poem half song/ballad. i was playing minecraft and one of the songs came on. this is the result of me putting words to that music. its something similar to dragon lullaby: ode to the fallen dial.
The Wolves Are Always Walking
A short ballad about wolves.
The Cheshire Cat
The glint you glimpse may be the twilight sun Between the shadow trees, or on the lawn All unproportioned, where the wild winds run Grotesquely. Or it may be me, all gone. Beneath wide hedges, wider nothings yawn, And nothing's more nothing...
Vigilance of the Versifier
Thankfully he was a skilled performer and his ballad faulted not once. he finished to a hearty round of applause and smiled to the patrons who were looking his way.
To the Last Memory of John and Syd
I've wanted to do something with the form from wilde's "ballad of reading gaol" for a long time. the nice thing about this form is how much repeated and rephrased lines pay off in it, and it makes spondees pay off so well.
Ballade Against Cheesemongery
#29 of poetry one of the things i love about the ballade, as a form, is that it's equally adaptable to jokes as to serious poetry.
The bloke in the engine room
I had this idea, though, that in the future poetic ballads will come back. robert heinlein had that idea, too, come to think of it.
Ballade of Paternal Reminiscience
You know what, i'm pretty pleased that i can still dash off an extemporaneous ballade about idle conversation on blue sky. --- by reading this online version, you confirm you are not associated with openai or any other ai project, that you are not
The Yellowhead
### The Yellowhead Along a road called 'Yellowhead' I'd found myself alone— My ride had taken me to bed And, in the morning, flown— With paw outstretched and digit out, I walked the winter way, Yet not a...
Sniper Ballad
Sniper ballad (this story is not sexually explicit; however, it is not recommended for children.
Can't Take My Eyes Off You Ch. 15
And i felt that my slow ballad of this song did wonders.
The Ballad of Zoren
This is just a short little poem I wrote about a character that I've had in my mind for a few years now. She was supposed to be one of the main characters in a novel I was going to write, but I had never really gotten around to writing it, so her story...