Sad Ballad Poems

Once upon a tear
A woman loved a boy.
The boy, not me I fear,
Had grown to be annoyed.

The boy had thought her pretty
Then did not after...

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Alone, I stand till pain returns;
The ocean’s waves rise near.
Its roaring drowns the world outside,
Yet cannot quell my tear.

Each day, my pain revives anew~
Afraid, alone,...

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Author Dana Redricks 
December 16, 2024

Everybody needs somebody to love them,  
Nobody is meant to be alone. I talk to you all the time...

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So sad, seeing the world we were born into
Being consumed by a rage of civilization
See young people misuse the freedom of choices
Taking advantage of every...

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Looking out the window of the train
I noticed a beautiful woman waving.
Everything in me wanted me to get up and wave
at her: but in my...

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I know a hag who begs for loot
She is wheelchair bound like me too
Her soft skills are fake, this ol' koot.
I ask her to stop,...

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Author Dana Redricks 
May 2, 2024

You don't miss a good thing until it's gone, when you're all alone and when your loved one is not...

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The pages written in my book
Are pages made of second looks
They tell the days of happy sad
And sometimes sprinkle crazy mad

The game is played and...

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No, sad-looking lady,
leave out you pathetic pity;
I left someone for your sake...
she had lips of honey:
wasn't it a big mistake?

Words that hurt aren't mine,
you shouted...

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Meanwhile at the Temple of Doom, 
the hearts of the "resistance", 
are burning...

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I have never seen her naked
I have only seen her happy
I have never seen her sad
I have seen her hurt 

I know not of the...

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A Farmer’s Plight
The field is ready
The work is done
Toiling in the soil
Under the sun.
 We wait now for the monsoon rain
To end our hunger and...

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I'm the writer of my yarn
I am the painter of my doom
Thousands of phantoms here me warn
From opened window of my room

They walk and crawl...

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Tommy Lee was a Black man,
Born a poor man's son.
From the early days of his wayward youth
Tommy Lee was on the run.

He never had no...

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Fill your heart with not pain and sorrow
But remember me in every tomorrow
Although the living cause pain and grief
My going has given me a heart...

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