Kasai

Well, I figure I'd throw in something a little different. To keep the clan fresh and new. What I want from the members, is a ballad (or the part from the ballad you loved most) that you've found and read. I want you to interpret that ballad and tell me what you think it means. And then write one or more quatrains that show that feeling.

Now, this quatrain(s) will be different than practice.1-Ballad Poetry. It doesnt have to tell a story. But you still have to keep the format.

This workout is meant to access your interpreting skills and to put your newly found literary device to work. So, shall we begin?

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

As you can see, this ballad is about a man who comitted murder. And while he is in jail? He was constantly remembering what he had before, that which he took. I dont have a ballad response yet. I plan on having one soon.

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Soldat of life

"The Unfinished Puzzle"


by Susan Wheat from Denham Springs, LA
e-mail: skbsw@aol.com





White snow falls upon the top,
The mountain side simply watching it subside.
I look upon its highest peak,
I wonder to myself, wondering from inside.

As I peer at the sky so high,
Nothing seems to come out.
What I did not realise,
Was the disary that I was without.

Thinking of hardships I could not contain,
My life had a new meaning as the clouds passed by.
Someone else had replaced what once was you,
The one I longed for, I could not lie.

Within my now forgiven state,
I could look to the mountains clearly now.
Whole again there was no doubt,
To your mysterious words I now bow.

Life goes on and I stand tall,
Your reasoning growing upon me.
I thank you deeply for what you offered,
Now I can truly understand and clearly see.


I could go on and on, but I think this should...maybe....euh...probably be clear enough, kinda like a recap on what happened next in her life or something like that....soooo......that's that :P

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Thanks to Xelhes for this amazing work of art ^.^
Poetry Corner

raja_psyche

By Rudyard Kipling

Blue Roses
The Light that Failed



Roses red and roses white
Plucked I for my love's delight.
She would none of all my posies--
Bade me gather her blue roses.

Half the world I wandered through,
Seeking where such flowers grew.
Half the world unto my quest
Answered me with laugh and jest.

Home I came at wintertide,
But my silly love had died
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.

It may be beyond the grave
She shall find what she would have.
Mine was but an idle quest--
Roses white and red are best!

Bouquet of red and white roses
Tied in white and blue laces
Placed on my love's sepulchre,
Sealed in eternal slumber.

Deep sorrow is what i feel,
With wounds that never heal.
Tears of antagonizing pain,
Will eventually make me insane.


~reading this ballad makes made me sad. it was hard for me to put in words what i feel... but i tried... ^^

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Baal

''bloody tears''

black skys
bloody rains
a sign of eternal pain
Gasy clouds clearing the rays

of hope and words o sorrow
trying to get out of the cage
fury and rage
all that can it give
to get out of ur mistakes
in life

Bloddy tears covering ur surrond
giving eternal darkness
to ur life
giving u desesparetion
taking ur own life
for glorificacion

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