Poems About: BALLAD

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 »

Joe the bard is feeling weary and looking old and gray
And it seems very obvious that he has known a better day
A shadow of the man he once was it would be fair to say
But as ever he is penning verse with words he has a way read more »

A fan of the late Ned Buckley the poet of Knocknagree
The last bard of Sliabh Luachra and few as great as he
Her name is Brid Ui Mhaoluala that is Irish to the core
Her husband from East Kerry from the old Town of Rathmore. read more »

Oh sing me the ballad of old Belgrave Town
The roads that lead to it they wind up and down
By huge mountain ash that dwarf all other trees
The giants on the high ground that sough in the breeze. read more »

He penned so many great songs in his great writing prime
'Paddy Reilly' and 'McBreens Heifer' songs that live on in time
Percy French of Cloonyquin in Roscommon was a poetic great
And the beauty he created does not have a use by date. read more »

I hear there are changes in Cullen and few people there i would know
It has been awhile now Since I've been there perhaps twenty Summers ago
The babes then are now young men and women and the Seasons they come and they go
Yet through the old fields by the Village the Araglen to the Blackwater flow, read more »

When it’s too hot to sit in the courtyard,
Rochel sits inside
And sips iced tea. read more »

John Masefield was a master wordsmith his fame has not faded in time
He penned long poems and Saltwater Ballads and he penned plays and stories in rhyme
I have known his readable verses since I was a school-going boy
The lovers of down to earth poetry his good earthy verses enjoy read more »

God and the Queen of Snowland
met a long long time ago
when Snowland did not exist
when there was no King no Lords read more »

Longing for a heart,
to throw a love poem at
caring not, the words used
staggering with thoughts read more »

He walks in the Townpark every morning the old man known as Whistle and Sing
The great gift of joy is a blessing it is such a wonderful thing
He is always whistling and singing on the pathway as he walks along
The ballads he learned in his young years the man who knows many a song read more »

It has been awhile now since she has been in her life's prime
But the old rhyming poetess is still writing rhyme
She has penned many ballads and many a song
Amongst the greats of rhyme poetry she is one who belong. read more »