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Balladeer
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0 posted 2003-07-26 03:00 PM



I am just a simple balladeer with some small tales to tell.
I wonder if I'm competent enough to do it well.
I hear my friends encourage me to take up pen and write
I see imagination's gleam to fill my mind with light.
I want my words to have the strength to weave a magic spell.
I am just a simple balladeer with some small tales to tell.

I pretend my fantasies are real. People think they are.
I feel that in one's inner mind can one achieve full power.
I touch a chord of melancholy with the tales I write
I worry that I will not dream when I turn out the light.
I cry to think senility may one day still my bell
I'm just a simple balladeer with some small tales to tell.

I understand that nothing last forever. Nor will I
I say that there are things that I must tell before I die.
I dream of writing tender things to touch somebody's soul.
I try to make enlightenment and joy as my main goal.
I hope that when one thinks of me, he'll think "He did it well".
I'm just a simple balladeer with some small tales to tell.

© Copyright 2003 Michael Mack - All Rights Reserved
vlraynes
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1 posted 2003-07-26 03:07 PM



And you KNOW I'm smiling at this...

Simply wonderful and wonderfully YOU...

Love you, my friend...

"My friends are my estate."
~Emily Dickinson

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2 posted 2003-07-26 03:16 PM


"I am just a simple balladeer"

Never ever will you be "just a simple Balladeer"  never!!

Fantastic write 'Deer!
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~The breeze that kissed you on the face,
    Has held me in the same embrace~

Earth Angel
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3 posted 2003-07-26 03:16 PM


Your dream of writing tender things to touch somebody's soul, has come true!

Your  hope that others think, "He did it well", has been realized.

--and you have 20/20 vision for your words do weave "a magic spell"!


EA

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4 posted 2003-07-26 03:17 PM


Michael

this is amazing and this:

I cry to think senility may one day still my bell

I seriously doubt will pass your way
xxoo

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5 posted 2003-07-26 03:24 PM


Wonderful sir Balladeer! hugs, Chris

"At one glance
I love you
With a thousand hearts."


— Mihri Hatun, Turkish poet  

    

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6 posted 2003-07-26 03:44 PM


I try to make enlightenment and joy as my main goal.
I hope that when one thinks of me, he'll think "He did it well".
=========================

You are right on both accounts..

( what? no spam lines????)

So glad you did this...love seeing your reflection in your words.

"How could I stand here with you and not be moved by you."

LH

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7 posted 2003-07-26 04:39 PM


made me smile...for in your words are so much truth.

(I worry about some of the same things)
M

Nan
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8 posted 2003-07-26 04:44 PM


You am what you am, my Deer BallaDeer... With plenty more tales to tell...
Patricia
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9 posted 2003-07-26 05:16 PM


How beautiful...so glad to know you better.

Patricia

Titia Geertman
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10 posted 2003-07-26 05:35 PM




Couldn't help it but I had to write you an answer to this lovely poem in Open.  /pip/Forum80/HTML/003472.html

Titia

LOL and then I discovered you wrote to a challenge, oh well I meant every word of it


Like scattered leaves...my words will flow

[This message has been edited by Titia Geertman (07-26-2003 05:49 PM).]

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11 posted 2003-07-26 06:26 PM


You Am
You Have
You Do

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12 posted 2003-07-26 06:39 PM


First off you are anything but simple you are wonderful.Secondly your sanity will never be taken for it's too strong.Thirdly you have already touched the heart and souls of many with your words and will continue to do so.
angelblueyes

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13 posted 2003-07-26 09:09 PM


You are not just a 'simple Balladeer" MISTER!

You are perhaps one of the finest poets that I have ever had to priviledge to read and know and this answer to the challenge is perfect....okay you're manager has spoken

Melissa~

Intellectually I know that Canada is no better than any other country. Emotionally I KNOW that Canada is the best country in the world!

Bill Charles
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14 posted 2003-07-26 09:17 PM


Balladeer - you may be a simple Balledeer, but one heck of a writer. Now I want to see the romantic one you speak of...

BC

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15 posted 2003-07-26 10:09 PM


Michael...You are unique and filled, not with simple but wisdom's guild.  It's an honor to know you.  Loved this look!
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16 posted 2003-07-26 10:13 PM


Michael, thank you for showing us you.
You sure are a nice person.  
Hugs  
Ethel

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17 posted 2003-07-26 10:16 PM


smiling

the only thing I do not like about this is one word--and that is "just"

JUST a simple balladeer.

You, sir, are delightful in your naivety.

You have absolutely no idea how much you mean to us all, and that "just" makes you all the more charming.




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18 posted 2003-07-26 10:36 PM


Balladeer, brother poet:
You ARE the master storyteller.  Our mentor, and our craft.  Did I ever thank you for telling me of PIP?  It was one of the most wonderful gifts, I have ever received.
TD

Balladeer
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19 posted 2003-07-27 12:20 PM


well, I just answered each response individually and, upon going to post it, it all disappeared!!! I guess the senility part is already here!

So I'll just say thank you all very much and it's always been a wonderful pleasure being here with you all

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Ceinwyn
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21 posted 2003-07-27 04:07 AM


I must agree you're not just a simple balladeer...uhh hopefully I'm spelling it right tonight

If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried.

VOE
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22 posted 2003-07-27 07:15 AM


Every time I read your work, it puts a smile on my face...I have to stand in line to say that I don't see you as simple at all, but complex and magnificent in your work!! (Stop laughing, I really meant that!!!)  ~V~

I speak from the Voice Of Experience

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23 posted 2003-07-27 05:15 PM


I say that there are things that I must tell before I die.
I dream of writing tender things to touch somebody's soul.
I try to make enlightenment and joy as my main goal.
I hope that when one thinks of me, he'll think "He did it well".
I'm just a simple balladeer with some small tales to tell.

For some reason, this reminds me of your poem about writing for the simple, ordinary man. *S* And there's no question of competency... you succeed so very well... and always find a tale worth telling. *S*

Beautiful work, my friend. *S*

El_Campeador
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24 posted 2003-07-27 05:58 PM


This is sweet, Michael...

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

Kit McCallum
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25 posted 2003-07-28 10:33 PM


There is nothing "simple" about the way you tell a tale, sweet poet. Always flowing, always a message, always a warmth that makes me smile from ear to ear. Loved this, my 'deer.

Best wishes and hugs,
/Kit

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26 posted 2003-07-28 11:02 PM


You do it, very well!

~Elizabeth

Dreams last for so long, even after you're gone...
~Jewel

Kethry
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27 posted 2003-07-28 11:16 PM


Michael,
you are a Hallmark poet or perhaps a Reader's Digest one, given that is more for the people. Challenge well met. I remember how disappointed I was the second time this challenge was posted and you did not respond. Well you have more than countered the disappointment I felt at that time.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind.  Unknown



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28 posted 2003-07-29 04:18 AM


you make me smile
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29 posted 2004-05-28 07:05 PM


You have touched many many many souls I'm sure I know you have touched mine with your words

Tara

Balladeer
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30 posted 2004-05-28 07:54 PM


Thank you very much, Tara. You've always been a special lady
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31 posted 2008-01-08 11:17 PM


ah, if this is simple than everyone else would be plain.

love this poem.

Balladeer
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32 posted 2008-01-09 12:53 PM


Wow, Tom! You are resurrecting things I completely forgot I had written..

Thank you

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33 posted 2009-04-12 04:42 AM


Enrapt, I am...

You simply take the magic in stride,
those intricate rhythms in rhyme,
a Balladeer's voice in musical tide
disarms me time after time...

Oh, the tales that you might weave,
dreams borne on midnight's ember
shall light the night if you believe
forget-me-nots stay December.

As for the soul you wish to wake
you harbor mine for ransom,
spellbound in a twinkling take
thru windows blue and handsome,

Bloom vistas I have never seen,
sing sweet strains of laughter,
soft-touch peal, fairways green
I'm captured forever after.  

[This message has been edited by Klassy Lassy (04-12-2009 08:56 PM).]

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