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Balladeer

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0 posted 1999-10-19 11:09 PM

One cool morning in September
I was really, if I remember,
Doing nothing more than passing time in bed
And I felt that it would be a
Kind of different idea
To go downtown and have my fortune read.

It's not that I believed in
All the mumbo-jumbo weaved in
The ability to read a crystal ball
But curiosity implored me
And besides, Septembers bored me
So I went to have it done once and for all

I was led into a cellar
By some tiny little feller
Announcing Madame Zodiac would appear.
I surpressed a tiny giggle
As she entered with a wiggle
And a waddle in an outfit rather queer.

I bit hard down on a knuckle
To defeat a little chuckle
As she grandly sat and stared into the ball.
I tried hard supressing laughter
But the words she spoke thereafter
Left me weak with the absurdness of it all.

I paraded around the room
As she spoke her words of doom
Trying hard to see the seriousness of it all
But her words were so foreboding
I felt circuits overloading
And I fell in a laughing fit against the wall.

I threw a ten-spot down as payment
For such hearty entertainment
As I bid my host a fare-the-well goodbye
And the last thing I remember --
As I steepped into September
Was her staring up with sadness in her eye.

Only a month or two had passed
When I found myself aghast
And so perplexed by all I knew not what to do
For every word that witch had told me
Seemed to follow and enfold me
And, one by one, they magically came true!

Back with fevered haste I sped to
That damp cellar filled with voodoo
For I knew I couldn't rest until I knew
How that sickly, pallid, wrinkled
Dirty, grungy, rancid, crinkled
Slimy, hocus-pocus fortune teller knew!

"There's no secret here", she told me
As I felt raw fear enfold me.
"I knew you'ld finally come around at last.
My crystal ball of special glass
Won't show events that come to pass,
All it really does is show the past!"

And reality came to me
As I felt her words go through me
And the sense of it came slowly into mind
For, if you want to look ahead,
Don't look forward but, instead,
All you have to do is look behind!

Those mistakes you made back then
You are going to make again
Even though you think you're smarter than before
And, if your past is filled with sinning
From the moment of beginning,
Then your future is assured forevermore.

Andrew Scott
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1 posted 1999-10-19 11:19 PM

Sir Balladeer: Echos of what I read in Forum #1 I do believe? It was great then, as it is now. Thanks for sharing it again... I count it as one of those lost treasure that has come back into the light of day. My friend, as always I bow to you and yours. Have a good evening.

Denise

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2 posted 1999-10-19 11:24 PM

Splendid! I enjoyed this soooooo much!

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Martie

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3 posted 1999-10-19 11:32 PM

Every time I read something else from you I shake my head and think, you are so remarkable and where does it end, that imagination of yours and the easy flow of words that fit so perfectly. I hope it doesn't.

Balladeer

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4 posted 1999-10-20 12:47 PM

Thank you very much, Andrew my friend, Denise and Martie.

Martie, I hope it doesn't, either!

Richard 33
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5 posted 1999-10-20 12:55 PM

Very good, I liked it! It was very true those
words you spoke, if you live in your past,
your future will go up in SMOKE!!!!!!

sweetnsxy
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6 posted 1999-10-20 03:25 AM

WOW! That's all I can come up with for words right now.

RainbowGirl
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7 posted 1999-10-20 07:09 AM

Balladeer: You think your lady could tell me what the traffic conditions are like?..*g*

HUSG

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Watcher666
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8 posted 1999-10-20 09:58 AM

Excellent maessage here.Liked this much Sir!

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Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you.

Pepper
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9 posted 1999-10-20 10:01 AM

Another Wonder!
Enjoyed this much Balladeer, Sir.......

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

Marilyn
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10 posted 1999-10-20 10:06 AM

Well Sir Balladeer. You have done it again. I have to disagree with you though. You don't have to be plagued by the past. It does take effort to change the future, effort to change who you are in the present.

Seymour Tabin
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11 posted 1999-10-20 11:26 AM

Gallader,
Wonders upon wonders and I expect nothing less.

hoot_owl_rn
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12 posted 1999-10-20 11:51 AM

You are a master story teller my fellow poet!

Munda
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13 posted 1999-10-20 07:50 PM

Yep, as always, I liked it very much. Especially the message. : )

WhtDove
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14 posted 1999-10-20 11:13 PM

I'm glad you posted this. I must have missed it in old #1. So very true and Biblical too.
What has happened will again. We do seem to make those mistakes again. Excellent point there buddy! Enjoyed this very much!

Balladeer

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15 posted 1999-10-20 11:17 PM

Thank each of you very much for your words.

suthern

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16 posted 1999-10-21 06:53 AM

Superb poem, 'Deer one... I think we are doomed to repeat our mistakes IF we don't take the time and trouble to learn from them! *G* Well done!

Toerag
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Ala bam a

17 posted 1999-10-21 08:46 AM

Well....Here ya go again! Same old thing....Yea, great poem, great mind, great lesson etc. etc. etc. etc.......Geesch!

Yanno, my parents never learned from their mistakes either I guess?...(I have a younger brother)

wannabe_poet
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18 posted 1999-10-22 12:28 PM

Nicely done!!

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