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NaPoWriMo, 2013, #25, Ballad Prompt (Optional)

This, my first attempt at a ballad, was based on where I live. Upstate New York, Wayne county, is filled with fertile soil and the weather allows the cultivation of apple tree orchards and fields of corn. “Drumlins” are the unique hills that run north to south that were created by the glacier movement around Lake Ontario. Due to the orchards and fields, when harvest comes you can bet your bottom dollar that I’ll be sitting here eating apple pies and fresh corn!

BALLAD OF WAYNE COUNTY

I saw her at a carnival
I knew she was my love.
A little slip of everything.
My little turtle-dove.

Not often do I leave the farm
it’s hard to make away
with apple trees and fields of corn
and chores to do each day.

She bought a piece of apple pie
and smiled as she strolled by.
her perfect figure passing me
before I caught her eye.

For years she kept just out of reach,
each drumlin she would climb
and seeing her much closer then
get larger I did find.

As I was reaching middle age
I reached her eye to eye
and saw to my astonishment
She’d eaten too much pie!

So, back to farming I did go
with no one for my wife
and now my apple trees and corn
are happily my life.

NaPoWriMo, 2013, #17, Greeting (Prompt)

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DAWN BOY’S GREETING

Dawn Boy, little chief
greets the morning with his belief
that there is beauty everywhere.
Just look for it. It will be there

Let there be beauty above you.
Let there be beauty below you.
Let there be beauty around you.
Thank you.

NaPoWriMo 2013 #14 – Persona Poem

MAYBE THERE’S TIME

I’m strong and I’m able. I’m ready to go
to the earth, from this planet, I’m ready to show
to those beings, those “humans”, just what they don’t know.
I know they won’t like it. It will be a big blow.
But, I’m strong and I’m able and I’m ready to go!

On my way I salute the sun.
“Can’t stop”, I declare, “I must run!”
Sun nods as she stays in her place.
“I know”, she calls, waving her rays.

Then, as I quickly swoop by Moon,
I bow to him quickly, it’s noon!
Not a word does he say back to me.
He’s been touched, been defaced, I see.

I hurry right on through these beings trash.
“I’ll cope with you later”, I say as I pass.
I duck as the beings shoot their first dart
I know that this thing will be more “junk art”.

As I land I’m appalled at the sight!
It’s going to take time to make right.
They’ve ruined it all, see the blight?
Then Earth says, “I’m too tired to fight,
You’ve arrived just in time with your curative might”.

And, I’m strong and I’m able and ready to go!
My name is Salvation and soon it will show.
I point toward a city and I strike my first blow!
I’m strong and I’m able and I’m ready to go!