List: Bad Salads!

Poems that can loosely be called ballads.

• The Ballad of the Northward Traveller

  I started out in Mexico with nothing much to say,
  Dressed in my brother’s shirt and jeans – got sunburned on the way.

  68 lines, 17 comments, on Mar 13 11:39 AM. In Lyrics, Cowgirl
• Lupa's Song

  Ave Caesar, morituri te salutamus

  76 lines, 41 comments, on Mar 14 11:13 AM. In Gladiator, Dark
• The Ballad of the Loyalist

  80 lines, 16 comments, on Mar 18 10:46 AM. In Emotions, History, War, Philosophy, Thoughts
• The Ballad of Sweeney Todd

  71 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 30 4:09 AM. In Lyrics, Ballad, Dark
• How Finn McCool became Lord of Tara

  I’ll take my harp upon my knee,
  And sing of Finn, and Tara’s hall

  114 lines, 31 comments, on Feb 22 1:48 PM. In Irish, legend
• The Tartan and the Blue (an American Civil War ballad)

  46 lines, 27 comments, on Apr 5 2:51 AM. In Ballad, History, American Civil War
• Foo Fighters

  45 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 20 7:16 AM. In History, War, Foo Fighters, UFO
• The Ballad of the Hieland Quines

  36 lines, 24 comments, on Apr 6 12:29 PM. In Ballad, Scottish
• The Forfar Drinker's Lament

  There’s a pub of great renown at the back of Forfar town
  Where my auld pal Jock MacAuley did his drinking.
  

  35 lines, 21 comments, on Feb 29 7:51 AM. In Humor, Scottish, Personal
• Ballad of Stjepan Filipović

  71 lines, 11 comments, on May 31 9:46 AM. In Ballad, Partisan, Revolutionary, Thoughts

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