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Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller's Blog (11)

Apologies

In these interesting "times" I am spending most of my time and energy working the sites that get me paying gigs and sales, sadly none of the ning rings I am in have done that when I was working them regularly and hard. Feel free to email me jb@ballardsbytes.com or message me on any of the sites below. My apologies for missed messages and comments. Thanks for your understanding and support! Harmony and Peace, Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller/Artist jb@ballardsbytes.com Ballard's Bytes… Continue

Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on September 18, 2009 at 1:37am — No Comments

The Lost One (Poem)

Surprise, I can't sleep again, more than one young person of late has told me. "I'm lost." Sooooooooo thus this is born ....

Enjoy!?

The Lost One

You catch him
in the
corner of
your eye.

Bald,
pierced,
tattooed.

Apparently
juiced,
high,
or
a nut,
with a
screw
loose.

Someone
else's
problem.

A lost
one.

You don't
dare
care.… Continue

Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 30, 2009 at 12:22am — No Comments

My Dream Eye (Poem)

I couldn't sleep last night soooooooooooooo I wrote *shrug*
Enjoy!?

My Dream Eye

is out of focus.

When I
try
to
adjust,

blurs,
whirs,

nonsensical
kaleidoscopic

bursts.

By Joanna Ballard
January 27, 2009
© 2009, Joanna Ballard. All rights reserved. No reproduction of this material, in any form or medium, is permitted without express permission of the author. Continue

Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 27, 2009 at 11:58am — No Comments

History is Made (Poem)

Maybe it is just my cynical idealism, ... maybe it is folks the world over pining hopes on one human being with all the frailties and glory being human entails, ... maybe just maybe it is all the stories I am entrusted with the unsung heroes and heroines, that NEVER make the news, that have fallen in wide cracks of our justice and medical systems, ... maybe it is the reality of the good ole boys network, wars, poverty, injustice, ... maybe the stories I know and can do nothing but weep over .… Continue

Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 20, 2009 at 3:06am — No Comments

Do You (Poem)

Do You

Know
the need
to make
music
that
swims
in
colors?

Can You
grasp
the yearning
to build
words
that
dance
in
pictures?

Can you
realize
the compulsion
to share
my visions
in ways
the soul
can
taste,
sensualize,
know?

Do you?

By Joanna Ballard
January 17, 2009
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Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 18, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Question and a DARE for artists in ANY genre and passion.

I am sitting here perplexed and amazed the second "time" in nearly as many months (more so than usual *impish grin*). Last month a friend of mine (visual artist, musician, writer) down on his luck and blessed to be staying at local shelter was trying to make a flute out of a stick of bamboo he had found, when another man asked my artist friend what he was doing and my artist friend told him, the man asked "What is a flute?"

Tonight some kids (teens) where hanging outside the hall w… Continue

Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 13, 2009 at 11:22pm — No Comments

Increasing (Poem)

Increasing

I am growing
large within
myself.

Will I out
grow
ALL the
names
I am?

Or become
them
and
more?

By Joanna Ballard
January 07, 2009
© 2009, Joanna Ballard. All rights reserved. No reproduction of this material, in any form or medium, is permitted without express permission of the author. Continue

Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 10, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Mary's Lament (Poetic Art) For Angel Overload & Quiet Storm & Any who "hear"

Mary's Lament By Joanna Ballard
Photos and Poem By Joanna Ballard
© Joanna Ballard. All rights reserved. No reproduction of this material, in any form or medium, is permitted without express permission of the author.

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Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 8, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Update on Hate for the Holidays

Greetings, I posted the below on Dec. 9th on my myspace blog http://www.myspace.com/ballardsbytes Giving praise and Thanks for Part II please send prayers and vibes to Kaylon and his family Part I As I am a cynical idealist I keep hoping the world will 'see' and 'think' as I do and realize this is 2008 and NOT 1908. While I am currently honored to be co-hosting a blog to stop abuse and heal humanity http://blog.myspace.com/beautifulwonder… Continue

Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 7, 2009 at 12:54am — No Comments

Broken Things

This is what it is, my first poem of the year, oddly my sleeping dreams have been thus lately, but if we live life aren't we all ...

Broken Things

are my dreams.
Fragmented
pieces,
unwhole,
reflections
here,
murky depths
disjointed
there.
Like shards
of glass
memories
misshapen.

Endings.
Beginnings.
My dreams,
like me,
are

Broken things.

By Joanna Ballard… Continue

Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 5, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Re-Cycling (Poem)

Re-Cycling

Dancing,
playing
the second line,
wake
for the
OLD
year.

Bluesin'
Jazzin'
the
NEW
year.

Infinite

possibilities.

By Joanna Ballard December 31, 2008 © 2008, Joanna Ballard. All rights reserved. No reproduction of this material, in any form or medium, is permitted without express permission of the author. Continue

Added by Joanna Ballard ~ Louisiana Storyteller on January 1, 2009 at 9:16am — No Comments

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