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🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

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🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

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🎵 The Ballad Dodecet™  - Twelve Stories. One Epic Song. - 🔥 Step Into the Ballad Universe - Where twelve stories ignite a cosmos.

🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

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🎵 The Ballad Dodecet™  - Twelve Stories. One Epic Song. - 🔥 Step Into the Ballad Universe - Where twelve stories ignite a cosmos.

🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

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🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

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The melting frosts on the midnight roofs

House the cows with their mud-shorn hooves, whilst

Skeletal like, the winter weeping willows sleep, and

The hickory-smoke-scented quietness sweeps

The peace of Christmas past

Down the iron-barred drains.

Joggers, like slugs in the early sunlit morning,

Slowly slither up[i] Mary’s hill, 

While the black crows still are cawing

Over the brightness of the slime—

Their foot-fluorescent greens, whose reflection

Marks the sun, sitting high

In the corner of my eye

Beneath the roof

Of my own black felt hat, and

The collar-top lip of my

‘Old man’s overcoat,’

As she calls it—

All bound up and

Tripled-scarved

Against the cutting wind.

Meanwhile, the

[ii]Tesco van of home delivery

Chugs past the empty fields

Of horse and livery,

And all the still fishing ponds

Of dead, Wedge, Wood—

Where the empty goalposts,

Now rusted white,

Stand grinning like rich China men.

Bone-skinned herons, blue and grey,

Like sentinel-still soldiers—

Guardsmen of waiting death—

Are motionless, either side of the

Portals of my memory,

Marking this,

[iii]My wedding day.

Forty years on, the broken boughs

Of old gnarled trees,

Dead stumps, and

Sheared-off trunks

Of the wet and waiting woods

All bear the marks of lightning gone—

Burnt out now,

And cold without the fire.

Halfway down the hill—

A memorial bench,

To Fred (who’s dead),

Surrounded by flowers

Left for the ghosts to see and smell,

Laid by the midnight and unseen people

Wrapped in red ribbon

As the shivering [iv]daffs 

Bwa their heads beside the

Cold memorial to poor, dead Fred.

Now a corpse, decayed and vile—

Yet still we’re invited to:

“Please sit awhile and

Remember his laugh.

Consider his smile.”

Memorials are for the living—

Lest they forget.

The dead have forgotten already.

Visiting seagulls crack the surface tension

Of the icy, smoky water,

Whilst the winter sardine-like slaughter

Of the still mirrored-face ponds

Continues on and ever on.

After all—

We’ve all got to eat.

Leaf-empty trees,

Like lungs coughed raw,

Bear like hanging cancer their [v]witches’ brooms- 

Infesting their cold canopy floor

And empty rooms

Of February.

‘Quack-quack’

Go the quickening ducks

O’er the gull-grey fence

Toward the empty cricket pitch—

Now naked without the covers

Of the bowling greens.

Winter lays all the hidden ground

[vi]Out—

To be so clearly seen,

By the bobble-hatted children

Shuffling like mice

On this socks-tucked-in-the-jeans

Maudlin Monday morning…

When winter leaves

The lane in Wedgwood

All fired in [vii]potter’s mourning greys, 

As these late and bitter days,

Chase all our summer dreams 

Away.

[i] Most joggers nowadays are women. What on earth is that all about? The pressure is on them that’s for sure.

[ii] Tesco PLC is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.

[iii] It was February 24th and my 37th Wedding anniversary when I wrote this poem. I love my wife. Honest!

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🎵 The Ballad Dodecet™  - Twelve Stories. One Epic Song. - 🔥 Step Into the Ballad Universe - Where twelve stories ignite a cosmos.

🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

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🎵 The Ballad Dodecet™  - Twelve Stories. One Epic Song. - 🔥 Step Into the Ballad Universe - Where twelve stories ignite a cosmos.

🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

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A long time ago, my wife and I used run a Christian youth group. Teenage girls around 15 years of age can be the most cutting of individuals when it comes to responding to a spotty paramour younger than them. I have heard some of these things actually said to younger teenage boys. It’s crushing for the poor fella on the receiving end. In some respects, male and female, we can all sport a ‘better than, holier than, higher than, thou’ mentality in our earlier and less unscarred years. 

As we journey through life and the wisdom of age couples with our remembrance, we see that it is we who need forgiveness. Our inability at present to time travel to the past and put things right means that we need someone else to remove the guilt. The Christian Gospel is that Christ, the Lamb of Go,d was nailed to Calvary’s cross for the sins of the world. All the sins of all the world, and that includes the teenage sins of 15-year-old girls as well as sad old tarts in their sixties. 

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🎵 The Ballad Dodecet™  - Twelve Stories. One Epic Song. - 🔥 Step Into the Ballad Universe - Where twelve stories ignite a cosmos.

🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

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© 2025 Victor Robert Farrell (PurpleRobert)
 Writers: Kentucky Johnson & Bobby Farrell 🌐 www.kentuckyjohnson.com

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🎵 The Ballad Dodecet™  - Twelve Stories. One Epic Song. - 🔥 Step Into the Ballad Universe - Where twelve stories ignite a cosmos.

🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

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© 2025 Victor Robert Farrell (PurpleRobert)
 Writers: Kentucky Johnson & Bobby Farrell 🌐 www.kentuckyjohnson.com

Presented by Mr. Farrell’s Sound Parlour -🌐 www.soundparlour.music

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🎵 The Ballad Dodecet™  - Twelve Stories. One Epic Song. - 🔥 Step Into the Ballad Universe - Where twelve stories ignite a cosmos.

🌍 A World Across Six Nations- From the mist-shrouded Highlands of Scotland to the deep hollers of Appalachia, the Ballad Dodecet spans: Scotland, England, Ireland-Northern Ireland,  Wales, -North America. Each volume taps into centuries of folklore, faith, and frontier resilience—binding together diverse cultures and long-whispered legends into one unforgettable tapestry of story and song.

🎼 Where Music Meets Myth - Fiction, song, and folklore collide. - Each book is laced with:🎶 Original music,📓 Hidden journals & personal letters,📚 Companion fanbooks, 🔎 Easter eggs, crossovers, and spiritual insights

Welcome to a living, breathing world—ready to read, hear, and explore.

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