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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361772" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad Of Rose Red</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rose Red was the name they gave her <br>because of her flaming hair. <br>She grew up in a time of turmoil <br>where children were taken from their beds. <br>When her only son was stolen and butchered, <br>something snapped within her head. <br>She turned her attention to the seas <br>and pirates life she led.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With cutlass and pistol, <br>her wrath swathed through the Spanish Main. <br>A price as big as her rivals <br>was placed upon her head, <br>but no one was fool enough to collect it <br>fearing the wrath of Rose Red. <br>Her mighty ship the Dragon Queen <br>sailed without hindrance and impunity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Treasures of captured ships lined <br>the Dragon Queen’s hold, <br>then back to her island home <br>was the course she chartered <br>for where her other treasures <br>lie buried there somewhere. <br>This secret was only hers <br>because she alone buried it there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Anyone who saw where <br>never lived to tell the tale. <br>She was savage with her wrath <br>as she sought out the murderers <br>of her only son. <br>Year after year, she sought them down <br>whether on land or at sea <br>with her lasting vengeance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One by one, the murderers fell <br>from those who had committed it <br>to those from which their orders fell. <br>Rose Red gave them their appointment <br>with the devil they served. <br>Fear ran among them <br>of this woman with flaming hair <br>who struck without warning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She rode the seas for years <br>pillaging the greedy as her victims fell. <br>Now only one remained, <br>the highest of them all <br>and the most guarded as well. <br>He being the King of Spain, <br>but Rose Red was not <br>afraid of his army or him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Into port she sailed one night <br>guns firing from fore to aft <br>until no ship was left afloat. <br>The guns then turned on the town <br>crumbling each building in turn <br>until only the palace was left standing. <br>Then into town, they went <br>with only one prize to seek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The palace stood untouched <br>no holes within its walls <br>as the pirates strode against it. <br>First through the main gate <br>leaving no one left alive <br>except for the slaves. <br>Whose freedom they gave <br>until the king was cornered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He stood among his treasures <br>to defend them with his might. <br>Rose Red strode into the chamber <br>to face his cowering body <br>pleading for mercy to be. <br>She looked at the coward <br>and lifting her pistol to finish <br>what had to be done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shot echoed in the chamber <br>and the body slumped down <br>no more would anyone loose their children <br>to this wicked crooked crown. <br>The king was dead and the evil hordes he had sown <br>where now facing what they gave to others <br>a hole in the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The treasures were left along with the crown <br>Rose Red’s vengeance was now complete. <br>Back to the ship, they strode <br>sailing out to the oceans free. <br>No longer did they have <br>a bounty on their heads <br>now the king was dead. <br>They were free to do now as they pleased.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>4 September 2011</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q>
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because of her flaming hair. 
She grew up in a time of turmoil 
where children were taken from their beds. 
When her only son was stolen and butchered, 
something snapped within her head. 
She turned her attent..."></div>
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